Yaegaki-Kai

The Belgium Iaido Championships 2013 took place this Sunday 12/05/13 in Ninove. Belgian Iaido level is increasing every year and we were rewarded with good matches and thrilling finals. Finals were shortly followed by 5th dan embu taikai and examinations. Congratulations to all the participants and organization staff …

The Brussels Yaegaki-kai did well this year with a Godan Gold medal for Michael, Yondan Bronze medal and fighting spirit for Eric, Shodan Bronze medal for Greg and the participation of Patrick (Sandan), Eric (Nidan) and Christian and Didier (Mudan). In addition congratulations to Greg who passed his 2nd Dan and Christian his 1st Dan.

Full results are here: Results BIC 2013

A shinnenkai (新年会, literally “new year gathering”) is the Japanese tradition of welcoming the arrival of the New Year. This year the Yaegaki kai gathered at Japanese restaurant – Wataro– to welcome the 2013 year, hoping it will be full of hard renshu and fun daini dojo. It was a good time to relax and celebrate with great food and nice drinks (Beer/Shōchū 焼酎/Nihonshu 日本酒). Yeahhh …

The Brussels Yaegaki-Kai wish you all a happy new year 2013 – Akemashite omedeto gozaimasu – May the year of the Snake (Hebi – 蛇) bring you good health, happiness and success. For all of us budō addicts we wish you a lot of intensive Renshu followed by relaxing dai ni dojo “second dojo”, make a lot of new friends through practice and have fun in your day to day life.

Congratulations to Brussels Yaegaki-Kai members who succesfully passed their Dan gradings.
Congratulation to Eric for his 4th dan and Leopold for his 3rd dan passed at the ABKF winter seminar 16/12/2012.
Let’s continue to train hard. Gambarimasho !!!

Congratulations to Brussels Yaegaki-Kai members who succesfully passed their Kyu gradings.
Congratulation to Fred for his 3rd Kyu and Fadel and Didier for their 5th Kyu passed the 11-15-22/11/2012.
Let’s continue to train hard. Gambarimasho !!!

Great results for the Belgian Team at the 19th European Iaido Championships 2012 in Stevenage !!!

A rewarding event including one day seminar and two days of competition with more than 180 participants. Everybody in the team was very happy to meet again all European Iaido friends under a northern (even for a few minutes “snowy”) climate. Japanese delegation was this year composed of Kusama sensei, Aoki sensei and Kamikokuryo sensei all 8th dan Hanshi.

Intense individual and team competition ended with great results: 2x Gold, 3x Bronze medals and the Silver medals for the Team competition.

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Iaido season started very well with as usual a great ABKF Summer seminar. While posting a small resume I discovered an unpublished article draft started in 2011 so I decided to finish it and am posting it now. The topic being: How are the high graded sensei judging a performance and what are they looking at ? Technical mistakes or simply put the non respect of the points written in the ZKR Iaido booklet is already a very bad start. I suppose everybody will agree so let’s postulate those points are respected. Then what are the other aspects judges may look at ? This post lists a non-exhaustive and unordered series of points highlighted by different 7th and 8th dan sensei during seminars and in various articles …

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