Happy Christmas

December 24th, 2009

sclausHi all,

On behalf of Cork Budokai I would like to wish you all and your families a happy and peaceful Christmas and a great new year!

I would like to also thank you all for all your hard work in the last year, the club has prospored and its thanks 100% to the dedication of the members that turn up and train week in week out. Together we all try to improve, and we can only improve together.

Here’s to 2010.

Rob

Budokai Christmas Party!

December 3rd, 2009

xmas_inviteWill take place on the 18th of December (changed from the 11th).

Adults and kids all turn up at 7PM.

There will be some games first ;) and at 8PM we will have a party.

Please everyone bring one piece of food each, savoury or sweet!

Christmas Opening Hours!!

December 3rd, 2009

santa_ho_ho_hoCropHi Guys,

We have been informed from the lough management that the following nights will be closed and there fore kendo training will be cancelled.

Wed 23rd
Fri 25th
Mon 28th
Wed 30th
Fri 1st

Training will resume as normal for yudansha on Monday 4th and mudansha on the 6th.

Well done on the recent grading!

November 27th, 2009

champagne_toastWell done to our recent graded kendoka!

Dirk, Eamonn, Artur – Ikkyu

Fernando and Jonaton – 5th Kyu

Dorothy and Sudhakaran – 7th Kyu

Mumeishi 3’s 2009

November 20th, 2009

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

Levi Sensei Seminar

November 14th, 2009

IMG_9747_webCork 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.

CB Beginners Party

November 5th, 2009

6.15pm pandamama Corkgerman-beer

www.pandamama.ie/

Kids Halloween Balloon Geiko

November 4th, 2009