The 25th and 26th January 2025 the NKR organised the 25th Iaido and Jodo Ishido Cup in Rotterdam. Wonderful event and organisation topped by a great representation and results from the ABKF – VKIJF/BKR Iaido and Jodo Members. Congratulations to all 🙂
Category - Jodo
Our National Jodo team did very good at the EJC this year.
Team Silver (Kim Croes, Pramit Basu, Karen Vermeulen, Marjan De Block)
Nidan Bronze (Kim Croes)
And we have 2 new Rokudan
Marjan De block
Jonathan Vandenbussche
Dear kenshi Registrations for the ABKF Winter Seminar are now open! More information on . This year marks the 34th year that Hirakawa sensei is coming, as well as his final year! This year ABKF offers you once more a high number of high-grade Japanese as well as Korean sensei! As we expect many participants, the kendo reservations are limited to 100 people maximum per day. Once we reach these numbers, registrations for Kendo keiko will be closed! To keep this fair for everyone, people who have not paid their registration fee upfront by the deadline will automatically be removed from the...
Dear friends !!!IMPORTANT UPDATE RELATED TO COVID!!! Due to the recent evolutions with the COVID-19 virus, the seminar scheduled has been changed. Please read the following message from our ABKF President S. Hendrickx thorouhly in one of the following attachments: With great pleasure, we announce the opening of the registrations to the ABKF Winter Seminar edition of 2021 from 17 December to 19 December 2021.Please read the following rules carefully and fill in the form to participate in the seminar and examinations.Link to the schedule: Registration will close on 1st December 2021. Link to...
Wonderfull ABKF Iaido & Jodo members results at the Ishido Cup 2020
Results Ishido cup day dag 2 Jodo: Daan Gold Karen Gold Kim Silver Nicolas Bronze Pramit Bronze Marjan Bronze
Results Ishido cup day 1 Iaido: Pramit Bronze Nicolas Bronze Kim Bronze Karen Bronze Maya Fighting spirit
Kendo/Iaido/Jodo Date: 17->22 December 2019 Location: ADEPS Auderghem All Registration Information:
Competition Results:
In December since 27 years in a row, ABKF organise its Winter event for Kendo, Iaido and Jodo. This year, almost 400 persons coming from 31 different countries showed up at (at least) one of the trainings organized from Tuesday to Sunday. During the weekend, also grading sessions took place where we welcomed around 130 candidates and we ended with the traditional Kendo competitions ( ladies, men individuals and the team of three). Specific for this tournament is the “Ippon Shobu” rule which asks for constant sharpness of attention if you want to win the tournament. This year we...
The definitive delegation from Japan for our annual Winter Seminar is knew from now. This delegation has been reinforced, for the Jodo-part, by European Jodo Kyoshi 8th dan René Van Amersfoort and are assisted by a huge number of 7th dan coming from Italy, The Netherlands, France and Belgium.
For those who would like to know more in detail about the Japanese delegation, please find here additional info:
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As well as last year the Belgian delegation has gained beautiful results.
Team Competition:
Bronze (Gold: Sweden ; Silver: Germany ; Bronze: Slovakia)
Individual competition :
Shodan division : VAES Nicolas : Silver
Sandan division : VERMEULEN Karen : Bronze
Yondan division : DE BLOCK Marjan : Gold
Gradings :
Van den Broeck Albert : nanadan
Vlad Liviu : godan
Vermeulen Karen : yondan
Vaes Nicolas : nidan
Heungens Daan : shodan
Arthur Degand
Team Manager
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