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  • The 2024 Compete Internationals was a martial arts success

    2024 Compete Internationals: New and Old

    Participation in the martial arts increases annually with over 6 million people in the United States attending at least one class a year. An important part of training is martial arts tournaments where martial artists from different backgrounds and schools can test their skills and [...]

  • 2024 AKA Warrior Cup: The Start of a Year of Growth

    Participation in the martial arts increases annually with over 6 million people in the United States attending at least one class a year. An important part of training is martial arts tournaments where martial artists from different backgrounds and schools can test their skills and [...]

Think Fighting – 2016 Battle of Atlanta

Fighting, fighting and more fighting – combat was on the mind for the 2016 Battle of Atlanta. The event, held June 17-18, 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia, delivered. Top teams were on hand to compete for the team sparring challenge and both the adult and youth sparring divisions were filled with amazing match-ups, victories and defeats. The event was the debut [...]

New England Open: Sport Karate In The East

Great competition and a well-run tournament made the New England Open a successful event. The New England Open is known for innovative divisions and a well-run event. In 2016 it lived up to the reputation. The tournament was held June 3-4, 2016 in Manchester, New Hampshire this year. Daytime eliminations and grand championships on Saturday were completely finished by 4:00 [...]

Mexican Open 2016 Cancelled

2016 Mexican Open cancelled due to violence in Acapulco, Mexico Amidst repeated reports of drug related killings in the city of Acapulco, Mexico, promoter Luis Jimenez cancelled the Mexican Open event that was scheduled for September 2-3, 2016 in Acapulco. In April, 2016, the United States State Department banned all travel for employees to the city of Acapulco after 136 [...]

Team Paul Mitchell Adds Two More Hungarians

Team Paul Mitchell expands its men's fighting team by looking overseas. In a bold move, Team Paul Mitchell fighting added two established fighters from the country of Hungary. Beginning immediately, Tamas Imre and Ritchie Veres will join the ranks of Team Paul Mitchell fighters. This increases the current stable of available active 18-29 male fighters to six and the number [...]

Ten Cool Tournament Divisions You Need To Try

Check out unique and fun new divisions at a tournament near you. Sport karate tournaments today are not the same as what your instructor experienced back in the 90s with simple forms, fighting and weapons divisions. Promoters are working hard to come up with new and unique divisions to keep competitors excited about competition and to make their events more [...]

Competition 101: 5 Reasons to Compete Locally

Local events are a great place to start competition. Training in a martial arts school is probably enough for most people who get involved in the martial arts. Practicing kicks and punches, memorizing routines and self-defense techniques and the camaraderie of classmates is sufficient. But there are also a lot of people who want more out of their martial arts' [...]

The Road Traveled: Competitor Jeff Doss

Sport karate competition has been part of Jeff Doss' life since age 4; read about where it has taken him. Jeff Doss has been competing since age 4 and has won titles in nearly every league out there - NASKA, NBL, WKA, ISKA and PKC to name a few. He's won tricking competitions against some of the best but stands [...]

Rules Review: What Rank Can I Compete At?

Rules Review: Competing at a different rank reviewed It happens all the time and in some leagues, it is allowed by the rules: people move up in divisions in competition to challenge themselves. For instance, a brown belt is winning constantly in the advanced division and decides to move up to the black belt division for more competition. Is this [...]

Competition 101: Starting to Compete Step 1

Step 1: Competition Starts With Learning So you were browsing the web and found some great videos of amazing people doing point sparring or amazing martial arts tricking performances and now you're hooked. You want to compete in sport karate. The next question is, how to get started in competition. All of the people you see competing at events started [...]

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NAIKC 2016 Tournament Brings Energy

This year's North American International Karate Championships (NAIKC) were held in Dearborn, Michigan at the Edward Village Hotel and Conference Center the weekend of September 16-17, [...]

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