Can a kuk sool won fighter enter a taekwondo tournament?

so...can they?|||1)They would have to fight within Tae Kwon Do rules if allowed.





2)At some %26quot;Tae Kwon Do only%26quot; Tournaments they may not be able to participate.


(call ahead and inquire)|||They should be, ask the tournament organizer.|||Only if it were a %26#039;mixed%26#039; styles tournament.





In the early %26#039;60s they only had same style tournaments. Then in the mid to late 60s they began having mixed style karate tournaments. Trouble was that everything boiled down to a kick-boxing match since all the nasty but effective techniques of each style were barred. So no eye gouges, knife or spear hands, or palm strikes, no wrist locks or finger locks and no stomping when down. In other words all the stuff your style of karate trains you to use in a real street fight was not allowed in a 1960%26#039;s mixed style karate tournament. You couldn%26#039;t use your best technique you practiced for years.





So the same things that happened in a 1960s mixed styles karate tournament would happen again in a 2007 mixed styles tournament - it would turn into a kick-boxing match.