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.
Same weekend as the French Open, but on Sunday the 14th of June, Austrian Open was arranged. Top nations as Hungary, Poland and Georgia was at the line up, and this was also the same nations who entered the podium. Georgian fighters have been very active this spring, and from European Championship (EC) Shinkyokushin i Poland, to EC Royama in Germany and now at last Austrian Open. But one Spanish fighter did also enter the podium twice in two days! French Open 1st place – Austrian Open 2nd place..Ferran Gandia Shinkyokushin Spain
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8th French Open was held this weekend, and we will take a look at some quick results. The tournament had a great mix of fighters from different countries and organizations. The favorites did their job as expected, and looking at the top fighters we can see that the level of the tournament are very good. Lithuania and Sweden made once again a big impression. Also a thing to notice was that some of the well known fighters had changed weight class since last time the fought.
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Trough the last weeks several European Championship in Full Contact karate Kyokushin has been held. Organized by different organizations to crown their best European fighter.We will take a look at the finals of some of the EC`s that have been held.
The different organizations have different rules when it comes to which countries that can enter the EC. The main difference is, with or without Russia and Kazakhstan. And open to the whole world.
Videos from categories in six different organizations..!
The 2nd All Japan Full Contact Karate Championship – results
This weekend Japans best fighters have fought in the All Japan Open tournament. The number of fighters has increased from last year, the various divisions has been packed with top class fighters from different Dojo`s and organisations.
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Det har aldri vært flere turneringer og tilbud innen Kyokushin enn det er nå om dagen. Og det later ikke til å bremse heller. For den vanlig mann i gata er det praktisk talt umulig å holde oversikt over hvem, hva og hvor.
Vi tar en kikk på de EM som akkurat har vært, er, og skal være!
Kunihiro Suzuki Sensei, leaving the international fighting arena in 2013, in Lithuania after the 5th World cup. After Suzuki`s last fight, the whole arena gave him a standing ovation, and several with tears in their eyes. Suzuki has been one of the most important profiles and model for Budo karate WKO Shinkyokushin.
Being the true Budo warrior, he is up to a new challenge…..
←Kunihiro Suzuki Sensei – World Champion 2003
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