AJJF Jujitsu Demonstration Team Rules

 

RULES

1)  A team must consist of not  less than four and no more than twenty competitors.

2)  A team may be comprised of any Jujitsu practitioners from an AJJF registered Dojo.

3)  Teams members may be comprised from deferent Dojo’s although they must collectively declare who they are representing.

4)  All team members must hold a current A.J.J.F. membership.

5)  Teams must stay  within the designated  demonstration area.  Failure to do so will result in a five point deduction for each penalty.  The demonstration area should be described in the tournament announcement.

6)  Teams must be registered twenty minutes prier to the beginning of the competition.

7)  Teams will have a five minute time limit with a two point deduction for every fifteen seconds over or under the allowed time limit.  The competition will be stopped at one minute over the allowed time limit.

8)  All deductions due to time penalties will be deducted from the total score of each judge at the end of the performance.

9)  There will be a designated time keeper that will inform all judges of any time related deductions.

10)  Any person wishing to use the demonstration competition as a rank requirement for exam must designate it on the registration form.

11)  Any person  using the Demonstration competition for a rank requirement must have a major role in the demonstration.

12)   Judging shall be done by three judges one of whom will be identified as head judge and will be in control of the competition.  The head judge may appoint a fourth judge from the crowd that may or may not have martial arts training. 

13)  The head judge may also stop the competition at any time if they fill there is a safety issue that may result in an injury.

14)   All judges shall be briefed on the Demonstration competition rules and scoring, prier to the competition.

15)   Each judge is to receive there own score sheet and sign there name to the score sheet.

16)   After a teams competition is complete all three score sheets shall be given to a tabulator to be totaled with an adding machine or calculator.  All three sheets shall be given to a tabulator to be totaled with an adding machine or calculator.

17)   After the score sheets have been tabulated and recorded they will be given to the teams school head or representative.

  

SCORING

(Tenths of points are encouraged in scoring to avoid the possibility of a tie.)

______  (5) Points max.  Overall Appearance

______  (10) Points max.  Safety

______  (10) Points max.  Artistic performance 

______  (10) Points max.  Spectator appeal

______  (15) Points max.  Technical performance 

______    Sub-Total

______    Point Deductions due to Time penalties

______    Point Deductions due to Out of bounds violations

       __      Total Score