Swedish Karate Kyokushinkai, known for long tradition and well known profiles. Sweden have manage to raise their total Karate Kyokushinkai level through long and hard work – the Kyokushin way. We could say a lot about this, but we will focus on this years EC Team, because we believe that it is one of the strongest in a very long time!
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NKO i Stora Höga Open, Sverige
Det er ikke første gang Norge er med i Stora Höga Open i Sverige. Dette er i hovedsag en meget godt tilpasset turnering for den yngre garde, og som kjent så har Sverige en mer detaljert tilpassing i regelverket enn Norge når det kommer til vekt og alder. På toppen av dette har man nå også lagt på seniorklasser, og der var det også godt nivå – av de over 170 påmelde! Lørdag 4.Februar – Sverige
Lithuanian National results
This Saturday the national championship of Lithuania was held, and ad the first country the tournament was held in “Olympic weight categories” 5 kg categories,No weight decisions, potential more dynamic fight time – on the other side, few fighters in each division, more weight cutting – but the Lithuanian Kyokushin Karate Federation – it`s all about quality, and they possesses top level where ever the fight.
Results…
Lithuanian Championship 2017
This Saturday 4th February, the Lithuanian championship will be held. Being on of the strongest nations inn Europe, with fighters in World class it naturally attracts interest. This year the Lithuanian championship expand the amount of weight categories, and divide the categories in to 5 kg classes. This results 9 eight categories for men and 6 for women. A another factor is that victory will not be given in weight differences, only decisions on the mat.
There will be LIVE transmission from the event!
6th World Championship European Team
Released on website (NADIN4EBLOG) yesterday, we could read who qualifies from the European region to the 6th World Championships in weight classes. But it is still some places left, and the upcoming European Championship in Denmark will be the place to look after the rest of the European fighters. Be ware of that in WKO one have to qualify to the World Championship in weight categories, this is a point to mention since many organizations do not have that. And this will explain why some nations are represented and some not. This also means that the level of fighters from fight one ill be at the best..
2016 Rankings by Kyokushin Results
Each year we get the ranking by Kyokushin results website. This rankings will maybe take a little time to read, but a long time to write and publish. This is some real research and statistics, to make us have a good time reading about this favorite topic. This is not an easy job, thinking of the many many tournaments that Kyokushin fighters attend each year. It have never been so many EC`s as we see today to name one challenge, the level of them a another one… and a third – if a top seeded fighters changes her/his name,will we get it? 😉
WKO Russia – Championship 2016
Top fighters of Shinkyokushin Russia fulfilled expectations, as they met at the tatemi to decide the best fighters in weight categories..
Result and videos..
Magamedov Khasai, Nasirov Nazar, Ershov Denis and Lestnikov Vyacheslav takes the men`s category, and Egorova Efrosinia, Valieva Irina, Polischuk Alina and Savelieva Maria winner of the women categories.
Kyokushin Open 2017 Norway
KYOKUSHIN OPEN 2017 Norway!
The tournament will be held on the April 22nd, 2017.
Last year Poland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway attended the tournament, several organisations, styles and independent full contact practitioners joined. We will challenge you this time – who will be the next country to enter?!
And ladies – sharpen your shins, because in this tournament there will be no shin-protection in the women`s category!
Profiles of Poland with farewell performance!
Today (Saturday 10th December 19.00) at the 9th Kokoro Cup, two of the big Kyokushin profiles in Poland will held a farewell performance! The Kokoro Cup is loaded with action – and this will be a very good setting to honer these two athletes for the last time.
Mateusz Garbacz and Karol Cieśluk
DRAW – Kokoro Cup 9!
Only few days left, and the 9th edition of the Kokoro Cup is on! The line up are ready, and once again strong athletes from the best nations in Europe will meet on the tatemi to be the champion! The event will also this time be streamed live! (link in the article)
We will take a look at this years fighters, one fighter from Belarus, one fighters from Switzerland and one fighter from France. Lithuania brings in three very strong fighters and last but not least: Poland with two fighters from the top level.