Minnehaha Kendo Dojo » Resources http://minnehahakendo.org 4744 Chicago ave south - Minneapolis, MN - 612-825-9935 Sun, 29 Aug 2010 05:11:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Miyazaki Masahiro Sensei a.k.a. The Kendo God is now 8th Dan! http://minnehahakendo.org/miyazaki-masahiro-8th-dan/ http://minnehahakendo.org/miyazaki-masahiro-8th-dan/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 19:42:03 +0000 Mon http://minnehahakendo.org/?p=144 For people who don’t know who Miyazaki Masahiro sensei is, how could you?!   Miyazaki sensei participated in the All Japan Kendo Championship (meaning the best fighting the best).  Winning 6 times 1st place, 1 second place and 3 third places (victories in 3 consecutive years once, victories in two consecutive years once) between 1990 to 2001.  Miyazaki sensei assumes the position of head instructor at the Kanagawa prefecture police department in 2008 (Source).  If you want to know more, read the amazing short biography of Miyazaki sensei here.

Winning 1 time makes you the Kendo chump and have a fan club on facebook with 100 plus people joining, but 6 times?!  That makes him the Kendo God!   Here are the videos him passing 8th Dan:

Looks like the videos had been removed by the author.  In the meantime, you can see all the Ippon’s Miyazaki sensei had scored:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d-qqgy-Dpg

Part 1 (Right side)

Part 2 (Far side)

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Thank you and enjoy!

Mon

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Looks like someone uploaded lots of quality videos for the tournament:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kendo+detroit+2008&search_type=

The videos are archived in the Resources section.

Pictures wise, check out the photos section. I’ve added Nate’s collection, I will post more later this week. So stay tuned.

Enjoy!

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The photos are now up! Unfortunately, there are no videos yet.

First of all, congratulations to Narumoto sensei for winning the 4th Dan & Up division and added his 4th 1st place cup in his collection! The cup looks so shiny this time! I promise I will get the pictures of the shiny cup up by tomorrow – the latest!

Also congratulation to Aaron for passing Ikkyu!

The godo-geiko and the tournament were great and extremely well organized by Detroit dojo, so big thanks to Detroit dojo for hosting such wonderful taikai!

Hope everyone had a great time!

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