Washinkai Karate Espana

On Friday 6th June Javea Councillor for Sports, Jose Erades, presented over 75 junior Club Deportivo Washinkai karate students with a medal to recognise their dedication to karate.  Ten additional students were also presented with trophies as awards for the important mental aspects of karate training such as Perserverence, Humility, Courtesy and Respect..

The students along with Club Instructors, Ray Sweeney, Geovanny Sanchez, Mari Turner, Sarah Lakin and Jose Sellitti Rangel were asked to perform a demonstration in front of the townspeople of Javea, Jose Erades and Paco Bisquert (Coordinator of Sports), which began with all of the students carrying out Kihon, sequences of kicking and punching. 

Kata were performed by several students including Elizabeth Sellitti Rangel with Chinto kata, Nathan Tongue, Pinan Yodan and Jordan Quirk who gave a powerful rendition of Bassai kata or “Storming the Fortress”.

Nathan Tongue and Tom Winstanley demonstrated Chudan Uke 1 and 2 with a knife whilst several advanced defences were shown by Jose Sellitti Rangel and Geovanny Sanchez including Ohyo Kumite 11, 12 13 and 14 (neck lock, flying hip throw, flying scissor kick and dragontail sweep). 

Geovanny Sanchez, Hari Hook and Jordan Quirk performed their gold medal winning simultaneous Saifa Team Kata and Instructor Geovanny Sanchez rounded off the demonstration with the breaking of 2 inches of  pine board to wild applause.

Washinkai Javea is now one of the largest karate clubs in the Valencian Community