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

KARATE SOUTH AFRICA

NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

CHILDREN AND SENIORS

MARCH 2019

 Karate South Africa hosted two National Championships; 2nd-3rd March, Durban 23rd-24th March, Cape Town.

Where all the 8 provinces were represented to be the ultimate Champion of Champs.

This also served as a ranking system for International Championships this year such as; Zone 6, African Cup, WKF Youth Cup League  and World Championship.

In November 2018 athletes had to take part in order to qualify for the JHB District.  Those selected in JHB again had to qualify this year in February to represent Gauteng province. Finally the top four athletes in Gauteng (consisting of the five Districts) took part in the S A Champions.

In summary between the two National Championships 4Ways Martial Arts Academy once again did extremely well by bringing back 24 Medals

In summary between the two National Championships 4Ways Dojo once again did extremely well by bringing back 18 Medals

     Total Gold @ 10

     Total Silver @ 9

     Total Bronze @ 5

The following competitors who have received medal at the KSA Nationals are:-

Again I cannot express more than enough on what an incredible start this is to the year for 4Ways Dojo if you consider the environment that our athlete had to compete in.

     Attached are some photos

Also I would like to extend a very big thank you to Sensei Roberta for representing 4Ways Dojo who officiated so selflessly and tirelessly at the KSA Nationals. It was a hectic two days doing a sterling job. Last, but not least, a special thank you to Jacqui Baynes for all her hard work as Team Manager for Gauteng Karate Federation.

Well done and may you all go from strength to strength in your preparation!

This means that all the above medal winners might have an opportunity to compete in the up and coming Internationals:-

(All under the auspices of SASCOC/KSA)

     Zone 6 Championship in Namibia.

     All African Cup in Botswana.

     WKF K1 Youth League Championship in Croatia.

     WKF Senior World Championship in Chile.

 Well done and may you all go from strength to strength!!

Kind Regards

Sensei Stef Biagioni

Cell 083 384 3026

Tel 011 705 1080

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Gauteng Trials

Portuguese Hall 2019

Fourways Martial Arts Academy entered their top athlete’s into JHB Trials on 3^RD November  2018.

Approximately 31 of Sensei Stef and Roberta’s students qualified for their regional half colours to compete at the Gauteng Provincial trials.

On Friday & Saturday, 8^th & 9^th  February, Gauteng Karate Federation hosted the Provincial trials in JHB. The Gauteng trials with over 500 entries was well represented with the result being a reduced number of entries to only 4 per division out of 5 Districts (Ekurhuleni, Tshwane, Sedibeng; JHB and Westrand).  The selected top four athletes that competed the past weekend will represent Gauteng Karate Federation at the KSA National Championship.  The seniors will compete in Durban on 1^ST March and the children in Cape Town on 15^th & 16^th March. 

25 Athletes from Fourways Dojo Karate received their provincial colours from the said Gauteng trials this weekend.  They will all compete at the Nationals to be ranked and selected for the Zone 6, WKF Youth Cup League, African Cup, and World WKF championship later this year.

Stef Biagioni, instructor of Fourways dojo who is an athlete himself in sport karate, is a South African Champion, Zone 6 Champion, African Champion, Commonwealth Champions, (WKC) World Champion and Goju Ryu World Champion.  He has received protea colours on 16 occasion by SASCOC and competed in over 55 Internationals.  Stef runs 6 Dojos in the Sandton, Bryanston and Fourways area and has a reputation of one of the best clubs in South Africa.  He has produced 35 Proteas since 1997 ranging in ages from children, cadet, junior and senior.

Again, Well done to the entire 4Ways team on a great performance qualifying to the KSA nationals in Durban and Cape Town.

Clenching a total of 43 medals consisting of 17 Gold, 13 Silver and 13 Bronze. A fantastic effort and we want to wish our athletes all the best in on-going training and competition!

Congratulations!!  To the top 4 competitors that have qualifies to the K S A Nationals:-

Well Done to 4Ways Dojo and to ALL that got this far, irrespective whether you medalled or not, just being there is a huge achievement.

Good luck to the rest in your preparations ..

• A special thanks to Sensei Roberta, Jiren & Dhiren Mudaly for refereeing, Yolanda Visser who is a qualified table official and Jacqui Baynes, JHB Districts Manager for all their help over this weekend and does not go un noticed!! J

Kind Regards

Sensei Stef Biagioni

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