Annual UW-Madison Karate Tournament
Every fall, the Madison Japanese Karate Club holds a tournament open to traditional karate practitioners - adults above the age of 18. Our goal is to provide everyone with a fun, safe and exciting opportunity to enhance our karate training.
The 2011 tournament took place on Saturday, November 19. A big Thank You! to those who participated and helped with the organization.
We have divisions based on rank in the following events:
- Individual kata (mixed men and women)
- Individual kumite (separate men and women divisions)
- Fukugo
- Team kata
- Team kumite
- En-bu
The rank categories are determined for each tournament depending on the number of competitors with different ranks. These categories for individual events are usually:
- Beginners (9 to 7 Kyu)
- Intermediate (6 to 4 Kyu)
- Brown Belts (3 to 1 Kyu)
- Shodan
- Nidan and up
The En-bu event is a two person pre-arranged encounter where an attacker and a defender demonstrate the use of karate techniques for self defense. The encounter should last for about one minute, and participants are judged on the same principles as kata.
The Fukugo event is a single elimination event where the final round is free sparring (Jiyu Kumite), and each preceding round alternates between performance of the Kitei compulsory form, and free sparring. This event is for brown and black belts only.
The participants will have the following choices of individual kumite events:
- Beginners (7th kyu and below) may chose either One Time Attack or Ko-Go kumite.
- Participants in the Intermediate category (6th to 4th kyu) will compete in Ko-Go kumite.
- Brown belts and above may chose between Ko-Go kumite and Jiyu Kumite (free sparring).
We have pictures and videos from previous years' tournaments available on the media page. Results going back to 2000 may be found here.
We hope that you can join us again in the fall of 2012! Please send any questions to Mr. Peytchev.