There were quite a number of holding the foot acts by the blue player.  It would appear that this is a strategy being used by the blue player either to gain an advantage or to hinder his opponent.  This is very clearly a prohibited act and must be penalised by kyong-go and continuous repeated acts must be penalised by gam-jeom.

Article 14 (5) (1) (e) covers this area of prohibitive act to be penalised by kyong-go.  Explanation (2) (e) provides guidelines that covers this area of prohibitive act ” .. It also includes the act of grabbing the foot or leg .. .”

Some of the actions were very quickly done but there were quite a few more of such acts that were very clearly prohibitive that went unpunished.   One grab was penalised but there should have been more punished.  The player should have been verbally cautioned for doing such grabbing / holding of the foot / leg and the act should have been stopped.

The scoreline was very close at the end of the match and the blue player should have lost more points through the illegal use of holding / grabbing the leg and the red player should have gained at least one or 2 more points through this prohibited act.

It would appear the blue player got away with this one, but he will be watched from now on and if he continued on this strategy he will be penalised.