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Originally Posted by GirlySports
i heard that olympics taekwondo is like a bastardized version. most people i know in taekwondo tell me it sucks.
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There's two TKD organizations, WTF and ITF.
When I was doing TKD I was in WTF. ITF was no contact sparring. WTF was the main organization and it's the one in the Olympics and the one with all of the best competitors (I don't even know if there's an ITF school in Calgary).
Now, when I looked at the olympic rules they looked completely different than what I remember but I haven't competed in 11 years so I don't know if they changed them for the Olympics or if that's the new rules, either way I didn't like them. Made them about style more so than effectiveness in an actual fight. The rinks look smaller too but maybe that's just cause I was a kid when I did it!
This USA vs AZE bout is way better. I think those first two bouts I watched were just crappy fighters. And it is women so it's probably the equivalent of Jr. Boys which makes it harder to watch. Excited to see the men fight. Should be a lot more acrobatic and fast. The women seem live and breath by countering a roundhouse kick with an axe kick.
