New year, and new championships! The Gi has hardly dried up before it is once again ready for a major tournament. One can see that it can be smart with more time between all the major tournaments. Not only refers to this case, this was seen throughout the current season as well. Anyway, 24 nations in 8 categories, are ready to kick off the 2020 season – almost there it ended.
On January 11, 2020 in the Bijeljina city, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Etno Selo Stanisici the open international tournament “RS CHALLENGE” among children, cadets and adults was held. We bring you the adult men video Rasmus Bergström /Sweden vs Catalin Mocanu / Romania.
Guidelines and information European Championship 2020. The tournament will this time only contain the senior divisions weight category. The championship will be held over a two days period. That will match the number of participants, and the size the European region has grown to be.
During the 4th edition of the KWU World Championship last weekend several WKO fighters attended – and challenged the top elite of KWU fighters – and in some cases not only challenge, but going all the way and winning the category. In this rapport we will focus on the WKO fighters, and how they came out in the KWU tournament.
Many said that the Hungarian Open was a tournament at such a high level, that it even could be compared to the European Championships. The tournament does not exist today in the same way, but it was arranged several times.In 2009 Hungarian Open was streamed LIVE, and with 149 competitors from 11 countries, (European countries, Russia and Kazakhstan) Four categories men and three women + Kata as well. and World Cup fighters, EC champions and more at the line up – this turn out to be a tournament way beyond the normal. Picture: Marius Ilas / Romania
Mushin Challenge 15th edition 2019, Regionen på plass i årets utgave. På oppsettet for helgens kamper sto Horten, Færder, Modum, Oslo, Lørenskog og Ringerike. På dagen ble det denne gangen preget av endel sykdom, men da fikk man prøve å fylle inn etter beste evne. Mushin er som de fleste vet “sparring i skjerpede omstendigheter” man simulerer stevnet med håndplukkede kamper som gir god avkastning.
Hvert fjerde år arranger WKO sitt VM i Japan, og Norge har sin plass sammen med resten av verden. VM er åpen vekt, med alle land representert i form av kvoter på antall utøvere man kan sende. Det det er også kvalifiserte utøvere naturlig nok, de kommer gjennom sine regioner – som ville vært Europa og EM hvis man tenker i Norges sted.
Closing in to the greatest event, keeping the full contact Karate tradition alive: A World Tournament in Open Weight – the excitement raises and we are looking forward to see great fighters go up against each other. It would be hard to tell how many of the fights will turn out – but we will at least take a little closer look at the fighters, the draw and maybe also get to “know” some new fighters as well.. Men A block. Remember: it is only speculation – based on previous records and fight.. We appreciate and warmly welcome when fighters disprove our speculation 🙂
Closing in to the greatest event, keeping the full contact Karate tradition alive: A World Tournament in Open Weight – the excitement raises and we are looking forward to see great fighters go up against each other. It would be hard to tell how many of the fights will turn out – but we will at least take a little closer look at the fighters, the draw and maybe also get to “know” some new fighters as well.. as one say: ladies first.. C/D block Remember: it is only speculation – based on previous records and fight.. We appreciate and warmly welcome when fighters disprove our speculation 🙂
A very entertaining, and a smooth organised 24th edition of the Branko Memorial are history. We will give you the quick results from the days tournament!