Understanding WAKO competition styles: Kickboxing Categories

This is an introductory video to WAKO: World - Association of Kickboxing Organisations.
Why is WAKO different?
Kickboxing is a modern contact fighting sport created on the basis of many traditional combat sports and martial arts. Kickboxing is a unique Western response to many Eastern martial arts. It can be practised on a competitive or recreational level depending on the aspirations of the kickboxer, but for sure it is a sport designed to improve your overall health, strength and endurance.
WAKO kickboxing has 7 competitive disciplines, three-ring and four tatami disciplines.
Ring disciplines: Full contact, Low kick, K-1 Rules.
The fighting area is the ring. Each bout consists of three two-minute rounds with a minute break between each round.
The intention of the kickboxer is to defeat his opponent with legal techniques which must be delivered with full power.
Tatami disciplines: Point fighting, Light contact, Kick light and Musical forms (with and without weapons).
The fighting area is the tatami. The intention of the kickboxer is to defeat his opponent with legal techniques which must be delivered with controlled power. Each round is two minutes with a minute break between the rounds but the number of rounds is different and it depends on the discipline.
Today WAKO counts 135 affiliated nations in the 5 continents, of which 106 are officially recognized by either the National Olympic Committee or relevant National Government Sports Authority.
Nowadays there are more than 4.000.000 practitioners in more than 40.000 clubs all over the globe. WAKO promotes Bi-Annual Continental and World Championships (in all seven disciplines) and organizes World and Continental Cups and Open tournaments.
WAKO is officially recognized by:
IOC (International Olympic Committee) - since November 30th, 2018
GAISF - former SportAccord (Global Association of International Sports Federations),
IWGA (International World Games Association),
ARISF (Association of IOC Recognised International Sports Federations)
FISU (International University Sports Federation),
WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency),
CIFP (International Fair Play Organization),
OCA (Olympic Council of Asia),
IWG (International Working Group of Women in Sport),
Peace and Sport.
As the World Kickboxing governing body responsible for creating, interpreting, managing, coordinating, improving, promoting and organizing activities in all the 5 Continents, WAKO has finally reached the goal of hundred thousand of kickboxers in the World, in fact November 30th, 2018, will remain in our sports history as one of the milestones, because the sport of Kickboxing was granted provisional recognition by the IOC Executive Board. The decision was taken by the IOC Executive Board in Tokyo Japan on 30th November 2018 upon the IOC Sports Department’s recommendation.
Kickboxing under the world governing body of WAKO applied for recognition as an IOC sport in 2016 and has underpinned its values alongside IOC by the WAKO to foster, develop and promote the Olympic values.
WAKO ensures development in-line with the Olympic Movement and its various Charters, whose principles are integrated into all documents and policies of WAKO organization.
Contents:
-The 7 competitive disciplines of WAKO
-Introduction to categories: Disciplines, age, weight, gender, skill
-Intro to rules, uniform and points scoring,
- Website information
wako.sport/rules/
Rules and docs
wako.sport/events/
Events Calendar
www.sportdata.org/kickboxing/...
WAKO sport data page
kickboxingeurope.com/kickboxi...
Disciplines and weight categories
kickboxingeurope.com/documents/
Documents
kickboxingeurope.com/kickboxi...
Equipment
kickboxingeurope.com/events-c...
Calendar
wako.sport/kickboxing-today/
WAKO contact info:
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Mr. Romeo Desa, WAKO Technical Director - [e-mail]

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would you be able to do a video on the rules and points on the different disciplines like for example K1 / Kick light structure