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KDF Spring Championships

Fri, 02 May 2025 09:02:26 GMT

Today we traveled just up the road to Dagenham to compete at the KDF spring Championships.

We’ve had a Fantastic day winning a whooping

7 Gold medals ��
6 Silver ��
10 Bronze ��

Well done to all the Referees who did a fantastic job running the Tatami’s brilliantly and fairly ��

A massive Thank you to the organisers Tony and Lisa, you guys yet again managed to put together a wonderful competition ��

Special Thanks as always to our students parents you guys really are the best Family ��

Last but not least Thank you to our students as always you guys made me so proud �� Love to you all ��

IKA! IKA! IKA! ��♥️

#sundayvibes #karate #competition #team #wkf #dagenham #gold #silver #bronze #family #proud

Cairo 2025

Fri, 02 May 2025 08:56:29 GMT

#Premier_League__Cairo2025��♥️

Zyed Elgharib wins the silver medal ��congratulations for all Family at Ipswich Karate Academy ❤

EKF KYU Grade

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 12:29:07 GMT

Well done to our Competition squad yesterday.

A hard competition and a very long day but you all done us proud (as always) results…………

Jacob Hill 12-13 Kata Gold �� Joshua Crafford 8-9 Kumite Silver �� Joshua Crafford under 8s continuous sparring �� Joshua Crafford 8-9 Kata Bronze �� David Fedeles 8-9 kata Bronze �� David Fedeles under 9s pairs Kata Gold�� Ava Shipp under 9s Pairs Kata Gold �� Ava Shipp Kickmaster Bronze �� Miley Peck Cadet Kata Gold �� Aranca Fisca 10-11 continuous sparring Gold �� Catalina Lupoae Cadet Kata Silver �� Ilaria Boureanu 10-11 Kata Gold �� Ilaria Boureanu 10-11 over 4ft8 continuous sparring Gold �� Well done to all our students next stop Meopham on Sunday ��

If you have a child who would love to train to become part of our Competition squad then click the link �� to register your details - all abilities welcome 3-6 yrs 7 yrs above Beginners - Advanced -Elite https://www.ipswichkarateacademy.com/offer #karate #competition #championship #kumite #kata #shotokankata #shotokan #karatelife #

Meopham Karate Championships

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 12:04:08 GMT

��Meopham Karate Championships �� Sunday 11th February

Congratulations to all our Students who competed at Meopham yesterday.

��Results: ��Gold - 12 ��Silver - 6 ��Bronze - 22 �� Kata Club of the day �� Kumite Club of the day �� Best Club of the day

Some Solid performances and some Lessons learnt. Back to the dojo to work on those techniques ready for our next competition next month! Special Thank you to Steve Coleman for an excellent event as always ��

Thank you to all the referees and table assistants you guys all done a fantastic job and kept everything running smoothly yesterday ��

Thank you to all our Parents for your support (you guys are the best) and lastly a Massive Thank you and Well done to all our Students, you guys done yourselves, your Parents and your Club proud �� IKAforlife.

#teamika #karatelife #competitionsundays #wkf #karatekid #karategirl #karateboy #sundayvibes

Paris Open 2024

Fri, 02 Feb 2024 13:31:22 GMT

Goodbye Paris �� and Thank you, you didn’t disappoint

�� A great start to 2024 with a Strong competition to kick start our busy year at IKA. We would like to start by Thanking the WKF for an excellent competition �� We would also like to say a Massive Thank you to the Egyptian Karate Federation for giving us this opportunity ��♥ a HUGE well done and Congratulations goes to both our boys, some absolutely fantastic performances from you both. Week in week out you show what absolutely

Amazing Athletes you are and I am honoured to have been chosen by you both to coach you on the big stage and I am looking forward to our future together, Thank You ��Oss A positive Start to 2024 for IKA, next stop EKF Kyu Grade Championships��

#KARATE1_PREMIER_LEAGUE_PARIS_2024 #Goodbye #France #Hello #england #wkfchampions #wkfapproved #hayashi #smai #karatelife #kumiteglobal #kumite #egyptian #athletics #Egypt #best #coach #IKA #worldchampions #karateislife #blessed

Riga Grand Prix

Fri, 02 Feb 2024 13:29:12 GMT

Gold and Bronze for our Louie today at the Riga Grand Prix.

Keep pushing yourself, keep fighting your best and the results will keep coming ��

36 Medals Won

Fri, 02 Feb 2024 13:27:28 GMT

The results from yesterday’s Competition are in!

Absolutely fantastic results from our team yesterday.

We managed a whooping 36 medals in total.

We are extremely proud of all our Students, your attitudes on the Tatamis showed everyone what a fantastic team we are.

A massive Thank you to our Parents aka the IKA Family, you guys were on fire yesterday and again we showed everyone how close our family is. You guys were amazing the way you supported our kids from the sidelines well, we can’t put a price on that and myself and Coach thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

Results are as follows

Miley - Gold Kata �� Sivler higher Kata �� Gold Kata pairs �� Bronze Kumite �� Bronze higher Kimite ��

David - Bronze Kata �� Gold higher Kata ��Gold Pairs Kata �� Bronze Kumite ��

Jacob - Gold Kata �� Silver Kumite ��

Vihaan - Gold Kumite �� Silver Kata ��

Catalina - Gold Kumite �� Bronze Kata ��

Louie - Gold Kumite ��

Ava - Gold Kumite �� Silver Kata �� Silver Kata pairs ��

Sofia - Gold Kata ��

Austeja - Silver Kumite ��

Nicole - Silver Kata ��

Matias - Silver Kata �� Bronze Kata Pairs ��Bronze Kumite ��

Percy - Bronze Higher Kata �� Silver Kata Pairs �� Silver Kumite ��

Josh - Silver Kata ��

Sakura - Silver Kata �� Bronze Kata pairs ��

Rudraksh - Silver Kata ��

Banu - Bronze Kata �� Bronze Kumite ��

David - Bronze Kumite ��

Aranca - Bronze Kumite ��

Vanessa Bronze Kumite ��

Some highs and some lows on the Tatamis and lots of lessons learnt. Back to the dojo to work on our sparring skills ready for the next big competition on the 26th �� OSS

East Midlands Open Karate Championships in Lincoln

Fri, 02 Feb 2024 13:25:20 GMT

Fantastic Results from our Team yesterday at the East Midlands open karate championships in Lincoln.

A Whooping 33 medals from a team of just 16. As always you guys did your club and yourselves proud.

Kata Results

Miley Peck ��

Nicole Fisca ��

Sheryl Smith ��

Rudraksh Chetty ��

Miley Peck ��

David Fedeles ��

Matias Stratina ��

Kata Pairs Results

Catalina & Vihaan ��

Austeja & Ilaria ��

Miley & Jacob ��

Aranca & Sheryl ��

Kumite Results

Holly Backler ��

Josh Crafford ��

Miley Peck ��

Jacob Hill ��

Catalina Lupoae ��

Nicole Fisca ��

David Fedeles ��

Kumite Pairs

Jacob & Miley ��

Kickmaster

Ilaria Boureanu ��

David Fedeles ��

Momen Elgaali ��

Josh Crafford ��

Sheryl Smith ��

Austeja Jankunaite ��

Aranca Fisca ��

Holly Backler ��

A massive Thank you to Tracey and Gary for their fantastic organisation of the competition, you guys did yourselves proud �� OSS

Well done to all the students at Kirkburton Karate Club it was fantastic to you guys.

Onto training for the next one!

Biko Karate Closed Championships

Mon, 26 Jun 2023 13:02:43 GMT

Massive well done to team IKA who completed at the Biko karate closed championships yesterday.

A very successful day for our competition team who came away with a massive amount of medals! ��22 Gold 15 Silver and 10 Bronze ��

Super results and Performances from everyone but especially David who came back from 5-0 to win 5-8 with 2 super ippons to take him through to the final ��

Massive Thank You to all the parents, without you we wouldn’t be able to get results like this. As always your support is very much appreciated.

Well done to all our students that took part especially all our first timers we are extremely proud of you all ��

Rest today and see you all back in the dojo tomorrow where the training continues�� OSS

Biko karate Training Course

Tue, 20 Jun 2023 12:47:43 GMT

A few photos from the Biko karate Training Course on 21st May 2023.

A fantastic opportunity for our students to all get together and learn other styles of Karate.

Massive thanks goes to Colin Hanson and Fay Hanson without you guys this training session wouldn’t have happened. There’s so much that goes on behind the scenes and we are truly grateful to you both.

Massive thanks also goes to Christopher Lewis for driving all the way from wales, it was a Grate Pleasure to have yourself and your team training with us today.

Thank you to all our students and their parents for giving up their Sunday to come along to this fantastic training session today without you guys this wouldn’t be possible - OSS ��

Berlin Open

Tue, 20 Jun 2023 12:45:30 GMT

Feeling absolutely proud of this one �� our Louie only went and won silver at the Berlin open �� This medal is truly deserved as he works so hard week in week out.

The biggest well done Louie �� super effort �� Never Stop Believing!!

Southern England Karate Open

Tue, 25 Apr 2023 10:48:27 GMT

What a day we had yesterday at the southern England Karate Open.

We only took a small team with us but the results were amazing

Miley ��

Ilaria ��

Louie ��

Moman ��

Jacob ��

David ��

Briana ��

Catalina ��

Percy ��

Proud is an understatement! We have achieved so much in such a short space of time - Watch this space!!

Thank you to Katie and Chris for organising such a fantastic competition you guys did an amazing job ��

Now back to the dojo ready for Sundays competition ��

Well done again team ��

Meopham Karate Championships

Fri, 06 Jan 2023 13:37:30 GMT

We had absolutely fantastic results at the Meopham karate Championships in December winning Kumite club of the day and overall club of the day too - well done team IKA

Miley kata pairs ��

Percy kata pairs ��

Miley Dan grade kata ��

Izaiah Kumite ��

Miley Kumite ��

Catalina Kumite ��

Jacob Kumite ��

Catalina kata pairs ��

Jacob kata pairs ��

Miley kata ��

David kata ��

David advanced kata ��

Miley advanced kata pairs ��

Percy advanced kata pairs ��

Ava kumite ��

Holly Kumite advanced ��

David Kumite ��

Ava kata ��

Percy Kumite ��

Ilaria kata pairs ��

Zoe kata pairs ��

Ava kata pairs ��

Shenaide kata pairs ��

Percy kata ��

Catalina kata ��

Shenaide kumite ��

Shenaide kumite advanced ��

Holly Kumite ��

Zoe kumite ��

Percy advanced kumite ��

Kumite Club of the day ��

Overall Club of the day ��

32 medals in total ��

East Midlands Karate Open

Wed, 30 Nov 2022 13:54:44 GMT

On Sunday we travelled with our team to the East Midlands Karate Open.

We saw excellent performances in Kata and some awesome Kumite skills too.

Our results were absolutely phenomenal ��

14 Students 19 Medals ��

Louie - Kumite ��

Izaiah - Kumite ��

David - Kumite ��

Miley - Kumite ��

Catalina - Kumite Pairs ��

Louie - Kumite Pairs ��

Miley - Kata ��

Miley - Kata Higher grade ��

Percy - Kata Higher grade ��

David - Kata ��

David - Kata Higher ��

Aya - Kata ��

Miley - Team Kata ��

Percy - Team kata ��

David - Team kata ��

MIley - Pairs Kata ��

David - pairs Kata ��

Malak - Kick post ��

Shenaide - Kick post ��

Well done everyone we couldn’t be anymore proud of each and everyone of you.

25th Budapest Open

Fri, 23 Sep 2022 07:51:43 GMT

Four fantastic students traveled all the way to Hungary to compete in the 25th Budapest open with their Coach this weekend ✈️

A lot of Blood, Sweat and Tears along the way but we are so proud of you all, We really are lucky to have such a wonderful team behind us.

Massive congratulations to two of our students on receiving medals.

Kumite u8’s Izaiah Silver ��

Kumite u8’s David Bronze ��

Kata u8’s David Bronze��

Commonwealth Club Championships

Fri, 23 Sep 2022 07:49:42 GMT

Last Sunday was a big day for us as a club. We traveled to Birmingham to be part a a BIKO team to compete in the Commonwealth club Championships.

This was our biggest competition to date!

We are super proud of our 3 students that were asked to be part of the BIKO squad alongside students from Kirkburton Karate Club and Wales Karate-Do Kia.

We would like to say a special Thanks to Biko karate for this fantastic opportunity and we look forward to representing you again in the future.

Our superstar Louie who went and won himself a Bronze medal in the 12-13 yrs 55+ kumite category ��

2 fantastic wins and then only 1 point separated him from going through to the finals

For students that have only been training for 18 Months you guys really have achieved so much already, keep training hard and pushing yourselves to the limit and your dreams will soon be a reality ��

International Banzai Cup Berlin

Fri, 23 Sep 2022 07:47:21 GMT

Two of our students traveled to Germany to take part in the international Banzai cup Berlin.

Massive congratulations goes to our little champ David on receiving Bronze in u8’s Kumite ��

Fantastic effort guys ��

BIKO Closed Competition Northampton

Wed, 13 Jul 2022 12:56:51 GMT

Massive Congratulations to our small team that traveled to the BIKO competition today.

Outstanding Effort from each and everyone of our students achieving fantastic results.

11 Students 28 Medals ��

KATA Medals

Under 9s Boys and Girls

Percy Orriss - GOLD ��

David Fedeles - Silver ��

Victoria Johnson - BRONZE ��

10-12 Boys and Girls Beginners to 7 KYU

Catalina Lupoae - GOLD ��

10-12 Boys and Girls 6 KYU - 3 KYU

Miley Peck - GOLD ��

13-15 Boys and Girls Beginners

Vihaan Sule - GOLD ��

Pairs Kata 16 & under open grade

Miley & David - GOLD ��

Catalina & Vihaan - SILVER ��

Louie & Percy - BRONZE ��

Team kata 16 & under open grade

Miley, David & Percy - GOLD ��

Catalina, Jacob & Vihaan - SILVER ��

KUMITE Medals

Under 9s Girls below 4ft3”

Victoria Johnson - GOLD ��

Ava Shipp - SILVER ��

Under 9s Boys below 4ft3”

David Fedeles - GOLD ��

Izaiah Saunders - SILVER ��

Percy Orriss - BRONZE ��

10-12 yrs Girls 5ft & below

Miley Peck - SILVER ��

10-12 yrs Girls 5ft & above

Catalina Lupoae - GOLD ��

10-12 yrs Boys 5ft and above

Louie Fayik - GOLD ��

Jacob Hill - SILVER ��

13-15 yrs Boys 5ft and above

Vihaan Sule - BRONZE ��

Austrian Junior Open

Wed, 29 Jun 2022 15:11:10 GMT

Well done to our student David who traveled to Austria for the Austrian junior Open.

David competed in under 8’s Kata and won himself Gold ��

SKGB International Grand Prix

Fri, 10 Jun 2022 10:24:45 GMT

Just two of our students went off to the SKGB international Grand Prix in Scotland on the weekend but we still managed to come back with a gold medal �� impressive hey!

Under 7s Boys Beginners - 6 Kyu Kata

David Fedeles-Gold

BKF 4 Nations championships

Wed, 08 Jun 2022 11:37:06 GMT

BKF 4 Nations championships

A massive well done to our two little warriors who both won theirselves Bronze medals in Kumite ��at the BKF 4 Nations Championship 2022.

This is fantastic results from one of the biggest and hardest competitions in the uk!

Under 7’s Girls Beginners to 6th Kyu Kumite

Ava Shipp - Bronze

Victoria Johnson - Bronze

British Open Karate Online Championships

Wed, 08 Jun 2022 11:31:22 GMT

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR STUDENTS FOR ACHIEVING AMAZING RESULTS IN THE BRITISH OPEN KARATE ONLINE CHAMPIONSHIPS – 16TH MAY 2021

Cat 1 – Boys & Girls Kata Mixed

6 Years & Under – All Belts

David Fedeles GOLD

Cat 2 – Boys & Girls Kata Mixed 7-9 Years

7 KYU & Below

Kai Kuprionos – SILVER

Azoulas Dapkas – BRONZE

Cat 5 – Kata Female 10-13 Years

7 KYU & Below

Miley Peck – GOLD

Cat 8 – Kata Male 10-13 Years

7 KYU & Below

Kevin Kuprionos – BRONZE

Renars Martemjanovs – BRONZE

20 – Boys & Girls Pairs Kata

8 Years & Under – Open Grade

Azoulas Dapkas & David Fedeles – GOLD

Percy Orriss & Kai Kuprionos – BRONZE

Cat 21 – Boys & Girls Pairs Kata

9-11 Years – Open Grade

Kevin Kuprionos & Louie Fayik – BRONZE

Online Competition – British Institute of Karate Organisation

Tue, 07 Jun 2022 16:28:12 GMT

We would like to say a massive congratulations to our students for achieving fantastic results in our first ever live online competition.

For a club that haven't even trained together in a dojo yet (due to covid) these really are amazing results for our club.

Beginners 10-12 yrs Up to 5th Kyu kata

Miley Peck - Gold

Beginners under 7 yrs up to 5th Kyu kata

Azoulas Dapkas - Gold

David Fedeles - Silver

KSE Xlll 2022 GBR Competition

Tue, 07 Jun 2022 16:00:51 GMT

Massive well done to our team today, a fabulous effort from you all at the KSE Xlll 2022 GBR competition.

Great results again

Our gold medalist girl kata stunned everyone with her demonstration of shotokan and shito Ryu!

Gold silver and bronze in kata

Gold silver and bronze in kumite

For a team that has only been training for 10 months this is a massive achievement.

Well done team IKA ��

Total Medal count

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Central England 24th Karate Championship

Tue, 07 Jun 2022 15:57:55 GMT

So proud of our students today, each and everyone of them gave it their all and put IKA on the map at our first live competition the central England 24th karate championships and we got a few medals too!

A world class venue and world class competitors!

We have only been together for 5 months and we managed to come away with this many medals, imagine how many we will get next year!

Well done everyone ��

English Karate Clubs Championship

Tue, 07 Jun 2022 15:52:26 GMT

Well what can we say!

Another competition and more medals won ��

We would like to say a massive congratulations to all our students that took part today, you were all absolutely amazing (as always) and we couldn’t be more prouder of each and everyone of you!

18 Students and 13 medals, wow!! ��

Many Thanks to Joe Anderson for organising an amazing competition, it was a pleasure to be a part of your team today, we look forward to the next one.

Thank you to all the parents for not only supporting your children but also showing us such amazing commitment week in week out, without you guys IKA wouldn’t be where we are today so again-THANK YOU!

Lastly The biggest THANK YOU goes to our amazingly passionate, dedicated coach your hard work doesn’t go unnoticed, IKA are lucky to have you.

Well done guys ��

Yamaguchi Goju Competition

Tue, 07 Jun 2022 15:48:17 GMT

Wow what a day!

The medal table speaks for itself!

These guys absolutely smashed it today and made me the proudest coach on earth!

Thank you to all our students parents for believing in me and supporting our club, Without you guys and your amazing children we wouldn’t have achieved sush awesome success again today.

If we can achieve success like this after only being together since April then imagine where we will be this time next year!

Thank You once again ��

Medals

Pairs Kata-Gold �� David & Miley

Pairs Kata Advanced Silver�� David & Miley

Male/female Kata under 6 Yrs Gold �� Victoria silver��Ava

Male/female Kata 7-9 Yrs silver ��Kai

Male/female Kata 7-9 Yrs Advanced Silver �� David

Male/female Kata 10-12 Yrs Gold �� Miley

Male/female Kata 10-12 Yrs Advanced Bronz��Miley

Male/female Kata 13-15 Yrs Siver �� Vihaan

Slam man 7 Yrs & Under Bronze �� David Bronze �� Victoria

Slam Man 8-10 Yrs Silver ��Kai

Slam man 11Yrs & above Silver �� Jacob Bronze �� Vihaan

Boys Junior Kumite 4.3" under Gold �� Kai Silver ��Louie Bronze �� David

Boys Junior Kumite 4.4"-4.9" Bronze �� Nikodem

Boys Junior Kumite 4.10" & above Gold �� Kevin

Girls Junior Kumite 4.10" & above Gold �� Catalina

Boys Junior Kumite 4.10"-5.3" Bronze �� Louie