Freestyle vs. Taekwon-do
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Yeah , it's always usually pretty small divisions, 4 competitors max.
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We've been strongly considering joining the USKA, we've been very impressed with the quality of practitioners, and overall organization during tournaments. We'll figure out a way to get to Worlds.Thats why we need to get ya'll to Worlds where there is better turnout.
I think you would get a lot of benefit from it. Just from the standpoint of support from the other schools and black belts.. The Dupaquiers, Efflers, Scott, Buster, Rodney, etc...are good people. From what I've seen the org. really tries to support each other.
And the Dupaquiers, Rodney, and Buster have experience in University clubs as well.
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And that's another issue I have with these comps. Saying she's national number 1 or whatever sounds great but if you're ranked number 1 out of 5 people that's not as great as it sounds
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Well maybe she is but that fight certainly didn't show it in my opinion
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Also, you might want to try coming up to Ruston for state and regionals. It might be a good road trip for your students.
Usually those two tournaments have a lot of college students in the beginner and intermediate divisions that your students could compete against.
The students are given the choice to compete or write a term paper for their final.
Also, you might want to try coming up to Ruston for state and regionals. It might be a good road trip for your students.
Usually those two tournaments have a lot of college students in the beginner and intermediate divisions that your students could compete against.
The students are given the choice to compete or write a term paper for their final.
She had herself a good day.
Nice presentation of her Kata, nice job in Kumite. Great job all around. Keep pushing her, bro.
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I once competed in a “world championship” tournament in China, forms competition. There were 19 in my division if I remember correctly. I placed fifth, and got... a silver medal.
Life can be silly. I remind myself to just roll with it.
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When I was in grad school, Canisius College down the road from us cut a lot of sports from their athletic program. One sport that they didn’t cut was synchronized swimming. We were pretty perplexed by that one... cut football, but keep synchronized swimming? Their justification was they were the number 3 team in the country. I was the only one with enough sense to look up how many NCAA Div 1 teams there are, as I wondered how popular that sport truly is...
3 NCAA Div 1 synchronized swimming teams at that time. Yeah, go ahead, brag about being number 3 in the country. I could see if they said cutting it would kill the sport; I wouldn’t have a single issue with that. But say you’re keeping them because they’re number 3?
Colleges are pretty stupid. I should know, I worked for many of them and graduated from a few too.
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Congrats on having such a talented student. I like the control in the sparring, she didn't turn it into a game of tag even though she was better skilled than her opponent. She had good timing with the techniques that she was doing. There was actual decision making going on vs trying to go at blinding speed in hopes for a tap. Point sparring has become more of a race than "what technique can I do if someone does this." She used patience and didn't try to force the technique. That's rare period regardless of skill level. You can look at her opponent and you can see her opponent try to force the techniques in hopes of landing.
Not sure how long you have been teaching her but I could have sworn that one of her kicks looks like something I've seen you do in one of your sparring videos. Even though your student was much better, she didn't waste the opportunity to develop. She should become really good as long as she doesn't turn her point sparring into a game of Advanced Tag. The biggest thing that I noticed is that she seems to trust her techniques. If you watch the other girl you can see that she threw her kicks as if she didn't trust the kick.
As long as she gets better at what she just did, then she should be able to do the same thing to faster opponents who may have a higher skill than her. She would only need to adjust her timing to match a better opponent, but theoretically if you can land slow stuff, then you should be able to land faster versions of it. The only thing that should change is the timing and the ability to recognize the movements of someone who is faster.
My original comments stand. She looked a little rattled in that second video and it look like she was trying to "not hurt" her opponent. She stayed calmed but appeared to be intimidated. Fast punches can sometimes appear to be harder than what they are. To give you an example, I've been able to make students "Turtle" simply by moving faster. Even if I didn't hit them, the speed registered as a danger of being hit hard. Even in the video it appeared that her opponent was about to land power punches but, they weren't power punches. This is the hump that she has to get over. Don't be intimidated by the speed. It takes time and it should go away once she gets used to fast people striking her.
1. Don't be intimidated by speed
2. Speed does not mean power. Learn to generate, separate and combine speed and power at will.
Other than that I like what I saw in both video. Some the changes will come from her growth as a martial artist. Continuous sparring may help to speed up her growth, but don't take my word on it. It just depends on the student. Students and kids at my school used to spar against larger students, higher skilled adults, and instructors. The downside is that they rarely landed a lot of punches in comparison. The good news is that it was challenging enough to make them better than people on their same skill level. Sort of like if you want to beat people on your level, then spar against people who are above your level. You may never "win" but you'll be better than those who are on your level. It only works for students who don't mind "losing" and care more about "learning."
GOOD POINTS
1. Like in the beginning she didn't bounce. She was able to get out of range without excessive movement.
2. She made her opponent miss a lot. Once she learns angles she'll be able to really land points. She took a lot of hits simply because she went backwards. The rule that I follow and teach is. Basically: Go back once. If they give chase, then go back again and then cut an angle to the side or 45 degree angle forward. These are difficult things to do, more so the 45 degree forward, but when when you get it, you'll be able to counter.
Go backwards, or "backpedaling" is only good for a couple of steps when you are being pressed. You can probably get more out of it if you have space and enough distance to begin with, but I personally wouldn't do it more than a couple of steps. For me "backpedaling" is good for the " Oh Sh*z" moments where you need to create distance really quick, but it's the angle cut that actually gets you out of harms way. Headhunter has video of his son doing this. His son is good with the angles and you can clearly see in those videos of how the angles mess up the opponent's plan of attack.
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Unfortunately that's one of the drawback of most point sparring. You can afford to be sloppy in areas that would normally result in being physically punished for being sloppy.
The day when I pulled my punch just few inches away from my opponent's face but my opponent didn't, that was the last time that I had done any point sparring. IMO, the more that you do point sparring, the more bad habit that you may develop.
I disagree
Do you pull all your punches while training? Hanging bags?
That just seems weird that in a fight with adrenaline pumping...you would pull your punch like in competition. Typically we see the opposite....people forgetting to pull their punch.
When it comes to working with my son's movement... we look at movement as a clock face. The only time he is to move to 6 o'clock is if he is stepping or leaning back from a kick or punch with the intent of exploding back forward (12 o'clock) following the arm or leg as they retract it with a return combination. His instructor drills this at the dojo and also a friend drills this in his seminars.
All other times, movement should be from 4 to 7 o'clock to create angles.
We also work on him moving around changing directions but maintaining the spacing of "skip in kick" range. Against very stationary opponents, he uses alot of "skip in" and feint and then exit just to mix the timing up and create angles when they try to "time" him.
Against more aggressive opponents, he has a lot of success creating good attack angles just by moving one or two steps at 2-4 or 8-10 o'clock every time his opponent steps forward. It just puts him a little ahead in timing as his opponent has to re-orient.
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Hitting bags is different to fighting.
Have you ever actually done point sparring yourself? Because If you practice sparring In point rules then you get used to pulling punches it becomes part of your muscle memory and you do it whenever you fight trust me it happens so many times with point fighters
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The more aggressive the better. Aggressive opponents tend to over commit which makes things easier to deal with. They also tend to move in only one direction.
She looked retarded and/or very uncoordinated. It's extremely difficult to teach someone with those special needs. Poor girl was going for it though.
