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From: Melissa Whalen <mwhalen@mail.coin.missouri.edu>

Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 09:29:10 -0600

Subject: Re: new subcriber

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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 09:29:10 -0600
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From: Melissa Whalen 
Subject: Re: new subcriber
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>I joined the GTF because it is a large respectable world wide organisation.
>Surely this sort of thing just reduces it to a back street kick boxing
>farce...


Have you discussed your concerns with your instructor?  He or she should be
able to answer any questions and help you work through this experience.

I have been competing in martial arts tournaments (ITF, GTF, and open style
tournaments) for approx. 12 years and have rarely witnessed, much less
experienced, this level of violence in a tournament.  

I'm sure there are very physical tournaments out there, but I check with my
instructor and seniors before attending a tournament and have a senior,
team member, or knowledgable friend at my ring when I fight to coach me and
keep an eye on things.

TKD is a contact sport, sometimes a ring will get a bit "physcal" and
accidents or excessive violence have been know to happen, but overall this
is an exception rather than a rule at GTF sponsored tournaments.  

I would suggest that you might attend some other GTF sponsered tournaments
as a spectator or a ring volunteer (timekeeper or scorekeeper) to get
another view of the level of contact in the sport.  Please do not base your
judgement of the GTF on one incident - granted it does sound as if it was a
bit extreme.


Melissa

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