IFK Bulgaria is happy to announce their annual International Summer Camp “Primorsko 2023” with special guests and main instructors Shihan David Pickthall and Sensei Emma Markwell. The camp will take place in MMC Primorsko, Bulgaria from 1st July to 8th July 2023.
For applications and additional information, please contact organizers at: ifk_bulgaria@abv.bg
IFK Bulgaria will host an Open Balkan Championship on 3.12.2022 in Sofia.
Applications for participation can be submitted by all federations and independent clubs. There is no limit to the number of competitors in a category.
Contacts: ifk_bulgaria@abv.bg ifk_bulgaria@abv.bg
Dates of keeping: December 2th-5th, 2021
Conditions of access to participation: Representatives of national federations, who have passed national qualifying championships with calling in all interested groups of Kyokushin in a particular country at the age of 18 years old with a style qualification not less than 4th kyu and 1 fighter from each country in each weight category.
Applications are accepted by e-mail address: kwu_bulgaria@abv.bg
Contact phone numbers:
+359 88 9907857 Aleksandra Marinova (English),
+359 88 4996666 Viliana Bozhilova (Russian)
The original applications along with all the necessary documents are provided by the team representatives to the credentials committee.
General rules: The competitions will be held by the rules of KWU, which are posted on the official website: www.kwunion.com
Judges: The official list of judges will be approved by KWU from among the accredited judges of KWU and published on the official website – www.kwunion.com. Those wishing to attend the seminar on December 3th 2021 in Varna must apply via email kwu_bulgaria@abv.bg with the indication “judging seminar” in the subject line. All expenses are paid by the judges wishing to participate.
The main judge of the European Championship is Shihan Ramil Gabbasov, 5th Dan, Russia.
Anti-doping control: Winners from 1st to 3rd places will go through a doping test in accordance with the rules of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)
Weight categories and composition of teams:
Amount of fighters and composition of teams:
– official coach of the team;
– fighters – up to 1 person from a country in each weight category.
Men (18 years and older, kumite): 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95, 95+ kg
Women (18 years and older): 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 70+ kg
The quota for WKO Shinkyokushinkai: The competitors from WKO Shinkyokushinkai, who wish to participate in the KWU Kyokushin European Championship among men and women in weight categories, should contact their Branch Chiefs, who would inform about this request the WKO Shinkyokushinkai Headquarters.
Financial conditions: The entry fee will not be charged to the participants of the competition.
KWU covers the following charges:
Accommodation of approved judges in double rooms of the accredited hotel from December 2th to December 5th (full board)
Accommodation for fighters in double rooms of the accredited hotel from December 2nd (start with dinner) to December 5th (full board)
Lunch for fighters on the days of the championship (December, 4th– 5th)
Flights Sofia – Varna – Sofia for judges approved by KWU;
Transfer for fighters and approved by KWU judges along the route: Varna airport -hotel – Varna airport, as well as to the sports hall and back in the days of the competition.
Full information, schedule of the competition, all necessary documents you can find in attached files in English and Russian:
Deadline for applications: November 1st, 2021
Provision KWU European Championship 2021
Положение Чемпионата Европы KWU 2021
Stay safe! See you in Varna!
Fighters from 15 countries will compete at the 1st European Open SENSHI championship on the 8th, 9th, and 10th of July. The finals will be on the 9th and 10th of July in Kamchia and will be broadcasted all over the world.
According to preliminary applications, several IFK fighters - tournament medalists will take part in the championship. We wish success to all participants. Osu!
The event will be organised by KWU International Professional League and its Chairman Shihan Ivo Kamenov, who is also a Chairman of Bulgaria’s National Combat Sports Association, and only the best fighters will compete in the finals and will compete for the European belts of SENSHI.
During the first day, all of the qualification matches will be held. All 60 participants are divided in six categories –70, -75, -80, -85, -90, +90 kg. Each division will consist of 10 fighters.
The semi-finals will be held on the 9th of July, and the finals will be played along with the 9-th edition of the international elite fight nights SENSHI on the 10th of July. The six finals will be accompanied by 7 professional fights between competitors from 11 countries. A total of 13 fights will be held in the epic 9th edition of SENSHI. They will be conducted under the KWU SENSHI and KWU Full-Contact rules.
The events on all three dates will be open to the public. On the 8th and 9th of July between 09:00 and 15:30, the fights will take place in the main sports hall of SC “Kamchiya”. On the 10th of July, the fights will start at 8 PM local time in the amphitheater in Kamchia with no entry fee.
Senshi 9 will be broadcasted on Bulgaria ON AIR, MAX Sport, Boec.BG and the US online channels FITE, Boec.COM, Kwunion.com, KyokushinKarate.News, and Fighto.News.
The 1st European Open SENSHI championship and SENSHI 9 will take place during the 15-th KWU International summer camp which starts on the 4th of July and will gather all the Kyokushin elite in one place. The European championship had to be held in 2020, but due to the COVID-19 epidemic, it was postponed.
Now the KWU International Professional League will make it happen thanks to its Chairman Shihan Ivo Kamenov during the biggest event in the world of Kyokushin.
SENSHI 9 is brought to you by KWU International Professional League, Armeec Insurance Group, MAX Sport, Bulgaria Air, M-Car Group – BWM.
Media partners of SENSHI 9 are Boec.BG and Boec.COM, Bulgaria ON AIR, FITE.tv, Gol.bg, Topsport.bg, kwunion.com, Russian Union Of Martial Arts, KyokushinКarate.News and Fighto.News
IFK - Bulgaria will hold an International Kyokushin Summer camp “Primorsko 2021”., under the leadership of:
Shihan David Pickthall – 7 dan, President of IFK
Sensei Emma Markwell – 4 dan, World and European Kumite champion
The Camp will take place in MMC Primorsko, Bulgaria, from 01.07 to 08.07
For applications and additional information, please contact Shihan Nikola Blagoev CR IFK Bulgaria, on email: nikola_blagoev@abv.bg
Fighters from all over the world will have the amazing opportunity to take part in the upcoming training camp of KWU International Professional League!
They will train under the guidance of the K-1 legends Semmy Schilt and Peter Aerts.
This amazing event will take place in Sofia, Bulgaria on February 25-28 amid the 7th edition of the elite fight nights SENSHI.
Schilt is 4-time K-1 Grand Prix champion and Aerts is 3-time K-1 Grand Prix champion, both have dozen world and European titles in kickboxing and Muay Thai.
Accommodation, food, and PCR tests upon arriving will be at the expense of the KWU International Professional League.
Another major names from the world of kickboxing and K-1 – Alexandr Pichkunov, the general secretary of the Kyokushin World Union (KWU), who is also finalist in K-1 Grand Prix in 2007 and 2008. The Russian is a bronze medalist form a Karate Kyokushin World championship in 2005.
He’s a silver medalist from the Russian Kyokushin championship in 2004 and winner of the Russian Kyokushin cup in 2001.
The Czech Republic’s Jan Soukup – European Kyokushin champion and an “All-Japan” winner, will also be part of the camp.
There is just few days left before the end date for sending application for participating.
Don’t miss the amazing opportunity to learn from legends.
You can send your applications to kwunion2011@gmail.com until February 15. Accommodation, food, and PCR tests upon arriving will be at the expense of the KWU International Professional League.
The idea of the Executive Director of KWU International Professional League and Chairman of the National combat sports association in Bulgaria – Shihan Ivo Kamenov is for the training camps to be held more frequently in 2021. As of now, five more events are being planned.
Any IFK fighters who are wishing to participate in the Camp, must get permission from their country representative and complete the application form
Ivo Kamenov, Chairman of Bulgaria’s National Association of Combat Sports and Chairman of KWU
International Professional League
On December 2-6, 2020 in Sofia, Bulgaria – ARENA ARMEETS Hall. The KWU Professional League organizes the first OPEN EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP by the rules of KWU SENSHI.
Participants will be divided into six weight categories: -70, -75, -80, -85, -90, +90.
Each category will consist of 8 fighters.
Preliminary bouts and semi-finals will be held with the use of protective equipment – helmets, elbow pads, leg protectors. Athletes can keep all the protective equipment after the competition.
In the final, fighters use only gloves, without other protective equipment.
Winners will receive a belt, cup, medal, and cash prize for each overall match. For details please contact + 359 897964368 senpai Nikolay Atanasov.
Matches will be held in the ring.
The organizers cover the cost of air tickets for the athlete and the coach, transfers to the hotel, accommodation and meals during the championship, as well as the cost of COVID tests.
The event will be broadcast live on the American online TV FITE – www.fite.tv, https://www.fite.tv/vl/p/senshi/
Final battles will be included in the SENSHI event on December 5th, 2020.
The deadline for submitting applications for the participation of all comers is November 1st, 2020 at senshi_bulgaria@abv.bg
Competitors from Israel, Iran, Turkey, Greece, Serbia, Romania, Ukraine, Russia and Bulgaria participated.
358 athletes of all ages participated in the Kumite. 72 competitors of all ages participated in Kata, and Tameshivari a total of 9 competitors participated.
Kumite
men up to 70 kg
1.Nikolay Zhotev - Kyokushin Khan Bulgaria
2.Cetin Mohammed - IFK Turkey
3.Sabo Florin IFK Romania
3.Kaloyan Georgiev - Kyokushin kan Bulgaria
Kumite
men up to 80 kg
1.Atanas Lichev - Kyokushin kan Bulgaria
2.Rusko Valchev - Kyokushin kan Bulgaria
3.Veselin Buzin - IFK Bulgaria
3.Mahdi Esfandiarpour - IFK Iran
Kumite
men up to 90 kg
1.Jalayan Mahdi - IFK Iran
2.Genadi Stoev - Kyokushin kan Bulgaria
3.Muharrem Furkan - IFK Turkey
3.Ivailo Ivanov - Kyokushin kan Bulgaria
Kumite
men +90 kg
1.Aleksandar Komanov - Kyokushin kan Bulgaria
2.Vasil Dimitrov - Kyokushin kan Bulgaria
3.Krisrtiyan Kostadinov - Kyokushin kan Bulgaria
Kumite
women up to 60 kg
1.Bekicheva Anastasia - IFK Russia
2.Evalina Derevenska - Kyokushin kan Bulgaria
3.Merav Ziv - IFK Israel
Kumite
women + 60 kg
1.Filatova Maria- IFK Russia
2.Gyach Anastasia- IFK Russia
3. Iva Toshkova - IFK Bulgaria
3.Mariya- Eliza Mineva - IFK Bulgaria
KATA
veterans men
1. Georgi Geshev - IFK Bulgaria
2.Frants Slavinskii - IFK Russia
3.Soia peter Alexandru - IFK Romania
KATA
men
1.Konstantin Siranchiev- IFK Russia
2.Yakir Levi -IFK Israel
3.Nikita Tsiplakov - IFK Russia
KATA
women
1.Merav Ziv - IFK Israel
2.Stefania Gklara - WKB Greece
3.Frasie Andrea- IFK Romania
TAMESHIWARI
men - 80 kg
1.Veselin Buzin - IFK Bulgaria - 12
2.Nikita Tsiplakov - IFK Russia - 8
TAMESHIWARI
men + 80 kg
1.Frants Slavinskii - IFK Russia - 15
1.Mahsud Darvish - IFK Iran - 15
2.Dinko Farazov - IFK Bulgaria - 11
3.Bogdan Bonev - IFK Bulgaria - 10
3. Georgi Stankov - IFK Bulgaria - 10
On the 23rd February 2019, Sensei Zahari Damyanov, the current absolute World Champion was in London to lead an open seminar hosted by the BKK’s Sensei Hristo Lyubenov at his Ichi Geki dojo in Bounds Green, alongside BKK Chairman and IFK Secretary General, Shihan Liam Keaveney.
The seminar was attended by a number of Kyokushin groups (BKK, IFK, Kyokushin-kan, Shinkyokushin,IKO1, KWU, EMAR) all with a common goal of knowledge sharing, developing Kyokushinkai, and building strong friendships old and new.
(L-R) Shihan Liam Keaveney, Sensei Zahari Damyanov, Sensei Hristo Lyubenov
Sensei Zarahi Damyanov with BKK National Coaches Sensei Kenny Jarvis, and Sensei Wai Cheung
IFK Bulgaria hosted their Summer Camp in Primorsko by the Black Sea from the 27th June to 4th July with approximately 150 students attending the course, led in the main by Shihan David Pickthall with instruction also from Country Representative Nikola Blagoev and also guest fighting sessions from Senpai Aneta Meskauskiene of IFK Ireland.
We also had Romanian students attending including CR Sensei Christian Hirsch and Irish representation from Senpai Emilia Cahill and family, and Senpai Maciej Solarski of KWF Ireland
On 2-9 July 2017 the biggest in the World, International Kyokushin Summer Camp was held.
Nearly 1300 participants, representing IFK, Kan, KWF and AKR, were accommodated in six hotels and practiced at the Kamchiya Sports Center. The opening of the camp was made by: Sports Minister of Bulgaria Krasen Kralev, shihan Andre Drewniak, shihan Dawid Pickthall and shihan Ivo Kamenov (main organizer). The program included two obligatory training sessions per day, at 8am and 6pm.
The participants were grouped as follows: black belts, brown and green belts, yellow and blue belts, children and a separate group of fighters. Volunteers could also take part in a Iaido sword training.
Training sessions for black and brown belts were run daily by shihan A. Drewniak (KWF) and shihan D. Pickthall (IFK). World champions Zahari Damyanov (Kan) and Sergey Plekhanov (KWF) as well as other Bulgarian masters, such as shihan Asen Asenov, shihan Marin Mitev, sensei Nikolay Rachev and senpai Petar Martinov, led sessions for the sports group and others.
Shihan Ramil Gabbasov conducted daily training classes for 80 international KWU judges.
The Professional Grand Prix of Bulgaria was held on 5 July. The President of WFKO Aleksander Tanyushkin from Moscow opened the event and the main judge was shihan Andrey Bura. Fighters fought five rounds of 2 minutes each, with a minute’s rest. The first match was won by Aleksander Drozd (Russia) who defeated Andrey Andreev (Bulgaria). The second one was won by Nikolay Yorgov (Bulgaria) who defeated Naoki Morita (Japan). The organizer was the Kyokushin Bulgarian Federation led by shihan I. Kamenov.
Shihan Hatsuo Royama came at the end of the camp to take part in the International Youth Tournament, dan exams and a farewell photo session.
On 7 July was held the International KWU Youth Tournament “Varna Cup” with the participation of about 130 fighters from 16 countries. The main judge was shihan R. Gabbasov and it was opened by shihan A. Drewniak on the behalf of KWU. Prizes were given by shihan H. Royama, shihan A. Drewniak, shihan M. Mitev and sensei N. Rachev. The event was organized by the Bulgarian Kyokushin Federation headed by shihan I. Kamenov.
On 8 July dan examinations were held, supervised by Shihan H. Royama and shihan A. Drewniak.
In the evening the official closure of the camp and a photo session took place in which participated shihan H. Royama and shihan A. Drewniak, as well as all leading instructors. Late in the evening in Varna a Sayonara party for about 400 adult participants was organized in the Rappongi Restaurant.
IFK European Championship results (Adults) Junior results to follow.
Ladies LW
1st Emma Markwell IFK Great Britain
2nd Svetlana Berezova IFK Russia
3rd Juliia Lemikh IFK Russia
3rd Lisa Marie Heath IFK Great Britain
Mens LW
1st Farid Kasumov IFK Russia
2nd Marsel Mansurov IFK Russia
3rd Dawid Ozga IFK Great Britain
3rd Dimitar Dimitrov Kyokushinkan Bulgaria
Mens HW
1st Igor Riadnov IFK Russia
2nd Evgeni Diachenko IFK Russia
3rd Farshad Shahyari IFK Iran
3rd Aleksandar Yordanov Kyokushinkan Bulgaria
Fastest KO Farshad Shahyari 3 seconds
Ladies HW
1st Svetlana Tuchkova IFK Russia
2nd Aneta Meskauskiene IFK Ireland
3rd Samantha Williams IFK Great Britain
3rd Mariya Panova IFK Russia
Mens MW
1st Arrem Nazaretyran IFK Russia
2nd Sergey Chmenevich IFK Russia
3rd Emad Nasiri IFK Iran
3rd Ruslan Gladnov IFK Bulgaria
Mens SHW
1st Nikolai Maslennikov IFK Russia
2nd Artur Tilov IFK Russia
3rd Jan Van Beek IFK Holland
3rd Daniel Degroote IFK France
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