Great news for ABKF and Tanaka sensei (Yu-Hi dojo) last sunday! After a full weekend of translation for the EKF Referee seminar in Brussels, under the guidance of ZNKR delegation including Eiga sensei, he managed to keep enough energy to present and successfully pass the 7th dan grading in Kendo…! Congratulations Robin Tanaka sensei for this nice achievement!
Category - Kendo
This Sunday November 11th 2018, Belgian Kendo Kyu Championships in ADEPS Auderghem …
Booklet is available here: BKKC 2018
The Belgian Kendo Championships 2018 took take place this 8th April 2018 in Ixelles here are the results:
ABKF BKC DAN 2018 Results
Date: 8 April 2018
Address: Centre Sportif A. De Muyter, rue Volta in Ixelles
Registration Deadline: 28 March 2018
REGISTRATION FORMS HERE (FR/NL) Here: BKC 2018
Information will also be send to all ABKF Dojos via their official email.
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...
Dear members please already note the following important 2018 ABKF Kendo events in your agenda.
07/01/2018 ABKF Kendo National training (Het Rooi)
04/03/2018 ABKF Kendo National training (Het Rooi)
08/04/2018 ABKF BKC – Belgian Kendo Championships 2018 (Ixelles)
05-06/05/2018 Kojika Kendo Championships 2018 (Ghent)
06/05/2018 BKR Championships 2018 (Ixelles)
21->28/08/2018 ABKF Kendo Summer Seminar (Auderghem)
11->16/12/2018 ABKF Winter Seminar (Auderghem)
For more information & other dates (BKR/VKIJF Regional Training) check the full 2018 Agenda
Happy new year 2018 🙂
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:
LIST 2017
Following the visit of Mimasaka city’s Mayor and Kendo Hanshi Tahara sensei last December 2016 during the Winter Seminar 2016, our NT Ladies were invited to join the 16th edition of the Otsu Cup.
Two of them, Lisa Van Laecken & Freija D’Hont, together with our President Dany Delepière and the European Tour leader Yoshinobu Kurogi joined the event.
As a part of the 17 people large selection of European Kendo Ladies, they will take part in a unique Women Kendo Tournament which will see 640 ladies in 194 teams competing.
Gambatte!!
Freija D’Hont (ladies team) and Adrian Detavernier (junior individual) were awarded “Fighting Spirit” on the first day of the EKC. On the second day, the Men team lost in 1/8 final from winner France. Ladies team lost the 1/4 final. At the third day, for the ladies and men individuals, Freija D’Hont and Kensaku Maemoto ended their tournament at the 3rd place. Sara Van Laecken got a “last” fighting spirit in this edition on the European Kendo Championships. Belgium was also represented in the pool of referees by two representatives: Chris Maes & Serge...
The 16th edition of the ABKF Summer Seminar will take place for the Iaido seminar the 18-19-20 August 2017 in the Centre sportif de Blocry, Louvain La Neuve and for the Kendo seminar the 23-24-25-26-27 August 2017 in the ADEPS Auderghem, Brussels.
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Iaido 18-19-20 August 2017 – Centre sportif de Blocry
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Kendo 23-24-25-26-27 August 2017 – ADEPS Auderghem Brussels
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