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Kishikawa Sensei visits USYD Kendo Club

Posted on May 12, 2017 by Tomo in Uncategorized

Over a period of three weeks surrounding the Easter break last month, we were extremely blessed to have the presence of Roberto Kishikawa Sensei, Kendo Kyoshi 8th Dan from Hong Kong, visit our club. Kishikawa Sensei has left numerous achievements in the country of Brazil and continues to spread his influence across the world. Currently he guides the Hong Kong Team as […]

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Congratulations Fujisawa Sensei – Kendo 5th Dan

Posted on May 3, 2017 by Tomo in Uncategorized

The 42nd Australian Kendo Championships was held in Canberra over the 15-16th of April (Easter Weekend). Following this was the Australian Kendo Gradings – where our Fujisawa Sensei had challenged the grade of 5th dan. We are extremely delighted to announce that he has successfully achieved his 5th dan grade!  Kendo grades get exponentially more […]

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NSWKA grading – June ’16

Posted on June 27, 2016 by Tomo in Uncategorized

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 […]

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Late night strange activity? Kendo Kata.

Posted on June 23, 2016 by Tomo in Uncategorized

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 […]

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May Pub night – pre exams preparations!

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Tomo in Uncategorized

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 […]

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Welcome beginner party 140+ attendants!

Posted on May 6, 2016 by Tomo in Uncategorized

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 […]

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Hearing the new generation – opinions!

Posted on April 28, 2016 by Tomo in Uncategorized

  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 […]

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Kelvin’s team NSW wins nationals

Posted on April 1, 2016 by Tomo in Uncategorized

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 […]

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Happy Long Weekend Pub Night!

Posted on March 29, 2016 by Tomo in Uncategorized

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 😀                            

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UTS Shield competition results

Posted on March 18, 2016 by Tomo in Uncategorized

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 […]

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