The 10th of October saw the 20th Dae Han Moo Do Kwan (DHMDK) tournament at the Burwood PCYC. Our USYD Kendo Club sent 25 of our members to compete for the top place.
This tournament is the first formal competition experience for our 3 junior members, Fiona, Sasha and Nathan. Congratulations! All of them have demonstrated awesome kendo fighting spirit in their own shiai.
Beginning early at 8:30 am, the competition began with Men’s Kyu Individuals division. Our competitors fought very hard to win the gold.Unluckily, Jordan and Victor didn’t make themselves through to the final ended with sharing equal 3rd. We will do better next year.
Men’s Kyu Individuals: 3rd place Jordan and Victor
In Women’s Kyu Individuals division, the finalists are the same as the ones in Australian University Games last month. Unluckily, Minty didn’t get a consecutive victory on Bernadette this time, however we’re always proud of your passion and strong fighting spirit in competition.
Women’s Kyu Individual: 2nd place Minty
In Women’s Dan Individuals division, Nobuko Fujito fought strong and winning 3rd place.
Women’s Dan Individuals: 3rd place Nobuko
That’s not all from our girls, our club sent two teams in the Women’s Open Team division, USYD1 formed by Nobuko, Eri and Mory won silver in the competition.
Women’s open team runner-up: USYD1 (Left to right: Mory, Nobuko and Eri)
The men’s side did not fall behind, Yoshito Takeuchi won the 2nd place and Kelvin shared equal 3rd in the competition.
Men’s Dan Individual: 2nd place Takeuchi,3rd place Kelvin
USYD Kyu team made improvement compared to the performances in the previous years. Two USYD teams met in the final, bringing home gold and silver medals. Good effort teams!
Kyu team runner-up: USYD2 (Left to right: Kenta, Ernani, Victor, Justin and Gilbert)
Kyu team chanmpion: USYD1 (Left to right: Takumi, Ben, Jordan, Junya and Yang)
The Dan team won the 3rd place in the competition.
USYD Dan team (Left to right: Walter, Bao, Tom, Kelvin and Takeuchi)
The competition was a long and tiring day and our results were superb – however there is still room for improvement. All club members set a great example for the up coming summer training – please use this comp for reflection and inspiration for the next few months!
Great appreciation to all the members who came and supported the club in the competition.