Sparring Senior Male -63kg Final - ITF World Cup 2016 - Budapest

Camera operators: Olli Leino, Tuomo Toukomies
Edited by: Olli Leino
Graphics by: Olli Leino
Music by: Olli Leino, Kevin MacLeod
Technical assistant: Tuomo Toukomies
Preproduction assistant: Juho Horttanainen

[mycommentisdumbbut]

I am a Korean and i rlly think we should adopt the ITF Taekwondo rules to the olympics. Right now, it just seems like foot fencing..

[terenceangelo]

Look, I get why most people would think that Taekwondo would be impractical at self-defense, but most of the fancy kicks are just for show and because of how rules in matches work. But if you know how to throw basic kicks, punches, and/or throw, and most importantly, run from such a situation (you don't need to prove anything just be safe), you're gonna be fine.

[RoonVonBismarck]

ITF founder Choi Hong Hee was the original creator of TKD. He had some disagreements with the other founders of TKD in the 70's and ultimately created ITF after leaving Korea. North Korean influence over ITF coupled with some other factors caused the larger WTF to portray Choi as an unimportant or dishonorable figure in TKD history. In my opinion, ITF TKD is better than mainstream WTF, with less nationalism and more realism.

[Liquidcadmus]

I am surprised at how many USA competitors reached the final instances.It seems they've improved a lot over there in the past couple of years.

[kcjfilms]

I have blackbelts in both WT Kukkiwon and ITF. Both have taught me great things and I consider blended best

[cryzaku]

Taekwondo in this video looks like some kind of foot fencing

But a taekwondo in street fight no rules is a different story it's really scary to get hit by a no rules taekwondo.

[akirokurosava]

both fighters is a very good, fantastic match

[karatekrazy]

WKF Karate should have similar rules to this, it would be better appreciated by the Olympics public.

[valman]

Is that the world dancing star new edition or what? Don't fool yourself you are fighters! You are dancing stars 🤩 ✨⭐✨⭐

[CoelhoSports]

the ref should step in and issue a warning when one guy is RUNNING for over a minute, doing nothing but avoiding exchanges entirely.

[Cielnva]

These guys got guts not having their hands up for most of the match

[abelcalmopablo]

Buenas tardes. Le saludo desde Guatemala. Ya se enteraron que aquí en Guatemala falleció el Sabonim quinto dan Ferdy García. Que lamentable. Creo que fue de Covid

[TKDragon]

When I sparred like in the dojang, we did use chest gear as lower belts. Blackbelt v Blackbelt didn't and could kick to the head but lower belts were limited to chest striking. I think it's an experience level thing where they didn't want less experienced people to hurt each other in sparring. I also remember I had this whole argument with 2 other Tae Kwon Do students at a public park over which kick was right for one of the patterns. And now knowing there are different style, I think it was different because I learned ITF and they were WTF.

[jasperscholz]

Why is it necessary to have the ITF in addition to the Olympic Taekwondo? Taekwondo would be much more famous if WT and ITF were a olympic association together. It's a shame.

[gabetheanimator]

Wicked, wicked fight guys. Makes me want to sparr so bad!

[황우람-sw]

안녕하세요. 대한태권도협회원 입니다. 북한의 태권도협회이름은 어떻게 되나요?
동작하나하나가 절도가 있어보이고
아주 훌륭한 경기입니다.

[jedBSME]

Wow unlike olympc tkd, this is close to light contact kickboxing.

[jyeoteowhee]

Since both of these TKD opponents and well trained martial artist.
Where were their fighing stances and why were they jumping as if they were doing boxing.

[danskarate]

The fight was good until the guy in blue got enough points, and decided to avoid contact in the last round. smirking at his opponent who was trying to gain ground, this is why competition karate and taekwondo has gone to shit.

[HomelessNinjaKennedy]

I don't understand the scoring system at all. Why did blue go from 4 points to 1 around 2:25?