ISKA Championships 2010

[bushido_man96]

I was browsing the channels late the other night, and came across this on ESPN2 at around 2 or 3 am. Of course it caught my eye, being MA, but, I found that it was just hard to keep interested.

I can do without all the yelling and screaming in the forms competitions. And they were the open forms...no traditional forms. And the girls seemed to want to yell more than the guys did. And it seemed that the same winners kept repeating from the previous year, as well. The weapons displays were quite athletic, but other than that, not enjoyable to watch.

There was one practitioner that was a soft stylist of some kind....Kung Fu in some way or another. Watching his weapons and open form was kind of refreshing compared to the others on, as he did no yelling or screaming at all, the Wushu style of movement was very good. I think that because he was a soft stylist, he got slighted a bit on his scores, which was bunk, because he did some very tough stuff with his weapon and open form. He even added in some Drunken-type elements, which were cool.

Other than that, I guess it was what I thought it would be. Not very enjoyable.

[DWx]

Watched a bit on YouTube and I agree with you... it was awful. This one guy was pulling really weird faces throughout like he was in pain or something. And the long drawn out kiai on every other move I could do without.

Least you get stuff like this on TV, even if it is late night. Over here in the UK we get virtually no martial arts coverage at all, only during the Olympics do we get to watch a bit of TKD or Judo. Other than that we get a little bit of Boxing or MMA and that's it. Would love to be able to watch just something like this, whatever style.

[ps1]

My soft style (Chuan Fa) forms were always fun and had no verbal kiai (kihap). I won many tournaments but, indeed, always scored lower in "traditional" divisions, which I competed in only when "soft" was not available. This forced me to compete in the "open" divisions. Never seemed fair, but I still won the state championship and took 2nd in the national standings. So I guess it was cool.

[bushido_man96]

Very cool. It was a nice change from all those screamers out there.