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KARATE BC
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Vancouver, B.C. V6H 4A9
http://www.karatebc.org
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IN THIS ISSUE:
1. TEAM BC AT THE NATIONALS
2. NEW NKA EXECUTIVE
3. CALENDAR OF EVENTS
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| TEAM BC AT THE NATIONALS |
BC KARATE TEAM SHOWS WELL AT NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
source Karate BC Media ( J.L.Veltri )
The BC Karate Team earned a total of 31 medals at The National Karate Tournament in Toronto, Ontario. Bringing home medals yesterday were athletes from across the province.
Richmond Athletes Lead the Pack
Leading the medal pack were athletes from Richmond Karate Clubs. Six of Steveston’s athletes brought home 30% of the medals for BC.
Leading the group of athletes was the UCHIAGE clan of Sumi, Hidemi and Toshide Uchiage, each earning a gold medal in their respective event and belt/weight categories.
Among the other Richmond medal athletes were Nancy Sham with a silver in the women’s kumite event (-53kg), Valentyna Zolotorova, with a silver in the junior women’s kata event and Nao Nakatsuka with a 4th place finish in the women’s individual kata program.
This past year, brother and sister Toshide and Hidemi Uchiage were named outstanding Junior male and Junior female athlete of the year for Karate BC while Nao Nakatsuka was given the outstanding honor for Karate BC’s female (adult) athlete of the year.
Each of the athletes train at the Steveston Karate Club.
Kenny Lim, also of Richmond gave a silver medal performance at the Championship. The 24 year-old athlete trains at the Richmond Shito-Ryu Karate Club.
Medal performances from Lower Mainland athletes were made by Ryan James of the South Slope JKA Karate Club. James, 15, managed to grab both a silver and bronze medal in the kumite and individual kata event respectively.
Other medal performances from Lower Mainland athletes included:
Charmaine Wong: silver in the cadet women’s individual kata event / 16-17 age category
Welton Vo: - gold in the cadet men individual kata event / 16-17 age category
Kris Lida: - silver juvenile men - 50 kg. / 14-15 year old category
Richard Mosdell: - bronze mens kumite - 80 kg
Each of the lower mainland clubs are affiliate clubs with Karate BC. Karate BC is the sanctioned amateur sport governing body for the sport of karate in the province of BC.
Karate BC offers the only access to the competitions recognized by the relevant sport governing bodies that include the COA, Pan American Games, and BC Winter Games to name three.
Click here for the official results:
http://www.karatebc.org/results/
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| NKA NEW EXECUTIVE |
Following the AGM of the NKA, the new Executive Committee is as follows:
President:
1st VP
2nd VP
Secretary
Treasurer
Founding Pres.
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Dan Wallis
Sam Moledski
Germain Bisson
Leslie Bowers
Rupert Joshi
Masami Tsuruoka
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About the (NKA) National Karate Assoication:
http://www.nka.ca/english/about/about.html
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| Jun 15 |
Valley Shidokan / NASKA Demo-Tournament |
45690 Yale Road, Chilliwack, BC |
Don Sharp
604-795-1807 |
| Jun 21 - 23 |
Taneda Karate Dojo Summer Camp
Silver Lake Forestry Camp, |
Peachland, BC |
Cheryl Taneda/Mike Ditson
250-768-2241 |
| Jun 22 - 23 |
International Open Junior Karate-do Championships
Recreation Centre & High School, |
Mackenzie, BC |
Rolan Abraham
250-997-5405 |
| Jun 22 |
Revelstoke Karate Tournament Revelstoke Forum, |
Revelstoke, BC |
Chic Sharp
250-837-4884 |
| Jul 7 |
Dr. Hideho Takagi Seminar |
Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland, |
BC Norma Foster
604-444-3462 |
| Jul 12-14 |
CSKA Summer Camp Pinetree Recreation Centre, |
Coquitlam, BC |
Mike Scales
604-945-9804 |
| Jul 20-21 |
Shito-Ryu Summer Camp |
Pemberton, BC |
Wim Tewinkel
604-452-2364 |
| Jul 21-28 |
PKF Championships |
Puerto Rico |
James Johnson
604-737-3051 |
| Aug 9-11 |
NASKA Summer Camp |
Cheam Community Centre,
Sardis, BC |
Gene Hoff
604-858-9339 |
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