Fighting other styles

[Hart]

Does anybody here have any tips for fighting competitors of different styles?

[AndrewGreen]

Learn from them instead of worrying about winning.

Learn their rules

[aefibird]

Concentrate on what you CAN do, rather than thinking "well, they might do this, so I shoud do that". Keep your guard and keep your cool.

[malanovaus]

The best advice is to focus only on what you are doing, and not lettting your opponent take control of the match or make you frustrated.

[alevensalor]

Agreed. Live in the moment.

~A!

[Mr. Mike]

observe patterns, and intercept/follow up.

[Oracle]

Look at some of the videos on Maslinc.com...this is a valuable resource for homework.

In the pointfighting world, the best don't fight with a particular style ie: Taekwondo, Okinawin . Instead they develope blitzes, dynamic kicks, reverse punches and always move.

The stand up straight style with no movement you see in alot of schools will not work with the better fighters.

[jaymac]

In my experience at tournaments, the TKD practitioners love to spar. This is their thing! The are fast and kick high. Learn to get in there fast and score quickly. Block your head and counter every chance you get, then move out of their kicking range fast.

[parkerlineage]

Learn to fight like them. I've had tons of people ask me, "Did you take: Tae Kwan Do, Tiger Kung Fu, Shotokan," because those are the styles with which I've fought the most. My first two TKD tourneys, I ended up with third, because most of the time, I was watching them and learning their moves. My third, I opened up with a 5-0 victory (technically a 6-0, I suppose) - all my hits spinning kicks to the head. I sat down next to a TKD guy I had fought before and he said, "Where the **** did you learn that?"

My answer - "You."

I won that tourney.

[Karate_Kid2]

I have to agree that watching others and the way in which they fight can be very helpfull, but why not find the way that you are good at sparring, develop your own unique moves! therfore nobody will see what you have coming!! Everybody has some sort of move that they consider themselves to be good at, so if you have one work on it and develop it and then have loads of fun trying it out (",)