Biggest tournaments in Organizations / Styles

Fire! · 10-20-2007, 01:12 AM

I would like to know which tournament are considered the biggest in each org / styles. osu

Order in Rank

IKO1 (Kancho Matsui)
IKO1 World Open Tournaments (Every 4 years, ..2007, 2011..)
IKO1 World Weight Category Championships (Every 4 years, ..2005, 2009..)
IKO1 European Championship (Every year)
IKO1 All Japan Open Tournaments (Every year)
IKO1 All Japan Weight Category Championships (Every year)
Brazil?
Russia?
All Kanto in Japan

WKO (Midori Daihyo)
WKO World Open Tournaments (Every 4 years, ..2007, 2011..)
WKO World Cup
WKO European Championship - 2008 bulgaria
WKO All Japan Open Tournaments (Every year)
WKO All Japan Weight Category Championships (Every year)
Swiss Open - 2007 (every two years)
Diamond cup antwerpen/belgium - 2007, (every two years)
Croatia Open - (Every year)

IKO3 - Matsushima

IKO4 - Tezuka

Kyokushin Union (as known as Kyokushin Rengokai headed by hasegawa, oishi, shichinohe and others)
Kyokushin Union Cup World Karate Championship , 2008 (Every ? years?)

Kyokushin-Kan (Royama)

IKO Family

IFK
IFK World Tournament (every 4 years, ..2005,2009..)
European Tournament (every 4 years)
British Open (yearly)

UFKK
European Championship(yearly)

Ashihara Karate
(NIKO)
Sabaki challenge Spirit. Held in Viborg, Denmark annually.
(AKI) Ashihara karate international (Narkers organization)
Sabaki challenge, Held annually in Cape Town , South africa.

Enshin Karate

Daido juku
World Tournament (every 4 years 2001, 2005, 2009...)
European Tournament (every year - Sofia, Bulgaria 2007, Moscow 2008...)
Hokutoki (All Japan) Weight category (every year 2005, 2006, 2007... - Japan)
Hokutoki (all Japan) Open Weight (every year 2005, 2006, 2007... - Japan)

sorry if i have missed something.. osu

StarKodama · 10-20-2007, 01:23 AM

For WKO/ Shinkyokushin, my understanding is that the World Tournament is held every 4 years in Tokyo, and the World Cup is held every 4 years in a different location. (Last time it was Osaka, next time it'll be St. Petersburg.) So basically every 2 years there's a big tournament.

Sorry, I can't help with any of the other styles though. ;_;

Martin H · 10-20-2007, 04:15 AM

Ashihara
(NIKO)
Sabaki challenge Spirit. Held in Viborg, Denmark annually.

(AKI) Ashihara karate international (Narkers organization)
Sabaki challenge, Held annually in Cape Town , South africa.

Enshin juku
Sabaki Challenge, held in Denver USA
All Japan Sabaki Challenge (held next week btw)

**nzproud** · 10-20-2007, 06:00 AM

What's Enshin Juku? Is it the same as Enshin Karate?
Does anyone know in which organization Yuka Kobayashi(Ashihara Nishiyama Dojo) belongs to? I don't think I have seen in her record that she fought in those sabaki challenges in Denmark..? Or has she?

Fire! · 10-20-2007, 09:35 PM

Thanks guys. osu I hope we get more information on other styles and IFK.. osu

jolut · 10-20-2007, 09:52 PM

Osu,
Nishiyama Dojo is Ashihara NIKO.
No japanese has been fighting at the SCS in Denmark.

Lucy · 10-21-2007, 10:36 PM

The IFK has its IFK World Tournament and most recently this year we had the IFK European Championships in Russia.

Should be due another WT in 2009

kyokushin4life · 10-21-2007, 10:41 PM

Lucy-san. Could you tell us how often those tournaments happen? Every 2 years?

**ksan** · 10-22-2007, 09:51 AM

IFK WT every 4 years and the ET every 4 years, British Open (yearly),

kyokushin4life · 10-22-2007, 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by ksan

IFK WT every 4 years and the ET every 4 years, British Open (yearly),

Is ET an European tournament? What countries are strong in those IFK tournaments? Do Japanese participate at all?

Chimofu · 10-22-2007, 12:20 PM

Russia fighters are very strong. And last year the fighters from Denmark ( shinkyokushin)

Bloke · 10-22-2007, 12:37 PM

ET is the European Tournament. Sometimes there will be Japanese fighters but mostly from other groups.

Britain and Russia would probably be strongest but Canada have impressed me as well.

Jenny · 10-22-2007, 04:22 PM

The UFKK is organizing every year the European Championship but on this tournament are fighting also karateka's from Iran, Brazil, Pakistan and Russia.

Osu Jenny

AD · 10-22-2007, 05:08 PM

One of the biggest events was the AKR Eent in Russia that had tp fighters from IKO 1, IKO 2, IFK and IFKK Royama group fight. See link : Russian Openweight Championship - Oyama Cup : IKO 1

Any other yeat this would be the strongest tournament but is on par with IKO 1 & IKO 2 opewight events in my book. All 3 fighters who reached last at last week in IKO 2 event particpated along with a very strong from IKO 1, IFK & Royama groups.

Nix · 10-22-2007, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by jolut

Osu,
Nishiyama Dojo is Ashihara NIKO.
No japanese has been fighting at the SCS in Denmark.

True, Nishiyama Dojo is NIKO, but I've heard that their grading curriculum is quite different from the other Japanese branches.

Also, a Japanese fought at the Sabaki Challenge Spirit in 2005, but he enterered for another nation (Hungary, I think).

The Sabaki Challenge Spirit is the official NIKO world championships. Other than that, I believe the German Open is also considered one of the more prestigious tournaments, although it is open to all knock-down styles. Ashihara fighters also participate in Kyokushin cross-style tournaments, like the Diamond Cup.

Could the top post be edited to contain new information as people post?

Osu!

kyokushin4life · 10-22-2007, 10:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LoQi

Could the top post be edited to contain new information as people post?

Osu!

Done! Please let me know if anything is wrong and needs to be updated.

nangoushuujin · 11-21-2007, 11:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nzproud

What's Enshin Juku? Is it the same as Enshin Karate?
Does anyone know in which organization Yuka Kobayashi(Ashihara Nishiyama Dojo) belongs to? I don't think I have seen in her record that she fought in those sabaki challenges in Denmark..? Or has she?

I thought she was an IKO1 fighter?

Wasnt she a serious Japanese contender at one of the recent Womens World tournament?

Osu

kakatootoshi · 11-21-2007, 04:02 PM

Dear nangoushuujin,
Kobayashi has always been Ashihara from the beginning.
Are you referring to the women's world tournament in Tokyo (held alongside with men's world tournament)? She was there but not as a fighter (she could not pass the qualifying tournaments).

OSU!

ibuki · 11-26-2007, 12:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fire!

I would like to know which tournament are considered the biggest in each org / styles. osu

Daido juku

sorry if i have missed something.. osu

OSU Fire!

Daido juku
World Tournament (every 4 years 2001, 2005, 2009...)
European Tournament (every year - Sofia, Bulgaria 2007, Moscow 2008...)
Hokutoki (All Japan) Weight category (every year 2005, 2006, 2007... - Japan)
Hokutoki (all Japan) Open Weight (every year 2005, 2006, 2007... - Japan)

OSU!

goldberg2310 · 11-26-2007, 12:42 PM

osu,

wko

european championships - 2008 bulgaria

swiss open - 2007 every two years

diamond cup antwerpen/belgium - 2007, every two years

croatia open - every year

at this international opens are about 100 competitors from europe, sometimes japan and overseas.

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