Montreal Karate Club Fall 2008 Tournament

Yeah! It was that time of the year. November always brings the MKC Fall tournament. This year, the participants were all from MKC. Unfortunately, no members from the USA, Alberta or Norway could join us this year. We missed them, but managed to have an interesting tournament anyway.

The first video shows some moments before the official start of this tournament. As you can see, there is no script. At the end of it, you will notice that we even hired a clown couple to entertain the crowd.

preparation for the MKC Fall 2008 Tournament
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Then, the kata competition began, but since I was judging , I couldn't film anything. If our number one dojo star Mario Imbeau would have participated, I would have made an exception and filmed his demonstration. What a pity. Want to know more about our Shorinryu katas, go to this post.

After the katas, the kumite (fight) competition started with the Juniors division, our own Shorinryu karate kids. Here are some moments taken from their fierce fights.



Montreal Karate Club's Karate Kids Fall 2008 Tournament
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The next divisions were the mens' blue belt and the womens' open divisions.


Adult Mens' blue belt division
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Womens Open Division
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Then came the mens brown belt division including our dojo rising star Marc Leduc who actually won the division.

Mens Brown Belt Division
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The last division was the black belt open division where Marc Leduc tried to repeat his brown belt division victory and take away the title from Derek Nathaniel who has dominated it for the last five years in a row.

Black Belt Open division
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An the Winner is...
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And now, all the winners are...

And the Winners are...
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