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2020 Senior and Children’s

Bosco Gasshuku

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Fourways Martial Arts Academy hosted their 18th Annual Senior and Children’s Karate Training Camp.

It was held at the Bosco Youth Center south of Johannesburg on 14th & 15th March 2020. 

The venue is fantastic, safe for children with clean accommodation, good food. Facilities include the conference hall that caters for large groups of people at a time as well as an auditorium for power point presentations and a cinema for watching movies etc. The training camp accommodated all age groups, trying to perfect training of the Goju Ryu syllabus and Sports karate.

We were very honoured to have instructors from ISMAA that have had on an average over 50 years of experience. 

Goju Ryu practitioners such as Sensei Tony De Beer,  Stephan Coetzee, Stef Biagioni and Roberta Biagioni.

Special thanks must be said to Sensei Tony De Beer, who is one of our most experienced instructors.  We were honoured with his presence at the weekend to help the future of our Black Belts.

Also a special thanks to Sensei Stephan who has never missed a Bosco Camp to help out. This week end was excellent training for those senior adults that were interested in Goju Ryu self-defense.

Last but not least, Sensei Roberta and I would like to thank all the instructors from Fourways Dojo that helped this weekend:

Sensei Manfred Noriskin-Ender, Danika Stevens, Silvio Biagioni, Jiren Mudaly, Dhiren Mudaly and Brenden Tsita who with their experience and knowledge in sport as well as traditional karate was very well received.

There was plenty of leisure time included in the weekend such as swimming, pillow fighting, making new friends, watching DVD’s and eating lots of junk food. Even the T-Shirts gave a sense of unity working towards a common goal.

Having done all that, we also had a club competition on the Sunday where medals were awarded for the first, second and joint third places. 

Certificates, medals as well as sweets were handed out for those who participated. The hall was big enough for all of us to enjoy and make plenty of friends.

I would like to thank everyone involved including the PARENTS and hope you all enjoyed and gained more knowledge you had before the camp.

 

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Looking forward to seeing you next year March 2021! J

Sensei Stef Biagioni

African UFAK  Championship

Tangiers Morocco

7th – 9th February 2020

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Karate South Africa had selections in January their Top Ranked Number 1 athletes to compete in the Senior, Junior and Cadet UFAK Africa Cup Championship in Tangiers, Morocco 7th – 9th February  2020.

This African Cup is also very important for the Olympic Qualifying for Tokyo 2020

SASCOC recognised the 19th edition of the UFAK Championship as an official event of KSA and awarded the Senior, Junior and Cadet team with official Protea colours. 

There were 23 countries with just over 300 entries with Morocco taking 1st and Egypt taking 2nd Place as the two top nations, then South Africa coming 7th place overall.

South Africa won 1 silver medal and 8 bronze medal.

Well Done to our 4Ways Dojo who had four athletes represented at the African Cup.

  •      Danika Steven for -55kg Kumite
  •      Reece Baynes for Individual Kata and Team Kata
  •      Alessandro Biagioni for Individual Kata and Team Kata
  •      Nicholas Dobson for Team Kata

A big congratulations to the our 4Ways Team Kata Male Juniors, Reece, Alessandro and Nicholas for an impressive bronze medal. The Team Kata came 3rd to Egypt and Morocco which is currently top 4 in the World Karate Federation (WKF).

Lastly, a special congratulation must be said to Alessandro for clenching another bronze medal for his individual kata narrowing losing to Morocco but beating Benin in the finals of the bronze medals.

This is a fantastic effort considering  that only one entry per country per federation is represented at the WKF UFAK Championship.

I am so proud of our 4Ways dojo who is arguably one of the best dojos in the country.

Keep up the good work and a great start to the year 2020! J

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Well Done!

A great achievement!


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4WAYS DOJO PRODUCING

PROTEA COLOURS SINCE 1997

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 3 Since South African Karate was readmitted to the international competition arena in 1992, SA has produced the first WKF World Champion in 1994, Sandra Louw and the first WKF African Champion in 1997, Stef Biagioni.

Since then Fourways Martial Arts Academy established itself in 1998 with Sensei Stef eventually going professional in September 1999.

Ever since then the 4Ways Dojo has been working hard at developing a system of producing Protea members representing South Africa abroad.

4Ways Dojo has built a reputation as arguably one of the strongest dojo’s in the country with a factory of Protea members for the past 20 years.

I would like to congratulate everyone to this day that has contributed to our Dojo in having faith and loyalty in the Spirit of Sport Karate.

A BIG THANK YOU to Sensei Roberta Biagioni (WKF International Referee), Sensei Brett Ferreira ( Kumite Coach ), Sensei Silvio Biagioni ( Kata Coach ) and Sensei Danika Stevens ( Kumite Coach )

 

HISTORY OF 38 ATHLETES RECEIVING 1ST TIME THEIR PROTEA COLOURS THROUGH 4WAYS DOJO ARE:-

  1.  Stef Biagioni~Protea 1997
  2. Donna Morkel~Protea 2002
  3. Silvio Biagioni~Protea 2008
  4. Cade Anderson~Protea 2008
  5. Micael Fatela~Protea 2008
  6. Tanya Donkin~Protea 2009
  7. Victoria West~Protea 2009
  8. Sinéad Erasmus~Protea 2009
  9. Kate Hinrichs~Protea 2009
  10. Joshua Pilling~Protea 2011
  11. Ethan Ho~Protea 2011
  12. Luca Milanesi~Protea 2011
  13. Michael Du Plessis~Protea 2011
  14. Slade Taylor~Protea 2013
  15. Dylan Kotze~Protea 2013
  16. Cheyenne Barros~Protea 2013
  17. Zoe Duffield~Protea 2013
  18. Justin Baynes~Protea 2013
  19. Mbongeni Malinga~Protea2013
  20. Matthew Pilling~Protea 2013
  21. Claudia Dobson~ Protea 2013
  22. Reece Baynes~Protea 2013
  23. Sicelo Mahlamgu~Protea 2013
  24. Vuyo Malinga~Protea 2013
  25. Marius Madgwick~Protea 2014
  26. Emma Wentzel~Protea 2014
  27. Khardan Ruocchio~Protea2014
  28. Aimee Grefen~Protea 2014
  29. Alessandro Biagioni~Protea 2015
  30. Angela Tsita~Protea 2016
  31. Nicholas Dobson~Protea 2016
  32. Taneka Visser~Protea 2017
  33. Thea Langenhorst~Protea2017
  34. Emma O’Gorman~Protea2017
  35. Sven Langenhorst~Protea2018
  36. Aidan Zeeman~Protea 2018
  37. Malcolm Driessel~Protea 2018
  38. Nuru Minyuku-Gutto~Protea2019

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This culture of success is due to a never give up attitude, faith in 4Ways Dojo’s structure, its coaches and living your dreams which is possible for anyone!

 Kind Regards

Sensei Stef Biagioni

18th Interschool Karate Championships

2019

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On behalf of Fourways Martial Arts Academy, it gives me great pleasure to announce that the 18th Interschool Karate championship was a success. On the 26th October 2019, the Portuguese Hall hosted this event. With 300 competitors representing more than 50 schools, from as far as Cape Town and Gauteng is perhaps, one of the most popular tournaments on the karate calendar. With over 90 individual divisions and 1100 individual performances from the competitors, the interschool has built a reputation of being well organized that starts and finishes on time as per the scheduled program. This Interschool Karate is also well represented in the three major styles of karate in the country such as Goju-Ryu, Shotokan and Shito-Ryu.

Congratulations must be given to the Instructors for supporting this event and sending big teams such as the following top ten schools...

*     St Stithians College : - 30 competitors, with 91 points

*     Cape Town: - 26 competitors, with 80 points

*     Cambridge Academy: - 29 competitors, with 79 points

*     Crawford: - 27 competitors, with 76 points

*     Redhill School: - 20 competitors, with 62 points

*     St Catherine’s: - 36 competitors, with 52 points

*     Christ Church: - 10 competitors, with 15 points

Well done to the top school St Stithians, which deserved to take the top spot by coming first with 91 points, second place Cape Town with 80 points and third place is Cambridge with 79 points, lastly Crawford College  for a fourth place with 76 points.

I would also like to thank all the Referees, Judges, Table Officials, instructors and the rest of the work force that contributed to this event. Keeping in mind that it is all voluntary work. Obviously without these people this event would not exist. I would like to give a special thanks to. Royce Imaging Industries for their contribution towards the Floating Trophies. Thank you once again, to all the suppliers that added to the atmosphere of the tournament such as Celsus Imago (photographer),     S O Martial Arts Shop, the caterers, Cucina con Gusto, the medics, Ernst Viljoen (PA System), Stephan Coetzee Zinc Tech security guards.

Last but not least I would like to thank the Portuguese Hall.

Slowly the aim and objective is filtering through to schools that Karate is a force to be reckoned with, as far as its popularity and benefits are concerned. Therefore nursery schools, primary and high schools will hopefully give Karate the opportunity that it deserves. That is, Karate is an Olympic Sport; therefore giving the recognition to the students and their achievements in Karate. Hopefully in doing so, karate can be recognized as an official sport at schools, starting at grass route level and just as strong as the other leading sports in South Africa.

In short, from myself, I would like to thank everyone and those that I had forgotten to mention and looking forward to hosting the 19th Interschool Karate Championships next year 24th October 2020.

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Kind Regards

Sensei Stef Biagioni

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