Organized by the oldest Kyokushin Dojo in Norway, Bergen The Kyokushin Open have a great history of international fighting. Last year Poland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway attended the tournament, several organisations, styles and independent full contact practitioners joined.
Make sure that 22nd April 2017 is marked in your calendar!
Note: Not official poster, picture taken by on of the best, Hungary: Tamás Fekete
This years Scottish Open was fully booked almost two months before the tournament date, and many fighter had to wait for next chance…. well now the chance is back! The 2017 Scottish Open Knockdown championships will be held on the 25th February in Glasgow.
This is open to all styles and associations with Novice, Open and over 40’s categories….
⇐Note not official poster…
Kazakhstan, Astana 2017, 1-2 July, The 6th World Championship weight categories will be held, and once again the best fighters from each region will fight to be the best in their weight class in the world. For the first time during the The World Championship weight categories (former known as the World Cup) it will be new weight categories, the same used in the European Championship, and of course in the The JFKO All Japan Weight Category Tournament.
(← poster/ source →Nadin4e)
Swedish Open 24th September, Goteborg, Sweden. At this moment, the number of fighters in the heavy weigh category has reach 50% of it`s capacity! Countries as Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden in the line up, and on regular basis several more will come..
Swedish Open was first held in 2006, and from that every other year. Fighters from all over Europe – and also from Japan suported! Strong nations as Lithuania, Hungary, Poland tells us about the high level. This is a tournament fighters want to go back to. Sweden as a Kyokushin nation are ready for us all – are we?!
British Open 2016 increases its level this year, with Kazakhstan’s elite fighters. 
Russia have been the number one nation in British Open, and almost taken what they want regarding to trophies. Kazakhstan has been one of the nations that keep up with Russia – and then some! Recently Ilya Yakovlev to beat one of the top heavy weight fighters for the WFKO title to name one achievement…
September the 3rd, European Open Szolnok Cup 2016 will be held in Hungary. Last year the tournament attracted some of the best fighters in European. On top of that fighters from outside the European region attended as well, Russia would be easy to remember. Top fighters as Marius Ilas, Khasai Magomedov, Gàbor Ròzsa, Nazar Nazirov, Lasha Khachapuridze, Szepesi Csenge, Agata Kaliciak, Anna Vishnyakova – to name a few…!
Oficial invitation to 21th Branko Bošnjak Memorial!
Memorial tournament was founded in memory on Branko Bošnjak, Croatian solder and member of Mladost Samobor for many years, who lost his life in Homeland war as member of Special Unit Police PU Alfa Zagreb. Memorial is held in Samobor sice 1995. In organisation of Karate Club Mladost Samobor in co-organisation with Special unit police Alfa Zagreb veteran association.
Five categories with the European Champion title to win. The first KWU European Championship weight categories gathered a good mix of fighters from different countries as well. With several world champions in the line up, it would be safe to say that the expectations was high. Looking back at the KWU World Championship last year, just a few medals fell outside Europe, and Russia was the biggest factor. All the categories for women was taken by Russia.
KWU Kyokushin World Union organizes the 1st European Championship this month (11-12, June) in Belgrade. This is the first edition of the EC tournament in weight categories as the Open Weight was held in Russia 2012, and even as a European Championship, fighters from all over the world attended…
This years tournament keep it “inside” Europe, and 26 countries are registered. Do some drop outs in the last minutes there are 49 women and 115 men in the tournament. The women are split in to 5 weight categories, men in to 9..
Nazar Nasirov – Russian Open Champion!
In a two days tournament with the best Russian fighters, Nazar Nasirov was crowned as the winner of the absolute class. He also took the tameshiwari award.