Monthly Archives: August 2011

Hizen Summer Taikai 7th August 2011

A familiar format greeted us this year with a nidan and under mixed team competition and a sandan individual’s cup. However, there was some new swag up for grabs, newly made medals in the shape of the Hizen mon as an antique tsuba. Slowed slightly by the building works that have been taking place at [...]

A New Sandan (June 2011)

Congratulations to Stewart Daniels who passed his sandan grading in Vancouver. Stewart coaxes his counterpart into cutting kote allowing him to perform nuki-men, even after a long morning travelling on a ferry to get to the dojo. He reports that he is relieved to have the grading behind him and is looking forward to starting [...]

Watchet Grading 15th May 2011

Bucking no trends at all, when called upon to wake up early on a Sunday it was the student who was last down to breakfast, finding the rather sizeable Hizen contingent waiting downstairs for breakfast. One hearty, full English later (possibly not such a good idea in hindsight) and we were off to the grading. [...]

National Kata Seminar and Taikai 26-7th March 2011

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Army Invitational Taikai 20th March 2011

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Hizen Kangeiko 4th-9th January 2011

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More Apologies!!

Sorry it’s taken forever to update the blog! I’m still getting some info and finishing up some of the other reports. So to keep the chronology for now there will be some reports that will be “Coming Soon” that I’ll edit and update as soon as they are ready. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post [...]