TreX-Games

[GeneChing]

Not quite the Olympics, but an interesting international games event. There are other international games like the SEA Games, which feature martial sports.

The 4th Busan TAFISA World Sport For All Games
Harmony of Tradition and Future for World Peace and Prosperity
September 26 ~ October 2, 2008 (7 days)
Busan, Republic of Korea
TAFISA(Trim & Fitness International Sport For All Association)
The 4th Busan TAFISA World Sport for All Games Organizing Committee
IOC, KOC, UNESCO, WHO, ICSSPE, SOSFO(Seoul Olympic Sports Promotion Foundation)
Participating Nations : 100 nations
Players·Officials : 10,000 participants (overseas 3,000)
Programs 20 Sports & Games

Events include Gymnastics, Martial Arts, Folk Dance, Yoga, Archery, Lawn-bowling, Muay Thai, Sambo, Kite Flying, Wushu, Zurkhaneh, Tango, World Walking Day, Gate-ball, Aggressive Inline Skate, Skateboard, Sports Climbing, e-Sports, Ssireum and Qigong.

Zurkhaneh and Ssireum look quite interesting. Martial Arts looks like Taekuk Musul mostly. Qigong is under the Chinese Health Qigong Association so it's Yijinjing/Wuqinxi/Liuzijue/Baduanjin and they get medals.

The Tiger Claw Foundation is sponsoring the American wushu team to this event.

[GeneChing]

I don't think America sent anyone to Harbin.

Myanmar Wushu Team Expected to Get Medals in World Sports for All Games
2008-09-20 19:24:00 Xinhua

Myanmar wushu team has been expected to get medals in the forthcoming 4th World Sports For All Games in Busan, South Korea, later this month, according to an official of the Myanmar Wushu Federation (MWF) on Saturday.

Myanmar will send a 12-member wushu team, including six athletes -- three men and three women, to compete in both Taolu and Sanshou events in the games scheduled for Sept. 26-29, Secretary of MWF U Kun Jar Aung told Xinhua.

Of the six wushu athletes, five -- three male and two female -- will appear in Taolu and the remaining one in Sanshou events.

Aung Si Thu, Soe Win Thein and Soe Kyaw will compete in men's Taolu and Sandi Oo and Thet Thet Khaing in women's Taolu, while Si Si Sein in women's Sanshou in the four-day games, he said.

Taolu male player Aung Si Thu won a gold medal in the last Asian Wushu Championships in Yangon, Myanmar in 2004, grabbed a gold and a bronze medals in the 24th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games and a silver medal in the World Wushu Championships last year and female Taolu players Sandi Oo and Thet Thet Khaing got a bronze medal in the 24th SEA Games, while female Sanshou player Si Si Sein got a silver in the SEA Games, he said, adding that it will be the first appearance for the Myanmar wushu team to compete in the quadrennial World Sports For All Games.

Two Myanmar wushu players, Asung Si Thu and Sandi Oo, competed in Taolu event in the Invitational Wushu competition in Beijing, China in August, finishing fifth and seventh respectively in the competition, Kun Jar Aung said.

Meanwhile, a four-member Myanmar wushu team, comprising two Sanshou (Chinese kickboxing) players, is taking part in the World Cup Sanshou tournament in Harbin, China from Sept. 19 to 21.

Tuesday, September 08, 2008
Wushu bets off to China for 9th Sanshou World Cup
By Roderick Osis

AFTER winning four medals in a special tournament during the Beijing Olympics, the Philippine wushu team does not plan to rest on its laurels and is now setting its sights on two major competitions.

The wushu bets resume their training as they gear up for the Sanshou World Cup in Harbin, China and the Trex Games in Busan Korea.

"Everything goes back to normal. In other words, we're back to reality...We'll start practicing on Monday," Benjie Rivera said last Friday morning at the University of the Cordilleras.

The RP sanshou team--composed of another bronze medallist Rivera (56 kilograms (kg)), Mary Jane Estimar (52 kg), Marianne Mariano (56 kg) and Jessie Aligaya-- will be at the Sanshou World Cup competition slated from September 17 to 19 in Harbin, China.

"I think we've got great chances of winning medals in the World Cup again because we still have that winning feeling from Beijing. Our will to win is also still there," said Mariano, who is nursing a troublesome right knee.

"Our desire to win is still there. I think we will have a good showing," said Mariano who, with her teammates and two officials, will leave for China on September 14.

The wushu squad is widely regarded as the saving grace of the disastrous Philippine campaign in the Beijing Olympics where the 15-man team went home empty-handed for the third straight Olympics.

Rivera and Mariano who got richer by over P1.5 million each from their Beijing performances are the only Olympians from Baguio in Beijing after the categories of other wushu players were not included such as Asian games silver and SEAGames gold medallist Edward Folayang in the 70-kg and Mark Eddiva, the recent gold medallist in the 65-kg category during the May 2008 7th Asian Wushu championship in Macau.

The 2008 Busan World TreX-Games is a global sport and cultural festival combining traditional and modern performances under the official patronage of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The name TreX-Games comes from a combination of Tr for traditional, e for e-sports, and X from X-sports.

By blending traditional and modern sports and activities, the Busan TreX-Games will blur the boundaries between generations to create the world's biggest sport and cultural festival.

The Busan TreX-Games will be held from September 26 to October 2 with around 10,000 participants from over 100 countries with 20 different types of events in the three categories of traditional performances, e-sports and X-sports.

[GeneChing]

Check out the Chungju World Martial Arts Festival thread.

The Youtube ad.

A little more on zurkhaneh

Pakistan zurkhaneh team to feature in Korea event
Sunday, September 21, 2008
By Alam Zeb Safi

KARACHI: An eight-member Pakistan zurkhaneh team will leave for Korea on Wednesday to participate in the World Trex Games, slated to be held in Busan from September 26 to October 4, a top official of the Pakistan Zurkhaneh Federation (PZF) told ‘The News’ on Saturday.

The secretary of the PZF Arbab Naseer told this correspondent from Peshawar that a balanced side has been picked, saying he is optimistic that the team will finish at the respectable place in the mega event in which around 4000 athletes from across the world will show their worth.

“Though this sport, having its roots in the ancient Iranian culture, is in its nascent stage in Pakistan but we have made great progress in a couple of years. We have good players in our side and they are capable of springing surprises in the Busan event,” the secretary said.

“The last Asian Championship held in Nepal in July this year had really encouraged us as in that event in which 22 countries from Asia had participated Pakistan had finished at the respectable third place,” Arbab Naseer, who is also the joint secretary of Pakistan Kabaddi Federation (PKF), said.

He informed that most of the boys in the team belong to the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), saying Yousuf Raza from Lahore is a fresh welcome addition to the side.

“Yousuf Raza, a wrestler from Lahore has added to the strength of the Pakistan zurkhaneh team and I hope the unit will perform upto the expectations in Busan affair and will finish in the top three,” he said.

To a question he said a couple of years back PZF had got the services of two Iranian coaches, saying the experts had trained the boys for around two months and that helped the players learn about the techniques of the sport.

He said because of the non-Olympic status of the sport, the federation has been facing great difficulties in getting sponsorship for sending its team abroad.

However, he said that the NWFP government and the International Zurkhaneh Sports Federation (IZSF) is helping the PZF for sending the team to Korea.

Squad: Nouman Ahmad (captain), Zakir Ali Khan, Sardar Ali, Baleekh Uddin, Arbab Sardar, Farhatullah Khan, Izaz Ahmad (all from NWFP), Yousuf Riaz (Lahore), Sahibzada Fazal Amin (Chef de Mission), Arbab Naseer (manager).

[GeneChing]

This really threw me at first:
Tiger Claw and Trex Begin Multi-Year Contract for Exclusive, Proprietary Hidden Deck Fasteners

[GeneChing]

here's the muay thai - obviously more newsworthy...

Bad break for our Aussie rep
September 03, 2008
Richard Harvey

Laura Glover's hopes of representing Australia in Korea have been shattered.

Just like her left arm.

Hervey Bay's 30-year-old former world Muay Thai kick boxing bantamweight champion had her arm broken just over a minute into her comeback fight at the PCYC.

Glover, who was having her first fight in four years after taking time off to have two children, was injured while fighting one of her Aussie team-mates, Chicko Livini-Jorgenson.

The pair had been selected to represent Australia in the World TreX Games next month and were using the bout as part of their final preparations for the trip.

23/09/2008 03:29 PM - (SA)
Muay Thai masters hit world champs
Jason Acar

MASTERING one of the most devastating forms of martial arts in the world is one thing, but fighting the best of the best tests more then just skill.

Courage, concentration, technique and guts are among the list of things the South African Muay Thai team will take to the World TreX Games 2008 in Korea, which start on Friday.

The team consists of ten fighters: one woman, two juniors, and seven men, who have been undergoing serious training at the Dragon Power Martial Arts and Fitness Centre in Cape Town.

The team consists of Bakhulule Baai, Ismaeel Grant, Lameez Rahim, Bernard van der Heever, Donald Wier, Nick Gorman, Guy Lazarus, Kevin Pheko, Sandile Lutseke and Ncedo Gomba.

Last year, the South African squad returned with five silver and four bronze medals.

This year, a rejuvenated squad with a mix of new and experienced faces, hopes to bring back gold.

"Whilst fighting you make use of your eight weapons ? namely hands, legs, knees and elbows," says Oranjezicht resident Nick Gorman, who fought at the tournament last year.

"This gives you an array of weaponry to use during a fight. Grappling, or getting into a clinch with your opponent, is equally important, as you can manipulate and throw your opponent to the floor. Many fights are won and lost in the grapple.

"I have spent time training in Thailand with some of the legends of the sport. I got a bronze medal at the world champs last year and I was voted Fighter of the Tournament, so this year there is no excuse not to bring back a gold."

The tournament sees around 100 countries taking part, and takes place from Friday to Thursday next week in Busan, Korea.

[GeneChing]

I've heard that our own Tiffany Reyes captured bronze in women's jianshu. So far that's the only American medal that I've heard about.

The Tiger Claw Foundation is the official sponsor of the U.S.A. Wushu Team for the 4th Busan TAFISA World Sport For All Games on September 26 - October 2, 2008 in Busan, Korea. The U.S.A. Wushu Team included: Sanshou Team: Kasey Corless, Monica Tello, Tracey Treto. Taolu Team: Sarah Chang, Peter Dang, Philip Dang, Stephon Morton, Tiffany Reyes, Alfred Tsing. Coach Lee Yi-yuan

Uganda: Tugume Captures Bronze in South Korea
The Monitor (Kampala)
2 October 2008
Posted to the web 2 October 2008
Sande Bashaija

Titus Tugume lived up to his promise of returning with a medal, the Ugandan bagging bronze at the fourth Busan TreX-Games in South Korea over the weekend.

Tugume, the only Ugandan representative in the ring, defeated tough Russian opponent Volganov Batty in the second round but lost to Iranian Jeseem Khaleem in the semifinals.

Tugume's medal is the first by any Ugandan kick boxer in a world championship. "He would have won silver but made some few errors in the semifinals.

He took too long to gain confidence, which cost him a place in the final," Eddie Gombya, the Uganda Kickboxing Federation (UKBF) general secretary, who is also in South Korea, told Daily Monitor by email.

In a related development, Hassan Sekirime has been voted president of the African Kickboxing Confederation. Sekirime, who doubles as the UKBF president, was sponsored by Ethiopian Airlines to attend the games in South Korea.

[BoulderDawg]

Not quite the Olympics, but an interesting international games event. There are other international games like the SEA Games, which feature martial sports.



Events include Gymnastics, Martial Arts, Folk Dance, Yoga, Archery, Lawn-bowling, Muay Thai, Sambo, Kite Flying, Wushu, Zurkhaneh, Tango, World Walking Day, Gate-ball, Aggressive Inline Skate, Skateboard, Sports Climbing, e-Sports, Ssireum and Qigong.

Zurkhaneh and Ssireum look quite interesting. Martial Arts looks like Taekuk Musul mostly. Qigong is under the Chinese Health Qigong Association so it's Yijinjing/Wuqinxi/Liuzijue/Baduanjin and they get medals.

The Tiger Claw Foundation is sponsoring the American wushu team to this event.

Im still debating on whether or not to enter Lawn-bowling or Kite Flying...I understand the Kite Flying competition is tough this year.

[GeneChing]

Any Canadian members here in reach of this?

Martial arts to hit oval’s mats
Richmond News
August 19, 2014 04:03 PM



Around 700 athletes from more than 30 countries are expected to compete when the Richmond Olympic Oval hosts The Association For International Sport for All’s (TAFISA) World Martial Arts Games, starting Sept. 3.

The games will be a vibrant and unique festival event where people from all over the world can experience and compete in a variety of global martial arts qualifications.

From athletes to spectators, the five-day event is expected to draw roughly 8,000 visitors to the oval.

Earlier this year, The International Olympic Committee (IOC) granted Patronage for the TAFISA World Martial Arts Games. This helped solidify the continuing cooperations between the two organizations.

Corrie Hunt, medal designer for the 2010 Olympic Games was officially commissioned to design the medals for the first-ever competition. Hunt has been creating contemporary art that reflects the themes and traditions of her First Nations Komoyue and Tlingit heritage since 1985.

One of her most prestigious accomplishments was in creating the medal design for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games.

“We are of course very proud to have these awards designed by such an amazing artist,” said Ken Marchtaler, TAFISA Martial Arts Commissioner. “The opportunity for this year’s athletes to take home a gold, silver or bronze medal designed by a renowned Olympic medal designer just adds to the momentum already building for these games.”

Tickets are on available at richmondoval.ca.

Cost for a single day admission is $15 for single day, or $30 for a three-day pass.