Membership

Grading Syllabous (general requirements)

Fees

Affiliation Form

Grading Point System
From purple belt, in order to progress to the next belt, one must have a minimum number of points. Points may be accumulated and stored, but will erase after 5 years if they were not used.
Points will be registered only if earned while being in same rank. (If an athlete earned 12 points while being in Brown belt, he may not tranfer the extra 2 points to the next rank).
Keeping registry of points is the responsibility of the local association, at the end of each calender year, the organization will send a full list of names and points of its members and how were they aquired, to the WPO general secretary.
In some cases, the country official representative may recommend to award a rank, even if the athlete does not have the needed amount of points - final WPO ranking comittee will make the final decision.

Activity	National Tournament	International Tournament	World Chamionship	Fighting Seminar
Participation	1 Point	1.5 Points	2 points	see below*
Winning a fight	1 Point	1.5 Points	2 Points	1
Winning the championship	Bonus 1 Point	Bonus 2 Points	Bonus 3 Points	1
National referee	2 Points for completing the qualification 3 Points for each competition	1	1	1 Point for each event
International referee	1	4 Points for completing the qualification 4 Points for each competition	5 Points for each competition	2 Points for each event

Fighting Seminars

The local association may organize once every 4 months, special fighting seminars, that will allow all members to fight each other with no weight categories, but with an official referee who controls the fight and anounce the winner. Points will be awarded as follows:

* Every participation in minimum 5 fights during the seminar, will award 1 point.

* Local competitions may award no more than 1 point, total.

* Maximum available points to be earned at one seminar are 3 points.

* For a non competitive athlete - each year of training equals 2 points, however if the athlete did not keep full and continues membership with the WPO, all points will be erased.