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FEKO CHILDRENS AND CADETS OPEN 2010
Karate England s 3rd Ranking Event of the year was the FEKO Childrens and Cadet Open Championships.
Held at its regular venue of the Harvey Hadden Centre , Nottingham it attracted over 500 entries.
Organiser Jim Reece ran the days events with his usual aplomb , organising the four tatamis and sixty odd categories easily and still finding time to chat to everyone.
FEKO Chairman Alan Carruthers was present as were fellow Karate England board members Abdu Shah , Noel Mantock and Ian Cuthbert.
Mandy Reades Dudley Club took home a bus load of medals after a very successful day , winning some 16 Gold 13 Silver and 17 bronze and topping the medals table.
Shikon were also a strong presence coming second with 8 Gold , 9 Silver and 12 Bronze .
Other notables were members from the SKU , Scottish Karate Association , BKO , SKA and Jeff Bottomley s Seidokan.
Kyojo- kai having recently rejoined Karate Sport England saw their squad win 8 medals , much to the delight of coaches John Anderson , Glen Middleton and Trevor Justin.
Another old face from EKGB days was Fred Rose (BUKA) and what a pleasure having him and his members back in FEKO again .
The results of the cadet sections have been amalgamated into the National ranking lists and are now available to view.
It was really good to see the Under 21 Karate England Squad given a round of applause as they prepared for the forthcoming World U21 Championships in Sao Paolo , Brazil.
Good luck to :-
Jason Marquis , Dan Thackray , Mitchell Roberts Greg Gentleman Shauna Carroll , Maddison Moore , Ami Wright-Hamilton , Holly Roberts Adam Carrigan_smith , Charlie Collins , Jack Downton and Liam Powell.
Along with their team of coaches , officials and physio Carla Downton we wish them all the very best of luck.
Thanks to everyone at FEKO for all their hard work and don’t forget the other ranking events for this year. FEKO cadet & Seniors 19th Sept SKU Open 17th Oct Shikon International 31st Oct and the Karate England Nationals 13th Nov.
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WUKF 2010 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS This years European Seniors and Veterans was held in Santarem , Portugal. UKA and Shikon had a number of athletes representing England at this event. The squad was partly sponsored by the David Lloyd Centre Chigwell , many thanks in their direction for all their support.
squad photo `who is this ???` Dan Cuthbert , Leon Martin , Jason Marquis , Dan Thackray ,Ami Carrigan-Smith Lindsey Turnbull and Barry Batson in the seniors and Les Carrigan-Smith , Dean Tilley , Rob Ward , Dave Brashaw , Della Tidusci , , Lisa Lethbridge , Kevin Lewis and Sam Lewis in the veterans. We also had IanCuthbert and Julia Heenan on the coaching staff and Sonia Powell Lucy Goodman and Tom Heenan as officials , all working under the supervision of Head Coach Abdu Shah (former World Champion ).
Opening Ceremony The result was a fantastic team effort which saw the squad win :- 1 Gold 2 Silver and 10 Bronze a grand total of 13 medals. its been some time since an England team has come back from a European event with 13 medals.
European Champion Dave Brashaw Lindsey Turnbull silver 2nd France 3rd Rep Of Ireland and 1st Serbia 3rd Poland , Italy Northern Ireland Full results:- Gold Dave Brashaw / Silver Lindsey Turnbull and Lisa Lethbridge Bronze Dan Cuthbert , Barry Battson Les Carrigan-Smith Rob Ward Lisa Lethbridge , Della Tidusci , Sam Lewis. Also in the team kata (Wado Ryu) Dave Brashaw , Sam Lewis and Kevin Lewis also mens senior team kumite and mens team rotation with Dan Cuthbert , Leon Martin , Jason Marquis and Barry Battson.
Les Carrigan-Smith bronze veterans Beauty and the beast both sleeping ? 1st Denmark 2nd Russia Which is which ?????? Special mention to Dan Cuthbert who not only came back with three medals (possibly a first from a European Championships but twice got the mens team through to the next round from his position as last man.
Dan Cuthberg with his medals Mens senior Team Romania 1st at Easter School Russia 2nd England and Poland 3rd
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KARATE SPORT ENGLAND 2010 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS KSE held its first Nationals at Loughborough Leisure Centre and despite it being at the end of the Easter holiday and under a volcanic ash cloud it was a resounding success. With hundreds of entries from member groups plus competitors from FEKO and KUGB , five tatamis a slick team of officials and organisers meant that the dozens of categories were all finished by six o clock. There was a great deal of feedback to organisers Abdu Shah and Ian Cuthbert. The biggest comment being not only on the high standard but on the friendly and sporting atmosphere. Full results link here : RESULTS Big thanks to all the officials Mark , Jim , Trish , Azad ( awarded ref of the day) Sonia , Dan , lynn , Lucy , Dean , Andy , Julia , Mik , Martin , Sian , jules , Loween Katie , Kelly , Dee , and Jamie .
the three front tatamis with referee of the day Azad Kumar at work early in the day.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ UKF OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS - DONEGAL 2010 The Shikon squad made a return trip to Burnfoot in the Republic of Ireland for the UKF Championships ,taking a very strong squad , pretty much all Black belts with Senior Shikon Coach Ian Cuthbert and Squad Coach Julia Heenan in charge. Arriving early on the Sat morning Ian and referee Sonia Powell went straight to the venue where WUKF Chief referee Mr Cucu Sever was conducting his first referees seminar in Ireland. Mr Sever oversaw the officials at the next days events and it has to be said that he certainly kept everyone on their toes. Shikon took 13 Golds 5 Silver and ten Bronze this year showing a significant improvement from last year. Medals count was as follows: Golds . Dan Cuthbert ,Becky Barton-Hagger (2) , Charlie Collins Becky Flowers , Liam Powell , Jamie Carroll , Senior Team Kumite , mens senior team rotation , cadet team male cadet team rotation , 10-12 mixed team , 13-14 mixed team The event proved a nice warm up for the Seniors many of whom are off to Portugal next week for the Europoan Seniors. PHOTO GALLERY Les Carrigan-Smith on his way to bronze` England vets Rob Ward and Dean Tilley battle it out.
Dean giving some back. Jason Marquis + Barry Healy square up This may be a first . Godfather and Godson fight it out . ?????????????
Thats a committed punch ¬!!! Dean Barron v Dan Cuthbert (team final)
Team Rotation Champions Sophie Wadey in action in Senior team final Ian Cuthbert and Joe Smith At the back Cadet team winners
Liam Powell with event organiser Liam powering his way to Gold Mr Columba McCloughlin far right ( and mum to left)
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19th BRITISH INTERNATIONAL KARATE OPEN 2010-01-27
Considered by all serious English Karate competitors to be the one event on the British calendar `not to be missed`. The EKF did its best to kill this competition , as it has the London Youth games and other Open events , but this year `ITS BACK`. And `wow` was it back in style!!!
Squads were there from the UK of course (including some very disenchanted EKF people) , plus squads from Romania , Albania , Belgium , Turkmenistan , Italy , Poland ,Ireland , Slovakia and others.
Congrulations to Abdu Shah and the Karate Sport England group for putting this event together and holding it at such a prestigious venue as K2 Gatwick. There is a huge amount of work to be done in holding such an event and its reappearance on the Karate circuit was a breath of fresh air.
We were privileged to have Mr Liviu Crisan the WUKF General Secretary attend with the Romanian Squad and also Mr Michelle Lilievre from Belgium who is the WUKF President of Western Europe.
KATA
The Kata events always seem so much more sensible using WUKF rules where styles are separated from each other , this system can only encourage more people to try Kata as opposed to having everyone in together. There was also an open event for styles not catered for.
Shikon took gold in the two Shito ryu childrens events with Hollie Roberts not only winning her style event but also taking first in the Open section and Oliver Briggs taking the boys in a close decision over squad mate Sam Hulbert.
In the childrens Shotokan sections I Pauly and A Vaccarella (Belgium) won the girls and boys respectively with excellent performances.
In the Senior events the Mens was won by Dan Read from Dudley (FEKO) with a strong performance of Shukokai kata and the Ladies by Eva Kerekes (World Wado Kata Champion) from Romania.
CHILDRENS KUMITE UNDER 15 YRS
Shikon , Dudley KC and the Belgium squad wrapped up most of the childrens categories between them despite strong opposition from Turkmenistan and Polish competitors. Special well done to I Pauly (Calaminia) who took her second Gold of the day in the Female O45k 13-14 yrs.
CADET KUMITE 15-17YRS
Here the Belgium squad dominated winning both the male categories . In the female cadet Raluca Vanea from Romania beat England s current European Champion Shauna Carroll in Encho sen in an exciting final.
SENIOR KUMITE
Dan Read from Dudley took his second Gold of the day winning the Male U21 s open event.
The Romanians and Albanians fared well taking several medals . Javier Ortigosa from Royal Holloway did well to win the Mens U78k and Shikons Ami Carrigan-Smith showed her usual good timing to take the Female O60k.
Old hand Jacek Lipinski from School of Masters won the Male Veterans to add to his numerous other titles and Belgiums Natalie Konnings took the female veterans.
TEAMS
Shikon showed its strength in depth winning all the male and female childrens team events , they also won the female cadet sanbon team and team rotation events beating Romania in the final. In the Male cadet the Belgium boys showed their experience and won both the team events beating English teams in both finals.
The Senior events saw a strong Romanian team win both the female sanbon and rotation events despite stiff opposition from the FEKO ladies and in the mens FIK from Italy beat Ulster in the Sanbon .In the team rotation Shikon (current English team rotation champions) beat SKU in an exciting finale to the days events.
Many thanks again to Abdu for all the hard work and of course to WUKF and Karate England members for supporting the event.
Thanks to the refereeing teams from FEKO and Shikon for making the day run smoothly and of course to all of the International referees who attended from the continent.
Roll on next year!!
================================================================= 2ND KARATE ENGLAND NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS HILLSBOROUGH LEISURE CENTRE For the tenth year in a row Shikon top the medals table at the National Championships. Full story and photos to follow:- congratulations to the board of Karate England for running such an excellent event. Coach Ian Cuthbert said ` it was as good a standard as I have seen at an English Championships in the last twenty years` Martin Rees from Yokudo having moved from EKF to KE events was very happy `loved the event and cant wait for the next one` he said. Photo Gallery For full report click here Please note that all these photos and many more can be purchased by using the following link www.dephoto.biz/karateengland
Ryan Correya Jamie Carroll
Rebecca Flowers / Shauna Carroll Shakir Joseph
Boys team champions Charlie/Jamie/Adam Ono Dean T and Rob W
Leon Martin Dan Cuthbert and again
tag team Oliver Briggs again????
Individual Golds went to the following Shikon Squad members:- Ryan Correya Male Cadet shito ryu kata Sophie Wadey female cadet shito ryu kata Shakir Joseph Boys 10 and Under U35k Aaron Walker Boys 10 and under O35k Albie Warner Boys 11-12 U40k Liam Powell BOys 11-12 O40k Imaaney Kudakendan Girls 11-12 Sam Hulbert Boys 13-14 U50k Adam Carrigan-Smith Boys 13-14 O50k Emma Whytefield Female cadet U57k Dan Cuthbert Male senior U78k sanbon Ono Ogbekene Female senior shobo sanbon Ono Ogbekene Female senior shobo ippon Jason Marquis Male senior shobu ippon Dean Tilley Male veterans Lisa Lethbridge Female veterans Childrens team kata SHIKON NORTH Boy s team kumite SHIKON SOUTH Girls team kumite SHIKON SOUTH Male cadet team kumite SHIKON SOUTH Male cadet team rotation SHIKON NORTH Senior female rotation SHIKON NORTH
Special mention to Sensie Ono who won four golds two ind and two team !! Well done to all the coaches and officials for all their hard work , the whole day was a team effort !"!"
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=- ENGLAND SQUAD TRAINING Now here s a first !! A Frenchman taking an England Squad Session !! Well done to the Karate England board for managing to get Christophe Pinna to Loughborough University to take two hours of the latest Squad session. There was an excellent turn out and great feed back from those people training with Pinna for the first time.
Christophe Pinna and Dan Cuthbert demonstrating in Odessa Ukraine . A fantastic session with lots of information on Footwork , application and strategy. None of this ever covered before with such style at an England training camp. Next squad training is on Sunday 10th January at Loughborough University at 11 am ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2009 WUKF JUNIOR EUROPEAN KARATE CHAMPIONSHIPS CONSTANTA ,ROMANIA A number of UKA and Shikon members formed the England team that went to Romania to compete in the European Junior Karate Championships. The weekend was fantastic in the beach resort of Constanta on the Black Sea. The event had 1000 entries and required 8 tatamis (areas). Starting 9.30 ameach morning the first two days ended at 6 pm and the finals day a little earlier. 1 Gold 3 Silver and 7 Bronze UKA member Shauna Carroll took the Gold in the female cadet O55k kumite
Shauna Carroll - European Champion 2009
Charlie Collins fromthe UKA North Weald club took silver in the boys 14yrs kumite Bronze medals from other UKA members came from Rebecca Barton-Hagger Courtney Rivers , Sean Thompson and Sophie Wadey. There was also a Senior Open event in which UKA members took part and won the following medals. Andrew Grogan-silver , Rob Ward bronze and Lisa Lethbridge - Bronze. Well done to Julia Heena and also SESK coach Trisha Jordan for their efforts and medals won and also to the other coaches working with the England team Abdu Shaher and Paul Graham
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