NKO sender tre representanter til EM i Polen 2.april 2022, og som alltid er det tøffe tak i vente. Som foregående EM, så er det er rent senior EM. Land som Litauen, Polen, Ukraina, Georgia har tatt EM og VM medaljer i andre Kyokushin forbund også, med andre ord NKO møter flere av de beste utøvere i Europa for ikke å si verden.
Russia captured three medals last World Championship in weight categories, and also been visible in the World Open Championship in Japan. Their team are ready, some new faces, some well known profiles..
Kembu Iriki pulls trough a very tough All Japan Open – Iriki been top three six times, in the last seven All Japan Open’s. Includes winning the 48th & 52nd edition – as he now does in the 53rd edition. Chihiro Kubota defend her tittle from the 52nd, and a raising star comes into the final in Suzuki Mihiro. Two major victories was pulled of this weekend, 1. To face the challenge, organizing a tournament with the covid-19 and AND to manage to gather so many different fighters from different schools.
For å i det hele tatt delta i VM til neste år, må man kvalifisere seg gjennom å vinne EM. Det beskriver nivået og ikke minst hvilke høye krav som stilles til utøvere som får delta. Therese N Østebrød og Marleen Gregusson var på plass i Litauen som utøvere, Bo Vidar Larsen representerte NKO som dommer.
En liten delegasjoen fra NKO, Ringerike så sitt snitt til å kombinere harry-tur og Karate, og resultatet ble deltagelse i Okawa Cup, Kungälv. Det var 130 påmeldte utøvere, og det ble konkurrert i Kata og Fight, lørdag til kata og søndagen var det fight.
In two weeks, the European Championship for cadets, Juniors and U-21 takes off in Romania. With close to 450 competitors this European Championship raises up beyond expectations! This also gives us a clear answer in the case of organizing U-categories in a own EC tournament – no doubt about it, the numbers are too high if one mix seniors and U-categories together at the same tournament. This is the future!
December the 12th, The 23rd All Japan Open will be held, and the excitements raises also outside Japan, because this will decide who that will represent Japan in the World Championship in Weight-categories in Poland next September 2022. This is the second selection, the first selection was done during The 6th JFKO. We will take a sneak peak at the top fighters that are seeded.
Harris Walmen vs Dimitar Trampov, Marius Ilias vs Andzei Milevskij, Anca Wallmen vs Margarita Ciuplyte, Dimitar Popov vs Lasha Khachaporidze – and a little sequence from the Tameshiwari as well! And as a bonus a clicker fight – if not mistaken by one of the names above…
𝟮𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗝𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗻 𝗪𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗧𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 – 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟰The tournament decided who was going to represent Japan in the 3rd World Cup, Osaka 2005. Watch Norichika Tsukamoto, Hideaki Koizumi, Takayuki Tsukakoshi, Naohiro Nomoto in the heavyweight, Daisuke Komiyama and Kensaku Yamamoto – lightweight, Kazuhito Yamada, Manabu Yasumoto, Kenta Mori, Taishi Watanabe – middleweight…
Continue readingEC in Georgia showed that the future in the women categories looks very bright, good fights yes, but we can also see that the lower level have moved up and are better prepared than ever. Development in women fighting has moved at full speed forward, and as we see it, it is now important that the organizational part keep up. The EC level in Georgia prove a certain high level, so many skilled athletes in action..
