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What
is IMGC?
IMGC is the international martial arts organization that aims to
promote friendship and solidarity, fraternity and cooperation within
martial arts community, regardless of ideology, religion, boundary,
race, nationality and style of martial arts, and to cultivate the
noble spirit, lofty morals and strong sense of justice in order
to contribute to building up a peaceful, better and more ideal society.
The IMGC is charged with a mission to provide all martial artists
with opportunities to display his/her skills and abilities through
friendly competition.
International
Martial Arts Games:
- It will open every two years.
- Qualification for participation:
The international martial arts federations recognized by the IMGC,
groups and individuals representing their own national martial arts
organizations are allowed to participate in the International Martial
Arts Games.
- Events
of Martial Arts Games:
So far confirmed are Taekwon-Do, Wushu, Karate-Do, Aikido, Judo
and Ju-Jitsu. In future, the Programme Committee of IMGC plans to
include more events through due consideration under the condition
that they have an international organization and a male event which
has been disseminated in more than 15 countries and a female event
in more than 10 countries.
-Host city:
The venue will be decided at the IMGC Congress. It should be settled
two years before games.
-Awarding:
The International Martial Arts Games awards a testimonial and medals
(gold, silver and bronze) according to the grades of every event.
Medals and testimonial will be worked out by the IMGC.
The
Headquarters of the IMGC is in Pyong-yang, the DPRK and the branch
office in Ontario, Canada.
IMGC
Objective
The martial
art aims to cultivate moral culture to win oneself rather than beat
the opponent and to promote physical fitness to stop any fight with
righteous strength.
The increasing popularity of martial arts is related to society’s
present preoccupation with excessive materialism. However, this
materialistic attitude has failed to satisfy the void of spiritual
fulfillment that society is seeking. With the growing violence in
our world, individuals have been left feeling helpless and vulnerable.
More than ever before, people of all ages are knocking at the doors
of martial arts schools in search of a more secure and disciplined
life style.
All kinds of eastern martial arts including Taekwon-Do, Wushu and
Karate-Do spreading throughout the world, we, as the martial artists,
have boundless honor and pride.
It is with great pleasure to organize together with you, the martial
artists, the International Martial Arts Committee, which could be
called martial arts Olympic that was created for the benefit of
not only the people in this era but also for the future generations.
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