Date: February 9, 2004
PAWF to Host IWuF Technical Training Courses in U.S., July 5-9 2004
The International Wushu Federation (IWUF) and the Pan American Wushu Federation (PAWF) have decided to conduct technical training courses to teach new competition rules that were approved at the 7th IWUF Congress held in Macao in November 2003. The new technical rules are designed to prepare for Wushu's inclusion into the 2008 Beijing Olympics, should we be accepted to participate. This training course is a must for all coaches, judges and athletes who want to learn the new technical developments to prepare themselves for the Olympics and the 2005 World Wushu Championships. It has also been decided that all 5 Wushu continental federations will host a technical training in the year 2004 to provide the new information to the coaches and athletes throughout the world. The IWUF will implement the new rules in 2004.
The IWUF will send technical officials to conduct the courses in Pan America on July 5th-9th 2004 at the O-Mei Wushu Center in Virginia, 2929-D Eskridge Rd., Fairfax, Virginia 22031, Tel: 703-560-1900, e-mail: o_mei@yahoo.com. The location and dates were chosen to provide convenience for athletes and coaches who will be attending the 5th Pan American Wushu Championship and the USAWKF Nationals. We thank Xiaolin Lu for generously providing her school to conduct the above course.
We are still waiting for IWUF to provide us with details about registration information and fees and we will post them on the website as soon as they are received. Members who are interested please contact the USAWKF for more information. For your information we have inserted below the announcement made by the IWUF Technical Committee during the 2003 congress regarding the revised rules:
It has been 13 years since the IWUF published the "Rules for international Wushu (Taolu & Sanshou) Competition". Although it was republished twice in 1998 and 1999, no essential changes have been made. With the overall advancement of the technical levels of athletes in each nation and region and deepening of wushu's inclusion into the Olympics, the existing wushu competition rules are no longer suitable for the practical requirements of wushu development in the world. Therefore, the Technical Committee put forward the principal ideas on the amendment of international competition rules and was approved by the Executive committee. At the 9th Technical Committee meeting held in Tokyo, Japan in July of 2003, the new competition rules (draft) were discussed and studied once more by the technical committee members. The following consensus was reached:
The competitive wushu must be in compliance with the objective requirement of the Olympic Games for general modern competitive sports. This will enable wushu to be in line with other international competitive sports so as to accelerate wushu's technical development, encourage technical innovation, improve appreciativeness and be in favor of fair and impartial competitions. These opinions and plans were included in the competition program submitted to the IOC.From now on, we should focus our view on the 2008 Olympic Games and amend the competition rules at an early date. Our main objective is to allow each member federation to have sufficient time in training so that they can be adapted to the new competition rules and technically prepared in the following five years. The new competition rules have made references and extracted rules and experiences from other Olympic sports that officiate with scores. The rules are created in accordance with wushu's own characteristics. The Wushu Taolu rules were divided into three parts. The respective judges will officiate independently. The detailed plan is as follows:
The first part: Quality of Movement
Three judges will deduct errors according to each error occurred in each movement. The repeated occurrences will be in an accumulation of deductions. The objective is to take out the part, which can be measured, and be deducted to a maximum degree.The second part: Degree of difficulty
Three judges will officiate according to the coefficient of difficulty claimed by the athlete before the competition and actual performance during the competition.The third part: Performance
This part includes "power, harmony, rhythm and composition, which is immeasurable. The content of the new rules is according to the overall performance of the athlete.« Go Back
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