6 referees were appointed for each shiaijo (A & B) which made it possible to switch on a regular base. As the matches went on, soon it became as hot inside the hall, as it was outside …

The morning competition ended at 13:00 and we could restart at 14:30 with the finals and Embu taikai for 5 dan. We did not have enough 6th Dan and up referees, that is why an alternative competition had been worked out : 10 competitors (2 from each division) were invited to watch the Embu of the 8x 5th Dan and to write down 3 numbers in order of preference. This allowed us to make a final result. Starting from next year it is the plan to organise a regular 5th Dan competition as well.

After this we had some 14 examination candidates, an embu of the 6th & 7th dan and the awards ceremony.

Thank you to the organisers who did so well, to the referees who did a nice job, and to all the competitors who gave their best.

P.Demuynck

Three individual categories (Junior, Ladies & Men) as well as a tournament is organized in a one day long event.

This year, 10 juniors, 13 ladies, 81 men &  17 teams took part.

Results:

2012 Champion at Juniors: Sara VAN LAECKEN (Kenseikan)

2012 Champion at Ladies: Annick POLLET (Isshin Dotai)

2012 Champion at Men: Stefan VAN BOVEN (Seishinkan)

2012 Team Champion: KOJIKA

Complete results:

result BKC Men 2012    result BKC Ladies 2012   result BKC Junior 2012   result BKC Team 2012   pool ladies junior BKC 2012  pool men BKC 2012

The Belgian delegation is composed of 7 Men & 7 Ladies assisted by their Delegation leader, coach & manager.

Delegation Leader:  Daniel Delepiere (ABKF President)

Coach: Nobuo Hirakawa & Serge Hendrickx

Manager: Marc Nameche

Men team: Carroll Tange, Wesley Haeke, Peter D’Hont, Stefan Van Boven, Geert Van Dort, Sean Van Laecken & Celest Vinck

Ladies Team: Lisa Van Laecken, Maaike Steyaert, Arsenia Corcoba, Rachel Buysse, Ans Van Eupen, Annick Pollet & Alexandra Snoy

On February 11th, these members had some shiaigeiko & commun training with the members of Düsseldorf Kendo Club and advice from Yasue sensei, “local” 8th Dan and Yukio Shimizu, 7th dan from Köln Kendo Club. Next trainingsessions will be the seminar under the guidance of Hirakawa sensei from Feb 20th to 26st. Other shiaigeiko are also planned with our friends from The Netherlands in April as well as the last seminar before the WKC from May 14th until departure…

Jodo practitionners had a very “basic” seminar with Nishiumi sensei, Kyoshi 8th dan, who stressed the importance of kihon and zanshin in daily practice.

Iaido practitionners got “serious” info in how to get more from iaido than executing physical movements by Kobayashi, Hanshi 8th dan & Uehara sensei, Kyoshi 7th dan.

Kendo practitionners had a seminar which made it possible to feel the importance of “seme” and “timing”. Also Nihon Kendo Kata demonstration was shown by Tahara and Shinotsuka sensei, Hanshi 8th dan. And the traditional kendo competitions were held on the last day of the event for Ladies individual, Team of 3 players & the “open” individuals…

Results of the competitions:

Ladies:

Team:

Open:

Fighting Spirit prices were handed out to:

Pollet A. (Belgium) – Dutescu M. (Romania) – Van Laecken S. (Belgium) – Bensaid A. (Belgium

Special ANA-ticket to Japan went this year to:

Wesley Haeke (Belgium)

Results for the ‘Renshi’ exams Kendo/Jodo in Japan organized by the same Federation, our friends Carroll Tange (7th danKendo) and Naoko Hamada (6th dan Kendo) from Meibukan dojo in Jette and Albert Van den Broeck from Taikikai dojo in Sint Pieters Woluwe passed also their test successfully last November .

Congratulations to all three members of our Federation!

This year, we had the BKKC held in Grugge on Saturday 26th of November. The local dojo Isshin Dotai was celebrating its 20th anniversary and invited all Belgian beginner kenshi to join them for a long but wonderful journey!

About 120 participants, 20 referees, 10 motodachi and many audience did their best.

Results in all categories are following:

Category A (Technic 5 to 9):

1st Gallant – Kojika, 2nd Haeke – Kojika, 3rd De Blonde & Decottignies – Butokukan

Category B (Technic 10 to 13):

1st Blansaer – Kojika, 2nd De Blander – Kenseikan, 3rd Carlier & Van Hoorbeke- Kojika

Category C (Technic 14 to 17):

1st De Byser – Kojika, 2nd Vanden Dunghen – Butokukan, 3rd De Wilde – Kojika & Dens – Kendo Club Charleroi

Category D (Technic 18 up):

1st Nunn – Isshin Dotai, 2nd Lossieaux – Yu-Hi, 3rd Gallant – Kendo Iaido Gent & Hadermann – Seishinkan

Category E (Shiai junior up to 13):

1st Van Laecken, 2nd Roubedou – Kojika, 3rd De Tavernier – Kojika & Takagi – Wakakoma Kenshi Kai

Category F (Shiai junior 14 to 17) :

1st D’Hont – Kojika, 2nd Cox – Seishinkan, 3rd De Neef – Kenseikan & Leeuws – Kenhachi

Category G (Shiai – Men 18+):

1st Soberon – Kojika, 2nd de Gresem – Isshin Dotai, 3rd Ben Mokkadem – Butokukan & Delaplace – Kendo Club Charleroi

Category W (Shiai – Ladies 18+):

1st Scheers – Meibukan, 2nd De Leenheer – Nobara, 3rd Van Steenberghe - Kenseikan & Moyson – Seishinkan

Team tournament (Shiai):

1st Kenseikan, 2nd Kojika, 3rd Butokukan & Seishinkan

Fighting Spirit prices (All categories):

Bierkens – Meishinkan, Boving – Meibukan, Himbrechts – Kendo Iaido Gent, Cox – Seishinkan, Windels – Kojika, Duriau – Meibukan Liège, Vandegaer – Kendo CLub Charleroi, Saelens – Kenseikan & Dobbelaere – Kenseikan

Thanks for this very nice seminar, Jean Pierre!