Date: 7th March 2015
Time: TBC
Venue: Edgebarrow Sports Centre
Grant Road
Crowthorne
Berkshire
RG45 7JL
Please see details below for the new “Veterans” catergories for this weekends BKK Kata Tournament.
‘Veterans’ categories are for competitors aged 45 years and over.
There will be two veterans categories – High Grade (for Brown and Black Belts) and Low Grade (to include red belts to Green Belts). They will be ‘mixed’ categories featuring Male and Female competitors.
The choice of Katas for the High Grade event will be:
Pinan Sono Yon
Pinan Sono Go
Yantsu
Tsuki-No
Saiha
Gekisai Dai
Tensho
Gekisai Sho
Kanku Dai
Seienchin
Garyu
Seipai
Sushiho.
NB – there will be no compulsory katas for the first round of the veterans category. Competitors will be permitted to choose their first round kata from the list of available katas noted above.
The choice of Katas for the Low Grade event will be:
Taikyoku Sono Ichi
Taikyoku Sono Ni
Taikyoku Sono San
Pinan Sono Ichi
Pinan Sono Ni
Pinan Sono San
Pinan Sono Yon
Pinan Sono Go
Sanchin No Kata
Gekisai Dai.
The top 8 (or 16 subject to Chef Referee’s discretion) competitors from the 1st round will proceed to the 2nd round. This is a change to the rules applied last year, where all competitors automatically proceeded to the 2nd round.
The top 3 competitors from the 2nd round will proceed to the final.
Please note that, as per the other categories, a kata cannot be repeated.
In the final, the winner will determined from the score awarded in the final round only (no account will be taken of the scores awarded in the previous rounds).
Competitors in the veteran categories are able to also enter the individual or team open categories.