The Scoring Self-Check
Mat Manual companion guide to "It Landed. It Didn't Score: The Six Criteria Behind Every Kumite Point." Print it. This book turns the six criteria into a working lens: a frame-by-frame score sheet for your own bout foot…
| Art | Shotokan Karate |
|---|---|
| Family | Karate |
| Level | intermediate |
| Format | workbook |
| Topics | sparring, competition, rules |
Mat Manual companion guide to "It Landed. It Didn't Score: The Six Criteria Behind Every Kumite Point." Print it. This book turns the six criteria into a working lens: a frame-by-frame score sheet for your own bout footage, a zanshin fault-spotting checklist, scoring-value record cards for every ruleset you enter, a penalty-avoidance card for both WKF categories, and mock-bout scoring cards that train you to see a bout the way the panel sees it. Bring it to the tournament in the same bag as your protectors.
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BEFORE ANYTHING: THE WORKING RULES OF THIS BOOK ☐ Contact is not a criterion. Every sheet in this book scores the six criteria, never the sound a technique made. ☐ Footage is reviewed cold, at least a day after the bout. Hot reviews defend; cold reviews teach. ☐ Your own event's rules briefing overrides every general table in this book. Record your event's values on the Part 4 card before your first bout. ☐ Sparring drills in this book run under your club's protectors and control rules without exception. The criteria never license harder contact.
Part 1: The Six Criteria — The Reference Card
| # | Criterion | The question to ask of any technique |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Good form | Was it a correct technique, shaped the way the art defines it? |
| 2 | Sporting attitude | Was it a controlled scoring attempt, delivered with intent to score, not to harm or to brawl? |
| 3 | Vigorous application | Did it arrive with real speed and power, enough to matter if it landed fully? |
| 4 | Zanshin | Did awareness survive the technique: guard recovered, eyes on the opponent, balance kept? |
| 5 | Good timing | Did it land at the moment of greatest effect, as they entered, retreated, committed, or recovered? |
| 6 | Correct distance | Did it finish at its proper range with its structure intact, neither jammed nor stretched? |
A score needs six yeses in one technique. A review needs only one honest no to find the leak.
The Scoring Self-Check
Mat Manual companion guide to "It Landed. It Didn't Score: The Six Criteria Behind Every Kumite Point." Print it. This book turns the six criteria into a working lens: a frame-by-frame score sheet for your own bout footage, a zanshin fault-spotting checklist, scoring-value record cards for every ruleset you enter, a penalty-avoidance card for both WKF categories, and mock-bout scoring cards that train you to see a bout the way the panel sees it. Bring it to the tournament in the same bag as your protectors.
What's Inside
- Part 1: The Six Criteria — The Reference Card
- Part 2: The Scoring Values — WKF Reference
- Part 3: The Other Systems — What Changes and What Does Not
- Part 4: Your Event's Record Card
- Part 5: The Bout Footage Score Sheet
- Part 6: The Zanshin Fault-Spotting Checklist
- …and 22 more sections
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