Olympic MA

[tufrthanu]

Here is what I posted in the Korean styles folder since Aefi shut the thread down due to repeats:

 

There are 6 combat sports in the olympics they are:

 

Boxing

 

Judo

 

Greco-Roman Wrestling

 

Freestyle Wrestling

 

Taekwondo

 

Fencing

 

The competition is very fierce...in taekwondo there is kicking to the head and it is full contact but there are no punches to the head and not much defense. Boxing and the 2 wrestling categories have alot of different weightclasses. Judo and Taekwondo only have four I beleive: Fly, Feather, Middle and Heavy...I think. I'm not sure that fencing has any weight classes however there are 3 sword classes: Foil, Epee and Sabre from least to most difficult in that order.

 

As to the nations that dominate: in the martial arts it is usually the asian countries...in boxing it tends to be the US, eastern europe and cuba. In wrestling it tends to be eastern europe, the us and the middle east. In fencing it tends to be western europe.

 

As far as who gets in the process is quite complicated for like the taekwondo...you have to win so many matches and if its against a champion you have to win more...stuff like that.

 

The only regular tv channel that broadcasts karate regularly is ESPN 2. They broadcast the creative forms competitions form ISKA and also the american K-1 competitions...big whoop...but thats what we get.

 

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5th Gup Sin Moo Hapkido

 

Long Live the Fighters!

[isshinryu5toforever]

Before the one in the Korean martial arts section was shut down we were discussing differnt divisions. This is in response to that. I know Aikido has takedowns, however from what I've seen most of the JiuJitsu tournaments don't allow wristlocks, fingerlocks, or ankle locks. I know that Aikido can deal with many intricate small joint locks. I'm also not saying that Thai fighters are the beall endall to martial arts strikers, I just know that with the competition we were beginning to discuss Thailand's Muay Thai amateurs would do a good amount of damage in the Olympic world. They are taught how to clinch and throw, as well as leg kick and sweep. There's no denying the power of a Thai leg kick. The only reason I said a pure TKD competitor may have a problem crossing into the world of takedowns, leg kicks, and hand-to-head applications is because their tournaments aren't set up to allow such practices. I'm not saying someone who has done pure sport point-fighting would fare any better. It would be interesting to see a striking division allowing leg kicks, etc, but no takedowns or locks, a takedown grappling division ex. Judo where the throw itself is what is scored, a lock oriented grappling division for styles like Aikido, and some sort of forms division (China IS trying to bring Wushu into the Olympics afterall).

[tufrthanu]

Well as I said my preference would be for a generalized grappling event for the Judo, jujitsu, aikido and hapkido people and a full contact kickboxing event for the karate, taekwondo and kung fu people. Any combined event would leave alot of styles with something to learn. Thai fighters would know nothing of Hip throws for instance and jujitsu guys would know nothing of spinning hook kicks.

[isshinryu5toforever]

it might be kind of interesting to just toss everyone in to a mix like that haha