KWF Israel organized a 24-hour training marathon which took place on 10 and 11 August in Bat Yam near Tel Aviv. The event was led by sensei Vadim Matveev 3rd DAN KWF representative in Israel. During the marathon, kata, kihon, kumite, running and demanding exercises on the beach and in the sea were practiced. Congratulations on your effort! OSU.

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The summer camp 2018 was held during two month led by the president of KWF Armenia Spartak Gasparyan. Summarizing summer camp 2018 of KWF ARMENIA we can say that the summer was hot and successful for the federation. Hard work always gives the desired result. Three different camps.

26-29 July 2018 took place International Summer Camp in Benasque, Spain. The main instructor was President of KWF shihan Antonio Pinero 9 dan. The trainings were conducted three times a day by other present shihans for example Tomás Tudela, Mauricio Alvarado, Manuel Girón Cortés, Javier Sánchez, Paul Loris Javier Serrano Ruiz and Javier Lezkano.
Three days of training took place in full sun at a temperature of 35 degrees Celcius. There were about 180 participants from Spain, Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Netherlands and the other countries.

19 - 22 July 2018 on the sports facilities of the Academy of Physical Education in Krakow took place the 45th Eastern European Kyokushin Summer Camp with 302 participants from 7 countries. The main instructors were the President of KWF shihan Antonio Pinero 9 dan and the Country Representative of the United States shihan Leslaw Samitowski 7 dan from Chicago. The plan of the camp was supervised by the Secretary of the KWF, shihan Andre Drewniak 9 dan. The program included a morning warm-up and 3 two-hour trainings. Becouse this year's camp was the 45th jubilee, during the first training - on Thursday the participants took part in the consumption of a cake prepared especially for this occasion.

From Wednesday 27th of June to Sunday the 1st of July
the Norwegian Kyokushin Karate Org (NKKO) hosted their annual summer camp.

More than180 students joined the camp to train with world class instructors from Spain and Norway. We were very happy to meet and train with our friends from Shinkyokushin, Makotokai and several independent dojo´s. This year we also had more than 60 black belts from all over Norway training together. Shihan Antonio Pinero 9th dan and President of KWF was the main instructor, together with Shihan Javier Lezkano, Shihan Geir Havreberg, Shihan Tom Soelve Erga and Sensei Pablo Estensoro.

We had different classes in basic, kata, fighting, self defense and special class for dan candidates. The camp motto was “Back To Basic” and our instructors focused on our Kyokushin roots. The fighting team trained together with the national coach Sensei Odd Kjetil Liland and our guest instructor Sensei Pablo Estensoro. The kata team trained under the guidance of our national kata coach Sensei Roy Svendsen.

Sunday morning the NKKO grading committee together with Shihan Pinero held the dan exam for 12 candidates. It was a hard grading lasting for four hours with basic, kata, strength exercises and 20/30/40 rounds of kumite. This year all our candidates passed their dan exam. This is proof of the excellent job done by our club leaders, instructors and the candidates themselves in preparing for the exam.

All the students fought hard and showed great Kyokushin spirit. Among the higher grades awarded Sensei Johnny Reiestad (former international fighter and former national fighting coach) and Sensei Roy Svendsen (national coach in kata and several times norwegian kata champion) was promoted to 4th dan, both showing excellent techniques and fighting spirit. We are also proud to announce that Sensei Jarle Sundvor passed the exam for 5th dan and it is with great respect we can call him Shihan.

Shihan Jarle showed great fighting spirit and impresses us all with his great performance. This dan exam showed that a dan grade in NKKO must be earned through hard training and Kyokushin spirit, not given like a cheap present. Osu!

send by Geir Rune Tøge from NKKO

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