Nanseikan Kendo Club 南西館剣道クラブ

As I learned from Geoff Salmon sensei's blog , we lost a giant of the Kendo world last week. Chiba sensei had suffered significant health problems over the last few years which is why he stopped his visits to improve our Kendo. A whole cohort of kenshi came up through the ranks thinking it was normal to have regular visits from a hanshi hachidan, former All Japan champion and Tokyo Police shihan. Sadly we know now that we were spoiled by his tireless generosity. There are a lot of videos of his Kendo on the net, so we can still watch his technique. But what you can't see is his playful sense of humour*. My favourite teaching of sensei's was when he admonished everyone at one of his Kenshikan seminars. "Do you think I have good Kendo?" Silence. Everyone inside their own heads: "Is this a trick question?" "Don't you think my Kendo is any good?" Awkward shuffling and looking at the floor. "I

Go to  http://www.kendo.org.au/p/2017-dates.html It also has the remainder of this year's dates too.

Aaargh!!! There's nothing more frustrating than seeing someone wrap up a tare like this! There are lots of ways you can pack up bogu, but at Nanseikan I would ask everyone who is using club bogu to follow the method I have detailed here, on our new "bogu pack-up" page. http://www.kendo.org.au/p/bogu-pack-up.html Please make a real effort to follow this method each and every time. It will not only save me time in sorting and repairs, it will save you time at the start of training.

Well done to everyone for a great training last Saturday. I hope you all had a great time at the Kenshikan. Thanks also to Fiona and the members of the Victorian Naginata Renmei for giving up their training time to teach us a little naginata. What an awesome weapon! And of course on Sunday there were many who graded and everyone passed. Congratulations! Especially to Alex, who showed great perseverance comprehensively conquered his demons. Well done mate, you're now a shining example to others. We're now on break for the September holidays, but we will be back for term 4 on Saturday 8 October. Other dates to keep in mind: Victorian Junior Kendo Championships (open to all under 16s) Sunday 13 November Mumeishi 3's Saturday 3 December Shochugeiko and last training for the year Saturday 17 December (9am - 5pm)

Next Saturday's training will be at the Kenshikan Dojo, 91-99 Rosslyn St West Melbourne. Training will start and end at the normal time. We will have a few extra people joining us... This will be the last training for the term. The first training for term 4 will be on 8 October.