2018 INVITATION TO ALL AKR MEMBERS To all club representatives, Mumeishi Kendo Club Australia Inc. will be hosting our annual Mumeishi 3’s Terry Holt Memorial Championship and Women’s Individual Taikai on Saturday 8th December 2018 TAIKAI DETAILS Saturday 8th December Venue: KENSHIKAN DOJO, 91 ROSSLYN STREET, WEST MELBOURNE. Registration starting from 12:00pm at the…
Under 16s and under 12s competitions Sunday 2nd December, Kenshikan Melbourne, 91-99 Rosslyn St, West Melbourne 12.30 registration, 1.00pm opening ceremony, 4.30pm medals presentation (time subject to change) Events: Kihon competition (kirikaeshi and uchikomigeiko) 4th kyu to 6th kyu and ungraded Shiai two divisions in each age group: 1st kyu – 3rd kyu and 4th…
Ballarat Kendo Club Inc will be again hosting its Goldfields Kendo Taikai on Saturday, 10th November and would like to invite all AKR members to participate in this event. It will be held in the main gymnasium at the Eastwood Leisure Complex, Eastwood Street, Ballarat. The format of the competition is a gender inclusive individual knock-out, with the winner…
The VKR will be hosting a Kendo Seminar on 24-25 February 2018, overseen by the following visiting instructors from Nippon Sports Science University: Makoto Yagisawa Sensei: 8-dan, kyoshi Nobuaki Furusawa Sensei: 6-dan, renshi Chikano Shinzato Sensei: 6-dan, renshi This will be held over two full days at Monash Sports Games Hall, Monash University…
In 2017, the Australian University Games returned to The Gold Coast for the sixth time. Victorian kendo players from University of Melbourne, Monash University, and RMIT participated in the Australian University Games Kendo event. The RMIT Kyu team placed third while Monash University Kyu team placed second in the team events! Congratulations to all involved ! …
2017 Interhigh Gasshuku Report Written by Ben Sheppard Fifteen young people from four different high schools, including one student from Tasmania, made this year’s gasshuku a great success. Still the majority of students were from BSCKC, with one from Parade College, two from Mt Clear and one from Tasmania. Five of the fifteen were girls and…
Men Kyu Individuals 1st: B Le (MUKEN) 2nd: J O’Neill (Tora Dojo) 3rd: N Kong (MUKEN) 3rd: ZS Wang (MON) Women Kyu Individuals 1st: N Lieu (MUKEN) 2nd: X Liu (MUKEN) 3rd: J Gray (Tora Dojo) 3rd: R Watanabe (MUKEN) Men Dan Individuals 1st: KY Jeong (MUKEN) 2nd: R T’en (MUKEN) 3rd: T Reeve (Mumeishi) 3rd: N…