Waikato Kendo Club

First of all, welcome to the new beginners just joined us this term. I sincerely hope that you will find Kendo is enjoyable and make it your life companion. All WKC members are welcome to post comment on this blog. If you are interested to be a co-author of this blog, please let me know. Also, please let me know if you already have a blog . Regarding the training yesterday, fews points come to my mind: 1. I found the the new training programme organised by Marleen is beneficial and enjoyable. Having Kakari-geigo between ji-geiko is helpful to remain our focus and physical flexibility. This is specially good for senior members. However, it is also beneficial for those who just put on bogu. Although you might feel it is tough, it will definately speed up your Kendo growth. 2. For those who have passed 7th Kyu, I think it is important that you can have your own bogu as soon as possible. Bogu is essential to your next level of Kendo learning and training. There is also an important issu...

The idea of sharing the training reflection via our club's blog came to my mind after training yesterday at Fairfield Intermediate school. Hope the members attended the training will support the idea. There are at least three ways to share our ideas. One is to set set up your own Kendo training blog and let me know the URL. I will add it to here. The second one is that you can just post a comment here. This should be the easiest way to do. Or, you can apply an account here and I will make as a co-auther for this blog. OK. Starts from me .... 1. I felt very good that many new faces turned up for the training. It makes the training more enjoyable. It also reminds that I should encourage members who has put on bogu to participate the Thursday training and learn to be our club's "senior" members. 2. I was encouraged by Leo's spirit at the end of the training. I was tired already. But Leo's spirit encourages me to try harder and use my last breath. This really made...

Dear All,   Our Term 3 beginner class will start from next Tuesday 18 July .   I hope to remind you that you are welcom to attend the beginner class again to review your knowledge about Kendo kihon. The current members do NOT need to pay any extra fee.   If you have missed out some lessons from the previous beginner class, now is a good time to come back for training and refine your skills.   The training time for "seniors" (for most of you) will be back to 7 ~ 9pm from next week.   If you know anyone might be interested to start Kendo or pick up shinai, please pass our beginner class information to them or ask them contact me.   Kind regards, Sam     Sam Tsai Waikato Kendo Club  

Dear All, Remember I wrote an article about Walter's 2nd Dan is our club's 17th Dan? Now I would like to share one more Dan with you. Xu Hua is one of our members who gratuated and went back to his hometown in China in last year. There was no dojo in his hometown at that time. However, it is so good to know that he could finally continue his Kendo training the beginning this year and pass his Sho-Dan grading in the 1st International Kendo Federation (IKF) Dan Examination in Shanghai few days ago. Here are some of his photos taken at that day: http://picasaweb.google.com/waikatokendo/XuHua Join Xu Hua's Kendo talk at our forum: http://waikatokendo.org.nz/forum/viewtopic.php?t=115 Kind regards, Sam

Photo taken at the 13th WKC, Taipei, December 2006 Dear All, I would like congratulate our members: Ruby Huang, Walter McCahon, Marleen Charng, and Sam Tsai who are selected to be a part of the NZ Team for the 13th World Kendo Championship in Taiwan the end of this year. It is a great honour to be part of the team and we will try our best to train hard and get ourselves prepared before the great event. I sincerely hope that we can have more people from Waikato in the future. So, train hard and commit yourself from now one! For further information, please visit NZKF News page: http://www.kendo.org.nz/resources/13WKC/NZTeamAnnounced.html Kind regards, Sam Ps. I feel strange that I just congratulated myslef. However, I don't have choice. I am the one received the mail. :)

The Waikato Kendo Club (WKC) is a university-based club. It was established by Sam Tsai and Marleen Charng, a young Taiwanese couple, in March 1999. The Club started with one member and has rapidly developed into the biggest New Zealand Kendo Club after merely five years. The majority of WKC members are university students. Now the club has about fifty members, from age seven to sixty, with various cultural backgrounds. Significantly, it is the only Kendo club being run by new immigrants in New Zealand so far. Marleen is also selected to be the first Asian staffs members of the New Zealand Kendo Federation . Although the WKC is a fairly young club, it has developed well in both its kendo strength and its club organisation. In 2002, the Waikato Kendo Club represented the NZKF participating in the Second Asian (Regional) Invitational Kendo Tournament, in Hong Kong . Eventually, this New Zealand team brought back a bronze medal by competing with sixteen male teams and eight female t...

Waikato Kendo Club adopts The concept of Kendo (All Japan Kendo Federation, 1975) as its basic philosophy of conducting Kendo training. The Concept of Kendo The concept of Kendo is to discipline the human character through the application of the principles of the Katana (sword). The Purpose of Practicing Kendo The purpose of practicing Kendo is: To mold the mind and body, To cultivate a vigorous spirit, And through correct and rigid training, To strive for improvement in the art of Kendo, To hold in esteem human courtesy and honor, To associate with others with sincerity, And to forever pursue the cultivation of oneself. This will make one be able: To love his/her country and society, To contribute to the development of culture And to promote peace and prosperity among all peoples. ( The Concept of Kendo was established by All Japan Kendo Federation in 1975 .)