Over the 2025 Easter weekend (April 19-20), we sent 14 members of our club to Canberra to represent Team New South Wales at the 47th annual Australian Kendo Championships (AKC)!! Dan Members Kyte Gurner Alan Kishikawa Jordan Saito-Patch Kelvin Tran Kelly Kishikawa Gratia Nguyen Iris Somera Shannon Tong Samantha Zhong Kyu Members James Hu Waeylin […]
On Sunday 2nd March 2025, we had the lucky opportunity to participate in an internal club seminar about jodan no kamae, run by Matsumoto Daisuke Sensei (5th Dan) from Japan! The seminar focused on jodan no kamae, covering both how to use it, and strategies to counter jodan players. After a small opening ceremony and warmup, Matsumoto Sensei commenced […]
Welcome Week! From Wednesday 19th to Friday 21st February 2025, several members of our club volunteered their time to help represent the USYD Kendo Club at USYD’s Welcome Fest stalls! It was a very long and busy few days, with some amazing members even coming for all three days (absolute soldiers!), but everyone worked their […]
On Sunday the 2nd of February 2025, the USYD Kendo Club hosted its annual general meeting for the year of 2024. Each AGM, we take the opportunity to report on the highs and lows of the past year with our club members, review the club constitution and policies, and thank our head coach Takayama-sensei, our […]
On Sunday 10th and 24th our club hosted a small informal competition with several other clubs. Sunday the 24th saw the Dan players take the stage. Big thank you to all volunteers and Sensei who gave their time in helping this event! Big thank you to the participating clubs: DHMDK Reishinkan Seishinkan Western Sydney University […]
Last Sunday we saw ~30 of our club members attend the NSWKA Grading. On top of their university exams coming up, our members and students hustled to add one more test to level up on their Kendo! Congratulations to all who passed on their grades! We hope we can take on this momentum through to […]
On Saturday 5th And Sunday 6th of October, we had the annual NSWKA States Competition! This year we sent both Kyu and Dan members to both individuals and Teams and achieved some amazing results! Congratulations again to those who participated and A big thank you to the volunteers who helped throughout the competition! Results Individuals: […]
On the 16th August, we were visited by Australian Kendo representatives who presented to the club and Takayama Sensei a gift as a token of appreciation for the support during preparations for WKC. As a club, we would like to again thank and congratulate all the Australian Representatives and volunteers for this year’s WKC! The […]
Last Sunday we held an Internal Grading for members gunning for 6th Kyu to 3rd Kyu! This time we were joined by member of Takayama Sensei’s Kids Club and also members from our Mortdale branch Dojo @kenbukankendo! All in all it was a great turnout and success, with everyone passing! Thanks again to everyone who helped […]
Congratulations Again to Everyone who represented Australia at the World Kendo Championships earlier this month! For those who missed the event, from 4th – 7th July, 15 (7 men and 8 ladies) of Australia’s best competed on the world stage. As a club we are immensely proud that we were able to send 5 members […]