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AIMAA worldchampionships

  • 26-10-2004 2:49pm
    #1
    Beëlzebooze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 495 ✭✭


    Did anyone go to the Worldsies this weekend?

    This event had the potential to be great, but I (and others I spoke to) found the organisation lacking to say the least.

    After everyone made sure to arrive on time, the event didn't get started proper 'till at least 10.30. There was no opening ceremony, nobody of the organizsation introduced themselves, no welcome for the competitors or spectators. Grandmaster Hee Il Cho spent most of his time shooing away children looking for autographs....

    As for the refs... well...... Some refs told competitors that no headshots were allowed AT ALL (kicks or punches), other refs did allow kicks however. Due to the fact that everything was running late rules where not given by the refs, so everyone was making it up as they went along.

    The best bit was that the competitors in the breaking catagory had to BUY their own boards at €2 a pop.

    I am sure that the Irish open in March will be way better!


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  • #2
    rainbow kirby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Now I'm glad I didn't go...


  • #3
    Unpossible
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,191 ✭✭✭Unpossible


    stupid question: what is AIMAA ?


  • #4
    Colm_OReilly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,577 ✭✭✭Colm_OReilly


    Action International Martial Arts Association


  • #5
    rainbow kirby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Grandmaster Hee Il Cho's TKD association, basically.


  • #6
    mjn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37 ✭mjn


    Had to buy your own boards!!

    Thats outrageous! And to think it was $50 to enter as well! Glad i didn't enter myself. Couldn't have fought anyway, as i dislocated my big toe only a few days before hand!


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  • #7
    Shad0r
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,167 ✭✭✭Shad0r


    I used to train under a really good master in Stillorgan, who has now thank god switched association I think.

    I stopped training there because I felt that at every turn AIMAA were just looking to rip me off. Seriously the entire organisation seems to be geared around getting Grandmaster Hee Il Cho rich.

    It cant be more than three years since I was at an 'AIMAA World Championship', hosted in Tallaght. I'm very curious as to why a Korean organisations world championships would always/VERY regularly be hosted in this country....surely it should move around if its really a 'world' championship?


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