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Today, we live in a age where fighting for one's life is fortunately, rare, and thus, by necessity, those who train in the martial arts need a way to test their effectiveness.
If one only trains within their school, or even within their style, they are not exposed to different people and differing ways of thinking about defense.
Tournaments thus, have multiple purposes: humans are, by nature competitive. Sports actually derived out of training for war. The skills inherent in martial arts tournaments are, more directly applicable to defense, then say, those of football, soccer, or baseball. Yet, if we look closely, we see those things, both in the formation of a team, and in the skills of running, hitting with a club, or taking someone to ground.
Students who test themselves at tournaments, get a chance to see how they fare against others with the same amount of training and of the same age, body size etc. Those who claim tournaments are notnecessary to the proper learning of martial arts, or even detrimental to learning martial arts, are often fooling themselves into thinking that they are somehow better than others, without once testing themselves or their students.
Students who train with the same people, week after week, month after month, year after year are thus depriving themselves of an opportunity to iprove themselves and their art
October 16th: Daves TKD, Salem, Oregon
October 23rd: Chip Wrights, Medford, Oregon
Directions: From I-5 to Hwy 42 to Coquille, the community ctr is 1 block in from the highway next to the post office on Birch st. We will have a sign on the highway and the community ctr should have their sign changed to read Coquille Martial Arts Tournament here
From 1-5 to hwy 38, take 101 south to hwy 42 to Coquille, the community ctr is 1 block in from the highway next to the post office on Birch st. We will have a sign on the highway and the community ctr should have their sign changed to read Coquille Martial Arts Tournament here
From 101 take hwy 42S to Coquille, turn right at hwy 42 and the community ctr is 1 block in from the highway next to the post office on Birch st(on your left). We will have a sign on the highway and the community ctr should have their sign changed to read Coquille Martial Arts Tournament here
Mailing Address
P.O. Box 402
Coquille, Or 97423
Looking forward to our 2010 Fall Tournament to be held at the Coquille Community Ctr Lg Auditrium/Gym
printable registration form to be updated on or before Sept, 1, 2010
We will be offering medals to third place, and grand champion sword set trophies for forms in a wide range of age brackets. Please check back as age groups may be slightly rearranged as we get a better idea of how many competitors we will have.
All kids under 7 and all beginners(white - yellow or first 8 mos of training) who compete will receive an achievement award/keychain.
We proudly offer belt sparring for tiny tots ages 5 and under! No gear required. Tots competitors must wear gi and belt
We will offer a cash prize for grand champion black belt point sparring, for mens and/or women's if we have a minimum of 6 competing black belts in each/either gender that can be split either by age(over 18/over 39) or weight classification(heavy/lt.. tall short). Black belts must register for this divison no later than 9:30 am, day of tournament, or let us know they plan to compete beforehand.
Cash prize for adult BB sparring. We will host divisions for men and women, which will be split by age, size, depending on registration
Best All around martial artist award plaque and cash prize to be awarded.
Rules for best all around Martial Artist: Points will be assigned for each win. 1st place = 4 pts, 2nd place = 3 pts, 3rd place = 2pts, competing, but not placing = 1 pt, and disqualification or not competing will = 0 pts. The total will be added up for the total high point score. In case of a tie, the tie breaker shall work as follows: preference given to A) the person who competed in the most categories. If there is still a tie then B) he person with the most 1st places(and then seconds and then thirds). C)1 point will be added for any grand champion wins among the tied competitors only. If after all that, there is still a tie, we will procure an additional award and mail it. The competitor or his/her coach must be present to accept the initial award.
Grand Champion Sword Sets
6 and under beginners(6 and unders will be split into at least 2 classes, either by age, size or time spent training, assuming we have enough entries. We want this to be a positive experience for our youngest competitors). In addition to traditional forms, we will be offering flag(or belt - as it is also known) sparring for the under 6(six) crowd. Int/Adv 6 year olds may be bumped up to the 7 year old category, depending, again on entries, or they may be in their own group. Any 6 year olds who wish to compete in creative or weapons forms will be grouped with the older children
Older competitors will be split by age and rank/time in training.
Ideally we would like to see the following divisions, however, our entries will determine the final divisions, which may be further divided or not:
Ages: 6 and under(all belts)
7-9(beg, Int, adv/bb)
10-11(beg, int, adv, bb)
12-14(beg, int, adv, bb)
and 15-17(beg, int, adv, bb).
If there are enough adults, we will offer an 18+(beg, int, adv, bb) and a 39+(beg, int, adv, bb) division as well as divisions for men and women. It all depends on you, the competitors, just how many divisions we offer!
Beginners: up to 9 mos training
***Intermediate: 9 mos to 22 months training
***Advanced: over 22 mos training and under BB
*** final classes will be decided more on total number months/years in training than actual rank
Seniors: 39 and over, if we have at least 2 competitors in that age group
Competitor(except tiny tots/under age 6) must complete presentation and do a form in order to be considered for best all around martial artist award.
Traditional forms either hard or soft style as taught by your school for belt ranks. Not to include gymnastic techniques or more than 3 ki-haps(black belt 5 ki-haps allowed)
Creative/open forms Either hard or soft style. Gymnastic techniques allowed (if determined by judges to be martially useful), multiple ki-haps, music, props and costumes etc allowed in creative open division. Synchronized forms, choreographed self defense and demo teams also allowed(1 medal per team awarded, 3 minute maximum length applies). Note that musical forms that are not synchronized to music will be penalized appropriately as per skita/nbl rules.
Traditional Weapons Hard or soft style traditional form. Weapons to be as traditional and functional as possible(except that bladed weapons forms must use unsharpened weapons or iato - see skita rules for bo size requirements) and bos to be one piece traditional style, or judged capable of sustaining contact. In case of a weapon break, competitor may continue with the broken weapon, unless stopped by judges for safety, without a score reduction penalty. Or, competitor has 3 minutes to get replacement and restart form with a minimum .5 pt penalty. When in doubt, enter XMA type forms/weapons and non traditional weapons in the creative division
Light to no contact(2" rule, well chambered punches and kicks will be counted, including focus to the face, as long as glove or boot does not touch face in underbelt and kids divisions) techniques to the following areas, head(covered by head gear), torso above belt(moderate okay in upper belt divisions), groin, and sides.
Points will be awarded as follows: 2 points for head kicks, 1 point for all others. We will run two 1 minute 30 second rounds with a 30 second coaching break in the middle. No other coaching allowed. Wins for most matches won. Round robin ties and team sparring are the only rounds to be decided on cumulative points. All others by number of wins
Excessive contact will be considered for the rocking of the head, contact over moderate on torso. Any moderate contact after time or point is called, especially multiple techniques designed to drive the opponant out of the ring IE any contact that is in flagrant disregard to the judges' call of stop/stop time/point. Blood may be considered a disqualification, depending on circumstance. Poor sportsmanship/disrespect to judges other competitors is an immediate disqualification
Disqualification upon judges consideration as to the severity and deliberation of excessive contact. Otherwise, one warning and then disqualification
Age and rank categories as for forms, when ever possible.
Adult categories will be split by gender and/or age/size depending on registration numbers
Belt/Flag sparring: under 6 only, all ranks - will be divided into 2 or more divisions depending on registration numbers. First competitor to remove the two "belts" from his opponant wins.
Team Sparring: 1 member 7-9, 1 member 10-12, 1 member 13-17, 1 adult. Team sparring wins will also go toward best all around. Points and contact as per point sparring rules, with one exception. In case of disqualification of a team member, the disqualified member's point will be disallowed, and his points for team sparring that would be alloted toward best all around will be disallowed, but his team can continue competing and acruing points. If more than 4 teams enter, we will try to create two or more divisions that best suit the entrants, IE girls and womens, or underbelts, or Blackbelts. Note: team sparring will be an extra 10.00 per person day of tournament, or 25.00 per team pre-registered.
Registration fees:
Early Birds Postmarked(or hand carried) by October 30th, 35.00 unlimited divisons, mixed team fighting additional 25.00 per team
Pre-Registration: postmarked November 6th, 40.00, unlimited divisions, mixed team fighting additional 25.00 per team
Day of tournament: 50.00 unlimited divisions, team fighting 40.00 per team.
Spectators: 5.00 adults, 3.00 children 5 and up. Family rate tba.
Discounted entry for adult BB's who stay to judge. We plan to hold Adult BB forms divisions first to allow the black belts to be seen at their best
Forms Grand Champion Divisions to be held just before or just after lunch, depending on tournament pacing.
From our Summer Fun In school Tournament. Check Facebook for more pictures!
Kristina Holliday 2nd place adult beginner forms
Misty Huffman 1st place adult beginner-Intermediate sparring
Dane Saxton 1st place teen & adult adv-bb sparring
Nikki Keller 2nd place teen & adult adv-bb sparring
Max Underdown 2nd place adv-bb teen weapons, 3rd place teen adv-bb forms
JJ England 1st place adv-bb teen weapons, 1st place adv-bb teen forms
Aurora Starks 2nd place beginner-int teen forms, 1st place beginner teen sparring
Miranda Starks 3rd place beginner-int teen forms, 2nd palce beginner teen sparring
Devon Berg 2nd place 9-12 beginner forms, 3rd place beginner sparring
Jacob Valleli, 3rd place 9-12 beginner forms, 1st place beginner sparring
Dilan Chambers, 4th place 9-12 beginner forms, 4th place beginner sparring
Charisma Korb, 2nd place 10-12 int forms, 2nd place int sparring
Luke Valleli 2nd place 6 year old beginner flag sparring, 2nd place beginner sparring, 3rd place beginner forms
Soren Fields, 1st place 4 year old flag sparring
We want to congratulate all our students who competed and thank all the visiting schools who brought competitors. We couldn't have done it without you!
We are planning a summer invitational in school too.
Chip Wright's - April 24th, Medford Or
Mighty River Classic - Oct 9th, Vancouver, wa
Dave's TKD - October 16th, Salem Or
Chip Wright's - October 23rd, Medford
Grands:
Tom King Teen/Adult Black Belt forms and BB Adult Sparring
Nathanial Gagnon teen/Adult underbelt forms
Shellby Connelly Belt 13 and under intermediate/adv
Brooklynn Lott 13 and under beginner
Justin Banks 13 and under Black belt
Richard Esteves, Beginning Adult Sparring, 1st place, beginning adult forms competitor
Milana Fortune, 5-7 all ranks, 3rd forms, competitor sparring(4th place) and flag sparring
Misty Huffman, beginning adult sparring, 3rd place, beginning adult forms 2nd place.
Tianna Huffman, 8-9 Int forms and sparring, under 11 weapons and creative forms(4th place)
For other tournaments see Pacific Northwest Martial Arts Calendar
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Last Updated August 13, 2010 by Karen Saxton
Franklin Smith; 15-17 BB: 1st forms, 1st weapons, 1st sparring
Christian Koch; 15-17 BB: 2nd forms, 2nd weapons, 2nd sparring
Bill Scott; teen/adult Intermediate: 2nd forms, 1st sparring
Misty Huffman; adult Beg: 1st forms, 1st sparring
Max Underdown; 10-12 BB: 1st forms, 1st weapons, 1st sparring
Kayla Houston; 10-12 adv/BB: 3rd forms, 2nd weapons, 1st sparring
JJ England; 10-12 adv/Int: 2nd forms, 1st weapons, 2nd sparring
Tianna HUffman; 9-11 Adv: 1st forms, 1st weapons, 2nd sparring
Charisma Korb; 10-12 Beg: 2nd forms, 2nd sparring
Samantha Huffman; 7-9 Beg: 2nd forms, 1st sparring
Vincent Thrash; 7-9 Beg: 1st forms, 4th sparring
Riley Gray; 7-9 Beg; 4th forms, 5th sparring
Jacob Valleli; 7-9 beg: 3rd forms, 3rd sparring
Hunter Hausler; 7-9 Beg: 5th forms, 2nd sparring
Dylan Koch; 6 and under Beg: 3rd forms, 1st Flags, 3rd sparring
Luke Valleli; 6 and under Beg: 2nd forms, 3rd flags, 1st sparringAway Tournaments
Daves TKD - April 17th, Salem OrResults of Coquille Martial Arts 2009 Fall/Winter Tournament
Best All Around Martial Artist
Franklin Smith
2nd place Black Belt Champion Sparring, Runner up Grand Champion Forms, 1st place traditional, 1st place weapons, 1st place creative, 1st place team sparring.
Shanley Geddry
2nd place forms, 3rd place sparring
Tianna Huffman and Jason Brant
Tianna Huffman: 2nd traditional, 2nd weapons, 1st creative, 2nd sparring, 1st team sparring
Jason Brant: 1st traditional, 1st weapons, 2nd creative, 1st sparring
Milana Fortune and Johnathon Huffman
Milana Fortune: 2nd forms, 2nd flag sparring, 2nd sparring
Johnathon Huffman: 1st forms, 1st flag sparring, 1st sparring
Kayla Houston
1st traditional, 2nd weapons, 3rd creative, 1st sparring
Max Underdown
2nd forms, 1st weapons, 2nd creative, 1st sparring, 1st team
JJ England
2nd traditional, 2nd forms, 1st creative, 3rd sparring
Misty Huffman and Chris Kinney
Misty: 2nd forms, 2nd sparring
Chris: 1st forms, 3rd sparring
Results: Chip Wrights, Medford, Oct 17, 2009
This is always a good tournament. Good strong competition, very family oriented, and incredibly friendly people. This is a tournament I highly recommend to anyone. Our special thanks to Mr Wright for his amazing ability to schedule a great tournament.