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Post by odee on Dec 21, 2012 8:35:21 GMT -5
Grabbing is illegal in a lot of martial arts, so taking someone's hard earned belt off the touchie list isn't such a big stretch.
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Post by kokoro on Dec 21, 2012 8:51:49 GMT -5
Grabbing is illegal in a lot of martial arts, so taking someone's hard earned belt off the touchie list isn't such a big stretch. thats part of the reason i gave up on tournaments. if your kick is slow enough that i can grab your leg and punch you in the face and throw you to the ground. why should i not get a point for that, hell i should get two. but no i ge3t a warning and the other idiot got a bloody point wtf. and i didnt even get into the grappling part yet, dont get me started with illegal crap ill go off on a rant |
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Post by odee on Dec 21, 2012 17:12:01 GMT -5
That's a pretty pitiful reason Kokoro.
If the rules say you aren't allowed to grab someone's leg then you aren't allowed to grab someone's leg of course you aren't going to get points for doing it. That's just dealing with the situation you've been stuck with, it's not like you always get to choose the situation in a street fight - the only time you can do that is when you pick the fights, otherwise you have to adapt to whatever bullshit gets thrown your way.
Get yourself a good record across multiple rule-sets and you'll find yourself developing the ability to adapt to any street situation.
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Post by kokoro on Dec 21, 2012 17:45:23 GMT -5
Well I think the person should learn to kick faster. If you kick slow enough I can grab you leg why should you get that point. And it didn't even have any power behind it.
I get sick of the stuff they claim for points.
I have little trouble with street situations. I can do what I please to end it. It's tournament rules I have issues with, besides there bs cheating. There are many issues I have with the way people run there tournaments. The way people compete. I like they way tournaments use to be in the old days. They were run much better.
Tournaments should be used as a training tool. But people now Adams more look at it as, how can I cheat to get my students more trophies.
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Post by odee on Dec 22, 2012 16:45:23 GMT -5
I've never understood the issue with cheating.
Unless the judge is really, really in your pocket cheating makes you fair game to whatever your opponent cooks up in retaliation. I bend the rules to get my way on lots of occasions and I know it pisses a lot of referees off that I'm barely within the rules, I also know those pissed off referees will turn a blind eye if somebody decides to pay me back in some kind of less than legal way.
It's exactly the same way on the street, if you choose to be an ass people will stand there and pretend not to notice (while secretly enjoying the show) when somebody decides to kick that ass.
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Post by kokoro on Dec 22, 2012 22:08:09 GMT -5
After decades of this crap I'm fed up with it all.
I use to go to about 50 to 60 tournaments a year when I was younger, a couple of times we went to two in one day. Me and my partner would drive Over the city going to them, between the cheering and the bs rules some of them had, I finally gave up.
I go to about 3 a year now that are quality tournaments, the people are far. Although I end up judging only now
Maybe I'm just getting old and grumpy.
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Post by odee on Dec 23, 2012 17:20:17 GMT -5
Fifty a year? Damn.
I'd have to compete across about fourty different styles and every state in Australia to accomplish that, I've only known three schools that host more than one tournament a year.
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Post by kokoro on Dec 23, 2012 18:08:51 GMT -5
Back then I was 30 mins from nyc
In the city there are multiple tournaments every weekend. Some open, some invitational only etc.
There are hundreds of schools all over the place by me just counting the okinawan and japaneses styles. My teacher put me in charge of his mailing list back then for his tournament. There were over 300 traditional dojo's on it. Including outside the city were his tournament was held.
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Post by odee on Dec 24, 2012 6:55:55 GMT -5
This explains a bit.
New York alone is equal to half the Australian population.
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