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.

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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!!

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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

Sensei Ian with Charlie Collins and Shauna Carroll

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