31st Annual Vancouver Kendo Club Tournament

[ms.kendo]

Hello Everyone,

Just a heads up. The Annual Vancouver Kendo Taikai is soon approaching. Here's some info:

Saturday, January 22nd, 2005
Location: Capilano College in North Vancouver

I have sent out invitations to all dojos on the CKF, PNKF, SCKF, and Hawaii, and Alaska websites. I wanted to send out some to the NCKF, but there are no addresses on the website. If any of you are from NCKF, and want entry forms sent to your dojo's sensei, please send me a message! We are holding this shiai at a larger location, and are hoping that we will have more participants. The categories for this taikai are arranged by age, so for some of you, you will get the chance to fight different people than you're used to.

There is a really nice hotel located very close to the location, and we were able to get excellent rates!! For more info, please post a message!

[ms.kendo]

Sorry guys....it will be the 41st Annual Vancouver Kendo Tournament. Not the 31st. It's alot older than you think! 41 years!!!

[4doormadman]

nice..gotta love tournament season, LOL

who are you ms.kendo? maybe i know you

[ms.kendo]

Thanks for all your excitement!

I am from Vancouver Kendo Club, and I am one of the many girls there! ^^ You will definately see me at the Vancouver Tournament, as well as the Steveston. I hope to see you there!

PS-Are you from Steveston dojo?

[Inouye02]

Thanks for all your excitement!

I am from Vancouver Kendo Club, and I am one of the many girls there! ^^ You will definately see me at the Vancouver Tournament, as well as the Steveston. I hope to see you there!

PS-Are you from Steveston dojo?

any OLDER girls there ??? hahaha

[taganahan]

oooooh.....:ko:

anywho, what are the categories for the shiai or divisions?

~taganahan

[ms.kendo]

Here are the categories. They are arranged by age, so your rank doesn't really matter here. It is an advantage for some, and an dis-advantage for others, but it's the way it has always been at our tournaments.

9 years and under
10-12 years
13-15 years
16-20 years
21-30 years
31-40 years
41 and over years
Women's
Junior Team
Senior Team
*There will be no dojo team again this year.

There is an excellent list of last years winners on the US Kendo website: http://www.kendo-usa.org/results/vancouver_2004.htm

PS-Jamie, I don't know if you'd be interested in our club...us girls are pretty scary....

[4doormadman]

Thanks for all your excitement!

I am from Vancouver Kendo Club, and I am one of the many girls there! ^^ You will definately see me at the Vancouver Tournament, as well as the Steveston. I hope to see you there!

PS-Are you from Steveston dojo?
yup, sutebuston....
im guessing your initials are YH?

[taganahan]

16-20....damn i'm dead.


~taganahan

[ISSAC RU]

Ms.Kendo ...
i m Issac..
do you think i could participate for the 16-20 group?
...>.<.....

0_0.......

1 more question when does the monday practice start ?

[moocow65]

21-30 age group. That's Tenken, Tenken's brother, and Mr.Kurukuru. Plus all the tough guys from Canada. Looks like it's gonna be a really tough tournament for me. So what are we gonna do Ms.Kendo before and after the tournament? Wasabi ice cream??? Hmm.. maybe curry ice cream this time. Hahahah.

[ms.kendo]

Issac...I'm sure you will be able to compete in the taikai. Just keep practicing hard. Don't worry. Hayashi-sensei will usually let you know if he wants you to be in the tournament. I will let him know you are interested.
As far as Monday practices, we're still in the process of confirming the place. But if all goes well, it looks like we should be able to practice from next Monday! I will e-mail all club members as soon as it is decided. See you @ practice on Friday!

MOOOOOOCOW~!!!!! so you guys are coming for sure? All of you? what are you going to do about Steveston?! Let me know what you decide. Us Vancouver'ers are going to be very busy probably before the taikai...so I'm hoping you guys can stay a bit after the tournament. Most likely the morning of the tournament, i'm going to be in and out of the house running to and from the gym, but it's really close to my house...i.e....it's in the mountains! Maybe we can work something out, if you guys are really coming, so that you can take my car...and maybe hang with my mom?!?! haha...
Make sure that you get an application form. There should've been one sent to you guys through the address that was on the SCKF site. If you don't get it within the week...let me know, ASAP! I'm going to be away for a month, so if you don't get it, then...you're kinda screwed, and I won't be here to help. All applications are due January 1st!

PS-OMG! you guys have to try the HEDGEHOG ICE CREAM!! I'm SOO addicted now!

[ISSAC RU]

1 question out of curiousity....
Is Mako ur sister ? You guys look so alike each other..and with
the same last name....
And..Is Hayashi Sensei related to your guys?
BTW...I never seen Hayashi Sensei smile or anything..>.<...
-_-''.....I m kindda of scared if i want to talk to him ...

[Neil Gendzwill]

I have no idea how you could say that. Mako and Ms. Kendo look nothing alike. For one thing, Mako's about 1/2" taller.

[ms.kendo]

................

[ms.kendo]

not anymore! muhahahah!!!!!

[ISSAC RU]

why...i think u guys look so alike each other...
Seriously....are u guys sisters ?
or maybe...cousin....?
-0-.....................

-_-''''........................>.<~~

^-^

[ms.kendo]

Alright...I didn't start this post to talk about me... Let's move on....

So, who thinks they can make it to the tournament?
Who will be at the CKF grading this weekend???

[Twobitmage]

hmm I thought the tournament was on february...

I better check my club newsletter again

[ms.kendo]

Nope.

The Vancouver Tournament is in January, and the Steveston tournament is in Febuary. Both tournaments however are located in the Greater Vancouver area....maybe that's why you're confused.

[taganahan]

i'm going there.

~taganahan

[neko kenshi]

We're talking about vancouver washington right? Sorry, just checking.

[ISSAC RU]

Its Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada...

-_-''

[isi]

Good lord, are the divisions only set by age and there are no minimum experience requirements? Is there possibly a general understanding out West that, for instance, a relative newcomer might be best advised not to enter the 31-40yr old division?

Maybe I'll just come watch this year...

[Mysticalnet]

Hayashi sensei is Mako's father of course....

[taganahan]

who's coming anyways?

~taganahan

[AkuSokuZan]

Ms. Kendo... Who are you?????? From what I have hear from Issac and everyone else... i have deduced that you are Hayashi Yumiko(unless there is some other person same size as Mako, looks like Mako that goes to our dojo that i don't know/havn't met yet...)... I can't say for sure tho...

Ms. Kendo, If you guys are going to La Casa Gelato (place with 208 flavors or sumthin like that) PLZ TAKE ME!!!!!!!!!!!(I always wanted to try out their rice ice cream...)

As for the vancouver taikai, Lloyd, I hope to see you there (If you don't remember me than it's fine...) Richard, If you see this post, I'll see you there.

Ah yes... For the taikai prep... Once January turns around, VKC will be going into Taikai prep as fast as possible I take it.

Lloyd, As to who/which dojos will come, Ms. Kendo has sent out the invitations to CKF, PNKF, SCKF, and Hawaii, and Alaska. That would include all sorts of dojo's from north+south cal, every dojo (hopefully) in the vancouver area. Probably some ppl from Western Canada, Western United States, Up North where Alaska is, Halfway across the Pacific to where Hawaii is. Hope the message is clear.

[isi]

Is there a KW get together that weekend?

[AkuSokuZan]

Is there a KW get together that weekend?
I'm sorry I don't quite get the meaning of this message. Are you saying that a bunch of kendo friends from Kendo World will get together in Vancouver for the VKC 41st annual Taikai?

[isi]

Yes Kris, I meant something along the lines of:

Is there a subset of those people who both participate on the Kendo World Forums and who are planning on attending the Vancouver Kendo Club's Forty First Annual Tournament that are planning to get together? And if there is something, even something really informal, let me know so I can invite myself along to meet some of you folks.

[AkuSokuZan]

Thx Isi, that makes it a lot clearer for me.

However, I am not one of those people who know very many people on KW that are going to The 41st VKC Taikai, so I would not know whether or not there would be a major gathering. From what Ms Kendo and Moocow have said, it seems that they might get a couple of friends to go to La Casa Gelato on East Venebles(Is that how you spell it) for ice cream seeing as that is the only place where they serve wasabi and curry ice cream(So, there will probably be a gathering). I'm sorry I can't really answer your question because I don't know excatly who Ms Kendo is (See my previous post). Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

[misterkurukuru]

no curry or wasabi icecream

[taganahan]

As for the vancouver taikai, Lloyd, I hope to see you there (If you don't remember me than it's fine...) Richard, If you see this post, I'll see you there.

hahaha.....i think i still remember your face......as of the moment..lol...j/k

~taganahan

[ISSAC RU]

sweet....-0-''

[ISSAC RU]

I need my ZEKKEN !!!!!

[AkuSokuZan]

hahaha.....i think i still remember your face......as of the moment..lol...j/k

~taganahan
Haha...

That gave me a lil' laugh.

[AkuSokuZan]

I need my ZEKKEN !!!!!Issac, Yes you do need a Zekken, however, I don't think you will get one until next year spring. I don't exactly remember when mako asked me for my Kanji name to put on my zekken but i think it was around spring time (or maybe summer?). Also, a zekken is not necesairy. I participated at my first two, or three taikais without a zekken. All that happened was that I put on two strips of tape. one was K.WU (once they used kanji 鄔(wu in chinese)) and the other one had VAN.BC to tell which club I was from, so don't worry, you don't need one now.

[AkuSokuZan]

no curry or wasabi icecream
Are you sure La Casa Gelato doesn't have curry or wasabi Ice cream? I remember vividly trying the wasabi one several times and never wanting to try the curry but always looking at it...

[AkuSokuZan]

sweet....-0-''
what? Whats sweet?

[ISSAC RU]

Sweet....Sweeet....Sweeeeweeet....

I was gonna buy a MD player during the boxing day..
but i rather save it for my Carbon Shinai....
gonna buy one of those DB MKII .........!_!

abou the zekken..i asked mako..she said she will ordered it during the taikai
if she has enough ppl to do it ....
I asked the lady in Mikado..
appearently she doesn't understand what i was talking about?
she was like ....A ?? Zekken ?...whats that ?

[AkuSokuZan]

Sweet....Sweeet....Sweeeeweeet....

I was gonna buy a MD player during the boxing day..
but i rather save it for my Carbon Shinai....
gonna buy one of those DB MKII .........!_!Haaa Carbon Shinai? Issac, First of all, ask yourself, will you be doing kendo for at least five more yrs (I believe you will)? Second, Why the DB? do you brefer the center bulge of the shinai? I find it makes the weight near the centre and that frankly, puts me off balance. I prefer the CF series because the wirght is near the tip.


abou the zekken..i asked mako..she said she will ordered it during the taikai
if she has enough ppl to do it ....
I asked the lady in Mikado..
appearently she doesn't understand what i was talking about?
she was like ....A ?? Zekken ?...whats that ?
LMAO I know what you mean. I ran into the same experience. I asked her if I could get one and she was like ????????? And then we got into a big discusion with another person from mikado and we were like, so you put it on? Yeah, it goes on the middle of the tare! Ah I see, but you don't sew it on do you??? NO! It's a thing with your name!!!

[ISSAC RU]

I believe i could last kendo more than 5 years...
I already sacraficed 3 of my birthday presents to
kendo..!+_+!

the mikado lady was like
the tare is too thick to sew-in ?
i was like...........-0-???.''!!!!!!!!!
how can a person who sell kendo stuff ..doesn't know what is a zekken.?

[AkuSokuZan]

i was like...........-0-???.''!!!!!!!!!
how can a person who sell kendo stuff ..doesn't know what is a zekken.?
LOL I agree, but lets get back to talking about the 41st Taikai that we're "hosting"

[ISSAC RU]

i think i m responsible for the anouncement during the taikai ( not the opening
ceremoney)
just the anouncing whos winning whos losing and which groups are coming up..

i think thats my job when mako told me i am the anouncer?

[AkuSokuZan]

You're a sub anouncer, for one of the courts I think it was B( but not al the time)

[ISSAC RU]

thx...Is taikai held until 6 pm ?
and after that we have to do clean up ?

[AkuSokuZan]

Hit bulls eye ( we might have a diner after)

[AkuSokuZan]

Whoa, it's been like half a month... no ones going to reply to this???

[dorkusxmaximus]

errr i'll miss my free food at taikais? really, i really will miss it =(! I look forward to this every year and now they won't have free food anymore =O. The lunchroom was where I spent my freetime and went into hiding =X! I'm a very heartbroken person T_T. Although, I have to admit Capilano college is a pretty nice place. Is it a junior college?

[AkuSokuZan]

Hahaha... The free curry meals huh? Yeah, too bad we're ordering bento this year... I remember the time when you could go for seconds then thirds hen come back two hours later for more!!!

[Inouye02]

errr i'll miss my free food at taikais? really, i really will miss it =(! I look forward to this every year and now they won't have free food anymore =O. The lunchroom was where I spent my freetime and went into hiding =X! I'm a very heartbroken person T_T. Although, I have to admit Capilano college is a pretty nice place. Is it a junior college?Food !!! Food !!! is that all you think about ? hahaaha Happy New Year Nancy

[AkuSokuZan]

Although, I have to admit Capilano college is a pretty nice place. Is it a junior college?No it's not a junior college, there are people over 20 sumthin yrs old that go there (unless I don't understand what you mean by junior college). I believe you can actually earn a diploma there (not really sure), but most people who go there are people who almost made it into universities (or didn't) and are in the two year transfer program to bring their marks up...

[dorkusxmaximus]

Of course ^_^, Jamie. That's what is on my poor college student mind all the time. Got to eat when I can mwahaha =D. Happy new year to you too ^_^!

Ahh okay, it's a community college, and what a nice one at that too =O.

[ms.kendo]

Hello Everyone! It's nice to see that everyone is excited about the tournament. It makes me very happy...but it seems people are getting a little off topic. I guess that's always what happens on this forum~

Sorry about no more free food, but the college has no kitchen. The mothers need a break this year. They deserve it.

Hope to see everyone there!
-I think this will be the last post of mine...didn't want to be "revealed," but i guess the kendo community is so small, people are bound to find out who you are. Farewell!

[kendokamax]

I think it doesnt change much if your name is revealed to anyone here.....

maybe you are ashame of posting here ? haha

:smoker:

[dorkusxmaximus]

Didn't take that long for the locals to figure out who Dorkus was T_T. When I typed down Seattle, I was referring to the city. Oh well, bring on the bentos.

[AkuSokuZan]

Oh well, bring on the bentos.
c'mon.. Bentos aren't that bad...

[taganahan]

what's on the bento? i wish there would be some teriyaki chicken and a couple of rolls. mmmmmmmmm.......chicken psyches me up....lol

~taganahan

[Inouye02]

c'mon.. Bentos aren't that bad...dont you guys have like salmon in your bento? thats better then MACKEREL down here in cali, I wish they would change the bento's down here..

[AkuSokuZan]

hm... i don't know. the mothers are organising the bento's i believe...

[isi]

Is Capilano College near the flooding/landslide in North Van?

[kendo-boi]

there's already a tournament!! Dam!! I was gonna join the Vancouver KEndo Club in MArch 2005!!!!! Dam!! LOL!! o well!!:)

[Inouye02]

If the SCI guys who are up there read this ...Kick some Ass !!!! Good luck to Chinen, tenken, misterkurukuru, moocow......

[AkuSokuZan]

Is Capilano College near the flooding/landslide in North Van?
Yes, the landslide took the life of one of the teachers at cap college.. It is very near..


Concluding, that was a great Taikai, I hope everybody had fun!! I know i did!! i hope to see most of you in the next taikai, the steveston one.

[misterkurukuru]

did you get to practice with us?

[isi]

did you get to practice with us?

I practiced watching your team win.

The match with Renbu was quite something.

[Iviro]

Does anybody have the results?

[AkuSokuZan]

did you get to practice with us?
Ah!!! Mister Kuru Kuru, you are from Covina aren't you??? If so, no i didn't get the chance to practice with you guys, i'm soooo disapointed.

*sigh, oh well theres always next time....

[AkuSokuZan]

Does anybody have the results?
The results aren't out yet, however, they will be soon. When i find them out,l i will post the results on this thread.

[misterkurukuru]

21-30
1 masukawa
2 taguchi
3 suwa( i think that was his name, its the guy from japan)
3 Okada


senior team
1 covina/venice/van. (mike suh filled in for Inouye02)
2 renbu

other then that i cant recall

USA did win the red and white match!
2 chinens and I rep. so cal and aided our seattle buddies to win the prize of a big pile of shinai!!!

[Iviro]

geez, 3rd place again! who was it this time Taguchi or Masukawa

what's red/white match?

[misterkurukuru]

it was taguchi this time. we went into encho with the a score of one-one, and about 10 min. later he won. he got a kote off of me. they do an america kodansha vs Canada kodansha match every year follwoing the senior team finals. I fought D. hayashi from Uvic. and won one zero. so i got 2 shinai that day!!!

[Neil Gendzwill]

Go, Big D!

[taganahan]

didn't covina/venice lose against sunrise during the team matches. i remember after the tie breaker, the asian dude in white hakama and gi was very disappointed, and i mean very disappointed. he lost against some big guy from sunrise.

misterkurukuru, where you wearing white gi and black hakama during the tourny?

~taganahan

[misterkurukuru]

you are thinking of the guy from cascade(sp?) and the match between cascade and sunrise. the guy in white and blue doing nito is moocow. I was fukusho for my team and i did eat crow twice in team. once to d.hayashi(one zero, but i got him back later in the kohaku-sen) and then to MEAN DEAN ARA one-zeroe(after he got a kote on me early i had to play hit and run, his kote was really nice!).

[misterkurukuru]

hahaha you called daisaku taguchi some big guy from sunrise. you must be new to kendo. Daisaku taguchi SENSEI is a world class kenshi. He has been to the kendo world championships rep. canada. the "asian dude" in all white didnt even make it up to me in the indaviduals...I thought the kid was going to get beat a lot quicker than he did...lasting about 1min against daisaku is pretty good for anyone.

[Neil Gendzwill]

Daisaku's a great guy as well as being a world-class kicker of butts. He'll be here in Saskatoon at our seminar March 4-6, assisting Kamata-sensei from Etobicoke. Come on down!

[taganahan]

i've seen him around our dojo everytime a tournament comes up. i don't know his name though cuase he shows up after the regular practice but his face and his rep. is very familiar to me. just the name hehe

~taganahan

[jmarsten]

D. Yotsuuye Bellevue 1st 41-up
J. Nunokawa Bellevue 1st 13-15
R. Kim Bellevue 3rd 10-12
Jr Team 1st Bellevue
J. Marsten Highline 2nd 16-20

[AkuSokuZan]

Jr Team 1st Bellevue
AAAAAHHHHHH I'm soooo Pisssed off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *pant pant pant* Vancouver made 2nd in Jr Team (We had Misato Hamanaka from UBC fill in one slot for us).

I don't think this has been mentioned but 1st place for 10-12 is T Hamanaka (Tsuyoshi from UBC)

(I hope i got their last names right... (they're brother and sister))

[AkuSokuZan]

I believe

L. Murao Steveston ( I don't like you ) \

} 3rd of 13-15
S. Chen Renbu (I don't like you either) /

[taganahan]

did you know she killed richard?

~taganahan

[Inouye02]

D. Yotsuuye Bellevue 1st 41-up
J. Nunokawa Bellevue 1st 13-15
R. Kim Bellevue 3rd 10-12
Jr Team 1st Bellevue
J. Marsten Highline 2nd 16-20whoooooo won Sr. Mens team ????

[AkuSokuZan]

did you know she killed richard?

~taganahan
She's killed me on i don't know how many previous occasions!!!! (thats why i don't like her) i've beaten rich b4, of course she killed him!!!!

[AkuSokuZan]

whoooooo won Sr. Mens team ????COVINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[AkuSokuZan]

AAAAAHHHHHH I'm soooo Pisssed off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *pant pant pant* Vancouver made 2nd in Jr Team (We had Misato Hamanaka from UBC fill in one slot for us).

I don't think this has been mentioned but 1st place for 10-12 is T Hamanaka (Tsuyoshi from UBC)

(I hope i got their last names right... (they're brother and sister))
Actually, i'm starting to think that their surname is Hanamanaka...... Not sure.....

*sigh, i'll find out...

[ISSAC RU]

-_-''.................................

[AkuSokuZan]

-_-''.................................
Huh!!!?????

[dorkusxmaximus]

41st ANNUAL VANCOUVER KENDO TOURNAMENT - January 22, 2005, Capilano College
9 Years and Under 10 to 12 Years
1st place - K. Fujii, Kogakukan 1st place - T. Hamanaka, UBC
2nd place - C. Lam, Steveston 2nd place - Ja. TuBajon, Steveston
3rd place - Z. Greene, Tacoma 3rd place - S. Fujita, Renbu
3rd place - Jo. TuBajon, Steveston 3rd place - R. Kim, Bellevue

13 to 15 Years 16 to 20 Years
1st place - J. Nunokawa, Bellevue 1st place - K. Kobayashi, Youshinkan
2nd place - G. Mizutani, Renbu 2nd place - J. Marsten, Highline
3rd place - S. Chen, Renbu 3rd place - M. Honda, Cascade
3rd place - L. Murao, Steveston 3rd place - R. Campbell, Steveston

21 to 30 Years 31 to 40 Years
1st place - T. Masukawa, Sunrise 1st place - D. Hayashi, UVictoria
2nd place - D. Taguchi, Sunrise 2nd place - D. Ara, Renbu
3rd place - S. Okada, Covina 3rd place - N. Nakano, Steveston
3rd place - Y. Suwa, UVictoria 3rd place - D. Imanishi, Seattle

41 Years and Over Women's 16 and Over
1st place - D. Yotsuuye, Bellevue 1st place - K. Kitamura, UBC
2nd place - K. Kagami, UBC 2nd place - M. Taguchi, Sunrise
3rd place - M. Hasegawa, Sunrise 3rd place - A. Kobayashi, Youshinkan
3rd place - H. Samkange, Cascade 3rd place - Y. Hayashi, Renbu

Junior Team
1st place - Bellevue (C. Blomquist, R. Kim, J. Vafaeezadeh, R. Henderson, J. Nunokawa)
2nd place - Vancouver (K. Wu, B. Hwang, H. Saito, M. Hamanaka, H. Yamada)

Senior Team Flaming Spirit Award
1st place - Covina Z. Greene, Tacoma
2nd place - Renbu M. Hamanaka, UBC
3rd place - Youshinkan
3rd place - Sunrise

Yamada Hironori Cup Kodansha Kohaku Match
1st place - USA (Ks. Chinen, Ka. Chinen, R. Elliott, H. Goh, M. Moscoso, H. Samkange, S. Okada,
D. Imanishi, C. Marsten, D. Yotsuuye, S. Koike, R. Shimizu)
2nd place - Canada (D. Taguchi, T. Masukawa, K. Takata, M. Kagami, T. Davis, M. Asaoka, D. Hayashi,
D. Ara, S. Shiono, Y. Taguchi, A. Hayashi, H. Okusa)

[Iviro]

Hey does anybody remember what happend in the Kodansha Kohaku Match

[misterkurukuru]

i beat d.hayashi

[TylerY]

Yamada Hironori Cup Kodansha Kohaku Match
1st place - USA (Ks. Chinen, Ka. Chinen, R. Elliott, H. Goh, M. Moscoso, H. Samkange, S. Okada,
D. Imanishi, C. Marsten, D. Yotsuuye, S. Koike, R. Shimizu)
2nd place - Canada (D. Taguchi, T. Masukawa, K. Takata, M. Kagami, T. Davis, M. Asaoka, D. Hayashi,
D. Ara, S. Shiono, Y. Taguchi, A. Hayashi, H. Okusa)
it says right there

[Iviro]

Duh, I meant in detail

[Neil Gendzwill]

I see an M. Taguchi from Sunrise in the ladies - is Maya practising again?

[bamboo_stick]

I see an M. Taguchi from Sunrise in the ladies - is Maya practising again?
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Saskatoon Kendo Club

It seems like she's BACK!!