Please consider sharing this link and donating: http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/team-gb-jodo-european-championships-2016 The British Jodo team are competing at the European Jodo Championships, Magglingen, Switzerland 2016 from 23-25 September 2016 and are aiming to raise £4,300 to cover the trip (http://ejc2016.ch/). Currently there is no external funding available for the whole Jodo squad in the UK. Last year at …
Welcome to the British Kendo Association
The British Kendo Association (BKA) is the official governing body for Kendo, Iaido and Jodo in the UK. The BKA was founded in 1964 as a non-profit making organisation to foster and develop the practice and spirit of Kendo, Iaido, and Jodo along traditional lines. For more information on the BKA, please read the ‘About us‘ section.
If you are interested in beginning Kendo, Iaido or Jodo please see the ‘Getting Started‘ section for more information and then look in Clubs for somewhere to practice near you.
Congratulations to Jon Fitzgerald for passing his 6th dan examination in Kitamoto, Japan. Jon Fitzgerald and Young Park were chosen by the ZNKR, from the list of 3 proposed for BKA support, to attend this prestigious seminar
The new Membership Secretary (Fides Desacada) and Assistant Membership Secretary (Roger Pimlott) have split the membership role as follows: Fides (membersecretary@kendo.org.uk) will deal with membership related enquiries including broken membership, eligibility to grade for members, new dojo registration and any membership related requests by the NC/Bu/DRC. Roger (assistantmembersecretary@kendo.org.uk) will be in charge of new membership, …
As there are 61 people grading at Stoke, the grading will start on time at 13,00 with registration started as 12.30