As the Korean International Martial Arts Guyana (KIMAG) prepares to host its Guyana South America Undiscovered Martial Arts Championships, the organisation has disclosed that it is streamlining plans for a martial arts film that it is hoping to produce.
Local martial artists will have the opportunity come July to audition for a part in Guyana’s first martial arts film. The film will seek to paint Guyana as a tourist destination and showcase Guyana’s talents. Martial arts superstars such as action movie director Master Art Camacho, KJN Eric Kovaleski and Billy Blanks “Tae Bo” are slated to make the trip to Guyana in order to participate in the event.
The martial arts seminar will run concurrently with the KIMAG international
Tae Bo creator Billy Blanks
competition and will act as an audition process for those who think that they have what it takes to be a part of the inaugural film. The process will entail the experts teaching new techniques to the optimistic participants and then judging how well they are able to replicate those techniques. Contestants will also be able to show off their own skills.
Martial artists from Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Brazil, USA, and Canada are expected to travel to Guyana for the event, which runs from July 20 to 22. The competition is open to persons as young as five years old; they will compete in both traditional and freestyle empty hand kata, weapon kata, grappling, points sparring, team kata, and team sparring categories.
