KENYU
Volume 19, number 7/8
July/August 2005
PNKF DATEBOOK
1. Sep 17, PNKF Board, Sat, 1:30-3:30pm, Kent.
2. Oct 1, PNKF Shinpan Seminar, 12noon-5pm, Kent.
3. Oct 22, Tacoma Junior Taikai, Sat, 10am-4pm, Crescent Heights
Elementary, 4110 Nassau Avenue NE, Tacoma.
4. Nov 12, PNKF Taikai, Sat, 9:30am, Renton.
5. Nov 19, PNKF Board, Sat, 2-4pm, Kent.
6. Dec 10, Renton Taikai, Sat, report time 9am, start 9:30am,
Renton.
7. Jan 21, PNKF Kata Seminar for instructor group, 9am-2pm, Highline
White Center Park.
8. Feb 4, PNKF Kata Seminar for all members, Sat, 9am-2pm, Highline
White
Center Park.
9. Feb 25, PNKF Shinsa, Sat, 9am-3:30pm, Bellevue Highland Park.
10. Mar 18, Sat, Highline Taikai.
OTHER DATES
1. Sep 29/Oct 2, AUSKF Iaido Seminar, Tournament and Shinsa,
Thu/Fri/Sat/Sun, Charles H. Wilson Park Gym, 2200 Crenshaw Blvd,
Torrance, California. For information, contact Dennis Ralutin,
(213) 793-6722, dmralutin@yahoo.com.
2. Jan 14, Vancouver Taikai, Sat.
3. Feb 11, Steveston Taikai, Sat.
PNKF JUNIOR GASSHUKU, JULY 25-JULY 30, 2005 A HUGE SUCCESS
The week-long Summer Gasshuku in June was very successful, attended
by 62 students, 18 of whom had a perfect attendance at all five
sessions. Average daily attendance
was 35. The curriculum covered kamae, ashisabaki, maai, rensoku uchi, kata,
keiko, and shiai. Participants attended the regular evening practices
of four area Dojo,
with a concluding full day session with pizza lunch at Kent on Saturday, followed
by a marvelous barbeque at the Curtis and Vicki Marsten home. The primary instructors
for the Gasshuku were Jeff Marsten, Curtis Marsten, and David Yotsuuye, supported
by other additional instructors. The students enjoyed the Gasshuku so much
that at the end they requested that we do this more often than
once a year.
AUSKF KENDO CHAMPIONSHIPS - July 2/3, 2005, University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor
Men's Group Women's Group
1st place - C. Yang, SCKF 1st place - M. Sakae, SCKF
2nd place - M. Kawabata, GNEUSKF 2nd place - G. Lee, SCKF
3rd place - Y. Onitsuka, NCKF 3rd place - L. Tanaka, NCKF
3rd place - K. Hatakeyama, GNEUSKF 3rd place - S. Tew, SCKF
Fighting Spirit - H. Okawa, SCKO Fighting Spirit - R. Barr, PNKF
Fighting Spirit - K. Hashimoto, SCKF Fighting Spirit - S. Tamura,
SCKF
Senior Youth Group Junior Youth Group
1st place - H. Kinjo, SCKF 1st place - A. Kinjo, SCKF
2nd place - H. Park, SCKF 2nd place - Y. Hori, SCKF
3rd place - R. Takayanagi, SCKO 3rd place - S Konopka, NCKF
3rd place - B. Imanishi, PNKF 3rd place - F. Michioka, NCKF
Fighting Spirit - G. Park, SEUSKF Fighting Spirit - A. Choi,
SCKO
Fighting Spirit - T. Shima, NCKF Fighting Spirit - S. Owaki,
SCKF
Senior Group Goodwill Group
1st place - J. Park, SCKF 1st place - F. Itokazu, SCKF
2nd place - G. Imanishi, PNKF 2nd place - T. Barani, HUN
3rd place - F. Takada, SCKO 3rd place - Y. Hotta, MKF
3rd place - T. Kato, SCKF 3rd place - R. Akahoshi, PNKF
Fighting Spirit - J. Kodama, SCKF Fighting Spirit - S. Ferry,
NCKF
Fighting Spirit - M. Komuro, NCKF Fighting Spirit - K. Chinen,
SCKF
Men's Team Women's Team Senior Youth Team Junior Youth Team
1st place - SCKF 1st place - SCKF 1st place - SCKF 1st place
- SCKF
2nd place - SCKO 2nd place - NCKF 2nd place - SCKO 2nd place
- NCKF
3rd place - NCKF 3rd place - PNKF 3rd place - SEUSKF 3rd place
- PNKF
3rd place - GNEUSKF 3rd place - SEUSKF 3rd place - NCKF 3rd place
- SCKO
FS - C. Yang, SCKF FS - M. Hagiwara, SCKF FS - H. Kinjo, SCKF
FS - A. Kinjo, SCKF
FS - S. Hsueh, SCKO FS - A. Aono, NCKF FS - R. Takayanagi, SCKO FS - K. Umeda,
NCKF
15th CANADIAN NATIONAL KENDO CHAMPIONSHIPS - July 2/3,
2005,
Montreal, Quebec
Junior Non-Degree
1st place - J. Park, Forest City 1st place - A. Yam, JCCC
2nd place - C. Lam, McGill 2nd place - JY Kim, Jung Ko
3rd place - K. Kibe, Etobicoke 3rd place - H. Chavez, McGill
3rd place - A. Ross, JCCC 3rd place - P. Rankin, U.Toronto
Women Men
1st place - M. Taguchi, Sunrise 1st place - M. Raymond, U.Toronto
2nd place - N. Fukushima, Vancouver 2nd place - D. Ara, Renbu
3rd place - A. Fukushima, Vancouver 3rd place - S. Asaoka,
Youshinkan
3rd place - S. Kamata, Etobicoke 3rd place - S. Kamata, Etobicoke
Team Fighting Spirits
1st place - Etobicoke M. Dore, Quebec
2nd place - Youshinkan A. D'Orangeville, McGill
3rd place - Manitoba
3rd place - McGill
4TH ANNUAL ANNE ARUNDEL COMMUNITY COLLEGE KENDO TOURNAMENT
- July 30, 2005, Arnold, Maryland
Mudansha Division Women's Division
1st place - Yen, George Washington University 1st place -
Megan Kirk, Washington DC
2nd place - Brian Sherry, Northern Virginia 2nd place - Kristina Pham,
Northern Virginia
3rd place - Mike Lent, Annapolis 3rd place - Katherine Russell, Annapolis
ShoDan/NiDan Division Kanto Sho - Fighting Spirit
1st place - Myke Cole, US Hwa Rang Kwan Megan Kirk, Washington DC
2nd place - John Flanigan, III, Washington DC
3rd place - Bob Eitel, Annapolis
SHINKYU SHINSA
IAIDO SHINSA, August 13, 2004, Kent 3RD KYU: Nathan Carmichael
(OSU), Will Coulter (Obukan), Portia Considine (Obukan), Amanda
Hardeman (Musokai),
Ben Kim (Musokai),
Jesse Tobin (Musokai). 2ND KYU: Harmon Blanch (Musokai), Chris Flechtner
(Musokai), Joe Jordan (Musokai), Christopher Merritt (Obukan), Lindy
Snyder (Musokai).
1ST KYU: Chris Takahashi (Musokai).
KENDO SHINSA, August 13, 2004, Kent 6TH KYU: Erica DeJong (Highline).
5TH KYU: BJ Alexander (Seattle), Liliana Considine (Obukan), Sean Cresse
(RentonKent),
Rose Hong (Obukan), Andy Kiyokawa (Obukan), Brennan Leischner (Pocatello),
Jan VanYsslestyne (Seattle). 4TH KYU: Gordon Burgess (Bellevue), Beatrix
Considine
(Obukan), Portia Considine (Obukan), Muk De Guzman (Highline), Derek
Hui (Bellevue), Shiloh Jolly (RentonKent), Sammi Kubo (SnoKing), Adrian
Ma
(RentonKent), Conor
Marsten (RentonKent), Challen Mills (RentonKent), David Robertson (Obukan),
Joan
Smith (Obukan), Jai Young Sun (Meadowbrook), Erika Tam (UW). 3RD KYU:
Mathieu Begni (RentonKent), Jared Burns (Obukan), Todd Carlstrom (OSU),
Rick Carroll
(Meadowbrook), Ian Cresse (RentonKent), Stephen Day (RentonKent), Noelle
Grimes (SnoKing), Randy Groves (Bellevue), James Hunter (Obukan), Perry
Hunter (Obukan),
Takayuki Iguchi (Obukan), Ruth Kim (Bellevue), Shilo Kistler (Meadowbrook),
Keenan Komoto (RentonKent), Andrew Ma (RentonKent), Rudiger Noppens
(Obukan), Greg Phancanek
(Seattle), Chris Rafeal (Meadowbrook), Bor-Duan Shieh (Seattle), Marissa
Smit (SnoKing), Jai Sang Sun (Meadowbrook), David Vogel (Everett).
2ND KYU: Khoi
Duong (RentonKent), Ken Eguro (UW), Hide Iba (Bellevue), Niall James
(Bellevue), Tammy
Keen (Everett), Keith Ma (Bellevue), Kenji McCullough (UW), Kyle McDaniel
(Seattle), Christopher Merritt (Obukan), Peter Nozawa (Bellevue), Steven
Roosevelt (Idaho),
Haruka Takano (Seattle). 1ST KYU: Lance Clifford (BigSky), Steve Guidi
(Seattle), Kyoka Hinami (Bellevue), Nate Jacobson (UW), Tony Leischner
(Pocatello),
Albert Lin (Spokane), Scot Maxon (Meadowbrook), Jayson Nunokawa (Bellevue),
Hoang
Pham (Idaho), Jed Sarmiento (Highline), Sergey Shilov (Bellevue), Mick
Sinclair (Spokane),
Jahan Vafaeezadeh (Bellevue). 1ST DAN: Mitchell McEwen (Everett), Brendan
Vanous (Bellevue). 2ND DAN: Huicheng Chang (Obukan), Lupe Fuentes (Idaho),
Keiko Sasaki
(Bellevue), Chris Tilt (Obukan), Leonid Tsybert (Bellevue), Manami
Wakuta (Meadowbrook).
THE LAST WORD
Musashi and Takuan both believed that the great mistake was being
slowed or rendered immobile by what one sees, hears, feels or
thinks. For them, even an instant's
preoccupation could be fatal. Both body and mind must be free to flow and to
respond to whatever the situation demands. Again, in the Water chapter Musashi
wrote specifically of the hands: "In all things...immobility is undesirable.
Immobility means a dead hand; mobility means a living hand." The same might
have been said of the body and mind. In "The Lesson of Stance/No-Stance," Musashi
discussed how, with just a slight movement, one stance becomes another, and this
invokes a constantly fluid situation: "This is the principle in which there
is, and there is not, a stance. At its heart, this is first taking up the sword
and then cutting down your opponent, no matter what is done or how it happens." Fluidity
means having no obstruction, and particularly no obstruction from one's own
mind. We must be careful not to create our own fetters or our own inflexibility.
--William
Scott Wilson, The Lone Samurai: The Life of Miyamoto Musashi.
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