What I hate about tournaments is......

[Fu-Pow]

1) Tinfoil swords that go "ka chang"

2) Caucasian people dressed in traditional Chinese clothing

3) Judges who aren't qualified

4) Ambiguous/subjective sparring rules

5) Politics/Drama

6) the entire Creative/Musical division

7) Staffs that would work great as pool cues

8) Traditional forms performed with "Wushu flair"

9) That song from the Wong Fei Hung soundtrack

10) Cheesy techno music (please see Creative/Musical division)

11) Annoying MC's

12) Crappy unhealthy and overpriced food

13) The fact that you are instantly awarded extra points for forms if you:
a) are Asian
b)Dressed in a "snappy" outfit
c)Make a lot of noise
d)Make facial expressions like you are straining to take
a sh)t.
e) under 5'5"

14) Point sparring

15) Karate guys with mullets and more patches on their uniforms than a TGIF Fridays employee.

16) Waiting around all day for your 15 min of competition

Please feel free to expand on my list.....

[mortal]

LOLOLO That was rich!

[SevenStar]

Then why do you enter?


I feel your pain though. The above was why I stopped. However, admittedly, I own a uniform that exposes my arm and most of my chest on one side... I think it's a swordsman uniform, or something... someone on kfm referred to it as that once - but It looks really cool, so I would do my forms in it, attempting to get extra points for appearance.

[Fu-Pow]

Originally posted by SevenStar
Then why do you enter?

To remind myself why I don't go to tournaments...haha.

[lkfmdc]

Anyone remember Jeff Bolt's sparring idea? Spar for a few minutes and then get a judge's score like a forms competiton

They scored you on "how you moved", your "Chinese martial art flavor" and other totally intangible things

"how'd you do in your fight"

"I must have done bad, I only got a 7.3"

[rubthebuddha]

the other guy got a broken nose, dislocated shoulder and three bruised ribs, but he got an 8.3, so he musta won the fight.

[Starchaser107]

b!tches that complain about the politics of tournaments.


jus teasin

sort of

[Sang Feng Fan]

Running into the same people competing in the beginners division year after year.

Spotting the lady who taught kickboxing at your old kwoon competing in beginners sparring.

Schools which bring a dozen competitors and they compete using the same form.

Pink or orange Wushu outfits.

Hugely overweight or underweight competitors.

Sifus who walk right up to the judges during the competition and demand better scores for their competitors.

Schools that do poorly, bring up "Honor" and demand their money back.

Overpriced water.

[Brad]

Anyone remember Jeff Bolt's sparring idea? Spar for a few minutes and then get a judge's score like a forms competiton

They scored you on "how you moved", your "Chinese martial art flavor" and other totally intangible things

Doesn't sound too bad... it's basically like most forms competitions, but you get to hit somebody People getting random scores while hitting each other vs. People getting random scores for doing 3 minutes of bad taiji... hmm...

[rogue]

That horrible noise they play during Muay Thai fights.

Kids from the local TKD school doing glowing numchunk demos.

Watching the MT guys limping out to their cars with their legs wrapped in giant ice packs. Ouch!

[Shaolinlueb]

Originally posted by Fu-Pow
9) That song from the Wong Fei Hung soundtrack

I feel your pain. And its always the non chinese that try to be more chinese then the chinese

i dont see anything wrong with wearing frog button shirts, its traditional, sorta. not like im wearing it all the time.

[SiuHung]

...Obnoxious wushu people saying "Haaooo" every 10 seconds!!!

PLEASE SHUT UP WUSHU PEOPLE!!! YOU SOUND LIKE THE SEAGULLS IN FINDING NEMO!!!!!

Also, judges for forms divisions who clearly aren't interested in what's going on in front of them, and sparring rules that make it **** near impossible to use Chinese martial arts in the competition ring.

[kungfuchic]

sandbaggin...how long have they been in intermediate now?

instructors who judge their own students higher than what it is obviously supposed to be. kinda compromises the judge's integrity all the way around.

wushu people who compete in traditional that claim their form is traditional but it just has that wushu flare.

sleepy judges who only wake up when they see a butterfly kick and useless tumbling and score high for it in the traditional events..


but for the flip side, i get to travel and meet new people!

[SevenStar]

Originally posted by rogue
That horrible noise they play during Muay Thai fights.

that "noise" is art. Maybe it's an acquired taste, but I like it.

[SifuAbel]

.........being there...........