They discourse upon new regulation of Karate Do

Francisco García Almenares, trainers' chief of the national team of Karate Do, discoursed upon the changes in the regulation of this discipline, in which one will compete in the city of guantanamo until Saturday.

In the auditorium there were athletes and technical staff of Cuba, of Venezuela, Ecuador, Chile, Guatemala and Mexico, countries that there will dispute 18 medals (four in kumité and 14 in katá) in the fight of karate of III Games of the Alternative Bolivariana for the Americas.

García indicated that between the changes of the international competitive regulation, implemented from the beginning of the year, they represent the suppression of the extra time to define tiebreaks.

Now, it stood out, another minute is granted to the combat, which begins of zero, and of producing another equaliser to him, the decision corresponds to the umpires.

He added that the clashes between men last now four minutes, one more than before the new rules, and those of women, three, instead of two.

That forces to a major training and to to improve the strategy to go out airy in a sport as technical as the Karate Do, the experimenter exhibited trainer.

For tomorrow there is foreseen the Technical Congress, which one will make coincide with a Clinic on Arbitration with this complex discipline.

The opening Rafael Castillo will take place on Thursday night in the polyvalent Room, it lists to receive the athletes.

The fans guantanameros received enthusiastically this designation, a recognition to the work of the province in this martial art during 2008, which winner emerged during the School National Games and it is qualified like one of the best sports of the territory.