GKC heightens preparation for IDK world Cup – …team hoping to Better 2014 Performance
Sensei Jeffrey Wong poses with his students in the presence of their parents.
Sensei Jeffrey Wong poses with his students in the presence of their parents.

 

Karatekas from the Guyana Karate College (GKC) are putting in the hours ahead of the International Karate Diagaku World Cup in Toronto Canada later this month.

Chronicle Sport paid a visit to the club’s Dojo at the Carfiesta Sport Complex last Friday evening where the athletes could be seen going through their paces.
Senior Instructor of the GKC, Sensei Jeffrey Wong, indicated that the sessions are heating up ahead of the World Cup. “We are coming up very sharply; I’m very surprised with the junior and the senior teams; they are very excited and very pumped up ahead of the championship. Intense training both mentally and physically is what I am preparing them for now and hopefully everything goes well.
As you know we’ve been preparing for the tournament over the last four to five months and its going to be very successful for the IKD.”
Sensei Wong added that this year, he is looking for the top honours and doesn’t feel that second place will cut it “Last world cup as you know we got second place and we got second with 23 medals but we were short (of first place) by about seven or eight medals.
Right now we have more students taking part so we hope to cop those extra places to secure first place.”
He indicated too that the team will have to undergo a final tuning by head of the International Karate Diagaku Sensei Frank Woon-A-Tai when he arrives on June 20.
“What we are doing on Saturday and Sunday is special training because we don’t have a lot of time and this is a world tournament so we have got to train hard. That would help us to maintain our standard and to improve our techniques.”
The senior instructor lauded the support from parents and guardians who continue to stand behind their children for the championships. “We are getting a lot of support from the parents. Majority are going to the world cup in Canada to support their kids and we are very pleased with the response from the parents.”
The 2nd IKD World Cup and camp will take place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from July 15-19 and will feature karatekas from North America and the Caribbean.

By Stephan Sookram

 

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