Karate Discussion Thread

[phelps 8,637]

something I didn't know from the varied and complec world of Karate...

 

the relatively new organization Karate Combat (which includes basically all the styles of Karate and promotes full contact fights) has signed a lot of "Olympic Karate" (which actually is not a proper style) stars for their upcoming 4th season...

 

@MHSN

and to my big surprise, there are also the 3 Iranian superstars, Bahman Askari, Zabiollah Poorshab and Sajjad Ganjzadeh...

p.s. I didn't even know that Poorshab comes from a different school than the usual Shotokan, where almost all the Olympic fighters normally come from...

 

here is the Karate Combat website with many info, including their roster (quite poor among the women so far, we must admit) and TV/Streaming partners...

 

https://www.karate.com/

[MHSN 3,813]

3 hours ago, phelps said:

@MHSN

and to my big surprise, there are also the 3 Iranian superstars, Bahman Askari, Zabiollah Poorshab and Sajjad Ganjzadeh...

p.s. I didn't even know that Poorshab comes from a different school than the usual Shotokan, where almost all the Olympic fighters normally come from...

 

Shotokan is the dominant school here as well. that's surprising to see most big names come from Shitoryu (and even Gojoryu)

[phelps 8,637]

Karate 1 Premier League

 

Stage #2 ( Matosinhos) Medalllists Recap

 

 

Women's Individual Kata

Gold: Kiyou Shimizu
Silver: Grace Lau Mo Sheung
Bronze: Maho Ono & Hikaru Ono

Men's Individual Kata

Gold: Kakeru Nishiyama
Silver: Alì Sofuoglu
Bronze: Damian Hugo Quintero Capdevila & Enes Ozdemir

 

Women's Individual Kumite, -50kg

Gold: Yorgelis Salazar
Silver: Serap Ozcelik Arapoglu
Bronze: Sara Leal & Seden Bugur

Women's Individual Kumite, -55kg

Gold: Anzhelika Terliuga
Silver: Tuba Yakan
Bronze: Veronica Brunori & Maria Stoli

Women's Individual Kumite, -61kg

Gold: Anita Serogina
Silver: Assel Kanay
Bronze: Haya Jumaa & Diana Shostak

Women's Individual Kumite, -68kg

Gold: Silvia Semeraro
Silver: Irina Zaretska
Bronze: Elena Quirici & Halyna Melnyk

Women's Individual Kumite, +68kg

Gold: Lucija Lesiak
Silver: Meltem Hocaoglu Akyol
Bronze: Ayaka Saito & Ingrid Creemers

 

Men's Individual Kumite, -60kg

Gold: Christos-Stefanos Xenos
Silver: Angelo Crescenzo
Bronze: Eray Samdan & Danilo Greco

Men's Individual Kumite, -67kg

Gold: Steven Dacosta
Silver: Abdel Rahman Almasatfa
Bronze: Noah Pisino & Soichiro Nakano

Men's Individual Kumite, -75kg

Gold: Daniele De Vivo
Silver: Farid Aghayev
Bronze: Thomas Scott & Andrii Zaplitnyi

Men's Individual Kumite, -84kg

Gold: Brian Timmermans
Silver: Michele Martina
Bronze: Mohamed Ramadan & Faraj Alnashri

Men's Individual Kumite, +84kg

Gold: Babacar Seck Sakho
Silver: Rob Timmermans
Bronze: Andjelo Kvesic & Luca Costa

 

[Olympian1010 8,281]

Nice, not everyday you see a medal at international events for  

 

 

A little off topic, but they’ll be sending a delegation to the South American Youth Games. I’m not sure if that means they’re eligible for all ODESUR events, but we might be seeing some more representation for them in the future.

[MHSN 3,813]

19 minutes ago, phelps said:

Karate 1 Premier League

 

Stage #2 ( Matosinhos) Medalllists Recap

 

 

this is the 2nd K1 event that Iranians are missing. they missed last year World Championship in UAE too. actually since Olympics Iran didn't participate in any non-Asian tournaments !!

 

I'm afraid we won't see them in international competition for a while (except Asian tournaments) reason? officially nobody knows. unofficially I heard things but I can't write them here.

[JoshMartini007 2,820]

1 hour ago, Olympian1010 said:

Nice, not everyday you see a medal at international events for  

 

 

A little off topic, but they’ll be sending a delegation to the South American Youth Games. I’m not sure if that means they’re eligible for all ODESUR events, but we might be seeing some more representation for them in the future.

 

PASO is allowing nations without IOC recognition to participate in lower level events. Many will participate at the 2022 Caribbean Games.

 

[phelps 8,637]

14 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

Nice, not everyday you see a medal at international events for  

 

 

A little off topic, but they’ll be sending a delegation to the South American Youth Games. I’m not sure if that means they’re eligible for all ODESUR events, but we might be seeing some more representation for them in the future.

still, the Timmermans brothers are full "white" Dutch guys (they are from Heerlen, and they have a third brother also playing Karate)...

 

I don't know why Rob is competing for Curacao, meanwhile his brother Brian is competing for their "regular" Home Nation, the Netherlands...

[phelps 8,637]

14 hours ago, MHSN said:

this is the 2nd K1 event that Iranians are missing. they missed last year World Championship in UAE too. actually since Olympics Iran didn't participate in any non-Asian tournaments !!

 

I'm afraid we won't see them in international competition for a while (except Asian tournaments) reason? officially nobody knows. unofficially I heard things but I can't write them here.

well, I don't know what kind of problems exist right now in the Iranian federation, but I think that those guys who signed for the Karate Combat organization could be out for a while from the Olympic Karate, as they have to train properly for the full contact version and they're also likely have an exclusive with the new job (for Askari it's also a chance to take himself in good shape while he's DSQ at IOC level)...

[phelps 8,637]

by the way, yesterday's top bout was for sure the men's -67kg gold medal match between  Dacosta and Almasatfa...

 

if you have 10 mins left, it's really worth watching...

[phelps 8,637]

Stage #3 of the Karate 1 Premier League is underway in  Rabat

 

and it's sad to be said, but in my whole life (since I've been following Karate) I've never seen a poor participation in a K1PL event like this week (average level is even way below Serie A standard)...

never, even before Karate was thought to become an Olympic sport...  

 

however, see you tomorrow for our usual medallists' recap...