WKF Tatami Layouts

Kumite

  1. The competition area will be a WKF Approved matted square, with sides of eight metres (measured from the outside) with an additional one metre on all sides as a safety area. There will be a clear safety area of two metres on each side. Where an elevated competition area is used, the safety area should be of an additional one (1) metre on each side.
  2. Two mats are inverted with the red side turned up in one metre distance from the mat centre to form a boundary between the Competitors. When starting or resuming combat the Competitors will be standing front and centre on the mat facing each other.
  3. The Referee will be standing centred between the two mats facing the Competitors at a distance of two metres from the safety area.
  4. Each Judge will be seated at the corners on the mat in the safety area. The Referee may move around the entire tatami, including the safety area where the Judges are seated. Each Judge will be equipped with a red and a blue flag.
  5. The Match Supervisor will be seated just outside the safety area, behind, and to the left or right of the Referee. He/she will be equipped with a red flag or sign, and a whistle.
  6. The score-supervisor will be seated at the official score table, between the scorekeeper and the timekeeper.
  7. Coaches will be seated outside the safety area, on their respective sides at the side of the tatami towards the official table. Where the tatami area is elevated, the Coaches will be placed outside the elevated area.
  8. The one metre border must be in a different colour from the rest of the matted area.

Kata

  1. The competition area will be a WKF Approved matted square, with sides of minimum eight metres (measured from the outside) with an additional one metre on all sides as a safety area. There will be a clear safety area of two metres on each side. Where an elevated competition area is used, the safety area should be of an additional one (1) metre on each side.
  2. The mats are to be of uniform colour with the exception that outer meter of the 8 x 8 metre mats that must be of a different colour.
  3. Judges and the Software Technician are placed side by side at a table at the end of the mat facing the Competitors with the Chief Judge (Judge no.1) closest to the Software Technician whom sits at the far end of the table.