Current Practice Times (Summer 2008):
Sunday: noon-2pm, IM West room TBD
Friday: 6-8pm, IM West Room TBD.
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MSU Kendo Club News:
Posted by Ron Fox on 6-28-2008
Congratulations to Wendy Chen for winning the competition for the
George K. Izui sensei scholarship. The scholarship provides her with a free
pass to the 2008 MWKF summer camp. Many thanks to the Izui family for
helping us to remember Izui sensei's many contributions to Midwest Kendo
by endowing this scholarship.
Posted by Ron Fox on 6-28-2008
Congratulations to Amy Dawson for medalling in the women's division of EMU's
family taikai. This was Amy's debut outing as a shodan. Outstanding performance.
Other people we know who medalled: Ayako Hadano CMU Women's division and Katina
Mangus, who won the non-bogu division.
Posted by Ron Fox on 2-25-2008
Saturday February 16, 2008, Jin Wook "Ryan" Kim and Amy Dawson participated in
the promotional testing at Seaholm High School in Birmingham, MI. Congratulations
to both of them. Ryan for gaining 1-kyu and Amy for achieving shodan. Following the
promotional testing, Amy, Ryan and I participated in a seminare and practice led
by Teramoto sensei. Winner of the ZNKR championship and captain of the Osaka prefectural
police team that won the Japan Police championships.
The next day, the team of Jin Wook Kim, Wendy Chen, Ron Fox, Matt Palmer and Amy Dawson
competed in both the individual and team competitions of the 2008 Detroit Rensei taikai.
This tournament is the 10th time Detroit has hosted this event. Ryan managed a 3d place in the
Mudansha division. While the team was knocked out in the first round by a strong Georgia Kendo Alliance
team, all members competed hard, and showed their best kendo, as well as showing the strong
fundamental kendo that M.S.U. practices.
For a Photo Gallery of this event see:
Here
Thanks to Matt Palmer (MSU) and Robert Angeles (Cleveland) for contributing pictures.
Thanks to Toronto Kendo dojo's Kimura sensei for having his picture taken with us.
Kimura sensei is Mike Murphy's original instructor.
Posted by Ron Fox on 8-11-07
Ron Fox, Wendy Chen, and Mathew Palmer travelled to Madison
Wisconsin August August 3-5 for the MWKF summer camp. The summer
camp was taught by Yamanaka Shigeki sensei, and Saito Shigeki sensei.
Both sensei are 8-dan Kyoshi, with Yamanaka sensei the winner of the
2005 All Japan 8-dan Championships. Camp was very instructive and difficult.
All had chances to practice with both senseis, as well as opportunities
for basic and waza practices. Pictures for the camp are available on
the
Battle Creek Kendo Club Website
Posted by Ron Fox on 12-31-07
First I want to wish you all a Happy New Year. Second please join
me in congratulating the U.S. National Kendo team on its performance
at the 13'th World Kendo Championships in Taipei. They achieved an
historic first victory ever over the Japanese team, to finish 2'nd
place behind Korea. These historical matches have been posted on
youtube:
Senpo match
Jiho match
Chuken match
Fukusho match
Taisho match
The Match between U.S. and Korea is also available:
Senpo match
Jiho match
Chuken match
Fukusho match
Taisho match
Posted by Ron Fox on 10-31-06
MSU Kendo club members participated in the 2006 MWKF championships
in Chicago October 28, 2006. Congratulations to Ron Southwick for
taking the bronze in the Mudansha division. The MWKF promotional
examination was held October 29, 2006, and congratulations to
Matt Palmer for passing 1-kyu and to Chris Monosmith for passing 2-kyu.
See the pictures from this
event. Thanks to B. Kim for the photos.
Posted by Ron Fox on 10-31-06
A belated thanks to Tibor Barany sensei for taking time from his
business trip to Michigan to practice with us on the weekend of
Sept. 29. Barany sensei, 6-dan is the captain of the Hungarian
national team, and was a visiting instructor in residence at MSU
during the 2004/2005 academic year. He practiced with us on
Friday, and Sunday of that weekend, and visited Detroit kendo dojo
on Saturday. Just like old times.
Pictures are
now available.
Posted by Ron Fox on 08-05-06
MSU Kendo club will be participating in the 2006 "Party At the Aud"
This event will be held at the auditorium field Sat. August 26, 2006
6-10pm. If you are interested in joining the club, meet us there.
Posted by Ron Fox on 08-05-06
The MSU summer camp was a great succsess in spite of the heat.
The camp featured three practice sessions. The first, prior to
lunch practiced basic actions. After adjourning for lunch and
a taiko performance (Thanks Brian, Mayumi and other members of the
taiko team), we studied
Bokuto Ni Yoru Kendo Kihon-waza Keiko-ho, a kata that was first taught
in 2003. These kata are, unlike the Zen Nihon Kendo Kata, a systematic
curriculum in kendo. Tagawa sensei, however had us practice the kata
actions with shinai, bogu and contact so that we could better evaluate
our cutting actions. After a short break, the final session was a
practice of several wazas in settings that varied from a basic
action practice to application in more realistic settings.
The camp concluded with a mawari geiko. For more information
about the
Bokuto Ni Yoru Kendo Kihon-Waza Keiko-ho click the previous link.
Posted by Ron Fox on 07-07-06
MSU will be hosting the first Michigan Kendo Summer day camp
July 16, 2006 in the second floor gym of the MSU IM Circle building.
Building opens 9:30am, assembly for the first practice is scheduled
for 10:00am. Lunch break around noon with lunch provided at
the Owen Hall Cafeteria as part of the ($15) camp participation fee.
Camp head instructor will be Y. Tagawa sensei 8-dan kiyoshi assisted
by Michigan kenshi at the 5-dan and above level. We anticipate
that camp will finish about 4:30pm .. kendo standard time.. which means
plus or minus 45 minutes.
Posted by Ron on 05-08-06 Finally I have posted pictures from the 2006 Spring All Michigan Practice. Thanks to Emray for taking these
Posted by Ron on 04-25-06 The Spring 2006b KIN 102M picture for Spring 2006 is now available online KIN 102M is an 1 credit introductory class that teaches kendo basics. It can be taken by itself, as preparation for participation in the MSU kendo club practices or concurrently with participation with the MSU kendo club. KIN 102M is offered Fall and Spring semesters. Class sizes generally are between 20 and 25 students.
Posted by Ron on 04-11-06
The All Michigan practice, held April 9 was a big success,
approximately 45 participants attended from the Detroit Kendo Dojo,
EMU kendo club, U-M Kendo club, CMU Kendo Club, MSU Kendo Club,
Battle Creek Kendo Kai, and Grand Rapids Toyoda Center kendo dojo.
Y. Tagawa sensei of Detroit conducted the practice. The practice
was a very comprehensive one starting from basics and moving up
to several more advanced wazas before going on to uchi-komi and
ji-geiko. Participants were fairly unanimous that this event would
be a good one to have more than once a year. We will therefore
look into holding one in Fall 2006.
Following the practice, about 1/2 of the participants in the
practice met for the 'second practice' at Damons. Food was good,
company was good, and we all had a good chance both to get to know each
other better, as well as to make some plans for the future of
Michigan Kendo.
Posted by Ron on 03-23-06 MSU will host the second annual all Michigan Kendo practice April 9, IM circle 2nd floor gym from 12:30am to 2:30pm. If you are a member of a dojo in Michigan and have not already heard about this from your sensei, ask. The head instructor of the event will be Yoshiteru "Duke" Tagawa Sensei, 8-dan Detroit Kendo Dojo.
Posted by Ron on 03-23-06 Several members of the club competed in the 2006 Detroit Taikai. B. Kim won 3'd place in the Mudansha adult division. I had the pleasure of being assigned to judge on his court and am very proud of the way he conducted his shiai. While we failed to gain any other awards, members who competed in the previous year, on the whole went further into the tournament than last year. I think this is a tribute to the hard work that everyone has been putting in and one of the many signs I see of improvement in everyone's kendo. A photo gallery of this event is available here.
Posted by Ron on 03-23-06 The following members of the MSU kendo club passed promotional testings on February 18, 2006 at Detroit. Ron Southwick: 1-kyu, Burm/Billy/Cristiano Kim shodan. Congratulations! Now that you have achieved this goal its time to tighten your himo and practice even hader for the next goal
Posted by Gary on 02-13-06 - Hi everyone! I'm Gary, and I'll be helping Chris maintain this site for the Spring semester. I'm also new to Kendo, this is my first semester in it. I look forward to seeing everyone on the floor!
Posted by Ron on 12-27-05 - As 2005 winds down I wanted to take the time to wish all who read this a happy, healthy, and prosperous new year. We have done a great deal as a club during this 2005. Now that Michigan has its own 8-dan in Tagawa sensei, I'm looking forward to even greater progress and achievements in 2006.
Posted by Ron on 12-27-05 - The MSU kendo club participated in the Midwest Kendo Federation tournament held in LaCrosse Wisconsin in November. Unfortunately I've only now gotten around to posting the pictures from that event. See here.
Posted by Ron on 12-27-05 - Congratulations to Tagawa sensei of the Detroit kendo dojo. Tagawa sensei passed his test for 8-dan at the Tokyo testing this fall. The test for 8-dan is very strict, with very few passes each time. This is a tremendous achievement for Tagawa sensei.
Posted by Ron on 09-13-05 - MSU Kendo members practiced at Eastern Michigan University. Here's one post practice picture and another post practice picture
Posted by Ron on 09-03-05 - Welcome back to a new semester of the MSU Kendo Club. Our meetings have already started and we would like for you to come. Practice this Sunday will occur at the Demonstration Hall Ballroom. The IM Circle is closed due to the holiday. The Demo Hall is west of the IM West, which can be seen on the map on the meetings page or the MSU website.
08-13-05 - Members of the MSU Kendo club participated in the 2005 MWKF summer camp. Camp was conducted by Yamanaka Shigeki sensei, 8-dan kyoshi, winner of the 2005 Japan 8-dan tournament. We have a small gallery of pictures from the camp.
Posted by Ron on 07-07-05 - Members of the MSU Kendo club attended the All U.S. Kendo Federation Championship tournament held July 2nd and 3rd in Ann Arbor Michigan. MSU club members served as volunteers on three courts of the tournament helping to time, score and prepare the competitors. Departing guest instructor Tibor Barany sensei left his mark as a competitor, finishing second place in the goodwill competition. Barany sensei made an historic appearance as the first represntative of a foreign country invited to compete in the taikai. Photos are now available. New pictures uploaded September 1, 2005!!
Posted by Ron on 06-27-05 - Tibor Barany sensei led the MSU Kendo club 2005 summer minicamp on Sunday June 26. The camp marked the last practice he will have with the MSU kendo club on his 8 month stay in Michigan. A page dedicated to the camp is here. Many thanks to Barany sensei for his kind instruction while he was here. We will miss him, but look forward to seeing him again in Budapest.
Posted by Ron on 06-07-05 - Late breaking photos from Wendy of her graduation. Have a look at what she's got written on her mortarboard. Click onthe thumbnails below to see the pictures in full size.
Posted by Ron on 05-23-05 - Members of the MSU kendo club participated in the 2'nd Michigan Family Taikai at Eastern Michigan University. Mark Kaufman and Steve Ogilve both tied for 3'd place in the Mudansha division. No team competition was held. The taikai included an instructional seminar on kendo basics led by Tagawa sensei, and a godo-keiko with three visiting sensei from the Sho-Tokyo dojo in Los Angeles (Arima, Kato, and Sakae senseis).
Click on the thumbnail below to see a full sized picture of the MSU participants.
Website News:
Posted by Chris on 02-14-06 - As you can see, Gary has joined me on the MSU Kendo webmaster list. We will both try our best to update the website and make it a little better. I plan on giving it a little facelift and adding a lot more info that I have accumulated since I last updated. Thank-you!
Posted by Chris on 02-13-06 - I updated the practice times and any other info that has changed since last semester. We have some new officers, but I am waiting until that is finalized before I post their names. I also will try and re-design the website this week. It is in great need and I hope to improve it greatly. Thank-you.
Posted by Chris on 10-05-05 - It seems that we now have PHP installed on our server. And, it is now running and working. In fact, all the main pages and some of the sub-pages are now in php. You cannot see most of what I did, as it was php includes, but it helped and will help me and Fox Sensei out a lot. As usual, if you have suggestions or whatever; email me, Chris Meyers, at msukendo@gmail.com.
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