Less than one week left to the Open-weight European Championship Shinkyokushin in Bulgaria. As the most of you know, U-22 Youth and U-16 Cadets will also fight in their categories as well. But the big question is: who will be this years Open-weight champion in a line up that has never been harder!
Arena Armeec Sports Hall Sofia.
The Tournament will be streamed LIVE!
For a little while ago we could read that Russia was signed at the European Championships in open weight. This raised some unanswered questions, since Russia has not been included in the European region. What drew even more attention was that four of the six participants did not belong WKO. Now this change, once again ..
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Lørdag 5. November stilte Bergen Karateklubb i Polen,Szczecin på Kyokushin Challenge. Dette var den 6. utgaven, og som man vet i Polen er Kyokushin stort. 340 deltagere fra 21 klubber er fort 3xNM – i alle aldere naturlig nok, men alikevel imponerende!
Bergen Karateklubb stilte med et sterkt lag pluss apparat, for å høste kunskap og erfaringer, samt å holde den gode relasjon ved like til Sensei Radoslaw har over flere år deltatt med utøvere, fra klubben sin Husaria fra Polen, på Kyokushin Open i Bergen.
The 8th World Champion Kunihiro Suzuki, once again at the top of the podium!
The 33rd Tohoku Karate Championship is held this weekend at the Fukushima city National Sports Festival of Japan memorial Gymnasium.
⇐Kunihiro Susuki – never rest!
Siste helg i oktober ble det avholdt Lørenskog Cup 2016. Etter å ha ligget i dvale flere år, så ble turneringen tatt opp igjen sist år, og man ser nå for seg å få den som et fast holdepunkt på Karate – kalenderen. Selv om den totale deltagelsen var noe lav, så fant man utøvere fra Sverige (som i fjor) og før første gang Danmark på startstreken! -og dette kan man trygt si satte fart på sakene.
⇐Jeanette Johannessen og Cecilie Trier
Region Øst hadde utøvere og apparat på plass under årets Lørenskog Cup i Oslo. Selv om både stevne og klubbene var preget av et relativt stort sykdomsfravær la det ingen demper på innsatsen av den grunn. Horten Karateklubb, Færder Karateklubb,og Ringerike Karateklubb stilte til start i Kamp og Kata. Denne gangen var det mest trykk på juniordeltagelsen, som er et bra tegn for fremtiden!
The 21st Branko Bosnjak Memorial videos. Some videos from the great tournament, loaded up by the French Shinkyokushin team – and the fights will naturally be with the athletes from France and who they meet in the tournament..
French Team, with Anthony Senechal in the front, Senechal made it to the final in the men lightweight category.
French Shinkyokushin website, videos and pictures..
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A Polish Champion, or “one of the best” in Poland, will always be associated with top elite level. Poland with great Kyokushin history and traditions, will without a doubt be one of the leading nations in Europe. But who would be the best in Poland? This weekend Polish Openweight Tournament was held to give us the answer… The tournament was streamed live, and this was done with one camera to each mat, covering the tournament professional, instead of a quasi solution that we have seen not long ago in other international tournaments.
Japans best fighters met in the 48th All Japan Open (open weight category) Top names was not disappointing in their performances, as the climbed in to the second day reaching for the podium. The tournament had fighters from different organizations in Full contact Karate, and this made the tournament even more exciting..
Winners and runner ups!
Roza Gabor takes it again,Sweden takes two categories, Richard Lizak get even with Dorint after loosing in the European Cup Hungary earliere, Lithuania clean sweep in the women`s division…