IFMA World Championship Russia 2012 Irish Team

The Irish Muay Thai Council would like to wish the best of luck to the IMC Irish National Team setting off for St. Petersburg, Russia on 5th September 2012.
The team will compete with over 100 other countries, over this 10 day event, which will see them matched against some very strong opponents from all over the world.

The Irish Team –
Mark Casserly, Alan Gannon, Paul Norton (Chupsart, Dublin)
Brian Long, Christian Sheehan, Gavin Sheehan, Denise O'Connell, Siobhan Foley (Sitjaipetch, Cork)
Mike Harty SjP, ( Hanuman Galway)
Gary Walsh and Megan Maher, (WMT Waterford)
IMC Team Manager and Coach Mr. Craig O'Flynn, (Sitjaipetch, Ireland )

The team has been training hard for the past 8 weeks and is looking forward to this huge challenging task a head of them.
Thanks to everybody who has supported, and helped out getting the team this far,
Next Stop St. Petersburg Russia, were we are look forward to the Competion and returning with some medals.

The Bigger the Challenge the better we perform : )
Good Luck to Everyone

Good luck guys, do your thing!

Best of luck to all the Irish Team.

Best of luck folks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YA-aGNWnYs

The very best of luck to the Irish team!!!

Irish Team in Russia,
Good opening ceremony on Wednesday night, competition is fierce with 130 other countries all here.

Results from Day one

Siobhan Foley V Tanya Merrret (Wales) loss on point.
Denise O'Connell V Oksana Melekhonova (Russia) win points
Mike Harty V Rusteem Ashimbayev (Kazakhstan) loss points
Gavin Sheehan V Rasmus Olsson (Sweden) loss points
Mark Casserly V Claudio Annichiarico (Italian) win points

Results from Day two

Gary Walsh V Czech Rep loss on points

Day 3 in action we will see
Early start in Russia, Today we have 4 fighters on
Megan, Alan, Brian & Paul all weighed in bang on, fed and watered and are ready for road....show kicks off at 2.30pm(11.30am Irish Time)

Megan is the 3rd fight, Brian 8th fight, Paul 18th fight and Alan is 19th fight of the day. Will post results later in the day.


Megan Maher V Philippines loss on points
Paul Norton V Denmark Loss by TKO
Alan Gannon V Uzbeckistan Loss on point
Brian Long V Russia loss on points

All fighters giving 100%, its just competion is very very high


Day 5
Mark Casserly Vs Belarus loss on points


Day 6

Denise O Connell is in the Final tomorrow she will be fighting for the Gold Medal against a lady from Croatia we seen this Girl earlyer in the week and its going to be a very tuff fight for Denise
Training tonight and cutting a bit of Weight then bed early start in the morning for weight in will post results after fights


Best of luck to Denise flying the Flag for Ireland

Best of luck to Denise,any vid footage of any of the fights available?:)

Paul i think theres been a live stream running, WMC posted it to facebook ill tryan find it again and send it to you

Awesome Darren thank you:)

this was the link but ive just opened it and it says channel has been deleted or something. maybe they put it back on when the fights are happening or something mate who knows?

http://cdn.livestream.com/embed/mirshow?layout=4&color=0xe7e7e7&autoPlay=true&mute=false&iconColorOver=0x888888&iconColor=0x777777&allowchat=false&height=340&width=560

Polite question - Have the IFMA altered its format from bodyshields to coloured vests?

This still looks good, as in my opinion colour coordination is so important for the amateur code, but this could hold back International Olympic Commision approval.

Just as Amateur Boxing using headguards - has set the I.O.C. safety standard required blows to the head.

TaeKwonDo using bodyshields - has set the I.O.C. safety standard required for kicking blows to the body.

Any information appreciated.

Thanks

Hi Neil, A class wear vests- no body sheild for the championships B class wear body sheild, everybody wears AIBA approved equipment inc headguard and gloves, plus shinnies and elbow pads.

the equipment used is approved by AIBA and also a major sponsor in Thailand.

I nthink the olypic format put forward differs in the bodyshield requirements although i am not 100% as Sport Accord saw a mixture of both

Hi Lee,

Interesting to hear that IFMA now have two formats.

I understood that they were moving towards 'open scoring' ( electronic scoreboards - clicker style acculmative scoring ) too, again for IOC approval.

10 pt must system works better if not using the full amateur armour, (ie including bodyshield).

Do you know which scoring criteria they are using for the bouts without bodyshields?

Purely out of interest, and to keep up to speed with the Amateur code.

hi neil, the full scoring criteria are on ifma website, electronic scoring has been muted and discussed at a high level and i know the amateur scoring has always differed from pro, well at least since the mid 90's and iamtf when i did my 1st amateur judging course.

as for the scoring criteria for the a class fighters its the same as for the b class, pretty much 10 pt must however work rate and skill are favoured more than in pro stadium scoring and its over 4x2 min rds.

back to topic- well done to the irish team will see you guys later in the year

Thanks again Darren:)