Manny
Senior Master
This sunday I went to a very little Kenpo Karate tournament as a corner judge, the comnpetition was in a school were the little boys and girls have Kenpo clases as a sport schedule. The competion was point fighting and the ages of the competitors were 4 years to 12 years, as you may see little ones.
What iI see of this kenpo point fight competition is the oposed at what we see on WTF/TKD competition, the boys and girls used most punches than kicks I can see 95% punches and 5% kicks. However what atracted my atention was at the end of the tournament, I saw two matches of continus fight and here I see alot of more kicks, one particular fight caught my atention.
Continus fighting as the name implies it consist of two rounds of two minutes continus fighting, the fight is stoped only when, one competitor is out the fighting area, or when an ilegal tech is used (foul) or when a knock out is given. I saw a fight amoung two friends, Orlando is a very talented 20 yeras old guy who has practiced martial arts since a kid, he has a red belt in TKD and has practiced Lima Lama he's a very acurated kicker and puncher, the other guy is Sergio sergio has practiced martial arts too and he can kick and punch pretty nasty too. Both friends engage each other very nice, punches and kicks were used in a more balance way, the score area is above belt level including the head.
The kick to punch ratio was good I will say 70% punches and 30% kicks, the punches used were the typical boxing ones, you know the jab,cross,hook,upper,etc, and the kicks more used were the roundhouse kick and the side kicks with a couple of hook kicks. I saw the match balanced and well done, I saw good kicks and good punches, the safety equipment consist of helmet,mouth piece,boxing 12-14 oz gloves,groing protector and shin/instep pads, cero hogu and the blows were preety hard believe me.
Manny
What iI see of this kenpo point fight competition is the oposed at what we see on WTF/TKD competition, the boys and girls used most punches than kicks I can see 95% punches and 5% kicks. However what atracted my atention was at the end of the tournament, I saw two matches of continus fight and here I see alot of more kicks, one particular fight caught my atention.
Continus fighting as the name implies it consist of two rounds of two minutes continus fighting, the fight is stoped only when, one competitor is out the fighting area, or when an ilegal tech is used (foul) or when a knock out is given. I saw a fight amoung two friends, Orlando is a very talented 20 yeras old guy who has practiced martial arts since a kid, he has a red belt in TKD and has practiced Lima Lama he's a very acurated kicker and puncher, the other guy is Sergio sergio has practiced martial arts too and he can kick and punch pretty nasty too. Both friends engage each other very nice, punches and kicks were used in a more balance way, the score area is above belt level including the head.
The kick to punch ratio was good I will say 70% punches and 30% kicks, the punches used were the typical boxing ones, you know the jab,cross,hook,upper,etc, and the kicks more used were the roundhouse kick and the side kicks with a couple of hook kicks. I saw the match balanced and well done, I saw good kicks and good punches, the safety equipment consist of helmet,mouth piece,boxing 12-14 oz gloves,groing protector and shin/instep pads, cero hogu and the blows were preety hard believe me.
Manny