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  On June 25/26 the annual summercamp was held. Over 60 participants came to Hamburg from KWF Fulda, Wuppertal, Berlin. The training was carried out in different age groups. During the summer camp the pupils improved their Kihon, Kata and Kumite. During our dinner the topic of the 10-year old KWF Germany was discussed. We remembered how the fighters of KWF Germany took 2nd and 3rd in their respective weight categories at the european championship in bulgaria in 2011. The CR Janusz Konieczko took 2nd place in the open category. He was the oldes participant of the competition. Later the…

International Training Camp and Belts ExamThe Tunisian Association of Kyokushinkai Karate and Martial Arts (ATKAM) organised on the 14/15" of May 2022 in Sousse Tunisia a Training camp for coaches and athletes also a belts examination for 1, 2" Kyu and all black belts. This event was hold under the supervision of the President of the Kyokushin World Federation KWF Shihan Antonio Pinero, and the president of ATKAM and Arab Federation and KWF country representative of Tunisia Shihan Sadok Kouka. 7countries were present in this camp beside Tunisia, Iraq, Algeria, Lybia, France, Sweden and Spain. The first day Saturday the…

Report of KWF FRANCE SPRING CAMP from 26 to 29 of May, 2022 at Sportica (Gravelines city).  Under direction of Shihan Jérôme de Timmerman with Guest Instructors Shihan Paul LORIST and Sensei Jeroen ZEEGERS (Netherlands) and the French Staff: Sensei Christophe LAIGLE, Sensei Charley QUINOL and Sensei Matthieu MORELLE. KIHON, KATA, KUMITE, STAMINA, SELF DEFENSE in the purest respect of Kyokushin traditions, recovery in the swimming pool or in the form of hypnosis or morning scrubbing on Gravelines beach... A high-level KWF Grades test with the complicity of Shihan Paul LORIST. a sayonara party bowling in a perfect warm and supportive…

Last Saturday, April 9, 2022, the 41st Spanish National Kyokushin Championship was held in the City of ALCORCÓN – Madrid – SPAIN, with a large participation: 52 CLUBS, mainly from KWF Spain, and KWF Guest Countries such as Saudi Arabia, Costa Rica, Norway, Brazil, Portugal, Holland, France (Reunion Island – Indian Ocean), as well as other Clubs from Guest Kyokushin Organization such as Kyokushin-Kan, IFK, and others. The Championship was led and coordinated by SHIHAN ANTONIO PIÑERO, President KWF, without a doubt a great honour for the success of the Championship. We also had the presence of other VIPs, such…

Tranlation from english to Ukrainian: Звернення Президента KWF Антоніо Піньеро ВСЕСВІТНЯ ФЕДЕРАЦІЯ КІОКУСИН (KWF) Іспанія, 12 березня 2022 Шановні члени KWF, сіхани, сенсеї, семпаї та всі послідовники кіокусін, прямо зараз світ зіткнувся із трагічною ситуацією. Ніхто не хоче війни в Європі. KWF проти цієї війни, як і решта. Сосай Ояма через кіокусин хотів сприяти миру в усьому світі, утримуючись від світової політики. Ми несемо відповідальність за цю спадщину. Ми робимо це, тренуючись разом, організовуючи міжнародні чемпіонати та пізнаючи кіокусин таким, яким він має бути. Все це обмежується нинішньою війною між Україною та Росією. KWF буде дотримуватися прийнятих міжнародних санкцій. Чемпіонат…

The IX Spanish Wintercamp was held in Villanua (Huesca-Spain) from 5 to 7 of March. 90 participants of diferents dojos participated at the camp. The classes covered all aspects of kyokushin: kihon, Kata, kumite, self defence and Tameshiwari. The camp was directed by shihan Fernando Perez (6 dan) together others shihans and senseis.

On February 18-20, 2022, the National Kyokushin Seminar took place in the YMCA Fighting Sports Hall in Krakow, with the participation of 120 dojo managers, instructors and players, led by Shihan Alexandr Pichkunov (medalist of the Kyokushin World Championships, 6 years trained and fought in Tokyo in K-1 with shihan Francisco Filho).The topic of the seminar was general development and specialist exercises shaping the Kyokushin stamina, technique improvement, exercises with a partner and with equipment, and combinations for combat. Shihan Pichkunov demonstrated specialized exercises used in professional boxing and K-1. The accompanying events included: A lecture by an expert on sports…

On January 22, 2022, two All-Russian seminars were held in Yekaterinburg under the guidance of Shihan Antonio Pinero and Shihan Alexander Pichkunov. Athletes from 22 cities took part in the seminars. The number of participants in the first workshop was about 300 people. The second seminar was for black belts in the amount of 40 people. January 23 went to the test. The exam was taken by shihan Antonio Pinero and a three-person committee of shihan Alexander Pichkunov, regional representative in Nizhny Novgorod sensei Rasim Samedov, regional representative in Sverdlovsk region sensei Evgeny Bocharov. Igonin Vyacheslav passed to the fifth…

14-16.01.2022 under the auspices of KWF Ukraine: Kyokushin kai Federation of Ukraine - Country Representative Dmytro Nikolaiev (4 dan), KWF kyokushin winter school were held in the city of Mykolaiv, athletes from of the city of Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv, Cherkasy and Kherson regions took part in the events. Each new day students thoroughly honed their skills in two stages, the first training began (devoted to kihon and kata, the second training focused on kumite training. All athletes were divided into groups by level of preparedness. Due to the large number of participants, several halls were used simultaneously. The "Kumite-marathon" became…

On November 19-2021, the World Kyokushin Karate Championships - Krakow 2021 were held at TAURON Arena Krakow. It is worth adding that this rank was held for the first time in the history of Karate Kyokushin in Poland and Europe. According to the decision of the Polish Karate Association and the  Kyokushin World Federation, the organizer of the Karate Kyokushin World  Championships - Krakow 2021 was the Małopolska District Karate Association, headed by the president of MOZK - Shihan Robert Kopciowski (6th dan) and the secretary of MOZK - Sensei Arkadiusz Sukiennik (4th dan), who as the Organizing Director of the Championships was the main…