Kendo & Iaido Dojo in Brussels
BKR Kendo Championships and examinations took place today in ULB. We had one participant in the ladies’ category and four in the men’s category, two referees and one kakari-in. Great spirit of everyone today 
We are very happy to announce that there are four new kendo Ikkyu in Butokukan.
Congrats Rebecca, Agne, Davide and Maximilien 
Belgian Iaido Championship 2023 on May 21st ended with a lot of energy and success for the whole team Butokukan
Everyone participated with all the fighting spirit and showed their best in all the categories 
. At the end of the championship, many lessons learned and to be brought into our next practices 
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In addition to that, we also celebrate some achievements of the day:
Gold medal sandan: Maya Boujraf
Gold medal nidan: Khang Nguyen
Finally, Claude Pigel completed the day with her success in the Ikkyu exam.
Congratulations to them and all of our participants for a wonderful day 
On Saturday, May 13, we celebrated the 80th anniversary of Fredy Thonon 
Of course before the very nice lunch, we practised iaido for two hours in Butokukan Herstal.
Happy birthday Fredy 
The organisation for the surprise party was fantastic! Thank you Renée and everyone! What a wonderful party with friendly atmosphere!
Guy Loncelle announced that there will be an annual iaido seminar from now on, with the name of “Fredy Thonon Iaido Seminar” 
Last May 6th, our “junior” Butokukan team participated in the Kojika cup 2023 in Ghent.
The team had an explosive day with a lot of beautiful actions, fun and successes:
🌸Adrianna gold medal 🥇 technical category 14-18
🌸Yahya silver medal 🥈 technical category 14-18
🌸Ilyas bronze medal 🥉 technical category 5-9
🌸Ibrahim fighting Spirit 🏅 technical category 10-13
🌸 Ali and 🌸 Fabio were burning 🔥 🔥 🔥 in their shiais 💪💪💪
Butokukan team in Paris Open kendo tournament this past weekend. Great experience, and something to think about for the next shiais 
Last Friday was Emilio sensei’s birthday And what would he do? Practise of course 
In the end of the training he did a iaido demonstration and a lot of MEN attacks with almost everyone who was present
Thanks everyone for joining this special training near and far 
And all the best for Emilio sensei 
We started with a monthly kendo yudansha training last night. Here are some photos of the action.
Next time, next month
Last training of 2022: kihon
keiko kyu exams
2023… all is ahead – let’s practise more and enjoy the precious moments
Butokukan wishes you Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 🥳
The last day of the Winter Seminar passed very quickly with trainings in the morning and then the kendo dan examinations.
It was great to have Hirakawa Sensei back in Brussels and to practise with him. Arigato gozaimasu Sensei!
Manuel passed 2nd dan kendo today.
Congratulations to Manuel and all others who passed their grades
