Our annual Spring/Summer competition will be rebranded as, "The RYU KEN CHAMPIONSHIPS - Summer 2024 Edition", and will be held on Saturday, 2 November 2024 at the Rivonia Sports Club.
The following competition categories will take place this year:
1) 3-Person Random-Team competition. All participants will be placed in a pool and randomly-generated teams with be created! The total Dan grade sum for each team will be that of 5 Dan
2) Open Individual competition for all participants in bogu
The registration fee for this competition will be R150 per person
Please note that the competition fee will be billed to your home dojo.
FAMILY, FRIENDS and SPECTATORS ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND! NO ENTRANCE FEE FOR SPECTATING!
The program for the day is as follows :
08h00 - 08h30 : Hall Set-Up
08h30 - 08h50 : Registration & Self-Warm Up
08h50 - 08h55 : Opening Ceremony
09h00 - 12h00 : Team Event
12h00 - 14h50 : Individua Event
14h50 - 15h00 : Closing Ceremony
Shiai-Jo Layout
Competition Rules:
The matches will be done in accordance with the FIK Shiai rules, AS WELL AS the temporary FIK rules that are in place due to the pandemic.
Fights will be done as sanbon-shobu.
ENCHO only from KO rounds.
INDIVIDUAL EVENT fights will be 3-mins long. Finals will be 5 mins.
For INDIVIDUAL EVENTS, only the top player of each pool will proceed to the KO rounds. For pools of 4 players, the top 2 players will proceed to the KO rounds..
Once the players are out the pool rounds, they are to select a "number' from a bag of 14 numbers. This will help determine who the player will fight next
TEAM EVENT fights will be 2-mins long per fight. Finals will be 5 mins.
The top 2 teams per pool will proceed to the KO rounds.
For the team event, 3-person teams will be randomly selected amongst all the participants! To keep it fair, the dan grade sum will not exceed 5th-dan! This will be factored in when the random draws are done.
Registration Fee & Link
The registration fee for this competition will be R150, which will cover the expenses incurred to host this event.
REGISTER HERE:
Registration by Sunday, 27 October 2024.
Random draws will be done on Monday, 28 October 2024 @ 11am via a Live Streaming session!
THE PRIZES:
THE DRAWS :
THE SHIMPAN:
Competition Results
A. TEAM EVENT
1st Place: Team 11 (Alexander Kent, Divana Aura Naidoo, Somaria Ramjattan)
2nd Place: Team 12 ( Brendan Dateling, Lear Pather, Theunis Venter)
3rd Place: Team 3 (Charles Sun, Decclan Lawrence, justin Chiang) &
Team 5 (Kadima Tshiantaku Kazadi, Matthew Michel, Shakti Daly)
Fighting Spirit: Anesu Shamu; Connor Armando Dingli, Kudjo Witbooi
B. INDIVIDUAL EVENT
Top 14 KO Chart:
1st Place: Sanechika Mamada (Japanese Embassy)
2nd Place: Charles Sun (RKC Dojo)
3rd Place: Alex Kent (ICBY) & Warren Ho (RKC Dojo)
Fighting Spirit: Johan Krige (Mushin Dojo)
*Photo's by JAMES MILLER
LET's KEEP TRAINING HARD TOGETHER!🔥
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The Ryū Ken Chi (RKC) Dojo train the traditional Japanese martial arts of Kendo and Iaido (sword-based martial arts), as well as Jodo (the art of the short staff), that encourages the cultivation of the human character.
Kendo Kid is also available for children aged 6-13 years old.
RKC DOJO has 2 training venues within Johannesburg - RIVONIA and OBSERVATORY.
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