Yaegaki-Kai

How many times sensei do ask to relax the shoulders during keiko or seminar. To relax the upper body. The goal of these sensei is to put across that the action of cutting is not only a physical movement of the arms but the proper usage of the entire body combined to the weight of [...]

Summer is generally a period of sunny holiday, relaxing on the beach with a cocktail *Slurp*. Well maybe in July but August is for some of us the kickoff of a new iaido season starting with a bunch of seminars with 2 majors on our list: the ABKF Summer seminar and the NKR seminar in [...]

The Brussels Yaegaki-kai season 2010-2011 has started …

A few post ago I wrote that during our last trip in Japan we made some shopping just before departure. In our shopping bag there was a series of DVD edited by Hertz-International. It has been some years now that I was looking for the Hakone taikai DVDs and I was very happy to find [...]

The Belgian Iaido Championship 2010 took place this Sunday 16/05/10 10:00->17:30 at the Palais du Midi in Brussels. As Shinsain this year I was very happy with the Belgian Iaido level with good matches and thrilling finals from Mudan to Yondan. Finals competitor’s level was very close and decisions were hard to make. Finals were [...]

This new book edited by the “Kendo Jidai” publisher is a compilation of 15x 8th Dan Hanshi sensei’s opinions on what are the important points needed for shinsa, embu and taikai.

It has been some years now – first time was in ’96 – that Yuki and I go in Japan once or twice a year for Iaido, Family and tourism. But this time was the shortest journey we have ever had -> 5 days with only one thing in our mind IAIDO … Day 0: [...]