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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Magic Rub" data-source="post: 378501" data-attributes="member: 3619">Yes Some schools are VERY $$$$ greedy. You could suck but if you pay pay pay, then you'll be what ever belt you'd like to be. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" />The club I'm in is all about it's member's. If you're a good student & you can't pay all the time, or you just can't at all, but you still want to train, then that's cool. If you're not ready to test, then you DO NOT test. The way it should be.That's WTF, it's a sport (& that's cool <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />). I'm in ITF, yes we do have tournaments, but the rules are different (& so is the style), & it's not the purpose behind the style. We don't train towards the next tournament, or at least at my club we don't. Our tournaments are more for testing our skills against unfamiliar opponents. If you spar with the same people all the time you fall into a rut. We do tend to keep track of our contact at tournaments,  , because no one wants to get hurt or hurt someone else (or worse). Also no grapples or trips in tournaments, we work it on a point system like boxing, grapples or trips don't lend themselves well to that system. We don't wear the big chest gear things (as WFT does), just minor, foot, hand, & head padding to take the "edge" off the blows. We kick to the head, punch to the head, jumping, spinning, you name it. The real purpose of ITF is self-defence (fitness is just a nice by-product) and as you well know when you're trying to defend yourself you don't have any rules or guidelines that stop you from punching to the head or kicking a **DING**, nose, or what have you. If you can break a persons -whatever- to get away safe or defend a friend, then cool. So ya we practice everything in class.Now WTF might (?) be different then I've let on, it may depend on the club/school, I've only relayed what I know of the style.</blockquote>

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