According to Polish news-site the fighters of this years Kokoro Cup are announced. Sweden, Japan and Poland will participate with strong and well merited fighters in this fully professional organized tournament. Poland do have well merited fighters, but bringing inn fighters from Japan adds always something extra. As for the two Swedish fighters, they both comes of their strongest result up to now – so their ready for it as well..
Category Archives: Tournaments
NNM Nordnorsk Mesterskap 2017
I helgen ble det arrangert NNM Nordnorsk Mesterskap, og vertskap var vår nordligste klubb – Finnsnes Karateklubb. Stevnet hadde tilbud til utøvere i alle aldre og grener, og antall påmeldinger var registrert til 125. Finnsnes sammen med Tromsø hadde alene 85 påmeldinger, sistnevente med 50!
-det er imponerende! Arrangørmessig vet man at Finnsnes Karateklubb har gode mesterskap i ledelse av Erik Anders , og på toppen av dette kom Bo Vidar fra Bergen Karateklubb, NKF/ Fullkontaktskomiteen og internasjonal dommer sertifisert i tillegg.
Swedish Open 2018
Swedish Open 2018 just hit the calendar, and even so that this is ahead of us in time, it would be a point to give it some extra attention! We all know that the tournament hold a very good level, and that together with the great result Sweden showed at the U22 European Championship gives us an idea that the level will increase further – only counting in Sweden`s own fighters! Besides that we also know that very strong nations as Lithuania and Poland with more will take the challenge…!
Note: not official poster!
Kokoro Cup 10
Kokoro cup is undoubtedly one fully professional tournament in every way. And this year’s version is guaranteed not to disappoint. Very strong name is always attending, athletes from Japan, Kazakhstan, Hungary, Lithuania with more to name a few, and of course Poland’s own top performers.
Also this year it is clear that a visit from Japan will be attending, something that clearly adds some “spice” to the event. Together with the tournament, it is also command to hold a top level seminar.
EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS U16 & U22
The 34th Tohoku Karate Tournament
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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Winiarska, Kozubowski and Mazur – Best i Poland!
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.
22nd BRANKO BOŠNJAK MEMORIAL – Winners from multiply nations crowned
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.
22. Memorijal Branka Bošnjaka – Line Up!
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 -predictably as unpredictable
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.