Shorinji Kempo North Shore

We had a good black belt training for a cold Sunday morning and finished with some resucitation techniques, thanks Sensei Sean McIlvride

Happy Birthday wishes to Nick Howdle - it was wonderful celebrating with you today. Today's training at North Shore branch went well, and our members were excited to hear the news that the 80th World Shorinji Kempo Organisation Taikai has been set for October 2027; many members are now planning on attending. Melbourne this November, Nagoya next October - we’ve got this 🙏💪

Thanks Nick Sanders for visiting us at training last night. Thanks also to Tom Sherlock for sharing photos from back in the day! We love having an OG in our club. It was another great night.

Thanks Auckland Shorinji Kempo Group for combined training tonight across our branch, central and East Aucklnd. Great to see some new and old faces and it was a good turn out. Thanks Toshi Sekizaki for taking warm up and basics, Adrian Brown and Steve Young for taking training and welcome back Duncan from Japan and thanks for sharing your tips from all the dojos you visited.

Congratulation to Todd Eyre, our newest black belt. What a good effort and strong grading. Thanks to Nick Howdle for being grading partner and to Sean McIlvride for conducting the grading, with Rachel Louie as second examiner. Congratulation to Sensei Darren Louie who has welcomed his 12th black belt within this branch. Great vibes and a well deserved black belt 💪🙏👍

Well done to Shorinji Kempo North Shore Branch who did an awesome job cleaning up the local park to commemorate Kaiso Day

Congratulations to Jason and Liana who learned that they passed their second kyu brown belt grading tonight - great effort 💪🙏

Congratulations to Blesilda who received her Orange belt today. She did really well with strong effort. It was a busy training with her results revealed and 2 kenshi sitting their 2 kyu grading - results next week for them. Great job Bless and well done to everyone else on a good training

Today we celebrate a very special milestone — 20 years of Shorinji Kempo North Shore Branch and 20 years with Darren Louie as Branch Master. Since 2006, Darren’s leadership, dedication, and passion have helped build a strong community rooted in character, skill, respect, and friendship. Congratulations to everyone who has been part of the journey — past and present — and thank you for 20 incredible years on the North Shore.

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