Kenyukai Kendo

It’s already more than halfway through this year!! Time truly flys, so make sure you make the most of it and continue make time to attend trainings regularly!! Seeing everyone continue to improve over this year has been very rewarding!
This month we are holding our first club grading. And following that on Thursday 17th QUT is holding their 3rd QUT Taikai! Registrations are still open so be sure to register while you still can, final applications will be taken on the 11th September.

We look forward to seeing you all at training 🤗

Today was the end of the QKR Winter Seminar and Grading weekend. Many of our members attended the seminar on Saturday run by our very own Greg Nicholas Sensei!

Hana and Noah attended the grading today and were successful in passing! Congratulations to the both of you! We know just how hard you trained and it definitely showed in how you both conducted yourselves in your gradings 🥰

Let’s keep working for next time! 💪

From May 23rd to June 1st, our club member Mio was away in Japan competing with the Australian National Team in the very 1st Asia Oceania Kendo Championships. This proved to be a challenging step in her kendo and was a valuable step forward in discovering her potential!

Congratulations to EVERYONE in the Australian Team who endured the exhausting and extensive training in the week leading up to the comp!
And of course congratulations to the Women’s Team who placed 3rd in the Tournament 🥳🎉🥉
お疲れ様でした！

The 1st AOKC is coming up fast! just 5 weeks to go!⚔️
Australian National team members are working incredibly hard and putting everything into preparing for this exciting big day!

They still have a limited number of Support T-shirts available. Every purchase goes directly toward essential athlete costs, including travel to Japan and equipment.

If you would like to support the team, please visit Australian Team AOKC Support Merchandise to grab yours!

Let's get behind our athletes and make this journey unforgettable!!

Kind regards,
Kenyukai Brisbane

Australian Team AOKC Support Merchandise Support the Australian Kendo National Team with limited-edition T-shirts and tenugui for the 1st AOKC. All proceeds support team expenses.

We would like to thank all of our members who attended AKC for their great contributions not only to the QKR Team but to volunteering their time to help the AKC run smoothly! Keiko, Bear, Kaori, Hana, Tomoe and Mio all contributed greatly to the event.

Keiko was an especially valuable member of the volunteer team and her contribution did not go unnoticed!
Congratulations to Keiko for receiving the Volunteer Award!! 🏆🎉

Congratulations to all our competitors who came back with some awards!
Hana - 🥉Women’s Kyu Team, 🏅 Fighting Spirit Award
Kaori - 🥈Veteran Women’s Individual
Tomoe - 🥉 Veteran Women’s Individual, 🥉 Kata Teams

Over the past 6 months we had the pleasure of training with Yuta. We all wish you a safe travel home! Just try not to sleep in on the plane and miss your stop off 😆

Hopefully we can meet again in Japan!

One of our own, locally grown kendoka, Mio Tardy, will be representing Australia at the upcoming AOKC in Tokyo 🇯🇵

Help support the AUS team’s journey by purchasing official merchandise!
All proceeds go toward travel costs for the team.

✨Support your local kendoka and team AUS via the link in our bio✨

https://events.humanitix.com/australian-team-aokc-support-merchandise

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Just a reminder that we will not have training on Friday 3rd and Tuesday 7th April as many of our members will be up in the Gold Coast for AKC.

Training will recommence Friday 10 April 2026!

The Australian Kendo Championships is approaching FAST! This year it will be held in our home state of QLD. Let us show you some essentials to pack to go to compete: AKC edition!

Our schedule for April!
The first week of April will be a big one! QLD will be hosting the Australian Kendo Championships in the Gold Coast. We have multiple members from Kenyukai representing QLD across a number of events. We will also be seeing many of our members help run the event as volunteers! We look forward to seeing everyone there.