Nanseikan Kendo Club 剣道クラブ南西館

  2024 has been an epic year, full of great achievements and also great sadness. But the club has become so much stronger as a result of these extremes. Well done to everyone, and thank you all for a wonderful last training for 2024. Our training schedule for 2025 has changed by agreement of the club members. We will now be training throughout the year without a break. Fees will be paid monthly, and public holiday weekends will be our only regular break from training. I have updated our 'About' and 'FAQ' pages to reflect this. Our first official Saturday training for 2025 will be Saturday 1 February.  This will also be the start of the first Beginners' Course.  Training fees are $60.00/month ($30.00/month for HC card holders and FT tertiary students). This covers all training sessions, (typically 4 x Saturday and 4 x Wednesday trainings). For families, only the first two members pay fees. Other members of the same family train for free. Visitors to Nanseikan from ot...

    Kojima sensei (r)with Tajima sensei in 2023.

This post is to clarify who can instruct within our dojo, by dividing members according to experience levels by rank. The levels below are ranked in order from most junior to most senior. If you are a Nanseikan member, please read, understand and observe these roles when in the dojo. Graded and ungraded members (up to 3 kyu) Watch and listen Practice Practice Practice Assistant instructors (2 kyu and above) All of the above points, plus... Able to run warm-ups and suburi when asked and given direction Able to assist beginners and low kyu grades with equipment issues only (no technical instruction) Knowledge of basic terms and commands Instructors (2 dan and above) All of the above points, plus... Able to formally start and end training – give commands to line up, rei, etc. Able to run Beginners’ course Able to devise and run warm-ups, suburi Able to devise and run drills and rotations to include all students at an appropriate level Able to monitor safety and participation of all studen...

Vale  Stylianos "Stilts" Polichroniadis (1959-2024) Kendo 5 dan former President, Victorian Kendo Renmei, former President, Australian Kendo Renmei, Senior Instructor, Nanseikan Kendo Club Father, mentor, dear friend.

Membership to the VKR is now due for new and renewing members.  If you are renewing, you have been sent instructions to your registered email address Here is the information regarding your membership to the VKR. It must be done by each member individually through the Revsport portal. Membership must be confirmed by 15 June in order to grade in July .  Send any questions to secretary.nanseikan at gmail.com ******************************************************************** Step 1)   Go to the  VKR 's Revsport Registration page. Click on the "Returning  Member " button, or the "New Member" button depending on your membership status. https://www.revolutionise.com. au/ vkr /registration / New  members  will be provided with an AKR ID in Revsport once it is issued by the AKR. Renewing members will need to enter their name, DOB, gender and club (Nanseikan) which will then send an email with the renewal link to click and go through. Step 2)  The AK...

  This year is the year of the Dragon, so hopefully it will be a great year! We've already started the year unofficially with casual training sessions and a change to our domain name, from kendo.org.au to nanseikan.au. This is so the AKR can take over use of the .org.au domain. Here are some of the main events coming up in the next few months: 2 February   VKR monthly trainings restart (Kenshikan). First Friday of each month. Training is free of charge. Doors open 6.30pm, training 7.00 to 8.00pm, Over 5 dan training 8.00 to 8.30pm. 3 February    NSK official trainings start  16-18 February - Gwangju Exchange Kendo Seminar (MUKEN) 24 February     NSK first beginners' course 2-3 March   ACT Open Championships (Canberra) 4-23 March   club-based kendo gradings (various) 24 March   3K-1K and 1D-4D grading (Kenshikan) 29 March - 2 April    AKC (Sydney) 28 April - VKR AGM (online)