Oi, I am Remi da Silva Oliveira, Cape
Verdean, born (and bred ) on May
18th 1967 in the little village of Figuera Dasnaus municipal of Santa
Catarina (at Santiago island Cape Verde Africa) under my call name Borges,
now named Remicillio or, Remi da Silva Oliveira, have one daughter
and 2 little sons, Dutch
nationality, and working and living in the city of Rotterdam Holland.
At the age of 11 years
I migrated in 1979 with my parents and family, to Holland the Netherlands
a small country in northern Europe.
When I arrived in that
country I thought, "Where am I " special when I saw for the
first time in my live snow, the snow was very exciting me, until I fell
the cold which make me thought "I don't stay here any day longer I
leave."
But during my life in
Holland I have been for a several times on holiday to my home country Cape
Verde, to the island of Santiago.
Inspirited by my
brothers knowledge, who was appointed as head teacher (Shihan) in Kung Fu
(Wushu), I was already interested in Martial Arts at a young age.
When I decided to do
karate I asked my friends what they thought about it, they all said:
"your crazy", " its fighting ", "its bad to beat
people"," you only want to do karate to be sturdily",
"a gun is faster" and so on and so on.
So I doubted, I had to
make a choice between myself and the advice of my friends, it was not easy
for me maybe my friends were right ?
I
followed my heart, choose to do Karate I started with the Chinese
martial art of Kung Fu, after 1,5 years I was looking, searching, trying
out and combine other styles of karate which brought me finally to
Kyokushin Kai, a style developed and founded by the Korean Mass Oyama.
I took lessons in 1985
in Kyokushinkai (the strongest full contact karate) at the school of Loek
Hollander, based in Rotterdam, under the best teachers Shihan Loek
Hollander , Shihan P.Voogt Sensei Vlado Haljer ,F. Alonso Moreno and many
others.
After 2 years in
combination with Wushu and Kyokushinkai Karate I choose to do only
Kyokushinkai which is the best style for me, because this style of Karate
comes as close to the reality.
It's
also a Budo sport with 5 golden rules as with the other karate sports.
1- Perseverance.
2-
Honestly.
3-
Etiquette.
4- Self control
5- Character |
Most of
this philosophy you can find back in the
Dojo-Kun
Already after one year
training, in kyokushin, I became second of Loek Hollanders sports-school,
and again a year later I became local Champion of Gouda (a city in
Holland)
Several times I was
second at the open Dutch Champions, first of Flanders cup (Belgium), 4th
at the UK open champions, first of Rotterdam, and champion in 1995 at the
Dutch Open Champions.
Between all of that I
did kickboxing too, for a year, did matches and became even second
in Class B of kickboxing.
In 1993 it was time to
do examination for my first black belt (Shodan), after 2 years training
and matches, I did examination for my second black belt (Nidan) in 1996.
After this I studied for one year Teacher in Martial Arts in Amsterdam to
became professional teacher in Oriental Martial Arts, I was certified in
1997.
I became in 1997 again
Dutch Open Champion (had the title also in 1998). In 1998 I did the
European Champs in Spain Zaragossa, the open US in New York, and All Japan
in Tokyo. In the summer of 1998 I achieved my 3th black belt (Sandan) and
started in September 1998 my own Dojo, dedicated to my little daughter
Sidney, took the word Kai from Kyokushin-Kai and named the Dojo:
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Sidney-Kai
-
Kai
means working together ,a little girl working together to help each other.
A school where students working together, to help each other.
I became
again in 2000, Dutch champion heavy weight, due to an infection in 2001 I
could not fight for a new title (I wanted to try to obtain a title
in the super heavy weight category)
But on March 3rd 2002, finally my dream became true, as heavy weight
I fight for a super heavy weight title and I won.
I am proud to have all titles in all categories in the Dutch Open
Kyokushin Karate Championships.
Rotterdam Holland
April 2002 Remi da Silva Oliveira
