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.
Med Horten Karateklubb som arrangør og svenske venner på besøk – skulle det mye til at det ikke ble velykket denne helgen. Lørdag og søndag 23/24 oktober var helgen hvor et 40 talls norske og svenske utøvere var til stede og deltok på U-camp i Horten!
Some old clips from The European Championship in 1998, held in Oradea, Romania. At the time, the women fought their EC in weight categories, as in the men’s division it was the Open-weight and Kata.
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 readingLørdag 25 september var det klart fro Modum karateklubb til å avholde fightsamling, da med fokus på U-klassene. En solid og høyt motivert gjeng hadde satt av lørdag til formålet. NKO har kommet i gang etter nedstengingen, og dette var 3. samling i rekken siden mitten av august – og neste er allere planlagt. Men først, lørdag 25. september:
Few persons in our full-contact community have inspired us so much as Kunihiro Suzuki, and that in different ways. We all know the biggest fight of his life become a fact, being struck by leukemia. Watch the video about Suzuki Kunihiro, the fight and people close to him..
One year from now, 23. September 2022 The 7th World Karate Championship in weight Categories will be held in Poland. The road to Poland, and the 7th World Championship has began. Some are all ready qualified, the rest will come. The European region will select the rest of the fighters who will represent the region of Europe. 4-5 of December 2021 in Kėdainiai (Kaunas), Lithuania, in “Kėdainių Arena”.
Lørdag 11. September avholdt Oslo Shinkyokushin samling i Oslo Karateklubb sine lokalen, hvor treningen foregår til vanlig. Samlingen var ment som en Kick off for Oslo Shin selv – og selvsagt for andre som hadde tid og lyst denne dagen. Utøvere fra Egersund, Arendal, Horten og Ringerike hadde funnet veien. Opplegget ble lagt på utvikling i klubbene, og hvordan Fullkontakt Karate har endret seg mye i hvordan man trener til alle formål.
