🧵 Olympic Fighting Sports
Anonymous at Mon, 5 Aug 2024 06:04:47 UTC No. 206483
Would replacing Judo, Wrestling, etc., by Mixed Wresling Arts and Mixed Striking Arts be beneficial to the Olympics?
Consider the following:
> circle arena
> out = 2 points
> knockdown/takedown = 3 points
> knockout/submission = 10 points
> 3 3 min rounds
> protection everywhere including head recommended but not obligatory
> first to 10 points, or with more round wins, wins the fight
I think it would be far more interesting if there were very diverse ways of winning points and different styles actually clashed with each other.
This also ends the notion that the Olympics ruins Martial Arts, since there will be no Point Judo, or Point Karate anymore, just Olympic Striking and Olympic Wrestling. As a bonus you could also add an actual MMA tournament with the best of both sides, but following the same rules.
It's light, and you can probably fight 3 or 4 times in this 3 week period if you are fully protected and you can win by just taking people down and pushing them out.
Anonymous at Mon, 5 Aug 2024 09:31:36 UTC No. 206499
Instead of that gay shit let's replace the Olympics with something good.
Anonymous at Mon, 5 Aug 2024 10:02:01 UTC No. 206500
>>206483
The point of the Olympics has always been to breakdown warfare into small subsets of skills and test the men of each city-state in terms of their specific skill sets, (who can run faster, who can run longer, who can javelin further, who can fly an arrow straighter). Boxing (using fists), TKD (using feet), Judo (wrestling in a jacket) and Freestyle (wrestling as close to naked as possible) do that quite well as it stands. The anomaly is GR but it has a place now anyway. There could be some minor rules changes to some of these sports to make them a bit more interesting to watch and play but what you're proposing is pointless. If you're going to add more and more subsets of skills then you're just slowly working your way up to brawling.
Just go watch MT, ADCC or UFC somewhere else. Style vs Style is not what the Olympics is about.
Anonymous at Mon, 5 Aug 2024 14:13:02 UTC No. 206511
Public interest in the Olympics is at an all time low, and athletes and fans alike have contempt for the way the Olympics is conducted
It would be best to just not have them anymore
Anonymous at Tue, 6 Aug 2024 15:36:17 UTC No. 206660
>>206511
I think it has to do with the fact that there is now too many sports and disciplines, probably included in an attempt to attract audience. I think it could easily be cut in half and it would probably be for the better.
Most people don't watch it for specific sports, but to root for their country's athletes, whatever they may be competing in. Debloating the schedule would be a massive improvement imo
Anonymous at Tue, 13 Aug 2024 19:50:57 UTC No. 207573
>>206511
>Public interest in the Olympics is at an all time low
That's not true
Anonymous at Tue, 13 Aug 2024 23:07:22 UTC No. 207599
Just fix Judo just making "forbidden" moves OK again.
Make karate kumite semi contact.
Erase taekwondo altogether.
And we are good.
Anonymous at Tue, 13 Aug 2024 23:21:02 UTC No. 207600
This >>207599 but no-gi. Anything with gi is retarded.
Anonymous at Wed, 14 Aug 2024 00:55:33 UTC No. 207609
>>207599
Karate was such a shitfest that it got canceled this year. Every part of karate is just a half-assed version of something another martial art does better. TKD is a better martial art and sport than karate, only weebs and mcdojo children will deny this.
Anonymous at Wed, 14 Aug 2024 01:46:38 UTC No. 207610
>>207609
the worst part is the KO was a total flop, it's clear to anyone that has ever actually watched a combat sport with knock outs he was faking it
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Aug 2024 20:08:25 UTC No. 207790
>>207609
Funnily enough Taekwondo is just a half assed version of karate
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Aug 2024 23:35:28 UTC No. 207802
>>207790
TKD surpassed Karate when they decided they were going to drop the ineffective blocks, shoddy punching and dumb kata. They waste way less time with things that don't work and made the entire sport about perfecting kicks in sparring. Atleast someone who learns TKD is actually perfecting a specialized skill in sparring rather than just doing kata they don't understand.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Aug 2024 00:54:59 UTC No. 207806
>>207802
tkdBRAH,
is that you?
Anonymous at Mon, 19 Aug 2024 02:04:10 UTC No. 208335
>>206483
this is just wrestling but you can knock people out sounds like shit
Anonymous at Mon, 19 Aug 2024 07:28:58 UTC No. 208348
>>207802
That might have been true 20 years ago. Go watch the olympics today tkd guys aren't even good at kicking anymore. Unironically Kyokushin karateka are better at literally all the spinny shit while also learning low kicks and thai style etc. Actually even random MMA fighters are better at spinning shit that olympic athletes in tkd today.
Anonymous at Wed, 28 Aug 2024 18:33:31 UTC No. 209287
>>206483
Stupidest idea ever they are separate disciplines for a reason.
Anonymous at Tue, 12 Nov 2024 20:35:25 UTC No. 215746
Why did they never bring back Pankration?
Anonymous at Tue, 12 Nov 2024 21:53:37 UTC No. 215750
>>215746
It's so close to MMA they won't bring it back out of spite
Anonymous at Wed, 13 Nov 2024 13:28:47 UTC No. 215791
How about we replace TKD with Sanda, and GR with Kudo?