3rd European Health Qigong Games - REGULATIONS
- Event name
THE 3rd EUROPEAN HEALTH QIGONG GAMES
- Date and location
28th - 29th August 2018, Hertfordshire University, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England
De Havilland Campus,
Hatfield Business Park,
Mosquito Way,
Hatfield AL10 9EU
- Competition Events
--Group competition
(1) Health Qigong – Yi Jin Jing
(2) Health Qigong – Wu Qin Xi
(3) Health Qigong – Liu Zi Jue
(4) Health Qigong – Ba Duan Jin
(5) Health Qigong – Tai Ji Yang Sheng Zhang
(6) Health Qigong – Da Wu
(7) Health Qigong – Dao Yin Yang Sheng Gong 12 Fa
--Individual competition
(1) Health Qigong – Yi Jin Jing
(2) Health Qigong – Wu Qin Xi
(3) Health Qigong – Liu Zi Jue
(4) Health Qigong – Ba Duan Jin
(5) Health Qigong – Tai Ji Yang Sheng Zhang
(6) Health Qigong – Da Wu
(7) Health Qigong – Dao Yin Yang Sheng Gong 12 Fa
Click link for Music for all shorter forms to be used during competition.
- Participation
(1) IHQF members and other relevant social organizations may each send more than one team to the Games, each consisting of a maximum TEN(10) participants with ONE (1) team leader, ONE (1) coach (who may also be the team leader) and EIGHT(8) members. Participants must be in good health. The team leader and coach may compete as well.
(2) Competitors in a group competition may be of both genders. Each team may register for up to FOUR (4) events with minimum 4 competitors for each event.
(3) Competitors in individual events are divided by gender. Each individual may register for up to FOUR (4) events only.
- Competition Method
(1) The Rules for International Health Qigong Competition, made by the Chinese Health Qigong Association, shall apply.
(2) Group Competitors must march on in triangular format and each team with more than 4 members must form 2 rows, forming a parallelogram.
(3) Competitors at individual events, must march in a dash line, staggering in 2 rows.
(4) For group and individual competitions, the SIX-MINUTE and/or NEW ABBREVIATED VERSION of the original exercise, compiled by the Chinese Health Qigong Association, and the SIX-MINUTE and/or NEW ABBREVIATED VERSION music WITHOUT oral prompt shall be used. (both of the competition music and practice music with oral prompts are available on the IHQF official website: www.ihqfo.org )
- Ranking and Awards
(1) Athletes/teams from Chinese Mainland and athletes/teams from other countries and regions will compete together with their score ranked separately. Athletes/teams from Chinse Mainland are ranked among all participating athletes/teams; while athletes/teams from other countries and regions are ranked exclusively.
(2) Awards of Gold, Silver and Bronze are set up in each discipline in group and individual competitions. For each ranking, 20% of awards of Gold, 30% of Silver and 50% of Bronze are given to the athletes/teams in single discipline respectively. Places of all the awards are calculated per round-off principle.
(3) Trophy and diploma are given to the awarded team in group competition, medal and diploma to the awarded athlete in individual competition.
- Jury and its members
(1) Jury members and the Head Judge are appointed by the International Health Qigong Federation and the judges at competition shall be those selected from the judges training course of this event while the auxiliary judges will be provided by the host, BHQA.
- Other matters
(1) Attire is required to be in accordance with the stated Health Qigong uniform/clothing characteristics. In any group competition, the team members must wear identical attire of the same type and color as well as Health Qigong sports shoes. Competitors must wear the bib number at all times during the competition.
(2) The team leaders and coaches of each team should attend the technical drawing of the team coaches held at 18:00 on August 27, 2018 and draw lots, and the teams that have not participated in the drawing lots shall draw lots on behalf of the designated persons of the meeting.
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