Columbia University Kendo Club is a sports club practicing the Japanese martial art of kendo. Beginn Our classes are open to both beginners and advanced players.
Columbia University Kendo Club practices kendo as a club sport under 7th dan Noboru Kataoka-sensei. Our practice schedule is as follows:
Aerobics Room 4
Mondays: 9PM - 11PM
Wednesdays: 9PM - 11PM
Aerobics Room 3
Fridays: 2PM - 3:30PM
Sundays: 11:30 AM - 1PM
03/26/2022
The Columbia Kendo Club had a great time this weekend in Boston for the Harvard Ryuko Taikai! Congratulations to our team for making it to quarter finals and to our Club President Evan Tong who won First Place in the Mixed Team Competition!
Special thanks to for making this event possible!
11/18/2019
We participated in the 20th Goyokai Tournament in Boston this past weekend!
Mei Kuo - 1st place Women's 1-2 Dan Division
Lucy Shauman - 3rd Women's Kyu Division
A special shout-out: Columbia Kendo Club has been winning the Women's 1-2 Dan division for 3 years in a row!
11/11/2019
We hosted our 3rd New York Intercollegiate Joint Practice with Stony Brook University and New York University! Thank you to everyone who joined us today!!
08/27/2019
Come find us at the Activities Fair next Friday, September 6th! See below for our new practice schedule for the fall semester :)
04/09/2019
Thank you Fujii sensei for visiting us this weekend!
03/05/2019
8 members participated in the Shido Gakuin Rutgers tournament this Sunday! Alissa Mori won 3rd place in the Women's Division and Sungha Park won fighting spirit in 4+ Dan Division! Congratulations to all the participants!
11/19/2018
Columbia hosted the 2nd New York Intercollegiate Joint Practice! Thank you to all our visitors from New York University, Stony Brook University and School of Visual Arts.
10/11/2018
7 members participated at the 19th Annual Goyokai Tournament in Randolph, MA, and 3 of our members brought back medals!
Alissa Mori - 1st place Women's 1dan-2dan
Miguel Martinez - 3rd place Men's 1dan-2dan
Zachary Armine-Klein - 3rd place Men's Kyu
Congratulation to all the participants, and special thanks to the tournament administrators for another great taikai!
Welcome back to campus! Make sure to save the date for our very first practice of the semester!
Date: Monday, September 10th
Time: 9 PM to 11 PM
Location: Aerobics Room 4 in Dodge Fitness Center
We hope to see you there!
04/23/2018
Six members of our dojo passed their promotion test on Sunday at the Ken-Zen Institute!
Congratulations to:
Sungha Park (4 Dan)
Xinyi Chen (2 Dan)
Kay Kim (1 Dan)
Helen Ugulava (1 Dan)
Ziyu Guo (1 Kyu)
Leshi Wang (1 Kyu)
04/08/2018
We hosted our first New York Collegiate Joint Practice this Friday. Thank you to all the participants!
| Monday | 9pm - 11pm |
| Wednesday | 9pm - 11pm |
| Friday | 2pm - 3:30pm |
| Sunday | 12pm - 2pm |