Hi all,

Just a reminder about the caps that are still at Kenshikan. I cannot guarantee that Paul will not sacrifice them in a ceremonial burning if people don’t claim them.

Email secretary@melbournebudokai.com.au to claim a cap if its yours.

Cheers,
Hoey

Dear All,

RSVP: Email by this Friday noon

The funeral for the AKR’s founding member and former President, Ron Bennett Sensei, will be held at 12 noon on Tuesday 15 May at Beresfield Crematorium, Anderson Drive, Beresfield, New South Wales.

A light lunch nearby will follow at the Beresfield Bowling Club, where all friends and family are invited.

To assist planning for catering and the possibility of car pooling or sharing the cost of transport, please email the AKR secretary at akrsecretary@kendoaustralia.asn.au if -
You will attend;
You would like to share the cost of a car/bus leaving from Sydney Airport at 9am on the day and returning late afternoon (est.).

Allow 3 hours for travel time between Sydney and Beresfield.

Flowers should be sent to the home address.

Kind regards,

Vivian Yung

Secretary
Australian Kendo Renmei
E: akrsecretary@kendoaustralia.asn.au
W: www.kendoaustralia.asn.au

Just a reminder about the upcoming MUKEN Taikai!!
If you are a beginner (from Jan 2011) to Ni Dan and you’re interested in competing, please let me know by the 17th of May!

For other info please refer to my old post here and the MUKEN ANNUAL TAIKAI FLYER 2012

People interested in entering the Taikai:

• Hoey
• Nick
• Echo
• Mony
• Vivian
• Rebecca
• Sherry
• Rico
• Ben
• Alex
• Adrian

Just to clarify, Melbourne Uni’s Wednesday training is a morning one between 7am – 8:15am. Fujiwara Sensei will be visiting this morning session

Greetings MBK Member!!

Fujiwara Sensei will be in Melbourne 6th and 10th May. He’ll be arriving in Melbourne on Sunday the 6th around 10:30am. Therefore it is planned to have our normal training session and then at 12:00pm Jigeiko with Fujiwara Sensei for about an hour. Afterwards we’ll go for lunch.

Similarly, he’ll be training with us on Tuesday the 8th of May. It’s planned that the session will be shorter so we’ll have time for dinner afterwards. Please let me know if you’d like to attend dinner so I can make an appropriate booking. The venue will be announced on Tuesday after training – it will be next to the Dojo though.

On Monday and Wednesday, Fujiwara Sensei will be training at Melbourne University.

For those that don’t know Fujiwara Sensei, he and his family spent a year in Melbourne from April 2009 until April 2010. They became a part of the MBK family and it was sad that they had to return to Japan.

Fujiwara Sensei is 7th Dan and a strong one at that. So I’d highly recommend and encourage as many members as possible to attend these training sessions – not just at Kenshikan….

I look forward to seeing you at these sessions.

Cheers and take care.

Paul Bserani
Secretary Melbourne Budokai

The monthly VKR open keiko is being held this Friday at Kenshikan. Details are as such:

Date: 4th May 2012
Time: 7:30 – 8:30pm (do own warm-ups before 7:30)
Venue: 91, Rosslyn Street, West Melbourne
Cost: $5

Regards,
Hoey

1. Fees
2. Training
3. Camp

Fees

• Seniors: Please make sure that you’ve paid this semester’s fees!
• Beginners: Any fees unpaid must be! (Uniform orders, fees, Camp!!)

Training

Monday: Beginners who are coming to camp must come to either Monday or Wednesday training to organise car pooling or you’ll be left without a ride.

Wednesday: Seniors it’s Kata training on Wednesday so please bring your bokken!

Camp

Beginner’s I have attached the information pack (which includes a packing list, schedule etc.) that MUKEN has kindly provided us.

Forms must be in by tomorrow or you can’t come to camp. Monday is the last day your form MUST BE IN!!

Car pooling and other camp discussion will be happening during this week’s training so make sure to come!!

MUKEN KANAGAWA CAMP INFORMATION SHEET

As we all know tomorrow is ANZAC Day so there shall be no training tomorrow

Therefore I shall see everyone next Monday 30th of April. Also, next Wednesday training (2nd of May) shall be Kata training for the seniors!

The Melbourne University Kendo Club will be hosting the MUKEN Taikai in May. The details of the event are as follows.

Date : 26th May 2012
Time : 12pm-5pm
Venue : The University of Melbourne

The taikai will be the same as last year, with 4 divisions (individuals) involved:
Beginners (commenced learning Kendo after 1 Jan 2011)
Up to 3rd Kyu
1 & 2 Kyu
1 & 2 Dan

Registrations for the event will open at the end of April, along with more information regarding the event.

Alright I’m glad to have got some emails this morning (very early mornng) about wanting to go to camp. Yes it is fine if you’re paying via bank transfer (just inform us) or if you’re paying at the next training. Just remember that tonight is the deadline to tell me if you want to go and that you need to hand in a form (downloadable on my previous post) with your details.

Here are the names of the people that are coming to camp. Please check if your name is there and I’m sorry if I’ve missed any. Those names in bold haven’t handed in a form yet.

1. Chris Szeto
2. Alan Horak
3. Yu Ying Huang
4. Joanna Lee
5. Shane Nguyen
6. Tim Ong
7. Tengku T Mohd Yusof
8. Trent Reeve
9. Hoey Yein
10. Vivian Thang
11. Rebecca Ly
12. Nicholas Chan
13. Echo Li
14. Rico Phan
15. Sherry Mayo
16. Katherine Mayo
17. Tom Baudinette
18. Sam Baudinette
19. Weng Liong
20. Ronald Wibowo
21. Jose Gacelos
22. Reuben Chung
23. Ben Tong
24. Sarah Mercer
25. Ling Zheng
26. Eka Guntor
27. Tom Gu
28. Sharelle Chan
29. Alex Zhao

Everyone
There is NO TRAINING on Anzac day the 25th of April. I shall remind everyone on Tuesday night via Facebook.

• If you have a Facebook account but haven’t joined the group please do that!

Beginners

1. If you want to go to camp you MUST INFORM ME by Thursday night which is TONIGHT!!
2. Camp payments need to be paid ASAP and forms (downloadable on my post) must be handed in as well!
3. Uniform payments need to be paid if you still haven’t. We shall start to chase people up on those soon.

Seniors

1. Membership payments are due so please pay Vivian at training or bank transfer.
2. Kata training shall take place on the 2nd of May so bring your bokken.

That’s all for now, please keep checking for my reminders