Reza Salmani opens local dojo

Jan-Christian Sorensen

News Reporter
orensen@nusnews.com
INTERNATIONAL
karate-do expert Reza
Salmani is open for
business.

Salmani_ recently opened

the North Shore Shotokan
Karate Instivute on West
1$th — street in) North
Vancouver. He is a certified
instructor with the Japanese
Karate Association, the
Inner-Traditional —_—Karate
Federation and the World
Karate Federation.

Shotokan karate is a more

fluid, non-contact form of

martial arts that relies more
on technical movements, or
katas, than aggressive attack-
img. It is still an extremely
effective method of self-
defense, said Salmani.

Shotokan karate is the
martial arts form accepted
for competition in the
Olympics.

“In ‘the Olympics: they

don’t accept contact. There
they want the art,” said
Satmani.

From the ages of 14 to 18
Salmani was a competitive
boxer before catching the
eye of the ULA.E. national
team.

Salmani —- the all-time
gold medal winner in his
home region of Gilan, Tran,
near the Caspian Sea — still
regularly trains former stu-
dents now living in Dubai,
Iraq, Germany and the U.S.

Salmani, who also
claimed a iourth-place finish
in the World Shotokan
Karate Championships in
1990, instructs two of the
members of the B.C. karate
team out of his new North
Van dojo. He'd like to attract
more team members in the
future.

“I'm going to try my best
to make the B.C. team num-
ber one in Canada,” he said.

For more information on

~ shotokan karate, call Salmani
at 904-9216.

hlin draws accolades for women’s si

CAPILANO College
soccer player Ciara

’ McLoughiin had one
‘heck of a week.

The. first-year = West

Vancouver secondary native

scored an overtime goal in the
BCCAA provincial _ soccer
championship to send -her
team to the CCAA nationals
Nov. 8-11.

For that, she was named

“tourney MVP. And later that

’. week, she was honoured with

Cap: Coitege first year.

women’s soccer. fixture
Ciara McLoughlin

the BCCAA Source for Sports

female athlete of the week.
McLoughlin, who played

with the *Vancouver 86ers

-: women’s: side. this. summer,
tallied three goals in- ten,

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FORMER U.A.E. national team coach Reza Salmani spars with provincial karate team member Hamid 3
Tarighatvin white Mark Wocdside, second from left, and B.C. team member All Gaianchi look on. :

gemes for the first-place Blues
this season.

The women head into bat-
de against the University of
New Brunswick’s Saiat John
Seawolves this Wednesday at 1
p.m. during opening day
action of the nationals at the
Burnaby = Lake — Sports
Complex West.“

The. following day the
women take on Humber
College at 1 p.m.

‘Championship play is set
for Saturday. with the 5th/6th
playdown set. for 9 a.m., the
bronze medal match going at
i] a.m., and the. gold medal
championship final slatea ‘ror
1:30 p.m. .

The men’s- soccer team

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well, with a silver medal finish
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They are set to take on

Unison Way
wins titles

NORTH Vancouver
Unison Way karate stu-
dents collected some
hardware at the B.C.
Fall Karate Champ-
ionships held in
Kamloops last weekend.

‘Eleven athletes travelled to-

the event and came home with
15 medals and seven provincial
tides,

Duke Reimer, 11, collected .

the provincial tide in kata in
the intermediate 10-12" boys
division. Ben Reimer took
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Edi Mange cook the kumite.

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division. ’

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‘ners, Christian Cretu collected
the silver in the intermediate .

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and the B.C. title in the kumite

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intermediate 14-15 boys kata
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_ ~Jan- Christian Sorensen :

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Wednesday at 10:30 a.m and
John Abbott College at 1
p.m. on Friday.

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