Ontario Sr. Tournament

[kancho]

Is there anyone that is going to participate in Ontario tournament?

[Raiza]

I am. So are about 7 people from my dojo plus some people visiting us from Japan. I don't think they'll be on our team though.

[AlexM]

McGill (myself included) will be there... We have at least 12 people coming, probably a few more will be added to that number.

Maybe I'll be (un)lucky and draw a fight against Kyotaka Kamata in teams again...

[Inetaro]

Did anyone get the results for the Jr. Tournament?
I couldn't make it this year I heard there were some really good matches.

[tyler]

University of Waterloo will most definitly be there, not sure how many people though. Likely we'll get two teams in. I know I'll be there.

tyler

[Neil Gendzwill]

I won't be there but look for a mixed prairie team headed by Shiono-sensei from Banff.

[heri0n]

go waterloo!
junior tournament results

Non-Bogu Category (12yrs and Under):
1st - Eric Han
2nd - Julie Han

Non-Bogu Category (13 to 18yrs)
1st - Jemmy Gu
2nd - Johnathan Petty
3rd - Sara Joseph
3rd - Allyson Lee

Bogu Category (10yrs and under)
2nd - Andrew Lee

Bogu Category (14 to 15yrs)
3rd - Julia Lee

Bogu Category (16 to 18yrs)
1st - Sang Hyun Lee

Team Match
1st - JCCC 'A': Jordan Luy, Paul Nakashima and Sang Hyun Lee

Fighting Spirit
Elliott Altilia

those are the jccc results
2nd and 3rd in teams were both iksdk i believe
bogu 14-15 was like
1st some iksdk guy
2nd jin park forest city
bogu 10yrs was like i think ryan murao
murao senseis son

[heri0n]

btw who are u inetaro

[AlexM]

Looks like one Ottawa dojo is bringing in ringers from Japan. Gutless bastards... :D

Hey Raiza, any one these imports actually in my division or will they all be competing with the higher ups?

By the way, D'O.-sensei is coming to the tourney.

P.S. I emailed Etobicoke about getting the full results from the junior tournament... no reply yet. I'm still waiting for U of T results too (from March!!!). If I ever receive them they'll be posted on the McGill Club website.

[kancho]

Can someone tell me how many kyu people usually goto the tournament. THis will be my first and not sure what to expect..

[AlexM]

Kancho,

I just checked the program from last March's U of T tourney: There were a little under 100 people in kyu division last year. I suppose you should expect a few more since there has been no grading between then and now (i.e. no one could change divisions).

Don't be nervous... except if you're fighting someone from McGill, then you should most likely be very nervous. I heard those McGill people are real killers in fact, so fast you cannot see them until they hit you, and by then it's too late... :D

[Raiza]

Looks like one Ottawa dojo is bringing in ringers from Japan. Gutless bastards...
Good, then you can tell rokudan Shiono-sensei (from Hokkaido) what a ringer he is. In the last two months we've had three rokudans come visit, which is practically unheard of here. Sato-san is one heck of a host. He's pretty good at leading a class too.



Hey Raiza, any one these imports actually in my division or will they all be competing with the higher ups?
I think they're competing with the higher ups, but I'm not certain. If one or more are competing with you, I'll let them know who called them a ringer. ;)



By the way, D'O.-sensei is coming to the tourney.
Joy! :D

[etherknot]

I believe we are sending you Bozzer-sensei from Edmonton. :)

[Raiza]

I believe we are sending you Bozzer-sensei from Edmonton. :)

That's great! It's so neat that people love kendo so much they'll go to enormous lengths to attend tournaments, seminars, etc. If only I had the time!

[Raiza]

That was a lot of fun. It was so good to see Sato-san back in action. Even more fun the day before was training with the Toronto Kendo Club. Being stuck with the mukyu crowd made me realize how far I've come in the last year and what a great club I belong to. Ikkyu test is next month and hopefully shodan next grading (summer?).

Your thoughts on the tourney?

[fukkenlazy]

First I would like to say I KICKED ALEXM ass!!! so now your my b*tch!!!

Also the tournament was super great and well organised, was very fun and we had some great match during the final!

Imai and Saito have very good kendo, i'm glad that i praticed with them .

[AlexM]

Bob! Look everyone it's Bob! Say "hi" to Bob! Then tell him to go to Hell, Tabarnak!

You don't have to gloat about your victory! :D He did kick my ass though (does gyaku-dou officially count as being bitch slapped by the way)... Just like his brother did to me in May (except it was on kote)... Curse their oily hides!

5 hour drive to Toronto so that I could lose to a guy I've crossed shinai with countless times... I could have stayed home and beat myself up instead!

So, I'm your bitch now? Take a number... I'm everyone's bitch. Except stinkykote's... because I managed to barely beat him in a friendly jigeiko during the tournament. Who's your daddy? WHO'S YOUR DADDY?

In other news, I think I tied heri0n in Teams division... Which is my first ever tie in a tournament (assuming it WAS heri0n). Our team still managed to lose... That's the last time they let me on the A Team... I'm such bad luck. :(

The level of discourse has seriously droped around here... Who says the Californians are the only one's capable of acting like idiots? :D

BTW, The McGill website should have the full results of the Ontario Junior tournament up as soon as our beloved/expatriated webmaster can find the time to post the stuff.

[Raiza]

I happen to practise with Bob (cough*nineteen step kirikaeshi*cough), so I can vouch that losing to him is not much of a humiliation.

Losing to AlexM, on the other hand...

Saito and Imai are so darn cool! Imai won the Fighting Spirit Award! Yay!
Saito's "Sanbon shobu?" is the last thing you'll hear before you get your butt handed to you on a silver platter. At least he liked my kote :D

Shiono-sensei was just beautiful. We've had one heck of an autumn here.

[fukkenlazy]

I happen to practise with Bob (cough*nineteen step kirikaeshi*cough), so I can vouch that losing to him is not much of a humiliation.

Losing to AlexM, on the other hand...

Saito and Imai are so darn cool! Imai won the Fighting Spirit Award! Yay!
Saito's "Sanbon shobu?" is the last thing you'll hear before you get your butt handed to you on a silver platter. At least he liked my kote :D

Shiono-sensei was just beautiful. We've had one heck of an autumn here.

Yes nineteen step, this is modern kendo krikaeshi, you have to make more to become better :P hehehe..joking

Alex, tabarnak, lache pas la patate. Our fight was cool, very cool, although my feet was so numb because the gym wasnt heated.

[heri0n]

hi alex
yes u tied me
wahahha
wahhh we won!! i didnt think we would ;)
but to get smoked by etobicoke a next match :(

haha i think i gave your ass a good spanking with my "gyaku do" while u were turned around ahahahah
sorry ;)

[Steve]

Well, i just want to say that i had a great time at the tournament. The other thing was that i got to meet one or two people from this board, as well as a number of other people i only get to see a few times a year.

Unfortunately, nobody was doing any geiko in the sdie room when i was with a member form UoT Kendo Club. So after i had some practicve time with her, that was it. Ah well....

I have put up a small number of pics on our club website, but I'm expecting many more as soon as i can get them.

Steve.

[kancho]

I am not sure if it was your team, The toronto Kendo Club had an arrogant C team member. Totally lacks respect. FOr a guy just as bad as I maybe even worse shouldn't be so arrogant. Taunting or disrespecting your opponent is bad kendo.

[Neil Gendzwill]

Just saw Saito-san last week, he stopped by in Saskatoon on his way back. Very nice guy. Of course we know Imai-san very well here, he's been going to school in Regina these last few years. If anyone has any opportunities for him in any sort of linguistics-related field (teaching Japanese, translating, etc) I'd love to pass it on - he's looking for a job so he can stay in Canada.

[Steve]

I am not sure if it was your team, The toronto Kendo Club had an arrogant C team member. Totally lacks respect. FOr a guy just as bad as I maybe even worse shouldn't be so arrogant. Taunting or disrespecting your opponent is bad kendo.

Toronto Kendo Club, or UoT? If it was the people we were playing with, or members from Halifax specifically, i think there must be some kind of misunderstanding. We were too busy having too much fun to waste time on taunting.

[AlexM]

BTW, for anyone interested, the results of the Ontario Junior Open from October are now up at the McGill website: www.mcgillkendo.ca

We have the Senior Open's results with us too but they're not posted yet....

And of course we're missing the results of the U. of Toronto tourney (March) for the last two years because even U of T doesn't remember them... *sigh*