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WKA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP GERMANY INFORMATION

WKA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP GERMANY INFORMATION

Zen-Shin Karate Open

Congratulations, you have qualified for the WKA World Championships.

All places will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

This year in Karlsruhe/Germany! 21.08. - 28.08.2011

You are invited to the Squad training sessions, the dates will be annoced at a later date.

To secure your place in the WKA England squad for the World Championships in Karlsruhe/Germany a deposit of £150 is required by 31st May 2011.

Cheques should be made payable to J Richards and sent to:

The total estimated cost of the trip is:

Competitor £470 per person (excluding travel)

Spectator £430 per person (excluding travel)

Included within this, will be

7 nights stay in a 4 Star hotel, includes breakfast
Your first start fee or spectators entry for the duration of the Championships
License book and Stamp

In an attempt to keep costs down we will use the track suit design from the WKA World Championships in Scotland 2010. You can therefore, subject to your tracksuit being in good repair re-use it this year. To order new ones please call 0121 233 2577. We are also fund raising to try and support the squad and cut the cost for the whole team.

The return transfer arrangements to/from Germany are still to be arranged and will be additional to the above cost.

For further information please see www.wkakarategb.co.uk

Or call 0121 233 2577 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

WKA Karate GB President

Kyoshi John Richards

Squad Open June 2011

Open Squad Training Kata and Kumite

at the Zen-Shin Academy HQ Hockley

Saturday 4th June 2011 2:00pm Start

Open to All welcome.

the session will be £7.50 for squad members and £10.00 for non-squad participants.

All who are attending the WKA Worlds in Germany MUST attend to this training session

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WKA Edinburgh Scotland

Students from a Midlands Traditional Karate club have excelled in the recent International World Karate Open. The squad of eleven students from Zen Shin Black Belt Academy specially selected to represent England managed an outstanding 5 Gold and 5 Bronze Medals in both the Kata and Fighting category’s.

This year held in Edinburgh a total of 19 countries with the best martial artists from around the globe took part in the Traditional Karate competition presenting the English Squad with a huge challenge.

In the Kata competitions, Erica Santos 16yrs came third in her category and attained a worthy place in the final. In the next category girls 12 years and under , friends Lauren Garratt 11yrs and Chloe Murphy 12yrs found themselves in fierce competition with each other. Lauren initially managed joint first place then came second in the tiebreak. Chloe despite a great performance was eliminated from the heats after a minor stumble. In an exciting final both Erica and Lauren attained a worthy third place bringing home a bronze medal each.

The boys not to be out done then went up to perform their Katas. Johann Santos aged 10 James Garratt aged 8 Kiah Wilson De Souza aged 10 and Lucas Deakin 9 years all perfomed to the highest standard in a big category for boys 12 years and under. It was a brave attempt by the squads youngest members with Johanne Santos getting through to the final and obtaining a bronze medal.

It was then the fighters turn. Lauren Garratt with one Bronze medal well secured managed another excellent performance and obtained another bronze medal for her fighting category as did Scott Simmons aged 18 with a stirling performance in his first international competition.

The competiton then came to an exciting climax with the finals of the fighting. Squad members Naren Patel 18yrs, Leslie Lachman 16yrs Mark Laing 10 yrs and Chloe Murphy and Johann Santos who were both up for a second event all gave fantastic performances and attained an outstanding five gold medals between them each one claiming the impressive title of world champion.

Traditional Karate president and Zen-Shin black belt academys chief instructor Sensei John Richards stated “ I am very proud of all the squad , they have all worked hard and achieved a really high standard “

If anyone is interested in Traditional Karate or Zen-shin Belt academy please contact Sensei John Richards on 0121 233 2577 or Zen-shin.co.uk

By J Gerratta

Squad

WKA Kata Squad Training

On Saturday 10th July 2010

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WKA Squad Training (Kumite)

Zen-Shin Dojo, on Saturday 3rd july 2010 2pm till 4pm

To all WKA squad members who are going to the world championships in Scotland,

the squad training sessions will take place at the zen-shin HQ.

Contact Kyoshi John Richards for more details.

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Squad Training

Kata and Kumite Training

15th May 2010 start 2pm

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Sponsorship

WKA Sponsorship Opportunities

The WKA Karate welcomes enquiries from potential sponsors wishing to support events, the squad or Club a Member or organisation as a whole. As part of our evolution we hope soon to publish details of a number of ways in which sponsors may be able to support us in a mutually beneficial manner.
Forthcoming Event Sponsorship Opportunites.