WSKA Liverpool 2022 - New Bulletin & Schedule

Please see the latest bulletin and event schedule, available for download.

WSKA 2022 Liverpool - 10th & 11th September

Purchase your tickets to the WSKA 2022 Championships online via the M & S Bank Area Website now!

The Covid pandemic put a halt to our way of life in 2020. There was little or no Karate training, no competitions or courses in person, only online. Now that the World is slowly getting back to normal, we are excited to greet our WSKA Family at the 2022 World Championships in September. The M and S Bank Arena, Liverpool will be home to WSKA Officials, athletes, and our supporters and many of you will remember the fantastic Championships held there in 2013. 

 

Everyone around the world has heard of Liverpool. Home of the Beatles, home to two great football teams, even though their supporters will tell you there's only one great football team. Liverpool was also the first home of the Karate Union of Great Britain. 

 

The Arena is a stone's throw from the Royal Albert Dock which houses art, museums, music, heritage, and a large number of restaurants, bars and cafes. There's plenty to do for everyone. Here, in the UK, our Government has been very successful in rolling out our vaccine programme and life here, is almost back to normal. Our Karate life is back to normal and we already have a busy calendar of Courses and Competitions. Our Team is working hard and everything is on schedule from our hotels and training venues to transport and hospitality. The timetable is almost formalised and we will be sending you more information very soon. We hope you, your families and your students are all well and we are really looking forward to seeing you in September.

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Philippe Wattieaux

We report with great sadness that our friend Philippe Wattieaux has died.

Philippe was a great supporter of ESKA and WSKA as Director of the Belgian Amateur Karate Federation and for 36 years as an international referee.

Phillipe was an outstanding referee who championed the merits of Shobbu Ippon through his decisive actions and elegant gestures both on the tatami and in support of training younger referees and judges.

His contribution to both ESKA and WSKA will be greatly missed.

On behalf of the Executive Board we offer our sincere condolences to his family and friends.  

 

Heart Cup 2022

5th Edition Heart Cup

30th April - 1st May 2022

Treviso, Italy

Full Information available on the Website - https://www.heartcupkarate.com/

Russia Suspension

On behalf of the WSKA Executive Board we express our solidarity with the people of Ukraine at this very difficult time.

The Executive Board of WSKA met on Thursday 3rd March 2022 and agreed that with immediate effect USKO Russia will be suspended from all WSKA activities including participation at the WSKA championships in Liverpool in September 2022. Should the situation change the Executive Board will review this decision.

This decision takes into account the recommendation of the executive board of the International Olympic Committee that all International Sports Federations not invite or allow the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes and officials in international competition.

Our hopes and prayers are with the Ukrainian people and for an end to the death and destruction caused by the invasion of their country. We fully support the right of the Ukrainian people to live their lives peacefully within an independent European sovereign nation.