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Junior Worlds Australian Team Registration - 2019 TURKEY
Date TBA
Junior Worlds, Bangkok
Event information
Registrations for this event are not currently available.
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY - available as an attachment below.
Depart Australia: Tuesday 24 September – return to Australia 10 October 2019.
The Australian team bound for the IFMA Junior World Championships will travel as a group to the event and participate in all activities as a team. The team will depart Australia on Tuesday 24 September 2019 from your closest capital city, link up in Singapore and then travel to Istanbul, Turkey. The team will complete the World Championships tour on 9 October 2019 at which time they will depart Istanbul for Australia.
During the tour there will be two separate payments required:
- Event - To the MTA for the IFMA event which will include 8 nights in Antalya at the event hotel, all meals, transfers from the airport, team uniform and IFMA uniform and all IFMA event activities. You will be invoiced for this up on registration for the event at www.muaythaiaustralia.com.au/events. You will select a ticket for each person attending and this will be your invoice for the IFMA section of the tour.
- Tour - To Sports Tours for the section of the trip before and after the competition. This includes; airfares from your nearest capital city to Istanbul - return, airfares from Istanbul to Antalya – return, 6 nights’ accommodation, a Gallipoli tour, an Istanbul tour, a team dinner, transfers in Istanbul to and from the airport and breakfasts.
International Sports Tours. Philip Strachan (02) 9922 6166. Require a booking sheet to be completed that includes all the conditions required for airline and hotel bookings.
All bookings have strict payment deadlines that must be meet in order to be a part of the team.
Flights will be from your nearest capital city. We have held group booking seats on Singapore Airlines from Australia to Istanbul via Singapore.
Registration requirements:
One registration per family group. What we need is for each athlete in the team to have one entry and for that entry to include ALL people travelling with them that are family, friends, spectators, siblings, whomever. Information required for the event MUST be emailed to info@muaythaiaustralia.com.au NLT Thursday 25 July 2019. This includes:
- MTA Code of Conduct – everyone attending
- IFMA Athlete Consent form for doping inspection – athlete only
- Passport copy – everyone attending
- A passport sized photo of the person registering – everyone attending
- Tracksuit/T’shirt size – everyone attending
- MTA waiver – athlete only
You MUST select a ticket for each person attending. This ticket is your invoice for the 8 nights at the IFMA event.
Accommodation:
For the MTA/IFMA 8 nights you will select either twin, or single and be invoiced via the MTA web page registration. There are no other room configuration options.
For the International Sports Tour section, accommodation is for 6 nights in Istanbul. 2 separate occasions for 3 nights each. You can book via sports tours whatever room configuration is possible/available.
Athletes can share with other athletes or with their guardian/parent.
There are TWO STEPS TO THE REGISTRATION.
1. Book through ‘International Sports Tours’ the athletes and all travelling family and friends for your travel. Payment for this is direct to International Sports Tours and needs to be booked immediately.
2. Registration of everyone coming on the tour at http://www.muaythaiaustralia.com.au/events/
This will issue you an invoice for each person (athlete, parent, sibling, spectator, anyone) attending. Pay the MTA invoice NLT Thursday 1 August 2019. There is no deposit required but there are also no refunds once registered.
This registration requires all event details and information required to enter the athlete into the IFMA event as well as booking the accommodation required for the 8 nights of the event, meal passes and an IFMA pass for the event and IFMA activities.
BRING ALL YOUR PAPERWORK AND MTA/IFMA BOOK TO THE EVENT
Bring all your forms to the event. You must have the correct IFMA medical and bloods for 16+ years at the event or they will not let you compete!
The registration on the MTA web page has the forms required for entry. The forms must then be completed and emailed to: info@muaythaiaustralia.com.au
Forms are down loadable from in the information section of this event registration.
The forms that are compulsory for entry to IMFA MUST be emailed NLTThursday 25 July 2019. These forms include:
- MTA Code of Conduct – everyone attending
- IFMA Athlete Consent form for doping inspection – athlete only
- Passport copy – everyone attending
- A passport sized photo of the person registering – everyone attending
- Tracksuit/T’shirt size – everyone attending
- MTA waiver – athlete only
Each form must be attached to an email as one file and named in that person’s name! For example, if the form is two pages, for Charlia Hodgson. Email one file, named Hodsgon C - Passport PLEASE.
FORMS THAT MUST BE BROUGHT TO THE EVENT
- IFMA medical on the correct form
- Blood test results on the original form if 16+ years
- A copy of all your forms
- MTA/IFMA fight book
All athletes MUST travel with a guardian: If an athlete can-not travel with a parent/legal guardian, they must travel with a nominated guardian. A legal document is required by the MTA that authorises any child without a parent/legal guardian to have a nominated guardian with them. This form must be presented to the MTA prior to departure. You are responsible for ensuring it is a legal document, signed, witnessed, and authorised legally (by a lawyer) - not just a note from mum. The MTA can reject or accept the guardian nomination form at their discretion.
YOU PAY VIA THE MTA ENTRY PAGE BY PURCHASING A TICKET FOR THE ALL PERSON’S TRAVELLING TO THE EVENT. Prices are PER PERSON. If you elect a twin room - there must be a name of the person you are staying with!
All information is required and compulsory for each entrant. All requests are time sensitive. If invoices are not paid or information request not actioned, in the required time frames your position in the team will be affected.
ALL TEAM MEMBERS/COACHES/FAMILIES/SPECTATORS are required to complete and abide by the MTA Code of Conduct and Member Protection Policy.
All athletes and coaches are there for the team first and at the event from start to finish.
All team members are responsible for being in the weight division entered at the event. There is NO opportunity to go up a weight division if you do not make weight. Weigh in is conducted on the 28 September 2019 in the afternoon for all entrants and then again on every day the athlete competes.
Room selection: If you are selecting a twin room and sharing with a family member (even if they are a coach) you must purchase two tickets. Prices are per person. If you are selecting a twin room but sharing with another athlete - you must put their name, and purchase one ticket - they must do the same.
Competition rules: IFMA competition rules are available on the web page.
Medical requirements. A medical for the event is required. It MUST be presented at registration with proof of age and identity. Blood tests are required for anyone 16 years and over, on the original form, that are dated no less than 3 months from the event. Pregnancy declarations are required for females who are 16 years and over.
Certificate of selection - Team Selection Certificate downloaded here.
Common Questions:
What equipment do I need? Bring your own training gear. You are required to have a mouth guard (your mouthguard MUST NOT be pink or red or any shades around this!). Females above 14 years are required to wear chest guards and groin guards. Males are required to wear a groin guard. Gloves, head gear, elbow guards, shin guards, chest guards are all supplied. IFMA competition uniform is provided for athletes and must be worn. Australian team clothing must be worn at all events. You fight in your IFMA uniform.
Corner person/coaching: Team coaches are allocated for each fighter. All coaching and cornering are at the discretion of the Team Coach. There will be team coaches and assistant coaches appointed. The Team Coach will nominate who is cornering, preparing and training athletes. Athletes own coaches, if attending, must always follow the Head Coaches directions and be a part of the team. Coaches are to be at every competition early and be the last to leave. Weigh in's will be rostered and ALL coaches will be expected to attend when requested. Coach meetings are compulsory for all coaches/assistant coaches. All coaches MUST remain contactable 24hrs during the event. All coaches are there for the entire team, the entire time. Coaches MUST have the tracksuit at all fights as long pants are required for cornering. No assistant coaches are there for their own athlete, this is an international team event and not a fight show.
There is a nominated group of experienced IFMA COACHES who are coaching the team. All athletes and coaches are under the direction of the Head Coach, Leon Spain. He has appointed a few coaches as team coaches, they will be announced soon. Any other person who comes, and is a coach, of their child or others, can only act as assistant coaches if approved. That means warming up, and helping backstage and if the draw allows, seconding a team coach in the corner. This is all at the discretion of the Head Coach. Anyone who wants to come as an assistant coach must be prepared to follow the directions of the Head Coach and that includes helping all other athletes and not favouring or working solely or separately with their own athlete(s). It is a team first and people cannot nominate themselves as coaches.
Entourage: This is everyone not competing or coaching. It is requested that you do not enter any training area, warm up area or get involved with any aspect of your child’s warm up or training unless requested by the Head Coach. At training and at the competition there will be designated warm up and training areas – no parents will be allowed to hang around in this area or be involved with the athlete’s preparation for the competition. Please step back, spectate and support the team and assist the coaching staff by not babysitting your child.
Meetings/training: Team training sessions and meetings are compulsory for ALL athletes and coaches, every day. Fighting or not, still in the competition, or not. No exemptions. Watching all team members compete is always compulsory for the team. There will be a team meeting and a coach meeting every day of the event PLUS extra meetings.
Weigh in's: All females will weigh under the supervision of a female official. No males will be allowed in the female weigh in tent. They must weigh in every day they are scheduled to compete – 7:00am. No allowances. If you do not make weight or pass the medical that morning - you forfeit the fight. NO ONE is allowed in the weigh in area! Athletes line up early! When they go into the medical and weigh in, they go alone, so they must be organised. We may not know who is fighting the next day until midnight the night before!
Wai Kru/ Ring entrance: All fighter MUST wear a Mongkon into the ring, ceil the ring, do three bows, and be prepared to compete. Please ensure you learn this before departing Australia as there is no exceptions at the event.
IFMA rules are clear on this but last year they changed it at the last minute. Please don’t get hung up on it. Athletes should be ready to go over the rope, bow in the centre and seal the ring however they made to go under the rope without the mongkong or through the ropes – be flexible and prepared for any change!
Turkey – learn as much as you can about the country before you go!
Please call 0408570961 – Anthony Manning if you have any questions.