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I think the red competitor actually was faster
with her punches, unfortunately she didn’t know how to position herself
to take advantage of that. Had she moved outside the constant mid level round
house kick she could have used a backhand or left hand trap and reverse punch
to score on a head attach. The other advantage would have been to move to her
left grab and pull the reverse punch arm and move to an advantages position at
or behind the hip of the blue competitor. I think neither of them really had
the experience to understand point and circle counter attacks.
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Those were my impressions
too. I also notice the blue competitor was definitely more aggressive and
usually led with a waist-high (or occasionally higher) kick followed by one or
two punches. The red competitor attacked a few times and did get in a couple of
hits, but was mostly on the defensive.
It looked like the blue competitor was much lighter on her feet and quicker to
move, while the red competitor was more flat-footed.
The rules also seemed to prohibit any type of trapping, as there were multiple
time the red competitor (the one who was primarily defensive) could have
grabbed the blue competitors ankle during the roundhouses. And it looked like
some of the hits (both kicks and punches) landed pretty solidly, but many or
even most of the hits were more for points than power.
From: Rob
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To: baileysacademy@
Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2009
9:22:11 PM
Subject: [baileysacademy] Re:
OOOPS
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> Here is the link I forgot.
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> http://kskeventhall .blogspot. com/2009/ 07/ska-invitatio
nal-2009. html
>
Comments on Sparring,
One competitor was nearly always only defending and seemed to almost never take
the aggressive position. The other competitor was relatively predictable after
the first few attacks. Almost all attacks were round house kick followed by
reverse punch and sometimes two punches. Its always difficult to judge without
knowing the point criteria. The one defending constantly didn't seem to know
how to take advantage of predictable moves, didn't use her own kicks to any
advantage and never moved to the outside of the constant left round house kick.
They both appeared to be to limited in the techniques they were willing to use.
I have to assume that the rules limit the competitors to no foot sweeps and no
take downs. Points were likely only given for a head or abdominal punch or
kick. Its hard to evaluate without knowing the rules or the experience level of
the competitors.
2-cents,
Rob
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