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2023 International Ethnosports Festival

Background of the event Implementation of the "Plans for the Promotion and Development of National Sports" project in Uzbekistan Presidential Decree No. PD-259 on May 25, 2022, To promote and popularize Uzbek sports and folk games (Ethnosports), we intend to extensively engage children and teenagers, strengthen international relations, and contribute to the revitalization of Uzbek tourism in Uzbekistan Festival Overview   - Event name : International Ethnosports Festival International Ethnosports Festival *Decided to be held every two years   - Period : For 4 days from September 7, 2023 (Thursday) to 10 (Sunday)   - Place : Ichan Kala Cultural Complex in Horism Province, Hiba Province, Uzbekistan *UNESCO World Heritage/Silk Road Oasis City Center   - Scale : Target of 1,500 people in 65 countries * Senior 250 (Minister, Vice Minister, President of the National Sports Association, etc.) Executives and 1,250 athletes   - Host/Organized : Ministry of Youth Policy and Sports in Uzbekistan Key Schedule   - September 7 (Thu): Interview with delegates, check-in of accommodation   - September 8 (Fri) 08:00 to 09:00: Parade (from Hiba Train Station to "Lee Chan-Kala")                       09:00-17:00 : Event                       14:00-20:00: Exhibitions, performances, and events                       17:00: Opening Ceremony   - September 9 (Sat) 09:00 to 19:00: Exhibitions, performances, and events                       19:00-22:00: Closing Ceremony   - September 10 (Sun): Delegates and overseas participants leave the country Major program   - (Popular culture and arts performance and exhibition): tightrope walking, wedding customs, Korean traditional music (macom), dance, literature, etc   - (Exhibition of handicrafts): Paper making, fabric making, ceramics, woodworking, etc   - (Woodsbeck Sports 12)     : Kurash, Strongman Games, Uzbek martial arts, Uzbek jangsanati (mute), mas wrestling, falconing, archery, equestrian racing, horse wrestling, horse archery, etc. Demonstrations and games *World Championship 2, International Tournament 9   - (Uzbek Folklore 8)     : Demonstrations of folk games such as tag, tug-of-war, and chicken fight (shoulder pushing) *More than 200 teenagers participate   - (Uzbek Food and Melon Festival)     : a cooking contest, a melon exhibition Benefits for overseas participating teams   : Accommodation, meals, and local transportation (Tashkent Airport ⇌Hiba) *Depending on protocol targets, hotels, restaurants, and transportation will vary

07/18/2023

2023 Martial Arts Open School in Moldova

International Centre of Martial Arts for Youth Development and Engagement under the auspices of UNESCO (ICM) in partnership with Stauceni Sport School, Stauceni City Hall. - Period : 2023. For 4 weeks in June - Place : Kishinou Stăuceni District Sports School - Target : Taekwondo, karate wrestling, soccer, rugby, tennis, about 185 youth players - Host : ICM - Organaized : Mr. VATAMAN ROMAN (currently Director of Sports School, Stăuceni District, Kishinou) - Contents : Mr. VATAMAN ROMAN (now director of the Stăuceni District Sports School, Kishinou), a participant in the 2013 cultural partnership and a facilitator of the Moldova Member Trin Compromise Council was selected as a participant in the 2023 Martial Arts Open School hosted by ICM and led the Open School program consisting of traditional Korean martial arts TaekKyeon and cultural classes for about 185 teenagers at the Stăuceni District Sports School.

07/17/2023

Kun Bokator is listed in the Seagames 2023 which will be held in Cambodia. To celebrate and inspire more support, Kun Bokator Federation and Ream Production produced a music video titled "Warriors" featuring Bokator martial arts and historical evidence carved on ancient temple's walls. ↓Watch videos on YouTube↓          >>Kun Bokator    

04/21/2022

Summer 2021 (Vol.33) WoMAU News

02/03/2022

Martial arts Elements (Archive)

Kurash

Kurash is an ancient type of upright jacket-grappling that originated in the territory of modern Uzbekistan with about three thousand years of history. There is no groundwork, and only throws and leg sweeps can be used by players. All the actions are allowed only in standing position and any techniques using armlock, chocking, and kicking, as well as grips below the belt are prohibited. For three millenniums Kurash was limited within the borders of Central Asia. Techniques, traditions, rules, and philosophies of Kurash were verbally passed from generation to generation. And only in 1990, Komil Yusupov, the widely known Uzbek wrestler finished that kind of research on Kurash. He created the new universal rules for Kurash, which incorporated the best features of Kurash- thousands of years old philosophy of courage and humanism with the tight requirements of the modern sport. He introduced to Kurash weight categories, gestures, and terminology based on 13 Uzbek words, set a fixed duration of the bout, uniform for players and referees, and everything.

Horseback Archery, 마상무예

Horseback archery was reborn a long time ago as a culture involving the horse and the human together and has been developed over a long period of time. Through the paintings in the ancient tombs such as Ssangyongchong, the ancient tomb with wall painting in Yaksoo-ri, Gangseo-gu, Pyeongannam-do, it can be found the aspects that our predecessors were hunting deer and tigers on running horsebacks. Also, the chapter of the main record of Baekje in the chronicles of the Three States reads 'good at horseback archery' in indicating the bravery of the king, telling that horseback archery was an important criterion to evaluate feats of arms of individuals. In Goguryeo, hunting competitions were held in every spring and fall and the ones with an excellent skill to shoot arrows on horseback who hunted many animals were advanced to the position of Musa(brave warrior) and in Shilla, government officials participated in a horseback archery competition for the prize from the king. Till now, horseback archery competition has been developed into a modern competition.

Savate

Savate means ‘old shoe’. Practitioners usually fight with kicks but they can also hold weapons such as a sword, dagger, pole, cane, etc. But in modern sports, players wear gloves on their fists like kick-boxers. As boxing techniques were added in the development process, savate was utilized for training French soldiers. It was a demonstration sport in the Paris 1924 Summer Olympics. French Boxing is a combat sport that first appeared in the nineteenth century under the names of Savate and Chausson, but which soon became known as French Boxing. It started out in the streets in bad neighborhoods, and in a few decades become the sport of the aristocracy (the 1850s), be at the forefront of French sports (1900s) and after a long period of sleepiness, flourished again and progressing from year to year. Now the French Federation of Savate (FF Savate - established 1975) is promoting the martial art and organizing world championships.

Mallyuddha

Mall-yuddha or Malla-kridha is the traditional South Asian form of combat-wrestling, today is commonly known as ‘Kushti’ in India. Word ‘mall’ in Sanskrit means "wrestler" or "fighter" and yuddha means "combat." Thus, ‘mall-yuddha’ literally means “wrestling combat”, and ‘mall’ or ‘malla’ in its origin was a title awarded to fierce and courageous fighters. Mall-yuddha is the combat version while Mall-krida is the sport version. Matches were traditionally codified into four types which progressed from purely sportive contests of strength to actual full-contact fights known as Yuddha. Malla-yuddha incorporates grappling, joint-breaking, punching, biting, choking, and pressure point striking. It is divided into four styles, each named after Hindu gods and legendary fighters: - Hanumanti concentrates on technical superiority while - Bhimaseni focuses on sheer strength. - Jambuvanti uses locks and holds to force the opponent into submission, - Jarasandhi concentrates on breaking the limbs and joints. Due to the extreme violence, this final form is generally no longer practiced. The second form, wherein the wrestlers attempt to lift each other off the ground for three seconds, still exists in south India. Mallyuddha in South Asia has a history of at least 5000 years making it the oldest known codified form of fighting in the region. Competitions held for entertainment were popular among all social classes, with even kings and other royalty taking part. Wrestlers represented their kings in matches between rival kingdoms; deathmatches before the royal court served as a way to settle disputes and avoid large-scale wars. As such, professional wrestlers were held in high regard. In pastoral communities, people would even wrestle against steers. Traditional Indian wrestling first began to decline in the north after the medieval Muslim invasions when influences from Persian wrestling were incorporated into native malla-yuddha. Under the Mughal rule, courtly fashion favoured the Persianate pehlwani style. Traditional malla-yuddha remained popular in the south, however, and was particularly common in the Vijayanagara Empire. The descendants of the Jyesti clan continued to practice their ancestral arts of malla-yuddha and vajra-musti into the 1980s but rarely do so today. Mallayuddha has survived in south India however, and can still be seen in Karnataka and pockets of Tamil Nadu today.

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