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Karate Budokan International Press Release Karate Budokan International had athletes competing in three Australian states on the weekend and came home with 74 medals! Congratulations to KBI athletes all down the East Coast of Australia! March 6th & 7th was a busy weekend of Sports Karate with the Summer Invitational in Queensland, the Sydney All styles in NSW, the State titles in Victoria and the Tasmanian Open in Hobart. Karate Budokan had athletes in three of the four events! Our medal tally from each event was outstanding! Queensland = 46 Medals - 12 Gold, 17 Silver & 17 Bronze New South Wales = 22 Medals - 13 Gold, 7 Silver & 2 Bronze Tasmania = 6 Medals - 1 Gold, 2 Silver & 3 Bronze The exciting thing was that there were so many 1st time competitors doing an oustanding job, especially our Tasmania branch which is only 8 months old. These results look very promising for our success at the KBI World titles in Noosa, Australia in May. Also a special mention must go to our former KBI Golden girl Alysha Dew who now lives in Melbourne. Now fighting for Marco Mazzanti's club she took the Victorian tiles in the 50 - 55kg Kumite and Silver in the Open division. NEWS FLASH: Karate Budokan athletes: Alexandra Gallo, Luke Walker, Bianca Gallo & Charlotte Degiorgio have been selected in the AKF Australian team to train & compete at the WKF 3rd Youth World Cup in Corfu, Greece in June 2010. A fantastic reward for four outstanding athletes, stay tuned as we have another group of athletes being considered for selection in this same event that will be announced at the Australian Open in Melbourne in April. Karate Budokan International Wayne MacDonald SHIHAN World Chief Instructor

Karate kids to go Down Under

Posted On Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 03:05:53 PM

A group of 17 karate players from Thane, who have won 58 Gold, 44 silvers and 56 bronze medals between them in the past eight months at the District, State and National-level, are in a team of 72 karate players from Maharashtra to take part in the Karate Budokan International World Championships later this year in Australia

take that: The children from Sri Ma Vidyalaya and Sri Ma Bal Niketan will be going to Australia in May

by more advanced practitioners, which is far closer to how karate would look if used in a real fight, esp

This group, which is included in the 40 players selected from Thane, includes 11 students from Sri Ma Vidyalaya and Sri Ma Bal Niketan who have won 11 Golds, 12 Silvers and 10 Bronze medals between them. They are currently training under Sensei Sandeep Surve. The selection trials were held at the Kerala Selection Tournaments on November 14 and 15 last year.

Speaking to Thane Plus, Sansei Sandeep Surve said, “Solo training of kata is the primary form of practice in some martial arts. At higher levels, serious injury is prevented only by a high sensitivity of both participants to important concepts being taught and trained for.

These include timing and distance, with the kata practiced at high speed. This adjustability of kata training is found in other Japanese arts with roles of attacker and defender often interchanging within the sequence. Many martial arts use kata for public demonstrations and in competitions, awarding points for such aspects of technique as style, balance, timing, and the appearance of being real.”

He adds, “Kumite refers to forms of sparring. It covers a vast range of activities. In traditional karate, the first type of kumite for beginners is gohon kumite. The defender steps back each time, blocking the attacks and performing a counterattack after the last block.

This activity looks nothing like the jiyu kumite practiced espcially because it is not choreographed.”The children from Sri Ma Vidyalaya and Sri Ma Bal Niketan will be going in May for their tournamnent

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Mixed martial arts group coming

 

Competitors contest a recent Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) event.

ONE of the world’s fastest growing sports is coming to Toowoomba.

Tapout/Underground will bring an amateur mixed martial arts event to the city next month, capitalising on a sport that has taken the world by storm.

While the professional side of the sport is flourishing, event organiser Shane Balmer believes it is important to now establish a “thriving” amateur base.

“We have a couple of pro fights on each card to show the crowd what the benchmark is, but 95% of these shows are amateur,” Balmer said.

“We’re endeavouring to build the amateur ranks because the more amateurs the better the pro ranks will be in the long run.”

The Toowoomba event will be held at the Clive Berghofer Recreation Centre on Friday, February 26.

It will be staged in a steel cage hexagon and will be the first time such an event has been held in Toowoomba.

Balmer said the sport was the fastest growing in the world and

“We staged Australia’s first cage promotion in 2004 and at that time it was very much a niche sport, but it is now mainstream,” Balmer said.

“It is now bigger than boxing in Las Vegas and outrates baseball in the US.

“There is a UFC event coming to Australia in February and they sold out, 20,000 tickets, in eight hours.”

Tickets for the Toowoomba event are available by calling 0413 885 522.

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Lalor boy is top of the chops

15 Dec 09 @ 10:45am by Mark Smith

Lalor's Pece Naumovski has won a national karate title for the third time.

LALOR karate star Pece Naumovski has won a martial arts trifecta, sweeping the field en-route to a third-straight Australian title.

The Australian karate champion, 12, backed up successive title defences in the Go Kan Ryu National Championships in Sydney last month to again claim the kata title in the under-10 to 12 division.

Pece has held the title since 2006.

The Go Kan Ryu Greensborough black belt also won the gold medal in the 10 to 17-year-old kumite at the National All Styles Championships in Melbourne on November 28.

Pece won the kumite and kata events in the Go Kan Ryu state championships in April, and competed in the Go Kan Ryu International event in Melbourne in August. He won the 9 to 11-year-old category in forms (kata) in England in 2007.

Mangalore: St Aloysius Student, Oralia Rego, Bags Karate Budokan Gold

Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (RD/SP)
 
Mangalore, Dec 2: Oralia Rego, a student of St Aloysius Pre-University College here, has bagged gold medal for her outstanding Karate skills in Black Belt Kumite event in the 16 to 17 years category, in the Karate Budokan international tournament, held at Thoppil indoor stadium, in Thrissur district of Kerala, recently. 
 
Oralia also won a bronze in girls individual as well as the team Kata, under black belt girl's category. She is a student of Karate instructor Padmanabha.
 
Multi-talented Oralia, daughter of Joseph and Queenie Rego, was also a finalist in the face-off round of Airtel's Verbattle Senior debate competition, the biggest English debate tournament, conducted during August this year, at R V Dental College, Bangalore.  Both Oralia and Delroy Pereira represented St Aloysius Pre-university College as a team and won a cash prize of Rs 10,000 as the runners-up.

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