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Senpai Jenny recently attended the British Kyokushinkai (BKK) Summer Camp 2011 which was held at Felsted, Essex UK. This is the second time Senpai Jenny has attended the camp and she strongly encourages all Karateka if they are ever in the UK during the month of August to try an attend this Camp as you have an opportunity to train with Hanshi Steve Arneil and his top instructors of the International Federation of Karate (IFK) our parent organisation. Here is Senpai Jenny pictured with From left to right hihan Liam Keaveney, Shihan Nick Da Costa, Hanshi Steve Arneil, Senpai Jenny, Shihan Alex Kerrigan and Shihan David Pickthall.
They trained really hard and did one midnight training session, which Senpai didn’t mind as she was still jetlagged on Aussie time, it is an amazing experience to train with over 150 other IFK Karateka from not just the UK but Holland, Israel, Germany, Belgium just to name a few. The energy and enthusiasm is infectious. Rumour has it that Senpai Jenny may be attending again in 2012. The camp is open to juniors from 8 years of age, so anyone wanting to join her should get in touch ASAP and start saving for the airfare.
Pictured at left are Senpai David Norris, Sensei Moss Ageli and Senpai Jenny. Earlier this year Senpai David came and trained at KKC Karate Five Dock after meeting Senpai Jenny at the 2010 BKK camp and we believe he has another trip to Oz planned so we hope he will come and train with us again.
KKC Karate was asked to run a school holiday karate clinic for the Canada Bay Council. This was an introduction to karate for school aged children, we had 16 children participate in what was a great day.
View the Canada Bay Council Bayside Kids School Holiday Program July 2011 photos
KKC Karate had 3 students represent us at this event and they all did well.
Noah Mardoquio (pictured far left): Pee wees 7 yrs & under; Kata 4th, Point Sparring – 1st, Sumo 2nd & Sword Combat 3rd.
Bianca Basile: 8-10 yrs Beginner/Intermediate Point Sparring 1st, Freestyle Sparring 3rd, 10-12yrs Female Sumo 3rd. Matthew Basile: 10-12 yrs Male, Sumo 2nd, Sword Combat 3rd.
Also Bianca & Matthew Basile (pictured left): have been travelling to other regional AMAC events. On Sunday 29th May they were competing in the ACT. By all reports it was very cold that day, so they must be keen.
Results – Matthew; Kata 4th, Point sparring 2nd,Freestyle sparring 3rd, Point sparring Advanced black belt 12-14 years 2nd, Sword combat 2nd & Sumo 2nd. Bianca; Point Sparring 3rd, Freestyle Sparring 4th. We have heard of the travelling Wilberries these are our travelling Basile’s, I hear they will be off to Newcastle this Sunday 14th August to compete in the AMAC regional tournament. Good luck !!
We had a great trip in the UK, some of the highlights were the opportunity to train with Hanshi Steve Arneil at his dojo in Wimbledon and then on the day of the tournament we were present when Hanshi was awarded his 10th Dan. This was a truly momentous occasion and we were there to witness history in the making.
The tournament went really well with Robbie Simmons from KKC Karate winning his first round fight and narrowly losing his second, this is an incredible effort as we have only been training in the clicker fighting discipline for approximately 14 months when all other countries in the event have been doing this for 10 years or more. Well done Robbie.
Let me take this opportunity on behalf of all students at KKC Karate to congratulate Hanshi Steve Arneil on his newly awarded 10th Dan, he is a truly remarkable person and an inspiration to us all.
More high lights of the trip will be in the IFKKA Newsletter September Issue.
Go to the web gallery to view 3rd IFK World Junior Karate Championship UK Trip July 2011 to view more photos from the trip check out the M & M’.
