{"id":25883,"date":"2026-02-12T16:06:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T15:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/?p=25883"},"modified":"2026-02-12T17:19:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:19:39","slug":"banzai-open-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/banzai-open-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Banzai Open 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The 15th Edition of Banzai Open 21st March 2026!\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Gothenburg area in Sweden has a very rich environment when it comes to Full Contact Karate. Banzai Open international is proof of this, having grown from its humble beginnings to a well-organized tournament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/banzai-open-2025-\u2013-Kopi-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25887\" src=\"https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/banzai-open-2025-\u2013-Kopi-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"815\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/banzai-open-2025-\u2013-Kopi-4.jpg 815w, https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/banzai-open-2025-\u2013-Kopi-4-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/banzai-open-2025-\u2013-Kopi-4-768x389.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/banzai-open-2025-\u2013-Kopi-4-500x253.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 815px) 100vw, 815px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The 15th edition give us a story systematic build-up over time, from a small tournament with only children, to an international tournament including adult seniors &#8211; with traditional Full Contact rules.<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> Registration &amp; Guidelines <strong>\u21d3<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/BanzaiOpen26.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25889\" src=\"https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/BanzaiOpen26.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"353\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/BanzaiOpen26.png 353w, https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/BanzaiOpen26-212x300.png 212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">BANZAI OPEN 2026 &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u21d2 <a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/smoothcomp.com\/en\/event\/30006\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Registration by Smoothcomp<\/a> \u21d0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">All information and guidelines <a href=\"https:\/\/smoothcomp.com\/en\/event\/30006\">LINK\u00a0<\/a>Info in Swedish at Banzai official web <a href=\"https:\/\/www.banzai.se\/sida\/?ID=180632\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Link to Facebook event site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1577051669861996\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Tournament in brief: 9-17yo: Semi-contact &#8211; Senior: Semi-contact &amp;\u00a0Full &#8211; contact<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025-Banzai-Open-8-\u2013-Kopi.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25888\" src=\"https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025-Banzai-Open-8-\u2013-Kopi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"949\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025-Banzai-Open-8-\u2013-Kopi.jpg 949w, https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025-Banzai-Open-8-\u2013-Kopi-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025-Banzai-Open-8-\u2013-Kopi-768x445.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025-Banzai-Open-8-\u2013-Kopi-500x290.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 949px) 100vw, 949px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The organizer of the event: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/banzaikaratekai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Banzai Karate Kai<\/a> is a big contributor to the Full Contact Karate community. They have this championship, Banzai Open, and Camp Banzai under their own auspices which are well known. Events like this create a name, but it is the ability behind it that really tells what you are dealing with.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/Camp_Banzai2016-\u2013-Kopi.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15872\" src=\"https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/Camp_Banzai2016-\u2013-Kopi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/Camp_Banzai2016-\u2013-Kopi.jpg 557w, https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/Camp_Banzai2016-\u2013-Kopi-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/Camp_Banzai2016-\u2013-Kopi-477x300.jpg 477w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To organize camps and tournaments could be one thing, but to make them great is another thing. The foundation of Banzai Karate Kai&#8217;s events is themselves. With their great capacity and participation everywhere something happen in the name of Karate. When you have a large active team, you can be responsible for good events &#8212; then you have: athletes, coaches, judges and of course many who can contribute with whatever it may be.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/banzai-karate-2026-.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25884\" src=\"https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/banzai-karate-2026--1024x536.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/banzai-karate-2026--1024x536.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/banzai-karate-2026--300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/banzai-karate-2026--768x402.png 768w, https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/banzai-karate-2026--500x262.png 500w, https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/banzai-karate-2026-.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 15th Edition of Banzai Open 21st March 2026!\u00a0 The Gothenburg area in Sweden has a very rich environment when it comes to Full Contact Karate. Banzai Open international is proof of this, having grown from its humble beginnings to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/banzai-open-2026\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/banzai-karate-2026-.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2TilL-6Jt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25883"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25893,"href":"https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25883\/revisions\/25893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haukis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}