On 10 - 20 July in Kladovo (Serbia) The 7th International Serbian Kyokushinkai Camp took place. Main instructors ware sensei Zarko Petkovic and sensei Emil Kostov, who came with 7 bulgarian competitors.

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   On July 12th - 16th 43rd West European Summer School was held in Papendal (Holland). There were about 100 participants from Austria, Belgium, France, Netherland, Italy, Germany, Poland, Portugal and 20 Dutch karate instructors.
   Among invited guest were shihan Francisco Filho, shihan Stuart Corrigal, sensei Brad Gillesby and special guests shihan Antonio Pinero and shihan Andre Drewniak. Programme of the camp has been prepared by shihan Loek Hollander. Organiser of the camp was Dutch Kyokushin Karate Organisation.

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The Norwegian Summer Camp 2010 took place near Stavanger on the south west coast.
All together there were 153 participants. That is about 15 % of Norwegian Kyokushin Karate Organisation members.
The weather was great and participants trained outside all the time. The youngest was 8 years of age and the oldest 66.

As usual Shihan Antonio Pinero was the guest instructor. His teaching is phenomenal. He gave a lot of information the camp participants. This year the World Cup in football was going on and Spain won the final. That kept Shihan Antonio happy!!
He taught the whole karate Syllabus, including bunkai, self defence against knife, special self defence for women.
There was also a training in the cold water organised.

The took place on grading on Sunday. 7 persons passed the black belt test.
Totally 11 instructors enjoyed the camp with our 153 students
Special guest this year was Sensei Trond Sovik. Sensei Trond is the General Secretary of the Norwegian Budo Association.

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   On 12-13 June in Osaka 27th All Japan Weight Category Kyokushin Karate Championships 2010 took place. The tournament gathered 263 competitors from Japan, Australia, Canada, Kazachstan, Poland, Russia, Switzerland and USA. There was about 1600 spectators. Opening speech was made by Sensei Kyosuke Machida. Main judge was Shihan Yuzo Goda. Organizer was International Karate Organization Kyokushinkaikan led by Kancho Shokei Matsui.

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   The Austrian Open 2010 took place in Vienna on June 6th. Thirteen nations (Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Poland, Holland, Hungary, Israel, Norway, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia and Austria) with 407 competitors participated.
   The main judge was Shihan Eugeniusz Dadzibug from Poland and technical main judge was Sensei Slawomir Urbanczyk from Germany.
   This tournament was organized by the AKKO-Austrian Kyokushin Karate Organization led by Sensei Marek Kubek.