Adam Zi\u0119ba won two gold medals at the ITF Moravia Open taekwon-do tournament held on 24 and 25 September in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Nearly 300 competitors from the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia, England and Poland took part in the entire competition. Our club was represented by 6 competitors.<\/p>\n
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The competition was organised in the ITF-NK form of taekwon-do. It differed significantly from the generally applicable sparring rules. A difficulty for the competitors from Krak\u00f3w was the limitation of hand techniques to two strikes in a combination, as well as the different, lower scoring for foot techniques performed without jumping. A complete misunderstanding, on the other hand, was the rule stating that striking techniques to an opponent\u2019s guard were scored as long as the guard was touching the body.<\/p>\n
A positive curiosity was that the light-contact bouts were held with repechage. Thus, every competitor had at least two bouts. Losing the first bout still provided a chance to win bronze.<\/p>\n
The tournament results seemed rather strange to us. It happened that gold medals were won by competitors who never engaged in a bout; they kicked at the guard and fell over in order to prevent their opponent from scoring. Nevertheless, there were also very positive surprises. Nearly all the competitors from Slovenia belonged to this group\u2014they were very combative and technically excellent.<\/p>\n
In these circumstances, our competitors performed very well, despite this being their first event after the summer break. The greatest success was achieved by Adam Zi\u0119ba, who won both sparring events, semi- and light-contact. A pleasant surprise was also the silver medal won by the senior team, composed mainly of competitors from our club.<\/p>\n
Here are the detailed results of our competitors:<\/p>\n
Adam Zi\u0119ba (senior) \u2013 1st place, light-contact; 1st place, pointfightng -64 kg<\/p>\n
Jakub W\u0142odarz (senior) \u2013 1st place, pointfighting -78 kg<\/p>\n
Mateusz Kopci\u0144ski (senior) \u2013 2nd place, light-contact -85 kg<\/p>\n
Dobrochna Dolicka (senior woman) \u2013 2nd place, light-contact; 2nd place, pointfighting -57 kg<\/p>\n
Karolina Nowak (junior woman) \u2013 2nd place, light-contact; 3rd place, pointfighting -58 kg<\/p>\n
Miko\u0142aj Chrz\u0105szcz (cadet) – no medal.<\/p>\n
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