France national chamiponship highlights

Discussion in 'Tae Kwon Do' started by Artikon, Feb 23, 2004.

  1. Artikon

    Artikon Advertise here ask me how

    Here's a link to some short clips from the France championships this year. WTF style competition. Already notice a lot of tactic changes with the new rule revisions.

    France National Champs 2004
     
  2. stirlingTKD

    stirlingTKD New Member

    I've downloaded the vids but while watching them I noticed that the competitors always had their arm's down by their sides. I havn't yet had any experience in WTF style sparring, but will when I become 6th grade. We do sparring in class, but not sport type sparring, there are seperate classes for that. So why is it they don't keep their guard up? This seems rather strange to me.

    Also I'm guessing punches arn't used because it's hard to score with them? Anyways, I enjoyed the videos. Some of them looked abit hectic at times. :)
     
  3. Kwajman

    Kwajman Penguin in paradise....

    In Olympic point fighting, there is very rarely punching involved. So holding your arms up just uses up energy. Hanging them down allows you to bring them up when needed for blocks.
     
  4. Andy Murray

    Andy Murray Sadly passed away. Rest In Peace.

    I've always been curious about this.

    Surely having your hands up would make blocking easier?
    The bouts are rarely of a duration whereby your arms would get tired.

    Presumably you lift the arms when you're going to kick, so doesn't this telegraph the intention somewhat?
     
  5. LilBunnyRabbit

    LilBunnyRabbit Old One

    Arms block wonderfully against punches when held high, but kicks tend to travel from low to high, so holding your arms low allows you to block low faster.

    Just a guess.
     
  6. enlwlffo

    enlwlffo New Member

    ive done a lot of training in olympic style sparring, and the reason fighters keep their arms down to the side is coz most kicks dont go for the head, and when they do they just raise their arm to stop the kick
    most kicks are aimed at the chestguard, so it is actually logically correct to keep our arms at our sides
    if you notice, when a kick comes for their chest guard, the fighter will take the hit in the arm and move his arm away from his chestguard,
    then he raises the arm to show the ref that the kick only hit his arm
     
  7. Andy Murray

    Andy Murray Sadly passed away. Rest In Peace.

    But the target area is above the waist?

    Hey it's a sport, so top competitors wouldn't do it if it didn't work I guess.

    Thanks
     
  8. shinguards

    shinguards Valued Member

    i guess it's what you're used to - we do a lot of tournament training and competitions and we always keep our guard up as we seem to use more hand technqies than other tkd clubs in tournament fights.

    i see many players miss scoring opportunities that they could have made with their hands in combination counter techniques, but they had their hands down

    i notice that the players in this tournament don't use back kicks, but they seem to trade kicks all the way through - i would have thought trading kicks would be a very good energy wasting strategy...
     
  9. logsig

    logsig A Noid

    Arms hanging down

    This is interesting. I'll start a thread on this topic.
     
  10. Helm

    Helm New Member

    Thx for the videos, i enjoyed them :)

    Although i must admit the fights have gotten very scrappy....The short range roundhouses in particular. Although some of the headshots were still very nice, and where that guy does a 360 fake to jump backkick and knocks the guy over the corner judge was sweeeeet :D
     
  11. Artikon

    Artikon Advertise here ask me how

    Ya to bad he didn't connect with it, though he did hit a nice axe kick earllier on.

    I think this is the way you'll start seeing sport TKD progress. With the new rule revisions initiation of attacks is being awarded much more heavily instead of technical superiority, or even counter attacks. As well with the kicking to the back rule now in place, you're going to see alot more unpredictability in the matches.

    Basically the matches now have become faster, more intense, and with more continuous action.
     

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