The 3rd KWU World Championship are history, we will first take a look at the women`s divisions. One of the most impressing things must be how the little country Lithuania can produce so many, and so high level professional fighters. Other thoughts is in the opposite direction, with this professional level from Russia, Lithuania – is so that we are going in a direction so professional that it will exclude the regular participant?
It`s time to be professional?
The 3rd KWU World Championship is coming up, once again held in Russia. As before the setting is very professional, the hype is big and the event is well covered. It is assumed there will be 55 nations, divided among nine men’s classes and six women’s classes. Everything is done for an unforgettable championship…
According to Polish news-site the fighters of this years Kokoro Cup are announced. Sweden, Japan and Poland will participate with strong and well merited fighters in this fully professional organized tournament. Poland do have well merited fighters, but bringing inn fighters from Japan adds always something extra. As for the two Swedish fighters, they both comes of their strongest result up to now – so their ready for it as well..
I helgen ble det arrangert NNM Nordnorsk Mesterskap, og vertskap var vår nordligste klubb – Finnsnes Karateklubb. Stevnet hadde tilbud til utøvere i alle aldre og grener, og antall påmeldinger var registrert til 125. Finnsnes sammen med Tromsø hadde alene 85 påmeldinger, sistnevente med 50!
-det er imponerende! Arrangørmessig vet man at Finnsnes Karateklubb har gode mesterskap i ledelse av Erik Anders , og på toppen av dette kom Bo Vidar fra Bergen Karateklubb, NKF/ Fullkontaktskomiteen og internasjonal dommer sertifisert i tillegg.
Swedish Open 2018 just hit the calendar, and even so that this is ahead of us in time, it would be a point to give it some extra attention! We all know that the tournament hold a very good level, and that together with the great result Sweden showed at the U22 European Championship gives us an idea that the level will increase further – only counting in Sweden`s own fighters! Besides that we also know that very strong nations as Lithuania and Poland with more will take the challenge…!
Note: not official poster!
Kokoro cup is undoubtedly one fully professional tournament in every way. And this year’s version is guaranteed not to disappoint. Very strong name is always attending, athletes from Japan, Kazakhstan, Hungary, Lithuania with more to name a few, and of course Poland’s own top performers.
Also this year it is clear that a visit from Japan will be attending, something that clearly adds some “spice” to the event. Together with the tournament, it is also command to hold a top level seminar.
The 5th November The 34th Tohoku Karate Tournament was held, Organized by the Fukushima Branch. Making it three in a row, the 8th World Champion Kunihiro Suzuki once again takes the title – as Naoki Hashimoto also repeat his results from last year, being the runner up. Another popular feature was a demo with two former top fighters and performers: Emi Shoguchi and Kumiko Sunakawa.
Results, pictures and videos follows..
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Polish Open weight Championship 2017
Three of the top European players from Poland made another strong effort this weekend by winning the Polish National Open weight Agata Winiarska (Kaliciak) women category, Maciek Mazur in the men`s category. And last but not least Konrad Kozubowski Kata champion.
