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Waterloo Kendo Club

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Waterloo Kendo Club

Founded by Taro Ariga Sensei and supervised by Shigetaka Kamata Sensei, we are a student-run club!

10/23/2026

Last month, our University of Waterloo Undergrad team participated in the annual SWORD tournament ⚔️⚔️!!

Congratulations to Patrick Huang for placing second in the Open Mudansha/Shodan division. And a big congratulations to team Waterloo for placing third in the teams division!!

09/26/2026

We’re very excited to celebrate our Alumnus and Founder Ariga-sensei passing the 8 dan exam!

Our event tomorrow will be a packed day of practice, dinner, and celebration. Excited to see everyone soon 🎉

09/08/2026

Welcome back to the Fall term for 2026 🍂!
We’re excited to announce our new schedule for September!

Practice times:
The first Advanced practice starts tomorrow September 9th. Fundamentals will begin on September 28th.
Advanced Practice:
- Monday & Wednesday: 7 - 9 PM @ PAC Studio 2
- Saturday: 12:30 - 2 PM @ PAC Studio 1
Fundamentals:
- Monday & Wednesday: 9 - 10 PM @ PAC Studio 2
- Saturday: 11 AM - 12:30 PM @ PAC Studio 1

Two special events are on the way, so stay tuned for more updates!
- Athletics day: September 15, 11 AM - 2 PM @ SLC Great Hall
- Taro Ariga Sensei celebration: September 26, 2 - 4 PM @ CIF Gym 1 & 2

Be sure to send us a DM or email us at [email protected] for any questions. Hope to see you all soon!

04/24/2026

Last week, Team Waterloo played in the 2026 Renshin Women’s Taikai ‼️

Congratulations to everyone that participated and to Lareina Chen, entering her first-ever tournament officially as an alum and winning first in Mudansha/Shodan and third in Teams 🏆

04/13/2026

Two weeks ago, Waterloo alumni gathered back for our Winter 2026 EOT and to help send off our grads 👴

Thank you to everyone who came, and huge congratulations to Heron Lau, Lareina Chen, and Minji Kim!! We wish you the best in the future and hope you visit often 🤧

Special thanks to Nathan Galinger and for helping us with our grad hakama order!

03/27/2026

Team Waterloo had a phenomenal run at the 2026 UofT Taikai last weekend‼️

Special congratulations to:
🏆 Miku Kamata - Women’s Mudansha & Shodan
🥈 Lareina Chen - Women’s Mudansha & Shodan
🥉 Leighton Lee - Open Nidan & Sandan
💥 Lareina Chen - Fighting Spirit Award

Thank you to for the great event, and we’re looking forward to the next :)

02/13/2026

Team Waterloo took their talents to Stratford last weekend for the 20th Intercollegiate Kendo Tournament🪿

Big shoutout to for an amazing event, and congrats to our team:

🏆Miku Kamata - Women’s Open
🏆Ryo Yasumura - Alumni Open
🥉Lareina Chen - Women’s Open
🥈Shannon Lee - Women’s Mudansha

🥉Women’s Team A (Shannon Lee, Viviane Wong, Minji Lee) - Women’s Teams
🥉Women’s Team B (Miku Kamata, Julianne Ho, Lareina Chen) - Women’s Teams
🥉Men’s Team A (Patrick Huang, Qinsong (Jerry) Zheng, Sydney Asa, Leighton Lee, Nathan Lee) - Open Teams
🥉Men’s Team A (Jin Kim, Daniel Montazeri, Dannie Fu, Leo Kim, Ryo Yasumura) - Alumni Open Teams

08/30/2025

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With the end of the Spring term this August, the Waterloo Kendo Club would like to thank everyone for an amazing summer! We’re fortunate to be able to connect with other kendo communities through tournaments such as TKC and the Montreal Taikai this year and look forward to the many more that will follow.
Our club members have also made our community here in Waterloo all the more memorable as well ✨ So, to those who have left and/or graduated, we wish you all the best in the future!
And those who are here now, thank you for your hard work and we hope to see you soon!! ❤️

05/21/2025

Welcome back everyone!!
Hope you all are enjoying the spring term!

The UW Kendo Club will be having our FREE try outs starting today in PAC Studio 1 from 8PM to 9:30PM ✨
All you need to bring is yourself and comfortable clothes and we will provide the rest!

You can still sign-up for our trial days through the link in our bio!

Hope to see you guys there 🥳

12/24/2024

With exams finally over yesterday, the UW Kendo club wishes you all a wonderful break!!
We hope you all enjoyed this fall term and will continue to give this club more amazing memories :)

Have fun and rest up everyone!! ✨🥳

Address

200 University Avenue W
Waterloo, ON

Opening Hours

Monday	7pm - 10pm
Wednesday	7pm - 10pm
Saturday	11am - 2pm

Website

https://uwkendo.ca/

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