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There are lots of differences and lots of similarities.
The lines are blurring as a lot of the ITF teaching is including sport techniques in order to make us competitive in the competitions.
You don't teach sport techs too.... wow!
You know I'd love to know what everyone's teaching as well.... lets get some curriculums in here guys! This will be interesting.
Kacey Wade is being funny WTF style of fighting is contious sparring no stopping to award points , we use electronic scorer that each corner judge myst press when they see a legal point and two out of three must react in time in order to recieve such points.
ITF uses the stoppage for awarding point in point sparring they also have what is called contous point sparring when the competitor are awarded there points after each round is done.
Wade I must admit if WTF was stopping to award points we have been training our fighters wrong for all these years.
See, I said I wasn't sure... and Terry, I come from the ITF - the ITF is predominately continuous sparring; point sparring is rarely used in tournament competition, although we still use it for training purposes in class. The last time I saw any WTF sparring it appeared to me to be what I would consider point sparring - but it's been quite a few years.
Sparring rules... the WTF target range is groin to base of throat (hands - I think head kicks are legal, at least in some places), with hogu. The ITF tends to use primarily continuous sparring (fight continues for 2 minutes unless 1 fighter is dropped or there's some other problem) and points are totalled when the round is over; the WTF uses (to my understanding) primarily point sparring, where the fight is stopped to award points.
I have a question. Exactly how much contact does the ITF allow during their continuous sparring? Is it full like the WTF or is it light like non-contact karate systems? If it is light then what is the combat effectiveness of it.