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Newsletter of the Trinidad Karate Association (TKA) Issue #24 JULY - SEPT, 2015
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seek perfection of character ~ be faithful ~ endeavour ~ respect others ~ refrain from violent behaviour
Welcome to our tournament edition This 3rd quarter July to September 2015 has been one of our most successful ever. We started off by winning gold in Suriname in June in the first Caribbean Championships. Then we excelled in the OSKK Invitational where we also won several gold, silver and bronze medals. Then the BOMBSHELL! Team TKA won the Gold Cup in the Second IKD World Championships. All of the achievements have been the result of hard work and dedication to our Shotokan Karate over the last few months. The details of these achievements are in the magazine so I will cut short here. READ ON ... and CONGRATULATIONS to us all ... Regards
Shihan Wesley Dexter Shim Chairman & Chief Instructor TKA(IKD)
Eid-Ul-Fitr - Emancipation Day Independence Day - Republic Day
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Tournaments
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Events Calendar
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Training Schedule
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TOURNAMENTS
OSKK NATIONAL TOURNAMENT MALONEY INDOOR SPORTING COMPLEX OSKK held its Invitational TTKU recognized tournament on July 5. Congratulations to the many TKA winners including:
Anthony Thomas Avril Dean Dominic Lue Fatt Isaiah Colthrust Malaika Kerr Michelle Lue Fatt
Natakki Hypolite Roshelle Lue Fatt Shinelle M. Henry Simone Thorne Tamara Joseph
1st CARIBBEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS The first was held in Suriname in June this year. Trinidad and Tobago did extremely well and TKA topped the medal list. Below are the results:
Kata
Female senior- Nicole Lambie - Gold TKA Tamara Joseph - Silver TKA Male senior- Dean Avril - Gold TKA
Kumite
Senior female- under 61 km category-Tamara Joseph - Bronze TKA Senior male- medium heavyweight -Adrian Cruishank - Silver TKA Senior male- heavyweight- Wendel Aguillera - Silver TASK Dean Avril - Bronze TKA Senior male- lightweight - Edward Rajmoolie - Bronze KSKIFF Senior Male open Shiva Sookdeo - Bronze OSKK
GRADING
Grading was held in July. Congratulations to our new
Nidans- Parvani, Adrian and Shiran, all from UWI dojo. Zanshin - Trinidad Karate Association
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2nd IKD WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, RYERSON, TORONTO TKA did Trinidad and Tobago PROUD in this event. CONGRATS to all when we secured the most number of Gold medals in the Championships!!! Here is an excerpt from 96.1 WEFM on our achievement: “Trinidad and Tobago was the 2015 International Karate Daigaku World Cup Champions! Winning 46 Gold, 16 Silver and 20 Bronze, Team T&T finished with a total of 82 medals to win the Championships, edging out 18 other teams from Guyana, Barbados, Canada, Antigua, Jamaica, England, Phillipines, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Only in its second year, International Karate Diagaku World Cup was held at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada from July 15 to 19, 2015” Here is the medal count.
COUNTRY
1ST GOLD
2ND SILVER
3RD BRONZE
TOTAL
Antigua
1
1
1
3
Barbados
36
28
31
95
1
4
5
Canada - Manitoba Canada - New Brunswick
6
6
Canada - Nova Scotia
1
1
Canada - Ontario
23
38
6
67
Canada - Quebec
12
12
13
37
Canada - Saskatchewan
1
1
4
6
England
0
Guyana - GKC
38
20
26
84
Guyana - ASKG
17
11
27
55
Jamaica IKD Jamaica RTW Phillipines Puerto Rico Trinidad & Tobago USA - California USA - New York
1
1 10 5
2 2 1
46
16
20
4 12 6 0 82 0 0
USA - Washington TOTAL
181
145
3
1
1
138
464
TOURNAMENTS
Congratulations for a job well done!
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Events Calendar, 2015
Month
Day (s)
Activity/Event
January
Thursday, 12th
1st Term begins
Sunday, 1st
National Tournament, Chinese Association
Saturday, 28th
Fitness Blast II (TSSW- Tobago)
April
26th, April
Karatekas Who Can Cook
May
Saturday, 2nd
Health and Wellness Extravaganza
June
Thurs. 11th - Sat. 13th
1st Annual Caribbean Karate Championships 2015
Sunday 5th
OSKK national tournament- Maloney Indoor Sporting Complex
Wed. 15th - Mon. 20th
2nd IKD World Championships, Ryerson, Toronto
March
July
Saturday 25th
September
October
November
Sun. 27th - Mon. 28th
Referee Course-St Augustine Dojo
Monday, 12th
TTKU Invitational Tournament-Maloney Sporting Facility
Sat. 17th - Sun. 18th
Curacao Open- Curacao
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TTKU Nationals
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Grading
Fri. 27th - Sun. 29th
CAC Games, Mexico
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Training Schedules Day
Time
TORA- Chinese Association, St. Ann’s Tuesday Thursday
Rank - Belts Directors: Senseis Nigel Forde and John George Contact No: 680-5234
6.00 - 7.15 pm
Adults and Juniors- All ranks
7.30 - 9:00 pm
Team training- brown and black belts( Shihan Shim)
6.00 - 7.15 pm
Adults and Juniors- All ranks
7.30 - 9:00 pm
Team training- brown and black belts( Shihan Shim)
UWI Shotokan Club, UWI, St. Augustine
President- Sensei Dean Avril Contact No: 723 6655
Monday
6.00 – 7:30 pm
Engineering Undercroft- All ages and ranks
Tuesday
6.00 – 7:30 pm
Engineering Undercroft; No Gi (SWAG Tuesdays) All ages /ranks
Wednesday
6.00 – 7:30 pm
SAC- All ages and ranks
Friday
5.00 – 7.00 pm
SPEC- All ages and ranks
Realspring Karate Dojo Valsayn Community Centre Wednesday
7.00- 8.30 pm
Saturday
10.00 - 11.30 am
Sunday
8.00 - 9.00 am
Kaizen 1 Primco Drive, Glencoe Wednesday Friday
3:30 - 5:00 pm
Director: Sensei Theophilus Faustin Contact No: 645-7208 Adults and Juniors- All ranks Director: Sensei Marc Mollentheil Contact No. 476-8895 Adults and Juniors- All ranks
Mushin (In process of relocating)
Director: Sensei Earl Wilson Contact No.379-6918
Monday
6.00 - 7.00 pm
All ranks
Wednesday
6.00 - 7.00 pm
All ranks
TobagoScarborough Secondary School Tuesday
5.30 - 7.30 pm
Thursday
5.30 - 7.30 pm
Saturday
9.30 am - 12.00 pm
Director: Sensei Arthur Morris Contact No: 781-7371 Adults and Juniors- All ranks
Tobago SHOTOKAN Spirit Warriors Signal Hill Comprehensive School
Directors: Sensei Leo Grant and Fiona Grant Contact No: 343-9814
Tuesdays
5:00 - 6:15 pm
Juniors 5-11 yrs; white to green belts
Thursday
6:20 - 7:30 pm
Juniors & Adults; Ages 12 & up; and blue to black belts
ASGSKA Arima West & Sangre Grande Govt. Primary Schools
Director: Sempai Kelly Rechais Contact No: 343-9814
Monday
4:30 - 5:30 pm 5:30 - 7:30 pm
All Ranks/Ages Arima West Government Primary School
Tuesday
3.30 - 5.00 pm
All Ranks/Ages; Sangre Grande Government Primary School
Friday
4:30 - 5:30 pm 5:30 - 7:30 pm
All Ranks/Ages Arima West Government Primary School
Saturday
9.30 am - 12.00 pm
All Ranks/Ages; Sangre Grande Government Primary School
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ADIEU ADIEU TKA says adieu to Avril Dean as he leaves our shores to take up residence in Jamaica. We wish to sincerely thank him for his years of dedication to developing our Karartekas, both young and old over the last years and managing the UWI dojo while undegoing the rigors of studying. Dean you wll be sorely missed but the only thing constant is change and you are moving on. We know you have passed on the baton to those you have trained at UWI, so we wish you best in your new residence and endeavours.
Zanshin
Editor-in-Chief: Simone Thorne-Mora Layout: Diana Francis Proof-reading: Sensei Richie Robertson Photos: Sean Powell
Lookout for our next edition in December, 2015 Send comments, articles, pictures to kimoy2004@yahoo.com