Martial arts are once again part of the Fitness Festival. Today kick Boxing champions will challenge each other in the ring. 
Every day at every hour you will be able to see exhibitions and the Kick for Fit master class, with the help of kick boxing teachers, ready to correct or rectify any wrong movements and let’s not forget that in this speciality the objective isn’t to K.O. the opponent but to learn the technique without hitting anybody.
On the “tatami” (the translation for those unfamiliar with this term means “small mats”) a non stop exhibition by the champions of all the different kinds of martial arts one could possibly imagine and this year we also see the comeback of the art of self defence.
After the world wide terrorist alarm the increase of bare handed self defence has increased and the most requested form of self defence has been: Close Quarter Defence, mainly requested by the police force (in fact two of the teachers here with us in Rimini are police officers).
The Touch Team is another novelty of the 14th Fitness Festival were two teams of three competitors challenge each other in the ring, each competitor changing every minute, very similar to tag team wrestling but the difference is that the fighters don’t leave when they are out of breath but when they have demonstrated all the techniques possible in not more than 60 extremely intensive seconds.