Pat McKay

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Pat McKay in August 1990

Patrick James McKay (born May 29, 1957 in Kilmarnock , Scotland ) is a Scottish karateka . He became 5-time karate world champion at WUKO , 4-time European champion at EKU and 13-time Scottish master of his discipline. He is the holder of the 6th Dan Shuko-Kai.

Pat McKay at the Randori .

Career

Pat McKay started karate training in Glasgow in 1972 . He learned the Shuko-Kai style from Kimura and Tani, the two chief instructors of the Shuko-Kai, who were at the time in Scotland with Thommy Morris. In 1978 he started for the first time at a European Championship in Geneva . Since he only had the 4th kyū , he was beaten hopelessly. In 1980 he finished 7th with the team from Great Britain at the World Championships in Madrid . Achilles tendon surgery forced him to stop exercising in 1981. The high point of his career was between 1982 and 1987. Here he dominated the weight class up to 80 kg. He was particularly successful in 1984 . In the same year he became world champion with the team from Great Britain and European champion with the team from Scotland. From 1984 he was tutored by the two-time European champion David Coulter. He later trained under professional conditions either alone or with training partners such as Tommy Burns or Geoff Thompson.

To prepare for World or European Championships, Pat McKay trained up to five hours a day. In order to cope with this workload, he gave up his job as a mechanic for pressure instruments on an oil rig and concentrated exclusively on karate. After his active career, he also came to Ravensburg temporarily , where he trained with Toni Dietl ( World Games winner 1989) and Günter Mohr (Vice World Champion in 1977). Various karate educational films were also made at this time. As a result, he has become known primarily in southern Germany . He was the first to popularize a flexible karate style based on the Shobu-Sanbon (fight for 6 half points) in Germany. Although mutual respect was a matter of course for him, his modern karate style was partially rejected by traditional karatekas. Pat McKay also changed the Kiai and brought the Uschaa to Germany. In 2016, he passed his 6th Dan in front of an examination committee chaired by Toni Dietl .

Today Pat McKay lives as a civil engineer in Bucharest and Warsaw .

Sporting successes

WUKO World Championships

  • WUKO World Championship 1982 in Taipei
    • 1st place Kumite single up to 80 kg ( Light Heavyweight )
    • 1st place Kumite team
  • WUKO World Championship 1984 in Maastricht
    • 1st place Kumite single up to 80 kg ( Light Heavyweight )
    • 1st place Kumite team with the Great Britain team
  • 1986 WUKO World Championship in Sydney
    • 2nd place Kumite single up to 80 kg ( Light Heavyweight )
    • 1st place Kumite team

EKU European Championships

  • EKU European Championship 1983 in Madrid
  • EKU European Championship 1984 in Paris
    • 1st place Kumite team with the Scotland team
  • EKU European Championship 1987 in Glasgow
    • 1st place Kumite single up to 80 kg ( Light Heavyweight )
    • 1st place Kumite team with the Scotland team

State championships

Pat McKay is 13 times Scottish champion.

literature

  • Dierk Hickmann: Interview with Pat McKay . In: German Karate Association (Hrsg.): Karatemagazin . 5/87 (September / October 1987). Makossa Druck- und Marketing GmbH, Gelsenkirchen 1987, p. 7th f . ( Online [PDF; accessed April 30, 2011]).

DVD

Pat McKay has also worked on various karate educational films.

  • DVD Karate Fighting Techniques by G. Mohr and Pat McKay

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lehrgang-koshinkan-termine2011  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 6, 2013@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.koshinkan.de  
  2. ↑ Pat-McKay-chronik-karate-1987-DKV-Magazin-Page-8 ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 7, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chronik-karate.de
  3. ↑ .chronik-karate / 1987_05_DKV-Magazin. ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 6, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chronik-karate.de
  4. ↑ http://www.karaterec.com/de/wettkampfe/weltmeisterschaft-senioren-1984/ accessed September 6, 2013
  5. ↑ google.com/newspapers.Retrieved September 6, 2013
  6. ↑ 1987-dkv-chronik-karatePage-7 ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 9, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chronik-karate.de
  7. ^ G. Mohr and Pat McKay, accessed September 6, 2013
  8. ↑ amazon.Karate educational film G. Mohr and Pat Mckay | Retrieved September 6, 2013
  9. ↑ karate-kumite Pat McKay, accessed September 6, 2013
  10. ^ Wise-words-from-mckay accessed September 7, 2013
  11. ↑ world championship-seniors-1982 / accessed September 7, 2013
  12. ↑ karaterec.de/catalocyear=1982 national team, accessed September 6, 2013
  13. ↑ Weltmeister-senioren-1984-Pat-McKay Retrieved September 6, 2013
  14. ↑ World Championship-Senioren-1984-Team-GB accessed September 7, 2013
  15. ↑ Vizeweltmeister-1986-world-championship-1986 / accessed September 6, 2013
  16. ↑ World Champion Team GB-1986, accessed September 6, 2013
  17. ↑ European-Championship-of-Seniors-1983-Team-GB. Accessed September 7, 2013
  18. ↑ European-Championship-Senior-1984-Team-Scotland accessed September 7, 2013
  19. ^ European-championships-1987, accessed September 7, 2013
  20. ^ European-championships-1987-Team-Scotland, accessed September 7, 2013
  21. ↑ kamikaze DVD karate fighting techniques. Retrieved September 6, 2013
personal data
SURNAME McKay, Pat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McKay, Patrick James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish karateka, world, European champion
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Kilmarnock , Scotland