Showing posts with label tournament. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tournament. Show all posts

Sunday, July 29, 2012

JSKA Karate World Championship in Cancun - Album II

We're back home after a great tourrnament. I won 3rd place in kata and the rest of the tournament went great. Here are more pictures.


Team USA and family

Our littlest competitor on the team (8 yrs. old), Itzel

Some of the masters of the organization. From left: hubby (Thomas Casale), Abe Sensei (the head of the organization), Ricardo Galina (one of the organizers of the tournament), Nagaki Sensei and Teresa Orta (the other organizer and Galina's mother)

Itzel getting all serious for her kata competition
Itzel fighting (kumite)

Me on the podium to accept my bronze medal (left) for kata

Well, this was fun...now back to work. :)

Thursday, July 19, 2012

JSKA Karate World Championship in Cancun - Album I

So we're half-way through the World Championship week and the actual tournament starts tomorrow. Today, I wanted to share a few of the pictures from this trip so far (hence, Album I). :)

First off, the resorts we're staying at where the World Championship 2012 is taking place - Iberostar Cancun, Golf & Spa Resort:


This is the view from our balcony
Here's the same view at sunset:


Another part of the resort:


Here's our team (minus one member). Hubby is the team's coach and the President of the organization in the Pan-Americas:


Another pic of the team, now minus the hubby but plus the member of the team who wasn't in the last pic :)


We had a great three hour training this morning with all the members of various teams. The first part of the seminar was with Abe Sensei, the head of our organization from Japan, and Nagaki Sensei, one of his senior students. Then we trained with other senior Senseis (teachers), including my hubby, Sensei Thomas Casale. Here are a few pics from that training.

Part of the training this morning. Hubby is on the right, teaching part of that seminar


Training hard

Kids having fun playing "zombies" :)

The hubby and I at dinner:



With a dear friend and the member of the Mexican karate team, Suzel (her husband is the organizer of 2012 Championship):



Lounging around

Well, that's it for Album I. Album II coming in a few days and will include the tournament pictures.
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