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FRIDAY January 29th, 2020, AT 8:00 PM / PST
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IKF... THE BOOK... How A Single Moment In Time
Anyone here remember those things called "Magazines?"
For those too young to know, there was
indeed life before the internet... I remember when the IKF had plans to advance what was previously called "The Book" into an actual IKF Kickboxing magazine back in 2003. The Book was my idea of getting fighter's the much needed exposure they needed and deserved to get them known in the fight game and also get their names out there for promoters around the world to see to get them fight opportunities. Prior to the creation of the book, which was 8 x 11 pieces of paper folded in half and book stapled together, no one had ever done amateur rankings for kickboxing and Muay Thai and even to this day, the IKF is still the only place you will find Amateur Rankings. My goal or desire was to include trainers names (Many, if they knew a fighter, had no idea who trained them) and their contact phone numbers listed with them so promoters could book them for fights. I also felt it would be important to include their current fight records, height, date of birth and where they were located. This was a Major change in the kickboxing game because prior to the book, promoters had to do a lot of work just to get in contact with a fighter's trainer let alone get factual information about the fighter. The Book solved a lot of issues and basically changed the game as far as matchmaking went. Bouts were now created and booked in a matter of hours where as before, it took weeks to put just one bout together. However, before one saw the end product of each of the IKF monthly books, like the Iceberg theory, what no one ever saw was what was under the surface which was hours and days of exhausted work in typing out on a Mac Apple Computer with a 7 inch screen (Yes, "Seven") creating each monthly edition that always included fighter rankings, fighter details / stats, bout results, event results, articles about fighters, training, people of the sport etc. etc... Basically, it was the IKF website in a book. At the time, I was still running a full time martial arts school with over 450 students. However, what few knew is that it was that martial arts school that funded all those beginning years of the IKF. Doing these books was a lonely job, and I don't mean lonely as in the IKF was the only sanctioning body doing such work, I mean lonely as in, all this work was done by just me... These were not the busiest of times for the IKF. During these first several years from 1992 till about 1996-97, we may have only done 1 event a month. It wasn't until we created our web site in 1997 that we basically exploded in growth, mainly because of our new ideas, mainly being current news, pre event press and of course, the Rankings. Those lonely hours and days were spent creating news content, cut and pasting graphics, fight photos, coordinating the pages each month. And keep in mind, these were being made every month. The books grew up to over 50 pages in size, packed with all kinds of Kickboxing and Muay Thai news and information. After all the physical work of putting the master copy together, I'd run it to our local copy store and have them make a few hundred copies. The majority of these were sent out monthly for Free literally all around the world to those who had given me their mailing list while the remainder were given out free at whatever event or events we had that particular month. As I said above, if not for my martial arts school, there were no funds to produce these books. Not including the hours and hours of labor to create them, hard cost of materials, copies and monthly mail outs came to a few thousand dollars every month. However, I knew the sacrifice would pay of, we just need to make sure we were persistent in making sure every month, we had a new edition created. Being persistent though was no easier than a fighter having the discipline to train every day. I remember a certain week when I was basically just exhausted, and honestly thought I was done with all the work and expense of making these every month... I had all but made up my mind to stop doing them... Until a conversation with a fighter changed my entire outlook... At the time, Dan Stell was training kickboxers at my gym and one of Dan's students was a guy named Mike Dougherty. This particular week Mike had asked if he could get this months edition, so I handed it to him and said "Keep it, this might be the last one." he looked at me like a deer in headlights and said "No way! Really?" I went on to explain to him all the cost and work that went into making them, how 100% of that cost was from my martial arts school, or basically, out of my pocket. That I was just tired of doing them and basically, losing more and more money every month. Then... it was what he said next that basically, Kept the IKF moving forward... And this is HONESTLY what he said... "You can't stop making them. We need these books, it's the only way I know who I'm shooting for as a fighter trying to move up the rankings. I mean, I actually take my book to the bathroom and sit and read it while I'm in there. Sometimes I get so involved my wife asks me if I'm ok. You can't stop!" So, there's the story...
Mike "Magicman" Dougherty of Loomis, CA now lives in Reno Nevada. He was trained by Dan Stell and later by Greg Kirkpatrick and he went on after our talk to win two IKF Amateur Titles. On October 21st, 1995 On April 27th, 1996 Speaking of magazines though...
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WEDNESDAY January 6th, 2020, AT 6:30 PM / PST 2021
IKF WORLD CLASSIC The The Masters Division was added because the State of
Floridanow requires Advanced Medicals for all fighters over 35 now. The 4 Rule styles will now include Above the Waist FULL
CONTACT RULES. It will not matter how many brackets this rule style will make as long as the brackets made are with 4 or more fighters. If fighters register into this rule style and not enough fighters register with them they will be allowed to transfer to International Rules and their seeding will still go by the "Registration Date".
FIGHTER BRACKET SEEDING
For all other Information on Fighter Registration CLICK HERE. SEE YOU ALL IN ORLANDO FLORIDA THIS COMING JULY!
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