The 5th edition of the international kickboxing tournament Judgement Day Romania took place on the 21st and 22nd of november 2009. The tournament was held at Sala Rapid in Bucharest and gathered sportsmen from 20 clubs from Romania and 9 other from Great Britain, India, Mexic, Portugal and Bulgaria.

Judgement Day Romania has its model in the british competition with the same name. In Great Britain there are over 1400 sportsmen every year that come specially for this spectacular and powerful competition which offers them a chance to stand in front. Starting from this example, the Sports Club Jissen Do with its president Mr. Adrian Dejanu are organising the romanian variant of Judgement Day hoping to promote martial arts in Romania.

With a total of 424 competitors this tournament had two new sections, brand new for Romania: Light Kick and Team Fight. Although new, the two sections were very much appreciated as much sportsmen attended both of them. The Light Kick section was a succes because even though the regulations permit low kick the sportsmen with ages between 16 and 45 years have proven a high level of technical and physical training, all these gathered in challenging and fair-play fights.

The combat was harsh in the Team Fight section. In the first fight the Romanian Team won against the Bulgarian Team with a very tight score. In the final, the Romanian Team fought against the English Team. The sportsmen gave all their best showing maximum speed, high technical training and a winner spirit.

In the rest of the contact sections the combat was also tight, each sportsman winning his prise through hard work and commitment. In the Creative Forms sections, the English sportsmen have shown what is true meaning of Musical Forms teaching the other participants an important lesson. All forms were amazing and reached a peak with the performance of Emily Thew, the world champion in Creative Forms with weapons.

For the first time in Traditional Forms section a maximum grade has been awarded. In a category with more than 15 competitors, the fight for the 1st place was tight and finally the sportsman Bucura Costin won followed closely by other top class sportsmen. Top class referees from Romania and other countries enforced the WAKO rules for the good ongoing of the competition. Although it took longer than we have expected all the participant clubs said that this tournament was a succes and all the waiting worth. We hope to see you next year on the ocasion of a new Judgement Day edition !

Daniela Budeanu

Jissen Do Press Officer

On the 6^th and 7^th of November 2010 – Judgement Day Romania - one of the biggest martial arts tournaments took place at Sala Rapid in Bucharest. This tournament managed to gather more than 600 competitors and to break the records from the previous editions.

On Saturday, the first day of the event, Adrian Dejanu, 5 Dan black belt, the promoter of the tournament handed in prizes to the trainers but also to some valuable sportsmen who had great results in their activity. Among these we can mention Ciprian Sora and Pitbull Atodiresei, Local Kombat stars, Bucura Costin – multiple national champion in the kata section, George Iacoboaia, Liviu Tabacaru and Ovidiu Turculet – trainers and promoters of the Ashihara style through the world and country and Titi Mocanasu – honored master. Special guests at this event were Shihan Brian Beck – 7 Dan black belt and the promoter of Judgement Day UK, Adrian Rosu, the first Romanian who ran the North Pole marathon and his nutritionist Eduard Mitrofan.

During the opening the Romanian Krav Maga team – led by Hanshi sports club from Bucharest - demonstrated a series of self defense techniques and the Ashihara Karate team – led by George Iacoboaia - made a demonstration of the style.

After the opening the tournament began with fight sections simultaneously on five surfaces. Children, cadets and small juniors fought in Semi-Contact and Light-Contact and seniors fought in K1 section. In the K1 section, first place was won by Fight Academy Ciprian Sora, in light-contact the Judgement Day sword was given to Tai Chi Do Ryu club from Constanta and CS Sincron Bucharest won the first place in semi-contact.

The second day opened with the most important event of the tournament, Team Fight, where four teams – two from Romania, England and Mexico – clashed to prove who is the best. In this section were offered money prizes and the win order was:  1^st place – CS Sincron Bucharest (200 euro), 2^nd place – CS Impact Bucharest (150 euro) and the 3^rd place – Team GB Stealth from England (100 euro).

Also on the second day of the event the forms sections took place: forms, team forms, musical forms, aerokick, self-defense and tameshiwari (breaks) but also the fights for older juniors (16-18 years old) and seniors (19-45 years old). In the forms section, 1^st place and the Judgement Day sword were won by the JKA club Brasov led by Dragos Chiru.

On this edition we enjoyed the participation of some foreign countries like Italy, Mexico, Bulgaria and England.