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ISKA Amateur World Championships 2008

Over 1,000 amateur martial artists from 52 countries have already registered to compete in the ISKA Amateur World Championships being staged in the city of Olomouc, Czech Republic from 19 to 24 August 2008.

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The championship tournament will have categories in all disciplines including Full Contact and Freestyle Kickboxing, Oriental rules, Semi-contact, Light-contact and forms with divisions for male and female, both juniors and seniors.

Andrew Hennessy the Director of the ISKA UK Amateur division has put together a strong England Team of over 100 competitors. With team managers, coaches, officials and supporters the UK contingent will number over 200. All the England team have worked extremely hard, first earning a place on the team in qualifications then maintaining and improving their standard throughout a series of squad training sessions designed to give our team the very best chances of success come the championships. This is by far the strongest team that ISKA UK have ever sent to an international tournament and the ISKA UK national coaching team are very happy and confident of the squad’s chances of success.

15 August 2008

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