United Russian Championship Open 2007

[igor]

June 9, 2007

United Open Weight Russian championship is coming! Association of kyokushinkai in going to host it with a solid state support in June 9, 2007. Russian national squads from IFK, IKO (2 organizations), WKO, IFFK (Royama) will participate. Current number of participants is 93 fighters.

their names (in russian) are here:
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Tonight I will have some free time and will translate the most famous ones (not all of stars will participate!)

[igor]

WKO
Denis Grigoriev
Maxim Shevchenko
Viktor Karasyuk
Vasily Khudiakov
Gennadi Nechaev
Roman Nesterenko


IKO
Andrey Stepin
Mikhail Kozlov
Zalim Temrokov
Darmen Sadvokasov
Igor Titkov
Alexander Karpachev
Adlan Abzotov
Sergey Nikishaev
Goderzi Kapanadze
Artem Pukas


IFFK (Royama)
Sergey Osipov
Magomed Mitsaev
Shamsudin Abdurashidov
Timur Gatashev
Sergey Melyuk


IFK
Anzor Shikhabakhov
Alexei Gorokhov
Alexander Ibraguimov

These fighters are well-know and you can find their international achievments on kyokushinresults.freeserve... The others are know in Russia in our internal tournaments from different versions.

Sergey Plekhanov, Lechi Kurbanov, Alexander Pichkunov, Igor Peplov, Maxim Dedik are not gonig to fight because of different reasons.

[Boaretto]

Great.

IFK, WKO, IFFK... Who knows UFKK, Kyokushin UNion and more will participate. Maybe a step to The Kyokushin become one again.

[igor]

Association of kyokushinkai is an organization which represents our martial art in the Ministry of sports. The official members of the association are national federations of IKO (represented by two federations), WKO, IFK and IFFK. Every federation is independent and holds their own tournaments. But last year the association organized united weight category championship (only IKO and WKO) and this year they decide to do "open weight"...

[Kamikaze]

Go Osipov!!!

[nzproud]

Awesome lineups! Osu!

[ibuki]

Originally Posted by igor

Sergey Plekhanov, Lechi Kurbanov, Alexander Pichkunov, Igor Peplov, Maxim Dedik are not gonig to fight because of different reasons.

OSu igor-san!
WHat are the different reasons for Plekhanov and Kurbanov?

[kakatootoshi]

Dear igor,
May I know if Sensei Lechi Kurbanov is going to fight in this year's world tournament of IKO-1?

OSU!

[alan]

OMG! What a lineup :-)
I really hope this ends up on a well produced dvd.

[Bloke]

Sounds like an amazing tournament even without the likes of Dedik, Peplov etc

[ksan]

Originally Posted by ibuki

OSu igor-san!
WHat are the different reasons for Plekhanov and Kurbanov?

Osu,

What are the reasons for Dedik and Peplov ?


Ksan

[igor]

At first, sorry for my spelling: I learnt English at school and am writing only by memory (without dictionary).

Kurbanov is not interested in kyokushin tournaments any more (as far as I heard). His focus is only on 8 WT (his last kyokushin challenge to become world champion) and then only K-1 and specific trainnig and adoptation to its rules. Plus 2 his pupils are going to fight... About his current relationship to Hombu I know nothing... There were some rumours that some tension took place because of terms in contract. But I don't know details

Sergey Plekhanov retired. He doesn't want to fight in tournaments any more because of numerous injures. He is an official branch chief now and do a lot of organizational activity in the south of Russia. He said in his last interview that only single kyokushin fights are interest for him.

Igor Peplov is a successful couch in St. Petersburg and its Team and runs its regional federation in IFK. A lot of organizational dutis... And his several pupils are going to participate from IFK's side. I'm not sure if he fights anywere more.

Maxim Dedik - the couch of Moscow team in IKO (Isakov's federation). Very active in public activity: current member of Superkarate.ru forum, organize through that site regular seminars in Moscow with different kyokushin masters (Kurbanov, Plekhanov, Fransisko Filio, Peplov, Gogonel from Romania and others), several kyokushin camps in India (big fan of Goa), connection with sports tv (martial arts channel "Fighter"). Huge activity... Also he suffered from a serious injure in previous Ichigeki event in Bolgaria and not sure if he can participate even in 8 WT IKO in November...

[kakatootoshi]

Dear igor,
Thank you very much for the news on the Russian team. If Sensei Kurbanov is not going to fight in this (9th) world tournament I am sure a lot of people is going to be disappointed (but good news for the Japanese team).

OSU!

[ksan]

Osu Igor,

Thank you for the updates..


Osu

Ksan

(p.s. your english is fine )

[igor]

glad you like it! Thanks for my "English"! and I certainly meant 9-th WT...

[kakatootoshi]

Dear igor,
I understand that you were referring to the 9th wt when you mentioned that Sensei Dedik's students were going to fight in November. I hope Sensei Kubanov will be in top form in this world tournament and leave good memories for Kyokushin fans all over the world (of course we will contiune to support him when he enters K-1)!

OSU!

[ibuki]

Originally Posted by kakatootoshi

Dear igor,
I hope Sensei Kubanov will be in top form in this world tournament and leave good memories for Kyokushin fans all over the world (of course we will contiune to support him when he enters K-1)!

OSU!

Indeed we will support him. He is one of the best modern Karate warriors and he is an inspiration for all of us! OSU!

[kyokushin4life]

Igor-san, thank you for such great information. Please keep us updated.

K4L

[alan]

Originally Posted by igor

At first, sorry for my spelling: I learnt English at school and am writing only by memory (without dictionary).

Kurbanov is not interested in kyokushin tournaments any more (as far as I heard). His focus is only on 8 WT (his last kyokushin challenge to become world champion) and then only K-1 and specific trainnig and adoptation to its rules. Plus 2 his pupils are going to fight... About his current relationship to Hombu I know nothing... There were some rumours that some tension took place because of terms in contract. But I don't know details

Sergey Plekhanov retired. He doesn't want to fight in tournaments any more because of numerous injures. He is an official branch chief now and do a lot of organizational activity in the south of Russia. He said in his last interview that only single kyokushin fights are interest for him.

Igor Peplov is a successful couch in St. Petersburg and its Team and runs its regional federation in IFK. A lot of organizational dutis... And his several pupils are going to participate from IFK's side. I'm not sure if he fights anywere more.

Maxim Dedik - the couch of Moscow team in IKO (Isakov's federation). Very active in public activity: current member of Superkarate.ru forum, organize through that site regular seminars in Moscow with different kyokushin masters (Kurbanov, Plekhanov, Fransisko Filio, Peplov, Gogonel from Romania and others), several kyokushin camps in India (big fan of Goa), connection with sports tv (martial arts channel "Fighter"). Huge activity... Also he suffered from a serious injure in previous Ichigeki event in Bolgaria and not sure if he can participate even in 8 WT IKO in November...

Thanks a lot for the information! I think you write real well :-)
It is a pitty that superkarate.ru can not be merged with kyokushin4life due to the language barrier, a merge would be awesome. I used to sit with superkarate.ru and babelfish, took long time to read the interviews =)

[nangoushuujin]

The Russian did this last year too I thought.

The results are on Kyokushin Results?

Darmen Sadvakasov is my sleeper for the 9th WT IKO1 and the Russian Open. Prob a final Eight contender at the very least for both.

Isnt it amazing that the Russian are leading the way in cross organisational events. (not interested in this becoming political). But it is great to see the best of the best competing against each other.

Osu