Pro Taekwondo - ITF's Full Contact Taekwon-Do

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On the 13th of December the world final Pro Taekwon-Do championship
will be held in Zagreb, Croatia. Last year the winner of the 1st Pro
Taekwon-Do received $30 000 in prize money. This year the winners gets
$50 000 in cash.
Pro Taekwon-Do, if you don’t know, is the full contact wing of ITF
Taekwon-Do, which allows knock outs. Fighters spar in a boxing ring
and wear dobok pants and a black belt with a sleeveless dobok top. The
full contact sparring is similar to kickboxing, but fighters are not
allowed to do hooks or uppercuts. Unlike boxing they are allowed to do
back-fist strikes. Kicking is encouraged through higher points. The
points range from one to five points, depending on the difficulty of
the technique.

The fighters for this year’s world final champions include Park Young
Se (South Korea), Mici Kuzmanovic (Croatia), Andrey Krylov (Russia),
Morteza Rostami (Iran), Woytek Kaszowski (Canada), Ramiz Malic (BIH),
Daler Tyryaev (Tajikistan), Pak Kwang Hyok (DPR Korea), Zelg Galesic
(Croatia), Domagoj Ostojic (Croatia), Frane Erak (Croatia) and
Guillermo Alvarado (Argentia). With so many fighters from Croatia, the
President of the Republic of Croatia, Mr Stjepan Mesic, is sponsoring
this year’s championship.

The final fight for the previous championships was between Russia’s
Andre Krylov and Canada’s Woytek Kaszowski. Krylov walked out the
winner.

If you are interested in ITF Taekwon-Do’s full contact sport world,
visit the official website at: www.pro-taekwondo.co.za. There are
videos of previous fights, an explanation of the rules, fighter
information and so forth.

Regards,
Sanko

[Chris van der Merwe]

That should be www.pro-taekwondo.com and not .co.za.  Very cool message, thanks Sanko.

[sanko...@gmail.com]

Thank you!

http://www.pro-taekwondo.com

Anybody has any comments about ITF's full contact tournaments?

Regards,
Sanko

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On Nov 29, 6:51 pm, "Chris van der Merwe" <chrisv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That should bewww.pro-taekwondo.comand not .co.za.  Very cool message,
> thanks Sanko.

[sanko...@gmail.com]

Dear friends,

A quick report on the full contact Pro Taekwon-Do Tournament of last
month. The Russian Taekwon-Do fighter, Andrey Krylov came out as Grand
Champion again, walking away with the $50 000 prize money. The prize
money he won last year was $30 000. The 24 year old Krylov, weighed in
at 90 kg and is 185 cm tall. His final fight was against American
Taekwon-Do fighter, Raymond Daniels, whom is 188 cm tall and weighed
in at 81 kg.

All the quarter finals, semi finals and final matches can be seen on
the Pro Taekwon-Do website: http://www.pro-taekwondo.com/ or on
YouTube.

Also on the website are some demos that was part of the show, which
including an interesting combination of the pattern Gwang Gae and the
Tango; as well as a demonstration by the ATJ Lučko (the anti-terrorist
unit of the police of Croatia).

ITF President, Prof. Chang Ung sent a message of congratulations to
the organizers, in particular to Master Anto Nobilo, stating that he
hoped for the continued collaboration "in the field of ITF Pro -
Competition". With the successes of the last couple of Pro Taekwon-Do
World Championships, it is likely that full contact ITF Taekwon-Do
will become a fixed niche in our martial art.

Personally I think this is a good thing, as it caters for the needs of
some ITF practitioners that feel a need for full contact competition.
These practitioners are often lost to kickboxing organizations. I can
only wonder if similar tournaments that include clinch distance
fighting and grappling will also eventually find room within the
greater ITF community; for there is no doubt in my mind that we also
have ITF practitioners that feel a need for opportunities to compete
in tournaments that include both in stand up and ground fighting.

Any thoughts?

Regards,
Sanko

Ps. I'm leaving for South Africa tomorrow and with any luck I hope to
stumble across some of you on my short break in the country. I'm
especially looking forward to the summer heat. It's been below zero
(often as cold as -10 degrees Celcius) here in Korea for many days
now.

On Dec 2 2008, 10:38 pm, sankole...@gmail.com wrote:
> Thank you!
>
> http://www.pro-taekwondo.com
>
> Anybody has any comments about ITF's full contact tournaments?
>
> Regards,
> Sanko
>
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>
> On Nov 29, 6:51 pm, "Chris van der Merwe" <chrisv...@gmail.com> wrote:
>

> > That should bewww.pro-taekwondo.comandnot .co.za.  Very cool message,