BUTOKUDEN Martial Arts Dojo offers classes in Kendo, Karate, Aikido, Naginata, Jodo, Sogetsuryu Ikebana, Bushido Culture and Yoga
BUTOKUDEN Kendo Members:
SCKO Individual Tournament is the largest Individual Tournament hosted by our Federation, and divisions are available for all ages and ranks. Last year, we won medals in various divisions. Hopefully, we can repeat that again this year. I strongly recommend participating at this tournament.
For beginners without Bogu, it will be a very good opportunity to come and watch high level skills, and cheer for your Dojo.
Please sign up using the form below.
Taro Ariga
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BUTOKUDEN Kendo Members:
Takahashi sensei (Hanshi 8 Dan) from Kyoto has been invited to run a Kendo Seminar at the Covina Dojo Anniversary Keiko. Everyone is invited to join this seminar, but I have to submit the names by October 26.
Please respond using the form below by October 23. The application form is below:
RESPOND BY OCTOBER 23
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BUTOKUDEN Kendo Members:
I am trying to automate the process as much as I can, in order to minimize everyone’s work, so I would appreciate if you could fill out this form (I apologize for the double entry for people that have already sent me the information, but please re-enter.) It will automatically update my database. This promotion exam is for people eligible to apply for 6 Kyu and up, up to 4 Dan. Our Dojo minimum requirement is to have been practicing Kendo with Bogu for the last 3 months. The age requirements and Kata requirements are also listed in this link.
For people trying for 1 Kyu and up, I encourage you to start mastering the Kendo Kata from now. There is no point of just doing the Kata for exam purpose only. Kata incorporates all the basic movements in Kendo, and by mastering the Kendo Kata, your Kendo techniques will improve. If you have any questions about the Kata, please ask the Senseis and Senpais at the Dojo.
Taro
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SCKO Kyu and Dan Exam
Date: November 22, 2009
Time: To be announced
Location: To be announced
REQUIREMENTS:
1dan: Trained over 3 month after granting of 1kyu (Age: 14 years and older)
2dan: Trained over 1 year after granting of 1dan
3dan: Trained over 2 years after granting of 2dan
4dan: Trained over 3 years after granting of 3dan
KATA REQUIREMENTS:
1kyu: Tachi #1 – #3
1dan: Tachi #1 – #5
2dan: Tachi #1 – #7
3 – 4dan: Tachi #1 – #7 and Kodachi #1 – #3
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October 18
3rd Sunda Practice at OSULA
October 25
Texas Tournament
November 1
Kyu/Dan Exam for USKS
November 8
AUSKF Promotion Exam
November 15
West Covina Dojo Aniversary Keiko
November 22
SCKO Kyu/Dan Exam
December 6
SCKO Individual Tournament
December 13
Godo Keiko & End of Year party
Please check our events schedule at http://www.butokuden.com/events.html
Today, we had a Kendo Demonstration at the the Seal Beach Pier, for the Japanese Kite festival. Many of our Dojo members came to help us. Ryo, Riki, Ian, Cozo, Shion, Leon, Arata, Hiroyuki and Haruna. It was a good turn out, there were a lot of people watching. But it was kind of too windy, so the sand dust was pretty strong.
To BUTOKUDEN Kendo Members:
Please remember the order of this warm-up exercise!!! This is the same exersise done by the Keishicho (Tokyo Metropolitan Police) Kendo Team.
Taro
Here is an important information from Kakutani Sensei.
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Enshin Karate Irvine at Butokuden will host a special training seminar with Enshin Karate Grandmaster Kancho Joko Ninomiya on Nov 7-8, 2009.
Day 1: Saturday Nov 7, 2009
4:00 pm ~
Adults and children 12 years and older
*Enshin Members Fee $20 (Non-Enshin Members Fee $40)
* Enshin members who took a promotion test on Sep 2009 are exempted from this fee.
Day 2: Sunday Nov 8, 2009
9:00am ~ 10:30am
Children under 12 years old
Enshin members only
Please email to karate@butokuden.com for inquiry and registration. The deadline to register is Nov 1st.
Thank you,
Go ‘Alex’ Kakutani
Enshin Karate Irvine Branch Chief
Message from Doug Sakurai Sensei
“From July 27-August 1, twenty five kyudo students from Southern California, including many from Butokuden dojo will be traveling to Spartanburg, South Carolina for our annual American Kyudo Seminar. There will be 5 days of instruction from three Hachidan Hanshi instructors sent from Japan and an opportunity to test for rank on August 1. Good luck to all those students testing. There will be no kyudo class at Butokuden on July 27th.”
To BUTOKUDEN Kendo Members:
Please find below the information regarding the 2009 Nikkei Games Kendo Tournament. Please read carefully the information below.
Date: August 16, 2009
Roll Call: 7:30 AM
Place: CSULB Pyramid
This tournament is for both Kyu and Dan divisions.
Please respond to this e-mail to kendo@butokuden.com by Thursday, July 23rd if you would like to participate at this tournament.
We also need Shinpan (referees) for this tournament (4 Dan or higher).
Thanks,
Taro Ariga
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Tournaments
*Yudansha Divisions (Regular Tournament)
1 dan, 2 dan,3 dan,4 dan, and women’s dan
Rules: 4 minutes, unlimited Extension
*Kyu Team
0-4 Kyu Team (3 kenshi, 17 yeas of age and under)
3-1 Kyu Team (3 kenshi, 17 years of age and under)
Rules: Each dojo can submit up to 2 teams in each division
3 minutes, no extension
*Kachinuki Team
3 kenshi consisting of any combination of below mentioned:
– Adult kyu (18 years of age and older)
– Yudansha (up to 3 dan and 30 years of age and older)
Minimum of 2 kenshi per team
Taisho can not tie. If there are any ties prior to the taisho match both participants will sit down.
No jodan, no nitto, and no tsuki
Each dojo can submit up to 2 teams
Tournament Fee: $20.00
Officials, staff members, spectators, and volunteers have FREE admission. However, they will be asked to pay a parking fee.
Volunteer: Three courts and front desk need volunteers
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We have opened a new website for our BUTOKUDEN Dojo Martial Arts Training Center.
Now, Martial Artists in the Orange County, California have a place to enjoy practicing various styles of Japanese authentic Martial Arts in one single location, BUTOKUDEN. We have classes for all levels in Kendo, Karate, Kyudo, Jiu-Jitsu, Aikido, and Jodo. BUTOKUDEN is 100% backed by e-bogu.com, Inc., world leading Martial Arts equipment supplier, in order to promote Martial Arts to the community.
In the olden days in Japan, every major city had a place called BUTOKUDEN. This is where Martial Arts were taught to the community, and also a cultural gathering place, where children and young adults were taught the philosophy of Bushido through the Arts of Budo.
We have students from all over Los Angeles, Orange County, San Bernardino and San Diego area.