2020 Senior and Children’s

Bosco Gasshuku

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

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

Looking forward to seeing you next year March 2021! J

Sensei Stef Biagioni

18th Interschool Karate Championships

2019

On behalf of Fourways Martial Arts Academy, it gives me great pleasure to announce that the 18^th Interschool Karate championship was a success. On the 26^th 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 19^th Interschool Karate Championships next year 24^th October 2020.

Kind Regards

Sensei Stef Biagioni

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