Edinburgh University Kendo Club

EUKC’s 2025/2026 Committee ⚔️

EUKC end of year internal shiai/kata festivities!

“You can’t do something unless you believe in yourself”- Thank you The Student & Will Duffield!

Check out the full article!

https://thestudentnews.co.uk/2025/03/19/you-cant-do-something-unless-you-believe-in-yourself/

UK University Taikai 2025!

Thank you Strathclyde Kendo Club for hosting this year's UK uni taikai!

Mandatory Match Report:

Kian Sullivan brought home the silver medal 🥈for the Men’s Dan Category!

Edinburgh A Team: Kian Sullivan, Ece Yaraşik, Janson Li, Innes Pruden, John Frankel
bringing back bronze 🥉 in the Teams category!

Well done to all our kendoka for showcasing strong spirits and good kendo, regardless of medals!

Looking forward to UK Uni Taikai next year!

Scottish University Taikai 2025!

Mandatory Match Report:
Bronze 🥉in Mixed Kyu:
Yuhang Deng

Silver 🥈in Mixed Kyu:
Yanee Chin

Bronze 🥉and Fighting Spirit 🔥in Women’s Open:
Yanee Chin

Gold 🥇in Women's Open:
Ece Yaraşik

Bronze 🥉in Dan Open:
Ece Yaraşik

Gold 🥇in Dan Open:
Innes Pruden

Bronze 🥉in Teams:
Edinburgh B: Yufei Fan, Ece Yaraşik, Vasu Verma, Eric Zhang, and Janson Li

Gold 🥇in Teams:
Edinburgh A: John Frankel, Innes Pruden, Shae Tjong, Kian Sullivan, and Lele Ju

Thank you GUKC - Glasgow University Kendo Club for hosting the Scot Uni Taikai this year! It was definitely a fun and memorable day for everyone at EUKC, especially for those kouhai competing for the first time!

We are extremely proud of those who medalled, as well as everyone who turned up and fought! Looking forward to next year!

UK UNI TAIKAI 2024 RESULTS

What an absolutely spectacular two days for our club!

Ece Yarasik winning 🥇in Women's Open! (with a injury no less!)

Esther Cheng winning 🥈in Women's Kyu!

And Edinburgh A winning 🥇in Teams!!

Special mentions to Edinburgh C, who despite only having 4 players, not only got through their pool stages, but put up an excellent fight in the knockout stages! Very proud of our kouhai!

And to Edinburgh B, who despite facing many
troubles, got to quarter finals, and missed out on semi finals by a singular ippon! Definitely something to be proud of!
Thank you to Reading University Kendo Club for hosting a lovely event!

We're the champions! On to next year!
Congratulations to everyone!

👏🏼👏🏼Scottish University Taikai 2024👏🏼👏🏼

We have achieved some pleasing results this year:

Teams:
Edinburgh I 🥇
Edinburgh II 🥉

Dan Open:
Taichi Ito🥇
John Frankel🥈
Kat Ferguson🥉
Jin Nishikawa🥉

Women’s Open:
Ece Yaraşik🥈
Katie Park🥉
Yufei Fan🥉

Kyu Open:
Vasu Verma 🥇
Gregor Perry 🥉
Alex Bremner🥉

Fighting Spirit (Teams):
Pablo Sandquist Pereira🏅

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Regardless of results, we are so proud of everyone who competed and gave it their all!
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💛🖤Also a big thank you to our committee who worked tirelessly over the past few months to ensure this Taikai ran smoothly🖤💛

ANNOUNCEMENT

Scottish University Taikai 2024 will be hosted by us, EUKC, on Saturday, 2nd of March 2024!

More details will be out soon, keep an eye out on our socials! 😉

For the first time, we are holding a Staff Oriented Taster this January, Sunday 14th

Taster Times for 2024 January

New semester new practice times: These are the keiko times for 2024 Winter-Spring.