On the 13th of August, 2016, our club held a Shinpan seminar. We need to appreciate the hard work from two senseis as they did so much preparation and spent the entire day explaining Kendo knowledge and theory. In the seminar, we start from Kendo Kihon (basic hit use Shinai or Bokken). After that, Sensei […]
Last Saturday, 13th of August, we held a party for our beginners members! (They joined in our club in Semester 1, 2016.) After nearly half a year Kendo training, they will receive their Bogu and join senior training soon. To celebrating their graduation from junior Kendo learning, we had a dinner together at Kura and […]
Hi everybody! This is the part 2 of our interviews for O-week beginners — They enjoy our club at the beginning of last semester, 2016. And they will get their Bogu (Kendo training armour) soon. Today, we invited Liam and Samantha to talk about their feeling after a half year Kendo training. Say […]
As the new semester has just begun, we held our pub night as usual to welcome all semester 2 beginners at the Crown Pub. We had a wonderful night together and I just want to use this chance to welcome all beginners join in our big Kendo family! We welcome the back of […]
As we are starting semester 2,our O-week beginners that started their Kendo journey in semester 1 must have some outcomes from their semester long training. Today, we ask some questions to Jeffery and Catherine and let them to share some Kendo experiences with us. So….Let’s start! Question 1: Can you tell me something about yourself? Catherine: Hi, my […]
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 […]