Osu!
November 4 2006 was the offering of
the 6th Rocky Mountain Kyokushin
Karate Tournament. The event saw both
Kata & Kumite competition. The 2
segments of the day combined to have
over 120 competitors from 18 dojos
from BC, Alberta & Nevada, USA
competing. Those clubs were Rocky
Mountain, Invermere, Banff, Cremona,
Keremeos, Penticton, Armstrong,
Calgary, Stoney Plain, Edmonton,
Surrey, Newton, Vancouver, Lumby,
Surrey, Parksville and 2 dojos from
outside the IKOK(C), Elko, Nevada &
Dawson Creek. Due to unexpected snow
fall in the mountains, the New Denver
Dojo got snowed in at home.
The Kata divisions were hotly
comtested this year. This component of
the competition becomes stronger &
stronger each year, with green & brown
belts doing dan level kata, and doing
them well. We saw Seipai & Kanku from
this group in the Open division.
However, experience & training paid
off with Sensei Tats Nakamura winning
the Gold in the Open Division over
Grayson Clague (silver), 1st kyu (Kanku)
& Aimee Ravenstein (Bronze), 3rd kyu (Seipai),
with a masterful SushiHo
Once again the Rocky Mountain
Tournament piloted a number of
innovations to the divsions. Several
years ago this tournament introduced
the double elimination format to the
non-contact children's divisions. This
year this format was expanded to
include all knockdown divisions
including the Open division. The Rocky
Mounatin Tournament was started to
provide development for novice &
intermiediate level fighte. The use of
the double elimination format gives
young fighters greater opportunity to
gain experience in the ring. The other
positive comment that was received
about the format was that it gave
those fighters which came from great
distances a better experience and
opportunity for their travel effort.
The open division featured 5 fighters
this year and clearly the quality of
the fighting at this level has
improved greatly. At the end of the
day Sensei Nathan Howat from Edmonton
Dojo won the day. Sensei Nathan
displayed a good variety of technique,
scoring a number of wasari with his
jodan mawashi geri. Lane McNealy from
Elko Nevada took the Silver and Matt
Stuckenberg of Parksville, BC taking
the Bronze. But at the end of the day
it was the coloured belt women that
took the technical & spirit honours of
the tournament. The Spirit award went
to Lisa Johnson and the Technical
Award went to Asya Flaata, both of the
Rocky Mountain Dojo. The tournament
also show the results of the Rocky
Mountain Kyokushin ShinkoKai's
(Promotion Society) fund raising
efforts over the last number of years.
The new tournament mats were used for
the first time at the tournament. All
the safety equipment used throughout
the day as well as the mats were
purchased due the the efforts of the
society.
Part of the inovations this year
included up dated and redesigned
scoring software for both Kata &
Kumite. This work was done by Rod
Ravenstein, father of 3 long term
Rocky Mountain students - Aimee, Adam
& Lyndsay. As part of the up grade,
kata results and kumite draws, both in
real time, were projected on a wall
screen for the enlightenment of the
competitors and spectators. Many good
comments were received about this
inovation. Rod has promised a further
updatyed version of the software for
next year. Thanks Rod!
I would like to thank the dojos that
participated, the competitors, the
parents, the fund raising team and the
organizing team from Cranbrook led by
Sempai Maxine Adshead. This event is
sponsored by the fund raising society
as a fund raising event. So any
profits made during the day will go
back into equipment and travel funds
for students here in Cranbrook.
A special thanks for Sensei's Tats and
Brad for their work in running the
officiating during the day.
See you next year!!!
Osu!
Don Corrigal
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Kata Results
White-Under 12
Jeremy Kapsata
Chris Lavery
Dalton Gallina
White
Karen Kettenacker
Carmen Gallina
Orange - Under 12
Sean Thompson
Ty Ryley
Breann Billey
Orange
Jennifer Quirt
Bettina Harach
Blue - Under 12
Tanner Eady
Brennan Weaver
Risa Haskins
Blue
Amanda Rutherford
Chris Carpenter
Tanya Dearden
Yellow
Aysa Flaata
Lindsay Waugh
Kaia Lange
Green
Eileen Kohorst
Adam Ravenstein
Aimee Ravenstein
Brown
Grayson Clague
Matt Stuckenberg
Jeremiah Breeze
Open
Tats Nakamura
Grayson Clague
Aimee Ravenstein
Black
Team Keremeos
Rocky Roadsters
The Heavyweights