Re: Xing Yi Quan Combat Tournament
Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2021 1:51 am
GrahamB wrote:Returning to the original video of the tournament...
I think inevitably, if the rules are strict people will find a way to score most points within the rules and it will end up looking... weird. A bit like today's Olympic Taekwando looks nothing like Taekwando did in the 70s or 80s.
I left the world of Korean Tang Soo Do, Hapkido, and Tae Kwon Do somewhere back in the 1960's, but not before receiving an impressive list of fractured ribs, jaws, fingers and toes.
Ah, the good old days when I was 9ft tall and damn near bulletproof, convinced that nothing could hurt me. This belief obviously proved NOT to be true!