Festival Cancelled
We are very sorry to announce that the Festival is cancelled. When we assessed our situation at the start of January, we felt we had not built up the necessary support and finances to ensure the quality of the Festival. We apologize for any inconvenience or confusion this may cause.
Thank you to everyone who has put time and energy into the Austin Martial Arts Festival, especially the outstanding event leaders and seminar instructors. We may try again in the future.
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.
How it works
You may think that this Festival is run by a whole organization of paid and/or volunteer staff members. In fact, it is put on by an excruciatingly small number of volunteers, in their spare time. Not the way we want to keep it, but that's how it is for now.
So, if you notice glaring omissions in terms of styles, schools, or individuals represented at the Festival, it's probably because we don't have enough time to contact everyone. There are so many things we want to do with the Festival, and so many people we want to involve, but we don't even have enough time to contact the people we know, much less everyone we aren't already friends with. This, also, is not the way we want to keep it.
This Festival is intended to be for the community, by the community. The planning team is open to anyone who wants to help make this happen. Your ideas and your time are very welcome. This Festival won't really take off until there are a few more people (at least) putting it together, so drop us a line at the Planning Team's meetup.com site.
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.
