WAKO Newsletter April 2021
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NEWSLETTER APRIL 2021 Page 1 of 151 PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE One focus, built positively, inspire and build a sustainable future for the sport of Kickboxing across the world. Whilst embedding the entire structure, with, democracy, transparency and accountability. Roy Baker #OneWAKO #OneChampion #IOC #growthmindset Page 2 of 151 Page 3 of 151 WAKO CALENDAR 2021 - CORRECTIONS WAKO CALENDAR 2021 Revision / edition 26-04-2021 April 2021 6th International Turkish Open A 8 11 (WAKO European Cup) Turkey B 24 25 Point Fighting Cup 2021 Italy 2 30 Slovak Open Slovakia Cancelled May May 2021 B 14 16 Serbia Open Serbia International Kickboxing Tournament - C 21 26 Uzbekistan Open 2021 Uzbekistan Karlovac Open B 28 30 (WAKO European Cup) Croatia June 2021 C 4 6 Latvia Open Latvia 25th Bestfighter 2021 (WAKO World Cup ) 10 13 Cancelled (Official WAKO Referee Worlds/Europeans) Italy July 2021 The Austrian Classics 2021 (WAKO World Cup) 1 4 Austria Cancelled (Official WAKO Referee Worlds/Europeans) Cancelled 23 27 5th European Universities Games 2021 Serbia August 2021 C 3 6 2nd International Jordan Open Jordan B 19 21 AmeriKick Internationals USA WAKO Cadets & Juniors European TBD TBD TBD Postponed Championships (All disciplines) C 27 28 Scandinavian Open 2021 Norway September 2021 Postponed 5th Islamic Solidarity Games Turkey to 2022 (All disciplines) WAKO World Hungarian Open 2021 16 19 Cup (WAKO World Cup) Hungary (Official WAKO Referee Worlds/Europeans) WAKO World Russian Open 2021 (World Cup) 21 26 Cup (WAKO World Cup) Russia (Official WAKO Referee Worlds/Europeans) Flanders International B 25 26 Kickboxing Cup 2021 Belgium October 2021 WAKO Senior & Master World WAKO IF 14 24 Championships (All disciplines) Italy Page 4 of 151 Provisionally CONFIRMED TOURNAMENTS 2021 8th - 11th April 2021: 6th TURKISH OPEN (WAKO European Cup), Antalya, Turkey 24th - 25th April 2021: POINT FIGHTING CUP, Castellanza, Italy 30th April - 2nd May 2021: SLOVAK OPEN 2021, Bratislava, Slovakia CANCELLED 14th - 16th May 2021: SERBIAN OPEN 2021 (WAKO European Cup), Belgrade Serbia 21st - 26th May 2021: UZBEKISTAN OPEN 2021, Tashkent, Uzbekistan 28th - 30th May 2021: KARLOVAC OPEN 2021 (WAKO European Cup), Karlovac, Croatia June 2021: WAKO IF DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP FOR NFs, Singapore 4th - 6th June 2021: LATVIA OPEN 2021, Riga, Latvia 10th - 13th June 2021: BESTFIGHTER (WAKO World Cup), Rimini, Italy CANCELLED 1st - 4th July 2021: THE AUSTRIAN CLASSICS (WAKO World Cup), CANCELLED 23rd - 27th July 2021: EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY GAMES, Belgrade, Serbia CANCELLED 3rd - 6th August 2021: 2nd JORDAN OPEN 2021, Amman, Jordan 19th - 21st August 2021: AMERIKICK INTRERNATIONALS, Atlantic City, USA 27th - 28th August2021 SCANDINAVIAN OPEN, Oslo, Norway POSTPONED - TBD: WAKO CADETS & JUNIORS EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS POSTPONED TO 2022: 5th ISLAMIC SOLIDARITY GAMES, Konya, Turkey 16th - 19th September 2021: HUNGARIAN WORLD CUP (WAKO World Cup), Budapest, Hungary 21st - 26th September 2021: RUSSIAN OPEN 2021 (WAKO World Cup), Moscow, Russia 25th – 26th September 2021: FLANDERS INTERNATIONAL KICKBOXING CUP, Beveren, Belgium 15th - 24th October 2021 WAKO SENIOR & MASTER WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, 15th - 17th October 2021 SILVER GRIFFIN CUP, Rezekne, Latvia 16th - 17th October 2021 BRISTOL OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS, Bristol, United Kingdom 22nd - 23rd October 2021 SLOVENIA OPEN, Zagorje ob Savi, Slovenia November WAKO OLDER CADET & JUNIOR EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS - TBD 18th - 21st November 2021 SPAIN INTERNATIONAL OPEN, Benidorm, Spain FUTURE ACTIVITIES 2022 March 3 - 6 - IRISH OPEN WORLD CUP, Dublin, Ireland 2022 August 9 - 18 - 5th ISLAMIC SOLIDARITY GAMES, Konya, Turkey 2022 Cadets & Juniors WC (All disciplines) in Belgrade; Serbia 2022 Senior EC (All disciplines) in Antalya, Turkey; 2023 Cadets & Juniors EC (All Disciplines), Izmir, Turkey; 2023 Senior WC (All Disciplines), Dublin, Ireland 2023 June 21. - July - 2. EUROPEAN GAMES, Krakow, Poland 2023 July 17.-20. EUSA Combat Games, Zagreb Croatia 2024 Cadets & Juniors WC (All disciplines) in Hungary 2024 EUSA Games, Hungary 2024 Senior EC (All disciplines), Athens, Greece THE WORLD GAMES - 2022. 2022 7th - 17th July WORLD GAMES, Birmingham (Alabama), USA All information about THE WORLD GAMES 2022 - www.twg2022.com Page 5 of 151 Important Information Page 6 of 151 Page 7 of 151 Page 8 of 151 Page 9 of 151 WAKO Educational Seminars GRAB THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN FROM THE CHAMPIONS Going back to our sport activities, the WAKO Athletes committee alongside with Coach committee, have put together an EXTRAORDINARY program for our members to become involved and learn from the best. Virtual seminars via ZOOM platform will start this coming weekend 1-2 May! The first weekend (1-2 May) in the series of the virtual seminars sees the very best athletes in WAKO sharing their insight in to technical and tactical strategies. We want to see you invigorated and excited, we want to have you registered for this virtual trainings! We hope soon to return to our sport and we are determined more than ever to continue to grow as the member of the Olympic family of sports! Page 10 of 151 Day 1: Saturday 1st May 1:00-2:00 PM (GMT), Full Contact seminar: Kai Becker & Julia Irmen (Germany) (WAKO Germany National Team Full Contact coach for 10 years and WAKO World Champion) Important message: Dear athletes, we are sorry to announce that the first seminar of our virtual seminar series cannot take place as announced. Unfortunately Julia, who was supposed to run the seminar, got sick. We apologise for the late announcement. The seminar with Kai and Julia will be held on another date, to be announced. We hope for your understanding and that everyone meanwhile can enjoy the other seminars, which will continue as planned. Saturday 1st May2:15-3:15 PM (GMT) Light Saturday 1st May, 3:30-4:30 PM (GMT) Point Contact seminar: Fighting seminar: Tomaz Barada (Slovenia) 2xWorld and 6x European Elijah Everill (Great Britain) WAKO Champion 13x WAKO World Champion Page 11 of 151 Saturday 1st May 4:45-5:45PM (GMT) Musical Sunday, 2nd May, 1:00-2:00 PM (GMT), Low kick Forms & Tricking seminar: Danny Etkin (USA), WAKO Irish Open Champion Adi Rotem (Israel), WAKO World Champion. Sunday 2nd May, 2:15-3:15 PM (GMT) Kick Light Sunday 2nd May, 3:30-4:30PM (GMT) K1 style seminar: seminar: Tony Stephenson (Ireland), WAKO World Raul Lemos (Portugal), WAKO World Champion Champion. Page 12 of 151 Sunday, 2nd May, 4:45-5:45PM (GMT), Weapons seminar. Becca Ross-Leiker (USA) WAKO USA National Team Forms and Weapons Coach, WAKO Irish Open Champion WAKO Athlete Corner - digital Page 13 of 151 WAKO Game Changers Finally the WAKO GameChangers team are picked. After a long period of applications, evaluations and planning the team have been approved and constructed. A total of 15 ambassadors from 15 countries and 3 continents are now formally and officially part of the GameChangers program. WAKO GameChangers (WGC) is a newly created sport leadership and management program tailored for WAKO. It is established under the WAKO Athlete Corner umbrella, WAKO's learn and share concept and it is built on the pillars to educate and develop the future potential leaders of our sport. Two of our hopeful representatives are Elijah Everill from Great Britain and Paulina Jarzmik from Poland. They are incredible athletes with a high degree of skills and are really true ambassadors and really dedicated representatives of our sport, that we hope can make a difference as gamechangers for the future . We are looking for real changemaking. They are both multiple world champions and outstanding in all possible ways. These are just two out of a brilliant team. WAKO's President Roy Baker said “I am very excited to start working with this team of competent young people from around the world and to assist in their development and to implement the program going forward. This is all about empowering our next generation, the next leaders, to develop succession planning and ensure we are focusing on the right people at the right time, to get the right outcome for the sustainable future of the sport of kickboxing. We will of course need to expand and explore further possibilities, that energies, empowers and excites our next generation, to bring out the best in our youth, to be curious, to learn and to share." Now the work really starts. The modules are in development and planned and we will have a start up in June, planning the coming year for our 15 ambassadeurs. Page 14 of 151 The WAKO GameChangers team are; ▪ Elijah Everill (GB) ▪ Paulina Jarzmik (Poland) ▪ Dino Belosevic (Croatia) ▪ Angelina Pelevic (Serbia) ▪ Juan Leonardo Corrales (Argentina) ▪ Lucia Feckova (Slovakia) ▪ Lamija Ogric (Bosnia Herzegovina) ▪ Muhammad Nazri Bin Zutari (Singapore) ▪ Tirill Nanett Bjørnestad Næss (Norway) ▪ A`Day Ali Abdulraheem Almaharmeh (Jordan) ▪ Kiandro Lebon (Belgium) ▪ Timothy Bos (Italy) ▪ Jeno Rohonczi (Hungary) ▪ Jake Riddel (Ireland) ▪ Luis Fernando Sanchez de los Reyes (Mexico) Page 15 of 151 Peace & Sport - April 6th - White Card Page 16 of 151 Page 17 of 151 Page 18 of 151 Page 19 of 151 WAKO IF Board WAKO IF Board meeting - April, 17 2021 - Most important decision On behalf of the entire WAKO Board I’m very pleased of informing you that the bidding process for next WAKO Senior and Master World Championship 2021 for All Disciplines has been successfully completed. We were very happy with the level of interest in hosting the event. We had very strong candidates and commend all of them for the effort and strength of the applications, in particular the strength of direct government support for all of the 4 proposals received, which was stronger in each application than in any other application of the past. A member of the Organising Committee visited each proposed host city, hotels and arena during the last weeks and completed a survey for all the proposals. This report was reviewed by the WAKO Organising Committee and the review and its conclusions were presented by the Technical Director to the WAKO IF Board in occasion of the last Board meeting held on Saturday April 17th.