News & Events

Congratulations Black Belts

Posted on by Sensei Madani

The IMA Family offers its sincere congratulations to everyone who successfully earned new black belt designations on June 26th!

Over 25 students and instructors endured 8 hours of training and testing past Saturday as part of their black belt progression. In addition to multiple members of the IMA family earning advanced black belts through many years of dedicated training, one member of our family were also awarded the rank of Nanadan (7th degree black Belt) – making the weekend one of the most memorable in IMA’s long history.

Jr. Black Belts

Mady Forsberg

Lucan Sewall

Asher Echery

Connor Swanson

Shodan (1st Degree Black Belt)
Michael Knehs

Nidan Ho
Peter Dessev

Elam Fifer-Whiting

Giulia Toscano

Nidan (2nd Degree Black Belt)
Philippe Lepercq

Sandan (3rd Degree Black Belt)
Keith Nakasato

Special Achievements

Shihan Rick McGavin has tested and achieved the Rank of Nanadan (7th Degree Black Belt). Shihan McGavin is one of the pioneer of IMA who training with Hanshi Madani from establishing of IMA from 1995. The IMA family would like to congratulate Shihan McGavin for his achievement and also Would like to salute his dedication to IMA and to Karate!

Thanks also to all of the black belts and instructors who helped with the Dan testing and to all of the friends and family that came to support the students.

Rocky Mountain Championship Schedule

Posted on by Sensei Madani

The 2021 Rocky Mountain Championship is promising to be another great event with many competitors from Colorado and many other states.

In order to comply with CDC and hotel COVID requirements, we have set a time line for each category/age to check in. We would like to ask you please respect this time lime and do not attempt to check in any earlier. Please click on below link for see the schedule of event for every day. Schedule | Rocky Mountain Championship

Please see below the guidelines for the upcoming Rocky Mountain Championship:

  • Face coverings will be worn by ALL attendees
  • Athletes will only be allowed to remove face coverings while on the tatami and actively competing.
  • Coaches are required to wear a face covering at all times unless seated in a coaching chair actively coaching.
  • Officials will wear a face covering at all times.
  • Volunteers will wear a face covering at all times.
  • ALL spectators will wear a face covering at all times.
  • Kumite equipment will be disinfectant before each bout.
  • Hand sanitizer will be provided at each score table and throughout the venue.
  • Temperatures of everyone in attendance will be checked upon entering the venue.
  • Any elevated temperatures will prevent entry into the event.
  • Temperature checks will be conducted on all Officials, Volunteers, and Spectators each time they enter the competition venue.
  • Athletes will only be permitted into the venue at the time of their competition or to warm-up beforehand.
  • Spectators (limited to 2 per athlete) will only be allowed in the venue while their athlete is competing.
  • No athlete will be allowed to check in ahead of the schedule

Thank you for your support and participation. We are looking forward to a great and safe competition.

RMC staff

Rocky Mountain Championship

Posted on by Sensei Madani

The 2021 Rocky Mountain International Championship will be held on April 17-18, in Westminster, (Marriott Hotel Ballroom) Colorado, USA. Please log in to the web site for all information and registration.

Due to state safety restrictions, we have extended the days of the competition to two days to comply with these safety measurements. There will be changes and procedures that must be followed in order to comply with State and hotel requirements in addition to creating the safest environment possible while still competing in a professional and friendly Karate Tournament.

As always, we are pleased to offer a referee course and kumite clinic with USA Karate team members. These seminars will be offered on Friday April, 16th. Please refer to proper pages for all information.

This Open international tournament is one of the most exciting and most valuable traditional tournament in America and with hundreds of participants guarantees a unique traditional karate Championship. 

Whether a junior, senior or master competitor, you will most certainly find this tournament a wonderful experience.

We hope you will join us!

Update

Posted on by Sensei Madani

Dear members and parents,

The recent spike in virus cases in our state has come with the importance of following new restricted guidelines. Luckily, our dojo space has allowed us to keep distance from each other while still being able to provide instruction to all students. We have also increased the number of online instructors as some of our members have decided to attend via Zoom. Whether you chose to move online or continue coming to the dojo, we are committed to providing you with the best instruction possible.

On another note, due to cold weather conditions and dojo window closure, we have invested in five air purifiers to capture all potentially contaminated air and transfer it to clean air. These devices are also certified to eliminate %99 of germs and viruses in the air. The air purifiers will aid in providing a clean and safe environment all around the dojo.

Last but not least, we want you to know that the Dojo will be closed on Thursday and Friday of this week and we will resume classes on Saturday the 28th. We want to take this opportunity to thank each one of you for your continued support of the dojo. We are grateful to all of you who have supported us through this difficult time. We could not have done it without you. Thank you so much!

Have a blessed and healthy Thanksgiving!

The decades best

Posted on by Sensei Madani

The new chapter of “Karate’s Decades Best” comes this Friday to WKF YouTube channel. It presents one of the most thrilling finals in the recent history of the Karate World Championships.

WKF’s “Karate’s Decades Best” reviews the most spectacular bouts of the last five World Championships. In the second chapter of episode 2 of “Karate’s Decades Best”, it relives the breath-taking final of Male Kumite -60kg of the Paris 2012 World Championships featuring Douglas Brose of Brazil and Amir Mehdizadeh of Iran.

The title-deciding clash featuring the two titans is so exhilarating that the original video of the bout has garnered no less than 6 million views on WKF YouTube channel. Both Douglas Brose and Amir Mehdizadeh engage in such spectacular demonstration of top-level Kumite, and the final has such an unexpected outcome, that the bout is regarded as one of the most gripping clashes in the history of the World Championships.

The memorable clash of titans is reviewed by Douglas Brose himself, who will relive his appearance in that memorable moment eight years later, and international referee Fariba Madani of the USA, who will give the interesting insight of the judges’ perspective, together with WKF TV Commentator Billy Brennan.
Click below to see the entire video: