Georgia Kendo Association

Thank you Shigematsu sensei for final Keiko and all of your teachings.

Arai sensei and his wife worked so hard to take care of sensei and his wife as well.

Safe travels back home.

We are grateful.

It’s that time again

Does this shinpanki flag set belong to anyone?

Video of the Mohan Keiko with Shigematsu sensei. Courtesy of Euphie Koizumi !

We thankfully did great on time this tournament so we could invite 5 of our guests to Keiko with our 8dan guest.

Asano sensei
Ro sensei
Aoyama sensei
Jeon sensei
Kataoka sensei

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2026 - 13th Georgia Kendo Taikai results

Youth B (12-15)
1- Yugo Matsuzaki
2- Chaeheon Jeon
3- Evelyn Kim
3- Miley Otobe

Youth A (16-18)
1- Ian Lim
2- Leon Otobe
3- Aiden Stewart
3- Hawool Park

Youth Team
1- GKC , C.Jeon, A.Stewart, I.Lim
2- SEUSKF , A.Ruch, A.Paik, M.Otobe
3- MIX , Y.Matsuzaki, D.Ishino, L.Otobe
3- GKC mix , E.Kim, E.Han, C.Jeon


Women’s
1- Adriene Aono
2- Diana Chen
3- Aska Hughes
3- Becky Oh

Mudansha
1- Andrey Pyslaruk
2- Andrew Woo
3- Moshe Hoffman
3- Linzhao Zhuo

1-2 Dan
1- Kyoyuki Shiono
2- Jayden Min
3- Jacob Wade
3- Inoru Ozawa

3-4 Dan
1- Keisuke Sotozono
2- Dongwan Kim
3- Yusuke Tsumura
3- Tae Lim

5 Dan and above
1- Yuichiro Aoyama
2- Jaemin Jeon
3- Sungho Han
3- James Kim

Adult Teams
1- GKA A - I.Ozawa, D.Le, A.Azurin, K.Sotozono, N.Hirata
2- GKC C - H.Kim, J.Chang, J.Min, S.Han, J.Jeon
3- NYC - M.Yu, M.Ahn, K.Shiono, N.Kataoka
3- Columbia - J.Wheeler, M.Hoffman, Y.Tsumura, Y.Aoyama, N.Ishimori

Thank you everyone for joining us for the 13th Georgia Kendo Taikai and Seminar!!

We hope everyone had an excellent time at the tournament and learned a lot from Takashi Shigematsu sensei.

Every year the work is overwhelming but our little club does our best to host an important opportunity for our fellow kendoka in the southeast region.

This wouldn’t work without all of the participants joining and helping! Thank you to our club members for the hard work as well.

Here are some photos, I will post tournament results shortly following.

Dinner seating is available starting 6:30 if you can make it ! sushi