The ISKA is recognized worldwide as both a regulating body for competitive martial arts and the governing body for amateur and professional kickboxing. Hosting their annual martial arts championships yearly at the prestigious US Open World Martial Arts Championships, the ISKA crowns world champions in seven types of martial arts competition. Sanctioning over 200 major title kickboxing events per year on five continents, the ISKA continues to update rules, train & certify officials and maintain the ratings necessary to recognize both worthy champions and world rated kickboxing contenders in this fast growing and exciting sport.

The ISKA's international network of events insures the credibility of their “world championship” titles and gives these world class athletes an international platform on which to perform. Live events are very well attended with major shows being broadcasted as special ISKA pay per view extravaganzas as well as being taped for our weekly television series on ESPN2, STRIKE FORCE: ISKA KICKBOXING. Additionally, 1998 marked the return of competitive martial arts to national television with the airing of four, half hour segments taped from the 25th Annual U.S. Open.

Chuck Norris, Jean Claude VanDamme, Don “The Dragon” Wilson, Cynthia Rothrock, Ernie Reyes Jr., and Jeff Speakman are just a few of the names of the industry stars who have appeared at events in support of the ISKA, competitive martial arts and the sport of kickboxing.

The ISKA’s most recent expansion is it’s “Fitness Division”. ISKA Fitness Division was created and designed to promote kickboxing as a non-competitive fitness vehicle to people of all ages and athletic background. In doing so, it’s priorities will be to provide the media and the general public with both accurate information and safe training techniques & programs designed to achieve total body fitness and effective kickboxing skills. Due to the “ISKA Kickboxing for Fitness!” program and other fine programs taught at both martial arts and fitness studios around the world, literally hundreds of thousands of people are now training in kickboxing each day for it’s outstanding health and fitness benefits. Not only does this raise the public’s awareness of, and enthusiasm for the sport, it also creates a much wider base from which the next generation of competitive kickboxers will come.

The heights that the ISKA has attained continues to reflect it’s basic commitment to credibility and uncompromising integrity. The sport’s future will rely on that commitment in cooperation with competitive martial art’s and kickboxing’s many talented athletes and tremendous body of fans that circles the world!