Report of the 1st World Congress on Health and Martial Arts in Interdisciplinary Approach 17-19 September 2015. Czestochowa

Programme book with Programme Overview is on the:

http://congress.archbudo.com/HMA_Congress/agenda/. Contents: Introductory Remarks, Welcame, Congress Comittess, General information, Daily Scientific Programme of the meetings, Workshops, Social programme.

Congress topics were: A. Application of fun forms in martial arts, B. Between beauty, aesthetics and pathology fight, C. Health forms of martial arts, D. Health-related training with elements of martial arts, E. Martial arts in rehabilitation and therapy, F.Prevention of injuries in combat sports, G. Safe falling as the prevention of injury, H. Self-defence arts.

Posters, in alphabetic order by poster title: Comparison between physical fitness of children practicing judo and non-practicing children based on International Physical Fitness Test (Jarosław Maśliński, Kazimierz Witkowski, Aleksander Jatowtt, Wojciech Cieśliński, Poland), Changes of susceptibility of body injuries during a fall of patients with mental impairment participating for several months in special cognitive-behavioural therapy (Dariusz Mosler, Poland), Combat sports and martial arts as an element of health-related training (Robert Bąk, Poland), Dealing with anger by taekwondo practitioners of a different level of advancement and age (Jacek Wąsik, Dorota Ortenburger, Tomasz Góra, Poland), Fun forms of martial arts in the diagnosis and reduce aggressiveness – mental effects of a one-day course of Polish animators of sport (Jarosław Klimczak, Roman Maciej Kalina, Władysław Jagiełło, Poland), Functional evaluation of Olympic competitors practicing boxing using the FMS (Damian Kuźma, Dariusz Górka, Krzysztof Suszyński, Magdalena Dąbrowska- Galas, Grażyna Dura-Nowaczyk, Łukasz Toborek, Poland), Hormonal responses to sambo exercise in women (Patrik Drid, Anastasia Kondratijeva, Sergey Tabakov, Marko Stojanovic, Tatjana Trivic, Cristina Casals, Sergej M Ostojic, Serbia), Assessment of Body Build Diversity of Taekwondo Female and Male Contestants (Joanna Rodziewicz-Gruhn, Poland), Pro-health mental training of elite wrestlers (Katarzyna Rutkowska, Dariusz Gierczuk, Zbigniew Bujak, Poland), Seni Silat Malaysia: the Malay arts of self – defence (Mohamad Nizam Mohamed Shapie, Mohd Shahiid Elias, Malaysia), Silat Olahraga: The Malay combat sports (Mohamad Nizam Mohamed Shapie, Mohd Shahiid Elias, Malaysia), Susceptibility of body injuries during a fall of people after amputation or with abnormalities of lower limb (Bartłomiej Gąsiennica-Walczak, Poland), The influence of the Japanese budo Thought on the spreading of foreign martial arts in Japan: The case of the Chinese martial arts pioneer Ryuchi Matsuda’s criticism on modernized Japanese budo (Junichi Ikemoto, Chang Liu, Fumiaki Shishida, Japan), The risk of passion, a comparative analysis of the injuries based on judo and wrestling (Kazimierz Witkowski, Jarosław Maśliński, Magdalena Szałek, Wojciech Cieśliński, Poland), Wushu developing from combative aspect to aesthetic aspect; The conflicts in modernization (or globalization) of Wushu (Chang Liu, Junichi Ikemoto, Fumiaki Shishida, Japan).

Both: cognitive and operational aim of the Congress were fulfilled. The very good atmosphere has fostered an exchange of ideas and contacts between participants representing 4 continents.

The outcomes of the Congress will be demonstrated in the publication in the prestigious scientific magazine Archives of Budo (IF=1,238) of the unique, earlier unpublished speeches and posters by excellent specialists and scientists from different continents that participated in the conference. Thus, the promise http://www.iwf.ajd.czest.pl/?p=519 made while initiating the activities leading towards organization of the world-class event in Częstochowa i.e. 1st World Congress on Health and Martial Arts in Interdisciplinary Approach has been fulfilled.