Ok here goes,
Ten-to (fall)
In the case where a competitor falls (makes contact with the floor with other than feet, arms or hands) but a point scoring technique is not given nor received, a Ten-to penalty shall be applied. A fall may be self-induced or caused by the opponent.
The Ten-to penalty shall consist of the movement backward of the penalized contestant from the original mid-court position to a place just inside the court boundary line (where the heel just touches the line) from which the match shall resume. The opponent shall then move to occupy the original possition of the penalized contestant prior to the application of the penalty i.e. the one who's fallen goes to the edge and the other one goes to the fallen fellow's starting line facing each other.
Now then, when the match is re-started, the attacker has 10 seconds to launch an attack, the other one (the one who fell) must wait untill the other one attacks. if he pre-empts and moves, he is now Jyo-gai (out of area) and the match re-starts as normal, if he moves back, again he is Jyo-gai, so he (or she ooops) is at a disadvantage. Should the attacker decide not to move, then after the time up, the match is stoped and re-started without awarding penalties.
Hope that clears it up for you Jimmy.
Makoto,
Yes we do have these rules for UKTKF, we are after all ITKF under Nishiama Sensei. As for practising a get out clause for this, I really can't recomend anything that would honestly work. Every situation and fighter has their own favorite technique, some of which go out of the window once adrenaline kicks in, all I can recommend is that you practice a sort of circular sabaki.....but there's no guarantee that this will work either. In all the years competing and refereeing, I have only seen someone evade it a couple of times, luck???
