It was a hard and difficult year for the Bulgarian karate Kyokushin athletes, according to Sensei Prolet Vasileva. She is the secretary of the Bulgarian Karate Kyokushin Federation, a former athlete and the current head coach at the TIM sports club.
“This year’s pandemic has hit us hard. There were significantly fewer participations and camps, we managed to hold only the State Championships and the World Cup for cadets under 21 years of age. We were supposed to host the World and European championships in December, but even that was postponed for better times, when everyone will be able to travel and train fully. We also held several gala evenings of the SENSHI chain, which is rapidly gaining popularity around the world. More and more fighters want to be a part of it. Despite the pandemic, we managed to hold several camps with the stars of K-1 – Peter Arts, Ernesto Khust and Semmy Schilt,” Sensei Vasileva told Varna News.
Sensei Vasileva is a multiple republican champion, and has several silver medals from Balkan championships. She is one of the first women in Bulgaria to defend 3 Dan (Sensei) after a 6-hour exam.
“The way we train is already different. We comply with the distance, we changed the exercises and techniques so that we can stay in the hall, following the prescriptions and still achieve results. In some of the periods we trained with masks, which was new for us – says the coach at the sports club TIM. – During the isolation we gave specific tasks, mainly to the athletes, we played online trainings, we kept in touch. At first, we were a little demotivated because the isolation came to us unexpectedly and deprived us of the opportunity to train together, but we found a way to cope.
Source: boec.bg
