Electronic scoreboard for our sparring rings
This week we introduced our new electric scoreboards for sparring class. It’s a great tool that is helping our athletes learn about game play. Along with our scoreboard we have a timmer and our ring pillars. In combination, these tools are used to recreate a competitive sparring environment in a fun and exciting way.
Features
The Scoreboard has a control that allows the judge to add or subtract points.
The Scoreboard can keep track of 2 athletes, Red and Blue.
The Scoreboard is easy to read across the room. This makes it possible for students to encourage one another and coaches to give advice.
Why train with Scoreboards? Why keep score in sparring?
In high level competitive sparring athletes compete with electronic sensors. The sensors are in the feet, hands, and chest gear. The system is designed to increase fairness and accuracy of scoring. Catching each point and recording it is challenging. Even with sensors. Most regional tournaments are scored manually with an electronic scoreboard managed by 2 to 4 judges. Our Scoreboard system has the same basic functions so we can replicate the tournament environment. The scoreboard allows us to +/- points.
Why do students like it?
#1 The Scoreboard gives the athletes a goal and a means of improving. We teach them sparring skills to help them earn points, and avoid losing points. The Scoreboard gives them an instant feedback loop.
#2 The way we set up matches, games, and team sparring drills makes sparring training more exciting. The students enjoy earning points and being recognized by their teammates. This increases their confidence and their interest in learning more martial arts. The matches are set up to be challenging, but also give each student an opportunity to shine. They are rewarded in the game when they put in good effort!
#3 The students also take turns operating the scoreboard, which teaches an important lesson about what it's like to be a martial arts tournament judge. Gaining this perspective grows their respect for the game and inspires more interest in overcoming the obstacles. Students want the game to be fair, but like life, there are always things outside of our control that influence the game. When you play the role of athlete and judge you get to see the game of sport sparring from two different life perspectives.
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6236 US-1 Ste F,
St. Augustine, FL 32095
