Kendo club walks into a bar… End of the year means exams, and post-exams celebrations! Our annual pub night was held last Friday night! Thanks to the senior members who joined in to celebrate our students end-of-exams! For those who have not yet finished best of luck and join us next month for our […]
The end of another year… and welcoming a new one! The University of Sydney Kendo Club’s Annual General Meeting was held on the 25th of October. To ensure a continued success in running this club it is necessary to gather formally and reflect on our previous 12 months. We thank all club members for attending our […]
On Friday October 23rd we had our monthly pub night at the off-Broadway Hotel. This month we are going to send off the current executive teams and welcome the upcoming execs, so we chose the Friday before AGM, which will be held on 25th of this month, to set up an event in order to […]
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 […]
On Friday October 2nd we had our monthly pub night at the Royal Pub after training. In order to celebrate for the success of our Unigames competitors this year, the club had decided to postponed the September Pub Night to the first Friday of October as this year’s Unigames was held on the weekend 26th […]
On the weekend of September (26th and 27th), the USYD Kendo club sent a group of 14 competitors to the Gold Coast to participate in the 2015 Unigames competition. This annual competition is huge: Universities from all around Australia send their best uni students to fight and represent them. This year, the USYD Kendo club […]
USYD Kendo held this year’s first BBQ party on Sunday, 13 September after training in order to celebrate our club’s success in Hanrimwon competition, to welcome our new members, and to send off the Unigames competitors. We used the BBQ area near Bosch lecture theatre. It worked by a “potluck” system.
The Hanrimwon 2015 Korean Kumdo Championship was held on Saturday 5th September 2015 at Sydney University Cumberland Campus. Congratulations on the excellent performance of all our members in the competition and on defending the champion team title! No less importantly, thank you so much to USYD Kendo members, both senior and junior, for helping the competition […]
Thank you for everyone who attended this month’s Pub Night! To mix things up a little, this month we journeyed to the Off-Broadway Hotel. Nothing beats celebrating another month gone with USYD Kendo mates at the pub! We should really stop talking only about Kendo…
On the 15th of August 2015 our club held our first Kendo Seminar for our members. A great thank you to Takayama Sensei and Fujisawa Sensei for spending the entire day explaining a wide range of Kendo knowledge. From the history and origins of Kendo, yukodatotsu (effective hitting), to shinpan (judging) practice, and finally to […]