KATA DIVISIONS

Kata competition will use current IJF Kata rules and scoring.

Kata participants are registered individually, but are required to be allocated to a team, consisting of two persons. 

Junior Kata Division (12 years and under)

Nage-No-Kata (First three sets, te-waza, koshi-waza, and ashi-waza)

• Katame-No-Kata (First set, osaekomi waza only

) • Ju-No Kata (First two sets) 

Youth Kata Division (13-16 years )

The following three Katas are to be contested (teams can be single or mixed gender)

·         Nage-No-Kata (In full)

·         Katame-No-Kata (osaekomi waza and shime waza) only)

·         Ju-No Kata (In full)

Adult Kata Divisions (17 years and older)

The following three Katas are to be contested (teams can be single or mixed gender)

·         Nage-No-Kata (In full)

·         Katame-No-Kata (In full)

·         Ju-No Kata (In full)