Date change notification
Hi. Please note that we have changed the date from October 9, 2010 to March 5, 2011 due to a conflict with this year's ACL Festival. We apologize for any inconvenience or confusion this may cause.
Registration and General Admission shortcuts
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Announcements
-->There is a monthly planning meeting open to anyone who is interested in planning and producing the Festival. See our MeetUp.com listing for more information.
05/22/10 General Admission is now open. Competition registration will be open soon!- 05/11/10 We're very happy to announce that Chuy's, an Austin icon, has joined us as a Sponsoring partner for this year's Festival! More announcements soon.
- 03/28/10 Agh. Still working on getting ticket sales set up. We'll get there.
- 02/29/10 Regular admission tickets should be available for sale in the next week, or two. We are going to be working with a great ticketing company called Brown Paper Tickets to provide ticketing services this year!
- 02/28/10 We're continuing to move forward with the planning and preparation for this year's Festival, and are very excited to start hearing from more people in the martial arts community.
If you have an idea for the Festival, or would just like to be involved, let us know. You can reach us through the Contact area of this site. - 01/30/10 We've been working hard planning for the 2010 Festival, and it's going to be a good year. We've learned a lot of lessons about how to put on such a large event, and we're looking forward to everything finally coming together for this year's Festival.
Purpose
The Austin Martial Arts Festival is a registered Texas non-profit corporation organized for the purposes described below.
To produce an annual amateur martial arts tournament of multiple martial disciplines that:
- Follows standardized competition rules related to respective martial arts disciplines.
- Insures competitor safety in contact competitions, grouping events by class and skill and requiring safety gear as described in the Festival's competition rules.
- Staffs the amateur tournament with impartial referees, judges, scorekeepers and timekeepers who are knowledgeable and skilled in their tasks for the respective martial arts competition event.
- Encourages competitors to increase skill and technique through awards and special recognition.
- Supports participating schools and groups with special recognitions and links at www.AMAFest.org for their sponsored tournaments and festivals.
- Expands appreciation for the various martial disciplines with demonstrations by masters and by participating clubs or schools.
- Describes the cultures associated with martial arts in dance and music presentations.
- Offers opportunities to dialogue with exhibitors and presenters on subjects such as history, culture, healing arts, ethics, precepts, and current associations and organizations.
