Nok en gang var det klart for Danish Open og nok en gang var Norge på plass! Sett med norske øyne var årets Danish Open et utmerket stevne å delta på, og da passet det bra at NKO stilte med et rekord stort lag. Laget inneholdt utøvere, dommere og coacher samt noen ihuga supportere! Utøver laget bestod av debutanter såvel som erfarne fighters, og hvordan det gikk mot Danske og Svenske….?
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A strong line up raised the expectations for this tournament, and with several of the profiles lined up in “new categories it would be even more exciting – if that’s possible!
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Some of the very best fighters in Europe, Russia and central Asia will fight in the European Open Szolnok Cup 2012 in Hungary this up coming Saturday the 5. of September. Marius Ilas, Khasai Magomedov, Gàbor Ròzsa, Nazar Nazirov, Lasha Khachapuridze, Szepesi Csenge, Agata Kaliciak, Anna Vishnyakova – to name a few! See full list of fighters…
On Saturday 16 October, 2010 in Elk, Poland two of the strongest Shinkyokushin nations in Europe meet to challenge each other in a Poland vs Lithuania match up. it was Poland who stood for the organizational part, and from the Polish side was the goal clearly defined: how they stood against Europe’s best Shinkyokushin team ..
As earlier written The 11th World Championship later this year do have some “extras” Bringing in fighters from other organizations do raise the interest further, if it is possible! We are lucky to have our way to respect any outcome on the tatemi, and we do have a special way to support other fighters than our favorites, the Budo Full-contact Karate way. Who ever you are, we will support the will to do the very best. Now we will try to give you some of the fighters that are ready, that we have called “outside entries” men category.
The 11th World Karate Championship later this year do have some changes that will give us an extra touch of excitement. This time the World Championship has been expanded with participants from other organizations. This is a exchange in relation to the cooperation between various organizations in the Kyokushin world.
We will take a closer look at the fighters participating from other organizations in the WKO / Shinkyokushin World Tournament…
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One of the leading nations i Europe, Lithuania, are doing their preparations for the upcoming The 11th World Championship in Japan in October. Moving some of the training outside the country, is one of the elements who will sharpen the athletes further, adopting to the surroundings and isolate the focus will make the fighters stronger. Training camps like this will help the fighters when they leave to Japan for the tournament. Another climate, long away from home and familiar surroundings, must also be a part of the training. ←Photo from pufasfoto.lt
This fall several World Championship will be held. One of them The 2nd Kyokushin World Union World Championship, 3-4 October, Russia. The first World Championship was held two years ago in Bulgari. This is a tournament with weight categories,and the competitions will be held in 9 weight categories among men and 5 weight categories among women. Last time the Russian dominance was complete, as expected and its drawn in the same direction this time. (results 2013) WKO / Shinkyokushin Japan are supporting the tournament, lets take a look at those fighters!
The Royama/IFK based KWU are promoting heavily “It`s time to be united” no doubt about that, but a question could be asked why the tournament are held close to some of the biggest regular World Tournaments in the world.
Top ranked fighters takes the medals in Switzerland!
Russia, Kazakhstan and Lithuania made this years tournament a top level tournament.Swiss Open has a strong tradition in being a good tournament with top level and many fighters. Top level whit out a doubt! – but few fighters made it change the weight categories to only two in the men division and one in the women.
