IFK Brazil is delighted to invite you and your team to the 4th South America Kyokushin Karate Championship (Knockdown rules), taking place on October 28, 2023, at CEU Vila Rubi in São Paulo.
The registration deadline is August 28, 2023, and the draw will be sent out by September 28.
We kindly request that Country Representatives/Branch Chiefs/Presidents submit their entry forms and documents before the deadline and send to ifkbrazil@gmail.com
IFK Chile hosted their Summer Camp from 17-19 February in Casablanca under the guidance of Shihan David Pickthall.
IFK members from Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Uruguay, and Chile participated in the camp and had eight sessions that concentrated on all aspects of the IFK curriculum.
At the grading, there were promotions for:
Sensei German Caru Chile 3rd Dan
Sensei Oscar Sanabria Colombia 3rd Dan
Sensei Fernando Rios Chong Peru 3rd Dan
Senpai Abraham Meruvia Morales 2nd Dan
Senpai Jose Meruvia Morales 2nd Dan
Senpai Catalina Silva Reyes 1st Dan
Congratulations! Osu!
We welcome Bolivia back into the IFK with Senpai Abraham Meruvia Morales becoming the Country Representative. We hope to have a positive relationship and keep growing the region of South America which now has.
director@ifkbolivia.com / tel: +59176513547
Av. Juan Pablo II #3612 El Alto. La Paz, Bolivia
Osu!
The XI Summer Camp IFK Kyokushin Uruguay took place on March 10-13, 2022.
As in previous years, Dojos from different cities of our organization gathered to celebrate being able to train in person together. Training sessions started before sunrise and continued throughout the day, with additional sessions at night. Different scenarios, including the beach, tatami, grass, and a special one surrounding a campfire at night, made this a unique experience.
This year we had participants from Montevideo, Mercedes, Dolores, Salto, Marindia and San Carlos. In addition to the 10 sessions, special training and meetings were held for instructors and advanced kyus.
Exams for KYU grades and DAN grades were held, with 3 of our colleagues successfully earning their 1st DAN.
Like every Summer Camp, this one left us with unique memories that will be treasured for years to come, and anecdotes that we will share over time!
On behalf of everyone, I want to thank each of the participants for their time, commitment and dedication; and above all for the positive energy at all times.
Families are also to be thanked for their continued support, as well as the instructors for their dedication and commitment.
We will see each other in 2023 for our XII Summer Camp!
OSU!
Sensei German Carballo
The IFK is happy to announce Aruba has joined our family under the leadership of Senpai Zairo Ruiz
We welcome Senpai Ruiz and hope he can form a good relationship with the neighboring countries in the Americas continent.
Contact: Zairo Ruiz
Email: zairoruiz@gmail.com
IFK Uruguay began 2022 with a national seminar for instructors at the Hombu (Abumi Dojo) on Saturday 8th.
Sensei German Carballo, Country Representative, led the morning and afternoon training sessions focussing on keep improving and standardizing technical aspects of the IFK syllabus throughout the different dojos.
In addition to training, sessions also covered:
- Goals for the organization and for each individual dojo and instructor, which were shared and discussed
- National plan and key events in the 2022 agenda
- Refresh session on kumite referee rules
Instructors from all the dojos attended coming from Montevideo, Canelones, Maldonado, Salto and Soriano.
IFK Uruguay held its 7th National IFK Kata Tournament - once again virtually given COVID-restrictions - on September 19th, 2021.
Over 100 competitors participated from all the dojos in Uruguay.
Tournament results:
Kuro obi
1 Maite De León
2 Claudia López
3 Noelia Fabre
4 Santiago Mosco
Brown belts
1 Jonhatan Funez
2 Juan P Bianchi
3 Yonathan Perez
4 Joaquín Mesa
Yellow and green belts
1 Juliana Latorre
2 Roxana Garderes
3 Diego Alegresa
3 Pablo Marmisolle
Yellow and green belts - 10-13 years old
1 Erika Gomez
2 Matías Tarragona
3 Julieta Majstruk
4 Santiago Cuenca
Blue belts - adults
1 Nicolás Caró
2 Santiago Zimmermann
3 Ana Borges
3 Clara Monteiro
Blue and yellow belts - 8-9 years old
1 Avril Carballo
2 Bruno Bava
3 Benjamín Da Rosa
4 Renzo Barragán
White belt - adults
1 Richard Majstruk
2 Alejandro Heuer
Red belt - adults
1 Daniel Attias
2 Pablo Alonso
3 Antonio Madrid
Red belt - 14-17 years old
1 Constanza Machado
2 Enzo Díaz
3 Emanuel Valle
4 Mauricio Bourdín
Red belt - 10-13 years old
1 Lautaro Sarabi
2 Bruno Diaz
3 Diego Cáceres
4 Alain Cejas
Red belt - 7-9 years old
1 Martina Borges
2 Facundo Dubroca
3 Poul Reccioppe
4 Juan I Goro
White belt - 8-9 years old
1 Santiago Epifanio
2 Valentino Nogueira
3 Joaquín Sirio
4 Julieta Vinci
Kihon 10 kyu - 8-9 years old
1 Agustín Aguiar
2 Neithan Maneiro
3 Pastor Méndez
3 Yulina Trujillo
Kihon 10 Kyu - 6-7 years old
1 Guadalupe Nogueira
2 Joaquín Huerta
3 Maria P Silva
4 Camila Manzzi
Kihon 10 Kyu - 4-5 years old
1 Franco Morales
2 Julían Carballo
3 Matias Diperna
4 Agustina López
4 Agustín Albín
Referees: Sensei Germán Carballo, Senpais: Rocío Gonzalez, Noelia Fabre, Santiago Mosco, Mario Hornos, Maite De León, Cesar Acosta, Claudia López & Gonzalo Díaz.
Participating Dojos:
Montevideo: Abumi, Estribo, Giratierra & Chikara
Mercedes: Yantsu & Fudoshin
Dolores: Kanku
Marindia: Chugi
Salto: Tameshiwari
San Carlos: Senshi
On Sunday, July 24th, IFK Uruguay held a national seminar for instructors at the Hombu Dojo (Abumi Dojo).
Sensei German Carballo, the country representative, led 2 training sessions with a focus on improving and standardizing technical aspects of the IFK syllabus throughout the different dojos.
Participants included instructors from Montevideo, Canelones, Salto, and Soriano.
The IFK is happy to announce Ecuador has joined our family under the leadership of Senpai Erick Rivas.
We welcome Erick and hope he can form a good relationship with the neighboring countries in the Americas continent.
Contact: Erik Rivas
Loja, Loja San Sebastian Parish Lourdes Street And Bolivar, Ecuador
Tel: +593962798227
Email: erickrivas22694@gmail.com
On Sunday June 20th, 2021, two IFK Uruguay instructors received their international Kuro Obi belts and certificates, Senpai Mario Hornos as Ni Dan and Senpai Claudia López as Shodan.
The ceremony was led by Sensei Germán Carballo, IFK Uruguay Country Representative with the participation of Senpai Santiago Mosco.
Having instructors from different dojos and states receiving their official grades together strengthens IFK Uruguay´s goal of becoming one big Kyokushin family, disregarding where you are located.
Osu!
During the first weekend of June, IFK South America Country Representatives hold a virtual meeting with the aim of sharing experiences on different topics and continue growing; temporarily replacing the in-person meetings held at South America Tournaments.
The main items in the agenda were as follows,
each country provided a summary on how they are dealing with training and activities during the pandemic,
Colombia was confirmed as host for the 5th South America Tournament in 2023,
a monthly training agenda was agreed to be set with virtual training sessions for America instructors, welcoming of course IFK colleges wanting to participate.
Attendees:
Argentina: Shihan Julio Romero
Brazil: Sensei Jeovaldo Barreto
Chile: Senpai Germán Carú
Colombia: Senpai Oscar Sanabria
Perú: Senpai Fernando Ríos
Uruguay: Sensei Germán Carballo
Venezuela: Senpai Hugo Luciani
Fernando Rios Chong has become the Country Representative for IFK and our 60th country member.
IFK Peru Email: ifkperu@gmail.com
Tel. +51 922773544
The 10th IFK Uruguay Summer Camp was held on March 5-7, at the Air Force Hotel in Playa Hermosa, Maldonado, Uruguay.
Nine training sessions which were technically led by Sensei German Caballo – IFK Uruguay Country Representative – gathered 30 karatekas from all the Uruguayan Dojos. Training sessions were held in different locations – tatami, on the beach, and yard.
In addition, exams for kyu grades – from 10th to 4th kyu – and Shodan took place at the camp, with 9 students who successfully earned their new grades.
After a really hard and challenging year, we were extremely lucky to be able to hold our annual Summer Camp, and it was a huge success full of memories that will last a lifetime.
We thank everyone who was part of this event. See you in 2022!
Osu!
IFK Uruguay
On March 12-13-14, 2021, IFK Argentina will host its Summer Camp
The seminar will be led by Shihan Julio Romero 6th Dan, IFK Kyokushin Representative in Argentina, and Sempai Jerónimo Romero 2nd Dan. It will take place at the facilities of the Banco Provincia La Plata Club, where the aforementioned Instructors teach classes (the 1st KWU Seminar in Argentina was held there, with Shihan Alexandr Pichkunov and Sensei Dmitry Saveliev).
Students from the City Bell Dojos (Banco Provincia Club); Dojo Villa Elisa and Dojos Lisandro Olmos will participate in the event.
Students and instructors from other organizations who wish to participate should contact the organizers ifkkyokushinargentina@gmail.com and julioromero.shihan@gmail.com.
Due to the circumstances, we live in, the places are limited.
The program will be carried out keeping the protocols indicated by the authorities of the Provincial and National Government. It includes special sessions for children, Kumite - kata, and an approach to the sports regulations of the different categories of children, youth, and adults. In this context, referee courses will also be held for the disciplines (Kata for children and adults, Kumite for children, Kumite for youth and adults).
Wishing soon this difficult time in the world to be overcome, and we will meet in courses and tournaments, we greet all colleagues from Argentina.
Osu!
IFK Kyokushin Argentina
The X IFK Uruguay Summer Camp to be held on March 5-7, 2021 in the Air Force Complex in Playa Hermosa, Maldonado, Uruguay and will be led by Sensei Germán Carballo.
For more information and participation, please contact Sensei Germán Carballo, email: gcarballo.ifkuruguay@gmail.com and International contact: Claudia López, email: clopez.ifkuruguay@gmail.com
IFK Venezuela will hold a Summer Camp and Dan Test for September 25 & 26, 2021 with Instructors Shihan Julio Romero (IFK Argentina) and Sensei Jeovaldo Barreto (IFK Brazil). The camp is open to all international member who wants to participate.
On the poster is the preliminary info, costs can be provided to interested groups. Feel free to contact Senpai Hugo Luciani (IFK Venezuela CR) ifkvenezuela@gmail.com if you have any questions or concerns.
This year turned out to be such a special one, and on behalf of the great group we´ve formed, I would like to thank everyone who did not give up and kept training either from home, in the Dojos, or outside. Difficult times brought out the best in us!!!
I would like to congratulate you on the professionalism and responsible way in which our instructors approached training during the pandemic. Guidelines and recommendations from the Health Ministry were abided by, with the main goal of looking after our students, families, and society as a whole.
The world moved too fast, and changes forced us to be more creative than ever.
We started 2020 with training sessions for our instructors, and also a great summer camp where we shared 10 training sessions throughout 3 days. We were extremely lucky to have Sensei Jeovaldo Barreto as a guest instructor, who is also a great friend and a Kyokushin referent in our continent. A week later the pandemic hit hard, but instead of defeating us we set new goals and took advantage of technology to keep training from our homes. In many cases, we even saw parents who joined and trained to accompany and encourage their children!
This group effort enabled us to have our 6th National Tournament - a virtual kata competition – which had over 50 competitors from 4 regions in all the categories, all of whom had been training non-stop even though we were in lock-down mode.
We also had the 1st Americas regional kata tournament for Brown and Black Belts, with participants from 8 countries; and with great pride, our national team achieved the podium in several categories with 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places.
This “new normal” also provided great new opportunities, including online training sessions with IFK and Kyokushin world-renowned instructors.
After being able to return to the training in our Dojos, and following all the health and safety guidelines and recommendations we met again and kept the updated agenda with grading tests and regional seminars.
We now end this special year being certain that in spite of everything, we remained as strong and united as always.
I take this opportunity to greet all of our instructors, friends, and family; thanking everyone for their support.
Here’s to a GREAT 2021!
Sensei Germán Carballo.
The 1st. IFK Americas Virtual Kata Tournament was held on July 4-5, 2020. 31 competitors from 8 countries accepted the challenge of showing their best katas in four divisions, Brown Belts under 18, Brown Belts adults, Black Belts males, and Black Belts females.
With the whole world paralyzed, our organization has shown we can continue working as a team; and that competitors have found the time and space to keep training hard no matter what.
Final results of the Tournament:
Black belt females
1st place - Fatemeh A. Ganjouie - IFK Canada
2nd place - Maite De León - IFK Uruguay
3rd place - Noelia Fabre – IFK Uruguay
Black belt males
1st place - Jerónimo Romero - IFK Argentina
2nd place - Dave Sheets – IFK USA
3rd place - Santiago Mosco - IFK Uruguay
Brown belt U18
1st place - Elijah Pullmann – IFK USA
2nd place - Kyla Van - IFK Canada
3rd place - Deshaun Moore - IFK USA
Brown belt adults
1st place - Claudia López - IFK Uruguay
2nd place - Jonhathan Funez - IFK Uruguay
3rd place - Douglas Kondo – IFK Brazil
Referees: Shihan Mike Monaco, Shihan Julio Romero, Sensei Steve Fogarasi, Sensei Jeovaldo Barreto, Sensei Germán Carballo.
Participating countries: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Uruguay, USA, and Venezuela.
Organized by: IFK Uruguay - www.ifk-uruguay.com
IFK Uruguay has adapted to this unusual year with social distancing due to COVID-19. Thus, IFK Uruguay 6th annual National Tournament covering several modalities for 2020 took the form of a Kata Virtual Tournament with over 50 competitors.
This has proved to be an excellent way to keep everyone motivated, training, and technically improving, even when the living rooms and yards have become our Dojos and we can only see each other virtually.
Results for the 6th IFK Uruguay National Kata Tournament were as follows:
Black Belt Males category
1° Gonzalo Bentancur
2° Santiago Mosco
3° Cesar Acosta & Mario Hornos
Black Belt Females category
1° Maite De León
2° Noelia Fabre
3° Natalia Odacio
Brown Belt Adults category
1° puesto Claudia López
2° puesto Jonhatan Funez
3° puesto Yonathan Perez
Brown Belt Cadets category
1° Guzmán Centurión
2° Lautaro Hornos
3° Joaquín Mesa
Green Belt category
1° Juan Pablo Bianchi
2° Johann Castro
Yellow Belt category
1° Juliana Latorre
2° Agustina Latorre
3° Martín Machado
Yellow Belt Children category
1° Santiago Cuenca
2° Joaquin Fernandez
3° Julieta Majstruk
Blue belt Adults category
1° Diego Alegresa
2° Nicolás Mosco
3° Alvaro Pérez
Blue Belt Cadets category
1° Matías Tarragona
2° Erika Gomez
3° Martina Nievas
Blue Belt Children category
1° Avril Carballo
2° Tatiana Nesteruk
3° Renzo Barragán & Juan Ignacio Bonilla
Red Belt Adults category
1° Nicolás Caró
2° Clara Monteiro
3° Antonio Madrid
Red Belt Children category
1° Avril Diaz
2° Poul Reccioppe
Red Belt Children (Kihon) category
1° Moirana Verde
2° Bruno Martinez & Juan Ignacio Goro
3° Bruna Cerrilla & Ian Kovacs
Judge: Sensei Germán Carballo.
Referees: Senpais Santiago Mosco, Noelia Fabre, Mario Hornos, Maite De León, Cesar Acosta, Gonzalo Diaz.
Competitors who classified to represent IFK Uruguay in the 2020 IFK Americas Kata Virtual Tournament taking place on July 4 and 5, 2020:
Gonzalo Bentancur
Santiago Mosco
Maite De León
Noelia Fabre
Claudia López
Jonathan Funez
Guzmán Centurión
Lautaro Hornos
Dear IFK family,
At this challenging time, where we are all faced with differing levels of adversity, it seems an appropriate
opportunity to pause and reflect – a moment to evaluate many areas of our lives and how we live them.
During these unprecedented times, like all families, we shall be at some point, close to, or directly
impacted, by the tragic nature that surrounds the COVID pandemic. It is during these times that we can
draw on the spirit of our Kyokushin upbringing and apply Mas Oyma’s principles – not least of all, that
‘introspection begets wisdom’. We may also draw on the Kyokushin principles of ‘patience, endurance
and perseverance’.
Many IFK countries, have in their lifetime, experienced natural disasters and war – their spirit and resolve
has ensured their survival and enabled them to gather and rebuild. This epidemic is a very serious crisis
for us all, a ‘new’ normal will eventually ensue and we shall move forward. It is without doubt that our
life, including karate, will be shaped and influenced by these current times - we will need to adapt in order
to progress.
The IFK Board are standing firm with you all in this time of difficulty and we are trying to offer support,
wherever possible, to our Country Representatives, their instructors and students. Obviously national
and international events have been suspended but we are confident that eventually we will continue our
work in promoting Kyokushin Karate under the IFK banner.
We thank you all for your continued support and hard work at many levels – take care and be safe.
Liam Keaveney (7th Dan)
For and on behalf of the IFK Board
28th April 2020
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