Hungary do have very skilled fighters, some of them the best in Europe. Results from the Hungarian national tournament are ready, and maybe there will be some surprises to see..
Top fighters as Gábor Rózsa, Richárd Lizák and Zsófia Szabó attended to name a few.
Pictures by Tamás Fekete
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Scottish Open på herresiden var noe mange så frem til. Ikke bare var det mange norske, men også flere medalje kandidater og favoritter på startstreken. Det var dog litt mindre profiler og meritter på utøvere generelt sett – derfor var flere av de norske tippet i toppen. Godt tippet kan man etter endt turnering si..!
Årets Scottish Open 2017 hadde med et rekord stort antall av Norske utøvere, og det alene var vel så bra. Det ble flere ting å glede seg over, siden Norge ble å finne på resultatlistene i også. Scottish Open er et stevne som ligger på et moderat nivå, og det er sånn sett godt stevne for norske utøvere å vokse i.
This weekend the Scottish Open 2017 was held. You will find results and full draw here. Report is on the way..!
Ireland, England, Wales, Sweden, Netherlands, Norway and Scotland attended at this years tournament.
Norway made a huge impact at this years results, in a tournament that sadly had several drop outs that many was looking forward to see. This year we could say that it was fewer well known profiles than before. But that said, some new faces made their statement clear!
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!
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
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…
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!
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..
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? 😉