At the 14th EJC in Falkenberg, Sweden, the Belgian Team (Marjan De Block, Karen Vermeulen & Valentin Vervack) has won the Team Event!
They got the gold medals and title of European Champion Jodo 2015.
In addition, Marjan De Block got the Silver Medal (Vice-European Champion) in the Yondan division while Karen Vermeulen and Valentin Vervack also got the Bronze medal in the Sandan division!
Congratulations to all of them!
(by Serge Hendrickx)
This year, the 16th WKC took place in Japan at the fabulous Nippon Budokan, central Tokyo. The Belgian team had been preparing this event since the last edition, three years ago in Novara, Italy.
A delegation of five ladies & six men were selected out of the Belgian active kenshi. As the tournament is organized in Japan, the central coach, Hirakawa sensei picked up the position of manager which is the equivalent of the usual position of coach in our European system. During the monthly preparation trainings towards the event, competitors could count on the experience of C. Tange, C. Yano and N. Hamada. The delegation was led by ABKF President, D. Delepière with the kind help of S. Hendrickx as second team manager.
A five days long preparation seminar was set up by the sensei at Tokai University prior to the competition. These days were hard but beneficial for whipping the possible jetlag and stress. We have to thank besides the team manager, Hirakawa sensei, all Tokai students and teachers but also Yamaguchi, Yamada & Tanaka sensei for the time, enthusiasm and energy they have put in their presence during these days. A first welcome earthquake magnitude 5.2 shook the team…
The delegation leader and the 2nd manager left earlier Tokai residence to join the different meetings held before the actual start of the competitions. Team arrived on Thursday and explored the olympic village surroundings and Nippon Budokan the same day. Friday was the start of the WKC with men individuals.
Three men took part since one of the delegation members didn’t join the group at the departure from Brussels. Their personal results:
| Pool 3 | Shiaijo A | |||||||
| NED 1 | KARNADI | ? | POR 2 | RODRIGUEZ | ||||
| NED 1 | KARNADI | Encho | M | BEL 5 | HAEKE | |||
| POR 2 | RODRIGUEZ | M | M | BEL 5 | HAEKE | |||
| Match 10 | Shiaijo A | |||||||
| BEL 5 | HAEKE W. | M | BRA 5 | OMASA R. | ||||
| Pool 34 | Shiaijo B | |||||||
| MCO 4 | SENG | H | H | BEL 4 | VAN LAECKEN | |||
| MCO 4 | SENG | ? | MGL 2 | ERDENEBILEG | ||||
| BEL 4 | VAN LAECKEN | H | H | MGL 2 | ERDENEBILEG | |||
| Pool 50 | Shiaijo C | |||||||
| BEL 1 | MAEMOTO | M | BRA 9 | YONEDA | ||||
| BEL 1 | MAEMOTO | Encho | M | HUN 5 | TOTH | |||
| BRA 9 | YONEDA | K | K | Encho | M | HUN 5 | TOTH | |
| Pool 57 | Shiaijo D | |||||||
| BEL 2 | D’HONT | K | BUL 2 | DIMITROV | ||||
| BEL 2 | D’HONT | M | M | M | USA 5 | YOO | ||
| BUL 2 | DIMITROV | K | M | USA 5 | YOO |
Second day saw the ladies individuals and team matches. Closing ceremony was granted with an 7.2 earthquake without any danger.
Dear friends, We have the pleasure to inform you that our ABKF President and friend, Dany DELEPIERE, succeeded yesterday in his nanadan kendo examination in Tokyo at the Budokan. Warm Congratulations to him who is the 9th nanadan in Belgium!…
Our friend Luc Defraeye passed 6th dan Iaido at the end of the last CIK Iaido seminar which was organized in Modena, Italy. Big congratulations !!
The 18th Belgian Iaido Championships 2015 took place this Sunday 10/05/15 in Sint-Niklaas. Belgian Iaido level is increasing every year and we were rewarded with thrilling matches and finals. Congratulations to all the participants and thank you for the great job of the organizing Dojo: Tamiza Kendo Kai.
Click the “Read more” for full results and photos.
The 14th edition of the ABKF Summer Seminar will take place for the Iaido part the 21-22-23 August 2015 in the Centre sportif de Blocry, Louvain La Neuve – Registration is now open. Check out also the info for the Kendo part 21-22-23 August 2015 in ADEPS Auderghem Brussels.
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Iaido 21-22-23 August 2015 – Centre sportif de Blocry
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Kendo 27-28-29-30 August 2015 – ADEPS Auderghem Brussels
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This weekend, 3 teams from Belgium participated at the Mumeishi 3’s tournament in London and got fine results.
It came to one scored point, or the final would have been a Belgian one, even a Ghent one.
Kojika (Haeke W – D’Hondt P – Vandendaele R) got the first place and Gold medals and the Cup
Kendo Gent (De Backer J – Van Ackere E – Dupon V) got third place and Bronze medals
The third (mixed) team (Pollet A Isshin Dotai – Borremans B Nobara – Gallant J Kendo Gent) unfortunately was eliminated by the silver medallists early on.
In the Women’s tournament, Annick Pollet got the Fighting Spirit.
During the tournament, Chris Maes was invited to be shinpan-shunin of one of the shiai-jo.
Please find the results for the BKKC at VUB Brussels here
Great results for the Belgian Team at the 21st European Iaido Championships 2014 in Helsinki !!!
Two days of seminar with 19 countries represented, everybody in the team very happy to meet all European Iaido friends and receive the teaching of 3 great sensei: Sakono sensei, Kusama sensei and Aoki sensei all Iaido 8th dan Hanshi.
Great competition results with 7 medals: 3x Gold, 1x Silver, 2x Bronze and 1x Fighting Spirit.
BELGIUM DELEGATION EIC HELSINKI 2014
Check out results by clicking on the “Read more” link.
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