Congratulations!

Women's Division

3rd Place - Yukari Kaneko

3 dan & Above Division

3rd Place - Daishiro Kimura

Thanks to Ogimura sensei & Shufukai friends.

5th Longhorn Invitational Team Kendo Taikai Results - in Austin, TX, on October 8, 2006 (Sun)

Congratulations!

"3rd place" - Kenshinkai A Team

Sempo - Madoka Ishibashi
Jiho - Miyun Kang
Chuken - Joshua Caroll
Fukusho - Akiko Furukawa
Taisho - Keiko Umemura
(by the final match order)

"Longhorn Award" - Miyun Kang (KenZen)

We appreciate Komizu sensei, taikai coordinators, and volunteer staff who supported the taikai.

No Kendo Practice on August 4th (Friday) due to the Kenshinkai camp

All Eastern US Kendo Federation 2006 Summer Open Kendo Tournament on July 23, 2006
Kenshinkai Member's Tournament Results

(Team Division)
1st place - Kenshinkai A

Sempo: Fumitomo Yamaguchi
Jiho: Chul-Won (Kevin) Yong
Chuken: Joshua Caroll
Fukusho: Kazuyuki Takase
Taisho: Ken Kishino

(Women's Division)
1st Place - Madoka Ishibashi
2nd Place - Keiko Umemura

(1dan & 2dan Division)
2nd Place - Fumitomo Yamaguchi

(3dan and above)
3rd Place - Chul-Won (Kevin) Yong
3rd Place - Joshua Caroll

Conguratulations!
and Special Thanks to Tomoko Kuroda & Kazu Takase for delicious lunch.

Tournament Start Time - 7/23 (Sun)

KENSHINKAI members meet at 7:00 am.

Please finish the registration by 8:30am

7:00am Gym opens.

7:00 am - 8:30 am Registration

7:30 am - 8:30 am Shinai Safety Check.

8:00 am - 8:30 am Warm Up Exercise

8:45 am Opening Ceremony

9:00 am Individual Match

1. Woman Division
2. Kyu Division
3. 1 & 2 dan Division
4. 3 dan & Up division

1:00 pm Team Match

4:00 pm Individual Finals

4:30 pm Team Finals

5:00pm Award Presentation

5:15pm - 6:15 pm Keiko

7:00pm Leave the Gym

We will not have the lunch break.

The university Cafeteria is open for you from 9:00am to 3:00pm

To Kenshinkai members

AEUSKF Tournament will be held on July 23, 2006 (Sunday)
at Polytech University
6 Metrotech Center,
Brooklyn, New York 11201
(on Jay St. bet Tech Place & Willoughby St. in downtown Brooklyn)

Entry Fee:
Team and individual $35.00/person, Individual only $15.00/person,
Team only $20.00/person.

All players must be 14 years old & up.

Please let us know if you will participate it or not by July 13 (Wed).

Dear Members

AEUSKF has the promotion test on July 9th 2006 Sunday at Kenzen Dojo.

(APPLICATION FEE) $35 (After deadline $100, please keep the deadline)
(CHECK PAYABLE) AEUSKF
(DEADLINE) June 30th 2006 - KENSHINKAI deadline is "June 25".

(TESTING PLACE) Ken Zen Dojo
54 Thomas Street New York, NY 10013
(on Thomas Street between W Broadway and Church Street)
(TEL) 212-406-9104

(ADMIN DESK) Open from Noon to 1:30PM
(TEST) Start from 2:00PM

Each player is responsible to show the current rank (copy of the current rank certification) at administration desk.

Best regards,

Promotion Test Admin Committee

Congratulations to our Kenshinkai A team!
Our Kenshinkai A team won the title of the NYCKC 30th Anniversary Friendship Tournament on May 28, 2006.

Kenshinkai A team member
Sempo - Fumitomo Yamaguchi
Jiho - Kevin Yong
Chuken - Joshua Caroll
Fukusho - Kazuyuki Takase
Taisho - Ken Kishino

1st place - Kenshinkai A
2nd place - NYC Kendo Club Bulls
3rd place - Asian Samurais (Hong Kong), JCCC Kendo Club (Canada)

Congratulations and thanks to Kataoka sensei & the NYC Kendo Club.

Also, thank you Komizu sensei, Yamada sensei & the Asian Samurais, and Noriega sensei & Panama members for your participation and support.

Place
Meyer Athletic Center at Concordia College
171 White Plains Road (Route 22), Bronxville, NY 10708

Date & Time
Friday, June 2 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Saturday, June 3 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Sunday, June 4 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Detail information will be available shortly.

The New York City Kendo Club is celebrating its 30th Anniversary with a friendship tournament. We are invited to attend the special event for team matches and a godo keiko.

The participation fee is $30/person for the tournament and the godo keiko and $50/person for the dinner. If you would like to participate the event, please contact us A.S.A.P.

The deadline for the registration to Kenshinkai is May 10th (Wed).

For our friendship, we are very happy to participate and support this event. We welcome Kenshinkai members' participation.

Schedule of Events
Date: May 28th (Sunday)
8:00 - 9:00 am Tournament Registration
9:15 - 10:00 am Opening Ceremony
10:00 - 5:00 pm Team Tournament, Demonstration/Entertainment, Godo Keiko
7:30 pm Celebration Party (Location TBD)

We will start Tuesday Kendo Classs from April 25, 2006.

The time is 8:00 - 9:00 p.m. at Dance NY.

We focus on basic practice, and the class is open for Kenshikai members only.

The fee is $10 per class.

Congratulations, Ayako & Mike!

Their son, Haoto was born on April 12, 2006. We found our new member. Welcome to the Kenshinkai family.

-Kenshinkai-

A memorial service for Gregory Tucker on April 21 at 2:30 pm

This is a message from Roman Lutak Sensei. If you are able to attend the memorial service, please contact me - Keiko.

Oss to all....spoke to Marlina Tucker last night. She has arranged for a memorial service on Friday April 21 at 2:30pm. The same church on 14th St and 1st Ave Manhattan[Immaculate Conception]. If you can attend Marlina& Tucker Family will be more than grateful, if you cannot please stop and pause for a moment and remember him. Thank you all,

osss Sensei Roman Lutak

Congratulations, John O'Connor !

John O'Connor passed his 2nd dan Kendo promotion test in Florida today, February 12, 2006.

The following message is from the AEUSKF President, Kataoka sensei:


Dear Members

We AEUSKF would like to have a Shimpan Seminar( Shimpan practice).
Please come to:

For Boston area
Sunday Feb 19, 06 in MA (Boston). 1:00pm -5:00pm, Keiko after the Seminar.

Boston Higashi School
800 North Main St.
Randolph, MA 02368

For New York area
Sunday Feb 26, 06 in Flushing New York. 2:00pm-6:00pm,
Keiko after the Seminar. After the Keiko is a Party (you have to pay your food and drinks)

IL Kum Kwan
171-10 39th Ave
Flushing, NY 11358
718-961-0004

If you are 1st Dan and above, please attend the Seminar.
We have to ask you to do Kendo matches and judging..

Bring Bogu and Shimpan flags (If you have).
If you do not the flags we will provide them to you.
Now it is the duty for 4th Dan & up Kendo players to have one's set of Shimpan Flags.

We have to ask 1st, 2rd,3rd Dan people to do the Shiai.
If you are beginners, please come to watch it.
You will learn a lot of rules of the Shiai.

Fee is free.

Thank you.

Kataoka

Someone, who is not authorized to control our website, put inappropriate material on our website from late night on Feb 6 to the morning on Feb 7. The material is nothing relate to Kenshinkai and our dojo policy. It has been already erased from the message board. If you saw the message last night or this morning, please do not even try to visit the site.

2006 All US Kendo Federation & All Eastern Kendo Federation fees are due in March, 2006.

Please make a check payable to A.E.U.S.K.F for the amount of $50 (for AUSKF$40+AEUSKF$10) and mail or hand it us.

The federation changed several rules, and people who are not members of the federation may not be able to take promotion tests or participate in any federation events including tournaments and seminars.
Therefore, please make sure to pay the fees on time.
The deadline to pay the fees is March 10, 2006.
If you have any questions regaring the federation fees, please contact us.

Kenshinkai

Shikai sensei from Chuo Kendo Dojo in Los Angeles, CA will visit New York City. Kenshinkai will welcome him to our practice on February 3rd (Friday).

The Schedule of his visit is as follows:

1/30/06 Monday Ilkumkwan 8:00 p.m
1/31/06 Tuesday Ken-Zen Dojo 7:00 p.m
2/1/05 Wednesday No Schedule
2/2/05 Thursday NYC Kendo Club 7:00 p.m
2/3/05 Fiday Kenshin-kai 7:00 p.m

Please contact us or David Kim for further details of his schedule. We appreciate David Kim for the information and the arrangement of his trip.

Kenshinkai

Congratulations, Kenshinkai members !

We are so proud to announce that all of our members who took the promotion test passed!

* 4th Dan *
Kevin Yong

* 3rd Dan *
Kazuyuki Takase
Kanade Kurozumi

* 2nd Dan *
Luis Aguilar

Subject: Application for the AEUSKF Promotion Test Dec 2005


AEUSKF will have the promotion test on December 18th 2005, Sunday.


To apply the promotion test, December 2005,
(1) Candidate is the AEUSKF Year 2005 Member ($50 federation fee has been paid, already)?For inquiry, ask Kataoka Sensei.
(2) AEUSKF needs to verify that candidates are valid to test the new ranks.?Each candidate is responsible to show the current rank evidence (copy of the current rank certification) at administration desk.

(PLACE) Ken Zen Dojo
54 Thomas Street New York, NY 10013
(on Thomas Street between W Broadway and Church Street)

(TEL) 212-406-9104

(REGISTRATION) Starts from Noon end at 1PM

(DEADLINE) December 3rd 2005, SATURDAY - Kenshinkai members must register by November 29, 2005

(APPLICATION FEE)?$35?(After deadline $100, please keep the?deadline)

(CHECK PAYABLE) AEUSKF

(IF you pay the application fees in advance)
Send to:??AEUSKF
????c/o Noboru Kataoka
????35-30 32nd Street, 1st floor
????Long Island City, NY 11106

Inquiry - Promotion Test Administration Team
aeuskf@gmail.com or Kenshinkai

Congratulations, Kenshinkai members!

Individual - 1st & 2nd dan division

2nd place: Ito Mitsuhiro
3rd place: Takashi Fujii

Congratulations, our Kendo friends!

Team
1st place: The NYC Kendo Club
2nd place: Shufukai

October 30 (Sun)

First of all, we, Kenshinkai members appreciate Mike Wolf, Sang Kim, Daniel Park, Madoka Ishibashi for driving safely and taking us to/from this tournament,
Thank you for.

The Keshinkai member results.

(team)
3rd Place - Kenshinkai B team
- Daniel Park
- Mitsuhiro Ito
- Akiko Furukawa
- Yukari Kaneko
- Won Chel (Kevin) Yong

(Individual)

1,2 dan Devision

1st Place Kazuyuki Takase
3rd Place Mitsuhiro Ito

Kenshinkai members, Congratulations!

Sunday Nov 6, 2005

Tournament site :
Polytechnic University
6 Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, New York 11201 (which is on Jay Street between Tech Place and Willoughby Street in downtown Brooklyn)

Entry Fee: team and individual $35.00 per pereson, individual only $15.00,
Team only $20.00.

All players must be 14years old & up.

Deadline: October 20 (Kenshinkai members need to register by Oct 16)