Well done to our recent graded kendoka!

Dirk, Eamonn, Artur – Ikkyu

Fernando and Jonaton – 5th Kyu

Dorothy and Sudhakaran – 7th Kyu

A quick well done to all from Cork and Dublin who travelled to Mumeishi’s 3’s 2009. Ye did great and showed excellent kendo.

Its absolutely no surprise that Dublin A and Cork A both went out to the finalists. A special well done to Dublin A who got to the last 32 and to Cork A who got to the final 16 (out of 84 teams).

And a special mention to Cork B who went up to face the British Army

Cork A
Szilárd Szűcs
Robin Deegan
Jason Buckley

Cork B
Clare Deegan
Mark Jessop
Dirk Bakker

Cork were very happy to host a seminar with Levi Sensei, a student of our National Coach Yanai Sensei.

The weekend was a great success with over 30 people over the three days. Friday night was a short session as there were flight delays but we were shown the importance of ai-men and keeping center. Saturday and Sunday saw a varied and fully packed few days of teaching and corrections. A lot of time was spent correcting kirikaeshi, then we moved forward to correct cutting and correct use of seme, footwork and control of the centre and finally coming to the very simple yet difficult seme men waza.

The use of seme was a key point over this weekend, both to startle your opponent and overwhelm them to forcing them to strike a target you want them to strike.

It was an eye opening seminar and we thank you for it.

Special thanks again goes to Martin and Kathryn for showing support from Dublin Kendo Kobukai.

Looking forward to the next session.

6.15pm pandamama Cork

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