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CANADA PLACES THIRD AT 2000 WORLD KENDO CHAMPIONSHIPS!!
Both Canada's Women's and Men's Kendo Team placed third at the I I th World Kendo Championships held in Santa Clara California USA during the March 25th weekend. Sponsored by the International Kendo Federation, this year's championships included 300+ participants representing over 40 countries as well as hosting the first official women's individual and semiofficial team competition
Team Canada, represented by Delegation
Head and Canadian Kendo Federation President Roy Asa, Team Manager Richard
Tizzard, Men's Coach Ray Murao, Women's Coach Mark Noda and Men's Team
Players Bryan Asa (Captain), Taro Ariga, Motoki Asaoka, Matthew Raymond,
Dean Ara, Suguru Asaoka, Daisaku Taguchi, Eddie Yamashita, Shigemitsu Kamata
and Women's Team Players Wendy Nakano (Captain), Maya Taguchi Makiko Hayashi,
Corie Namba, Hana Ariga, Chiharu Hao and Misato Akitaya, put forth one
of Canadian Kendo's best performances in international competition
On Friday March 24, Day One (Women's
Individual and Team competition) of the 3 Day event, all individual players
fought valiantly with Canada's Wendy Nakano winning the fighting spirit
award for her performance in the individual division and the Women's Team,
made up of all seven women team members, pulling a stunning upset by defeating
the heavily favoured Korean Women's team by a score of 1-0 matches in the
preliminary round of the Team Matches on a single point by Maya Taguchi.
The match was extremely exciting and our players showed exceptional courage,
willpower and teamwork. The Team continued to advance, defeating Argentina
and taking the bronze medal before losing narrowly to the Brazilian Team
in the semi-finals by a score of I -0 matches. Team Japan defeated Team
Brazil in the finals to take the team title. T. Kawano of Japan won the
Women's individual competition.
On Day Two (Men's individual competition),
Canada's individual representatives also competed with Suguru Asaoka (Top
8) and Dean Ara also being awarded fighting spirit awards. N. Eiga ofJapan
defeated IC Takenaka of Japan to win the Men's individual title.
On the final day (Men's Team competition),
the men's Team took the bronze medal after defeating France, Sweden and
Chinese Taipei in the quarter finals and showed an outstanding display
of discipline and teamwork in their semi-final match with Japan. Canada
took the lead in the team match after Senpo (1st Player) S. Kamata and
Jiho (2nd Player) M. Raymond successfully took their counterparts to a
draw and Chuken (3rd Player) S. Asakoka shocked the crowd by defeating
Hirao of Japan by a 2-1 score. Under considerable pressure and tension,
Japan was able to rally in the final two matches against Fukusho (4th Player)
M. Asaoka and Taisho (5th Player) T. Ariga and defeated Canada by a heartbreaking
2-1 match score. To date, the match represents Canada's best showing against
Japan in International competition. Team Japan went on to defeat Team Korea
in the final team match by a 2-1 score.
Once again, Japan continued its
dominance of the Kendo world by taking 1st place positions in all individual
and team divisions as they have done in all other IO World Kendo Championships.
Over the past I I World Championships
(held every three years) / 30 years, Canada's men's team has placed Silver
in 1973 and 1976, and Bronze in 1985, 1988, 1991, 1994 and 2000).
Results:11th WORLD KENDO CHAMPIONSHIPS
Santa Clara, California -
March 24-26, 2000
Women's IndividualWomen's Team
1st place - T. Kawano, Japan 1st place - Japan
2nd place - K. Baba, Japan 2nd place - Brazil
3rd place - H. Yano, Japan 3rd place - Canada
3rd place - S. Asahina, Japan
3rd place - USA
Kantosho Kantosho
S. Konishi, Brazil H. Aboutaleb, Australia
R. Kubo, Hawaii A. Destobbeleer, France
A. Sipos, Hungary S. Caspary, Germany
K. Takada, USA J. Dekker, Holland
M. Korogi, Japan H-C Peng, Taipei
E. Onaka, Brazil B. Kiraly, Hungary
H-H Cho, Korea J. Chun, Hawaii
W. Nakano, Canada J-Y Kwon,
Korea
Men's Individual Men's Team
1st place - N. Eiga, Japan 1st place - Japan
2nd place - K. Takenaka, Japan 2nd place - Korea
3rd place - T. Someya, Japan 3rd place - Canada
3rd place - S-S Hong, Korea
3rd place - Brazil
Kantosho Kantosho
S-S Park, Korea Y. Jaquet, Switzerland
S. Asaoka, Canada M. Kawabata, Hawaii
C. Yang, USA Y-Y Liu, Chinese Taipei
D. Ara, Canada M. Wahlquist, Sweden
H. Hirata, Japan Z. Vadadi, Hungary
K. Matsukubo, USA B. Smith, Australia
C-Y Kim, Korea B. Janssen, Netherlands
K. Hashimoto, USA D. Yang,
USA
To check the trees, you can go
to the ZNKR website at: http://www.kendo.or.jp/11wkc/index-e.html
Thank you from Team Canada.
By now, you are all aware that
Team Canada was successful in our goal to take Canada to the medal rounds
in both the men's and women's team divisions at the World Kendo Championships
in Santa Clara, USA. In addition to achieving the bronze/third place, both
the men's and women's team gave outstanding performances in the semi-finals
matches with both team matches coming down to the final individual match
(Men: Canada vs. Japan, Women: Canada vs. Brazil). It was a very special
weekend and we feel strongly that this year's team is one of the best teams
we have put forth to represent Canada.
An increased, focused and experienced
coaching and management staff, the injection ofyounger and more energetic
players to the team, increased local training practices, the re-establishment
of pre-tournament Team Canada training camps (in Saskatoon and Steveston),
the return of members (both management and players) hungry to redeem themselves
from a disappointing performance at the last tournament in Kyoto and a
commitment, a belief in one another and a powerful sense of 'teamwork'
all came together during the past few months and enabled Canadian Kendo
to reach its goals in international competition. Let's learn from this
experience and ensure that we stay hungry, continue to develop our younger
players, train hard and value and respect all of our friendships and relationships
through Kendo.
On behalf of the members of Team
Canada 2000, we would like to thank all Kendoka and friends of Kendo Canada
for all of your support over the past months in preparation for the World
Championships. Every effort and show of support contributed to our performance.
Thank you.
Bryan Asa and Wendy Nakano
Canadian Kendo Federation Notices.
Hello Everyone. Happy New
Year and Happy New Millennium 2000 from the CKF !!!! Hope everyone didn't
eat too much over the holidays and everyone is ready and committed to practice
hard and do their best this year!!!
A couple of notes, one for
clarification regarding the due date for CKF membership and club fees for
2000; the second regarding the new fee structure that is in effect from
this year.
1. There seems to be some
confusion as to when fees are due. Some dojos (very few) pay their fees
at the beginning of the year, while others pay their fees towards the end
of the year (especially during grading time). Membership and dojos fees
are due by the end of January for the current year. We would like all dojos
who have not yet submitted their year 2000 fees to have their fees in as
soon as possible. Your cooperation in this manner will be greatly appreciated.
2. At our last CKF board
meeting, the board of directors established a new fee structure. Starting
this year clubs fees will be $75.00 per club and membership fees for children
(15 years and under as of December 31, 1999) $12.00 per person and $15.00
per adult (16 and over as of January 1, 2000). It has been a long time,
at least 8 years, since fees have increased and we hope that this very
modest increase will not burden you too much.
Please pay your fees for
this year as soon as possible. Some clubs still owe fees from last year.
Please submit these fees as well. Along with the fees we need, from every
club, an updated members list that includes rank (iaido and kendo), address,
telephone and fax numbers, email address, and birth date as well.
We would like to gratefully
acknowledge the following donations to the CKF:
Steveston Kendo Club $200.00 Cash Donation
Mr. Sid Ikeda $100.00 Cash Donation
Mr. Christian D'Orangville $500.00 Cash Donation
Mr. Roy Asa $500.00 Cash Donation
Mr. K. Nakano $100.00 Cash Donation
Mr. K. Omae $100.00 Cash Donation
"In loving memory of Mr. Yeiji (Eddie) Omae"
Mr. Jordan Paper $1 500.00
Equipment Donation
Gary Nakashima, CKF Treasurer
Ontario Senior Kendo Tournament
Just wanted to thank all
volunteers (especially the referees for their time and patience, JCCC kids
for all their help, Kim Taylor and company for the Iaido and Jo-do demonstration
and Yoshida Sensei for the great lunch) for making today's Ontario Senior
Tournament a success. We enjoyed over 110 registered participants, making
it one of the largest Ontario Senior Tournaments held in recent times.
We also extend a special thanks and welcome to both the Mississauga Kendo
Club and York University Kendo Club for their first official outting at
our annual tournament.
Although the day was longer
than expected, we hope that all participants enjoyed the day. Bryan Asa.
Tournament Results:
Non Degree
1st A. Taylor of McGill Kendo Club
2nd J.M. Hong of York University Kendo Club
3rd R. Lee and SJ Lee of
UofToronto Kendo Club
1st-2nd Dan
1st HB Kim of McGill Kendo Club
2nd BS Nam of York University Kendo Club
3rd C.Hao of JCCC and R.
Kennedy of Mississauga Kendo Club
3rd Dan and Up
1st E. Yamashita of Etobicoke Kendo Club
2nd T. Murakami of Toronto Kendo Club
3rd YC Yoon and R Tanaka
of UofWaterloo Kendo Club
Team
1st Team Canada (C.Hao, E. Yamashita, M. Raymond, R. Tizzard, B. Asa)
2nd JCCC A (SY Seo, S. Kanno, A. Asa, S. Asa, S. Nakatsu)
3rd U of W C (SY Shim, J.
Kim, YC Yoon, K. Hao, R. Tanaka) U of W A (E. Hastie, T. Erb, S. Naidu,
SJ Park, L. Yu)
Fighting Spirit
SH Kim of York University
Kendo Club
Closing Notes:
#1 Found at tournament site:
One Blue Shinai Case with shinais - please let me know if you know the
owner #2 T. Murakami of Japan participated in the tournament and helped
out in refereeing matches. He is also interested in Kendoists in Ontario
and was passing out a Kendo Questionnaire at the tournament. Please find
the time to fill it out and return it to him at fmurakam@julian.uwo.ca.
Ontario Open Iaido Shiai
The first ever Ontario Open Iaido
Shiai was held on Sunday, April 2, 2000 at the Japanese Canadian Cultural
Centre in Toronto. With assistance from a few kendoka who are experienced
in these types of tournaments, the shiai went smoothly and with few problems.
In the opening ceremonies, guest
speaker, Roy Asa, President of the Canadian Kendo Federation, who had just
returned from the 11th World Kendo Championships in California,
reported on the Canadian Kendo Team's excellent showing and welcomed all
participants and spectators.
Of particular note were the awards
given out to all finalists - all beautifully hand crafted by artist and
Iaidoka Fred Kay. Fred also hand crafted the door prize, a beautiful mahogany
sword rack. Sincere appreciation goes out to Fred for all of his work both
on the organization of the shiai and the making of the awards.
Thirty-four competitors faced
off in 3 divisions. Results were as follows:
Division #1 (kyu):
1st Amy Leh Toronto Kendo Club
2nd Doug Munro Sei do kai
3rd Richard Gardner Yoshinkan
3rd Brenda Jones Tweed
Martial Arts
Division #2 (shodan/nidan):
1st Tracey Sheppard Yoshinkan
2nd Tim Wakefield Shugyukan
3rd Ren Valentino Tateyama
3rd John Kopaci Sei do kai
Division #3 (sandan/yondan):
1st Sandra Jorgenson Yoshinkan
2nd Ed Chart Sei do kai
3rd Jeff Broderick Sei do kai
3rd Carole Galligan Sei do kai
A fighting spirit award went to
Mae Cao from CMAC.
Congratulations go to everyone
who participated in the Shiai. It was an excellent showing of the extent
to which Iaido has grown and prospered in Ontario. A special thanks goes
to Goyo Ohmi, Referee Director of the Shiai, without whom Iaido would not
be where it is today in Ontario.
Miyazaki again!
Miyazaki Masahiro has won the All-Japan Kendo championships for an unprecedented 6th time. The full draw is available at:
www.kendo.or.jp/english/database/champ47.html
Here's the top four:
1. Miyazaki (7th dan from Kanagawa)
2. Eto Yoshihisa (6th dan from Osaka)
3. Sato Mitsunobu (5th dan from Miyagi)
3. Ishihara Kazuyuki (6th
dan from Gunma)
Miyazaki won the final 2-0,
both men points. He's batting .600, having entered this championship 10
times. In the semis, Eto won over Ishihara 1-0 by men, Miyazaki beat Sato
1-0 by men.
- Neil Gendzwill
25th Annual PNKF Kendo Tournament
- November 13, 1999
10 Years and Under11 to 12 Years
1st place - K. Winder, Seattle 1st place - S. Marumo, Sunrise
2nd place - A. Gomez, Obukan 2nd place - R. Campbell, Steveston
3rd place - S. Negishi, Youshinkan 3rd place - T. Suzaka, Cascade
3rd place - N. Marumo, Sunrise
3rd place - K. Marus, Steveston
13 to 14 Years High School 15 Open,
16 to 18 Kyu Only
1st place - K. Kobayashi, Youshinkan 1st place - G. Suzaka, Cascade
2nd place - J. Lundell, Renton 2nd place - M. Kobuchi, Vancouver
3rd place - T. Young, Sunrise 3rd place - D. Kayashima, Bellevue
3rd place - A. Akitaya,
Vancouver 3rd place - S. Ueno, Vancouver
Mudansha 0-4 KyuMudansha 3-1 Kyu
1st place - E. Lachica, Cascade 1st place - G. Mizushima, Spokane
2nd place - M. Rinaldi, Bellevue 2nd place - A. Oki, Cascade
3rd place - J. Hur, WSU 3rd place - S. Yen, Seattle
3rd place - S. Branson,
Sunrise 3rd place - G. Ham, UW
Women Yudansha 1-2 Dan
1st place - M. Rinaldi, Bellevue 1st place - T. Sasaki, Spokane
2nd place - V. Marsten, Renton 2nd place - W. Fujimoto, Hawaii
3rd place - M. Akitaya, Vancouver 3rd place - M. Sanchez, Mexico
3rd place - T. Anderson,
Bellevue 3rd place - N. Akitaya, Vancouver
Yudansha 3-4 DanYudansha 5 Dan and Above
1st place - D. Taguchi, Sunrise 1st place - M. Asaoka, Youshinkan
2nd place - S. Asaoka, Youshinkan 2nd place - H. Ito, Mexico
3rd place - D. DeJong, Highline 3rd place - R. Shimizu, Seattle
3rd place - B. McCarry,
Highline 3rd place - G. Imanishi, Cascade
Junior Team Senior Team
1st place - Vancouver 1st place - Highline
2nd place - Bellevue 2nd
place - Sunrise
Shoji Trophy - Bryan Imanishi,
Cascade
36th Annual Vancouver Kendo Tournament
- January 15, 2000
9 Years and Under10 to 12 Years
1st place - N. Marumo, Sunrise 1st place - R. Campbell, Steveston
2nd place - G. Mizutani, Renbu 2nd place - R. Marumo, Sunrise
3rd place - R. Murao, Steveston 3rd place - S. Okusa, UBC
3rd place - L. Murao, Steveston
3rd place - T. Suzaka, Cascade
13 to 15 Years 16 to 20 Years
1st place - K. Kaneyoshi, Vancouver 1st place - N. Akitaya, Vancouver
2nd place - A. Akitaya, Vancouver 2nd place - G. Suzaka, Cascade
3rd place - J. Marsten, Highline 3rd place - D. Udagawa, Steveston
3rd place - K. Kobayashi,
Youshinkan 3rd place - T. Yamada, Vancouver
21 to 30 Years 31 to 40 Years
1st place - P. Nishikihama, Steveston 1st place - A. Shirran, Youshinkan
2nd place - D. Taguchi, Sunrise 2nd place - F. Hanawa, UBC
3rd place - M. Asaoka, Youshinkan 3rd place - W. Nakano, Steveston
3rd place - S. Asaoka, Youshinkan
3rd place - D. Harding, UBC
41 Years and OverWomen
1st place - Y. Taguchi, Sunrise 1st place - W. Nakano, Steveston
2nd place - B. Campbell, Sunrise 2nd place - M. Akitaya, Vancouver
3rd place - D. Yotsuuye, Bellevue 3rd place - E. Marsten, UW
3rd place - D. Dye, Tacoma
3rd place - S. Sugiyama, Renbu
Junior Team Dojo Team
1st place - Vancouver 1st place - Sunrise
2nd place - Sunrise 2nd
place - Vancouver
Senior Team Spirit Awards
1st place - Youshinkan R. Murao, Steveston
2nd place - Vancouver Team
2 H. Yamada, Vancouver
2000 U.Toronto Kendo Tournament Results
We'd like to thank all the
participants and (especially) all of the volunteers for making this year's
tournament run smoothly.
Mudansha
1st: Minwoo Park, Il Kum Soon Do Kwan
2nd: Raymond Kim, York University
3rd: David Stankaitis, Montrèal;
Joon Jung, York University
Women's Individual
1st: Yukiko Koriyama, JCCC
2nd: Catherine Thomson, JCCC
3rd: Yoko Kamata, Etobicoke;
Lisa Yu, University of Waterloo
First and Second Degree
1st: Kunito Watanabe, Montrèal
2nd: Suresh Naidu, University of Waterloo
3rd: Makoto Adachi, Brock
University; Huges Renaud, Takahashi
Third Dan and Up
1st: Robin Tanaka, University of Waterloo
2nd: Kyotaka Kamata, Etobicoke
3rd: Jin-Hwan Lee, York
University; Yukiko Koriyama, JCCC
Team:
1st: JCCC A (Yukiko Koriyama, Seiji Kanno, Shane Asa, Taihei Juniri, Steve Nakatsu)
2nd: University of Waterloo A (Sung Yong Shim, Suresh Naidu, Kazuyoshi Hao, Hyun-June Choi, Robin Tanaka)
3rd: University of Toronto
A, Etobicoke A
Fighting Spirit Award:
Rob Perry, Etobicoke
Danny Saruyama Memorial
Award: Evan Hastie, University of Waterloo
Toronto Kendo Club - 5th Annual Summer Camp
with Kimura sensei.
Friday August 4th to Monday
August 7th, 2000 (Civic Holiday)
The Kendo Camp is held in
Bracebridge. Practices are held at Monck Public School, and we all camp
at Whispering Pines Camp Grounds.
Registration Fees are:
$100 for practicing participants
$ 50 for non-practicing guests
(Fees include camping site
& three meals a day. You should bring tents, sleeping bags, etc.)
For more information please contact: Eric Chiu - ewchiu@idirect.com - tel (416) 778 5239
Paul Nakamura - paul.nakamura@emc.ericsson.se
Or visit our web site: http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Bay/4585/kendocamp.html
CLUB PROFILES
Yugenkan Dojo - Iaido
Class times - Beginners classes:- Saturday 6.00-8.00pm and Sunday 5.00-7.00pm
Senior class (Shodan and
up):- Sunday 7.00-9.00pm
Location:- Ridgeway is a
small town on the North shore of Lake Erie; midway between the towns of
Fort Erie and Port Colborne. The nearest cities are Buffalo, NY and Niagara
Falls, Ontario; each is about 20 - 30 minutes away. Yugenkan is a private,
family dojo. Please call for directions 905-894-1573.
New students and inquiries
are always welcome. Anyone is welcome, regardless of age, sex or previous
martial arts experience or affiliations. We study in an atmosphere of formal
etiquette with emphasis placed on personal control and technique through
austere training (shugyo).
Styles:- ZNKR Seitei Iai and Harusuke-ha Muso Jikiden Eishin Ryu
Instructor:- Bill Mears.
Iaido Yondan
History:- Yugenkan Dojo,
Canada was formed in 1988 at the suggestion of the founder of the Yugenkan
Dojo in the United Kingdom; Sensei Malcolm Copp-Taylor, who graciously
allowed the use of the name Yugenkan and the Yotsume Mon as our crest.
In the early days we practiced in squash courts, school gyms and local
karate dojo. These days, although we are still a small group, we train
in a 2-car garage that was converted into a dojo in 1993.
Toronto Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre
The Japanese Canadian Cultural
Centre (JCCC) is moving to a new location at 6 Garamond Drive (less than
2 blocks from the existing JCCC). The first phase took place late last
year when the offices of the JCCC moved to the new building. On the eve
of Sunday April 30, 2000, Phase 2 took place and all of the martial arts
clubs including the JCCC Kendo Club have moved to the new dojo (good news:
softer floor) and building.
With the move, a new JCCC Iaido club has been established under Goyo Ohmi and Sandra Jorgenson.
Communication in the CKF
With a country as big as
ours, it is always hard to get the word out to everyone in the federation
in a timely manner. Events come and go and weeks later someone who would
have liked to attend finds out about it.
There are now at least 5
ways I can think of to get your message out to the rest of the federation
(and to find out what everyone else is doing). These are:
Telephone
tree (you call someone who calls someone else who...) Not very effective
but fast. FAX announcements, better, but this relies on every club
having an up to date fax contact, and that person informing everyone else.
EMAIL
trees, kind of like telephone trees, it really depends on who gets
on whose address list. The CKF website http://kendo-canada.com/
is a good source of "stable" information such as club contact numbers and
addresses but it relies on people visiting and looking regularly. The
CKF News which comes out several times a year is a good place to put
your announcements, but it's not very fast and is better for tournament
results, especially with the Editor being the lazy type he is.
Oh, I forgot the most common
communication technique... tell everyone at practice, then assume everyone
else knows about it. Really fast, good for short notice, but almost always
fails.
Now, with the amazing spread
of computers and email hookup comes the best thing yet: The kendo-canada
email list. You sign on (by sending a message to kendo-canada-subscribe@egroups.com
and you will be connected to the list, receiving emails concerning the
CKF and being able to send to others.
There are loads of other
features at: http://www.egroups.com/group/kendo-canada such as a calendar,
photo archive, chat room and much more so sign on today! And get
connected. - KT
We welcome all inquiries,
letters, comments, articles, announcements, photos and tournament reports
to Kim Taylor, Editor, 44 Inkerman St. Guelph Ontario or email them to
kataylor@uoguelph.ca