Birthday Keiko

By Charlie

Guys, thank you again so much for a great practice. This week, on the day of practice, I turned 36. We celebrated with a pretty hard practice that culminated in a string of jigeiko rounds for me and then repaired to second dojo for some biiru. I had a great time, you guys. Thank you. It's always great to practice with you but it's also great to hang out and chat over some food, which we - and I - get to do far too seldom.

I got pictures at my Flickr account here, and will be putting the jigeiko vids on YouTube here (I only have one up so far; I'm going to try to get a friend to edit them all together for me). I'll also get these vids to each of you individually.

Hope you're all having a good summer!

2008 Nationals

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!! The Midwest Kendo Team has taken third place at this year's All United States Kendo Championship. Under Matsuura sensei's coaching the team rose to the highest level that it has ever reached. The midwest also shown through by taking second place in the men's individual competition. Narumoto sensei from Minnehaha kendo lost to Hatakeyama sensei in the finals. What an exciting weekend for everyone in the midwest. Congratulations to all that competed and keep working, only three year's to train for the next one. Full results are at the below link.

http://auskf.org/announcements/2008/championship/index.htm