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Kenya Karate-do Federation Calender

Meanwhile the KKF 2014 calender of events has been released. Quite an interesting debate is going on regarding the 'many events' in the calender, some claiming it will not be practical to have events every month.

The Chair of KKF Mr. Atemi however defended the calender saying the more the events the better for the sport.

"...I am already working on a schedule that will align Karate to the Kenya Football style where clubs and county teams compete from the grassroots to the national level" he added.

Events, dates and venues might change fro time to time...So keep it here.

Date	Event	Venue
15-16 February	National Instructors/Coaches  Course	Nairobi
15-16 March	Referees and judges Course	Nairobi
9-10 May	Kenya Open Individual Karate Championship	Nairobi
May	Zone 5 Seniors Karate Championships	T.B.A
13-14 June	Gashukku Training Camp	Thika
5 July	Female Individual Karate Champioship	Nakuru
August	UFAK Senior Karate Championship	T.B.A
13-14 September	Inter Counties Karate Championships	Mombasa
5-9 November	World Seniors Karate Championships	Bremen-Germany
14-15 November	National Clubs Championships	Busia/Kakamega

Karate-do Youth Olympics trials

While the Kenya Taekwondo Association will be holding their Youth Olympic trials on 21 Dec 2013, click here, The Kenya Karate-do Federation held theirs on the 14th Dec 2013 at the Utalii College. A total of six karatekas three boys and three girls, were selected.

Black Friday

Friday, December 6th 2013 will go down as a day when the world lost once a great boxer by the name of Nelson Madiba Mandela.

Born July 18 1918, the first African to be elected as South African president, Madiba was a heavy-weight boxer in his early days and is quoted in his autobiography Long Walk To Freedom  '.......I was intrigued by how one moves one's body to protect oneself.... I found the rigorous exercise to be an excellent outlet for tension and stress'

No bard can ever put pen to paper on the achievements of this great man.

Martial Arts Kenya joins the world, and all martial artists in mourning an iconic boxer.

Kenya Open Taekwondo Championship

Let's all free our calenders on the 21st of December 2013 for the Kenya Taekwondo Federation this week announced the Kenya Open Championship to be held on 21st December 2013 at the Nyayo National Stadium.

According to their Facebook page, the championship will also be used to select a team that will represent Kenya at the 2nd Africa Youth games to be held in Gaborone , Botswana on 22nd - 31st May 2014 and at the Youth Olympics to be held in Nanjing, China from 16th-28th August 2014 all open for 14 - 17 year olds.

The Open is open for all categories i.e seniors, juniors, cadets and children where the charges will be Ksh. 500 for adult participants and Ksh. 300 for children.

So to all of us we have a date!

KKF GRADING

The Kenya Karate-do Federation annual grading timetable is finally out! The grading is scheduled to take place on Saturday 7th Dec 2013 and the venue being Moi Sports complex, Kasarani... or is it Safaricom stadium... doesn't really matter now commencing at 0900 hrs.

Charges are as follows:

3rd to 1st Kyu Brown belts ---- Ksh 1,000
Shodan (1st dan black belt)----  Ksh 2,000
Nidan (2nd dan black belt) ----  Ksh 4,000

Okay guys we've all trained in our different dojos, so on the 7th of Dec is when the rubber meets the road. no disappointments!!!

Pictures from demo

On Nov 3rd 2013 the Japan Embassy held a cultural day. Click here. Below are more pictures from the martial arts demonstrated

Sanseru kata in progress

Karate's Yoshio Tamura Sensei performing a kata

Judoka's throw

Yet another Judo's throw

Karatekas performing a standing yoko geri

Destination Mumbai,India

Kenyan team to 6th Karate-do Goju Kai world championship to be held at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel indoor Stadium, Mahalakshmi, Mumbai in India scheduled to run from 10th to 15th Dec. 2013 has been named.

The team comprising of 11 competitors (9 male 2 female) and 3 officials departure date is 8th Dec 2013.

Kenyan team will comprise of....drumroll please...

Seniors

Peter Ongeto ---Team Captain
Fredrick Atwola
Tom Kazungu
Fredrick Anyango

The above will perform both team and individual kata and kumite.

Juniors

Gem Asimba
Dennis Muasya
Derrick Kioko
Lewis Mwangi
Nicholas Ngundo
Marrylyne

World Goju-kai 'Fist Logo'

Naomi Kinyanjui

Officials

Maurice Aloo Sensei --- Team coach
Michael Owino --- Physician
Melly Sammy kipkemboi --- Official

Raise the flag high guys...Osss!  

Karate-do Goju Kai Seminar

Peter Brandon Hanshi was in Nairobi, Nyayo National Stadium for a two day seminar on the 15th Nov to 17th Nov 2013 to prepare the Kenya Karate-do Goju-kai team for the 6th world championship to be held in Mumbai, India from the 10th-17th December 2013. 

Brandon Hanshi also graded the Association members in various kyu (Coloured belts ) grades and Dan (Black belts) grades which saw Maurice Aloo Sensei being awarded Yondan (4th dan black belt) which included members from all over the country and next door neighbours, Uganda.

Names of participants to the games will be known in a few days after trials and selections have been done.

Women Kumite underway.

Men Kumite under the watchful eye of  Peter Brandon Hanshi

Team in preparation for Sanchin kata

Kata team performance

Martial Arts Demo

November 2, 2013 saw the show casing of Japanese culture at the embassy in Upper Hill. This included 3 forms of Japanese martial arts: Karate-do, Aikido and judo.

Performed in the open as opposed to inside the dojo the audience were not disappointed.

The Karate demo was led by Yoshio Tamura Sensei while the Aikido demo was led by Naoki Uozawa Sensei.

Aikido demo in progress

In seiza L to R Douglas, Daniel, Naoki, Ben and Aguta

Standing L to R Richard, Sarah, Mohseen and Leone

More pictures here