American/Korean Tae KWon Do Tournament

[frightmaster]

I attended the Nation American/Korean tournament this past week Upper Dublin, PA and was very impressed with what I seen. I learned so much about fighting just by watching. Sometimes I felt like I was in the ring getting kicked. My only question/statement is that I seen so many (95%) fighters with thier arms down. This was for Black Belts only and thought they would keep them up. Wild but still impressive.

[MasterH]

Was this an WTF tourn? What kind of rules applied? Any hand teqs?

[frightmaster]

From my understanding this was a WTF tournement (I could be wrong) and it was open only to American/Koreans. The rules appeared to be Olympic rules....Scoring as follows.....

1 point for a hit to the chest area

2 points for controlled kick to the head

3 points if knock to the ground.

[MasterH]

Yea, that's a WTF tournament. They really can't score with a punch

[frightmaster]

From what I ave been taught is that you can score with a punch (reverse only) and it must STOP or BACK UP your opponent. The is a VERY difficult thing to do with a punch.

[MasterH]

From what I ave been taught is that you can score with a punch (reverse only) and it must STOP or BACK UP your opponent. The is a VERY difficult thing to do with a punch.

There are so many rules with so many orgs.......

The org that I'm involved with we can score by touching, granted it has to be a solid hit, but stopping an opponent is not nessesary. Were you taught anything (hand) to the head?