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GKF Awards 2018

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Excellence, Prestige, Commitment… These are just a few choice words to describe this event and the athletes who were commended for all their hard work throughout 2017/2018!

The GKF Awards Dinner is the most prestigious event on the GKF calendar and was held at the Libanon Recreation Club in Westonaria on the 16th June 2018. This event is an opportunity to award students who were selected to represent the GKF team at the National trials held in Johannesburg, Gauteng and those who represented South Africa abroad. 

Fourways Martial Arts Academy had 11 of our students awarded at the GKF Awards.  They did a superb job at bringing back well over 20 trophies for not only achieving Gauteng colours and a medal position at the KSA Nationals earlier this year, but also for representing South Africa abroad at the various WKF events namely:

 • Zone 6 Championships (Botswana/Mozambique) • WKF Training Camp & Youth Cup (Croatia)  • UFAK African Games (Cameroon) • WKF Cadet and u21 World Championships (Spain),

Congratulations to the students that were awarded:

  1. Stef Biagioni
  2. Silvio Biagioni
  3. Danika Stevens
  4. Claudia Dobson
  5. Nicholas Dobson
  6. Reece Baynes
  7. Justin Baynes
  8. Taneka Visser
  9. Malaika Minyuku-Gutto
  10. Nuru Minyuku-Gutto
  11. Jacqui Baynes

 Lastly, a special congratulations for two of 4Ways students, i.e. Silvio Biagioni and Danika Stevens.  Silvio was awarded the Male Player of the years and Danika was awarded the Female Player of years for 2017/2018.  Both Silvio and Danika are also ranked number one in Kata and Kumite for 2017/2018 in their divisions.

This is an incredible achievement considering that Gauteng is the strongest province in the country and all the above accolades come from one dojo which is arguably the best Dojo in the country, which is Fourways Martial Arts Academy!

A huge congratulations must go to Sensei Stef who not only was awarded for his sterling job at coming 1st place at the KSA Nationals for his Veteran Divisions, but for his consistency throughout the year 2017/2018 at achieving a medal position at ALL events that he attended. He was also awarded for his dedication in contributing towards karate South Africa and what he has done for the sport as well as his ability to produce top athletes in the country.

Last but not least, Jacqui Baynes was awarded the best team manager for the year and was awarded for her dedication to the success of Gauteng province. 

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Well-done to each and every student that is part of and more importantly PROUD to be part of Fourways Martial Arts.   

You can certainly be proud, because Fourways is proving to be the best dojo in the country due to hard work and dedication! 

Kind Regards

Sensei Stef Biagioni

KSA Elite and SA Open

Championship 2018

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 This past week end in Durban 23rd & 24th June 2018. South African Karate hosted the KSA Elite and SA Open Championship that attracted top 6 ranked athlete’s and all brown and black belt athlete’s for the Open championships.

This was also part of a ranking and selection system to get the top 6 Athlete of South Africa from all age group to compete in the following up and coming international for 2017/2018:-

*      Zone 6 Championship 2018

*      WKF K 1 Youth League Championship 2018

*      Ufak Snr Africa Cup 2018

*      WKF Senior World Championship 2018

*      Commonwealth Karate Championship

Congratulation and results !

  NAME KATA KUMITE UNISON Total Medals Category
  1. ALESSANDRO BIAGIONI
 GOLD     1XGOLD ELITE
  1. KATLEGO BADIROANG
 GOLD GOLD 2XGOLD OPEN
  1. REECE BAYNES
 SILVER GOLD   1XGOLD 1XSILVER ELITE
  1. TANEKA VISSER
 BRONZE BRONZE GOLD 2XBRONZE 1XGOLD ELITE & OPEN
  1. KIAN JORDAN
 BRONZE BRONZE 2XBRONZE OPEN
  1. JUSTIN BAYNES
 GOLD SILVER GOLD 2XGOLD 1XSILVER ELITE
  1. ERIN FORD
 GOLD 1XGOLD ELITE
  1. ANGELA TSITA
 BRONZE 1XBRONZE ELITE
  1. SILVIO BIAGIONI
 SILVER 1XSILVER ELITE
  1. DANIKA STEVENS
 GOLD 1XGOLD ELITE
  1. STEF BIAGIONI
 GOLD GOLD ELITE
  1. CLAUDIA DOBSON
 BRONZE BRONZE 2XBRONZE ELITE
  1. SVEN LANGENHORST
 BRONZE BRONZE GOLD 2XBRONZE1XGOLD ELITE & OPEN
  1. THEA LANGENHORST
 BRONZE GOLD 1XBRONZE 1XGOLD ELITE
  1. AIDEN ZEEMAN
 SILVER SILVER GOLD 2XSILVER1XGOLD ELITE & OPEN
  1. MALCOM DRIESSEL
 GOLD 1XGOLD ELITE
  1. NURU MINYUKU-GUTO
   GOLD 1XGOLD OPEN
  1. DANIELLA DRIESSEL
 BRONZE 1XBRONZE OPEN
  TOTAL MEDALS 15 X GOLD 5XSILVER 10XBRONZE
  GRAND TOTAL       30  MEDALS  

Congratulation! Must also be said to all my Elite athlete’s for their recognition of Proteas colours at the Awards evening hosted by Karate South Africa on the 22ND June  2018. Well done to Silvio Biagioni, Justin Baynes, Taneka Visser, Thea Langenhorst, Claudia Dobson.

Last But not Least a special congratulation to Aidan Zeeman, Sven Langenhorst, Malcolm Driessel on their first time Proteas.

It was a lovely event with entertainment, supper and handing out awards in the form of trophies for 2017/2018 proteas and KSA representation.

Lastly a special thanks must go to all members of 4Ways Dojo that permanently make an effort to be at a KSA event at their own cost to help out were necessary.

To my parents, Anke Langenhorst for her ongoing support in helping out with Physiotherapy. Jacquie Bayne for all her hard work as GKF Manager.

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Well done to all that contributed including our 4Ways Dojo!!

Kind Regards

Sensei Stef Biagioni

Cell 083 384 3026

Tel 011 705 1080

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KSA

Arnold Classic Karate Championship 2018

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This weekend past (18th to 20th 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 15 athletes and took 23 medals in total with 10 gold, 8 Silver and 5 Bronze medals.

The KSA Arnold’s Classic karate Championship, 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 had a ranking tournament inviting only the top ten athletes in the country.

We are proud to mention that Fourways Martial Arts Academy has as many as 18 TOP TEN athletes in the country that was invited to compete at the above event.

The Arnold’s Classic Karate Championship also attracted international teams from African countries such as Congo and Mauritius that were present. 

Congratulations to the following 4Ways Elite athletes:-

*      STEF BIAGIONI ~ GOLD MEDAL FOR KATA

*      SILVIO BIAGIONI ~ DOUBLE GOLD MEDAL FOR KATA

*      DANIKA STEVENS ~ GOLD MEDAL FOR KUMITE

*      ALESSANDRO BIAGIONI ~ GOLD MEDALS FOR KATA & SILVER FOR KUMITE

*      REECE BAYNES ~ GOLD MEDAL FOR KUMITE & BRONZE FOR KATA

*      TANEKA VISSER ~ DOUBLE SILVER FOR TEAM KATA & KUMITE

*      CLAUDIA DOBSON ~ DOUBLE BRONZE MEDALS FOR KATA & KUMITE

*      SVEN LANGENHORST ~ GOLD MEDALS FOR TEAM KATA

*      JUSTIN BAYNES ~ GOLD MEDAL FOR TEAM KATA, SILVER MEDAL FOR KUMITE & BRONZE MEDALS FOR INDIVIDUAL KATA

*      ERIN FORD ~ SILVER MEDAL FOR TEAM KATA

*      THEA LANGENHORST ~ DOUBLE SILVER FOR TEAM KATA & INDIVIDUAL KATA 

*      AIDAN ZEEMAN ~ GOLD MEDALS FOR TEAM KATA

*      MALCOLM DRIESSEL ~ GOLD MEDAL FOR TEAM KATA

*      ANGELA TSITA ~ SILVER MEDAL FOR KATA

*      NICHOLAS DOBSON ~ BRONZE MEDALS FOR KUMITE

A special thanks to Jacquie Baynes Gauteng’s Team Manager and Sensei Roberta Biagioni KSA Referee for their 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 of the best of the top ten ranked in the country.

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

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Kind Regards

Sensei Stef Biagioni

Cell 083 384 3026

Tel 011 705 1080

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Ismaa Championship 2018

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Dear Student

On Saturday 2nd June 2018 Ismaa hosted a championship at the Redhill School, Multi-Purpose Hall in celebration  of our Goju Ryu Karate and its dojos.

15 Dojos affiliated to Ismaa (International Shorei Martial Arts Academy) lead by our Chief instructor Shihan Arnold De Beer with 200 students entered from 5 years to over 35 years.

This was a competition of all our affiliated Dojos from Gauteng, Potchefstroom, Durban and Krugersdorp.

The tournament was well run and organised with more than enough qualified referee’s to help on the day.

Congratulations to the referees and all the table official that gave up their time for our students, for a job well done! And to Sensei Roberta as Ismaa’ s Chief referee for the day also just recently qualifies to a UFAK International referee for  KARATE SOUTH AFRICA.

4Ways dojo did very well bringing home plenty of medals, but most importantly the student enjoyed themselves tremendously.

  • Please find below photo of students from Fourways Martial Arts Academy.

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Thank you to all the parents that supported the championship and hopefully we have an even better turnout in the future.

 

Kind Regards

Sensei Stef Biagioni

Cell 083 384 3026

Tel 011 705 1080

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Gasshuku

Black Belt Results

T O Strand; April 2018

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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 -29th April 2018 at the Ismaa Gasshuku T O Strand South Coast.

 

The following students have graded to:

1) Silvio Biagioni:- Graded To 3rd Dan Black Belt

2) Ebrahim Patel:- Graded To 2nd Dan Black Belt

3) Jiren Mudaly:- Graded To 2nd Dan Black Belt

4) Dhiren Mudaly:- Graded To 1st Dan Black Belt

5) Luka Djordjevic:- Graded To 1st Dan Black Belt  

6) Alessandro Biagioni:- Graded To Junior Black Belt

7) Callum Condie:- Graded To Junior Black Belt

7) Matthew Bernard:- Graded To Junior 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 which stretched over three days, 12 Hours in total with all aspects of the Goju Syllabus covered.   The results were unanimous from all examiners such as Sensei Arnold De Beer, George Capozurio, Tony De Beer, Richard Buckley, Jorge Pinto. Every one of the grading candidates was well prepared, mentally and physically for this event and are an inspiration for all our students…

Last but not least! A special congratulations must go to Silvio Biagioni Sensei who is now an official licensed instructor of 4Ways Dojo.

Fantastic achievement for all..

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Welcome to the Black Belt Academy!!!!

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

Kind Regards

Sensei Stef Biagioni

Cell 083 384 3026

Tel 011 705 1080

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