The 5thZhejiang International Wushu (Kungfu) Tournament Regulations 2007
- Time:2-5 of August, 2007
- Location:Hangzhou, China
- Main Organizers:Zhejiang Sports Bureau, Zhejiang People’s Association for International Friendship.
- Other Organizers:Zhejiang Wushu Association, ZhejiangInternationalSportsExchangeCenter.
Supporters:Hong Kong WuShu School Company Ltd, Bowu International WuShu website (
- Competition Program: (refer to appendix 1)
1)Wushu events (various style and traditional fighting skill, Weapons in Single Routine, Dual Routine, Pair Routine, Group Routine)
2)Confrontation series (Sanda, Tuishou, Tuima, Short Weapon, Long Weapon, etc.)
3)the methods of mastering Wushuskill (including Single ones can be showed)
4)Body-building methods (Health Qigong, keeping Finttness methods, calisthenics etc.)
- Methods of registration:
1)The Wushu teams, organizations, schools and individuals ofeach country and region can form a team to participate.
2)All teams(can bear the name of sponsors) can have 1-2 managers and 1-3 coaches. There is no restriction for the number of male or female athletes. Teams with more than 15 athletes can designate 1referee.(afforded by himself and not as manager, coach or athlete ).
3)For Group events, each team should have not less than at 5 people. Forms of its presentations are not constrained by style, content or music. Group events can be in form of art performance, representing the art of attacking, defending, skills and techniques of various martial arts with absorbing and integrating the elements of other arts to show the prominence of Wushu. .
4)All round individual championship: Athletes who participate more than 3 events in single, pair, confrontation, will have an opportunity to win all-around individual championship. The three events must include Quan and Weapons Series, not Group events.
5)Overall group event: Any team with more than 10 persons (can be male or female) participating all round individual will have an opportunity to win it.
6)Registration fee, conference fee, and insurance fee, please refer to appendix 4.
7)The age and health condition of the player shall be checked by the teams or by players themselves. The validity shall be subjected to the sealed application form. In the case of any age beguilement, the qualification of the competitor will be cancelled. Participating teams or individuals shall be responsible for any accidental injuries and deaths caused by health problems during the games and bear relevant medical fees. Player are to purchase personal life insurance by yourself, please sign safety statement.
8)In order to make the opening ceremony more exciting and novelty, part of the performances in the opening ceremony will be registered, examined and adopted by various Wushu organizations across the world. Details are as following:
Ⅰ.Date: Please report with video, disc and explaining words before 15th June, 2007. Organization committee will examine, confirm and inform those who have been chosen at the end of Jun.
Ⅱ.Requirements: Completely showedprofessional Gongfu and local characteristic events with national culture by the form of art’s performance.
Ⅲ.Time: From 3 to 5 minutes (including music and appearing and disappearing time)
Ⅳ.Awards: Winners will be awarded ‘Special gold medal, silver medal and bronze medal’ of the opening ceremony performance on Zhejiang International Traditional Wushu Tournament, according to its real performance.
Ⅴ.The performance in the opening ceremony will waive the performance charges.
9)Before the events, Chinese Wushu Association will hold an “official Wushu Duan authentication for Foreigners”. For more information, please contact Mr. Kang-Gewu who is Director of the scientific research department of the General Administration of Sports (Mobile: 13701080913), and Mrs. Feng-Hongfang who is Director of the scientific research department of the General Administration of Sports (Mobile: 13701230156)
10)The committee will award a prize of “Promoting Wushu Sports Award” to anybody or organizations who will make great contribution to the promotion and organization of this tournament.
- Details of the regulations:
1)This tournament will include individual events, team events, all-around champion, and overall group championship..
2)This tournament will use “Traditional Wushu Competition Methods” supported by the WushuSportsManagementCenter of the General Administration of Sports in 2006 and the relevant additional regulations.
3)Competitor age divisions:
a. Children (A): Division A1: under 6’s (born after 1/1/ 2002)
Division A2: 6-8 (born 1999-2001)
Division A3: 9-11 (born 1996-1998)
Division A4: 12-13 (born 1994-1995)
Division A5: 14-15 (born 1992-1993)
Division A6: 16-17 (born 1990-1991)
b. Youth (B): Division B1: 18-24 (born 1983-1989)
Division B2: 25-29 (born 1978-1982)
Division B3: 30-34 (born 1973-1977)
Division B4: 35-39 (born 1968-1972)
c. Middle aged (C): Division C1: 40-43 (born 1964-1967)
Division C2: 44-47 (born 1960-1963)
Division C3: 48-50 (born 1957-1959)
Division C4: 51-53 (born 1954-1956)
Division C5: 54-56 (born 1951-1953)
Division C6: 57-59 (born 1948-1950)
d. Elderly group (D): Division D1: 60-62 (born 1945-1947)
Division D2: 63-65 (born 1942-1944)
Division D3: 66-68 (born 1939-1941)
Division D4: 69-71 (born 1936-1938)
Division D5: 72-74 (born 1933-1935)
Division D6: over 74’s (born before 31/12/1932)
4) Pair Confrontation events:
Ⅰ. Pair Confrontation events will be performed by pairs of their own so that it can make the events more personalized, competitive, interesting, entertaining and popularized. The ordinary carpet is used in the site and there is no border for the athlete, they can choose it by their own events.
Ⅱ. Theweight grades in pair confrontation events are unified into: 28kg, 32kg, 36kg, 40kg, 44kg, 48kg, 52kg, 56kg, 60kg, 65kg, 70kg, 75kg, 80kg, 85kg, 90kg and over 90kg, total 16 grades.
Ⅲ. The pair confrontation events will be paired in own team to show confrontation techniques, tactics and change skills by using 10 score systems to judge the levels of the items.
Ⅳ. Groupdivisions: events are divided according to gender, age, and weight. Events with different ages combination is according to the elder group. Those with different weights combination is according to the more weightily group conforming to the ones when registered.If any participator does not have a fixed partner, the tournament committee will match the participator with proper one. If there is no one available, the participator will play the basic skills in confrontation events in order to be judged by referee.
Ⅴ. Every team can join the confrontation event to enroll “arbitrator”. They can participate in it (act as a player), and can have the same result for the team.
5) Time limitation of all events:
Ⅰ.Time of every Single and Pair routine series must be between40 second to 4 minutes. The arbitrator will make a beep sound to hint the player when they play after 3 minutes.(If the time for the event is too long, the players should simply it, but it must be remained top 2 to 4 series as a competition, then this will not affect the result of performance.)
Ⅱ.Team performances must not exceed 4 minutes.
Ⅲ.As for pair confrontation event, they must play 2 rounds. Every round is 1 minute, and there will be a recess of 1 minute between them.
Ⅳ.If the time for each event is not enough 2 seconds than the regular time, 0.1 will be deducted, up to 4seconds then deducted 0.2, above 4 seconds the maximum deduction will be 0.3. If exceed 5 seconds than the regular time, 0.1 will be deducted, if within 10 seconds, 0.2 will be deducted, if above 10 seconds, the maximum deduction will be 0.3.
6).If anyone absent from Group events, detain 0.5 score per person.
7).Group events are classified into different age group according to average age (keep the integer without decimal fraction)of all the participators(not consider gender).
8).All competitors must wear Wushu uniforms when they compete. There are not restrictions on the fabrics, coloursor styles of the uniforms, however your uniforms must reflect the characteristics of your nationality, sport’s epoch and the event itself.
9).Competitors are responsible for providing their own uniforms and equipments.
- Placing and awards:
1)For single events the top 8 competitor will be awarded according to the event, age group, sex and routine.
2)For pair events the top 8 competitor will be awarded according to the event, age group, sex and combination between male and female.
3)For confrontation events the top 8 competitor will be awarded according to the event, weight, age group, sex and combination between male and female.
4)For single, pair and confrontation performance events, the top 3 competitors will receive gold, silver and bronze medals and certificates. Fourth to eighth place will receive certificates.
5)For team events the top 8 competitor will be awarded according to the event, age group. (not considering gender)
6)Single, pairs, confrontation and team events (excluding individual all-round and overall group event) ranks of Chinese motherland, the regions of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, foreign countries’ athletes are appraised separately.
7)No matter how many person or team to participate, it only counts the actual number(i.e. one for one winner) for every single, pair, pair confrontation and group event.
8)All participants will receive a souvenir.
- championship (cash) awards methods:
Total bonus for individual all round and overall group championship awards is RMB 120,000.
1)No. of individual all-round championship:
Ⅰ. It is not divided by nationality, but according to gender, grouped into children (Division A), youth (Division B), middle-aged (Division C), aged (Division D). There are 1st place to 8thplace per division, and total of 64.
Ⅱ. Individual all-round championship bonus: 1st place: RMB 5000, 2nd place: RMB 3000, 3rdplace: RMB 1000,4th to 8thplace: RMB 500. 1stto 3rd will be awarded cups, medals and certificates, 4th to 8th will be awarded medals, certificates.
2) Overall group championship:
Ⅰ. There are 1st place to 16th place, total 16 places is not divided by gender, nationality and border.
Ⅱ. Overall group championship bonus: 1st place: RMB 10,000, 2nd place: RMB 5000, 3rdplace: RMB 2000, 4th to 8thplace: RMB 1000, 7th place to 16th place: RMB 800. 1stto 3rd will be awarded cups, individual medals and certificates, 4th to 8th will be awarded cups and certificates, 7th place to 16th place will be awarded group certificates.
3) Scores calculation methods:
Ⅰ. Final personal score calculation method:the final score should origin from each individual competitor's top3 score of total 3 games (must have Quan and Weapon series), no matter how many events he or she participates. The person holding highest final score will be the champion, the second one should be runner-up and so on.
Ⅱ. If all round individual event has the same result, we will count to get first prizes more in 3 all round event, and then to get second prizes more and so on. If it comes across again the same result, then we will count the whole events (including the other events) to get more in the first prizes,and then to get second prizes more and so on. If it happens again the same result, then we will count the number of the whole events which they participate. If again the same result, it will be decided by drawing a lot.
Ⅲ. Overall Group Event calculation method: A team with not less than 10 individual all-round competitors will be regarded as a scoring unit Scores for teams with more than 10 players will be settled by the total scores of the best 10 players. A team with the highest score wins thechampionship, a team with the second highest score the runner-up, etc.
Ⅳ. In the case of same scores, the place of the teams will be decided by counting the number of first place, second place, and third place …of the players in all round individual event.
Ⅴ. As all round individual, there are only 8 winners in one age division. If there are more than 8 people because of the same grades, drawing a lot will be adopted by athletes themselves. For those who are out of the competition, they will be awarded excellent individual all-round championship certificate.
Ⅵ. As Overall group event, there are only 16 winners. If there are more than 16 teams because of the same grades, drawing a lot will be adopted by themselves. For those who are out of the competition, they will be awarded excellent Overall group championship certificate.
Ⅶ. The top 8 winners in individual all-round event, and the top 16 teams in Overall group event will be awarded during the closing ceremony on the night of 5thAugust.
10. Registrations:
1)The registration form must be a standard form (appendix 2). There are A-1, A-2, and B three kind of forms. A-1 is used forthe information of the whole team and player’s single event; A-2 is also used for the information of player’s single event, B is used for the information of Pair Routine,ConfrontationRoutine and Group Event. Each blank of the formmust be stated clearly, if no content, write “no” on it. There are their association seals and managers’ signature in the registration of teams. Individual registration should be signed on it. Any participators who want to buy insurance please click “√” on the form. Registration forms (including copies of money transfer receipts and ID cards, “safety statement”) must be faxed (010-59222900-1888) or e-mail () to the InternationalSportsExchangeCenter of the Zhejiang Sports Bureaubefore the 12:00 pm 15th June 2007. The registration form andregistration fee must be sent together otherwise the registration is void.
2)Safety statement is to be signed and sending together with the registration form, those who haven’t sign the statement will not be allowed to participate.
3)After the registration form has being sent out, any amendment (including any additional information) of the registration form is not allowed. For those urgent and special cases, participants have to send in a formal request (amendment letter) with amendment fee. ( refer to appendix 4)
4)Within 15 days of the registration deadline (before 12:00 pm, 30of June 2007), those who are not able to participate in the tournament due to urgent reasons, can send in a letter of excuse and claim back, 100% of the event fees and insurance fee will be back to them (registration fee excluded), but exceed the time, all fees will be not back to them. Competition schedules and events’ orders will be published on10 days before the beginning of tournament.
5)Anyone who would like to take part in “official Wushu Duan authentication for overseas people supported by Chinese Wushu Association” should arrive at Hangzhou Huanglong Hotel on 1stAugust 2007.
International teams should arrive at Huanglong Hotel, Hangzhou between 2~3 Aug. 2007.
Each team is to send 1 manager or 1 coach to participate in the joint conference in 8:00 pm on 3rdAugust 2007.
6) All referees and arbitration committee members are to report before the 9:00 am, 3th Aug. 2007. They will be accepted to study on 9:30 am.
7) This tournament will be included in‘2007 Hangzhou West Lake Exposition’. In order to assort publication on internet, all the teams should submit an introduction about the team, main athletes and participative items within 1000 words. (Photos can be attached by using jpg format..) All the files should be sent to organizing committee, E-mail address: .
8)Address and contact number:
Address: ZhejiangInternationalSportsExchangeCenter
Room 6003 inSportsBuilding, 212 Tiyuchang Road
Hangzhou，Zhejiang，China.
Zip code: 310004
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- Overseas participators’ fee (Appendix 4)
- Referee and arbitration committee:
1）The formation of the arbitration committee and guidelines set down by the arbitration committee members strictly follow the arbitration committee regulations.
2）The general referee, deputy referee and arbitration committee members are to be appointed by the organizing committee. Referees are to be those appointed by the teams and those volunteersrecommended by various Wushu associations (certified by the organizing committee).
- Further information about this tournament will be claimed with announcement.
- The committee of this tournament preserves the ultimate right of explanation for thisregulation.