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QLD Tournament Circuit – Rd 1 (Sunshine Coast)

The first round of the 2015 QLD Chito-Ryu Karate-Do tournament circuit is coming up soon.  If you’ve got your eye set on a place on the team to compete at the 2016 Soke Cup to be held in Kumamoto, Japan, then you definitely don’t want to miss out.

Entry form is now available for download:  Entry Form (PDF).

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This tournament is open to Chito-Ryu Karate students of all ages and levels.  Even if you are an absolute beginner, there is a division for you.

  • Little Champions (7 yrs & under)
  • Karate Kids
  • Teens
  • Adults
  • Masters (40yrs+)

Compete in individual kata and kumite events, and join team for team kata and start preparing.

If you’re not sure what it’s all about or want to get in some tournament specific training, join the weekly tournament squad training on Friday evenings.  Everyone is welcome.

Entry form is now available for download:  Entry Form (PDF).

Registrations close:  Friday, 6th March 2015.

2015 QLD Camp

The ICKFA (Sunshine Coast Branch) Inc will be hosting the 2015 QLD Chito-Ryu Karate Annual Training Camp. This year the camp will be at the Currimundi Active Recreation Centre, located on the southern end of the Sunshine Coast, just a few minutes walk from Dicky Beach.

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The camp facilities feature cabin style accommodation with up to 12 people per room. All main meals, plus morning tea, afternoon tea and supper are included. And there will be plenty of karate training and some free time for socialising and other organised activities.

The main focus of this camp is intensive karate training. So if you are serious about propelling your karate to the next level with a weekend of immersion with many of Queensland Chito-Ryu senior members, this camp is for you! The training program will be tailored to the age and level of the attendees, so all members are welcome to attend. Outside of training times, only limited supervision will be provided, so non-training family members are encouraged to attend if possible.

Bonus Brown & Black Belt Training on Friday from 9am at Maroochydore dojo. To help set the tone for the camp, we have decided to have a full day of training just for seniors. If this applies to you, we highly encourage you to make it to this bonus training. This will only available to camp attendees.

To secure your place, return your form and full payment to your dojo instructor no later than, Friday 3rd April. Late bookings may be accepted subject to space, up until, Friday 24th April. A $30 late fee per person will apply.

Download – Registration form 2015 QLD Camp.

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2014 Christmas Family Day, Training & AGM

Christmas is fast approaching and it’s time to celebrate what a great year we have had with all of our Karate friends and family. Once again your association will be holding our Family Fun Day in Cotton Tree Park.

In conjunction with the day, the association will also be holding it’s AGM, and all members and family are invited to attend. There will be water training, games to play, annual award presentations, lunch and a visit from Santa.

If you will be attending, please add your name to the list on the dojo noticeboard, as the club will be supplying a sausage sizzle for lunch, please RSVP by Mon 8th Dec.

If you can’t be at the AGM, but would like to nominate for a position on the committee, be sure to fill in a nomination form and return to the dojo before the AGM.

2014 Xmas Day + AGM Poster

Sunshine Coast Tournament – Team Challenge

Congratulations to all members for Sunshine Coast & Gold Coast dojos who competed at today’s team challenge tournament.  This was our final tournament of the year and the 5th round of the QLD Chito-Ryu Karate Tournament circuit.

This year we have seen a big step up in the level of organisation of our local tournaments and this is largely due to the increase participation of seniors, members and parent volunteers.  A big part of this is thanks to the work of our tournament co-ordinator, Jodie Marriott who has been responsible for organising volunteers for all of our tournaments this year.

Running a tournament is certainly not a one person job, but especially with this tournament, we would also like to thank Rod Jones for his contributions, coordinating setup and pack up, doing event marshalling (with the help of his son Luc and a few others), covering first aid today and also making some really yummy sandwiches to feed our volunteers at lunch time.  And I almost forgot, Rod was also team captain for “Mojo From The Dojo” and competing himself… amazing!

Today’s tournament was a great fun day with 5 teams (4 from the Sunshine Coast and 1 from the Gold Coast).  But it wasn’t just great fun, there was also some very spirited competition too.

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All competitors earned points for their teams today and competition was very close.  But in the end, only one team could be crowned the winners.  Well done to the “Tsuyoi Tigers” from the Gold Coast, who were the champion team today.

Full results are now available for download:  2014-10-19-tournament-results

Tournament champion trophies were awarded for top junior and senior competitor who performed best in both individual kata and individual kumite in their respective divisions.

Senior Tournament Champion – Jack Graham (1st kumite, 2nd kata)
Junior Tournament Champion – Bailey Keefe (1st kata, 1st kumite)

Also, special mention to Kazumi Tominaga who also placed 1st kumite, 2nd kata.  With only one winner for the tournament champion, the only way we could split it was to look at who had the biggest divisions, and today it was Jack, well done.

And as this was our final tournament of the year, it’s time to announce the season champion for the 2014 QLD Chito-Ryu Karate Tournament Circuit.

Congratulations – Luke Marriott (Sunshine Coast).

See the full list of the 2014 QLD Rankings to see where you are ranked.

Now, we get to have a few months rest, until the tournament season starts again early next year, as we start forming a squad, training and competing as we work together towards the 2016 Soke Cup to be held in Kumamoto, Japan.

Once again, our resident professional photographer, Jane Graham has taken some great photos, there are a few showing that she’s posted on facebook already, but I have a feeling there will be lots more.  I’ll update photos below soon.  Here are a few to get started.

2014 QLD State Titles Results & Season Rankings

A huge thank to all officials, volunteers, competitors and supporters for making the 2014 QLD Chito-Ryu State Titles a great day. It’s wonderful to see the standard is continuing to improve across all division and the great attitude shown by all competitors.

Here are the results: 2014 QLD State Titles Results.

And a special mention to our tournament champions who were the top competitors in individual kata and kumite.

  • Junior Champion – Eugeny Lee representing Fluffy’s Bunnies (GC dojo)
  • Senior Champion – James O’Grady representing Llama United Party (SC dojo)

For this tournament, we also introduced a team challenge, with the winning team from the Gold Coast (Fluffy’s Bunnies).  Follow the link for full team point score and team listing of the winning team. – Team Challenge Results.

fluffy's bunnies

This tournament was also the third round of the 2014 QLD tournament circuit.  Being the state titles, double points were awarded for this tournament, with this in mind the rankings have changed a bit and there now a few more people in the running.  Top 3 rankings are currently:

  • Eugeny Lee (GC dojo) – 46 points
  • Luke Marriott (SC dojo) – 45 points
  • Sam Lenton (GC dojo) – 40 points

The full list of the 2014 QLD Season Rankings (after round 3).

The next tournament in the circuit is scheduled for Gold Coast, 3rd August.  The Gold Coast tournament was scheduled to be the final tournament for the year, but there may be one additional tournament added to later in the year as we start working toward forming the squad for the 2016 Soke Cup.

Finally, a few photos from our official photographer: Jane Graham.  These are just a few of the preliminary photos, she was very busy yesterday with 86GB of photos to go through and edit.  So it might be a few days before we get to see the whole collection.

A few preliminary photos that Jane has shared:

Jack Graham in action

James O'Grady- kata

David Strazzari - flying high

Helen O'Grady - kata

2014 QLD Chito-Ryu Karate State Title

This year our local association is hosting the 2014 QLD Chito-Ryu Karate State Titles. In addition, this tournament will also be incorporating the 2014 Sunshine Coast Friendship tournament. So whether you’re a seasoned competitor or even if you’ve never competed before, this is a great event for you.

With this in mind, we’d like to invite you to enter and start preparing as this is a great way to put your skills to the test. If you’ve never competed before don’t worry, there are divisions for all ages and levels. Where possible, you will only be competing against other people of similar ability to yourself.

Tournaments are a great way to grow your skills, especially if you embrace the experience and work hard in your training in the lead up to the event.

Entry forms are available now from the dojo or download the 2014 State Title entry form (PDF) here.

And the important details:

  • When: Sunday, 15th June 2014
  • Where: Sunshine Coast Grammar School
  • Entries: Available from the dojo
  • Entries Close: Friday, 30th May

For those who attended our first tournament of the year, we are had the pleasure of utilising the Sunshine Coast Grammar School sports stadium as our tournament venue, and we’re very happy to be back there again, as it’s such a great venue for a tournament.

Also, thanks to some funding from Cr Jason O’Pray (plus some of the association’s funds) we will be purchasing an additional tournament mat so that we now have 2 matted rings rather than just one, so we’ll be able to get through our kumite divisions a lot quicker.

See you at the tournament

Sunshine Coast Tournament Results & QLD Circuit Rankings

A big thank you to all who participated in our first major tournament of the year.  As always it was great to see new competitors stepping up for the first time and of course the regulars back in for more.  Tournaments can be a great way to focus your training and push your skills, but they can also be quite confronting too, so well done to all who participated.

Also a huge thank you to our tournament coordinator Jodie Marriott who did a lot of work in the lead up recruiting, preparing and training volunteers.  And of course thank you to all volunteers and officials who worked hard throughout the whole day.

Sunshine Coast Chito-Ryu Karate Tournament (30 Mar 2014) – Results

2014 QLD Chito-Ryu Karate Tournament Circuit Season Rankings (Round 1)

And here are a few photos from the day.  More photos available on the Sunshine Coast Karate facebook page.

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Table officials hard at work adding up the kata scores.

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Watching team kata – waiting for their turn

Kumite Luc & Bailey

Kumite action – Luc & Bailey (10-11 Yr Boys)

 

Karate tournament trophies

Van Topham – showing off his trophies

 

ICKFA (SC) meeting minutes 1st Feb 2014

We have started the new year with some great things happening in the committee.  We can look forward to some fantastic social events being organised by Cath Amos, our Social and Fundraising Events Co-ordinator.  We had our first committee meeting for the year last Saturday 1st Feb.  Here are the minutes of the meeting ICKFA(SC) Minutes for Meeting 01.02.14  Our next meeting is scheduled to be held on March 22nd at 9am at the dojo.  Everyone is welcome to attend.