Approve AJJIF President

Kunin А.

06.07.2005

Ju – Jitsu

(Combat – Ju-jitsu)

Tournament Rules.

(Official Rules)

(These rules are official Combat Ju-Jitsu rules, All Japan Ju-Jitsu International Federation )

Part 1. CHARACTER AND METHODS OF HOLDING TOURNAMENT

Article 1. Tournament Character.

1. The tournament can be:
• personal,
• team,
• personal-team.
2. The character of a tournament is determined by tournament Regulations in every separate case.
3. In a personal tournament only participants’ personal results and ranks in their respective weight categories are to be determined.
4. In a team tournament the teams are to contest each other which results in teams’ ranking.
5. In a personal-team tournament the personal ranks of participants are determined, while team’s rank is determined depending on personal results of their participants according to tournament Regulations.

Article 2. Systems and methods of tournament holding.

1. During a tournament participants contest in one group (a system without sub-groups) or, by way of seeding, are allocated to several sub-groups (a system with subgroups). The latter must include definition of the way best sportsmen to move into the next stage of tournament, the worse to abandon. Tournaments are divided into preliminary part and the final.
2. Tournament can be held by one of the following methods:
• Olympic system (till first defeat);
• Round system (all participants meet each other);
• Out after two defeats.
• Round systems with division to subgroups. Should a large number of sportsmen in a certain weight take part in a tournament, it is permitted to divide participants into two subgroups with precondition that strong sportsmen be seeded in different subgroups. In this case semifinal and final are to be held to determine the personal ranks of the participants. From each subgroup two sportsmen taking first and second places are to come out – participant taking first place in first subgroup is to contest with the participant taking second place in the second subgroup. The winners of semifinals are to meet in final to contest for 1^st and 2^nd places, the semifinal losers are to contest for the 3^rd place. In a preliminary stage of the tournament participants are to contest each other by round method, and in final part - by Olympic system. In case when participants from one subgroup come out to the final their previous combat result is to be taken into account. Participants who do not reach final or semifinal stop competing.
3. The order of combats between participants (teams) is to be determined by seeding, chosen system and method of tournament holding.
4. System and method of holding preliminary and final parts of a tournament are chosen during a seeding (if not determined by tournament Regulations).

Part 2. TOURNAMENT PARTICIPANTS

Article 3. Age groups of participants.

Tournament participants are divided into the following age groups:

Group	Age
Youth	14-16 years
Juniors	17-18 years
Adults	19 years and older

Article 4. Participants Admission.

1. Terms of participants’ admission, their sports characteristics, qualification and age, as well as the list of documents to be applied to the credentials committee are envisaged by tournament regulations.
2. Application from organization to send its members for tournament is to be written on a preset form obligatory with certified stamps and signatures of organization head, coach and doctor, witnessing participants’ correspondent readiness level.
3. Deadline for filing application forms is determined by tournament Regulations. The final application for participation is to be filed by representative of a team with the credentials committee before start of weighting.
4. Participants’ admission is carried out by credentials committee consisting of representative of organizing party, chief referee or his deputy, chief secretary and committee members, who check participants’ applications and documents for compliance with the requirements of tournament Regulations. Responsibility for participants’ admission in disputable situations is laid upon representative of organizing party.

Article 5. Weights.

Participants are divided into the following weight categories:

Youth	Juniors	Adults
50 kg	60 kg	60 kg
55 kg	67,5 kg	67,5 kg
60 kg	75 kg	75 kg
67,5 kg	82,5 kg	82,5 kg
75 kg	Over 82,5 kg	90 kg
Over 75 kg		Over 90 kg

In juniors and adults group a combat for absolute champion title might be held without weight division.

Article 6. Participants’ weighting.

1. Weighting procedure aims to determine whether participant’s weight meets the limits of a certain weight category. Participant has a right to contest within weight category set up for him at weighting procedure, as well as in the higher weight categories.
2. Order and time of participants’ weighting is set by Regulations. Sportsman, late or absent for weighting is not admitted for the tournament.
3. Within 1 hour before start of weighting, participants have a right to control their weight with balance, which is to serve official weighting.
4. Weighting is carried out once on the first day of tournament or on the eve and lasts for 1 hour.
5. Should weighting be held on the first day of tournament, it is to begin no later than 3 hours before tournament’s start.
6. Participants from the same weight category are to weight on the same balance.
7. Weighting is carried out by a team of referees, appointed by chief referee, which include: deputy chief referee (one of the area managers), secretariat representative and two referees.
8. Before weighting participants pass superficial medical examination from tournament’s doctor.
9. Participants are to weight in swimming trunks.
10. For weighting participant is to show passport (or identification document with photo).
11. Results of weighting are put into protocol, signed by all members of the referee team.

Article 7. Responsibilities and rights of participants.

1. Participant is to:
• strictly follow the Rules, Schedule and Regulations of a Tournament;
• follow referees’ requirements;
• immediately come to the area after called by referees panel;
• immediately inform the referees panel if it is impossible to keep on contesting for any reasons;
• greet and follow up a ritual, approved for a tournament;
• correctly behave with all the participants, referees, servicemen and audience;
• contest with shortly cut nails, and in due sports uniform.

2. Participant has a right to:

· turn to referees trough a team representative; turn directly to chief referee at a personal tournament (in absence of representative);

· to control weight with official-weighting balance within 1 hour before weighting procedure start;

· timely get all necessary information about tournament course: tournament schedule, changes in schedule, next round’s contesters, combat results, etc.;

· use no more than 5 minutes of medical assistance in course of every combat.

Article 8. Participant’s uniform and outfit.

1. Participant’s uniform – ju-dogi (traditional ju-jitsu and judo uniform) of white or dark blue color (black, by referee decision), consisting of trousers and jacket. Sleeves of the jacket should cover an elbow (i.e. to reach forearm of an outstretched arm) and should be loose enough to have 5 cm between arm and a sleeve. Tail of a jacket should reach mid hip. The belt wrapped twice around the thigh or waist and tied with plain knot should tighten the jacket so that the tails of it not to set apart. The ends of the tied belt should not hang lower knees. Ttrousers should cover no less than two thirds of shanks and be loose enough to have no less than 5 cm between leg and the trousers.
2. Before going out to a combat area the first summoned participant is to be belted with red belt, a rival – with white or dark blue belt.
3. Participants contest barefooted or in soft shoes (on permission of chief referee).
4. Participants are forbidden to put on anything able to cause injury – rings, necklaces, watches, chains, etc.
5. Compulsory defending outfits of participant are bandage (protection of groin), special blowing-clutching gloves of no less than 8 ounces in weight. Bandage is to be put under the trousers. Gloves to be of a preset type with open fingers for clutching, with elastic, protective stuffing not removed or damaged. They are supposed to be safe for all the time of their use. Should be provided by organizers.
6. Additional defending outfits, which might be used by participant, if permitted by Regulations are: sealed end, elbow-protectors, leg shields, preventing possible injuries. Covers for legs (shields) should not contain any solid parts (plastic, metal, bamboo, etc.)
7. Referees are to check defending outfits before combat.

Article 9. Teams representatives, coaches and captains.

1. Representative (head) of a team is intermediate between referee panel and participants. If a team does not have a special representative, the duties of the latter are to be carried out by team coach or captain.
2. Representative is responsible for discipline of a team’s participants and provides for their timely coming for combats.
3. Representative participates in seeding, attends meetings of referee panel, if any.
4. Representative has a right to file in a written protest with a chief referee (look in art. Protests), accompanied with a reference to correspondent article and paragraph of the Rules.
5. Representative, coach and captain of a team are forbidden to interfere with instructions from referees and persons who hold tournament.
6. During combats representative is to be on a place, specially reserved for representatives.
7. Representative (coach) of a team can not simultaneously be referee of a tournament.
8. For not meeting the duties representative can be removed from heading a team.

Part 3. REFEREE PANEL

Article 10. Referee panel Staff.

1. Staff of referee panel is recommended by Directorship of “Real Combat School”.
2. Referee panel of a tournament consists of: chief referee panel – chief referee, deputy chief referee, (including area managers), chief secretary; referees – area and side referees, time-keepers, informers, participants’ referees, serving staff – commentators, doctors, supervisor, etc.
3. Combat is to be judged by referee team consisting of: area manager, technical secretary and informer.
4. Actions by participants are estimated by neutral threesome referee panel, representing different teams. Each of them takes his own decision as to estimating participants’ actions and in disputable moments should argument his actions with a correspondent item of the Rules.
5. Referee must have referee uniform, referee ID and tournament Rules.
6. Referee uniform consists of dark suit, white shirt and sports shoes. On permission of chief referee area and side referees might not wear jackets and put on bow-tie instead of necktie.

Article 11. Chief referee.

1. Chief referee manages tournament and is responsible before organizing party for its holding in compliance with these rules and Regulations.
2. Chief referee must:
• check up readiness level of the premises which welcome a tournament, equipment and its compliance to the event, as well as make sure about availability of the respective documentation;
• appoint referee teams for weighting procedure;
• hold participants seeding;
• approve schedule of a tournament;
• allocate referees into teams for every area;
• hold meetings of referee panel with participation of team representatives before tournament starts (for announcing schedule of a tournament and order of referee panel work), as well as hold daily meetings at the end of each day of a tournament (for discussion of tournament course and day results) and emergency meetings;
• take all measures to exclude or correct possible mistakes of referees;
• timely react to requests and protests from representatives (coaches, captains) of teams according to these rules;
• approve participants and appoint referee teams for the final;
• estimate every referee’s work by 5-scale system;
• report to organizing party on a preset time.

3. Chief referee has a right to:

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