02 Jul JONAS AMARAL (21 years old)

PRACTICING SEVERAL MARCIAL ARTS, IS THE SIXTH OF THE WORLD RANKING OF KARATE IN WHEEL CHAIR CATEGORY ✳️ This time is our Brazilian friend Jonas, tells us how he started his story with the Para-Karate. It’s surprising how skilful he is and how fluid he works, and without crutch support, having an amputated leg.
But more surprising that in international competitions we see him in a wheelchair because his category does NOT exist, as also happens to other competitors… I hope, WKF that although we seem repetitive, you will get to work on a regulation that besides obsolete is exclusive, unfair and lacks categories… has anyone asked competitors, in case they want and can compete without a chair, about whether or not they like to compete like this?… We ignored the answer…
Debates aside, this is the story of Jonas, overcoming and many knowledge of martial arts although he eventually stayed with karate-Do.

I HAD A LEG AMPUTATED BUT I REBORN AGAIN

**Jonas Amaral , was born on December 13, 1998 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. At the age of 15, he suffered a life-changing accident: “August 31, 2009 was the date it all happened and due to a “peripecia” I ended up being aimed at and fired with a gun and I was shot eight times,” he says. After this incident he had to have his left leg amputated because when he arrived at the hospital his injuries were very serious. From that day onwards “I reborn again and a new opportunity was granted to me.”

BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU PRACTITIONER, TAEKWONDO, KARATE…

His beginnings in martial arts were when in 2011 he began his training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu with sensei Pedro Martínez with which he obtained blue belt. Also that same year he began training Taekwondo with sabonim Eunaldo Jr. and then with the Kyosanim Ivo Ramos de Jesús where he managed to reach the red belt of Taekwondo. However, what really changed his life was karate and discovering the Sensei Oswaldo Scaccio Jr. 3o Dan recognized by the JKA (Japanese Karate Federation). The Sensei Oswaldo went to the person who completely adapted karate to the physical state Jonas.

IMPORTANT DATES IN RELATION TO MARTIAL ARTS

—Importal dates that Jonas has wanted to highlight from his beginnings with martial arts to date:
• In 2012 he began his karate training by the Okinawa Goju Ryu Karate Do Association where his great passion for karate arose.
• In 2013 he obtained the blue belt of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for his dedication, assiduousness, discipline and technical ability.
• 15 May 2015 was invited by the station Record on the television show Balanca General to tell his life story.
• November 20, 2016 was passed on the Yudansha (black belt) exam.
• April 23, 2017 met Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger personally at the Arnold Classic South America event where he performed a parakarate performance to the Hollywood star.
• 2017 began training with sensei Flavio Vicente de Souza at the Okinawa Shorin-Ryu karate-Do Jyureikan and Kobudo Jinbukai Association.
• 2018: He was Pan American Vice-Champion of parakarate in the wheelchair category in Santiago, Chile.
• In August 2018, she placed 7th in the normal category (without chair) at the international tournament in Okinawa, Japan.
• In November 2018 he played in the WKF (Word Karate Federation) World Cup in Madrid, Spain, in the wheelchair category and won the title of 6th best in the world in that category.
• December 21, 2018. Through the invitation of the Sensei FlavioVicente of Souza of the Okinawa Shorin-Ryu karate-Do Jyureikan Association and also JCI Brasil Japan, I was invited to participate in the welcome dinner for Hollywood actor and martial artist Shin Koyamada who worked on the film “The Last Samurai” with Tom Cruise.

Note: Koyamada is the karate ambassador at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Jonas has a Youtube channel.

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