The 5th November The 34th Tohoku Karate Tournament was held, Organized by the Fukushima Branch. Making it three in a row, the 8th World Champion Kunihiro Suzuki once again takes the title – as Naoki Hashimoto also repeat his results from last year, being the runner up. Another popular feature was a demo with two former top fighters and performers: Emi Shoguchi and Kumiko Sunakawa.
Results, pictures and videos follows..
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Polish Open weight Championship 2017
Three of the top European players from Poland made another strong effort this weekend by winning the Polish National Open weight Agata Winiarska (Kaliciak) women category, Maciek Mazur in the men`s category. And last but not least Konrad Kozubowski Kata champion.
Denne helgen er det igjen klart for et høyprofilert proffbokserstevne i Norge. Med en stupende interesse for hovedattraksjonen, Cecilia Brækhus, har meningene kommet tydeligere og tydeligere frem: nå er det knock. Det handler om en industri som gjør alt hva man kan for å selge sine produkt, hvor apparat og utøvere forandrer sin adferd ettersom salget skal økes. Har man et sterkt produkt grunnfestet vil man ha mindre behov – og det motsatte..
A very strong All Japan Open was held 14-15 October, Tokyo, Japan. The best fighters from the land of the rising sun met on the tatemi to battle for the tittle. The tournament did also have several “outside entries” with some of the best fighters from Poland attended. Yuji Shimamoto. Kenbu Iriki, Daiki Kato, Kazuya Yamamoto, to name some of the fighters..!
See videos from the official WKO Shinkyokushinkai Youtube Channel – we give you a little sneak previous of things to come!
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Saturday 14th October the 22nd BRANKO BOŠNJAK MEMORIAL was held, and as always did the tournament live to its expectations. After at day with many great fights, the results was ready and it is fair to say that it was a results spread out over many nations. Hungary made a very strong impression, being the nation with most wins. A another nation did also made a strong impression – France. Winning two categories and also taking best fighting spirit award women by Camille Haddouche.
Legendary All Japan Open was held this weekend, and the best fighters of Japan was fighting for the top spots. But there was also several “outside” entries, and most notable was top fighters of Europe and Poland: Maciej Mazur, Marek Wolny and more..
For the 2nd time Dream Cup World was organized. October 05-08 in Budapest “DREAM CUP”WORLD – 2017 – OPEN KARATE CHAMPIONSHIP IN HUNGARY event lasting several days program, the main component of the 06-07. October, Budapest “Körcsarnok” Sports Hall organized competition, 3 world region continents which more than 430 entries from 60 national and international teams taking part.
Last weekend CAUCASUS CUP 2017 was organized in Georgia, Tbilisi. This may be not the most promoted and known tournament fro everyone, but the level of the tournament must be said are very tough taking in consideration the countries that attends. This year Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Greece was signed up, and that gives us an idea about the level..
Andrei Zinchenko, Lasha Ozbetelashvili, Levan Verulidze, Eltac Humbatov,Valeh Cafarov,Ararat Hovsepyan to name some names..!
In one week the will the legendary 22. Memorijal Branka Bošnjaka take place in Croatia. A very strong international line up with fighters from 12 countries. A good mix of fighters from the European region, and many up and coming young fighters that will strengthen their record.
Nations represented in this years tournament: Denmark, Sweden,Belgium, Spain, Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland, Lithuania, France, Greece, Austria, Afghanistan and Croatia as the host.
British Open 2017 are history and the result are well known. Naturally this years tournament was a bit more modest than last year’s edition – that we feel is right considering that last year was the 40 years celebration tournament. As announced did nations such as Lithuania, Hungary and Poland their impact on the podium, and Russia as the tradition is. The tournament have its own way when it comes to rules, decisions, breaking and the use of Hikiwake. This makes the tournament just as predictably as unpredictable. The ref are based on feedback from practitioners and teams that were present, and the live stream.