About sparring

Olympic Sparring

As a popular competitive sport, Taekwondo is included in virtually all of the major national, continental and world level sports programs, such as the Summer Olympic Games, the World Games, the Pan American Games, the Conseil International du Sport Militaire program of world military sports championships, the Federation International du Sport Universitaire program of world university level sports championships, and many more.

Olympic and international Taekwondo competition use contact sparring. If a student is interested in this type of competition, he or she should train with an organization that specializes in international style contact free-sparring.