ITEM 15. KNOCKDOWN PROCEDURE.

1. If a contestant is knocked down as a result of the opponent’s attack with allowed technical actions, the referee does the following:

¾ The referee stops the match by saying “STOP” to separate the attacker from the knocked down opponent .

¾ The referee begins counting aloud from “ONE!” to “TEN” with a second interval, having turned to the knocked down contestant and performing special gestures with the arm to display the countdown.

¾ If the knocked down contestant stands up while the referee is counting and wishes to continue the match, the referee must count to “EIGHT” so that this sportsman can fully recover. Then the referee must assess whether the sportsman has recovered, and if he has, the referee adds 1 penalty point to the score of the contestant who received the knockdown, and continues the match.

¾ If the knocked down contestant cannot demonstrate his wish to continue the fight at the count “EIGHT”, the referee continues to count to “TEN” and declares that the other contestant is the winner by Knockout.

¾ If the referee has fear for health of the contestant, he has recourse to the medical worker.

2. If both contestants are knocked down, the referee will continue the countdown until one of the contestants has recovered.

3. If both contestants do not recover at the count of “TEN”, the winner will be declared according to the score of the match before the knockdown. However, he will not be able to participate in other matches of this competition.

4. If the referee thinks that the contestant is unable to continue the match, he (the referee) can declare the winner without the countdown or the long count.

ITEM 16. DECISIONS

1. Victory by knockout.

2. Victory by score.

3. Victory due to non-attendance of the opponent.

4. Victory by disqualifying the opponent.

5. Victory by referee’s decision to stop the match.

6. Victory by refusal of contestant or second of the match continuation.

ITEM 17. PROTEST

1. The protest may be made on scoring and on actions of the referee.

2. Only the second has the right for an instant protest during the match.

3. The participants of the match have no right to make a protest.

4. For the protest procedure the second is given a special card.

5. To protest, the second should immediately rise from the chair and raise the card in his hand and loudly say "protest". The second will then state the protest orally. For objective decision the meeting of the referees is held. The decision is final and cannot be discussed. In especially difficult cases the decision is made according to the item 18of these rules.

6. The second doesn't take part in discussion of decision-making, but can provide video material to help the decision-making and confirmation of his point of view.

7. In case of two unsatisfied protests during one match, the card is taken out from the second who declared unreasonable protests and until the end of the match protests aren't received. Taking out of the card doesn't influence the score of the match.

8. Protests aren't received and aren't considered upon completion of the match.

Date: 2016-01-14; view: 683