Kendo | Atlanta Kendo Kai | Atlanta, Georgia

We are excited to announce our club’s results and share some photos from last weekend’s Southeast Kendo Championship Taikai and Shinsa! Thank you to Georgia Kendo Club for hosting a great event!

Taikai:
Richard Fueston won 1st place in the Mudansha Division
Lisa Zhang won 3rd place in the Women’s Division
Ryoko Barr sensei won 2nd place in the Senior Division

Shinsa:
All of our members that tested were able to pass their tests, but we’d like to say a special congratulations to John Adams for passing his 4th Dan exam! This is a great accomplishment, and we are all proud or you!

Atlanta, Georgia – October 5^th and 6^th, 2019

The SEUSKF and Atlanta Kendo Kai are proud to announce the 30th Annual SEUSKF Championship Taikai and Shinsa. This year marks the 30^th anniversary of the SEUSKF Championship as well as the 10^th anniversary of Atlanta Kendo Kai.  To celebrate these events, we cordially invite you to join us on the weekend of October 5^th and 6^th, 2019.  Proceeds from the taikai will be donated to the SEUSKF teams participating in the 2020 National Championships.  This information packet will provide you with all tournament and testing information, including all necessary registration forms. 

We hope that you will be able to attend and we are looking forward to seeing all of our kendo friends and family soon.  Thank you.

I. TOURNAMENT INFORMATION

DATE:             Saturday, October 5th, 2019

VENUE:          South Forsyth High School Gym 585 Peachtree Pkwy, Cumming, GA 30041

TIME:              7:00 AM           Doors Open/Check-in

7:45 AM           Opening Ceremony (including Iaido Demonstration by Harry Dach Sensei, Iaido 5-Dan)

8:30 AM           Start of Tournament

7:30 PM           Banquet

DIVISIONS:    Individual Divisions*

• Youth A (11 and under)
• Youth B (12 to 15)
• Youth C (16 to 18)
• Mudansha (no rank – 1 kyu, 18 and over)
• 1 dan – 2 dan
• 3 dan – 4 dan
• 5 dan and above
• Women (any rank, 18 and over)
• Senior (any rank, 50 and over)

*Participants can compete in up to two individual divisions.

Team Divisions*

• Youth team (3 person team, 18 and under)
• Mudansha team (3 person team, 18 and over)
• Adult team (5 person team, 18 and over and may include both mudansha and yudansha)

*May compete in a maximum of two team divisions. Competitors without a team may be assigned on the day of the event.

FEES:             Adult Entry Fee (Over 18)………….………………………………….$35

                      Youth Entry Fee (18 and under) …….……………………………….$20

                      Bento Lunch* (includes drink)..……………………………………….$10

*Free lunch will be provided to shinpan 3^rd (dan and above)

II. ACCOMMODATIONS AND BANQUET

HOTELS:       

Hilton Garden Inn (recommended accommodation)

Address: 11695 Medlock Bridge Rd, Johns Creek, GA  30097

Fairfield Inn

Address: 3150 Ronald Reagan Blvd, Cumming, GA 30041

BANQUET:  7:30 PM Saturday, October 5^th

Johns Creek Event Center

11455 Lakefield Drive, Ste 100, Johns Creek, Georgia 30097

Banquet Fee: $25 (please indicate how many in your registration)

A limited amount of alcohol will be provided, but the venue does allow people to BYOB, so please feel free to do so.

III. PROMOTION TEST INFORMATION

DATE:             Sunday, October 6th, 2019

VENUE:          South Forsyth High School Gym 585 Peachtree Pkwy, Cumming, GA 30041

TIME:              7:00 AM           Doors Open (but note the gym will be used for SEUSKF team

practice and tryouts between opening and the promotion check-in)

10:00 AM         Promotion check-in

10:30 AM         Start of Promotion Test (Up to 4^th Dan)

V. REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS

Due date September 12th, 2019

Please use the following link to register:

https://www.atlantakendokai.org/2019-seuskf-registration/

Payments accepted via PayPal. Please email [email protected] if you have any questions or require a different form of payment.

Tenugui and T-Shirts will be available for purchase. They can be pre-purchased during the registration online or onsite during the event. Proceeds from sales of t-shirts and tenugui will be donated to the support of the SEUSKF teams competing in the upcoming National Championship.

We are pleased to announce that Atlanta Kendo Kai will be hosting the 30th annual SEUSKF Championship Taikai on October 5th and 6th, 2019. 

Proceeds from the Taikai will be donated to support the 2020 SEUSKF Teams, so please help us to make this a successful event and support our federation’s kenshi! 

Details on registration, venue, hotels, etc. will follow, but please mark your calendars for October 5th and 6th.

Over Memorial Day weekend we had several members competing, testing and attending the seminar at the GKA annual taikai. Thank you to GKA for hosting a great event! It was wonderful to see kendo friends from around the southeast and we all learned a lot from the visiting sensei in the fantastic seminar. Here are the results for Atlanta Kendo Kai.

Tournament:
Ryoko Barr sensei won 1st place in the women’s division.
Richard Fueston in won 1st place in the mudansha division.
Lisa Wiest won kanto-sho in the women’s division.

Testing:
Lisa Wiest passed 1st Kyu.
Sakura Toriyama passed 2nd kyu.
Richard Fueston passed 2nd kyu.
DeVon Williams passed 3rd kyu.
Haruhiko Shidara passed 5th kyu.

Congratulations to everyone!

We have some great results to announce from the 2018 SEUSKF Taikai!

Tournament results:
Pavel Litterbach sensei won 1st place in the 4th dan and above division.
Reiko DeSouza won 3rd place in the women’s division.
Anthony Romero won 2nd place in the Mudansha division.
William Kenney won kantosho in the Mudansha division.

Testing Results:
Gulam Dasthagir passed nidan.
William Kenney passed shodan.
Darrell Lane passed 2 kyu.
Richard Fueston passed 3 kyu.
And Eric Pansen, Bryan Hogan and Michael Osborne passed 4 kyu

Congratulations to everyone! And thank you to Memphis Kendo Club for hosting a great event.

We have some great results to announce from the SEUSKF Taikai!

Tournament results:
Pavel Litterbach sensei won 1st place in the 4th dan and above division.
Victor Koh won 2nd place in the 4th dan and above division.
Reiko DeSouza won 3rd place in the women’s division.
And Atlanta Kendo Kai Team A won 3rd place in the teams division (Pavel Litterbach, Jonathan Oliver, Victor Koh, Cameron Robertson, Frank Campodonico).

Our members Pavel Litterbach, Victor Koh and Gulam Dasthagir were selected to be part of the South Eastern United States Kendo Federation team that took part in the All United States Kendo Federation National Championships in San Jose, California last weekend. Gulam was part of the mudansha team which won third place in the event. Congratulations to our members and to all of the SEUSKF representatives. We are proud of you all!

Our members had a great time at the All Carolina Tournament this past weekend (22nd and 23rd Apr)! Thank you very much to Ishimori-sensei, Columbia Kendo Club and Charlotte Kendo Club for hosting a great event.

Here are the results for Atlanta Kendo Kai members:
Reiko DeSouza placed 3rd in women’s division
Victor Lim placed 3rd in youth division

And in testing:
Sam Lim passed 4th kyu
Jenn Davis and Leo Minh passed 3rd kyu
Shae Dodson, Andrew Liu and Claire Kim passed 1st kyu
Victor Lim passed 1st dan

Great work, everyone!

Our member Pavel Litterbach attended the 2016 Toru Giga Cup Czech Open Taikai attended by national level kenshi from France, Poland, Czech Republic, Great Britain and New Zealand. We are very proud of him for winning 1st place in men’s division and 3rd place in mixed teams. Congratulations Pavel!