Author: Joe Semmler

Canberra Nara Candle Festival This year the candle festival is on Saturday 18th September at Canberra-Nara park (behind the Hyatt hotel). Our demo will be at 3.45pm this year. For more information on the festival. The Russians: visit from Vitali, Sergy and Sergy of the Primorsky Kendo Federation Our ‘brothers’ arrived on Friday 3 rd…

NSW Open and ANUKC Christmas Party ANU members enjoyed a relaxed BBQ and Greg’s, after unremarkable results at the NSW State Championships. Nara-Candle Candle Festival The Candle Festival was held Saturday 26th September from 3pm-9pm at Nara Park (at the back of the Hyatt Hotel). After the Jodo and Iaido demonstrations, the ANU Kendo Club…

Kendo Christmas party, Saturday December 13 2008 Held at Joe’s, the party again featured great food and great entertainment. Much fun was had with the simplest of items: a bokkuto, a tyre, and a rather short-lived shinai, the kensen of which was last seen soaring gracefully over Joe’s roof. Various competitions ensued – The Most…

ANU Open Day Our stall again attracted many students – thanks to Bek, Steve and Garath, and Darren, Bek and Brendan for demonstrating, MC’d by Martino.   Squad training Phil Baker, Martino Ellero, and Sharyn Wragg drove to Melbourne to attend another challenging and inspiring squad training weekend, held at the Budokan on December 8-9.…

Kounoike (Nara) Sensei visit 19-24 October By Darren Boyd On the Thursday morning Joe, Phil and I drove the ANU Kendo bus (a hired Tarago) up to Sydney to pick up Matsuda-sensei and Matsumoto-sensei who had come from the Kounoike dojo in Nara (Canberra’s sister city). We drove the sensei to Sydney Harbour Bridge to…

End-of-Year festivities Darren’s bucks party started with a bang with a balloon-popping free-for-all jekeiko, won by Martino. The afternoon followed with go-carting, BBQ, Civic pub, beer, Turkish banquets, beer, back to Civic pub for more beer; and concluded at the casino, with beer. A similar pattern resulted after the wedding, except that Agent Hill attracted…

2004 IKF Shimpan Seminar – Hong Kong Each year a shimpan seminar each is held in the Asian Zone conducted by the IKF. These seminars are intended to develop the level of judging of the senior members of within this zone. The seminars are primarily aimed at kendo players ranked 5 Dan and above, although…