Men Middleweight -75 kg category with many profiles from different regions. Japan, Europe and Central Asia have some very highly merited fighters in this category. In this category one must be ready for top fight in the first round already. This is an example when one have a championship with only qualified fighter in the line up – the fuse are lit..
Women middleweight -55 kg – a category stacked with top fighters from all over the world. That include world champion IFK, and world champion KWU and top of that WKO world champion – no once but twice.
Men -65 kg – a category with highly ranked fighters and known to give us high-pace explosive fights. When you have a World Championship whit criteria that one have to qualify to enter – the level will of course be sharpened. Lightweight men are ready – are you?
IFK holds its World championship in early June, 4-5th. The war in Ukraine stops Russia as participants. This means that the Russian dominance that has been the trademark of IFK event don’t kick in this time. IFK with a good all round support from several organizations makes the World Championship happen in Valencia, Spain for the 2nd time in twenty years, the 2nd edition was also held in Valencia, 2002.
21 and 22nd of May, the top fighters in Japan fought for the tittles in the 7th edition of the All Japan Open – Japan Fullcontact Karate Organization. With some major tournaments coming up – many had their last check before going into the last preparations. Top fighters from many organizations made the level sky high..
4-5. Juni deltar NKO og andre norske i IFK VM, avholdt i Spania. Normalt sett er nivået i dette VM skyhøyt, men grunnet krigen i Ukraina – full boikott av alle Russiske utøvere, ender det opp med et VM – snudd på hodet. I lys av dette, så kan det faktisk vanke norske medaljer.
Så var det klart for Stora Höga Open, som avholdes i Sverige ikke langt fra Gøteborg. Dette er et bredde stevne som geografisk ligger meget gunstig til for region øst, og som har vært fast på kalenderen i flere år. I årets utgave var nivået jekket opp noen hakk – og NM tittler sto ikke så høyt i kurs som man skulle ønske. Bergen, Oslo Ringerike og Arendal tok turen, og stillte i full bredde!
The 7th All Japan Full Contact Karate will be held 21st and 22nd May. Year after year we are impressed by the level and the number of fighters at such a high level. With 5 categories in the men’s division, that gives us in total 274 fighters, 4 categories in the women’s division with 98 fighters in total. Again the land of Karate, Japan lead the way.
Saturday 2, April, in one hectic day – the European Championship Shinkyokushin was held in Tarnów, Poland. Trough the difficult times recovering after Covid – and now with the attack on Ukraine, many assumed that it would have an impact at the championship – how much? Some podium was untouched as others turned up side down.
36 fighters from Japan WKO are ready to the 7th World Championship in weight categories. Winning seven out of eight weight categories last edition in Kazakhstan 2017 – Japan, consider to be the number one heavy favorite this time as well. Not only possess Japan a very high level all over, but 36 fighters from the same nation does also weigh heavily in.
