01/30/2016
Moving forward in 2016 the first thing we wanted to do was change the way competition is presented and thought of. Real sports, professional and or collage sports are comprised of teams playing against each other. Yes there are teams in martial arts competitions and team competitions at tournaments…sparring teams mostly. Here in Long beach Martial arts history and ground breaking ideas are what we are known for. Why should 2016 be any different?
The Announcement
The Long Beach Internationals Announces the First ever International Team Martial arts competition. Over $15,000 + in prize money and awards just for this special team competition. Do you belong to a team? Do you know a Team? Can you put a team together? On August 19, 20, 21 at the inaugural year of International Martial Con, we will see who is the Number One Martial Arts Team in the world. As we hold the Inaugural International Team Martial Arts Championship.
The Concept
At a glance here is how it works. You bring a team of ten (10). 9 competitor’s and one coach. Your team can be comprised of any type of Martial Arts Style or mixture of Martial Arts Styles. On your team there must be a minimum of one female and you may have up to two juniors ages 15 to 17 male or female. Members can be of any rank, we prefer an all Black Belt team. But if you are great …rank has no bearing.
There are six stages of competition. Traditional Forms, Tradition Weapons, Creative Forms, Creative Weapons, Self defense , and Team Demo. ( Music, Gymnastics allowed in both creative competitions and team demo). These are all the elements of being a full rounded Martial Artist. Why no fighting… no point sparring? Good question, my answer. Self defense techniques and basics are a Martial Artist’s method for fighting and defending one’s self in combat and street situations. Not point sparring. There is a separate place for the Sport of point sparring. Which will be taking place in another area within the Martial Con event.
Following the format as seen in Olympic gymnastics. Each team will be assigned a rotation schedule of stations to compete at. This rotation schedule will be mathematically arranged so that no two teams compete against each other more than three times... Each team’s number for rotation will be picked by their team coach at the random drawing, Thursday evening prior to the competition. Each station that your team arrives at Three members of your team must compete. No one member of the team may compete in more than Two events. All team members must compete as part of the team demo. At each station points will be awarded for the finish placement of each competitor.. First will be awarded 25 points each position being reduced by two points down to the lowest possible point of 9. After the six standard rotations of competition the six fist place winners will be brought back to the category stations where they placed first in. The 6 will then compete at for individual honors, prize money ($1,000 each station) along with addition bonus points for their team (25) for the champion 15 for runner up
The team scoring the most total points earned by their player’s placement. In addition to the possible bonus points earned will be the First ever International Team Champions. Winning an article about their team in Major Martial Arts Magazines as well a video exposure as part of the official competition video. They will also win $10,000 prize money. That’s $1000 for each member including the coach. Second place team receives $5,000, third place receives $2,500.
So I will ask you…do you have a team…can you create a team… are you in? Or will you be watching from the side lines? We are only allowing 36 teams to enter. Registration opens January 17, 2016 powered by Imartial Technologies. Grab your team…get registered… get ready… it’s coming
But wait there’ more, Not only will there be a International Team Championships. For the pro/am and national teams that currently compete around the world. Teams like Paul Mitchell, All Stars, R2L team Proper, Amerikick and the list goes on. But there will be A National Collegiate Martial Arts Team Championships as well. This is project I have been working on for 6 years to make happen. 36 Collage karate clubs and school teams will be given the opportunity to compete for the first National Collegiate Martial arts Team Championship. This is the opportunity Martial artist’s in this country have been waiting for. A competition that pits collage teams against each other. We have a lot of Sport Karate competitors that have went off to collage. Wouldn’t it be great to see them representing their schools in a competition that brings attention to the martial arts programs and the schools that they attend. A competition of rivals. USC , UCLA, Oregon State, Cal State, Michigan, Indiana and all university , state and city collages that can find 9 martial Artists to represent them from their student base. If we do this right…Which we will…a new era of competition will be born . One, that one day may lead to collage scholarships for martial artists’ to attend collages and represent those collages on a World class competition platform. Invitations are going out to 100’s of collages across the country to participate in this unique opportunity to establish a new foundation for Martial Arts Competition. Who knows perhaps someday this is how Martial Arts will be represented in the Olympics. Wouldn’t that be a goal to achieve. It will be an industry powered event, that will take all of us that work, play and enjoy this industry of martial arts. Working together as a team, working to lay down that foundation that will bring notice. To what being a Martial Artist is. Lets get the word out, tell your friends , your instructors, your students and their parents what we going to achieve. By working together, we will all be able. To Learn more, Practice more, Achieve more.
Stay tuned as details we all be released as we unfold this new direction and new platform of competition. We will be listing the teams names and doing profiles and interviews with the players coaches and sponsors. We are looking forward to hearing from you all as your input, is part of the learning process.
Long Beach International Martial Con, International Team Championship
August 19, 20, 21, 2016 Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach California, USA
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