The traditional Shinkyokushin Tournament, held in Croatia every year are ready for the 24th edition in 2019 – 5th October. Documents, guidelines and info..(note not official poster) Info, guidelines and more to find…
ROMANIAN INTERNATIONAL CUP 2019 – Shaping up!
The 28th of September the ROMANIAN INTERNATIONAL CUP will be held, and notice: DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION TOMORROW 2ND September. Several nations are all ready in the line up, and for sure more will come in the last minutes – as always!
Kick off Region Sør – Egersund.
Lørdag 24. August arrangerte Egersund Karate kyokushinkai et åpent (for alle) fight seminar i Espelandhallen. Tema var som nevnt fight, og dette ble fordelt på tre økter utover dagen. Etter endt dag var det et 40 talls utøvere som hadde sett sitt snitt til å få med seg denne eventen, som ble en fin start på sessongen for mange!
NKO Kick off – Reg Øst
Lørdag 24. August var det klart for et lite Kick off i regi Region øst. teknisk ansvarlig var Oslo Shinkyokushin, Ringerikes “filial” i Oslo. Sted var i lokalene til Oslo Karateklubb på kampen, hvor Oslo Shinkyokushin trener ukentlig, og vokser i omfang. Samlingen var lavterskel med formål å “dyppe tåa” litt i de forskjellige elementer man har i karaten. Oppmøtet var tett på 40 stykker, som er bra på en solskinnsdag..
12th World Open Karate Championship – DRAW
NKO på Kickoff i Sverige
Helgen 17-18 August deltok Horten Karateklubb, Arendal Karateklubb, Oslo Shin og Ringerike Karateklubb på Kickoff i Sverige. Her var man så heldig å bli bedt inn til det svenske landslagets kickoff – regi landslagstrener Sverige, Magnus Hanssen, sted Keiko, Göteborg. Med andre ord blir man koblet opp til et nivå som er kjent for å kunne håntere topp Europeisk nivå. Her ble det kjørt et tilpasset opplegg lørdag og søndag morgen. Siste økt for helgen, var regionsquad for seniors. Et samarbeid mellom 5 klubber i Göteborg omerådet ,ble avholdt på Göteborg Karate Kai, Shihan Howard Collins Dojo. På disse økter er tema kamp og litt fys trening ble det også plass til.
Continue readingChampion versus Champion
We continue to look at the previous World Champions – as an “warm up” to the upcoming 12th World Open Karate Championship this Autumn in Japan. A World Championship that will be the main event this year in the full contact Karate World. We pick up the champions, and time we will give you some videos from when these champions met each other in different tournaments..
World Championships finals – Women Division
We continue to look at the World Championships finals, and we are picking up the women division. With the European selections tournaments still going in replay in our heads, there are no doubt that the level in total has been lifted up significant higher. But looking at the previous finals – there are no doubt that the level has been high for many years – but what we believe, is that not only top 4 are good – but you must be really good to reach top 8! And reaching the top eight, it won’t be easy either. We’v said it before, it’s time to expand the women division into competitors from all nations, not only select from the regions. Video time…!
World Championships finals
We are getting closer to the next World Championship, and as we like to do – a little rewind of previous finals. Some of the are seen many times, some has been given less attention – as always. In many tournaments the final it self becomes a little of a anticlimax – even so it is the World Championship final! Sometimes it can be a factor that the finalist maybe not are the one that the big crowd expected to be there. And the road to the final can also be a factor. Anyway a World Championship final is a final with a big F in our dictionary! We give six World Championship finals:
Batumi Open-Caucasus Cup 2019
Caucasus Cup – Georgia,
From from previous editions known to be a very hard and tough tournament. And it would surprise us if this edition came out in a another direction. The International Tournament “Batumi Open-Caucasus Cup 2019 will be held the weekend 28-31st September. (Tournament day 29th) This may not be the most promoted tournament, but taking in consideration the countries that attend previous years Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Ukraine gives us an idea about the level…