Results of First Asian Kudo Cup Championship 201513 Oct. 2015

-230 Category
Gold - Yuta Meguro (Japan)
Silver – O.Enkhbat (Mongolia)
Bronze – Timur Dangarov (Kazakhstan) 

-240 Category
Gold – Yoshito Kawashita (Japan)
Silver – Akhmet Kalyuryev (Kazakhstan)
Bronze – Mohsen Baghi (Iran)

-250 Category
Gold – T.Otgonzaya (Mongolia)
Silver – Khaiza Amanzhol (Kazakhstan)
Bronze – Tomoaki Kato (Japan)

-260 Category
Gold – Smagulov Bekhzat (Kazakhstan)
Silver – So Yamada (Japan)
Bronze – N.Nasanbat (Mongolia)

+270 Category
 Gold – Ts.Azjargal (Mongolia)
Silver – Kota Nomura (Japan)
Bronze – Kurmet Kakimov (Kazakhstan)

Female Category
Gold – Kyoka Imano (Japan)
Silver – S.Myadagmaa (Mongolia)
Bronze – G.Khulan (Mongolia)

2015 Panamericano (Pan America) Kudo Cup24 Sep. 2015

The trip to the capital of Chile, Santiago is planned for October 29 - November 6. The trip schedule includes the seminar on October 31 + belt promotion test, and [ 2015 Panamericano (Pan America) Kudo Cup ]  on November 1. It is expected that many athletes from South America countries together with fighters from America (the participant from Canada is being negotiated) will take part, which will make the number of participating countries around 10. This tournament will have place days before 2015 All Japan Absolute Weight Division and Junior Division Tournament, therefore the participance from Japan was under the question*1.The organizing director of Kudo South America Federation, Rafael Garay (Chile) *2 has invited Grand Master Azuma to make an appeal to South American countries and increase the number of tournament and grading test participants. Grand Master accepted the invitation. The accompanying members and the details of the trip will be given later.

 *1 Rafael Garay (Chile), branch-chief , former dean of the faculty of economics in Chile Central University, economy analyst, one of the directors in Investment consulting company, economy commentator for CNN Chile. At the same time he is very fond of Budo, very modest and at the same time very passionate about idea that only Budo can save the world now, in the times when common sense and moral descend not only in Chile, but in the whole world. He is a real "samurai", intelligent and educated in science and martial arts.

*2 the organizing side has requested 1-2 fighters from Japan to participate in order to make a broader appeal. However, facing the upcoming 2nd Kudo World Cup *3 scheduled for Mexico, it was decided not to send Japanese athletes for the tournament.

*3 Initially KWC was planned for Australia, but the conditions has changed and the venue had to be rescheduled. Mexico has suggested to host KWC and the decision was made by top directors without calling a management meeting.

Report "The Battle of Champions" - Alexei Kononenko24 Sep. 2015

The Battle of Champions

A Kudo one-match fight was included into the program of the “Battle of Champions” event organized in Vladivostok, Russia, on September 4. This time the cards were represented by -240 division fighters, current world champion Gegam Manavazyan from Russia and young Japanese challenger Kunieda Atsushi from Japan. Grand Master Azuma, branch-chief Iimura Kenichi, as a coach, branch-chiefs Osada Kenichi and Takahashi Hideaki, as referees, and myself as an interpreter, accompanied Japanese fighter on his journey to Vladivostok.

This event was organized by the organization of Martial Arts Union of Russia. In Russia all officially recognized sports must be included into the Register of sports managed by the Ministry of Sports of Russia. All sports are divided into Olympic and non-Olympic sports categories. A number of Martial Arts organizations are registered there under the one umbrella name of Oriental Martial Arts. Kudo is one of them. Martial Arts Union of Russia unites officially registered and not-registered organizations and serves as a representative organ in relations with Russian officials.

MAUR has already organized 7 similar format events until now. Kudo was already represented there by Hiratsuka Yojiro in -260 division, Bykova Irina in female division, the World Champion in -250 division Kerimov Shamhal. There are 2 formats for the event: first includes the bouts between champions in different Arts, and the second comprise fights between Russian and foreign champions in the same Art.

This time the event was adjusted to the schedule of the Eastern Economic Forum and included into its cultural program. The concept of the event implied world leaders and decision makers attending the event after discussing the matters global economic crisis and enjoying international competition between team Russia and team World. It is a known fact that there are many Martial Arts fans among Russian government. For instance, former Minister of Environment and current direct representative of the president in Far Eastern region Mr. Trutnev has 5th dan in Kyokushin Karate, and former prime-minister and current minister of nuclear energy Mr. Kirienko has 4th dan in Aikido. It is obvious that two of them attended the event. There was a rumor that the President of Russia himself, Mr. Putin will come, however, though he gave his speech at the forum, his duties demanded him to fly to Moscow straight after that.

The battle was planed as 8 fights in 8 different combat sports. The invited sports included Jyu-jutsu, Kudo, Commando Sambo, Sanda, Kyokusin Karate, MMA, Muai Thai, and Kickboxing. There are about 70 organizations in MAUR but only 8 has received invitations for participation and the fact that Kudo was among them means how strong and respected our sport is in Russia.

The Battle of Champions was planed for the night of September 4, but we were requested to come on September 2 so to make a promotion video for Japanese fighter. Because of that Kunieda, Iimura, and myself flew to Vladivostok on September 2. This time of the year is called a “Golden Autumn” and Vladivostok met us with blue skies and warm weather.

Straight after arrival we were taken to the studio for the shooting. In Russia Martial Arts events usually are organized in a very fancy manner. So, this time when we came a crew of professional cameraman, director, and producer were already waiting for us. They gave many instructions for the postures to make the shot they wanted. They were definitely professionals in their field but for us, the professionals in our sport, some of the instructions like “give me a flying kick!”, “jump higher!”, “punch towards camera but don’t move your body and shoulders!” sounded weird. There was one funny episode, when cameramen wanted a shot of Kunieda in full gear performing his attack on the opponent in full power. One of the local Kudo students volunteered to assist and we proceeded. To us Kunieda’s punches and kicks looked pretty hard, but cameraman was like “no!no! Punch harder! You are wearing a mask, aren’t you? There is no pain in that!” Hearing that our young assistant fired back at cameraman “ok, then why don't you try the mask on yourself! ”. Nevertheless, sooner or later, we managed to complete the whole filming thing.

On the next day Grand Master Azuma and 2 referees arrived to Vladivostok in the evening. Since the 3 of us had spare time in the morning guys from Vladivostok branch took us to the dojo to give a Kudo master class to the children. In fact, I came across Kudo for the first time 25 years ago in this dojo. I was overwhelmed with feelings. They still keep my trophies, including my first All Japan title trophy in 1996.

About 50 kids participated in the master class. Iimura and Kunieda introduced some of their techniques and answered many questions. Kunieda has demonstrated few elbow and knee drills and watching the kids doing them my impression was that though generally they are good boxers they do not pay enough attention to other different aspects.

On the day of the fight our fighter, his coach, and referees left for the venue after lunch to do rehearsals. Grand Master Azuma spent some time discussing various issues with the Director of the Russian Kudo Federation Roman Anashikin and Far East branch-chief Alexander Yasin.

The venue of the event was the same that we used for the Asian Cup last year, the Fetisov Arena. Is was supposed to begin at 19:30, but as the president Putin was expected, it started later, though after all Mr. Putin was not able to come. There were about 7000 seats in Arena and almost no empty one. Russian government officials and various important and famous people occupied VIP seats. Somehow, American movie star Steven Seagal also found himself in this company.

Kudo fight was the second to come. It was decided to have it by finals rules with automatic extension. It was served by international referee team with Takahashi as a main referee, Osada as sub-main referee, Ukraine branch-chief Samohin and 2 Russian referees as sub referees.

Kunieda has started the fight very aggressively. He tried to press on the opponent with his elbows, knees, front kicks and middle kicks. However, this opponent is a world champ, who is not an easy opponent to press. Manavazyan used his strong punching techniques to repel Kunieda and landed few clear punches on Kunieda’s mask. One of them took Kunieda off the balance and earned Manavazyan a “Yuko” point. They were very strong but a bit “pushy” punches and when I asked Kunieda after, if the punch knocked him down, he said “No”. As there were no other points in the main time the fight automatically extended into extension time. In extension Kunieda kept aggressively pushing. He tried to get his opponent with elbows and knees, which he is good at, but ended up grabbing each other into a clinch. Manavazyan used a lot of his physical power to take Kunieda down from the clinch, but not in a very technical way. On the ground he was controlling Kunieda by mount punching and was awarded another “Koka” point. The fight ended up with Manavazyan having a points lead over Kunieda and winning, but in the second half he looked obviously out of stamina and Kunieda’s attacks started to find their target. My impression was, if the fight continued longer into the second extension Kunieda had probably a chance, as he was physically more fitted for the longer fight.

The whole score of team Russia vs Team World was 7 to 1. Though other athletes were champions in respected sports I had never heard any names before. The event in general was received very well by the public, but, personally, I would not mind to see more interesting fights with big names on them.

Our fighter Kunieda has lost his fight, but he showed true spirit and fought well. He did not get any injuries and on the next day safely returned to Japan. I would like to thank Russian Kudo Federation and Vladivostok branch for inviting us to the Battle of Champions and taking care of us during our stay in Vladivostok. The participation in such events with now doubts increases the popularity of Kudo and prompts its growth. Finally, I would like to thank Grand Master Azuma for inviting me to accompany him and branch-chiefs Takahashi, Osada, Iimura, and Kunieda for a good company.

Tohoku Honbu
Alexei Kononenko

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[Tournament overview]　
2015 Hokutoki All Japan Weight Division Tournament
2015 All Japan Kudo Senior tournament
Date: 2015, May 5
Venue: Sendai city Aoba Stadium (Miyagi prefecture, Sendai city)
Organizer: All Japan Kudo Federation Daido-juku Headquarters and regional branches

2015 Hokutoki All Japan Weight Division Tournament & All Japan Kudo Senior tournament8 Apr. 2015

Public corporation All Japan Kudo Federation (Head Director Azuma Takashi) has decided to conduct 2015 Hokutoki All Japan weight division tournament on May 5, at Aoba Stadium in Sendai city.
This tournament will become the next step towards 2018 Hokutoki 5th World Championship. There will be new entries challenging the right to represent Japan.
The senior class 2015 All Japan Senior tournament, where divisions divided upon formula weight+height-age, will take place on the same day. One of the philosophies of Kudo states that event in his 50s or 60s a man can practice Kudo, so we can expect straight-out fights in this class. Also there will be a demonstration of applied Kudo self-defense techniques given by branch-chiefs, which is worth watching by itself.

[Tournament overview]　
2015 Hokutoki All Japan Weight Division Tournament
2015 All Japan Kudo Senior tournament
Date: 2015, May 5
Venue: Sendai city Aoba Stadium (Miyagi prefecture, Sendai city)
Organizer: All Japan Kudo Federation Daido-juku Headquarters and regional branches

The Important Notice
Re: Video Recordings & the Supply of Video Images of the World Kudo Championships 6 Nov. 2014

All Japan Kudo Federation will be recording all matches of “4th World Kudo Championships” and “1st World Junior Championships”, and will be selling those recorded videos. Therefore, due to the sales of Broadcasting Rights and Copy Rights for TV programs, unless you are a member of our official film crew, (a J-Sports shooting crew member, the press, otherwise a film crew designated by All Japan Kudo Federation), holding “authorization card”, it is prohibited to record videos during the championships. We thank you very much for your attention and co-operation.

Meanwhile, videos of the championships will be offered to you in below manners.

Release of an Official Kudo Guide: Video guide relative to tournaments etiquette.1 Nov. 2014

An official Kudo video guide relative to tournaments etiquette was just released.
In order to allow for the further development of kudo, it is essential to preserve its budo form and etiquette.
We have thus released a video to ensure the athletes have the necessary knowledge. Please take advantage of it to learn the proper etiquette and behavior.

New Time table for 2014 World Kudo Championships & World Junior Championships.30 Oct. 2014

Since we have received many comments about the schedule for 14th (Fri), that Junior competitors need to take a day off from the school, and many of the audience cannot visit the venue because it is a weekday, we have moved the match schedule which was originally planned on 14th (Fri) to 15th (Sat).
Therefore, venue set-up and rehearsals are scheduled and the venue is not open to the public all day on 14th (Fri).

Schedule of the Championships
November 15th (Sat)  Gates Open at 9.30 am  Opening Ceremony from 10 am
November 16th (Sun)  Gates Open at 9.30 am  The competition starts at 10 am

Guidelines for using the Official Logo Mark for 2014 HOKUTOKI 4th World KUDO Championships & 1st World KUDO Junior Championships .20 Aug. 2014

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Results of Kudo Asia Cup Open18 June 2014

We are delighted to announce the results of Kudo Asia Cup Open, the Japan-Russia international exchange event, held in Fetisov Arena, Russia, on 14th June (Russian Time).

under 230 class

1st place

ISHPULATOV SHAWKT(VLADIVOSTOK)

2nd place

ELMAR ALIYEV(YAROSLAVL)

3rd place

SERGEI LUTCHENKO(VLADIVOSTOK)

under 240 class

1st place

MANAVAZYAN GEGHAM(VLADIVOSTOK)

2nd place

GRISHIN ANDREY(NAKHODKA)

3rd place

JUNICHI UCHIDA(JAPAN)

under 250 class

1st place

PERMIN IGOR(VLADIVOSTOK)

2nd place

VALYAEV NIKITA(MOSCOW)

3rd place

RUSLAN KELEKHSAEV(VLADIVOSTOK)

under 260 class

1st place

ALEXEY KHARITONOV(MOSCOW)

2nd place

ADAM KHALIEV(GROZNY)

3rd place

KLIMCHUK ALBERT(USSURIJSK)

under 270 class

1st place

CHERNYKH ANDREY(VLADIVOSTOK)

2nd place

KARAULINH KONSTANTIN(VLADIVOSTOK)

3rd place

LESHCHEV ANTON(USSURIJSK)

over 270 class

1st place

SHALOMAEV EVGENY(VLADIVOSTOK)

2nd place

LYULKIN ROMAN(VLADIVOSTOK)

3rd place

JOON KOOK LEE(KOREA)

Female class

1st place

REZEPKIN ALINA(VLADIVOSTOK)

2nd place

MARININA ANASTASIA(YAROSLAVL)

3rd place

POTOKOVA SVETLANA(MOSCOW)

Information relative to the Schedule of the 2014 HOKUTOKI 4th World KUDO Championships7 Mar. 2014 /Last updated:30 Oct. 2014

The Kudo International Federation, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, will organize both 2014 HOKUTOKI [4th World KUDO Championships] &[1st World KUDO Junior Championships] over three days, on November 14, 15 and 16. The venue will be the Yoyogi National Stadium Second Gymnasium in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

Friday, November 14 - Rehearsalor preliminary roundsVenue set-up and Rehearsals (Not open to the public)
Saturday, November 15 - Opening Ceremony and Finals
Sunday, November 16 - Finals and Closing Ceremony

*The above schedule is subject to adjustments depending on the number of participants Enquiries: Kudo International Federation Headquarters TEL (+81) 3 5953 1860

Kudo Asia Cup Open7 Feb. 2014(Last update 10 Feb.)

KIF (Kudo International Federation ) has recognized that RKF (Russia Kudo Federation ) hold the international match.This competition is organized as an event under the international agreement between Russia and Japan governments for the cultural exchange in the field of Martial Arts in 2014. Further details will be announced later.

Date: June 12-15, Vladivostok, Russia
Competition venue: "Fetisov Arena" indoor arena, Vladivostok, Russia(http://www.vl.ru/fetisov-holl)
Organizers KIF: (Kudo International Federation), RKF (Russia Kudo Federation)
Participating Countries: Japan, Russia, Mongolia, Korea….

Fight card for Kudo exhibition matches at the WG 2013 Cali was decided22 July 2013

World Games 2013 Cali Fighting Cards  (PDF 170KB)(25 JUly updete!)

[brief version](5 Aug. updete!)

TheWorldGames2013 official site
[KUDO] http://www.theworldgames2013.com/en/sports/sports-garden/kudo.html

The information of [World Games 2013 Cali] 20 July 2013

The information of [World Games 2013 Cali] by EDUARDO CAICEDO, Kudo Colombia Branch Chief.

“TODAY IN BUGA WAS MADE A TYPICAL COLOMBIAN CARNIVAL IN HONOR OF WG AND WAS PRESENTED A CROWN OF FLOWERS IN HONOR OF EACH SPORTS, THIS WAS THE KUDO'S FLOWER CRONW!”

KUDO Seminar in UK in June13 May 2013

Grand Master Azuma Takashi will be traveling to UK, Windsor branch on June 5-11 to hold a seminar, belt promotion test and international tournament with 6 countries participating. He will be accompanied by HQ instructor Nakamura Tomohiro and one of the champions of the National Championship.

Instructor:

Nakamura Tomohiro	2009 The 3rd World Kudo Championships -230class 2nd Place 2010 Hokuto-ki Open Category 3rd Place 2011,2012 Hokuto-ki Open Category 4th Place 2011 World Kudo Cup -230class 3rd Place

HQ is taking applications from referee licensed Branch-chiefs who could assist in tournament proceeding. (ask HQ for details) country-participants: Japan, Lithuania, Spain, Italy, Slovakia, Poland, UK.

Address your enquires to Kudo2013eventuk@kudo.com 07903951059/07984366366 WWW.KUDOUK.com
or Kudo International Federation World Headquarters  mail-form

KUDO Seminar in Italia (Cremona) in May13 May 2013

General Director for Kudo International Federation, Grand Master Azuma Takashi (Daido-juku 9 dan) is going to attend the seminar from May 24 to May 29, which will be organized in the city of Cremona, Italy on May 25 and 26. As scheduled for the next year the 4th Kudo World Championship approaches, this seminar will attract many affiliate candidates from peripheral countries. Kato Kiyotaka (4 dan) and Imura Kenichi (4 dan) will accompany Grand Master on this trip.

All enquires about the seminar should be addressed to WWW.KUDOITALIA.IT
or Kudo International Federation World Headquarters  mail-form

Instructors:

Kato Kiyotaka	1988,1991 Hokuto-ki Light (-230) Class1st Place 1993 Hokuto-ki Heavy (260+) Class 1st Place 1991 Hokuto-ki Open Category 1st Place 1992 Hokuto-ki Open Category 2nd Place 2001Hokuto-ki Middle (-240) Class 1st Place 2001the 1st World Kudo Championships Entry
Imura Kenichi	1989,1992,1994，2004 Hokuto-ki Middle (-240) Class 1st Place 1999 Hokuto-ki Light Heavy (-250) Class 1st Place 2001 The 1st World Kudo Championships Entry 2011 World Kudo Cup -240class best4 2013 Hokuto-ki -240class 1st Place

The First KUDO Seminar in Switzerland (Lausanne) in May12 Apr 2013

Seminar, promotion Test supervised by Founder of Kudo,KIF, Jukucho of Daido-Juku, Azuma Takashi in Lausanne, Switzerland will be held 4-5 May. This will be conducted by Jukucho and two more instructors; Shinya Tsuchida (Branch Chief of Kudo France Federation) and Hisaki Kato (2010 and 2012 Hokutoki All-Japan Kudo Open Category Champion)

http://www.swisskudo.ch/

If you need more detail, please contact : info(AT)swisskudo.ch (just in test for this event)

Local newspaper has announced that Kudo will be one of the exhibition sports at World Games 2013 in Cali23 Mar 2013

EDUARDO CAICEDO, Kudo Colombia Branch Chief has sent the following email to KIFHQ (Kudo International Federation Headquarters) on March 21st 2013 (JST)。He attached to his mail an article from local newspaper, which states that Kudo will be officially displayed as an exhibition sport within WG 2013 Cali event. This news gives Kudo the new level gravity. This is a great progress and new step forward towards becoming one of the officially recognized public sports :

“Osu The news explains which are the exhibition sports that were approved by IWGA and the local organizing committee, indoor soccer, Hapkido, Touchball, Ball Game and KUDO of course! says that there will be an alternative program of these sports with officials sports, and explains where will be matches, Kudo will compete in Buga.　The specific schedule has not been confirmed yet!, it's expected in the coming months, in a new meeting of IWGA in Cali Osu. ”

(PDF 1.49MB)

KUDO Seminar in Tallinn, Estonia in March14 Mar 2013

KIF Director General Azuma Takashi (Daido-juku Jukucho, 9 dan), Secretary-General Azuma Keiko, Deputy Director Takahashi Hideaki (7 dan), Sendai-nishi branch branch-chief Osada Kenichi (6 dan), Niigata branch branch-chief Yamada Riichiro (6 dan), Tohoku Honbu Shihan Alexei Kononenko (5 dan) will take a trip to Estonia on March 28 - April 1, by the invitation from Estonia Kudo Federation. The details are following.

On March 30 there will be the Grand Opening of new sport facility “TERAS” (in Estonian it means steel). This is a modern, state-of-art multi sports facility with the area of 3000 �u. This stadium will become a main training base for Tallinn Kudo Federation, where visitors will be offered many other services in addition to Kudo practice, like basketball, volleyball, tennis, aerobics, yoga, fitness. General visitors, children and their parents will equally benefit from attending the stadium.

This stadium contains 3 Kudo dojyo（300㎡、210㎡、165㎡）and area for other activities. Facility also includes the arena for 500 seats, meeting room, massage room, instructors room. Dojyo have tatami mats, heavy bags (45bags).

Grand Opening Ceremony will host Estonia Olympic Committee executives, Tallinn city Sports and Culture agency executives, representatives of other Martial Arts organizations, famous politicians and businessmen.

Grand Master Azuma is invited as a main guest. Opening ceremony will include demonstration conducted by Russian, Ukrainian, and Estonian athletes.

<Schedule>

March 28
arrival to Tallinn, reception dinner for international branch-chiefs
March 29
10:00-12:00 branch-chiefs unofficial meeting
13:00-14:00 lunch
16:00-20:00 Seminar, Belt promotion test
21:00- dinner
March 30
11:00-13:00 sightseeing
14:00-18:00 TERAS stadium Grand Opening Ceremony
20:00-22:00 Dinner
23:00- Celebration Party
March 31
Departure

Announcement of Kudo in The World Games Cali 2013 as an official demonstrational sport.4 Sep. 2012

We are delighted to announce that KIF (Kudo International Federation) has received an official letter from the organizing committee of The World Games 2013 Cali, before their formal announcement of their demonstrational sports, and the letter states that Kudo will participate in The World Games Cali 2013 as a demonstrational sport.
Please find the PDF document link of the letter.

“KUDO as exhibition sport” (PDF 83KB)

A Report on 2 Weeks Kudo Traing at KIF Headquarters by a student from France Branch31 Aug 2012

A Kudo Student from France Branch came to visit KIF Headquarters in Tokyo Japan, for training for 2 weeks in Summer time, and wrote a report on what he saw and has been found in Kudo and the training in the Headquarters.

“Training at the KIF Headquarters of my admiration” (PDF 10KB)

DECLARATION19 Aug 2011

The following announcement for the affiliation with WORLD KYOKUSHIN DAI DO KARATE FEDERATION has no any relation to Daido-juku and Kudo Interntaional Federation. Furthermore the use of term “Daido” violates international copyright law under which Daido-juku and Kudo International Federation are officially registered. We remind for those who are seeking for affiliation with Daido-juku and KIF the request should be made directly to the KIF.
Headquarter in Tokyo through our official website .

Ukranian Kudo team received an award from National Olympic Committee.28 jul 2011

Telecast “Autograph” about participation of Ukranian team at the Kudo World Cup 2011 was ranked first in popularity chart of the “world of sports in the news programs” digest. Ukranian team was awarded with diploma of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine. The award was presented by the president of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine, the Olympic champion Sergei Bubka.

KIF official site is published.28 jul 2011

KIF official site is published.