Austin Martial Arts Festival, Oct. 6

**Hedgehogey** · Posted On: 10/08/2007 4:50pm

Noone was in my weight class (147 lbs and under) so they had me match with a 172 lber and 210 lber, whom I both wrestled to a standstill (points even) but they were given the matches on "advantages".

***JohnnyCache*** · Posted On: 10/08/2007 10:01pm

Any awesome run-ins with the ninjas?

**Hedgehogey** · Posted On: 10/09/2007 1:39am

They were there a different day.

On the comedy front:

-There was a 120 lb white belt kid who had no competitors, so they picked a TKD black belt out of the stands to be his opponent for the division.

-there was a kuk sool won demo that had the big pink fans going on, and it is every bit as ridiculous in real life and more so. Also they caught kicks with their belts and tied each other up which was rather uncomfortably homoerotic.

**selfcritical** · Posted On: 10/09/2007 10:56am

You missed when both the continous point sparring and san shou events had too few competitors.............SO THEY MERGED THEM!!. Hilarity ensued.

**Naszir** · Posted On: 10/09/2007 11:24am

You mentioned something about Karate or KSW vs San Shou, SC. Break it down for us, please.

**Sensei of Beer** · Posted On: 10/09/2007 11:36am

I didnt attent the Austin Martial Arts Festival, because it didn't seem too well planned this time around. The website hadn't been updated since August! And the rules for competition not accessible.
What a joke!

**PizDoff** · Posted On: 10/09/2007 4:22pm

How many people actually went to this event?

Originally Posted by selfcritical

You missed when both the continous point sparring and san shou events had too few competitors.............SO THEY MERGED THEM!!. Hilarity ensued.

Video please.

**selfcritical** · Posted On: 10/09/2007 5:11pm

Originally Posted by Naszir

You mentioned something about Karate or KSW vs San Shou, SC. Break it down for us, please.

All the San shou people were from the same Tai Chi school in houston, so they got paired against the various continous sparring people, which looked like a young kuk sool won guy, a tough old karate dude, and a heavily built TKD or karate guy.

Match number one- Sweep the leg johnny

Kuk Sool guy versus a very angry looking chinese fellow.

Kuk sool guy begins tapping out some quick chambered roundkicks, and some sidekicks as a stop-kick. He looks pretty fast, and racks up some points. He gets cocky, and kicks toward the head...........and promptly gets his leg caught and then swept. Tai chi guy lands in side control and holds him a second. They stand up and the KSG starts trying to throw some ridgehands, which gets him shoulder-stopped.

4-5 times.

Right out of the ring.

Tai Chi guy starts closing with jabs until he's close enough to sweep the front leg, rinses and repeats.

Second fight is Old Karate Dude vs Angry Tai Chi guy#2(hereafter OKD versus ATCG1)

OKD straps up and steps out on the mat in the biggest groin guard i've ever seen in my life.
He strikes an old skool karate guard(front arm 45 degrees toward the ground, fully extended, rear arm by the face). His opponent walks out, they call fight and he strikes a horse stance. For real. He runs straight into his much younger opponent flurrying punches, and gets clinches immediately, then taken down. Rinse and repeat a few times, before old dude figures out to drop his center of gravity so he doesn't get thrown......at which point he just gets punched in the face repeatedly, until his helmet flies off(he looses his helmet a total of 6 times during the match.

Ok, back to work, i'll post more later.