AUSC Region 5 Championship

Namibia, Swatkopmund 22^nd -25^th May 2019

Karate South Africa had selections in March where the top 2 athletes in all divisions were chosen to take part in the International Zone 6 Championships.

Eight of 4Ways Dojo’s athletes were chosen for the AUSC Region 5, hosted in Swatkopmund, Namibia on the 22^nd to 25^th May 2019.

SASCOC recognised the Region 5 Championship as an official event of KSA and awarded the athletes  with official Protea colours.

Seven countries were represented at the Region 5, i.e.  Angola, South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Zambia and Namibia with over 300 entries.

Overall, South Africa won with the most amount of medals with 31Gold; 25 Silver and 21 Bronze. 

Botswana came second and third was Namibia.

A big congratulations to the 4Ways Dojo! 

All our Eight athletes did extremely well by clenching 8 Medals (3XGolds,  4XSilvers And 1XBronze).

Results of the Fourways Dojo Medal Winners:

• STEF BIAGIONI – Gold for Kata
• THEA LANGENHORST – Gold for Kata
• CLAUDIA DOBSON – Gold for Kata
• SILVIO BIAGIONI – Silver for Kata
• AIDAN ZEEMAN – Silver for Team Kata
• SVEN LANGENHORST – Silver for Team Kata
• MALCOLM DRIESSEL – Silver for Team Kata
• NURU MINYUKU-GUTTO – Bronze for Kumite

Lastly a special note of congratulations to Nuru Minyuku-Gutto for getting her Protea Colours for the first time; and Sensei Stef leading from the front being at his 13^th  Zone 6 Championship, medalling every time.   

Well Done!!

A fantastic effort to all!

Gasshuku

Black Belt Results

T O Strand; April 2019

Fourways Martial Arts Academy would like to congratulate the following grading candidates for an outstanding achievement of their Black Belts which took Place on the 27th April  2019 at the Ismaa Gasshuku T O Strand South Coast.

The following students have graded to:-

1. Syan Kalyan:- Cadet Black Belt
2. Sebastian Haralambaus:- Cadet Black Belt
3. Jad Ezzeddine:- Cadet Black Belt
4. Michael Hunter:- Cadet Black Belt
5. Priyan Naidu:- Cadet Black Belt
6. Jaeson Brink:- Cadet Black Belt

Fourways Martial Arts Academy is very proud of their students who’s standard was very high. This was a tough grading and Gasshuku with all aspects of the Goju Syllabus covered.   The results were unanimous from all examiners such as Sensei Arnold De Beer, George Capazorio, Tony De Beer, Richard Buckley. Every one of the grading candidates was well prepared, well-conditioned for this event and are an inspiration for all our students.

Welcome to the Black Belt Academy!!!!

May you all grow from strength to strength and from Dan to Dan…

KSA Arnold Classic

Karate Championship

2019

This weekend past (17^th -19^th May) KSA hosted a ranking league for selection into a KSA National Squad team to represent South Africa for up and coming internationals.

Fourways Martial Arts Academy entered 19 athletes and took 25 medals in total with 12 gold, 5 Silver and 8 Bronze medals.

The KSA Arnold’s Classic Africa, is one of the most popular sporting games in the world and the only one on the African Continent were all sporting code compete at the same time in South Africa hosted at the Sandton  Convention Centre.

Sports Karate is one of these sporting code were KSA invites only the top ten athletes in the country.

We are proud to mention that Fourways Martial Arts Academy has as many as 19 TOP TEN athletes in South Africa.

Congratulations to the following 4Ways Elite athletes:-

    STEF BIAGIONI ~ GOLD MEDAL FOR KATA

     SILVIO BIAGIONI ~ SILVER MEDAL FOR KATA

     DANIKA STEVENS ~ SILVER MEDAL FOR KUMITE

     ALESSANDRO BIAGIONI ~ GOLD MEDALS FOR KATA & GOLD MEDAL FOR TEAM KATA

     REECE BAYNES ~ GOLD MEDAL FOR KUMITE, KATA & GOLD MEDAL FOR TEAM KATA

     TANEKA VISSER ~ GOLD MEDAL FOR TEAM KATA

     CLAUDIA DOBSON ~ DOUBLE BRONZE MEDALS FOR KATA & KUMITE

     SVEN LANGENHORST ~ SILVER MEDALS FOR TEAM KATA

     JUSTIN BAYNES ~ GOLD MEDAL FOR TEAM KATA & BRONZE MEDALS FOR KUMITE

     ERIN FORD ~ GOLD MEDAL FOR TEAM KATA & BRONZE FOR KATA

     THEA LANGENHORST ~ SILVER FOR TEAM KATA 

     AIDAN ZEEMAN ~ SILVER MEDALS FOR TEAM KATA & BRONZE MEDAL FOR KATA

     MALCOLM DRIESSEL ~ SILVER MEDAL FOR TEAM KATA

     BRETT FERRERIA ~ BRONZE MEDAL FOR KATA

     NICHOLAS DOBSON ~ GOLD MEDAL FOR TEAM KATA & BRONZE MEDALS FOR KATA

     NURU MINYUKE-GUTTO ~ BRONZE MEDALS FOR KUMITE

A special thanks to Sensei Roberta Biagioni KSA Referee for her on-going support in representing 4Ways Dojo at these events.

Lastly, 4Ways Dojo is indebted to our 4Ways coaches; Sensei Brett Ferreira, Sensei Danika Stevens and Sensei Silvio Biagioni for all their hard work coaching and preparing our students which is clearly paying off if we look at the results!!

The tournament  was very tough and the level of competition was extremely high with just over 400 entries.

So well done to ALL my 4Ways students that got MEDALS and for getting this far !!! Good luck to the rest in your preparations ..

Kind Regards

Sensei Stef Biagioni

2019 Senior and Children’s

Bosco Gasshuku

Fourways Martial Arts Academy hosted their 17^th Annual Senior and Children’s Karate Training Camp. It was held at the Bosco Youth Center south of Johannesburg on 9^th & 10^th 2019.  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 40 years of experience.  Goju Ryu practitioners such as Sensei Tony De Beer, Sipho Vilakazi, 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 & Sipho 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, Sensei Lorraine Smith, Sensei Danika Stevens, Silvio Biagioni, Jiren & Dhiren Mudaly and Rene Labuschagne 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 and hope you all enjoyed and gained more knowledge you had before the camp.

Looking forward to seeing you next year March 2020!

Kind Regards

Sensei Stef Biagioni