Semi or Full-Contact

**kozak** · 04-24-2007, 20:31

Looks like you should do an amatuer MMA match. Our competition, Canadian Combat Sambo Challenge, held next month will be full-contact.

**Dirk Schlaf** · 05-03-2007, 01:42

Originally Posted by Da-RiSiN-sMoKe

I've never been in a full-contact tournament before, and I hardly see any of them around.

What do you prefer?

I though all muay thai was full contact?

**Dirk Schlaf** · 05-03-2007, 01:57

Originally Posted by zatoichi3154

I have never understood semi-contact, this martial arts thing of ours should not a point system thing. Either you have the skills and force to put down an oipponent or you don't. I feel that point sparing or fighting is unbalance to martial arts. To me you either know how to fight and take down person or you just tap people and pretend.

I'm with you to an extent. Ideally I like full contact from the waist to shoulders with just gloves and footgear. In my Shotokan days we did this and no one was ever seriously hurt. Now I do ITF TKD and love sparring but hate the whole "excessive contact" thing. There should be no problem with full contact between two opponents of no great weight or belt level disparity. I don't want face contact because I'm not a pro fighter and don't want my face messed up but if people want to do head contact why not?

**Da-RiSiN-sMoKe** · 05-11-2007, 17:45

I want to try Muay Thai or Kyokushin.

They have kickboxing at my brother's school; Eastern Washington University, plus Aikido, Kendo, and Karate!

**Jeff Burger** · 05-15-2007, 15:20

Give full contact a try. I hate point and semi contact (semi contact sounds like a joke anyway).

Its a totally different animal once you take your foot off off the brakes.

**Mikey Triangles** · 07-15-2007, 16:02

Originally Posted by Da-RiSiN-sMoKe

I've never been in a full-contact tournament before, and I hardly see any of them around.

What do you prefer?

Full contact is the way to go. otherwise there's too many problems

**Southwell** · 03-09-2008, 06:37

I'm competing next weekend in a continuous sparring tournament in Quebec. It's considered Light contact the level below Full contact and Semi contact is actually point sparring.

**Jeff Burger** · 03-09-2008, 19:01

Id be worried what the other guys idea of "light" is.

Give full contact a try at least one time.

**uchi_deshi** · 11-25-2008, 15:46

i know of a full contact but it is alos not in the states... from what i understand about it there really is no rules and every one fights everyone... the person who wins is the person who gets the most wins...

from what i was told its very brutel... you really need to know your stuff. reason being im told only 1 american won it, but you only win a silk pillow which goes to the school you trained/ learned from...

**grondahl** · 11-25-2008, 15:57

And then of course there are the entire MMA/Vale Tudo/Muy Thai-scene.

Originally Posted by uchi_deshi

i know of a full contact but it is alos not in the states... from what i understand about it there really is no rules and every one fights everyone... the person who wins is the person who gets the most wins...

from what i was told its very brutel... you really need to know your stuff. reason being im told only 1 american won it, but you only win a silk pillow which goes to the school you trained/ learned from...

**Jay Bell** · 11-25-2008, 16:17

Originally Posted by uchi_deshi

i know of a full contact but it is alos not in the states... from what i understand about it there really is no rules and every one fights everyone... the person who wins is the person who gets the most wins...

from what i was told its very brutel... you really need to know your stuff. reason being im told only 1 american won it, but you only win a silk pillow which goes to the school you trained/ learned from...

Sounds like a fictitious movie...oh wait..

**Da-RiSiN-sMoKe** · 12-21-2010, 13:30

2 year bump, oh well, I don't care.

This forum is kind of dead anyways.

I took Kyokushin for a year and I loved it! Too bad I'm in college now and it's too far away.