The 7th version of Swedish Open was held this weekend, 22nd September, and as always organized in a very professional matter. Swedish Open have a setting that many just think they would see in a European Championship or a tournament in that order.
This years edition brought us fighters from: France, Croatia, Spain, Switzerland, Hungary, Lithuania, Russia, USA, Denmark, Norway, and of course the host Sweden…
⇐ Pictures: Svein Olaf Bænnes, Shin Norway
Closing in to the last part of the registration, Swedish Open shapes nicely up. Several countries with merited fighters are all ready in the line up, and usually some late registration will happen in towards the deadline. No doubt that this will be a tournament where fighters will meet their challenges..
Today 1st September, the legendary European Open Szolnok Cup are being held in Hungary. The tournament are not profiled like one are used to see, but with the history of quality one knows that many of the very best fighters will attend. Organized by the Furko Branch, Banzai Kyokushin Karate Hungary, Kálmán Furkó Shihan. we give you the draw..
THIS WEEKEND!
Karate Dream Festival 2018 International Championship-Tournament! This year with over 3000 participants! The pattern continues to be the same as we have seen lately – WKO Shinkyokushinkai continues to systematically build up grate events in different format to different “use” With over 3000 karatekas – it can only be a Karate Dream!
The 1st International Fullcontact Karate Championship, Full contact karate – as it is supposed to be! Ahead of the tournament one could imagine – or hope that the tournament would be an extension from the JFKO All Japan Open, and all ready at that point it would be a very good start. But as we now know, the tournament became a highlight and a display of how the Full Contact Karate are different – but the same..
The 1st International Fullcontact Karate Championship – quick results
(not official results) A superb tournament is history and what has been done here is what many have tried for a long time, gathering various fighters from many styles and organizations in such big format and quality. -and not to forget, this is “only” the 1st edition..
The European Championship Shinkyokushinkai 2018 are history, winners are crowned and memories are captured. Poland guided safely all trough the event, and ensured all that the World Championship in Weight Categories will be taken care of – if someone ever doubted! Shin-EC 2018 made a very strong statement adding more categories and not only keeping the level of fighting but even raise it as well. Transition from U-22 into the seniors are well proven, the weighing of champions and merited fighters from all across Europe are well pointed out. – and yes, Dimitrov is back!
The 1st International Fullcontact Karate Championship will soon be held. Everybody that are into Full Contact Karate knows that this will be the grates event that have been held in recent times. The gathering of Full Contact fighter from different styles/organizations have really been a success – and as all can see the categories are filled with a huge number of fighters – and not to forget all the profiles from different backgrounds..
Quick results from 2018 Shinkyokushin EC, Generation change is successful – but some hold stand..
This week, the European Championship Shinkyokushin will be held in Poland! As mention before, adding new categories has not only increased the number of athletes in the tournament – but we are looking forward to some new match up between fighters that has been in separate categories previous years. Some of the strong profiles are retired, but we are also very happy to see the next generation really steps up! And of course some “immortal” are still going strong!
