- 2nd Annual -
Northern Beach Wrestling Tournament
"BEAST OF THE BEACH"
He's Back..............
.............Summer 2009
RESULTS:
Beach Wrestling Tournament
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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 1st, 2nd, 3rd 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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