Martial Arts Festival 2012, will be organized by Rakan Wajadiri through Sekretariat Rakan Muda UTP (SRMUTP) on the 24th and 25th November 2012 and will be held at Stadium Indera Mulia Perak.
By collaboration with Persatuan Silat Gayong Serantau Malaysia UTP (PSGSMUTP), Persatuan Seni Silat Cekak Malaysia UTP (PSSCMUTP), Persatuan Seni Silat Cekak Hanafi UTP (PSSCHUTP), Pencak Silat UTP, UTP Taekwondo Club, Shito -Ryu Karate Do Club and Muay-Thai Club, the main objectives of this festival is to gather all martial arts organization inside UTP and around Perak under one roof to share the comprehension about their disciplines. Besides, they will be given a chance to promote the uniqueness of their own martial arts. This will build a strong bond between them in achieving the mission of integration. Besides also, this aims to inculcate awareness on self defends among public through events in the festival.
There will be a lot of programs throughout this event. The first pre-event of MAFEST 2012 is Kursus Seni Silat Mahasiswa that will be held inside UTP. This pre-event is planned to expose the participants from universities and martial art clubs in Malaysia the real guidelines on performing silat seni during competitions. This will involve collaboration with PESAKA Perak as we will invite their coach as the speaker for the event.
For the main event of Martial Arts Festival 2012, on the first and second day, there will be exhibitions. This exhibition will include all the martial arts club and societies in UTP and also some invited martial art clubs and associations outside of UTP. This exhibition will be held for two days together with some booths opened for our sponsors and stallers. The exhibition will also involve some invited people who are involved in the making of traditional weapons such as Keris, spears and some modern weapons exhibitors such as Angkatan Tentera Malaysia (ATM) and Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM). Also, starting from the first day, there will be Silat Olahraga Tournament that will involve participants from universities and martial art clubs in Malaysia.The tornament will end with semi-final round for the first day as the final round and prize giving ceremony will be held on the second day. The second slot for the first day will be Tai-Chi class that will be open for public. This will requires the service by a professional Tai-Chi conductor. Next sub-event will be a seminar conducted by a guest speaker who will demonstrate a demonstration about the application of martial art during critical situation in real life.The last sub-event for the evening will be martial art demonstration from all martial arts clubs in UTP. Every club will be given a slot to show their skills.
On the second day, there will be a marathon that involves primary schools students from primary schools around Ipoh. This is done to promote a healthy life style that exist when one learn martial arts. Also, on the second day, there will be an aerobic slot that also will be open to public. Then, we will have kids fun zone and in the evening there will be a presentation of Gerak Gempur from Angkatan Tentera Malaysia (ATM).
The officiating ceremony will commence on the first night. During that night, there will be a mixed performance from invited guest martial arts clubs outside of UTP. There will also be a performance from famous singer. The closing ceremony will be on the last night of Martial Arts Festival 2012. During that night, there will be a special performance of dikir barat team from UTP. The ceremony will then followed by a Rhythmic Martial Arts Demonstration by all UTP Martial Arts Clubs where they will perform their own 21 martial steps concurrently followed by the fireworks show. The ceremony will end by the performance from martial art team from Angkatan Tentera Malaysia (ATM).
From this festival, we hope that Martial Arts Festival 2012 will be the best event in developing unity in all martial clubs throughout all events conducted as well creating self defends awareness environment especially in UTP through all activities conducted. Lastly, this Martial Arts Festival 2012 will become a platform to build the bridge between UTP and outside communities as well as bringing up the name of UTP as one of the institutes that can produce well rounded students who are creative and innovative in all aspects whether in academics or in co-curricular activities such as martial art.
