The thirtieth Kyokushin European Championship took place on 25-26 November 2016 at the Papendal National Olympic Center in the Netherlands. 423 participants represented 26 countries including: Japan, USA, Australia, Turkey, Iran, Lebanon and Israel. A 30-minute concert performed by the famous Dutch drummer group Taiko started the jubilee event. The President of KWF Loek Hollander and the President of EKF Antonio Pinero 50 years ago created the Kyokushin European Organization and thanks to them Kyokushin in Europe and Africa have developed so much and helped stabilize the World Kyokushin after the death of Sosai Mas. Oyama. Among honorary guests were Vice President Hristo Traikov (Bulgaria), Secretary Andre Drewniak (Poland), Treasurer Lars Hogquist (Norway) and members of the KWF Board: shihan Leslaw Samitowski (USA), sensei Daniel Trifu (Australia), sensei Mauricio Alvaro (Costa Rica) and CR of Japan Noriyuki Tanaka.

 On Thursday, a group of fighters paid tribute at Arnhem Military Cemetery to killed Allied Paratroopers fighting for the liberation of Europe in the Arnhem forest. On Friday, the first day of the Championship, fighters competed in all categories of kata and junior kumite. On Saturday, the second day, fighters competed in all categories of kumite.

As part of the accompanying events, an International Judges Course, the General Meeting of the KWF and the EKF General Meeting were held. It was settled that on 13-14 October 2017 will be held another 31^st European Championships in Swinoujscie (Poland) and in May 2018 the 32^nd European Championships in Bucharest (Romania).The 2nd World KWF Championship is scheduled for 2018 in Tokyo, next 3^rd World Championship is scheduled for 2020 in Chicago and the 4^th World Championship in 2022 in Moscow.

The organizers of the jubilee championship was the Dutch Kyokushinkai Federation led by CR Rien Brink, Secretary Paul Lorist, shihan Aloys te Braake and other members of the Board, and many volunteers who created an unforgettable event.

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On September 27, 2016 The 12th Mas Oyama Memorial Cup Tokyo 2016 was organized by IKO Kyokushinkaikan, lead by Kancho Yoshikazu Suzuki and Daihyo Kuristina Oyama.

Tournament gathered 251 participants from: Japan, Korea, China, Canada, Russia, Switzerland, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Chile, Brazil, Bolivia, Indonesia, India and Haiti.

Tournament Committee Chairman was Shihan Susumu Miyake. Opening ceremony speech was made by Kancho Hatsuo Royama  (Kyokushinkan). Sensei Nicholas Pettas was an honorary guest.

Arkadiusz Sukiennik of KWF Poland, took 3rd place in Kumite Senior (+35 years old) Heavy Weight category.

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photos: Andrzej Zacharski 

Our summerschool was attended by 125 students from all over Europe and  also some good friends  from Iran.

Shihan Loek Hollander and Shihan Antonio Pinero supervised the lessons  in this summerschool.

Next year the Dutch Kyokushin Karate Organisation  will  celebrate the 50 th summerschool, so hereby we invite everybody to join this special event.

 ( Papendal Holland from 7 till 10 july 2017)

With regards

rien.brink@hetnet.nl

On 14-17 July at Krakow Academy of Physical Education there was held the 43rd East European Summer Camp in which participated 280 fighters and coaches, including about 30 participants from Armenia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Ireland, Kaliningrad, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine. Training sessions were led by the President of EKF shihan Antonio Pinero and USA Country Representative shihan Leslaw Samitowski from Chicago. Simultaneously there was organized a session for the national team, which was conducted by PKF coaches sensei Maciej Sokolowski and shihan Robert Wajgelt, and coach shihan Wacław Antoniak was introducing WKF fighting regulations. On July 15, at the Conference Hall of the Hotel Justyna, the Annual Meeting of PKO was held, in which more than 50 Polish Branch Representatives took place. On July 16 examinations were conducted for Kyu and Dan and later in the evening a Sayonara party was organized.  Cabaret contest was won by sensei Piórkowski's team. The camp ended the next day with over-one-hour examination fights. The Examination Board awarded with 5 Dan the following well-known Branch Representatives: Robert Kopciowski and Janusz Piorkowski from Poland and Konstantin Vysochinskiy from Ukraine. All camp participants traditionally received diplomas of participation, poster calendars with a family photo and key rings. The organizer was the Polish Kyokushinkai Organization led by shihan Andre Drewniak.

We are already inviting you to participate in the next 44th Summer Camp in July 2017 in Krakow.

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