Organized by the oldest Kyokushin Dojo in Norway, Bergen The Kyokushin Open have a great history of international fighting. Last year Poland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway attended the tournament, several organisations, styles and independent full contact practitioners joined.
Make sure that 22nd April 2017 is marked in your calendar!
Note: Not official poster, picture taken by on of the best, Hungary: Tamás Fekete
This years Scottish Open was fully booked almost two months before the tournament date, and many fighter had to wait for next chance…. well now the chance is back! The 2017 Scottish Open Knockdown championships will be held on the 25th February in Glasgow.
This is open to all styles and associations with Novice, Open and over 40’s categories….
⇐Note not official poster…
Kazakhstan, Astana 2017, 1-2 July, The 6th World Championship weight categories will be held, and once again the best fighters from each region will fight to be the best in their weight class in the world. For the first time during the The World Championship weight categories (former known as the World Cup) it will be new weight categories, the same used in the European Championship, and of course in the The JFKO All Japan Weight Category Tournament.
(← poster/ source →Nadin4e)
Swedish Open 24th September, Goteborg, Sweden. At this moment, the number of fighters in the heavy weigh category has reach 50% of it`s capacity! Countries as Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden in the line up, and on regular basis several more will come..
Swedish Open was first held in 2006, and from that every other year. Fighters from all over Europe – and also from Japan suported! Strong nations as Lithuania, Hungary, Poland tells us about the high level. This is a tournament fighters want to go back to. Sweden as a Kyokushin nation are ready for us all – are we?!
Idretter med “Knock-out” til hodet er og har vært et helt eget tema i Norge. Den siste tid har det vært stor pågang fra Bokse Norge, og da aller mest fra NPBF, Norges Profesjonelle Bokse Forbund.Det var en milepæl ved sist “justering” når hjelmen forsvant, denne gangen er det videre endringer som gjør at man på generell basis vil nærme seg internasjonalt regelverk.
Fra NPBF har man etterlyst svar, og kultudepartemantet sender nå følgende forslag på høring…..
Zsófia Szabó, Hungary. Working her way up in the European Championship ranks, and taking the tittle, 2016/17, in a very convincing way. Szabó has been one of the stable practitioners in the lighter divisions. Possesses that many misses in that division, sharp techniques that ends in Wazari or Ippon Some merits: EC 3rd 2013/14, EC 2nd 2015 and 1st 2016. Branko Memorial champion 2015/14/13, Winning the Austrian Open +best fighter 2015, 2nd Mas Oyama Memorial 2014. Also showed great skill going up against bigger opponents, and given them technical challenges that many could not match.
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British Open 2016 increases its level this year, with Kazakhstan’s elite fighters. 
Russia have been the number one nation in British Open, and almost taken what they want regarding to trophies. Kazakhstan has been one of the nations that keep up with Russia – and then some! Recently Ilya Yakovlev to beat one of the top heavy weight fighters for the WFKO title to name one achievement…
NKO Norwegian Kyokushin Organization – Shinkyokushin Norway organized their annual summer camp this weekend (30/6-3/7-2016)
Since NKO was established in 2007, the WKO has supported the summer camp (and other activities) in Norway with top international instructors. This has been an incredible boost every time, and this has also lifted the level and understanding of Kyokushin karate in Norway. This year was no exception, and with instructors from Denmark and Japan – well once again all the contenders could not been more lucky!
Halfway through this year’s summer camp, it’s time for a little status. This year’s camp had clearly a high anticipation, as two highly skilled Shihan stood as main instructors: Kumiko Sunakawa / Japan and Jesper Trier / Denmark. And of course Norwegian instructors as well. So what could we expect from this years camp, what does the camp offer?