 Disney World hosts its seventh annual “Disney Martial Arts Festival” October 26-28, 2007 in Orlando Florida, at Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex. This event will include Contemporary Wushu and Traditional Kung Fu, as well as many other types of martial arts.
In addition to variations on different forms of kickboxing, this year the multi faceted event includes Breaking and Savate Continuous Sparring. Other categories at the festival will include Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, American Kenpo, Breaking, Koshiki (Continuous Contact Karate), Contemporary Wushu, Sports MMA (Mixed Martial Arts), Judo, Olympic Style Taekwondo, Puerto Rico ITF, Federation Nacional de Taekwon-Do,Traditional, Musical Martial Arts, Sparring, Savate Continuous Sparring, Taiji, Traditional Kung Fu, Classical Chinese and Okinawan Karate, Filipino Martial Arts, KICK/USA Karate, Sport Grappling, Sport Jiujitsu. The festival has grown from over 850 athletes in 2001 to over 1200 athletes and coaches in 2006. Last year's festival also show cased the Cirque du Soleil casting team, and introduced a live web cast of the Saturday Night Showcase. On Saturday October 28th evening show of the festival will be broadcast live on the internet. To view the feed go to http://www.disneyworldsports.com.%20/ For more information on Disney's Martial Arts Festival or to register visit: http://www.tournament.info/conference.htm
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