Every year the University of Valencia in Spain makes an effort to bring the head coach of the Waseda University in Tokyo (Yano-sensei) along with some members of the team. They all train with us during a long weekend and eventually join the 3-kenshi team competition on saturday. This time around Yano-sensei suffered a severe …
Read more »This weekend saw the biggest ever gathering of kendoka ever in Ireland 100 kendoka coming from clubs from Ireland, UK, Belgium, France, Poland, USA and Italy. The weekend began for almost everyone with a 7 hour seminar with Yanai Sensei 7th Dan on Friday morning. We began by going back to basics and learning how …
Read more »Chiba Masashi sensei, 2 times winner of the All Japan Championships, and kendo instructor for Keishicho, will be leading a Senior Grading Seminar later this year in the U.K. For more information including, an application form and links to videos, please visit: http://chiba.kenshi247.net/
Read more »“Mata ao!” This is what we hear from Iwami-soke at the end of every seminar. Last year in Finland was no exception. We’d pack our bokuto away, fold our kit up and ready ourselves for a final night of festivities at the hands of the Finns who must be amongst the maddest party animals in …
Read more »August 29th – 31st saw Cho Hyun Hong Sensei (5th Dan former Korean National Team member and teacher at Tora Dojo in London) run an intensive Kendo seminar in the Swedish town of Wasby. Broken down into numerous sessions spread over three days the seminar focussed on a number of areas: correct stretching and warm …
Read more »University of Mainz’s Mr Hyun against Sweden’s Henrik Johansson – Photo Courtesy of Caleb Crane @ simulacre.org Following a huge buildup and PR campaign the 1st Annual London Cup Kendo Tournament was a tremendous success. The Event was an open tournament to all grades and countries and included male and female individual divisions as well as …
Read more »The Irish International Goodwill Taikai is an annual event that started 8 years ago and has become more and more popular every year since then. For the first few years the event was combined with the Irish National Championships but it has recently got so popular (over 100 competitors this year) that the events have …
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