Newsletter 1/2014 Changes In Hungary
The beginning of 2014 has been quite intense in the Hungarian Taekwon-do scenes.
After AETF granting the Hungarian Taekwon-do Federation, lead by Master László Harmat (VIII degree) the opportunity to organize the European Cup this year in Budapest, ITF assigned the same Federation the responsibility of organising the World Cup in 2016, as per the results of an online voting. Not only these two important news stirred up the Taekwon-do life of Hungary but the of the National Team has also been completely restructured.
There are many small changes in the rules and structure of the training sessions. The most important things that have changed are as follows:
- In the past the team was selected based on the results of the Hungarian Championships. That means, participants had to be among the medalists of the category in question. If there were more competitors in that category than the allowed maximum on the next international event, the medalists had the right to participate in a separate Qualifying Tournament. The winners of these tournaments became the competitors of the international events.
- After this year’s European Cup the team will be selected based on a scoring system. Gaining a medal in different national and international events gives you a certain number of scores. Participants with the highest scores of the category will have the right to compete at the next event. This system is similar in many Martial Arts organizations and has been working smoothly for many years now.
- The other major change is that the training sessions of the team will be no longer conducted by the head coach. He will be more like a spectator making notes and organising the event. The training sessions will have a character of a seminar: different experts will be leading the sections (tulls, sparring, breaking).
The team will have more events organised - not just the training sessions but training camps or some recreational activities together, in order to have a stronger team spirit.
The previous captain Mr. Tibor Fülpesi has been appointed the Head Technical Instructor of the Hungarian Taekwon-do Federation which means he would conduct seminars in order to get a more unified and standardised way of teaching Taekwon-do throughout the country and to spread the latest changes from international events like IICs and IUCs.
Another important change in the Hungarian Taekwon-do life is that the Federation would like to concentrate on teaching umpires in order to ensure better and more accurate feedback for the competitors, which would allow them to train and develop their skills further in a more focused way.
Norbert Érseki
AETF Reporter
aetfreporter@gmail.com
