Hello everyone, My name is Joe and I am the 2021 USYD Kendo Club President. I will be leading this year’s Executive team of Kyte, Brinton, Aji, Suzie, Makoto, and Tom! I hope to see many new faces at training this year, and more of those old faces when compared to last year (Here is […]
2020 COVID Safe Internal Grading
Can a global pandemic stop us from progressing in our Kendo journey, halting the identification and representation of the skill of our talented beginner cohort? NO WAY! Read on as we participated in our very own COVID safe internal grading. Given the very really risk of the Coronavirus, our parent body NSWKA, who would have […]
2020 Commercial update #2
Feeling the Aussie heat? Buy and wear our new breathable, cool and comfortable USYD Kendo Club T-shirts! Available in both white and Navy blue. See us sporting our new logo on the front, and our club mantra, Mushin on the back. For those of you who do not know, Mushin stands for peace of mind, […]
2020 Commercial update #1
We have water bottles! Thank you very much to Samantha Zhong for designing these wonderful navy-blue thermos water bottles for our club. They are the perfect vessel for housing a warm drink to warm us up during those cold winter trainings, as well as being the perfect water bottle during summer keeping our drinks cold. […]
2020 beginners’ BBQ
It is Week 3 at the University of Sydney, beginner courses have started, and new people are still being accepted! With orientation beginner’s rush over, and things settling down, we had our annual beginners’ welcome barbeque. The food was smoking. The games were intense. The drinks ice cold. Here is a collection of photos from […]
First pub night of 2020!!!
On Friday the 31st of January 2020, we here at USYD kendo club had our first monthly pub night. A proper way to start the new year, and the new decade, we enjoyed a few ice-cold beers together. Apart from being an enjoyable night to end a tough training (my gosh it was so hot […]
30th November Grading 2019
On Saturday the 30th of November, 20+ members from USYD kendo club attended their NSWKA kendo grading at Lidcombe. Everyone trained extra hard to attain their respective grades, and those who passed can hold much pride and confidence in their current Kendo. Keep up the good work! We had many people grading, ranging from those […]