2025 SKIF International Seminar
Overview
Objective: To improve and unify the techniques of SKIF members in Japan and overseas while providing the opportunity for members to interact and build friendships
- TITLE
SHOTOKAN KARATE-DO INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION — 2025 INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR
- SPONSOR
SHOTOKAN KARATE-DO INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION
- SUPPORT
Ota City, Tokyo / Ota City Board of Education / Ota City Karate Federation
- DATES
Friday, March 28 – Sunday, March 30, 2025
- VENUE
OMORI SPORTS CENTER, OTA CITY
2-2-5 Omori-honcho, Ota City, Tokyo
An approximately 6-minute walk from Heiwajima Station, located on the Keihin Kyuko Main Line (Keikyu Honsen)
- INSTRUCTORS
Kancho Nobuaki Kanazawa, Shuseki-Shihan Manabu Murakami,
SKIF Headquarters instructors, Referee Director Eikichi Saito,
- SPECIAL GUEST INSTRUCTORS
Shihan Masaru Miura (Italy), Shihan Akio Nagai (Germany), Shihan Rikuta Koga (Switzerland), Hiroshi Ishikawa (Mexico)
- CONTENT
a. Technical clinic (4 individual classes)
b. Referee clinic (2 individual classes)
c. Dan promotion test
- PARTICIPANT QUALIFICATIONS
SKIF members of minimum 12 years old, 3rd kyu (brown belt) or higher.
- PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE
28th March (Friday)
10:00–12:00 Registration
12:00–15:00 Technical clinic class 1
15:30–17:00 Referee clinic class 1
29th March (Saturday)
09:30–11:30 Technical clinic class 2
12:00–14:00 Technical clinic class 3
14:30–15:30 Training session with Ota City residents
15:30–17:00 Referee clinic class 2
19:00–21:00 Evening banquet
30th March (Sunday)
10:00–12:30 Technical clinic class 4
13:30–16:00 Dan promotion test
- SEMINAR PARTICIPATION FEES
¥2,000 per class
¥10,000 for all classes
- APPLICATION DEADLINE
February 28, 2025
If you are not able to confirm your availability until after the initial deadline, please inform SKIF GHQ.
- EVENING BANQUET
Saturday, March 29, 2025,
19:00-21:00 Omori Sports Center, B1 conference room
Participation fee: ¥5,000 per person
- DAN PROMOTION TEST
Make sure to send the dan application form in advance, together with the registration form. Applications will not be accepted during the seminar.
We will ask all members who do not test to leave the venue during the dan promotion test.
- CHERRY BLOSSOM VIEWING PARTY (HANAMI)
Date and time: Monday, March 31, 2025, 12:00-14:00 (this event will be cancelled in the event of rain). Location: Along the bank of Tama River (approximately a 10-minute walk from Unoki Station). Participants should meet at 11:30 in front of Unoki Station on the Tokyu-Tamagawa Line. Cherry blossoms bloom in early April in Tokyo. If you take part in this event, you will enjoy a relaxing time under the cherry blossoms while enjoying drinks, snacks, and conversation with your karate friends.
- JOINT TRAINING WITH OTA CITY RESIDENTS
Although this seminar is being organised by SKIF, Ota City, Ota City Board of Education, and Ota City Karate Federation once again provide support in, among other things, securing the seminar venue. That is why we also organised a free training session on the second day of the seminar together with karate practitioners residing in Ota City. We encourage all members taking part in the seminar to also participate in this joint training session. Following this joint training session, during the referee clinic class, seminar attendees will be given the opportunity to practice refereeing under tournament conditions. To make this possible, we ask the younger members to participate as athletes. This will allow them to experience kumite under tournament conditions and improve their skills while enabling others to improve their skills as referees.
Other matters of importance
- LODGING
SKIF GHQ will not arrange lodging for this seminar. Participants are requested to make all necessary lodging arrangements on their own.
Late March/early April is a busy time of year for hotels in the Tokyo area (particularly around Kamata). Several hotels are already completely booked for this period. Accordingly, we strongly recommend that you reserve lodging as early as possible.
The seminar venue is within walking distance (approximately 6 minutes) from Heiwajima station on the Keihin Kyuko Main Line (Keikyu Honsen). Accordingly, participants may want to consider lodging near Shinagawa* station, Kamata station (both of which offer easy access to the seminar venue), or somewhere in between these two locations.
* Shinagawa is the largest district in the southwestern region of Tokyo and offers a large selection of city and business hotels.
Distances between various train stations- Heiwajima Station - Shinagawa Station: approx. 10 minutes by train
- Heiwajima Station - Keikyu Kamata Station: approx. 5 minutes by train
Note: Although JR Shinagawa Station and Keikyu Shinagawa Station are located directly next to each other, Kamata Station and Keikyu Kamata Station are separated by a distance, requiring a 10-minute walk. SKIF Headquarters is situated at Kugahara Station (about a 1-minute walk from the station) on the Tokyu Ikegami Line, which is approximately 7 minutes by train from Kamata Station.
- Tokyo Station - Shinagawa Station: approx. 10 minutes by train
- Shinagawa Station - Kamata Station: approx. 10 minutes by train
- Haneda Airport Domestic Terminal - Shinagawa Station: approx. 16 minutes by train
- Haneda Airport Domestic Terminal - Kamata Station: approx. 30 minutes by bus
