Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad Al Sharqi, Crown Prince of the Emirate of Fujairah and Chairman of the Fujairah Martial Arts Club, the sixth edition of the Fujairah International Professional Jiu-Jitsu Championship will start tomorrow, Friday, at Zayed Sports Complex, amid a remarkable turnout of professional players from 54 countries aged 16 years and over Click to compete in the junior, senior and professor categories.
The tournament will witness the junior competitions of both sexes, which will be divided into white and blue belts, while the adult and masters competitions will be divided into five belts, white, blue, violet, brown and black, and includes 7 weights for each belt, and will be judged by a group of distinguished judges on the local and international arena. .
As one of the important stations in the career of jiu-jitsu professionals, the tournament welcomes a wonderful group of national players such as Wadima Al Yafei, who won the gold medal in the 49th category in the third round of the fifth edition of the Abu Dhabi Grand Slam Jiu-Jitsu Championship, which was held in Los Angeles, USA last month.
Also participating is the player Mohammed Saleh Al Hammadi from Al Dhafra Club, who holds a purple belt, weighing 69 kg. Al Hammadi recently won the bronze medal in the first round of the Vice President's Jiu-Jitsu Championship.
As for the international professional players, the Brazilian player Igor Sousa of the A.F.N.T فريق team will participate
, a black belt holder competing in the 85 kg category, and the Brazilian player Anna Carolina Addison, who has a black belt and represents Palm Sports Club, where she competed in the 55 kg weight class.
Yousef Abdullah Al-Batran, a member of the Emirates Jiu-Jitsu Federation’s board of directors, confirmed that the Fujairah International Professional Jiu-Jitsu Championship is in line with the Federation’s vision of strengthening the UAE’s position as a global home for Jiu-Jitsu, and attracting elite professional players who seek to upgrade their local and international rankings and thus launch their career to new dimensions.
Al-Batran added: “Within the framework of the upcoming benefits of the national team, and in particular the participation in the World Jiu-Jitsu Championship in Abu Dhabi next November, the tournament represents a distinguished atmosphere for the optimal preparation of the team’s stars to participate in these benefits through friction with players from all over the world who compete in their competitions according to It has different schools and strategies, and thus contributes to helping coaches follow the development of players’ performance.”
Al-Batran explained that the Fujairah Championship attracts the attention of the local and international jiu-jitsu community, which explains the high demand in terms of participation and attendance.