Dif styles/full contact exp needed

[busling]

Some of the guys from my school, participate in MMA tournaments.

Some rules sets have no head shots, others that include head shots. Grappling is involved in these fights.

They have fought in Toowoomba, Queensland and Brisbane, Queensland. There seem to be tournaments on every couple of months.

[Goju_boi]

I've heard of shaolin and shaolin related arts do full contact.Anyways,what about hapkido?Also u could do what somebody mentioned earlier and just fight together with your friends.

[40 cent]

ok thanks for the help. yeah i have definately considered kickboxing, itd be good for my anyways to improve my head defence, it leaves a big gap in my training leaving that anyway. i just wanted to get a bit more experience before i jumped into that.

as for battling my mates, thats fine, and i do a lot of sparring as it is, but i really like developing myself through the rigours of competition: i need more experience with nerves, tension, etc etc.

a couple of people mentioned full contact tkd: how prominent is this in australia? can someone give me a run down on the rules? is this what you see in the olympics?

[40 cent]

anybody?

[Meguro]

Boxing. If you want the challenge of competition, pick up head defense skills, and hard-hitting you need not look further. Full contact tkd sounds like a very small pond to be swimming in, particularly since most TKD competitors are point fighters. If you can't find enough Kyokushin, kyokushin-ish dojos around you, I'm pretty sure you'll find a lot of boxing gyms that'll give more than enough of what you're asking for.

[ShotokanKid]

what about this styles: Wado Ryu, Shito Ryu, Goju Ryu, Shotokan...do any of them focus on full contact fighting?

We are supposed to pull our punches about half an inch away, but almost all the time, we just strike about half power

[Charlie]

Someone already mentioned it, but I'll emphasize, that two Kyokushin spin-offs- Ashihara and Enshin, stress full-contact training and tournaments. Both appear to have dojos in Australia. The Ashihara website is at:

http://www.ashihara.com/website/

The Enshin website is at:

http://www.enshin.com/index2.html

Both organizations sponsor tournaments in many countries although I don't know if they organize any in Australia.

[yamesu]

40cent,

me and other peoples compete in non-kyokushin tournaments regularly.

I dont know what state your in, so if your interested just give me a private message through this site.

Rules are very similar to kyokushin, but minor changes like no thigh kicks.

Osu

[Goju_boi]

what about Hapkido?If you can find a Dojang that does full contact.It's a great style and I'm sure they have their own tournament scene.

[40 cent]

yamesu, pm sent mate. thankyou

i am in the state of victoria.

charlie, i have emailed the contacts on both of those sites, thankyou

btw i have a tournament in qld in 2 weeks, and then a 1 match fight in geelong 2 weeks later, so there is another two