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DWx
Black Belt
Joined: 17 Jan 2007
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Location: UK
Styles: Tae Kwon Do & Yang family Tai Chi
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 Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2016 4:23 pm Post subject: Fight Nights |
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Has anyone ever hosted a fight night or similar spectator event? I'm toying with the idea of a small inter-schools one.
If you've been involved in hosting one, what are some of the things you wished you'd known beforehand? What were some of the things which turned out to be more important than you thought.
For those that have spectatored at or maybe even fought, what was good about the event? Was there anything which could have been improved?
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Bulltahr
Brown Belt
Joined: 08 Mar 2015
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Location: NEW ZEALAND
Styles: Shotokan, Seido Juku
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| Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2016 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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I have never hosted one, but been to a few. Only advice I can give based on the ones I have seen, be careful to match up equal fighters. Bad for everyone when there are mis-matched fights.
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sensei8
KF Sensei
Joined: 23 Feb 2008
Posts: 16430
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Styles: Shindokan Saitou-ryu [Shuri-te/Okinawa-te based]
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2016 3:07 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry, Danielle, I've never tried to do that because it's just not my cup of tea!! I've been an Arbitrator, judge of all positions, score keeper, time keeper, and competitor, but never the host.
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DWx
Black Belt
Joined: 17 Jan 2007
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Location: UK
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Thanks for the replies Bulltahr and sensei8.
It's an idea my sister and I have been toying with for a while. We've always wanted to run an inter-schools friendly tournament but also wanted to run an event for spectators. My sister used to be the event medic for Fight Nights run at her university so we have a little experience but have only seen part of what goes on behind the scenes.
As far specifics there are a few things we're debating; at the moment we're not sure the best way to reward the fighters. We wanted to have maybe 3 male fights in different weight classes then 2 female fights. We'd then also do King (and Queen) of the ring. We'd want the fighters to pay to enter but then have a prize for winning their fight and a prize pot for overall winner. Just not sure on the numbers and what would be reasonable to pay in and award for winning.
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bushido_man96
KF Sensei
Joined: 31 Mar 2006
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Location: Hays, KS
Styles: Taekwondo, Combat Hapkido, Aikido, GRACIE, Police Krav Maga, SPEAR
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Our school has talked about having a once-a-month get together of area schools for a sparring class, but its never taken off. The plan was to have it as a chance for black belts to get together and train with other black belts, but, so far, its been a no-go.
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