Two Silver Medals at Scottish Open 2023

Callum Chapman 2nd Mens LW, Olivia Pickthall 2nd Womens LW

Crawley took two young fighters to Scotland for the national full contactevent.

After destroying his semi final opponent Callum Chapman lost out to GB Teamate Jaafar Ramal in the final of the lightweight event. Olivia Pickthall had a tough semi final against her Swedish opponent and then lost a 3 round decision to Beathe Hegerland of Norway.

Silver Medals At The British Kata Championships

Crawley Participants at the Kata Championships

Blake Collins took Silver in the Mens High Grade Kata Championships and Illori Wachuku King at only 8 years old took silver in the U16 Blue Belt Category.

The Crawley High Grade team narrowly missed out on a medal taking 4th place as did Alfie Finch. Yusmin Khan, Olivia Pickthall and Nojus Kuzavinis all reached the second round.

Gold Rush at the British Semi Contact Championships 2022

Crawley KK took fourteen medals at the British Championships with four golds.

Will Power, pee wee category 1 and Nick Buckfield, low grade veteran, retained their British titles last weekend. Ilori Wachuku King won the pee wee category 2 and Alfie Finch took the low grade boy crown.

There were Silver medals for Lewis Fortnam pee wee category 3, Cody Chapman U18 high grade and Steven Papworth high grade veterans.

Itanife Wachuku King, pee wee 1 took third place along with Elvin Vaskys U18 low grade, Olivia Pickthall womens high grade, Nick Buckfield low grade men.

In the team event after defeating Dunmow, Waterloo (Kaizen) and Loughborough, the Crawley A team tied 2-2 with Mountain Ah in the final but lost in a sudden death fight off.

The B team took a credible 3rd place and the peewee team also came 3rd.

Will Power (3rd from left) Gold
Ilori Wachuku King (3rd from left) Gold
Alfie Finch (3rd from left) Gold
Nick Buckfield (3rd from left) Gold

Crawley’s Former Olympian Takes British Veteran Title

Two-time Olympian Nick Buckfield swapped his poles for the grind Full Contact Kyokushinkai Karate and managed to take the Veterans British Middleweight Championships title at K2, Crawley.

The club walked away with another 6 silver and 2 bronze medals. Congratulations to all who took part.

Olaf Dabek U12 2nd

Ellliott Fortnam U14 HW 2nd

Alfie Finch U14 2nd

Isaac Warnfeldt Rush U14 LW 2nd

Elvin Vaskys U18 MW 3rd

Cody Chapman U18 MW 3rd

Nikolay Kosherov Mens Novice HW 2nd

Dave Martin Veterans LW 2nd

Finch Wins British Kata Title

Alfie Finch became the British Low Grade Junior Champion as the club picked up several prizes. The adult low grade team took 2nd place and the adult high grade team came 3rd.

In the individuals the club also had Sensei Steve took 2nd in the Veterans category for the second year in a row and Robert Large took 3rd in the Green and Yellow belt category.

Three New Sensei for the CKK at the BKK Summer Camp

Crawley Black Belts Steven Papworth, Blake Collins and Gabriel Barbu passed their 3rd dan tests and now take the rank of Sensei.

After a five hour technical and stamina test they had to complete 30 fights against different opponents on the final day for the summer camp.

The club had a large group of students take part in the annual three day seminar and James Clark passed his 1st Kyu Brown Belt

Fun Day at the CKK Interclub

The 2022 interclub was a tremendous success with children from BKK Dunmow, BKK Folkstone, BKK Loughborough, BKK Saffron Walden, BKK Westcroft, BKK Wimbledon and BKK Crawley taking part.

Thanks to all the dojo supporters that worked tirelessly to make it a great days fighting and to all the people who donated cakes. Special thanks to BBQ-Man Paul Beach and his wife for providing all the food on such a sunny day.

Results below