Ligo Dojo Weekend Champions!! See Video Clips below . . .
Ligo Dojo - A powerful showing at 7th Annual Kyokushin Open Tournament in Maine!

This was a small tournament, and we are a young organization, but the spirit shown by the competitiors from the US and canada was terrrific, and Ligo Dojo students took more wins than any other dojo. All five of our minors took 1st place in their devisions (they should! they train in our adult classes), and, well, the list goes on. Please see below for details. (We'll be adding more materials, and the video clips, in the next several days.)

Kamissi is 8 and JQ is 9 . . . they both took 1st place in their divisions. Wait till you see these video clips!


Kenny Dunn, one of three residential students now in the BKH dormitory, took first place in the middle weight divsion. Adults had the option of fighting full-contact or semi-contact, although they only difference is that in semi-contact the competitors wear gloves and shin/instep pads and (in this particular tournament) no head contact was allowed (in semi-contaxct). Kenny clearly won 1st place in the full-contact division.


Bajon won his divsion, intermediate boys 11-14, and then competed in the intermediate/advanced boys 15-17 division ALSO and took 2nd place. Two medals for him this weekend!


Bajon's sister, Erie (left), only had this one other competitor in her division, advanced girls 15-17, but she won to take 1st place. This is an amazing fight. Watch the clip!


The adult competitors before the main event began.


Ligo Dojo's Amy W. (right) took 3rd place in the heavyweight women's full-contact division.


Here's another shot of Bajon dominating his intermediate teen division.


Newest BKH residential student, Aaron Taylor, fought in his first tournament, in the beginners' heavyweight men's divsion. He fought well enough to make it to the second round but was defeated in the end. He's been training at Ligo Dojo for less than two months.


Samantha (left) won this fight and then went on to fight Woodrina (below, right, also of Ligo Dojo) to take second place. Woodrina won the fight shown below, to face Samantha in the final. Beating Samantha, she became the 1st place winner. Ligo Dojo takes 1st and 2nd place in the division.



Paul Kiminski who will become BKH's first residential student to complete 1000 consecutive days of training the BKH dormitory and graudate in mid June, took 2nd place in the men's lightweight full-contact division.


"Zeus" also fought in the full-contact division, and fought beautifully for his first fight, but was defeated. Watch the video clip!


Please note these three photos of Kenny (one above and two below). Notice the determination with which he tries to knock-out his opponent, and the friendship at the end, and the two congratulate eachother on such a hard fight. This is the Kyokushin sprit: train hard, fight hard, develop powerful bonds of friendship between powerful people so that the might serve as role models for others. Kenny has now been in the dormitory for nearly 3 months. He hopes to fight in the World Tournament in Budapest with Paul Kaminski and (Amy K and Amy W) in October.



Amy K (above, right) who took 2nd, and Amy W (below, left) who took 3rd, both wound up having to fight the same Canadian woman in the semi-finals of the full-contact women's division. Neither beat her in the end, but the fights were spectacular. See the video clips here. Amy K fought also in the semi-contact divsion for the experience and took 3rd place.