Managing fights with the new amended taekwondo competition rules
The new WTF reform competition rules are being implemented this year (2006). In this issue, I will suggest some ways for players to manage their fights within the limits of what the referees and the rules will allow.
The most significant change will be re-introducing the 4 corner judges system. To get a valid score point, a player will now have to convince at least 3 of the judges that their technique is legitimate, accurate and powerful enough. Therefore a player needs to have at least 75% majority decision to get a point whereas it was 67% in the 3 corner judge system.
The complete pdf article can be viewed through this link here.