On Saturday, August 8, Silicon Valley Karate held its 2nd Virtual Karate Kata Tournament. Results were as follows:Under-13 Yellow Belts: Wata D (Under-13 overall champion)Orange Belts: Leo TGreen/Purple Belts: Aaron MTeens Brown Belts: Sophie S (close tie for 2nd ended with Keira M edging out Lindsay A)Adults Under Purple: Dan HPurple/Brown: Yoichiro D (Under Black […]
Members-only tournament on Zoom will be taking place Saturday, August 8, starting at 1pm. Individual and team kata events for all ages & levels. No charge. All who know at least one kata are encouraged to participate.
Members-only tournament on Zoom will be taking place Saturday, June 6, starting at 1pm. Individual and team kata events for all ages & levels. No charge. All who know at least one kata are encouraged to participate.
As we are doing “virtual Karate training,” the timing seemed right to have another one of these competitions. We had quite a few great submissions for our latest Minecraft competition. The objective was to create a Karate-themed image. Students interpreted this a variety of ways. Third Place: Nice work, Aaron! Second Place: This was a […]
Anyone who knows any kata welcome to participate. No entry fee. No trophies or medals. Just a friendly competition. Divisions, broken down by age and experience levels: Individual kumite. Individual kumite. Team kata, Family team kata.
The annual August Shinkyu Shotokan tournament on August 25 was a relatively small competition this year but, as usual, a high-quality event. We had just three competitors representing our dojo and they only took part in kata. Yet they managed to take home a total of six medals at this event. Keshav, Gaku and Sophie […]
The Gorokhovsky family moved to Maui this summer (we all feel so sorry for them… 😉 ), where they joined a new dojo. They recently participated in a fairly large tournament there and did well. Jacob got 1st, 2nd, and 3rd (kumite, individual kata, team kata), Emily three 2nd places, Jane and Vadim both got […]
Sensei Rachel Pham was not only on the prestigious list of instructors at the WTKO International Summer Camp held in Toronto, Canada, this August. She also entered the competition and took 2nd place in the black belt women division. Also representing Silicon Valley Karate, Brent Cyca took 3rd in the under black belt men’s kata […]
Silicon Valley Karate had a total of 16 competitors at Shinkyu Shotokan’s annual youth tournament. black belt boys kata: 1st place (Matthew) brown belt girls kata: 2nd place (Sophia), 3rd place (Victoria) purple and brown belt boys kata: 2nd place (Achilles) 4th place (Jacob) purple belt boys kumite: 5th place (Achilles) purple belt girls kata: […]
While not all those from our dojo who entered this weekend’s tournament won gold, our dojo ended up with as many medals as members who attended. This tournament had more contestants per division than most in the area. So such a high success rate is something to be proud of. Great effort by all. For […]
