The KWF Kyokushinkai Costa Rica and Shidokan Costa Rica Organizations have successfully completed their Fourth edition of the Bushido Challenge 2016. The high level of fights and of the Organization gave fighters and fans a great Tournament. Both Organizations have been working hard on uniting Full Contact Karate in Costa Rica, and as a result we had the participation of KWF, Shidokan, Shinkyokushin, Kyokushin Kan, IKO Matsushima, Shieyjuku, Kyokushin Union, and many other independent groups. This year we had the participation of fighters from other countries such as Mexico, Pánama and Chile. In order to ensure a fair tournament regarding judges, we had judges from KWF, Shidokan and Shinkyokushin.

KWF Costa Rica had an impressive performance obtaining 9 First Places, 6 Second Places and 3 Third places out of a possible 25 podiums for our Organization.

The next Edition of the Bushido Challenge will be held on May 2017. For more information please contact KWF Costa Rica Country Representative Sensei Mauricio Alvarado at kyokushincrc @gmail.com. 

Our summerschool was attended by 125 students from all over Europe and  also some good friends  from Iran.

Shihan Loek Hollander and Shihan Antonio Pinero supervised the lessons  in this summerschool.

Next year the Dutch Kyokushin Karate Organisation  will  celebrate the 50 th summerschool, so hereby we invite everybody to join this special event.

 ( Papendal Holland from 7 till 10 july 2017)

With regards

rien.brink@hetnet.nl

On 14-17 July at Krakow Academy of Physical Education there was held the 43rd East European Summer Camp in which participated 280 fighters and coaches, including about 30 participants from Armenia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Ireland, Kaliningrad, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine. Training sessions were led by the President of EKF shihan Antonio Pinero and USA Country Representative shihan Leslaw Samitowski from Chicago. Simultaneously there was organized a session for the national team, which was conducted by PKF coaches sensei Maciej Sokolowski and shihan Robert Wajgelt, and coach shihan Wac?aw Antoniak was introducing WKF fighting regulations. On July 15, at the Conference Hall of the Hotel Justyna, the Annual Meeting of PKO was held, in which more than 50 Polish Branch Representatives took place. On July 16 examinations were conducted for Kyu and Dan and later in the evening a Sayonara party was organized.  Cabaret contest was won by sensei Piórkowski's team. The camp ended the next day with over-one-hour examination fights. The Examination Board awarded with 5 Dan the following well-known Branch Representatives: Robert Kopciowski and Janusz Piorkowski from Poland and Konstantin Vysochinskiy from Ukraine. All camp participants traditionally received diplomas of participation, poster calendars with a family photo and key rings. The organizer was the Polish Kyokushinkai Organization led by shihan Andre Drewniak.

We are already inviting you to participate in the next 44th Summer Camp in July 2017 in Krakow.

GALLERY

The Norwegian summer camp was arranged at Egersund on the south/west coast of Norway from June 24^th to June 27^th.

The camp was a great success with 95 participants.

As usual our guest instructor was Shihan Antonio Pinero from Spain. Shihan Lars Hogquist was responsible for the technical part of the camp.

7 candidates made a new dan degree. With San dan as the highest this time

The feedback was very good from the participants.

The atmosphere was excellent and a lot of smiles were seen during the entire camp and many new techniques were taught to everyone. The children really enjoyed the training too.

And the food was excellent. Our KWF members seldom gain weight at a camp but this time I am not so sure!!

From the 22nd to 26th of June 2016 the Norwegian Kyokushin Karate Organization (NKKO) had it´s annual summer-camp in southern Norway.  

This year we had over 160 of our students attending the camp.  There were also students from many other Norwegian Kyokushin organizations.  

Together with our Norwegian instructors: Sensei G. Øian, Sensei T. Erga, Sensei J. Sundvor, Sensei G. Gundersen, Sensei G. Havreberg and Sensei G.R. Tøge we also had guest instructors from Spain.  

Shihan J. Lezkano and Sensei P. Estensoro gave us many hours of good training.  

We had special classes for fighting team, kata team, children, education for instructors and self defence. 

On Sunday morning our European President Shihan A. Pinero also came to visit and was responsible for the dan exam.  All the students going for their dan exam completed successfully.  The NKKO has now seven new shodan´s and one new nidan.  

The summer-camp was organized by the board of the NKKO with good help from our members.   

We all had s good time at the summer camp and are now looking forward to our annual winter-camp.