Posted by: oldman
oldman and Student Spar - 03/28/08 12:07 AM
FA Folks,
On the recent thread "Variations on a Theme" I mentioned that I wanted to post a video of our approach to sparring. I have seen many peoples videos and the way they go about things. Our style of Chung Do Kwan is historically called a "no contact" method. That may actually be abit of a misnomer. Just the mention of the phrase "no contact" is an invitation to derision. Still I'd like to show you how we do it. Of course there are people at higher skill (or testosterone)levels that mutually agree to agree to push the envelope. That may also include sweeps. On the video you can see me sparring with a young man who is a green belt. There is generally no safety gear worn. Attacks are targeted above the waist and below the neck including the sides of the body. The attacks to the legs and back are not allowed. There are no punches or kicks thrown to the head. If we incorporate punches and kicks at head level we use headgear with a full face cage. None of us are particularly handsome but we all agree that we would like to keep the noses that we have.
Until now I have struggled to describe what we do. It does not look like WTF or ITF. It does not stop to assess points. It is definatley not Kyukoshin. So what does it look like?
For what it is worth here it is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppsyesRgmc4
On the recent thread "Variations on a Theme" I mentioned that I wanted to post a video of our approach to sparring. I have seen many peoples videos and the way they go about things. Our style of Chung Do Kwan is historically called a "no contact" method. That may actually be abit of a misnomer. Just the mention of the phrase "no contact" is an invitation to derision. Still I'd like to show you how we do it. Of course there are people at higher skill (or testosterone)levels that mutually agree to agree to push the envelope. That may also include sweeps. On the video you can see me sparring with a young man who is a green belt. There is generally no safety gear worn. Attacks are targeted above the waist and below the neck including the sides of the body. The attacks to the legs and back are not allowed. There are no punches or kicks thrown to the head. If we incorporate punches and kicks at head level we use headgear with a full face cage. None of us are particularly handsome but we all agree that we would like to keep the noses that we have.
Until now I have struggled to describe what we do. It does not look like WTF or ITF. It does not stop to assess points. It is definatley not Kyukoshin. So what does it look like?
For what it is worth here it is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppsyesRgmc4