This Weekend: the 51st Superbowl Tournament!

We are looking forward to our 51st Superbowl tournament this Friday and Saturday, February 27 & 28!  

Private Lesson Extravaganza: 

The Private Lesson Extravaganza will begin at 4.30 pm on Friday night. Please arrive 5-10 minutes before your scheduled time to get checked in and warm up. 

At this point, drop-ins are welcome, but we cannot guarantee the availability of 3rd dans and above for drop-ins. If you wish to schedule with a 3rd dan and above, come at 4:55, 5:20 or 5:45. The 4:30pm slots are full for 3rd and above. The 20 minute private lessons start at 4:30pm, 4:55pm, 5:20pm and 5:45pm. You can use this link through Thursday to sign up. 

For the private lesson extravaganza only, students will enter the gym directly through the gym doors near the black belt parking on the map below.  On Saturday and other future events, students will enter through the entrance described below. 

Competition and Arrival Times: 

Black Belts will compete on Friday night at 6 pm. Spectators are welcome.  

All other students (white through red) will compete on Saturday. You will find details on your competition time below. You will need to arrive 30 minutes prior to the start time of your competition to check in, etc. Some divisions may begin early, so please be at Alameda at your arrival time. 

Purple, Brown, & Red belts, all ages: 8 am start time, 7.30 am arrival time

Ages 8 and under; white, yellow, orange, green, blue belts and all tigers: 10.30 am start time, 10 am arrival time

Ages 9 and up; white, yellow, orange, green, blue belts: 12.30 pm pm start time, 11 am arrival time

Tournament Collection:

For this tournament, we are collecting new underwear, new socks, hats, gloves and new or clean, used blankets for the Brown Bag Ministries. You can bring them to the tournament or through next week at your campus locations.

Location details, parking:

The tournament will be at Alameda International High School which is located at 1255 S Wadsworth Blvd., Lakewood, CO 80232.  

Please park in the large parking lot on the southwest corner of Louisiana and Allison St. (There is another parking lot on the northwest corner of Arizona and Allison / north of the tennis courts that can be used for overflow parking).

Please do not double park and/or block someone in. If both parking lots are full, there is a lot of neighborhood street parking available in the area or you can see if there is room in the main entrance parking lot.  

You will enter the school through the doors facing west. The title 'ALAMEDA INTERNATIONAL' is written in large block letters above the doors. 

Checking students in, getting them to their rings, their competitions:

Once you enter, you will be directed to a check-in table. The check-in will be divided up alphabetically by last name so please proceed to the table marked with the first letter of your last name.

While checking-in, someone will write ring numbers on your hands. You will have a green number on your right hand and a red number on your left hand. Once you have your ring numbers, you will head to the upper bleachers of the gym to settle in. You will be called down to the floor for the group photo and will proceed to the green ring number after the group photo.

Parents of younger students competing at 10.30 am, you will take your student down to the gym floor when called for the group photo. After the group photo, announcements, etc., black belts will take the students to their correct ring number which will be the GREEN number on their right hand. The ring number will be labeled with big signs. These ring signs are not color coded, so please look to the ring number on your student's hand that is green and disregard the color of the ring sign.  

Once students are settled at their rings, we ask that spectators stay in the upper bleachers and off the gym floor for safety and to provide more room for the competitions. Please show your students where you will be so they know where to find you. If you have a very young child (tigers ages 2 - 4) who needs assistance, it is okay if you need to stay nearby on the gym floor.

Tiger students (2-4 and some 5 year olds who attend 30 minutes classes) will compete in two divisions in the same ring and then will be dismissed for the day. Please come pick them up at the photo podium after their Most Kicks division.

All other students will compete in poomse first. We ask that parents remain in the upper bleachers during these competitions, please. After poomse competition ends, students will then go to the RED ring number on their LEFT hand for sparring. 

Parents of students ages 7 and under, please come down to the podium to collect your student after their first competition and to help them get to their second. You are welcome to take photos at the podium.

After-school program students will compete in poomse and most kicks.  After most kicks, they are free to leave.

All other students will compete in poomse, sparring and first point wins. 

After your student is done competing in all of their divisions, please come down to the edge of the gym floor to collect them. Thank you.

Students ages 9 & up will compete in three or four events. Please do not leave until your student has competed in everything (poomse, two sparring divisions, and then students ages 12 & up, ranks orange and above will also compete in breaking). After sparring divisions conclude, please stay in the gym and listen for their name to be called to their additional divisions and ring numbers.

Etiquette and Uniform:

All students should arrive already dressed out in their uniforms with their belts tied.  Anyone with long hair will need to have it tied back securely. No jewelry is permitted, and freshly pierced ears need to be covered from front to back with medical tape and/or bandaids.  Students should wear a white crewneck t-shirt beneath their uniform top. Students should not wear jeans or secondary pants underneath their uniform pants as this will inhibit their ability to kick.

Lastly, please do not attend the tournament if you or your student is ill. Thank you.  

If you have any questions at all, please reach out to your instructor. We are so proud of all of our students' hard work and preparation, and we look forward to this weekend!  Thank you.