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Tournament details
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Tournament Guide
Rules and Procedures
Special Pre-K sparring rules. No contact is allowed and kids will receive a first place if they win all their matches, 2nd place if they win at least one match and 3rd place for everything else
Kids, Juniors and Teens
Will spar and be able to compete in an open hand & weapon form. All kids will receive a medal of some kind. Kids sparring will follow the same rules as class sparring. Head gear will be required. Some will be available at the tournament to purchase as a greatly discounted price.
Tai Chi
Empty hand will be either Yang 24 or 64. The competitor will have 3 minutes to demonstrate.
Weapons will be selected from either yang straight or broadsword, again 3 minutes
Chen 83 competition. 3 minutes to demonstrate this form.
Sparring (adults)
Person with highest score after 90 seconds wins. Hand = 1 point, kick = 2 points and sweep with follow-up = 3 points. Light contact is only allowed. Safety gear is required and head contact is not allowed. In other words, it should feel similar to regular class sparring.
Adult Forms
All adults need to pick one form (empty hand or weapon). Forms is of course optional, but I recommend everyone give it try. The forms must be at the students belt level or one level below (the form must be within the standard curriculum). Black belts will be split between 1st degrees and then higher than 1st degrees.
Open Forms
Lower belt students who have learned higher level forms can compete in this division. I don't have a time slot nailed down for this yet, but will soon.
Black Belt Continuous Sparring
This will consist of 3 rounds each lasting 25 seconds. At the end of each round the judges will vote on which fighter showed dominance during that round. The fight will be won with a cumulative point score. Light head contact (10%) will be allowed and headgear with a plastic face guard will be avaialble at the ring.
Seminars will be open to all students registered for the tournament. There will be at least 3 topics covered.
Because we are holding this at a High School Gymnasium we can have up to 8 rings at once. This allows for more organization and even for the tai chi competition to occur independent of all other events.
Day's Events and Times
9 AM registration and check-in
10AM Festival Begins (all kids)
10-12 Kids all levels
12-1:30
white and yellow men
Blue men
Green men
Women white to green
men brown 3rd
men brown 2 and 1
women brown
1:30-2:00
Tai Chi empty hand and weapon
2:10-2:30 Attentional states and sparring
I (Master Schaefer) will speak about meditation and tai chi for sparring. This will be a short version of the life-changing seminar I have given now in several school in the past 6 months. If you are looking for the missing element in your training, this is it!
2:30-4:00
black belt forms then sparring (separated by gender and levels for sparring)
7-9PM
Big Evening Demo
The people showing up during these times will split among 8 rings to compete with students at a level similar to their own.
All sparring will combine round-robin type match ups and a single elimination at the end to get all fighters the most possible sparring experience. (this includes kids)
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