“BS Cup 2014″ was held with great success.
More than 180 fighters can be proud of themselves and their performances at this year’s BS Cup, which was held in Copenhagen, Denmark this past weekend. Just by entering and competing in the event is a great victory for the individual karate-ka. By having enough courage to step onto the fighting mat, maybe for the first time, and face an opponent, in front of many spectators, has put his or her own fears aside and exhibited great courage and strong spirit.
The more than 180 fighters represented from Denmark, Sweden and Belgium, and the tournament was the biggest event in the five years BS Karate has hosted BS Cup. The massive turn out shows, that BS Karate is meeting a great demand among the practitioners of the popular sport. The reason is, that BS Cup gives the karate practitioner a chance to have a positive experience with his or her first tournament, in that a lot of effort is being put in trying to match all contestants by belt grade, weight, experience, etc.
The weighing in took place Saturday morning of April 5th, at 8:00 am, and all contestants had a long and exciting day ahead of them. BS Cup is targeted at fighters with no or very little tournament experience and the air in the sports arena of BS Karate in Copenhagen was electric from start to finish.
The tournament had two main tracks: One track followed the rules of semi-contact, allowing full contact techniques to the upper body and light contact kicks to the sides of the head. The other track was moderated knock down, following the same rules, but also allowing leg kicks. Underlying these two main tracks, the tournament had 26 sub-categories, where the matching of the fighters mentioned above was done according to age, weight and experience.
The fights started at 10:00 am and fight followed fight, like pearls on a string, towards the conclusion of the tournament at 6:30 pm.

D.O. ;Erik Sigvaldason