So here are some musings on the current Olympic TKD.
I don't like the miss-matched uniform colours. Makes the whole affair look messy IMHO. More like a training session than a proper bout. White tops, blue and red hogu and helmets, big splashy logos, multicoloured trousers. I'd prefer whole colour doboks. They probably don't have to all be white all the time but the trousers and tops should match.
I quite like the octagonal ring to make it different to boxing or judo rings although it's a bit too UFC I think. I think make it round. Maybe with a feint yin-yang symbol that divides the fighters?
The level of contact required to score a head kick IS ridiculous. I've seen scoring kicks that landed with just the last bit of toenail on the head guard where the foot is barely moving with any power in the first place. That's not a kick IMHO. Supposedly full-contact WTF sparring ends up being less contact than forms of semi-contact sparring.
Why not just add in face punching now? The combatants are already padded up almost completely. Make the gloves more padded and score controlled punches to the head? Reflect the more holistic nature of TKD and, I think, make it more exciting, more relate-able as a combat sport to the general public and open up access to other TKD exponents that punch to the head in their format.
Stop with the chop kick and the push kick names. Turning kick is bad enough. Everyone else calls them axe kicks and side kicks.
Anything else?
I don't like the miss-matched uniform colours. Makes the whole affair look messy IMHO. More like a training session than a proper bout. White tops, blue and red hogu and helmets, big splashy logos, multicoloured trousers. I'd prefer whole colour doboks. They probably don't have to all be white all the time but the trousers and tops should match.
I quite like the octagonal ring to make it different to boxing or judo rings although it's a bit too UFC I think. I think make it round. Maybe with a feint yin-yang symbol that divides the fighters?
The level of contact required to score a head kick IS ridiculous. I've seen scoring kicks that landed with just the last bit of toenail on the head guard where the foot is barely moving with any power in the first place. That's not a kick IMHO. Supposedly full-contact WTF sparring ends up being less contact than forms of semi-contact sparring.
Why not just add in face punching now? The combatants are already padded up almost completely. Make the gloves more padded and score controlled punches to the head? Reflect the more holistic nature of TKD and, I think, make it more exciting, more relate-able as a combat sport to the general public and open up access to other TKD exponents that punch to the head in their format.
Stop with the chop kick and the push kick names. Turning kick is bad enough. Everyone else calls them axe kicks and side kicks.
Anything else?
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