The Norwegian Kyokushin Karate Organization (NKKO) has arranged the yearly instructor seminar in Oslo. Every year in connection with the General Meeting NKKO conducts a technical seminar. As always our guest instructor was Shihan Antonio Pinero. About 45 club leaders and instructors were present. The purpose with the seminar is to unify all the basic techniques and katas. This is very popular and a lot of questions are asked. This year most of the time was devoted to kumite techniques. Everyone was going back home with much new kumite knowledge. Every year we have always had some training in the snow. Well, this time we didn't have any snow to train in. We look forward to our next big event. The NKKO summer camp starts June 22. Shihan Lars Hogquist was responsible for the camp. 

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 On 23-24 January 2016 in Cracow YMCA martial arts hall, International Seminar with shihan Kenji Yamaki took place. 120 instructors and fighters, representing countries: England, Ireland, Czech R., Germany and Poland participated.

  Before the seminar, shihan Yamaki visited Cracow's Marshal Office. Frist training session was focused on improving body work in order to strengthen punching and kicking techiniques. Second training session was focused on work out with sandbags and kicking pads. Following training sessions were focused on kumite combinations and defence techiniques for real fight. An one hour interview with shihan Yamaki was organised, with participation of local tv. 

During the closing ceremony, organizer shihan Andre Drewniak expressed his gratitude for shihan Yamaki and invited him to further co-operation. Seminar was translated by sensei Andrzej Zacharski, who came over from Japan.

Seminar was organized by: Polish Kyokushinkai Organization, ARS Klub Kyokushinkai Limanowa and YMCA Cracow. Technical organiser was sensei Arkadiusz Sukiennik. Shihan Robert Wajgelt prepared the photo gallery.

Next seminar with shihan Yamaki will take place in Saragossa, Spain on 18 June 2016.

Seminar with shihan Kenji Yamaki 

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26-29 November 2015 in Yerevan in Armenia took place the Seminar KWF in which participated on both halls together above 300 persons. A theme of the seminar led by shihan  Andre Drewniaka was the unification techniques and the kata Kyokushin. During the stay the meeting took place with the representative of the Office of the City and two meetings  with leaders of the Armenian Kyokushin Federation.  One talked over previous sports-successes of Armenian competitors and the development program correlated with the Kyokushin World Federation. A theme of the last training was the three-hour examination on degrees dan and kyu. The seminar was finished by solemn Sayonara. An organizer the Seminar was the Armenian Kyokushin Federation directed through sensei Spartak Gasparyana 3 dan, which accepted the invitation to the participation in 43.The summer-camp in Cracow in July 2016. 

As part of the unification KWU World Championships the following accompanying events were held:

30.09 to 2.10 - International Course for judges/referees with the participation of 42 participants,

02.10 - the ceremonial planting of peace trees in the Avenue of Peace and Alliance in Khabarovsk Park in presence of local TV, radio and press. KWU President Yuri Trutnev, President WKO Kenji Midori and Governor of Khabarovsk gave some speeches. There was also planted The Tree of Sosai Mas. Oyama by Shihan Y. Trutnev, Shihan S. Arneil, Shihan K. Midori, Shihan H. Royama and Shihan A. Drewniak. Then, their individual trees planted: Shihan Y. Trutnev, Shihan L. Hollander, Shihan S. Arneil, Shihan H. Royama, Shihan K. Midori Shihan A. Pinero, Shihan A. Drewniak and Shihan D. Pickthall.

01-03.10 - having in mind the unity of Kyokushin, three several-hour meetings were held in the office of the Governor. They were chaired by the President of KWU Y. Trutnev. and representatives of world Kyokushin organizations participated in them. After that thay all had a friendly party. During the meetings they talked about many aspects concerning several years' effort of Kyokushin to enter the Olympic Games. A decision was made to coordinate all efforts, invite other world Kyokushin organizations, and lobby the idea through the National Olympic Committees.

04.10 morning - within the frameworks of the program TIME TO BE UNITED in the Office of the Governor there was held a ceremony of signing the Agreement of Cooperation between KWU and KWO. The document was ratified by KWU President Y. Trutnev and WKO President K. Midori. This was followed by a press conference and internal party during which all VIP  received diplomas from KWO.

Behind the scenes there was held a number of informal meetings, which confirmed the need for a worldwide unification across party lines to bring the Kyokushin to the Olympic family of sports, in spite of many difficulties.

It was a nice surprise when we heard the statement of the President KWU Y. Trutnev who said Kyokushin formed its own unshakeable character thanks to training sessions and camps organized in Bulgaria, Poland and Russia, which were ran Shihan A. Drewniak.

- KWU President Y. Trutnev, KWF President L. Hollander, WKO President K. Midori, IFK President S. Arneil and KKI President H. Royama repeatedly emphasized that regardless of the final result, the work done in order to reach unification will pay off for the whole Kyokushin.

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3-4 October 2015 in Metropilitan Arena (which is a copy of the Bercy Hall in Paris) 3-4 October 2015 in Khabarovsk the second unification Kyokushin World Championship were organized with participation of 255 fighters from 46 countries. This great event was comparable to the Olympic Games. The event was prepared very professionally and the audience had a chance to appreciate the advantage of lightings settings, cameras, live broadcast (e.g. replays in slow motion of the most interesting elements of fights). It all gave satisfaction to more than five thousand spectators and countless viewers of the event who followed live broadcast on the Internet.

The organizers took care of the participants and their accompanying parties already in Moscow on 30 September, and from there three large planes transported them to Khabarovsk located in the time zone of Japan. There, on 1 October, 8 buses repainted in the colors of the championships were escorted by the police and took everyone to the Riviera Convention Center. October 2 was devoted to active rest i.e. morning warm-up, sightseeing, medical checkups, organizational issues and an organizational general meeting for all competitors, judges and organizers.

On the first day of the Championship, October 3, qualifications fights were held on two mats. The fights were full of surprises. On the second day there was a spectacular opening ceremony (symphony orchestra, professional dancers and mimes doing their show referring to the Japanese martial arts). The most impressing show was prepared by the famous Japanese Taiko drum group "Yamato" who implemented a lot of visual effects. The official opening of the World Championships and raise of the KWU flag was executed by the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Yuri Trutniev, President KWF Loek Hollander, President IKF Steve Arneil, President KKI Hatsuo Royama and President WKO Kenji Midori. The face of the Championships was a famous actor Dolph Lundgren, who supports the initiative of TIME TO BE UNITED.

The 14 final fights took place on one mat. They were dominated by Russians and Japanese fighters.

Also the awards were given to the contestants in a very nice atmosphere. The awards were presented by the Governor of Khabarovsk, Minister of Sports, the aforementioned shihans and shihan Antonio Pinero, shihan Andre Drewniak, shihan D. Pickthall and shihan K. Sugekawa.

After that there was held a solemn Sayonara in the Riviera Center where participants received films with their fights and best championship spots.

The costs of air travel and accommodation of all participants in Khabarovsk were covered by the Kyokushin World Union.

A local and central TV stations, radio and press informed about the course of events and accompanying other events for two days.

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