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I am not a Taekwondo guy. Only TAekwondo I trained was literally more than 20+ years ago, and that didn't last long at all, though I for some reason still remember training it, I guess it left a bit of an impression on me to say the least.
I was just trying to check out some recent good taekwondo matches, WTF mind you, since ITF looks like to me probably just like any other karate match, I 'm sure there could be differences though personally I know not, but I don't know if it was just the guy's style or whatever, but it looked like they were playing literally playing footsies or whatever, almost they are just trying to touch the other guy with their front foot only, in a wierd non-violent way.
I was going through the lists of comments and saw that some talk about the rule changes leading to this and that, but you know people complain about rule changes too in other sports like wrestling and judo or what not, but I googled anyways, and it looks like WTF taekwondo changed their rules and they not have electronic scoring system, and in one article I saw that, it could possibly encourage people to protect their chest gear and trying to hit the other guy with their front foot, which is pretty much what I observed, but I am still not sure if it was the norm or the exception, or something that happens once a while, especially the rule and gear change is supposed to try to make the sports more popular, and those style of matches will certainly, without a shred of doubt, will turn people away from the sports rather than drawing them in.
[yt]
So, all your sherdog bros who train in WTF taekwondo, not in Mcdojo's, or even that, what happened to WTF taekwondo?
I was just trying to check out some recent good taekwondo matches, WTF mind you, since ITF looks like to me probably just like any other karate match, I 'm sure there could be differences though personally I know not, but I don't know if it was just the guy's style or whatever, but it looked like they were playing literally playing footsies or whatever, almost they are just trying to touch the other guy with their front foot only, in a wierd non-violent way.
I was going through the lists of comments and saw that some talk about the rule changes leading to this and that, but you know people complain about rule changes too in other sports like wrestling and judo or what not, but I googled anyways, and it looks like WTF taekwondo changed their rules and they not have electronic scoring system, and in one article I saw that, it could possibly encourage people to protect their chest gear and trying to hit the other guy with their front foot, which is pretty much what I observed, but I am still not sure if it was the norm or the exception, or something that happens once a while, especially the rule and gear change is supposed to try to make the sports more popular, and those style of matches will certainly, without a shred of doubt, will turn people away from the sports rather than drawing them in.
[yt]
So, all your sherdog bros who train in WTF taekwondo, not in Mcdojo's, or even that, what happened to WTF taekwondo?
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