Saskatoon Grading: Written Exam Available
Posted January 29, 2012
The written exam is now available for the Saskatoon Grading on March 4. You can find the exam here. Send your completed examinations by email to kendonationalwrittenexam@kendo-canada.com. The deadline for both registration and exam submission is February 26th.
23rd Annual Saskatoon Seminar
Posted October 11, 2011
Saskatoon Kendo Club is pleased to announce our annual seminar will be held March 2-4, 2012. Head instructor this year is Daisuke Hayashi. Hayashi-sensei is head instructor at UVic kendo club and also the womens' coach for Team Canada 2012. Assisting Hayashi-sensei will be Takashi Yamada and Akiko Fukushima. The usual tournament, party and grading up to sandan will be held in addition to seminar sessions with our guest sensei. See the SKC website for more details.
Team Canada Sponsors
Posted August 28, 2011
Team Canada is pleased to announce the return of National Bank and Hitachi Canada Ltd. as team sponsors. See the Team Canada page for more details.
Team Canada Open Practices
Posted August 28, 2011
There will be a special women's practice held on Sept 10 in conjunction with the women's team training camp in Steveston. There will be an open practice with the men's team held on Sept 11 in conjunction with the Montreal Taikai. See the Team Canada page for more details.
SFU and UBC Anniversary Seminar
Posted July 10, 2011
To celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Simon Fraser University Kendo Club and the 30th Anniversary of the University of British Columbia Kendo Club, we would like to invite your club to a kendo seminar at Simon Fraser University.
Date and Time:
Saturday, September 3, 10am - 4pm
Sunday, September 4, 10am - 1pm
Dinner Saturday night
Location: West Gym, Simon Fraser University (Refer to the map on the "Practice" tab here )
Cost:
Seminar: $20 which includes bento lunch for Saturday
Dinner: $25 per person
Hotel: Rooms are available for $99 per night. Please contact Ling Tong.
Special Guest: Professor Kunio Hayashi Sensei, 8th Dan Hanshi, Faculty of Sports - Chukyo University, Japan
RSVP BY FRIDAY, AUGUST 26TH to David Chiu. Please include club name, number of seminar attendees and number of banquet attendees.
Hiro Okusa, Head Instructor, SFU Kendo Club
David Harding, Head Instructor, UBC Kendo Club
17th National Championships Results
Posted July 10, 2011
Junior Division
1st place - Alex Lin, Renbu
2nd place - Louis Oka, Tozenji
3rd place - Christopher Lam, Steveston; Eushin Lee, Renbu
Women's Division
1st place - Akiko Fukushima, Vancouver
2nd place - Maya Taguchi, Renfrew
3rd place - Takako Matisz, Saskatoon; Yuki Hayashi, Renbu
Mudansha Men
1st place - Yuta Yamada, Renbu
2nd place - Ryan Lee, Etobicoke
3rd place - Mathew Pomeroy, UVic; Ta Shan Yao, Steveston
Yudansha Men
1st place - Shigemitsu Kamata, Etobicoke
2nd place - Suguru Asaoka, Youshinkan
3rd place - Koichi Miyamoto, Toronto; Dean Ara, Renbu
Team
1st place - Etobicoke
2nd place - Jung Ko
3rd place - JCCC; Renfrew
Fighting Spirit
Eushin Lee, Renbu; Tim Gregersen, Etobicoke
Loic D'Orangeville, McGill; Takako Matisz, Saskatoon
UVIC Kendo Club Ted Davis Memorial Seminar
Posted July 19, 2011
The University of Victoria Kendo Club will host the Ted Davis Memorial Seminar on September 17-18, 2011.
We are very pleased to have Masayuki Hamaguchi Sensei, kendo kyoshi 8th dan, associate professor at the Osaka Prefecture University in Liberal Arts and Sciences with us to lead this seminar.
Marcell Stoer
UVIC Kendo Club
Saskatoon Kendo Club 30th Anniversary
Posted July 10, 2011
The Saskatoon Kendo Club will be celebrating its 30th anniversary this fall. In honour of this event we are pleased to announce that we will be holding a seminar with Hayashi Kunio Sensei.
Hayashi-sensei is hanshi hachidan, and a professor in the Department of Sport Science at Chukyo University in Nagoya. He is a permanent director of ZNKR. He has great experience coaching at very high levels including Japan's under 25 kendo team and the Japanese women's team.
The seminar will be held September 17-18 in Saskatoon, SK, Canada. It will include two 3-hour training sessions each day plus a dinner and party on Saturday night. Exact schedule, hotel and venue details will be announced at a later date.
We invite all friends of Saskatoon Kendo Club to join us in celebrating our anniversary, and to take the opportunity to train with one of the world's great kendo instructors.
Neil Gendzwill
Saskatoon Kendo Club
National Championships News Page
Updated May 12, 2011
A new website has been created to publish the latest news on the upcoming national championships in Burnaby. Check out all the details. Be aware of the hotel deadline, coming up May 16, and the registration deadline, May 31.
Kendo Legend Masashi Chiba Leads International Kendo Seminar in Toronto
Posted May 4, 2011
The Toronto Kendo Club will be hosting an International Kendo seminar on July 30 and 31 2011 at the University of Toronto Mississauga campus to celebrate its 30th anniversary. The seminar will be led by three-time All Japan champion and 8th dan sensei Masashi Chiba. In addition, there will be special tachiai demonstration matches between 7 and 8 Dan sensei from around the world.
Please mark July 30 and 31 in your calendar to join us for this special event. Details on the schedule of events and registration will follow. If you have any questions, please contact us by e-mail or visit our website.
The Toronto Kendo Club's 30th anniversary International Kendo Seminar has been generously supported by Watarai Company Ltd. and the Ontario Trillium Foundation. The Ontario Trillium Foundation is an agency of the Government of Ontario.
Paul Nakamura
Toronto Kendo Club
Team Canada Facebook Fan Page
Posted April 30, 2011
For more details on the new Facebook fan page, check out the team news
17th Canadian National Kendo Championships
Posted April 26, 2011
On behalf of the Canadian Kendo Federation, I would like to invite you to join us in Burnaby BC for the 17th Canadian National Kendo Championships. This year is very special as the CKF is recognizing 100 Years of Kendo in Canada during the championships. We are planning special events and mementos to commemorate this historical milestone. We look forward to seeing you this summer.
David Chiu
Chairman, National Championships Organizing Committee
Team Canada News
Posted March 27, 2011
A new page has been created just for team news. Check it out here
Saskatoon Seminar
Posted February 28, 2011
We had another great weekend of kendo in Saskatoon Feb 25-27. Ray Murao from Steveston Kendo Club and Bryan Asa from JCCC returned to help all the prairie clubs improve their kendo. About 65 people enjoyed the weekend, which included several seminar sessions, a small tournament, a grading and a good deal of socializing. Thanks to Murao-sensei and Asa-sensei for all their great advice and friendship, and to Bozzer-sensei, Yamashita-sensei, Namba-sensei and Moses-sensei for bringing their clubs out to participate. See you next year!
Kendo Section
Posted December 30, 2010
Hello and welcome to the Kendo section of the CKF website. We appreciate any contributions that our members would care to make. The editor of this section is Neil Gendzwill. Please send notices of upcoming events or articles of interest to Neil
FIK Board of Directors Meeting
Posted December 30, 2010
The International Kendo Federation Board of Directors held their Fiscal Year 2012 meeting and approved, among other things, the regulations for the upcoming world championships to be held in Italy, May 25-27, 2012. Details here
Kendo Referee Handbook
The CKF wishes to thank Professor B. T. Wakabayashi for translating the All Japan Kendo Federation publication "Kendo shiai/shinpan un'ei y?ry? no tebiki" (A Guide for Tournament Refereeing in Kendo) into English. We hope that this guide will help you to develop your Kendo refereeing skills. .
Click here for the handbook (PDF format)
Here is another translation by Robert Stroud (pdf)
Murayama Seminar - Thank You Letter
Posted August 7, 2010
Dear Kendo Friends,
On behalf of all members of the Etobicoke Olympium Kendo\Iaido Club, we wish to extend our sincere gratitude for your generous donation in support of our kendo seminar with Murayama sensei held August 7, 2010. We are most appreciative of your participation and contribution to this our 4th invitation of a sensei from the Tokyo Police. With your support, we can again look forward to next year and another opportunity for instruction and keiko together with our kendo community. Once again, thank you and all members who made this event a success. Sincerely,
Etobicoke Olympium Kendo\Iaido Club