UNIVERSAL FIGHT (Full)

Rules of Competitions

CONTENTS

Part I. The nature and system of carrying out competitions
Article 1. The nature of competitions
Article 2. The system of carrying out competitions

Part II. Participants of competitions
Article 3. Age groups of participants. Weight categories. Fight formulae. Round lengths. Number of contests
Article 4. Weighing of participants
Article 5. Admittance of participants to competitions
Article 6. Rights and duties of participants
Article 7. Equipment of the participant
Article 8. Duties and rights of the team representative
Article 9. Seconds

Part III. What Universal Fight involves
Article 10. The obstacle strip
Article 11. Universal fight techniques
Article 12. The positions of fighters
Article 13. The conditions of fighters
Article 14. Hits
Article 15. Body slams
Article 16. Pain-inducing strokes
Article 17. Suffocating strokes
Article 18. Forbidden strokes and technical actions

Part IV. Assessment of strokes
Article 19. Assessment of strokes of fighters during the ring
Article 20. Assessment of forbidden strokes and actions during ring fights

Part V. Referees board
Article 21. Composition of the referees board   
Article 22. Inspector, Chief referee, deputy chief referee
Article 23. Chief secretary, deputy chief secretary
Article 24. The chief of the ring
Article 25. The referee
Article 26. The side referee
Article 27. The stop-watch referee
Article 28. The technical secretary
Article 29. The score-board referee and the information referee
Article 30. The participants’ referee
Article 31. The doctor at the competition
Article 32. The commandant of the competition

Part VI. The rules of refereeing
Article 33. Refereeing of the competition at the obstacle strip
Article 34. Length of the fight in the ring, number of matches during the tour, breaks between the match
Article 35. Refereeing of the fight in the ring
Article 36. The results of the round, the fight and the match
Article 37. Appeals

Part VII.  The equipment of competition premises
Article 38. The ring
Article 39. Obstacle strip
Article 40. Requirements for the competition premises
Article 41. Sound signal, scales, stop-watches
Article 42. The score-board

The Rules of Unifight are established by the Commission of FIAU:
The Doctor of pedagogical science, professor Ashkinasi S. (S-Petersburg),  the referee of international category Chumliakov A. (S-Petersburg), the honored physical culture  worker Starchenkov V. (Moscow), the secretary of FIAU Nesynova T. (Moscow) edited by the President FIAU, Doctor of pedagogical science, judo Olympic champion Novikov S.

The most important referee’s questions, the organization of Unifight competitions are presented in the Rules.
This edition is for referees, coaches and sportsmen.

Established and authorized by Federation International Amateurs “Unifight” (F.I.A.U.)
©Federation International Amateurs “Unifight” 2005