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Kata seminar – Hungary 2017

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Hungary starts of this fall semester with several highlight. Fighters are waiting for the Europa Open Szolnok Kupa, held 2.September, 2017.An very tough and high level tournament that all fighter will have on their record. But as it is now, not only sharped fighters should make place in the calendar. Shinichi Sotodate Shihan 6th Dan, will also have a Kata seminar during this weekend!

Shinichi Sotodate Shihan 6th Dan, was recently awarded 6th Dan for his long time hard work in the WKO, traveling around the world has been common.

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More “gold” for profiles!

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As the most of you know, new grades from WKO was announced some days ago, as always we like to take a closer look at some of the persons that have been awarded a higher rank. We released many (especially younger practitioners) do not know many of the profiles that for many years have given enormous contribution to WKO – and still do!

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Jimmie Collin seminar 2017

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Helgen 26/27 August er det klart for fight og Kick off med Jimmie Collin. Seminaret blir avholdt med Kiruna Kyokushin Karate som arrangør. Åpent for ung/voksne (9.Kyu og oppover /13 år)

The weekend of 26/27 August is ready for the fight and kick off with Jimmie Collins. The seminar will be held with Kiruna Kyokushin Karate as organizer. Open to all young /adults (9.Kyu and up /13 years)

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World Weight finals 2001-2017

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With the 6th World Championship Weight categories (former known as the World Cup) still in mind, and as the official videos released now as we speak – we would like to take a look at the previous editions. And for this occasion we have dug up finals from the 2nd edition and up to now. Initially we have mainly picked up the heavyweight class,except from 2001, Hungary where all the finals for the men are included. Plus Midori Kenji Shihan and Howard Collins Shihan have both demonstrations with kata and breaking.

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Strong achievement from Hungarian profiles

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In connection with this year’s World Championship in Kazakhstan, Astana, there have been meeting activities, training and graduation to higher degrees. This time there were several well-known WKO profiles who stood on the ranks to test their level. Among the grades two very Significant persons was at the line of testing. We are taking a look towards Hungary this time..

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Beyond the victory?

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In competition – or after it, we always get the question how did it go. The answer we give will the most of the time be based on the results regarding to what place we ended at. And this without thinking of that we maybe fought our best fight against the winner of the tournament for an example. Is it so that it is just a romantic cliché: “The most important thing is not to win, but to participate”

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