Northern Ringsports Kickboxing Championships

The Northern Ringsport Championship is a light contact event featuring Light Contact Kickboxing and K1 Light. It is intended to bring on developing talent in a safe and controlled format and for this reason, it is not open to experienced fighters. Therefore, all forms of fight experience must be taken into account by fighters/coaches when entering competitors for each category. The following definitions are for guidance as to what is determined as ‘Novice’ and ‘Intermediate’, if coaches/ competitors are unsure of the criteria above, please contact the organisers for clarity.
NOVICE
Any more than the stated amount of any of these criteria means move into intermediate.
• No more than 3 full contact fights in a ring/cage, regardless of outcomes (including Full Contact Kickboxing, K1 Kickboxing, Muay Thai, Boxing, MMA or any other full contact combat sport)
• No more than 5 light contact or points fighting tournaments (semi-contact, taekwondo, karate, kung fu etc)
• No more than 5 interclubs entered (Kickboxing, Muay Thai, MMA)
INTERMEDIATE
All fight experience should be taken into consideration.
• Never competed at a professional level in any full contact combat sport
• No more than 8 full contact fights in a ring/cage, regardless of outcomes (including Full Contact Kickboxing, K1 Kickboxing, Muay Thai, Boxing, MMA or any other full contact combat sport)
• Never competed at international level, representing national team in any form of fighting (i.e. Olympics for Team GB in Taekwondo, world championships for semi-contact points fighting etc)

CONDUCT
• Coaches and competitors must conduct themselves in an appropriate and respectful manner at all times, this includes all members of a corner
• For the safety of all competitors, the referees and medics decisions are final
• If coaches want to dispute a judging decision, they must wait to speak to head judge when they are free.
COACHES/CORNERS
• Clubs with 1-5 fighters are allowed to register 2 coaches
• Clubs with 6+ fighters are allowed to register up to 4 coaches
• Corner teams should be no more than 2 persons per ring
Please see additional attached documents for all information!

Weigh ins from 9am .Tournament starts 10.30am ; Cardinal Hume School Old Durham Rd, Gateshead NE9 6RZ : Spectators tickets can be bought on the door .Cash only . Food available : Cash only.