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Originally posted by Damian Mavis
Actually.... I've been considering going to a karate tournament for point sparring matches. But I have never gone to a karate tournament to compete before. I've gone to watch and was kinda horrified (this is not a knock on karate but rather the karate schools in my area) there was absolutely no discipline, people were screaming and yelling profanities, getting into fights and rolling around on the ground, almost attacking the people watching if they said the wrong thing!! I wanted to go down on the floor and start kicking everyone *** because it seemed not a person on the floor understood what martial arts were about. (But that would make me as bad as they were wouldn't it?) Things are pretty bad in my area for Karate...I'm positive it is NOT like that everywere else.
In TKD the tournaments (at least for ITF) are very strict. Theres no messing around or your in major trouble, and your instructor too. I think that is what a large organisation gets you....organised tournaments with rules...the karate ones are open tournaments and no one listens to no one.
Anyway! totally off topic! haha but to answer your question.... I'd love to go try that but what exactly are they doing in musical forms? Are they making up a choreographed set of moves to music all by themsleves or is that an actual pattern all karateka know and they spice it up for the competition?
If I plan for it I could learn to not follow up after scoring a point or not to take a hit to score a point so I could compete point sparring and then try the musical forms too! Something I've thought about before.
Damian Mavis
Honour TKD
Originally posted by Klondike93
Well like Robin Williams once said, " go ahead dude, give it a try you never know you might fly".
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Originally posted by karatekid1975
Hiya Tess.
Me too. In a real fight, I'd be REALLY stupid to try a "trick" and I wouldn't. But as an adult, the kids "snickered" at me when I said I wanted to do tricks. That just made me wanna do it more. So, I did the easy ones first (double front kick, split kick, 360, ect). Now I'm doing the 540 (well, sort of hehehehe). And I get suprised looks from the kiddies.