I am a member of Kofukan England & Kofukan International
Tani-ha Shito-Ryu Karate-do Shukokai Organisation.
Kofukan England are founder members of the English
Karate Federation the national governing body for karate
in England affiliated to the European (EKF) and World
Karate Federations (WKF) who are in turn the only
world body recognised by the International Olympic
Commicssion (IOC).
This link below gives the history of the WKF - the foremost
Karate association in the world from 1970 as WUKO to the
now IOC (International Olympic Commission) recognised
WKF - fascinating!
http://www.wkf.net/thebook/images/background/top-section-bg.jpg
The link below gives the WKF official YouTube channel for
WKF karate with over 10 million hits! Here you will find
videos from the 22nd WKF World Karate Championships
held in Bremen in Nov 2014.
http://www.wkf.net/imagenes/banners/pastilla_youtube.jpg
Shihan Tomiyama 8th dan is our joint Chief Instructor
(along with Shihan Naoki Omi 8th dan in Paris) and is a
graduate of Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. He has
regular visits to the honbu dojo of the late Hiroshi Fujimoto
Sensei.
Kofukan England compete in the ten year anniversary
tournaments of the Shukokai World Karate Union in
Japan. I referee'd at this huge tournament in 2009.
My club Kofukan Karate Loughborough have a new web
site (Dec 2014) on which you will find much information
on our activiities along with archive photos, videos of
Sensei Tomiyama & Sensei Omi, events etc, etc.
Please check it out on:
https://sites.google.com/site/kofukankarateloughborough/home
Kofukan Karate Loughborough also have a separate Google
Blog page on which new activity is posted. This is located
under:
John Wynd 3rd dan & Kofukan England Referee has his
Leicester Kofukan Karate club page under::
http:\\www.Leicester Kofukan.co.uk/
Tracey Archer 3rd dan & British Referee operates a new
club at Newark as well as one at Welton in Lincoln.
She has a page on Facebook under:
Newark/Welton Kofukan Karate Club:
www.welton.kofukan-karate.co.uk/
https://sites.google.com/site/kofukannewark/home
Denis Koltsov 5th dan runs Lancaster & Morecombe
Kofukan Karate Clubs in Lancashire. See:
http://www.kofukan.info/lancaster/
Garry Petitt 6th dan has his Lincoln club page under:
http://lincoln-karate.co.uk/
150,000 Clubs and 8 million sports practioners across the UK
SportData.org
Sport data is a website used to manage all top level karate
competitons. The site includes downloadable bulletins for
each tournament, ticket details, hotels, timetable, registration
details, live stream details, categories, competitor entries,
referee entries, official entries, coach entries, top athletes,
draw sheets, results, competitor stats, medal stats and is a
mine of really useful information. If you want to find a
competition anywhere in the world then this is the web site
to find it.
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Emilio Merayo - Emilio is a fellow Referee on the
international EKF/WKF tournament circuit and Shito ryu
karateka with Sensei Inoue's Inoue-Ha Shito ryu Keishin
Kai - a World qualified kumite and kata official.
He operates a web site which is 'truly finger on the pulse'
with all the latest updates from WKF, EKF, K1 results,
IOC news, etc, etc.
Check it out:
https://emiliomerayo.wordpress.com/
Peter Bibby is Commission Secretary for the EKF Referees
Department. He has set up a web site with allthe latest
WKF Rule updates, score sheets, kata lists and other useful
bits of information such as listings of all qualified officials
at English, British, European & World level. Find it under:
http://www.ekfreferee.com/
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