The PSS Scoring Playbook
Mat Manual companion guide to "It Hit the Hogu. It Didn't Register: How Electronic Scoring Actually Decides." Print it. The article explains the machine. This book teaches you to kick for it: the two tests printed for t…
| Art | Taekwondo |
|---|---|
| Family | Korean Arts |
| Level | intermediate |
| Format | playbook |
| Topics | competition, rules, gear, kicks |
Mat Manual companion guide to "It Hit the Hogu. It Didn't Register: How Electronic Scoring Actually Decides." Print it. The article explains the machine. This book teaches you to kick for it: the two tests printed for the warm-up area, zone maps for both major systems, a registration test protocol that tells you what your kicks actually read at, and the drill sets that rebuild the contact shapes the sensors reward.
Name: ______________________________ Gym: ______________________________ Coach: ______________________________ Usual division: ______________ System at next event: ☐ Daedo ☐ KP&P ☐ Other
BEFORE ANYTHING: HOW THIS BOOK IS USED ☐ The PSS scores a kick only when the right part of the foot meets the protector's sensing field above the force level set for the division. Every drill in this book serves one of those two tests. ☐ Nothing in this book teaches kicking around the rules. The contact shapes that score are legal techniques thrown properly. Any drill variation a referee would penalise does not belong in this book or in your game. ☐ Sensor socks are safety equipment with electronics inside. A damaged sock that misreads is retired, not trusted, because a kick that "should have scored" changes how a fighter fights the next exchange. ☐ Head-kick drills in this book are thrown at controlled force on held protectors and pads. Full-force head contact belongs to match play under event rules, never to a registration test.
Part 1: The Two Tests on One Page
Post this page where you warm up. Every silent kick you will ever throw fails one row.
| Test | The question | Pass looks like | Fail looks like |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contact | Did the sensing part of the foot meet the sensing field of the protector? | Instep laid flat across the middle of the trunk field, or the foot surface square on the headgear's covered area | Toes, ball of the foot, heel, or edge arriving; contact on seams, straps, or outside the field |
| Force | Did the impact peak above the level set for your division? | A finished kick with the hip behind it, peak arriving in one moment | A flick, a graze, a wipe across the surface, a kick thrown while retreating |
The reading rule. When a kick stays silent, diagnose contact before force. Nine silent kicks in ten are shape problems wearing a power problem's clothes. Part 10 is the diagnosis table; it assumes this order.
The PSS Scoring Playbook
Mat Manual companion guide to "It Hit the Hogu. It Didn't Register: How Electronic Scoring Actually Decides." Print it. The article explains the machine. This book teaches you to kick for it: the two tests printed for the warm-up area, zone maps for both major systems, a registration test protocol that tells you what your kicks actually read at, and the drill sets that rebuild the contact shapes the sensors reward.
What's Inside
- Part 1: The Two Tests on One Page
- Part 2: The Two Systems Side by Side
- Part 3: Zone Map — The Trunk Protector
- Part 4: Zone Map — The Headgear
- Part 5: The Sensor Sock — Anatomy of a Consumable
- Part 6: Force Levels — What Calibration Means for You
- …and 22 more sections
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