Regulations TAOLU

TAOLU competition regulations

COMPETITION CATEGORIES & CLASSES TAOLU:

Children’s festival (6-10 yrs): 
open hand forms – modern, traditional, internal
open weapons – modern, traditional, internal, short, long, flexible

Cadets (11-14 yrs):
modern hand forms girls – Changquan, Nanquan
modern hand forms boys – Changquan, Nanquan
modern weapons girls – Dao, gun, jian, qiang, nandao, nangun
modern weapons boys – Dao, gun, jian, qiang, nandao, nangun
traditional & internal hand forms girls – Ex: Taiji, Hunggar etc
traditional & internal hand forms boys – Ex: Taiji, Hunggar etc
traditional & internal weapons girls – Ex: Taijijian, Shaolingun: divided long and short weapons in registration.
traditional & internal weapons boys – Ex: Taijijian, Shaolingun: divided long and short weapons in registration.

Juniors (15-17 yrs):
modern hand forms girls – Changquan, Nanquan
modern hand forms boys – Changquan, Nanquan
modern weapons girls – Dao, gun, jian, qiang, nandao, nangun: divided in long and short weapons in registration.
modern weapons boys – Dao, gun, jian, qiang, nandao, nangun: divided in long and short weapons.
traditional & internal hand forms girls – Ex: Taiji, Hunggar etc
traditional & internal hand forms boys – Ex: Taiji, Hunggar etc
traditional & internal weapons girls - Ex: Taijijian, Shaolingun: divided in long and short weapons.
traditional & internal weapons boys – Ex: Taijijian, Shaolingun: divided in long and short weapons.

Senior categories (18-39 yrs and 40+ yrs):
modern hand forms women – Changquan, Nanquan
modern hand forms men – Changquan, Nanquan
modern weapons women – Dao, gun, jian, qiang, nandao, nangun: divided in long and short weapons.
modern weapons men – Dao, gun, jian, qiang, nandao, nangun: divided in long and short weapons.
traditional external hand forms women – Ex: Shaolin, Hunggar etc
traditional external hand forms men – Ex: Shaolin, Hunggar etc
traditional internal hand forms women: Wudang, Baji, Xingyi, Bagua
traditional internal hand forms men: Wudang, Baji, Xingyi, Bagua
traditional weapons women – Ex: Shaolingun, Shuangdao etc: divided in long and short weapons.
traditional weapons men – Ex: Shaolingun, Shuangdao etc: divided in long and short weapons.
taiji hand forms women – All traditional styles of Taijiquan
taiji hand forms men – All traditional styles of Taijiquan
taiji weapons women – All Taiji weapons: Dao, jian, shan: divided in long and short weapons.
taiji weapons men – All Taiji weapons: Dao, jian, shan: divided in long and short weapons.
Duilian Junior/senior open (15+)
Duilian women – Fight set forms
Duilian men – Fight set forms

About number of participants per class:
In case less than 3 athletes are registered in a category it will be merged together with the nearest possible category according to age and gender. If a merge still is impossible the category will be cancelled, and coaches will be notified as soon as possible or on the day after the registration deadline.

TAOLU COMPETITION RULES
Sweden Kung fu & Wushu Federation rules for Taolu will be implemented at this competition. The SKWF competition rules for Wushu Taolu is based on the 2019 set of IWUF rules.

Time limits in Taiji quan
The time limits in taji quan is minimum 3 minutes and max 4 minutes. After 3,5 minutes signal will sound to finnish long forms. No deduction of points will be made for not performing a whole set/form.
Own music is allowed but not mandatory, should be provided before performance on USB stick to the mat secretariat and picked up after.

Smoothcomp registration and competition system will be used, and the score of each athlete will be announced on a monitor after each performance, and also published online.

Competition floor: The WESING IWUF approved taolu carpet 16 m x 10 m, placed on 2 cm jigsaw mats will be used in the competition. For taiji and lower age groups traditional mat will be used.

Categorieën

  • TAOLU 40 EUR
    Competitor entries for Taolu
  • SANDA 40 EUR
    Competitor entries for Sanda/Sanshou
  • TUISHOU (push hands) 40 EUR
    Competitor entries for Taiji Tuishou
  • Bingdao 40 EUR
    Competitor entries for Bingdao

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