World Association of Kickboxing Organizations

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[edit] About W.A.K.O

[1]The World Association of Kickboxing Organisations (W.A.K.O) started its activities in Europe in 1976. W.A.K.O immediately created the rules and regulations for the new fighting sport and acted, since the very beginning, as the authentic Kickboxing Federation in the world. Today, W.A.K.O is the largest unified kickboxing organization in the world.

In 2006, the International Amateur Kickboxing Sports Association (I.A.K.S.A) and W.A.K.O joined forces, making it possible for their acceptance by the General Association of International Sports Federation (G.A.I.S.F) as the governing body for the sport of Kickboxing.

W.A.K.O World Championships are held every two years, with youth (18 and under) and adults (18-45) on separate years.

In W.A.K.O World Championships, only national teams are accepted. Each member country can present only 1 competitor in each weight class, the best of the best.

Each competitor has gone through a long selection in his country before competing in a W.A.K.O world tournament and normally he is the national champ of his weight class in that particular kickboxing style.

W.A.K.O offers 7 different styles: semi, light, full contact, low-kick, K1-style, musical forms and Aero-Kickboxing.

Therefore W.A.K.O guarantees the best possible kickboxing fights and its gold medallists are true champions. Today W.A.K.O can count on 74 affiliated nations in the 5 continents, and in the greatest majority of cases, W.A.K.O unites the strongest and best national kickboxing organisations.

Many of them are also officially recognised by their National Olympic Committees or Ministry of Sports, like in Spain, Portugal, France, Norway, Finland, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Yugoslavia, Croatia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Georgia, Morocco, Algeria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinia, Iraq, Brazil, Gabon, South Africa, and many more, like Germany, Italy, Slovakia, Sweden, Denmark, Tunisia and New Zealand are in the process of becoming officially recognised.

W.A.K.O also includes W.A.K.O-PRO which is growing steadily all over the world and organises events that spread the word about its movement, attracting thousands of spectators to sports-arenas (and even football grounds !) together with kind words from the press. WAKO-PRO only started in 1991, and in a very short time has become the leading professional body in Europe, Asia, South America, the Caribbean and the Middle-East.

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  1. ^ About W.A.K.O.

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