2018 Winter Camp, February 24-25, Montreal, Canada

This year’s AKJKAQ Winter Camp took place at ÉTS in Montreal. More than 65 brown and black belts trained during this 2 days Camp. Although this Camp was opened to all JKA members  in Canada, almost all the participants were from the province of Quebec. Instructors for this Camp were Jean-Pierre Cusson, 6th Dan and Louis-A Dessaint, 6th Dan. The training was based on the three important aspects of JKA karate. Kihon for Dan exam was reviewed with attention to key points. The first kumite training started with the basic ippon kumite and then variations were introduced. The second kumite training started with jiyu ippon kumite and then again variations were introduced to increase the degree of difficuty and awareness. The kata studied were Bassai dai, Kanku dai, Enpi, Jion, Hangetsu, Nijushio, Sochin and Chinte.

The Dan and Qualification exam was on Sunday afternoon, just after  the fourth and last training. Congratulations to those who obtained a new degree at this exam. See the list below :

 

SHODAN : Samuel Thibault, Miki Yajima, Caline Huang, Myriam Mokarnia, Elisheva Eisenberg, Youcef Azzouz, Yigal Zvionow, Eliana Eisenberg, Ron Shmoilov, Nichita Hadjicov

NIDAN : Mohammed Ameur, Nilovna Bascunan, Andrée Tremblay

Instructor D : Angelo Baaco, Brandon Fancellu, Rabah Driad

Judge D : Brandon Fancellu, Rabah Driad

Examiner D : Pierre Van Dyke, Rabah Driad

 

Jean-Pierre Cusson,
President of AKJKAQ