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There are very good reasons for this, and it does not diminish the Martial Art of Taekwondo one bit. First of all, the rules of Taekwondo competitions, as well as the quality of performance, varies between each tournament, host organizations, and level of competition. I have been competing in Taekwondo tournaments since the 1970's, and as a Black Belt at that time, I was also a corner judge and center referee. I have gone on to become a class A-1 Referee for World Taekwondo Federation Olympic events, and coached for USA at the US. Open in '95.There were tournaments back in the 70's & 80's that were closed or invitationals to only Taekwondo schools, while other tournaments were open to a variety of Karate and Kung-fu schools. Many times, the Karate tournaments, that had been popular in the U.S. for decades were more common, and us Taekwondo students had to compete under their rules. In those days we had little to no padding (maybe cup and mouth guard at most). Punches were common among the Karate fighters, so we used them as well, but found we scored more often with our advantage of reach and element of surprise from a higher expertise in kicking. We adapted and adjusted the more we competed, and found ways to be more successful in tournaments. Also, in those days, foot-sweeps & knee-checks were allowed, and we often used those with combinations of kicks to the head.Taekwondo tournaments are a sport of unique rules to promote the skill of kicking. It is a game with a specific challenge. Think of the differences between sports with a ball. Some you carry the ball and run while occasionally kicking (American Football), others you dribble and are not allowed to carry or kick (Basketball), and then there is American Soccer where you pass the ball between players and kick the ball into the goal, while rarely using the hands - except goal keepers. Now consider the sport of Boxing, which has been popular for centuries and virtually unchanged in the rules of striking. With so many options of how to strike someone in self defense, boxing only uses the fore-fist (no back-fist, hammer-fist, open hand strikes, etc.), and there certainly isn't any kicking or grappling allowed. It is a sport to challenge the athletes to beat their opponent with the fists.Taekwondo tournaments simply have evolved and developed to avoid being a boxing match, and to promote the unique challenge of winning a fight with kicking skills. We can punch, and we can do a lot of other strikes, but if it is all about realistic fighting, and winning at all costs, then it would become a bloody mess with broken bones, broken noses, broken jaws, broken necks, brain damage, and probably more deaths. What we are attempting to do is to refine the sport aspect to focus on one important point - - skill with kicks. Becoming highly skilled with kicks is not an easy thing to do. If the rules of Taekwondo tournaments were more balanced between punching and kicking, many athletes would neglect the more challenging kicks in favor of the ease of punching, and the sport would likely revert to a 'kick-boxing' match where fighters who were good at punching might learn a few kicks, but try harder to punch the head.There is a basic concept here that is often complex for non-Taekwondo people to grasp. If I am faced with an opponent in the street who is good at punching, while my expertise is kicking, I want to avoid the close range of the hands (while still being effective with my hands if I choose to use them), and damage or destroy my opponent with kicks before they can get close enough to punch. The problem with translating that skill to a sport is that in the street, a kick can break bones, dislocate knees as a deterrent and prevention of the opponent coming closer. However, if I refrain from absolutely destroying my opponent's bones and joints because it is a tournament, then they are able to press past the controlled kicks used for points, and get close enough to punch. This makes the reality of a street fight according to Taekwondo tactics virtually impossibly to implement in a sport setting without serious injury. I am quite sure there will be naysayers and beginner level competitors that will have some kind of argument that seems logical to them, but unless you are capable of doing the damage with kicks that I am referring to, you likely will not see the validity, and will think it is equal for all fighters. It is NOT.There is a downside to schools and coaches who are overly focused on winning matches, and mostly train their students to fight according to the rules. If their daily training is filled with these limited aspects, there is little to no genuine, well-rounded and balanced self defense Martial Art training. My training - - the way I practice and teach - - is to focus on realistic application of the original Korean Taekwondo with all aspects of striking (hands, elbows, feet, knees) with throwing and grappling skills, but it is all done with the tactics associated with the Taekwondo curriculum. When we practice for tournaments, we adjust for the rules of the sport, and I am fine with not using hands as much, although they are still allowed and useful in the flow of combinations.One last point that was brought up in the original question stated: "it seems that a TKD competitor could have both arms paralyzed and it wouldn't make a difference on offense or defense." This is actually a valid point for real life self defense. What if you were more skilled with punching, or grappling and your arm was injured (shot, stabbed or broken) during a fight? What if both arms were injured? Would you be able to fight effectively and win or survive a street fight, mugging, etc.? What if you were in a hostage situation, and your hands were tied or duct taped or handcuffed? Would you be able to take your opponent down with any degree of confidence and success? Many Taekwondo fighters train to not need the hands by becoming experts at distance, avoidance, evading, jamming, and pre-emptive counter strikes. When they are good at this, they would only use the hands when absolutely necessary. Then again - - other Taekwondo fighters attempt to duplicate this, and do it poorly or make mistakes, then they get hit hard and people wonder why they fight like that.For us, it is a game and sport with a challenge, and the feet are the primary weapon which we promote working hard to develop. However, everyday training should be a better balance, and tournaments should not be an indication of what Taekwondo is really like.

To your question -> How is the customer base of github from that of atlassian? Can we say github is more about individual hacker but atlassian is more about grown up enterprise?To answer your question, maybe one needs to first dissect what you mean by "customer-base".Are you referring to the customer bases of the SaaS repository offerings - or overall customer bases of both companies and all products of each? Also - what are you counting as customers? Free or paid or both?The answer to these questions differs a lot probably - for both github and Atlassian.Let's assume just comparing the community/hosted SaaS offerings - github and Atlassian BitBucket. Some facts.GitHub and BitBucket both started in 2008.There's plenty-o-hackers in both worlds - don't be fooled.GitHub gained an early "hosted repo" lead as a favored hub during open source boom-time, but BitBucket received a huge infusion starting in Sept 2010, when bought by Atlassian.BitBucket offers Mercurial support in addition to git. Github does not.While both platforms have tons of similarities in code management features and functionalities, they are also different, of course, and coders naturally compare and have preferences. Regardless, since both offer free individual accounts, tons of "hackers" have both github AND BitBucket accounts.Both orgs offer a behind-the-firewall Enterprise git repository manager (i.e., Atlassian Stash and GitHub Enterprise), yet the pricing between the two offerings is starkly different.The github SaaS offering includes an issue tracker, code reviewer, wiki tools, among others built-in, but the features are light-weight compared with Atlassian's full-blown developer toolset, for similar (and beyond) features, and in particular JIRA and JIRA Agile tools. Of course also Confluence Wiki and others.The github community is very strong, and different than BitBucket's. Atlassian's "Atlassian Answers" forum though, while different, is also a very strong community to complement the developers using Atlassian tools, or BitBucket.Both Atlassian and github have developer communities, but they are very different purposed. Github's APIs and libraries are open source developed for external product development or integration outside of github's direct interests or product development.Atlassian's for the most part is for extending their products for published (or non-published) extensions to Atlassian products, or to better streamline an Atlassian customer's internal development processes using Atlassian products to build software.Depending on where you sit, both communities are beneficial to all developers at different times during their career or job objectives.Atlassian posts a big customer list, but BitBucket-specific customers are not part of that list. Similarly, github does not post a customer list.Finally, Atlassian provides many "native-feel" integrations between JIRA and both BitBucket and github, for their OnDemand and behind the firewall (locally hosted application servers) offerings.GitHub does not seem to embrace Atlassian integrations as much the other way (at least visibly), though github does host an annual Dodgeball Tournament for charity, and let's Atlassian play (along with other Silicon Valley corp sign-ups). ;) See Dodgeball Tournament 2013: After the ActionSo to circle back to your question, I think it depends on the needs of your organization. Both corporations serve small and large corporations with their hosted and Enterprise solutions.Arguably, Atlassian's product line is more flushed out, and github's is highly focused (not to say Atlassian's is not focused) - but it really is a question on what you need."Less is more", "more is less", "more is more", or "less is less" - in developer tools features really depends on your engineering organization and product development needs, goals, plans - not just the vendor or the individual developer.Nonetheless, it is good that they have competition - keeps each corporation on it's toes, and with huge communities each, important!

You can write your Common App essay to expand on your experiences in your activities, BUT if you are just repeating yourself that is not going to be a successful strategy - particularly at an Ivy League or similar competitive university. In general, a Common App essay should tell a compelling story, while your activities section should be written as impacts/accomplishments.My oldest did write her main Common App essay about an extracurricular and was successful in her admissions to her first choice school. However, in her specific case she combined two STORIES: one about her experiences she had as a child who required extensive speech therapy and one where she helped a specific student with special needs overcome anxiety to ride in the the equestrian Special Olympics. The main point was WHY she was volunteering weekly to work with students with special needs and how her particular experiences of being embarrassed/self-conscious by poor speech skills created anxiety about speaking through elementary school. However, this negative childhood experience assisted her in better empathizing and helping the students she later worked with. She brought this to life in her essay using one example of how she calmed an anxious student down in a way that could not be expressed correctly in the activities section of the application.By contrast, here is a sample entry IF the university allows you to submit an uploaded activities resume. It should be in business format and concentrating on YOUR SPECIFIC IMPACTS/ACCOMPLISHMENTS while participating in that activity. If you are restricted to the teeny word count that is now on the Common App Activities section, you will need to get even more creative in getting these points across:Debate Captain May 2018 – PresentHigh School Speech and Debate Team August 2016 – PresentXXXXX Speech and Debate Team typically competes in 15 to 20 tournaments hosted by the Georgia Forensic Coaches Association (GFCA). Competing against many teams coordinated through formal in-school speech and debate classes, XXXXX’s team is primarily student-led and all practices occur outside of the school day.Awarded Lincoln-Douglas (LD) debate Quarterfinalist and an outstanding speaker award, Varsity State Championships, 2019Achieved LD debate Semifinalist and an outstanding speaker award, Varsity State Championships, 2018Crowned First Year State Champion in LD debate and qualified for GFCA Varsity State Championships, 2017Facilitated weekend debate camps, fall 2018 and 2019Mentor all XXXXX LD and public forum debate participants including our team’s first ever LD first-year debater to place in Varsity State Championships, 2018 - 2019Manage communications between members, speech co-captains, and coachCollaborate with co-captains to host recruiting and social eventsAdmission’s representatives are extremely BUSY people. Everything you put in your application must quickly tell a story of why they should accept you. In the case of an Ivy (or similar university) the essays better explain exactly why you are different and unique, in a way that will help their specific college community, compared to the 90–95%+ of students they reject.Best of luck!