On behalf of the Kyokushin World Federation, we would like to send our sincere congratulations to Alejandro Navarro, for becoming today the All Japan Kyokushin Karate Champion 2012 (Organised in Ryogoku Kokugikan, Tokyo, 3-4 Nov, by IKO Matsui group).

  Alejandro has always been a very active competitor within the European Kyokushin Federation (former EKKO) and he holds the titles of European Kyokushin Karate Champion 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. He grew up in Europe, participated in many European and international tournaments, including the Championships of Spain, Germany, Poland and others. We are very proud and happy to be part of his successful sports career.

This victory proves that "one can achieve the highest goals, as long as he keeps believing it and keeps working hard".

Dear Alejandro Navarro,
Congratulations and all the best on your future karate way !!!

Antonio Pinero - KWF Chairman
Andre Drewniak - KWF General Secretary 

   On October 20-21, 2012 at the Sport Palace "Krayan" in Odessa was held the KWF Ukrainian Kyokushin Karate Championships 2012. It was organized by the Country Representative KWF Sensei Igor Sosnovskiy, president of UFKK Shihan Salem Kahil and vice president of UFKK Sensei Andrey Rekunov. 12 regions of Ukraine participated in this championships; the number of participants was 180 athletes.

GALLERY

On 20 and21 October 2012, in the Palace of sport “Yantarniy”in Kaliningrad in Russia, a two-day International Championships of Russia KWF for young people took place, with the participation of more than 200 competitors from 11 regions of Russia, under the supervision of the Russian Federation KWF lead by CR Sergey Suvorov. Guests of honour were the President KWF shihan Loek Hollander, the President EKF shihan Antonio Pinero, the Secretary KWF shihan Andre Drewniak and the member of the board KWF shihan Bertrand Kron. The official opening of championships was made by the Director of the Department of Sport. Shihan Antonio Pinero was the main judge, shihan Andre Drewniak was the technical judge, and the secretariat of competition was led by sensei Robert Wajgelt. Central referees were shihan Bertrand Kron, sensei Robert Kopciowski and sensei Radoslaw Mazurek. Within the framework of the entertainment part of the event shihan Pinero led the Seminar for fighters and the Referee course for judges. The event was finished with Sayonara. Kaliningrad Kyokushin Federation Kyokushin led by sensei Sergey Soldatov were the organisers of the Championships.

RESULTS

On September 14, Shihan Andre Drewniak (KWF General Secretary) and Shihan Noriyuki Tanaka (KWF Representative in Japan) had an official meeting concerning the upcoming 1st KWF World Cup in Japan. Meeting took place in Tokyo Metropolitan Hotel , Ikebukuro. Discussion consisted of the following topics: preparations for the next years events including the 27th European Kyokushin Karate Championships in Poland, the 1st KWF World Championships in Paris, European Summer Camps in Holland, Spain and Poland, and Japanese Summer Camp in Kiyosumi Mt. Both Shihan Drewniak and Shihan Tanaka agreed that co-operation between Europe and Japan based on strong friendship relations and mutual respect should be the base for the further developement of Kyokushin World Federation.

   On July 28th - 29th KWF Japan Summer Camp Kiyosumiyama 2012 was held with 100 participants at Nippon Budokan Training Center which is located close to Kiyosumiyama in Chiba, Japan.  The story about the training of Sosai Masutatsu Oyama at Kiyosumiyama is well known. 

The main activities including the night training are the following: Basic Training (Kihon-Keiko), Movements in different stances (Ido-Keiko), Kata, Kumite including the fighting techniques, Circuit training including the 1000 squats

We hope that next year we also have friends from abroad coming and joining this annual event in Japan.

Organiser of the camp was Shihan Noriyuki Tanaka - KWF Representative in Japan.