Welcome to the EUKC website

This being the 10th and final Kurosawa Cup in Barcelona, EUKC were glad to have organised three teams' attendance at the prestigious competition. Several attendees from EUKC had never attended this event before, so it was good to have this final opportunity. Our merry band consisted of Mr. Failes, Mr. Wright, Mr. Takeuchi, Ms. Gyory, Ms. Bingxin Li, Mr. Poon, Mr. Tsorman, Ms. Everett and the most welcome adornment of Bishop Sensei, whose presence lent an air of gravitas and solemnity to every occasion.

Are you in Scotland around mid June? Yugenkai is hosting a kyu grading up to Nikyu, any beginners thinking of grading this summer is your chance. There is also a seminar afterwards, so anyone is welcome to come along. The details are below;

Location of Yugenkai venue: Dunfermline High School, St Leonards Place, Dunfermline, KY11 3BQ
When: 18th June; 10am~2pm (please see website link below for full schedule)
Who: Anyone is welcome to join the training and seminars. You are encouraged to come
Fee: 5 pounds for entrance fee
Sensei: Steve Bishop (6th dan) & Gerry Kincaid (5th dan)

You can register online or on the day. For more details and grading criteria, please visit their page;

http://www.yugenkai.org.uk/openkyugrade2011.html

The annual 2nd dan and below competition in Aberdeen is coming up in 2 months time!
This is a good competition for beginners, kyu, and dan grades to fight similar levels. The dates are:

Thistle cup: Sat 4th June 10:30~17:00
Japan day: Sun 5th June 12:00~16:30

The location is
here. To register, visit their website

http://www.yugenkai.org.uk/Thistlecup2011.html

Yamazaki sensei of 5th dan will also be here and this is definitely a weekend worth coming, so have your calendar open for those dates. And start polishing your shinais!

**Updated**

On 24th February 13 people from Edinburgh University kendo club travelled to Ireland for an Irish kendo competition. We had 8 people competing for team Edinburgh 1, 2 and 3, and 5 beginners who did their best for their helping out with the refereeing.

In the individuals, Rudiah came second place working his way through the strong Irish.
In the lady's, both Anusiya and Erika didn't make the second round.
For the team competition, Edinburgh team 1 came to the semi-finals, and Koji, Neil, and Rudiah earned a medal.
Edinburgh team 2 clashed with two well trained teams in the pools. They fought bravely, but lost in the end.
Edinburgh team 3 had passed the pool with Tak-Sun's first ever point in a match (and his first time entering a taikai as-well!). Unfortunately, We got knocked out in the next match.

Our gradings for all participants on this trip went very well, with Rudiah becoming 3rd dan, Koji 2nd dan, Matthew 1st dan. The beginners tried out for Kyu-grades (Goes from 9 to 1), with Mike, Kristine, Laura receiving 4th kyu, and Arman achieving an 3rd kyu. Neil turned out as a helper for 3rd dan since he couldn't participate this time, but was told his skill was well enough to achieve a 3 dan.

We all had great time, please read the full report when it comes out!
The full report will be posted up here soon.

The report is now posted, see extended news

Here is the report for the annual UK university taikai. This year was hosted by Queen Mary, University of London, and Edinburgh University sent down 6 people to compete in the competition. The official competing team members were Koji, Ruairidh, Matthew, Wei, and Joy. Alex Au-Yeung who did kendo a few years ago also travelled with them.
For the individuals Ruairidh came through to the finals in the men's dan grade tournament, and for the team tournament Edinburgh University kendo club got knocked off by Cambridge university.

Please read extended article for full report

Here is the trip report to Barcelona, Kurasawa cup held from Friday 14th to Sunday 16th January. Our proud members competing were; Koji, Matthew and Chris in "Edinburgh-1" and Erika, Anusiya, and special thanks to Jesus from Madrid who made up for "Edinburgh-2".

See extended article

Welcome back everyone!

Kendo classes officially start again from Wednesday 12th 5:30-7:30 in Gym 3 St. Leonard's Land for beginners, and for bogu people Monday 10th in the morning.

Everyone excited?

A few weeks ago, a few of our senior Edinburgh University kendo club members have participated in the Mumeishi 3's competition held in London, representing the only team from Edinburgh in the competition.
The full report can be seen in the extension, and the short summary is as follows:

The Mumeishi 3's is a huge event where universities and clubs gather their strongest members to form a team of three. The competition follows a knock-out system where a team has to continue winning till the finals without losing. The Edinburgh team composed of Neil, Gary and Ruairidh went against team Kagami Shin B in the first round. Ruairidh won his opponent with 2 men cuts, Gary maintaining a draw, and Neil taking down his by debana kote and a hiki-men cut.
In the next pool against Portsmouth’s Sempo, we drew in our first two fights, followed by our third tie. This led to an extended death match of one competitor from each team. Our team had Neil in front line, and the fight intensified with close points. The match ended with Portsmouth's win, but showed an impressive effort from our side.

The Edinburgh University kendo club would be hosting two more kando practice sessions during the exam period before vacation commences. Our training officially finishes on 15th Dec, and starts again at 10th Jan 2011.
Please note that bogu trainees are always welcome to participate at our partner dojo Edinburgh kendo club hosted at Ravelston sports club. Their training times are on Tuesday 19:00-21:00, and Thursday 19:00-21:00. please check out their website frequently for any breaks.

Exam Training Location: St. Leonard's Land Gym 2
Training Times: Wed 8/12- 17:30-19:30
Wed 15/12- 17:30- 19:30

Edinburgh kendo club website
Dates and location

Hello Kendo friends,
On Friday 5th November (yes, that's this week), the club is setting off fireworks to celebrate the night. The cost is 2 pounds, location written on poster. Guy Fawks night is one of the important days for the Scottish tradition where people go crazy with fireworks. This would be an enjoyable night, so come along.

We were grateful to have with us Stefan with Sandan and Richard with Ikkyu from IKSU kendo club (Sweden) visiting our dojo a while ago. The manga-face picture taken on the day has arrived and posted up. Stephan was our other sandan in the session, and was very prolific experience for us all in learning where we needed improvements. For those who are interested, you can see Stephen Sandström's fights on youtube videos.