Thinking that exams were over….there was just one more – Kendo grading! Yesterday saw the first of the two Kendo gradings held in NSW for 2016. Whilst we have many goals and targets in Kendo, achieving higher grades is often a popular motivation for us. Though not the only measure, grades serves a great way for […]
Some beginners have been asking what is this strange thing that some of our seniors are doing after training… They are practicing Kendo Kata – fixed patterns that teach kendoka the basic elements of swordsmanship (cite – Wiki). With the NSW Kendo Grading fast approaching this is a key component for higher grades (1st kyu […]
After our Welcome Beginner party we followed it by visiting a new pub – the CROWN Hotel! Thanks everyone for coming once again and see pictures below 😀 For new place this month! the Crown! Wow! The food looks so tasty! It seems that Ernani say something very interesting, everybody pay attention to it…..especially Jordan […]
Breaking news! Our head coach Takayama sensei got 6th Dan in the last week in Japan. Let’s say congratulations to him! Kendo grading at such high level is very hard and with low passing rate. It is our proud to have such outstanding coach in our club and training with us. Sensei achieved this goal with […]
The 30th of April saw our Welcome Beginners Party! Big thanks to all of the attendees beginners, seniors and all friends who visited 😀 With a total of 140 tickets sold we had an excellent attendance and s blast of a night ! Over at the Arthouse Hotel we had a night full of […]
As many of our regular club members know our club is very fortunate to welcome a new batch of people into bogu training! It is a great opportunity to hear how they are finding the training. Both for our new members who are wondering what it will be like, and us oldies who often […]
Kelvin transcends to a national level – taking gold at the AKC! The 26-27th of March saw the Australian Kendo Championships – Australia’s largest scale Kendo competition, held at the Gold Coast this year. Our instructor Kelvin Tran was selected to represent NSW in both the dan individual and team events. He left our club […]
A picture is worth a million words! So a million pictures is worth…? Happy holidays to everyone – thanks for coming to the Pub night #2 of 2016! A great turn up on Easter Friday at the Royal 😀
The UTS Kendo Club held their annual competition last week on the 12th of March. Our keen members competed, some of them for the first time, and had a blast! Congratulations to all those that represented the USYD Kendo Club Fiona Roberts Kelvin Tran Nick Ioannou Kenta Kusakabe Harshinder Bhandari A special congratulations to […]
To celebrate our newest members and the beginning of semester we’ve already run a few social events. We train hard and we enjoy the time we share together very much as well! Some pictures of our new and old members – happy times =)