The RIT Kendo Club is a student run organization that educates its members in the ancient Japanese art of swordsmanship. Founded in 2001, the club is open to all students, faculty, and anyone with an interest in Kendo. The RIT Kendo Club emphasizes that the study of Kendo does not solely train a practitioner on how to use a sword. Strong friendships, discipline, fitness and much more are gained through the study of Kendo!
Welcome to a new year! Practice for Fall Quarter will be on Sundays from 3-5pm in the SLC mini-gym. Hope to see all you there! Remember, no experience is needed and there are no membership fees until you choose to continue.
Practices for spring quarter will be the same as all year, Sundays from 3-5 in the SLC mini-gym. Remember, practice is open to everyone, including if you couldn't come winter quarter or if you'd like to begin learning kendo now!
Harvard Kendo Tournament will be held on April 4-5. Registration is due March 21. We will most likely be participating in the individual tournament, since the team tournament is only for undergraduates and our team consists of mostly graduate students.
Practices have finished for winter quarter. As soon and the SLC confirms, the practice schedule will be posted for spring quarter.
Some exciting upcoming events will be: Image RIT Demonstration, Club Outing, and the Harvard Kendo Tournament. Details to come!
Thank you to all the members who are braving the harsh weather and attending our Practices. The club is in the process of having a club dinner but all announcements will be made during practice! See you all this Sunday.
The first kendo practice for the winter quarter will be this Sunday 12/7 from 3-5 in the SLC mini-gym. See you all there! Also, there is advanced practice this quarter!; see the Practices tab for more information.
Kendo practice has ended for Fall quarter. Our first practice for Winter Quarter will be 12/7/08. Hope everyone has a good break, and see you all in the Winter!
Our practice location has been changed to the SLC Mini Gym. It located right next to our old location, the dance studio, so we shouldn't be hard to find. See you all next week.
Pizza party at 6pm this Wednesday in SAU lobby followed by a mandatory hazing presentation in Ingle at 7pm. Please come and participate in both!
We have been invited to the 2008 Cornell Kendo Tournament to be held October 18-19. Details will be announced at the next practice.
Our first practice went great! Glad to see so many people interested in Kendo. We will meet again same time and place next Sunday! Hope to see you all there.
We will be at the Club Fair Sunday, August 31, 2008. Stop by our table if you have any questions and to get on the mailing list.
Practice for Fall Quarter 08-09 will be held on Sundays from 3-5pm in the SLC upper Dance Studio. Our first practice is on 9/7. Hope to see a lot of new faces as well as returning members!
The final practice for this school year is today. There will be no practice over the summer but they will commence in fall. The practice schedule for next year will be posted as details are worked out.
SPRING 08 PRACTICE WILL BE FROM NOON TO 2PM SUNDAYS IN THE SLC UPPER DANCE STUDIO. ***Practice for this Sunday 3/23/08 will be from 1-3 because of SLC Easter Hours.
There will be no practice the coming week 3/17-3/23, but we will try and arrange a Kendo related event for later in the week. Practices are tentatively scheduled for Mondays from 6-8pm.
Winter Kendo Practice has finished. Spring quarter practices will begin March 11, 2008. Hope to see everyone back now that the weather is less harsh!
Congratulations to our members Kevin King and Justin Kwong for passing their ranking tests at Ken Zen Dojo in NYC, receiving 1 kyu and 1 dan respectively.
Our first practice of for Winter Quarter will be tomorrow (Tuesday) from 7-9 in the SLC mini-gym. So basically same time and place as last quarter. SEE YOU ALL THERE!
Practices are over for the Fall Quarter. So we will not meet tonight. Practice will pick up again during the first week of Winter Quarter, same time and place. See you all on Tuesday December 4th and have a great break. Speaking of which, going to your local Kendo Dojo would make the break even greater;)
There will be extra practice again this Saturday from 10am-12pm in the mini-gym! Sato Sensei will be there and it's one of the few times to practice for the Bogu test. See you all there!
Sorry for the short notice, but there is a practice tomorrow (Saturday) from 10-12am in our gym (SLC mini-gym). Sato Sensei will be attending for part of the class so this is THE practice to attend. Hope to see you all there!
Mark your calendars! We have been invited to the West Point Kendo Tournament to be held on Saturday, November 3rd. Contact us if you're interested in attending. More details to come.
I hope the new members that attended the special session at U of R had fun and learned a lot. We are extremely lucky to have Sato Sensei come up from Corning so try your best to make those practices!
We will be having our normal practice in the SLC mini-gym from 7-9pm today.
Practice for this Tuesday 9/25 will be very different. From 7:00-7:30pm we will be having a pizza party. Then we will be going to Ingle Auditorium for a talk on hazing prevention and alcohol abuse. Try your best to attend because the pizza is free and the talk is mandatory for sports clubs!
We'll be taking care of the financial things next week (along with normal practice). The Club Information page has our club dues. For purchasing shinais, we will be selling our club shinais for $25 or check the Links page for purchasing things individually. So bring cash or checks made out to RIT Kendo Club.
The University of Rochester Kendo Iaido Martial Arts Club has kindly invited us to practice with them on Saturday mornings from 9:30 to 11:30. This is a great opportunity for all members to see what real Kendo is like because their teacher is Sato Sensei. He is a 5-dan from the Corning area. Currently, there is a $3 charge to be a visitor at the U of R gym. Contact us for information about rides.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
We have been invited to the Cornell Kendo Tournament! To be held September 22-23. Email the club if you are interested in attending. ADVANCED MEMBERS WHO WEAR ARMOR are strongly encouraged to participate. New members are free to come observe and cheer us on;) I need to know ASAP!!!
Please send us your university ID if you have not already. To go along with this, you can get wellness credit for Kendo! RIT requires 2 wellness activities, participating the in the Kendo Club can give you 1 (but not both) and you only need to participate for a quarter. Simply email us indicating you want this option.
To the hard of hearing and deaf students: please go to MyAccess.rit.edu and request an interpreter or email Jennifer M. Horak at JMHDIS@rit.edu. Everyone who needs the service should do it; don't worry about overlap. We really appreciate the diversity the deaf/hard of hearing community brings to our club so please do this.
Advanced members: Send me your email addresses so I can make a email group with information about advanced practice, tournaments and testing!
Practices have been confirmed for Fall quarter! They will be held in the mini-gym in the SLC Tuesdays from 7-9pm starting September 4th 2007 (the Practices page has been update). The RIT Kendo Club would like to again thank Travis Ichikawa for supervising us.
The club will also have a table at this year's club picnic held in the field house: Sunday September 2nd from 2-5pm.
Congratulations to the following club members for their results in the Kendo rank test held on 6/17 at the Kenzen dojo in New York City.
Rob Brackett - 1-dan
Ben Stabley - 1-dan
Justin Kwong - 1-kyu
Special thanks to Hao Yan and his Family for their hospitality in the team's travel.
Today was our last practice of the school year. Practice will begin again in the Fall. If you're in Rochester this summer, we encourage you to go to Shoshin, and if not, to find a dojo near your home. Thanks to everyone for making this year the best one yet. Hopefully next year will be even better!
As you may have noticed, the symbol at the top of the page if extremely generic (it is the characters "Ken" and "do"). We are looking for someone to come up with a RIT Kendo Club logo! So if any members or anyone interested at all has idea, sketches, concept, etc. let us know. Our contact information is on the site.
This site has gotten a facelift! Ben (President) as already corrected come errors, but if you see any more please let us know through any of the contact methods listed on the contact page.
First off, It's been a while since I've had a chance to add any news.
This past weekend, 3/25, we participated in the first ever Western NY Kendo Tournament, held by University of Buffalo's Kendo Club. About 50 people from UB Kendo Club, Buffalo Kendo Club, Rochester Kendo Club, University of Rochester Kendo Club, RIT Kendo Club, and some nearby Canadian clubs participated. There were divisions for mudansha (1-kyu and below), 1-dan & 2-dan, 3-dan and above, women's, and teams. We competed in mudansha and teams. (pictures soon, I hope)
Results:
Mudansha 1st place - Sho Furukawa
Mudansha 2nd place - Dave Huynh
Mudansha 3rd place - Hao Yan
Teams 2nd place - RIT
Everyone did very very well in some very tough matches. We'll give the same effort at Yale this weekend.
Also, 2 new people just passed the bogu test. Congratulations to:
Paul Guo - passed 3/13
Petros Yeung - passed 3/20
Congratulations to the following club members for their results in the Kendo rank test held on 1/14 at the Kenzen dojo in New York City.
Rob Brackett - 1-kyu
Ben Stabley - 1-kyu
Kevin King - 2-kyu
Hao Yan - 2-kyu
Practice in 2007 will begin again on 1/9/07 at 6:00pm in the minigym.