Volume 38, number 7/8/9
July/August/September 2024
PNKF DATEBOOK
July 2024
7/4-7 – World Kendo Championships, Milan, Italy.
7/20 – PNKF Board Meeting, 9-11am.
7/27 – Kata Seminar 11am-4pm and Godo Keiko 4-5pm, Kent Commons Community Center 525 4th Ave N, Kent, WA 9803.
August 2024
8/16-18 – AUSKF Summer Camp and Shinsa, Las Vegas, Nevada.
8/24 – PNKF Kendo Shinsa, Kent Commons.
8/24-26- Iaido 7 Dan examination, Recreation Centre at BC Institute of Technology, Building SE16, 3700 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby, BC V5G 3H2.
September 2024
9/4-7 – Seattle Kendo Kai 100 Year + Taikai, Mercer Island Community & Event Center, 8236 SE 24th St, Mercer Island, WA, 98040.
9/21 – PNKF Board Meeting, 9-11am.
9/27-29 – Iaido Fall Seminar, Taikai and Shinsa.
9/28 – Seattle Education Shinpan Seminar (tentative).
October 2024
10/6 – Northwest Kendo Junior Taikai, Sun, 1pm, North Seattle Church, 2150 N 122nd St. Seattle, WA 98133.
10/12 – Tacoma Women’s Kendo Taikai, 10am, Curtis Junior High School, 3725 Grandview Dr W, University Place, WA 98466.
10/12 – Kendo Seminar led by Shinichi Koike sensei, Saturday 1-6pm, Cedar Hills Recreation Center, 11640 SW Park Way, Portland, OR 97225.
10/13 – Kendo Shinsa up to 1 Kyu, Sunday, 10am Doors Open, 11:30am start, IRCO Community Center, 10323 NE Glisan St, Portland, OR 97220.
November 2024
11/2 – PNKF Kendo Taikai, Curtis Junior High School, 3725 Grandview Dr W, University Place, WA 98466.
11/9 – AUSKF Board Meeting and Shinsa.
11/10 – Kodansha Shinsa, Torrance, CA, Sunday, 12:10pm Start, West High School, 20401 Victor St, Torrance, CA 90503.
11/16 – PNKF Board Meeting and General Election, 9-11am.
December 2024
TBD
AUSKF KODANSHA SHINSA, August 18th, 2024, Houston, Texas
5 DAN: Steve Guidi (Seattle)
6 DAN: Motoya Nakamura (Obukan)
PNKF KENDO SHINSA, August 24th, 2024, Kent, Washington
6 KYU: Magnus Hayes (Kent), Corbin Clemente (Meadowbrook), Alina Soto (Northwest)
4 KYU: Takumi Tanimura (Edmonds), Akira Schacht (Spokane), Cameron Ridler (Kirkland), Omar Shakeel (Seattle), Jack Brower (Kent), Toby Kodera (Bellevue), Jackson Songy (Kirkland), Marcelo Cunningham (Seattle), Raymond Pitka (Seattle), Michael Fontana (Northwest), Hani Shakeel (Seattle), Kwang Kim (Evergreen)
3 KYU: Kiki Sato (Kirkland), Rowen Nollette (Spokane), Raiyan Bin Toufiq Chowdhury (Bellevue), Koya Sinex (Kirkland), Levi Gaines (Spokane), Moya Nollette (Spokane), Alex Ge (Bellevue), Lucas Naylor (Bellevue), Anya-Rose Kelly (UW), Asa Valdovinos (Bellevue), Takara Truong (Edmonds), Renjie Zhu (Seattle), Derick Salamanca (Kent), Andi Anderson (Seattle), Aaron Scull (Seattle), Minjeong Ko (Seattle), Cary Carlson (Bellevue), Andrei Korostelev (Edmonds), Miki Sato (Kirkland), Devon Harper (Spokane), Michiko Sinex (Kirkland)
2 KYU: Showa Winters (Edmonds), Isaac Selle (Spokane), Filip Dumitrescu (Edmonds), Sora Tanaka (Edmonds), Yuki Iwao (Bellevue), Wanhui Han (Bellevue), Benjamin Lonc (Seattle), Jonathan Pfefferle (Federal Way), Brandon Ridler (Kirkland), Michael Barrington (Bellevue), Alex Derrick (Northwest), Clifford Lee (Bellevue), Charles Dolera (Northwest), Michelle Yip (Bellevue)
1 KYU: Andrew Schacht (Spokane), Emerson Lau (Bellevue), Sebastian Fruchter (Spokane), Aiden Malone (Obukan), Kaleb Borum (Spokane), Truman Lau (Bellevue), Tyler Lee (Spokane), Kostyantyn Ryzhkov (UW), Stephen Hsieh (Kirkland), Khoi-Nguyen Mac (Northwest), Jingyi Zhang (Northwest), Anastasia Kopcha (Tacoma), Shelly Aber (Bellevue), Sean Wales (Northwest), Jim Fadell (Portland)
1 DAN: Mifune Tanimura (Edmonds), Owen Kaufman (Portland), Jeremy Lin (Seattle), Alexander Sakon (Obukan), Sohma Cox (OSU), Quinn Takara (Obukan), Evan Ho (Obukan), Nathan Williams (Obukan), Alex Leach (OSU), Garrett Baski (Bellevue), Hsi-Hao Keng (Kent), Russel McLaren (Kent), Matthew Dircks (Spokane), Christopher Johnson (Seattle), Wendy Graham (Spokane)
2 DAN: Abigail Tan (Cascade), Aidan Chervin (Portland), Dennis Hill (Cascade), Denise Quach (Seattle), Wesley American Horse (Evergreen), Brian Shin (Tacoma), Asuka Iijima (Obukan), Rebecca Roland (Portland)
3 DAN: Kailun Hu (UW), Tommy Espinal (Highline), Eric Marquart (Idaho), Michael Rea (Spokane), Yuriko Lee (Camas), James Faulkner (Edmonds)
IAIDO SHINSA, August 26th, 2024, Vancouver, Canada
4 DAN: David Lau (Musokai)
2024 PNKF IAIDO TAIKAI – September 28, 2024, Rain City Fencing Center, Bellevue, WA
0-1 Kyu
1st – Marlena Cote, Seattle Kendo Kai
2nd – Tien Vo, AiShinKai Fudo Myoo-ji Dojo
3rd – Ryan Merril, Shu Ken Kai
3rd – Chikako McNutt, Idaho Kendo Club
1-2 Dan
1st – Keita Tanabe, Salinas Kendo Club
2nd – Rae Podrebarac, AiShinKai Fudo Myoo-ji Dojo
3rd – Michael Mabale, Seattle Kendo Kai
3rd – Juan Pablo de Rivero Vaccari, Miami Budokan
3-4 Dan
1st – Thane Mittelstaedt, AiShinKai Fudo Myoo-ji Dojo
2nd – Frederick Fourie, AiShinKai Fudo Myoo-ji Dojo
3rd – Hiroyuki Maeda, Idaho Kendo Club
Sportsmanship Pledge – Tien Vo AiShinKai Fudo Myoo-ji Dojo
PNKF IAIDO SHINSA, September 29th, 2024, Bellevue, WA
3 KYU: Karma Walker III (Shuukenkai), Lauren Woods (Alaska), Alexia Symeonidou (Seattle), Daniel Anders (AUSKF)
2 KYU: Jonathan Binick (AiShinKai), Matthew Krueger (Alaska)
1 KYU: Maurice Benas (Tonbo), Marlena Cote (Seattle), Juan Rafael Guzman Diaz (SEUSKF)
1 DAN: Renjie Zhu (Seattle), Ryan Merrill (Shuukenkai)
2 DAN: James Thieu (Musokai), Lucy Yang (Seattle), Salvador Eng Deng (Musokai), Michael Mabale (Seattle), Thomas Laha (Musokai), Yuriko Lee (Camas), Marek Nelson (Spokane)
3 DAN: Keita Tanabe (NCKF), Juan Pablo de Rivero Vaccari (SEUSKF), Andy Webster (RMKIF), Derek Reynolds (Alaska)