Category - EKF

Name: ABKF - Kendo National Team Training - Cancelled!!!
Start: 2026-11-14T09-09-00-00
End: 2026-11-14T12-12-00-00
Location: ULB - Building E2, Hall 2

ABKF • EKF • Kendo

EKC 2025 Rules and regulations

January 30, 2025

Please find here the rules and Regulations for the European Kendo Championships 2025Click to download:

33EKC-2025-RULES-Final

EKF • Iaido • Kendo

EKF organises examinations for 6th & 7th dan Kendo and Iaido – Frankfurt (Deu) & Budapest (Hun)

June 13, 2022

After a long break due to the COVID 19 pandemic, the European KendoFederation was again in capacity to organise for Kendo and Iaido thehigh-level grade examinations. For Kendo, the examinations gathered 86 candidates for 6th dan and 39candidates for 7th dan on the next day of the EKC in Frankfurt. Ourfederation was happy to see the results for its members by welcomingthree successful candidates: – Koenraad FRANCOIS (Seishinkan) – 6th dan – Simone FORESI (Yu-Hi) – 6th dan – Kensaku MAEMOTO (Wakakoma Kenshikai) – 6th dan And for Iaido, only two weeks later in...

ABKF • EKF • Kendo

31st EKC Frankfurt (Germany)

June 13, 2022

31st EKC Frankfurt (Germany) After a long time of not doing kendo because of Covid 19, we finally hadagain a European Kendo Championship in Frankfurt.As the new coach of the Belgium team, together with our new managerIsmail Bozok, we can say that this year was more then a great success. Our first goal was to get a team back to the dojo. A team that would beready for this EKC, but also for the future. I wanted to get a team thatcould work together as one team. This goal was reached by the help ofmany people coming to the team training. I’m really happy with theeffort they did for that...

ABKF • EKF • Iaido

ABKF/EKF International Iaido Seminar Bruges 2018

June 15, 2018

The 8-9-10 June 2018 the International Iaido seminar took place in Bruges, Belgium. It was organized by the ABKF with the help of the EKF (European Kendo Federation). Under the guidance of the Japanese delegation sent by the ZNKR, we had a two days seminar and gradings on Sunday afternoon. The Japanese delegation consisted of Kamikokuryo Shuichi 8th dan Hanshi, Oda Nobuaki 8th dan Kyoshi and Mikawa Noriaki 8th dan Kyoshi and they were assisted by European 7th dan sensei. Some 140 people took part in the seminar. This posed no problem for the Sports complex were we had ample space so everyone...

EKF

EKF GDPR

May 11, 2018

Please find attached the legal GDPR information that was placed on the EKF Website recently.
“Data protection: Any data received, processed and/or displayed will only be used within the limits of the purpose of the EKF and not for any commercial objective. For detailled information on data processing according to art. 13 and 14 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) please read the attached document”
EKF GDPR Document

november

14nov09:0012:00ABKF - Kendo National Team Training - Cancelled!!!09:00 - 12:00 ULB - Building E2, Hall 2, 50, avenue franklin RooseveltEvent Type :Kendo

14nov12:0013:00BKR Kendo - Regional Training12:00 - 13:00 ADEPS - Auderghem, Chaussée de Wavre 2057, 1160 Auderghem, BelgiumEvent Type :Kendo

15nov09:0012:00VKIJF Kendo: Regional Training09:00 - 12:00 Sporthal Brilschans, Lodewijk van Sullstraat 37, 2600 AntwerpenEvent Type :Kendo

22nov09:0013:00Jodo regional training VKIJF09:00 - 13:00 Sportcenter Horizon, Ternat, Bodegemstraat 12, 1740 Ternat, BelgiumEvent Type :Jodo,Jodo Grading

22nov09:0014:00BKR Iaido – Regional training09:00 - 14:00 ADEPS - Auderghem, Chaussée de Wavre 2057, 1160 Auderghem, BelgiumEvent Type :Iaido,Iaido Grading

22nov09:0018:00Kendo Kyu Championship 202609:00 - 18:00 Complexe Sportive Mons, Rue de Saint-Antoine 1, 7021 MonsEvent Type :Kendo,Kendo / Iaido / Jodo,Kendo Grading

december

06dec09:0013:00VKIJF Iaido Regional Training + LGT09:00 - 13:00 Sportcenter Horizon, Ternat, Bodegemstraat 12, 1740 Ternat, BelgiumEvent Type :Iaido,Iaido Grading

12dec09:0012:00ABKF - Kendo National Team Training09:00 - 12:00 ULB - Building E2, Hall 2, 50, avenue franklin RooseveltEvent Type :Kendo

12dec12:0013:00BKR Kendo - Regional Training12:00 - 13:00 ADEPS - Auderghem, Chaussée de Wavre 2057, 1160 Auderghem, BelgiumEvent Type :Kendo

18dec(dec 18)10:0020(dec 20)16:00ABKF Winter Seminar 2026Registration is now open !10:00 - 16:00 (20) ADEPS - Auderghem, Chaussée de Wavre 2057, 1160 Auderghem, BelgiumEvent Type :Iaido,Iaido Grading,Jodo,Jodo Grading,Jukendo & Tankendo,Kendo,Kendo / Iaido / Jodo,Kendo / Iaido / Jodo Gradings,Kendo Grading

Event Details

The yearly ABKF Winter Seminar is open for registrations!

Official registrations page: https://registrations.abkfevents.be/

Detailed schedule :

https://www.abkfevents.be/abkf_winter_seminar_2026_schedule_onepage/

The event is free for children under the age of 16 at time of the event!

Registration of an extra participant on your behalf can be done after adding the profile on your profile page.

This year features some changes to the schedule, a half day of keiko on Friday for both kendo and iaido!

This year’s distinguished delegation;

Kiyono Shinobu sensei – Kendo Hanshi 8 dan
Oda sensei – iaido Hanshi 8 dan
Murakami sensei – Jodo Hanshi 8 dan
Fujiwara sensei – Kendo Kyoshi 8 dan

There will also be a Jukendo & Tankendo seminar at the same time, featuring sensei sent by the International Jukendo Federation (IJKF):

Ogawa Isao sensei – Hanshi 8 Dan

The Jukendo & Tankendo seminar is free, but requires a separate registration form: Jukendo-Tankendo Registration-form
Please note that VKIJF members are not covered by the VKIJF insurance for these disciplines (Jukendo & Tankendo). VKIJF members who wish to participate do so on their own voluntary basis. ABKF cannot be held liable for any injuries.

Looking forward to meet you all!