Charity challenge cup

yomchi

Great night of fighting tonight at the charity challenge cup, we took silver in the ITF section, our B team got through to the final where we met the ITA's full squad. Great guys all of them, and fantastic TKDists.
I'd say next year it will be even bigger. Good to see some old friends competing too, Chris Doolan looked very sharp as did the BMA squad.
All in all a good night with a good cause.

Tim_Murphy

Excellent stuff. What other TKD teams competed? Where was the 'A' team?

yomchi

There was the RITA's national team, the INTA were meant to show up but didn't so East Coast Taekwon-Do put a team in.
The 'A' team just wasn't up to the task

joepenguin

how did the karate and kickboxing divisions go?

yomchi

Bushido MA beat Tallaght martial arts in the semi contact and Global beat Mugendo Ireland in the light contact.
The Karate stuff cofused me all together, I really didn't know who was who or what way the points were scored. I think ONAKAI (?) won.

joepenguin

id imagine it was wkf rules ( 1 point for punches, 2 for body kick, 3 for head kick etc) or shobu sanbon ( awarding half of full points ) and the bout is stopped after each score in both.
was it just 2 teams?

Tim_Murphy

Why bother have light contact Kickboxing and TKD? It's pretty much the same sport. It would have made for an interesting clash of styles I reckon.

The 'A' team just wasn't up to the task

Shame.
It would have been interesting to see how they'd have got on against the |ITA team. We nearly were competing against them a few years ago when Philip Fox put on a team competition in Limerick. We pulled out a few weeks before hand though!

yomchi

Why bother have light contact Kickboxing and TKD? It's pretty much the same sport. It would have made for an interesting clash of styles I reckon

Why have Rugby League when there's Rugby Union! Different styles are different styles each carrying different rules with different scoring. They use hook punches, we don't, they were using sweeps, we don't use them, we use jumping punhces for added score, they don't, they were forced to keep it light... we weren't! It was pretty full on for the TKD and was noted as the most exciting to watch on the night.

id imagine it was wkf rules ( 1 point for punches, 2 for body kick, 3 for head kick etc) or shobu sanbon ( awarding half of full points ) and the bout is stopped after each score in both.
was it just 2 teams?

I think that was it, but there were clear scores going in that weren't counted I think maybe due to excessive contact?

Tim_Murphy

Why have Rugby League when there's Rugby Union! Different styles are different styles each carrying different rules with different scoring.

Except that they aren't as different as League Vs Union. When the IUTF started competing in WKA we didn't really go any training specific to LC kickboxing and in the first year competing in the WKA worlds we won gold medals.

Foot sweeps from my experience don't make a big difference. Jumping punches are a difference alright, their use always baffled me anyway but that's another topic. I didn't realise hooks were not allowed in TKD? Is that a new thing? Yes there are differences between LC Kickboxing and TKD but at the end of the day it is essentially the same sport, just with a slightly different emphasis put on different things.

we weren't! It was pretty full on for the TKD

Sounds like a lack of control on the part of the TKD so folk so.