The Saint

What has to be addressed is how the "bad black belt got there in the First place", Nerves do play a large role in tournaments and students excel at different things. In our club our patterns are not tournament winning, however in Sparring our club always does well. A Black belt should represent the hard training and work that it took to achieve the belt. Everyone has different skills in the martial arts and it is hard to say that the reason for a black belt to look weak at sparing or in patterns is focus and determination. Maybe the black belt had an excellent showing in weapons or breaking events (hard to say, I wasn't there). It all starts in the intensity of training too...

Good luck to all competeing in the Battle in Sept. . I cannot compete due to torn leigaments in my ankle from a training accident , but I will be there to chear on my team , I'm also thinkg of doing forms.

It is my first Battle of Atlanta and I was wondering how the point system is structured? I fight TKD under ITF and most tournaments the fighting is continuous, how is this point style different?