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Ábrahám Edit

Hungarian Kyokushin has plenty of excellent women knock-down fighters. In the past decade there was a huge development in the technical and strength level of women, so no wonder that in almost all the world championships our women fighters win medals. Although a woman, Edit Ábrahám (27 years old, 178 cm, 65 kg, Nagykőrös, trainer: Ferenc Búz) rises from the women side, since she won almost all the champions where she entered for in the past four years.
Results of Edit: Hungarian Open I., Danish championship II., European champion (three times), World Cup II., Croatian Championship I.
Ábrahám won the Hungarian Open again this year, then she also completed the European Championship in Kiev full of confidence.
Preparation for the world cup began a bit “sleepy” but in June she set out to the world tournament in Saint Petersburg sharply again. She marched till the final with convincing advantage, where she fought with one of the greatest favourites of the Japanese, Misaki Sato. Edit was in control of the fight from beginning to end, the payoff was almost certain. Because of the great difference in height (Sato is only 158 cm), the Hungarian fighter hit Sato two times on the head by chance by her hand. The referee penalized immediately with genten instead of warning at first, and although Edit was much better, the Japanese fighter was announced as winner after three minutes.
She is a really “clear-out” fighter. She knows precisely how much physical, technical and psychical work is necessary for success. We can take it for granted that she will receive a medal for the four times this year.

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Rózsa Gabesz

Undoubtedly the most surpassing lightweight fighter of the last three years is Gábor Rózsa (23 years old, 172 cm, 70 kg, MKKSZ, FIGHT-TEAM Nyíregyháza, trainer: Antal Bencze).
Gábor has already won competitions one after the other as a junior. He was junior European champion in Kata and in fight as well, and in 2005, on his first adult European Championship he won a bronze medal. In 2006 in Budapest he received a medal again, then in 2007, in Vilnius after huge fights he won his first adult European Championship gold medal. Meanwhile he was also victorious on the Hungarian Open and the Croatian Open Championship.
In 2008 he arrived at Bulgaria as a self-confident title holder, where he gave no chance to his opponents. He marched till the final with wazaari and ippon and in the final after 3 minutes he defeated the Ukrainian Taras Popovics with 5-0 referee decision.
In 2008 Rózsa appeared on one of the first two places of the championship tables.
Gábor’s style is very persuasive. His movement combines traditional and modern forms of fight.
His kicks and hits are well supported and he applies the so called “tömegmozgatásos” karate the most efficiently from the current generation.
This year began with a flared up hand injury for him so he could follow Hungarian Open only from the grand-stand.
In spite of his injury he won silver medal on the European Championship in Kiev, then in Saint Petersburg after a real close fight he was beaten by the Russian Yurij Kalyapin.
Although Gábor is in training continuously, he got some time for rest from Shihan Bencze since there is 6 hard months behind him.
These days he started preparing for the world tournament which consists of “freshening” of his condition and practise of technical-tactical elements.
We can expect the most populous field in lightweight but Rózsa is one of the probable winners.

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This interview with Kancho Henk Kuipers, the chairman of IBK

When Kaicho Jon Bluming ask you to be the Kancho of the IBK ?

Three years ago after some problems with the board of that time.

How long you you know Kaicho Bluming ?

I met Kaicho in 1980 for the first time in my home town were I trained kyokushin under leadership of Hanshi Joop Reilman

What is your goal as chairman of the IBK ?

Keep the legacy of Kaicho work together and his philosophy of fighting and training { all round } and grow step by step in family ship together with our daishihans.

What do think about the world tournament in Hungary ?

It is great idea to start work together in tournaments and we looking forward to be there and feel the spirit of our kyokushin and see many old friends from the past and special thanks to Kancho Royama and Sandor the organizer.

What do expect from your World IBK team ?

At first for us it is a big experience to be there our IBK history is build on all round fighting { kaicho, Chris Dolman, Sem Schilt etc } also from Holland we have the best fighters who choose for kickboxing in professional way but the last years we get back in traditional kyokushin also whit some good talent fighters.
But I know that we need more years to get the level of the other unions who been specialized in kyokushin so we give our best and may the best win.
Respect is the key word for the world championship.

What do think about the future of kyokushin in the world ?

That’s not easy because there was only one Sosai Oyama, but it is not bad that there are so many organizations and so many other styles because that brings us K1, ashihara, IBK and many other good things.
It is only we have to respect the other his work and be open to fight against each other without hate and see it as sport and a way of living. Osu