Taekwondo 2018 Discussion Thread

[heywoodu 15,353]

  On 12/13/2018 at 9:56 AM, phelps said:

personally, I really hate it...I find it unfair...you can score the grand total of 2 points in the whole match and your opponent can score 20 points and you still have a chance to win it...it sucks big time!

 

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Means the opponent was not exactly smart with their energy distribution  

[phelps 7,847]

  On 12/13/2018 at 10:06 AM, heywoodu said:

Means the opponent was not exactly smart with their energy distribution  

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not necessarily...if you win a very close 1st round, then you can give up the second and take more than a short breathe, so to have quite an advantage in the 3rd and decisive stint...

and this would eventually lead to many matches decided by the 1st round score and the consequential opportunistic tactics...

to me, that's unfair and moreover it makes watching the sport less enjoyable...

Wrestling (with all the difference of the case) should have given quite a lesson about that, but it looks that nobody went to school at the time...

[phelps 7,847]

2018 WT Grand Slam Champions Series (Wuxi, CHN)

 

Day #2 Results

http://www.worldtaekwondo.org/results-day-2-wuxi-2018-wt-grand-slam-champions-series/

[phelps 7,847]

2018 WT Grand Slam Champions Series (Wuxi, CHN)

 

Day #3 (Quarterfinals) Results

http://www.worldtaekwondo.org/results-day-3-wuxi-2018-wt-grand-slam-champions-series/

[phelps 7,847]

2018 WT Grand Slam Champions Series (Wuxi, CHN)

 

Day #4 (Semifinals) Results

 

women's -49kg
Panipak Wongpattanakit b. Kang Bo Ra
Ha Min-Ah b. Tan Xueqin

women's -57kg
Jade Jones b. Marija Stetic
Zhou Lijun b. Lee Ah-Reum

women's -67kg
Lauren Williams b. Ruth Gbagbi
Nur Tatar Askari b. Guo Yunfei

women's +67kg
Bianca Walkden b. Aleksandra Kowalczuk
Madelynn Gorman-Shore b. Rebecca McGowan

men's -58kg
Liu Yushuai b. Kim Tae-Hun
Jang Jun b. Armin Hadipour

men's -68kg
Bradly Sinden b. Lee Dae-Hoon (1st loss of the entire season for him...and it came with a spectacular kick to the head at the last second of round #2 by Sinden...top hit of the year, for sure)
Zhao Shuai b. Javier Perez Polo

men's -80kg
Maksim Khramtcov b. Chen Linglong
Hwan Nam Goong b. Milad Beigi

men's +80kg
In Kyo-Don b. Sun Hongyi
Sajjad Mardani b. Song Zhaoxiang

Edited December 15, 2018 by phelps

[MHSN 3,661]

wow so many surprising results. Kim Tae-hun and Lee Dae-hoon losing in the same day (not to even great opponents) Lee DH losing to Sindon is indeed the biggest surprise of the year. also Milad Beigi lost to a guy from Korea. Beigi used to destroy everybody a year ago but he is just another good athlete these days.

 

we had a small team here. only 2. Hadipour will fight for bronze (unfortunately for him that will be against Kim TH) but Mardani !! will be in gold medal match.   this guy Mardani is in national team program for few years. and I never liked him. I hate his conservative style and I can't understand how he get some good results sometimes.

[phelps 7,847]

there's a chance Kim Tae-Hun won't show up tomorrow in the Bronze Medal match (in Fujarah he gave up once he wasn't in the big final, as it looks he's not 100% healthy)...

[MHSN 3,661]

  On 12/15/2018 at 12:34 PM, phelps said:

there's a chance Kim Tae-Hun won't show up tomorrow in the Bronze Medal match (in Fujarah he gave up once he wasn't in the big final, as it looks he's not 100% healthy)...

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I see, Hadipour beat him once in Manchester GP final but he lost more to this guy (including 2017 World Champs final). so he will be underdog if Kim TH shows up. Kim lost here and there to Iranians before but the guy who never lost to our athletes is Lee Dae-hoon he won every single match he had vs the Iranians. I remember Yaghoubi, Asbaghi, Hosseini, Bakhshi and Naderian losing to him. (probably there are more names in the list) they are all very good fighters, almost all of them World medalists, but none of them could find a solution for this guy he is a nice guy and also he is VERY popular in East Asia ! they consider him very handsome.

 

but with WT increasing the number of competitions, there are more chances top athletes participating when they are not 100% and pick up some defeats. maybe losing sometimes is not that big surprise. but the money prize for this event is bigger than other competitions, that's quite a motivation

[MHSN 3,661]

Hadipour beat Kim TH for bronze he was lucky the format is different in medal round. this is best of 5 instead of best of 3 for men. Kim won first 2 rounds narrowly 3-2 and 6-3 but Hadipour came back strongly to win next 3 rounds. with some great advises from his coach. both were deadly tired in last 2 rounds . Hadipour was smart listening to his coach changing his style entirely. funny that since Grand Slam is not a part of NT program. both Hadipour and Mardani are here on their own with their own coach. (and not the national coach Askari) turned out to be a good thing for them

 

I'm heading out and will miss Mardani's final . as much as I don't like him still I hope he  wins a gold somewhere finally

 

I watched few matches in past few days. I think this format is not a total disaster as it was in wrestling. still I prefer the current format.

Edited December 16, 2018 by MHSN

[phelps 7,847]

2018 WT Grand Slam Champions Series (Wuxi, CHN)

 

Day #5 (Finals) Results

 

women's -49kg
Gold: Panipak Wongpattanakit
Silver: Ha Min-Ah
Bronze: Tan Xueqin

women's -57kg
Gold: Zhou Lijun
Silver: Jade Jones
Bronze: Lee Ah-Reum

women's -67kg
Gold: Lauren Williams
Silver: Nur Tatar Askari
Bronze: Ruth Gbagbi

women's +67kg
Gold: Bianca Walkden
Silver: Madelynn Gorman-Shore
Bronze: Aleksandra Kowalczuk

men's -58kg
Gold: Jang Jun
Silver: Liu Yushuai
Bronze: Armin Hadipour

men's -68kg
Gold: Zhao Shuai
Silver: Bradly Sinden
Bronze: Lee Dae-Hoon

men's -80kg
Gold: Maksim Khramtcov
Silver: Hwan Nam Goong
Bronze: Milad Beigi

men's +80kg
Gold: Sajjad Mardani
Silver: In Kyo-Don
Bronze: Song Zhaoxiang