The Purpose of the Tournament
Tournament is one of the opportunities where trainees may test their skills that they have
established from everyday training. Although tournament cannot measure every aspect of
Karate skills, nor its purpose is to determine the best Karate-ka, but it is neverthelss the one of few opportunities to put yourself under the pressure and test the correct execution of techniques under such environment.

Important Tournaments
There are 3main tournaments that our region looks forward to join. The tournament that we look forward to the most is the JKA/WF America Nationals/Collegiate Championship. The top athletes from each Region and College who won through the sectional and regional tournament will compete against each other. Competition is composed of both form and sparring, and there are individual and team for both.

The second tournament that we look forward to is more known as the "JKA WF/A Camp". It is one week training camp in New Mexico. Several guest masters are invited to this camp, and there usually is a Goodwill Tournament that anyone may join at the end of one week. People from several countries joins this tournament, and it is a great place to increase the ring of Karate. For this reason, the tournament is very important because we are able to build stronger friendship and trust through the matches, and we are also able to compete against several different types of athletes from all over the world.

Inernational Tournaments
There are two major international tournaments in JKA. The first tournament is the Pan-American, which is invitational-only tournament that is among North, South America and Carribean countries. The competitors of this tournament are the teams of best athletes from those countries. This tournament encourages many countries to strive for harder training, and observing the great techniques from many athletes. In this sense, the tournament is not only about winning, but researching athletes and techniques. Most importantly, it opens the door to the next step as a goal for many athletes.

The second and the largest tournament that JKA has is the World Shoto Cup, now renamed to Funakoshi Gichin Cup. It is the tournament that allows top athletes from all over the world to compete against each other, and it also gives an opportunity for judges to judge in a large scale tournaments. It is purely a great goodwill tournament that allows interaction among all Karate trainees, and the skills of those athletes are purely top of the world.

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