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INFORMATION about
JKA WM 1996
The Karate Dojo Monchengladbach
travelled to the Karate
Worldchampionships 1996 in Athen, Greece
only to be told that they were not allowed to compete!
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Here is a translation of the letter sent by Peter
Brockers to the President
of the German Karate Association on his return to
Moenchengladbach.
(To date no reply has been forthcoming to this
letter)
Dear Mr Hantsche,
It is with regret that I am having to write to you as the
Chairman of the German Karate Association on a matter that is most disturbing.
During the 1996 JKA World Championships in Athens your
association displayed a code of conduct not becoming that of the Karate Do and showed the German
Karatekas in a bad light to the rest of the Karate world.
As you know I was accepted first by the JKA as their
representative in Germany by the Japanese.
This was proved to you in writing by the signature of Mr. Asai on
the application form for the Kobudo Association of NRW and with the photocopy of the registered
letter certificate showing the dispatch of the affiliation fees.
Following the incident about my teams
eligibility to start in this championship and with the JKA stating that if we started then your team could not.
Your total intransigence in helping our team to compete along side with yours and stating that only one
team from each country could compete was no less than a disgrace.
The fact that South Africa had two teams competing seemed to go
unnoticed by yourself.
When it was stated that my son and I were not members of the DKV
nor was our club I would like it to be known that the Dojo Mönchengladbach is one of the oldest
clubs belonging to the DKV.
I in fact have been a member for 30 years which again seems to be
unnoticed by yourselves.
As a Karate pioneer here in NRW it is amazing to find such a
prejudice form the president of the DKV.
I would like to point out that myself an Frank Novak were trained
as instructors under Sensei Nakayma in Japan in 1972.
It has always astonished me that on my return to Germany it took
the DKV 18 years to recognize my grading from Japan as a 3rd Dan.
Since 1968 I have worked to
spread the word of the DKV around North Rhine Westphalia and would have expected more help in
allowing both our teams to join together to compete in the championships.
It was astonishing to me that you felt unable to help in asking
the Japanese to allow our teams to compete together, especially as members of your team were in favour of
such an alliance.
My team members who were present in Athens had trained hard and
paid a total of DM 8500 to be able to compete and to find that were our allies should have been we
only found enemies in yourself.
It surely was not beyond good sense to allow the amalgamation of
the teams to better represent our country instead of disgracing it in the way that it was.
I feel that the DKV is totally to blame for the expenses that
were incurred and the disappointment dished out to my team members through your actions and am considering
taking legal action to recover the costs from yourselves.
I therefore ask that your reply to this letter as a matter of
some urgency before I am forced to take the matter further.
I know that the DKV has not in the past been associated with such
scandals and I hope I do not find it necessary to inform the Sport newspapers and magazines of the
goings on in Athens.
I hope that I am not subject to further prejudices towards myself and my students and
that the German sportsmen are not
further embarrassed by such prejudices.
I request an answer to this letter within 7 days.
yours respectfully,
Peter Brockers
JKA Germany
Kobudo Verband NRW 1990 e.V.
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