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TOURNAMENT INFORMATION

Age & Weight Categories 
            (honor system prevails – no proof will be required – and no weigh-ins)
            - Middle School         - High School             - Open

           (Tournament Director will group the wrestlers into 2 – 3 weight divisions in each age category)
            - Lightweight             - Middleweight          - Heavyweight

Qualification & Dress
            - Open to male or female participants…wrestling experience helpful but not necessary
            - Men - Swim trunks (not loose fitting), Women - One piece swimsuits
            - No AAU card required - tournament covered by Sports Event Insurance

Tournament System & Awards
            - Double elimination tournament (can lose once and still win tournament)
            - Random draw into tournament brackets
            - Medals for 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd place in each (age/weight) division


Tentative Schedule:     Saturday, July 18, 2008  (Rescheduled for Sun. July 19th if rained out)
            Tournament set up                  8:00am – 9:00am
            Registration                             9:00am – 11:00am
            Grouping of Wt. Divisions     11:00am – 11:15am (all participants need to be there)
            Rules Clinic                             11:15am – 11:45am
            Wrestling Begins                   12:00 noon (until finished)


Host: Port Huron Northern Wrestling
            (Beach park use - and support - by the Port Huron City Recreation Dept.)
            (No AAU card required - Tournament is covered by Sports Event Insurance)

Introduction of Beach Wrestling (FILA Preamble):
Since the beginning of times on all continents, traditional forms of wrestling are practiced on earth, sand, sawdust, etc. These forms of wrestling with simple rules today still captivate a large public. FILA, the international wrestling federation, has therefore decided to codify a form of wrestling that can be practiced everywhere, without any technical means, which takes elements from these traditional wrestling forms and which is called "Beach Wrestling".

This form of wrestling must serve to:
            - Popularize wrestling
            - Allow the practice of this sport in countries with few financial and material means
            - Put in place for the National Federations, a new activity that can stimulate wrestling in 
                    their country
            - Attract sponsors to wrestling through a new exciting and popular discipline.

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