The 23th ABKF Winter seminar Kendo, Iaido & Jodo & International Goodwill Competition will be held in Brussels from the 17th to 22th of December 2013.
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The 20th European Iaido Championships was this year organized in Meze, France. The ambiance during this event was great and everybody was very happy to meet all Iaido friends from all over EKF countries. After 2 days of seminar, the Belgian team achieved a tremendous job in the individual taikai by winning not less than 8 medals with Bruwier Philippe 6th dan Silver, Simonini Michael 5th dan Gold, Kanto Yuki 5th dan Bronze, Vandenbussche Jonathan 4th dan Gold, Vervack Valentin 2nd dan Gold, Vijverman Yvan 2nd dan Bronze, Cool Steven 1st dan Gold, Croes Kim 1st dan Bronze.
And on sunday winning the Silver medal in Team taikai with a team composed of De Block Marjan, Cool Steven, Croes Kim, Defraeye Luc.
Sunday finished with gradings where many new shodan (Incl. Croes Kim), nidan (Incl. Cool Steven) and sandan (Incl. Vervack Valentin) members passed! But only three new yondan and only one new rokudan (Simonini Michael) passed.
All EIC 2013 taikai results can be found here with official EKF comments and pictures on Facebook
Our friend Simonini Michael passed 6th dan Iaido at the end of the EIC which was organized in Meze, France. Big congratulations!!
Gradings results (EKF PDF) here
A new 7th dan Kendo in Belgium! Our friend Jean Claude Wolfs passed successfuly this test today at Eaubonne during the exams organized by EKF. Big congratulations!!
Le samedi 12 octobre 2013
https://www.abkfevents.be/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/AFFICHE-1%C2%B0-CHPTS-BKR-21-10-2012.pdf
Lien direct vers le PDF: 2ème Championnat Kendo BKR 21-10-2012
This year again, we had two very nice seminars for Kendo & Iaido.
Here some group pictures taken; more available at social networks! See you all in December for the ABKF Winter seminar or in 2014 for our next Summer edition!
This year, ABKF organized its championships for Iaido on May 12th in Ninove.
Results & pictures are here: Results BIC2013
At the end of the first day of the 25th EKC, our member, Sara Van Laecken got a fighting spirit award in the “Junior” category.
The second day has seen the “men” team matches. This year, our national team got the second place in this tournament after very strong matches against Italy, Lithuania, Russia, Austria, Spain and finally France… details are on the EKF website and more pictures available at social networks. Check also the letter from our ABKF President (NL & FR versions)
Valentin Vervack, member of Kendo Iaido Gent won recently the 2nd dan division Iaido competition for Tokyo area at the Tokyo Budokan (Japan).
Congratulations Valentin!
For the 4th time, all ABKF Yudansha had their National Championships in Forest/Vorst on Sunday March 3rd.
We had 5 pool of ladies, 3 pool of juniors and 29 poolof men attending the individual tournaments and 17 team for the team tournament.
Complete results can be found in the excell files here:
BKC Junior 2013 BKC Team 2013 BKC-Men-2013-A BKC Ladies 2013
Pictures will follow as soon as possible, check also social media for more…
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