Kyokushin World Federation

Gallery from championships: Previous Next On August 27, 2022, the 1st Brazilian KWF kyokushin championship was held in Tatui - São Paulo, in the city sports pavilion. It should be noted that this is the 1st KWF championship in Brazil. Fulfilling the decision of the KWF-Brasil table in which this 1st Brazilian championship would be one only for KWF members, it was up to the Kyokushin KWF Paulista Federation to organize the Championship, with the support of Ronin Academy and sensei Daniel Martino as President of the São Paulo federation. and organizer of the Championship. With some sponsorship from local…

 June 16th - 26th 2022 at Knox Indiana, about 50 students (ages 5 to 50 years old) from Kyokushin Karate School KANKU of Chicago participated in an intensive karate camp under supervision of Shihan Leslaw Samitowski (7 Dan). Main coach sensei Bruno Drab along with his wife sensei Magda lead the 10 day boot camp Karate training with rigorous yet fun activities. Each morning first training started 7:00 am sharp followed by two more classes at noon and evening. Training consisted of running, conditioning, strengthening, fighting skills, kumite as well kihon and kata with bunkai. QiGong and Yoga was also in cooperated…

The Spanish summer camp in Benasque came to an end. Led by Shihan Antonio Pinero, more than 200 karateka’s from Spain, the Netherlands, Israel, and Costa Rica completed a challenging training program. Each training ended with half an hour sparring. Everyone did at least 150 fights these three days. This renewed balance between kihon, kata and kumite show once more that kumite is the connecting factor in Kyokushin.On Saturday, 42 karateka's have successfully done exams for a higher degree. Not to be left unmentioned is the great performance of Sensei Vadim Matveev from Israel. He did a great job in…

On July 21 - 24, 2022, the 49th Eastern European Kyokushin Summer Camp was held at the facilities of the Academy of Physical Education in Krakow with the participation of nearly 200 participants from 5 countries, including Germany, Moldova, Japan, Israel and the Czech Republic. The main coach was the President of KWF Antonio Pinero 9 dan and 3 trainings were led by World Championship medalists sensei Michał Werner and Kamil Mastaj. The program was supervised by the general secretary of KWF Andrzej Drewniak. The program of the day included a morning warm-up and 3 two-hour workouts. The medical support…

Iran KWF women's national championship for the selection of the national team was held on July 14 and 15, Shiraz, Iran. Gallery: Previous Next

The Iran national championship of KWF (men's selection of the national team) was held on July 21-22 in Hamedan province, Tuyserkan city, Iran. Gallery: Previous Next

Last weekend, the Dutch Karate Kyokushin Organization organized the Kyokushin Summer Camp at Papendal for the 54th time. The camp is known as physically demanding. Of course all aspects of Kyokushin were practiced in 17 training sessions spread over 4 days. Shihan Antonio Pinero, Shihan Fernando Perez, Shihan Javier Lezkano from Spain and Shihan Jérôme de Timmerman from France were present and provided inspiring lessons.Each morning and afternoon the training ended with 25 fights. In this way everyone fought at least 150 matches. There were also special trainings such as the night training where the sprinklers for the grass were…

On Saturday, July 2, 2022, the first edition of the KWF TOKIO CUP took place on Reunion Island, organized by by Shihan Pierre Grondin. After the stop of the competitions due to the health crisis of covid-19, it was important to create a big event in the Indian Ocean area and it is done. The competition gathered about 140 fighters in kumite and kata. A delegation of 11 fighters from KWF Mauritius made the trip. KWF in the ocean area is getting organised and wishes to propose the second Indian Ocean Championship in April 2023 in Mauritius. On Sunday morning, July…

The summer camp been held in period 29th June to 3rd July, it was approx. 130 participants, and it was good after the Covid 19 period we have been through. It was nice to be able to get together and train together after a long period with Covid 19, everyone greatly appreciated meeting and training as normal. There were three training sessions each day and we also had meetings/courses and night training. We mostly trained outside in the beautiful nature at Moi. It was only grading and night training that was inside the hall. We had grading led by Shihan…

  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…