Open for new members 25th July As Semester 2 will begin soon, we are welcoming new and interested people to join our Kendo club! Anybody who is keen to learn more about martial arts is welcome to come and trial a few lessons. There are plenty of things you can get from our club – […]
We visited the Crown Hotel last friday for our June pub night after this semester exams and grading. Congratulations to our club members who went to and got good result in the grading at the end of June! And thanks everyone for coming and hope you did well in your exams! Some pictures to look back at […]
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 😀