Second World Grappling Committee official meeting

[Tiago Okamura]

From fila-wrestling.com

The second World Grappling Committee (WGC) annual meeting took place at the FILA headquarters in Corsier-sur-Vevey (Switzerland) on February 28th, 2009. The members of the newly structured WGC were brought together to discuss and establish the standards that will guide the sport of Grappling and its organization for the next four years.

Attended the meeting Mr. Raphael Martinetti (FILA President), Mr. Jean-François Court (WGC Coordinator), Mr. Jason Towsend (Head of Grappling Pan-America), Mr. Rafael Perlungher (Head of Grappling Europe), Mr. Lazaros Papadopoulos (Head of Grappling Oceania), Mr. Hideo Kamaga (Head of Grappling Asia), and Mr. Willem Putter (Head of Grappling Africa). Under the new WGC structure, the continental representatives will be responsible for supporting the growth and development of the sport in the countries within their respective continents, as well as promoting the organization of FILA sanctioned events and Continental Championships. Contact details of all Committee members are available on the FILA website under “Grappling”.

After conducting an analysis of the first World Grappling Championship that took place in Lucerne (SUI) on 20-21 December 2008, the Committee decided to bring some modifications to the International Grappling Regulations. The following changes are in effect as of February 2009 and will remain in force until the end of 2012:

- New weight classes for males: 60, 66, 74, 84, 96, 120 kg and Absolute (open weight category).
- New weight classes for females: 55, 59, 63, 67 kg and Absolute (open weight category).
- The referees will no longer be able to declare a technical submission (“catch”) for senior competitions.
- The duration of senior matches will be 5 minutes with 1 minute overtime.
- The half guard restart position will no longer be used and half mount will no longer be considered a dominant position
- 1 point will be awarded for takedowns (if there is top control for 3 seconds).
- 1 point will be awarded to disadvantaged grapplers if they manage to escape and go to neutral or top position.
- In overtime, the choice of position, either top or bottom, will be given to the grappler who received the most passivity infractions, and if there is a tie in this criterion, to the grappler who scored the lowest value of points. If no grappler can be decided between by these two criteria, the red grappler will get the right to choose the position,
- Sweeps shall now be considered escapes and will be awarded points as so.

Other minor changes were made and can be consulted by downloading the complete International Grappling Regulations here

Another major decision made in this meeting was to held the second World Grappling Championships in the United States, the American National Grappling Committee will soon announce more details of the competition which will be held in the second semester of 2009.

Tiago Okamura
For the World Grappling Committee
www.fila-grappling.com

[Tiago Okamura]

The World Grappling Committee Members
From left to right
standing: Larry Papadoupoulos, Jean François Court and Hideo Kamaga
sitting: Raphael Perlungher, Jason Towsend and Willem Putter

[Rob T]

- In overtime, the choice of position, either top or bottom, will be given to the grappler who received the most passivity infractions, and if there is a tie in this criterion, to the grappler who scored the lowest value of points. If no grappler can be decided between by these two criteria, the red grappler will get the right to choose the position,

Is this correct? If it goes to overtime, the fighter who has performed the worst gets to choose his position?

What is the reasoning behind this?

Also, if the fight goes to overtime, surely the points would be equal?

[Stalkachu]

I think that the VALUE there refers to who has the highest scoring individual point award. So someone who scores 6 sets of 2 will be lower scoring than someone who scores 2 sets of 4 and 2 of 2. Or so I believe. As for the loser getting the choice, I guess that must be backwards. @_@

Take care,

Stalks

[Tiago Okamura]

Is this correct? If it goes to overtime, the fighter who has performed the worst gets to choose his position?

What is the reasoning behind this?

Also, if the fight goes to overtime, surely the points would be equal?

Yes, you really can't get the whole idea of the rule with just the change.

The thing is, the person who gets to chose position is in a disadvantage. Because by the rules the person with the right to chose has to score a point withing one minute or he/she looses the match.

[Tiago Okamura]

I think that the VALUE there refers to who has the highest scoring individual point award. So someone who scores 6 sets of 2 will be lower scoring than someone who scores 2 sets of 4 and 2 of 2. Or so I believe. As for the loser getting the choice, I guess that must be backwards. @_@

Take care,

Stalks

You are correct, but as I mentioned in the post above, it's not a good thing to get choice of position as you are obliged to score within a minute or you lose the match.

[Rob T]

Yes, you really can't get the whole idea of the rule with just the change.

The thing is, the person who gets to chose position is in a disadvantage. Because by the rules the person with the right to chose has to score a point withing one minute or he/she looses the match.

Ok, cheers for that, I understand how it's not an advantage now. Don't personally like the rule but I realise that it's done to be able to get a definitive winner.

Hopefully I'll be ok to compete in the UK trials for this year

[Sir Tapsalot]

- 1 point will be awarded to disadvantaged grapplers if they manage to escape and go to neutral or top position.
www.fila-grappling.com

Don't agree with scoring points for escaping bad positions - It's your job to escape, the reward for escaping is the fact that you've escaped and are no longer in the shit

[NIKUMAN]

What I want to know is:
Why is Hideo Kamaga hugging the flag in the picture?

[Tiago Okamura]

What I want to know is:
Why is Hideo Kamaga hugging the flag in the picture?

I supose he thought it would be a good idea to have the FILA flag in the picture.