PNKF Invitational North American Women's Team Kendo Championship Tournament

[jmarsten]

Pacfic Northwest Kendo Federation will host it's 2nd Womens Team Championship on August 14th, 2004 in Renton WA. The format will be the same as the first. 5 person teams will be invited from Canadian regional federations, Hawaii, Mexico and the AUSKF Regional Federations. Each Federation is allowed two teams with a miminimum of 3 participants.
Our special guest will be Hoshina sensei, 6th Dan from Nihon Physical Education University. She was team captain of the Tokyo Women's Team in the national womens team championships. Several practices and a seminar are planned during the week prior to the tournament. Invitations will be sent out as soon as all details are finalized. An individual event is planned to be held after completion of the team events.
Last time teams from Northern California, Hawaii, British Columbia, Manitoba, Southwest US, SEUS and PNKF.

[Kiki]

Sounds great! I hope we can send a team..with me on it...hehehe. Please let me know when the invites go out so I can follow up with the Sensei.

:happy:

[dorkusxmaximus]

Good thing this old thread is still here. I wonder who's going to be there. Hey Tapioka, you're going to be there, right ^_^? Are you participating?

[Inouye02]

I wonder if the winning team gets to take the trophy home ? :rolleyes:

[dorkusxmaximus]

dude, i just heard they're short on two more people. Is that true =O?

[jmarsten]

Currently there are 15 women entered from PNKF. Teams from NCKF, BCKF, SEUSKF, GNEUSKF, and Vancouver BC. None from SCKF or SCKO.

[dorkusxmaximus]

I never knew we had that many girls in pnkf ^_^. That's great! I need to go around more often haha. Hey Jamie, did Uto-sensei find 2 more people? I hope she did :) .

[taganahan]

what?! BCKF and vancouver bc are different?

~taganahan

[Neil Gendzwill]

Not all of the dojo in Vancouver belong to the BCKF.

[Inouye02]

I never knew we had that many girls in pnkf ^_^. That's great! I need to go around more often haha. Hey Jamie, did Uto-sensei find 2 more people? I hope she did :) .

I'll ask her tonight, I told her you are available if needed , but i'll let you know .....

[dorkusxmaximus]

Noooooo not me =O!!! I have a friend that is available if she needs an extra person =). Take my shodan friend instead ^_^! She's in it with me too. How about it?

[jmarsten]

SCKF now has 4 women entered and Rika Uto is heading up the delagation. Regarding borrowing people I think you better run that by the tournament management before you make any arrangements. There are now 19 PNKF women entered. Nancy you and Sawayama are entering as part of the PNKF Team, not as individuals.

[dorkusxmaximus]

What's the women's taikai going to be like, Marsten-sensei? Could you describe it a bit please?

[jmarsten]

What's the women's taikai going to be like, Marsten-sensei? Could you describe it a bit please?
Team tournament of basically Federations teams. Nominally two teams of 5 individuals with two alternates per team per federation. Minimum of 3 people per team. Teams are in two pools and the top two teams of each pool go on to the medal rounds. PNKF and NCKF are seeded in opposite pools as they finished 1st and 2nd respectively at the last tournament. Pool A1 vs Pool B2 and B1 vs A2 in the semi-final. Winning teams of the semi meet for the championship. After the team event will be an individuals single elimination event amongst all the team entrants. The individuals will be in two groups of approximately 24 competitors with the winner of court A against the winner of court B for the final championship match. PNKF plans to have the third tournament in 2007 which is the year before nationals and the year after worlds. BTW you need to contact me at jmarsten@hotmail.com about team practice.

[Inouye02]

Nancy you and Sawayama are entering as part of the PNKF Team, not as individuals.

I thought they were gonna be on the SCKF Team ?

[dorkusxmaximus]

Thanks sensei. I'll email you right away. Did team practice started already?

[jmarsten]

I thought they were gonna be on the SCKF Team ?
Not sure why you thought that. I'm the PNKF coach and PNKF hasn't decided our teams yet.
If you have five Southern Cal people why would you be asking for a PNKF person for the team. Currently there is one from OCB and 3 from Gardena JCI and there is a possible fifth.
Some of the other federations that are flying in have extra team members and I would rather someone who has spent the extra cash to get here be put on a team then someone who lives here and didn't have to travel.

[Inouye02]

guess i'll find out tonight at JCI, my bad Marsten Sensei

[jmarsten]

BTW regarding taking home the trophy. I sincerely regret that PNKF didn't send that old Japanese Counsul Generals trophy home with you guys. I am sure it would have come back in pieces and we could have made(giri) you replace it. That would have been great, free replacement cause of course you would have been responsible. You dodged a bullet on that one.

[Inouye02]

BTW regarding taking home the trophy. I sincerely regret that PNKF didn't send that old Japanese Counsul Generals trophy home with you guys. I am sure it would have come back in pieces and we could have made(giri) you replace it. That would have been great, free replacement cause of course you would have been responsible. You dodged a bullet on that one.aaaahhhhh , you see sensei , my wife works for a trophy company , we would of had it repaired, polished, and looking better then new, but i guess i should of told you that sooner , sooo this year when we win it again, i'll guarantee it's safety, it will be packed in a road case real carefully....and returned the next year when we go for the 3-peat ..hahaha

peace...

[jmarsten]

aaaahhhhh , you see sensei , my wife works for a trophy company , we would of had it repaired, polished, and looking better then new, but i guess i should of told you that sooner , sooo this year when we win it again, i'll guarantee it's safety, it will be packed in a road case real carefully....and returned the next year when we go for the 3-peat ..hahaha

peace...
So Jamie you have the easy part done, the talking, November will tell the tale. Perhaps a new rivalry will be born to make this even more exciting.

[Inouye02]

Hey Nancy,

Congrats on your 3rd place, i'm sure you could of beat the last girl, but so better luck next time

[dorkusxmaximus]

Thanks jamie :) . My very first trophy T_T. I'm such a loser LOLOL. She's tough. I like her! I want to go against someone like her again. I hope to be a lot stronger the next time I go against her.

[Hongsermeier]

Nancy,
Congrats on your third place. Was nice to meet you finally. Your welcome to come practice anytime you come down for a visit. We'll help toughen you up a little. :cross_eye

[dorkusxmaximus]

Toughen me up? Don't you mean send me the the emergency room LOL? Sure, I'll take up on that offer! Yup, yup it was finally nice to meet you too. Congratulations on 3rd place too. You'll get that dude next time. See ya, homeboy :smiley:

[AlexM]

Dorkus won something??? Impossible. It cannot be. I don't believe it. Won something... it boggles the mind.

Good Lord... now we'll never hear the end of it.

Congratulations Nancy. :D

If you're sleeping with your trophy it's time to let go...

[dorkusxmaximus]

boggles my mind too LOL :puzzled: . Yeahhh Alexxx nooowww whattt???Scared??? I bet you are hahahah. What is this world coming to when dorkus actually gets something from a taikai =P? Anyway, thanks man. Hmm I wasn't planning to sleep with my trophy, but I might just sleep with it tonight =P. Thanks for the suggestion. Watch me wake up with one of my eye's poked out T_T.

[taganahan]

you can try and drink from it if it is one of those cup trophies.

~taganahan

[Inouye02]

so any results from the tournament ? how did the so cal team do ...?

[AlexM]

boggles my mind too LOL :puzzled: . Yeahhh Alexxx nooowww whattt???Scared??? I bet you are hahahah. What is this world coming to when dorkus actually gets something from a taikai =P? Anyway, thanks man. Hmm I wasn't planning to sleep with my trophy, but I might just sleep with it tonight =P. Thanks for the suggestion. Watch me wake up with one of my eye's poked out T_T.

Nancy wins something...

I believe that's one of the signs that the Apocalypse is upon us. Fire, Brimstone and Pikachu girl gets a trophy.

Who knows, if you can do it Nancy than anyone can!

Maybe there's even hope for me...

Watch your eyes though. :D

[jmarsten]

so any results from the tournament ? how did the so cal team do ...?
1. PNKF A
2. NCKF
3. Greater Northeast US KF (Shidogakuin NY)
3. Vancouver Kendo Club

Individuals
1. S. Tamura SCKF
2. N. Fukushima Vancouver
3. M. Hayashi Vancouver
3. Y. Hayashi Vancouver
4. A. Chi NCKF
4. E. Marsten PNKF
4. CF Huang PNKF
4. K Kikunaga NCKF

It was a most excellent display of kendo with the top 16 really doing exciting matches.

[Inouye02]

Congrats to Miss Tamura....Although she didn't do to well at the Nikkei Games yesterday..must be jet lag ..

[misterkurukuru]

tamura was a sckf prodigy. She was one of the first girls in the sckf to regularly place in the kyu division. She faded after she got 2 dan. I am glad that she is back! She works hard and the revival of her dojo must be helping her along. She is thought to be a tougher match then most of the guys her age. glad to hear that she showed everyone our sckf pride!

[jmarsten]

Could be , but she didn't do well in the team portion at PNKF. She really just got better and better later in the individuals. Just returning from summer in Japan can really throw your body clock off. Team USA Women thought she really improved over where she was last year. Team goes first and individuals is an add on in this tournament. I think we will have an even bigger turnout next time in 2007 with several more teams entered. :)

[Neil Gendzwill]

Sorry we missed that this year. Our women are kind of occupied with life stuff right now.

VKC women kicking ass again I see.

[dorkusxmaximus]

It was a great taikai ^_^. Thanks for the taikai, Marsten-sensei. I definately learned a lot and walked away heavily inspired. Makes me want to practice a lot harder now after I saw a lot of good matches. It was so clean =). Haha I think Kathy is planning to practice 5 days a week now =P. Anyway,Tamura is definately really good. Congrats to her.




Yup, there's hope for everyone if I can get one LOL. Seriously =). Now go get one, Alex! Pressure is on now, man =P.

[Miyu]

Marsten-Sensei,
The taikai was probably the best I've ever been to and I really enjoyed myself. Hopefully next time my team will show up, but thanks for adopting me for the week.

P.S. The party was a blast!

--Tina Liu

[DCPan]

Better late than never (http://www.sacrilicious.org/photos.php?dir=./Other_Photographers/Dave/2004-08-14_Womens_Taikai)

[kenshin13]

Better late than never (http://www.sacrilicious.org/photos.php?dir=./Other_Photographers/Dave/2004-08-14_Womens_Taikai)

Great photos! I'm glad Huang sensei did so well ( or not so good, I'm not sure how good she is, very nice though :) ) I'm glad we won all around too, sounded like a good taikai.