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SPIN.ph: Samboy’s daughter Jamie Christine Lim delivers PH karate team's second gold in SEAG
by RANDOLPH B. LEONGSON

JAMIE Christine Lim showed that she's every inch a winner as her dad is, winning the gold medal in the women's +61kg kumite in the 30th Southeast Asian Games karatedo competitions on Monday at World Trade Center.
The daughter of PBA legend Samboy Lim proved that her father's champion legacy also runs in her blood, scoring the crucial hit on Georgia Zefanya Ceyco of Indonesia inside the last 20 seconds to take the 2-1 victory.
Lim downed Aurdrey Japyus of Malaysia, 7-3, in the quarterfinals before dominating Thi Thao Bui of Vietnam, 5-1, in the semis.  click for more

​SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES

January 17 to 19 2020:
Manuel Veguillas Memorial Karate Championships
Music Hall SM Mall of Asia​

February 1 to 2 2020:
Karate Pilipinas National Championships
Rizal Memorial Coliseum

March 2020:
AAK Super Karate Kids @ SM Megamall
SM Megamall Activity Center

May 31 2020:
AAK General Training Camp and Milo Karatedo Summer Sports Clinic Graduation
Music Hall SM Mall of Asia

July 2020:
AAK Super Karate Kids @ SM City BF Paranaque
SM City BF Paranaque Activity Center

Aug 2020:
AAK Super Karate Kids @ SM Megamall
SM Megamall Activity Center

​7th Karatedo Goju-kai ASIFIC Championships 2019, Cebu, Philippines

​The event was successfully hosted by IKGA Philippines (Country Director Sensei Richard Lim, and Sensei Greg Sanger) in Cebu, Philippines, and participated by approx. 300 competitors and 17 countries from the IKGA Asia Bloc and IKGA Oceania Bloc, with competition being held for all ages from Children's categories (U10, U12, U14), Cadet, Junior, U21, Senior, and Masters 40+, Masters 50+ categories, with Individual Kata & Kumite, Team Kata and Kumite, as well as Bunkai being competed. Countries in attendance were: Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, Japan, Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Taipei.

There was also a 1 day Technical Seminar held on September 30, 2019, participated by approx. 100 participants from 19 countries from the IKGA Asia Bloc and IKGA Oceania Bloc, and the training sessions were conducted by Saiko Shihan Goshi Yamaguchi, Hanshi Brian Mackie, Gohei Yamaguchi Shihan, Hideki Wakasugi Shihan, and Shin Tsukii Shihan. Maskun Prasetia Shihan of Indonesia, who was recently promoted to 8th Dan, was also in attendance... click for more

Official results of the tournament and medal tally of the participating countries
AAK PHILIPPINES DECLARED AS THE OVERALL CHAMPION IN THE 37TH KARATE-DO GOJU-KAI SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS. ​

The Philippines bagged the overall Champion title in the recently concluded 37th Karatedo Goju-Kai Singapore International Championships held in Singapore on September 9, 2017 at the Singapore Badminton Hall.  With the participation of more than 150 athletes from 13 Karate Schools/Clubs, from ten (10) different countries, the Philippines brought Twenty-Six (26) athletes from the Association for the Advancement of Karatedo Philippines (AAK Philippines), and garnered a total of 36 medals. 
 
“It was a great honor for the Philippines to have gotten these medals.  We are proud of the young athletes that we have trained in AAK and we are hoping to create more.” said Shihan Pocholo Veguillas, founder of AAK Philippines. “Truly, we saw the karate principles in the practice of our athletes as we watched them out there doing their best.” Shihan Veguillas added...click for more

AAK KARATEKAS BAG 2 GOLDS, 2 SILVERS AND 1 BRONZE IN ALL-JAPAN MEET.

Competing in the birthplace of Karatedo, eight (8) Filipino Karatekas won awards and accolades in the 2012 Adidas Cup Karatedo Championships, in Aichi, Japan Last April 22,2012.   The tournament was participated by more than 440 athletes with over 30 Karate Teams (Clubs) from all over Japan, representing all the 4 major styles of Karatedo, Shotokan Ryu, Shito Ryu, Goju Ryu, Wado Ryu. Richard Anthony Lim of the Association for the Advancement of Karatedo (AAK) headed the Philippine Delegation made up of eight (8) athletes... click for more

​AAK TEAM PHILIPPINES BAG 3 GOLDS AT KOREAN INVITATIONAL KARATEDO

​The fifteen man delegation of AAK Team Philippines won three Gold, two Silver and six Bronze Medals at the International Karatedo Junior, Cadet and Children Game held at Busan, Korea 20-21 August 2012.
Two gold medals were won by Jamie Christine Berberabe Lim of AAK SM Megamall in the cadet events.  She won in the kata and the 47+kg Cadet Kumite events, ...click for more

KARATEDO QUOTE

"The correct understanding of Karate and its proper use is Karate-do. One who truly trains in this do [way] and actually understands Karate-do is never easily drawn into a fight." - GICHIN FUNAKOSHI
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