The country representatives of region formed the IFK South American Committee with the aim to develop the IFK Kumite, Kata and Clicker events. The participants were Mr. Jeovaldo Barreto (IFK Brazil), with his assistant, Sensei Felipe Canal; Sensei Germán Carballo (IFK Uruguay) and Shihan Julio Romero from IFK Argentina.
Congratulations to country representative Shihan Eduard Gabathuler and Shihan Klaus Ming on promotion by Hanshi Steve Arneil to the rank of 7th Dan at the Swiss summer camp. Well done to all other yudansha who received promotions.
The camp was held in Willisua under the guidance of Hanshi Steve Arneil and the IFK Switzerland chief instructors. It was a successful camp focusing on all aspects of IFK kihon kata and kumite. Thanks to all other IFK countries that also took part.
IFK Sandnes dojo in Norway had a seminar with Shihan David at their dojo, it was great to see this seminar was open to other organisations and we thank them for their participation.
Group photo with Shihan David and dojo Leader Sensei Arnt Aenesen and Sensei Geir Havreberg of KWF.
This years camp was held in St Petersburg with the regional leaders of IFK Russia attending the camp. Hanshi Arneil and Shihan David Pickthall took the group through various technical sessions on Kihon and Kata, followed by Kumite and Bunkai. Hanshi also held a very successful Dan grading.
Representatives of National Federations, who have passed national qualifying championships with calling in all interested Kyokushin groups in a particular country at age 18 years and above, with a style qualification not less than 4th kyu are able to participate in the World Championship.
The time and place of the National Qualifying championships are defined jointly by the representatives of the international organsations listed in the "Members" section on www.kwunion.com
The IFK Belgium Winter camp was held between 7-9 February 2015, in Kasterlee, Belgium and was supported and attended by members of Belgium Shinkyokushin, Rengokai and IFK Holland.
Congratulations to Sensei Frank van Tilburg for his promotion to Sandan.
Due to the instability in the region the IFK, following discussions IFK Israel Country Representative Shihan Itzik Ashkenazi, have decided it is in the best interests of the event we move the U21 World Tournament to an alternative venue.
Fortunately two countries IFK Greece and IFK Romania proposed to take on this event and after careful consideration Greece has been selected to host the event.
Country Representative Sensei Stefanos Tranidis has set up an event team and they are busy preparing a website and all related information. The event will still be on the 21st March 2015 at the Micra Sports Centre in Thessaloniki, Greece. The official hotel will be the Nikopolis. The same regulations will apply for this event except that IFK Israel and IFK Greece will get host nation entry quota of double participants.
We hope to have all information circulated by mid October.
Hanshi thanks Shihan Itzik and his team for all the hard work prior to this change.
Many years dedicated to Kyokushin. We wish Hanshi Arneil happy 80th birthday!
We, in Kyokushin, owe you a debt of gratitude. Osu!
Hanshi and his team of top BKK instructors held another successful adult and junior summer camp in Felsted, Essex.
Students were taken through kihon and bunkai and kumite. An evening seminar with our Italian country representative Sensei Andrea Stoppa on basic BJJ skills.
A national and camp grading was also held for those attempting high grades including the promotion of three new third dans.
Another successful summer camp was held last week in Willisau under the guidance of Hanshi Steve Arneil, Country Representative Shihan Eddy Gabathuler and the head instructors from the Swiss IFK. The event was rounded off with a celebration of 20 years of the Swiss IFK Summer Camp plus Hanshi's 80th Birthday.
Report to follow. Here are some images from the camp hsoted by the Russian Federation.
Further photos can be found by clicking here. Check out this training clip from the camp - by clicking here.
On the 25th June – 2nd July on the “Komponent” base near Moscow there was held Inter-regional “Bushido Mon” Summer Camp with Shihan Victor Fomin (VI Dan), assistant instructor– Sensei Yulia Tseytlina (IV Dan).
There were 70 participants from Moscow (sport clubs “Bushido Mon”, “Severny”, “Shiroi Tora”, “Bercut”, “Delta”, “Lefortovo”),Moscow region (Podolsk, Schelkovo), Tula, Gai (Orenburg region), Shihany(Saratov region). The Guest of Honour was Shihan Eddy Gabathuler (Country Representative of Switzerland, VI Dan) with his student Andreas Janka (2nd kyu).
8 hours a day training was concentrated on Budo karate – detailed learning of the IFK Syllabus combined with self-defense. The last one included bare hands and weapons training: Bo, Knife, Jawara with Shihan Victor Fomin and Tonfa with Shihan Eddy Gabathuler. Sayonara training session was traditionally dedicated to sword tameshigiri.
Two seminars were held last weekend - May 30th to June 1st.
Country Representative Christen Herman Hirsh organised an open seminar in Sibiu, Romania with Hanshi Arneil assisted by Shihan Eddy Gabathuler. For more Romania photos visit our Facebook album.
Meanwhile in Turkey Country Representative Omer Salih Cengiz and Ismail Yildirim conducted an IFK seminar with 275 participants.
We previously reported on the World Kata Championships held in Belgium.
Ex-BKK Kyokushin Academy member has set up as a dojo operator representing the IFK in Finland. See Country Representatives Europe for contact details.
On the 17-18 May the 1st JFKO All Japan Weight tournament took place in Osaka. JFKO and Shinkyokushin President invited Shihan Yuri Trutnev Chair of the KWU for discussions and it was agreed Shinkyokushin would cooperate with the KWU for future events.
RFKK fighters try to make it three in a row for the IFK in the 3rd All Russian Championships on the 31st May. The Russia IFK team is:
Artem Lyalikov
Vitali Ishahneli
Nikolai Maslennikov
Sergei Gerasimov
Alexander Karshigeev
Maxim Veselov
Artur Tilov
Good luck gentlemen!
On May 17th 2014 in Novy Urengoy, Russia, the World Fighting Kyokushin Organisation (WFKO) will be staging a heavyweight title fight between Arsen Karchatryan and Konstatin Fedorov.
Karchatryan
Federov
go to Superkarate for more information.
The IFK are pleased to announce three (3) new country representatives, as we welcome Christian Nugent of the Reunion Islands, Slavko Simonovic of Serbia and Jeovaldo Pereira Barretto of Brasil.
See Country Representatives for contact details
We welcome Tunisia and South Korea to the IFK.
Fethi Nasra of Tunisia and Ki Sun Park of South Korea are both IFK Country Representatives. Ki Sun is based in Seoul with his dojo in Gangwon.
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