Brussels Yaegaki-Kai – ABKF Iaido dojo – Muso Jikiden Eishin Ryu
SHOSHIN FUKABŌ (Never forget shoshin/beginner spirit)
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The Brussels Yaegaki Kai is an Iaido (居合道) dojo located in Brussels (Uccle) Belgium. We hope that this website will promote the development of Iaido. A Japanese martial art coming directly from the samurai-time.
The Brussels Yaegaki Kai - Iaido Club Ucclois is an affiliate of the All Belgium Kendo Federation (ABKF), which itself is part of the International Kendo Federation (IKF). Membership in the Brussels Yaegaki Kai dojo is open to anyone interested in learning Iaido and all skill levels are welcome. View our training hours page.
Congratulations to Brussels Yaegaki-Kai members who succesfully passed their Kyu gradings. Congratulations to David and Fadel who obtained their 1st Kyu. Let’s continue to train hard. Gambarimasho !!!
Posted: October 6th, 2013 under Dojo, Iaido, News.
Tags: Grading, Kyu
The “Summer Seminar” is over …
More than one hundred participants, great teachings, great friendship, fun party and successful examinations… it was wonderful!
Congratulations to Brussels Yaegaki-Kai members Luc R. and Fred J. for their Shodan and all the other passing their examination!
Thank you to the Sensei – Oda Sensei, Katsumata sensei, Furuichi sensei and Tsuchiya sensei – and staff members for all their hard work.
What’s left to say ? well : can’t wait for next year!
Posted: August 27th, 2013 under Article, Dojo, Iaido.
Tags: ABKF, koryu, seminar
Brussels Yaegaki-Kai 2012-2013 season has come to an end. The dojo will be closed for summer holiday during July.
New season will start on Sunday 4th August.
Have a nice holiday …
Posted: July 1st, 2013 under Dojo, News.
Tags: Natsu, Yasumi
The Belgium Iaido Championships 2013 took place this Sunday 12/05/13 in Ninove. Belgian Iaido level is increasing every year and we were rewarded with good matches and thrilling finals. Finals were shortly followed by 5th dan embu taikai and examinations. Congratulations to all the participants and organization staff …
The Brussels Yaegaki-kai did well this year with a Godan Gold medal for Michael, Yondan Bronze medal and fighting spirit for Eric, Shodan Bronze medal for Greg and the participation of Patrick (Sandan), Eric (Nidan) and Christian and Didier (Mudan). In addition congratulations to Greg who passed his 2nd Dan and Christian his 1st Dan.
Full results are here: Results BIC 2013
Posted: May 13th, 2013 under Dojo, Iaido.
Tags: BIC, championships
12th ABKF Iaido Summer Seminar 2013.
– Date 23,24,25/08/2013
The 12th Edition of the ABKF Iaido Summer Seminar is held this year from the 23/08 until 25/08. The seminar is organised as part of the ABKF Summer Seminar 2013 and will be located in Louvain La Neuve.
Posted: May 3rd, 2013 under Iaido.
Tags: ABKF, koryu, seminar, summer
Well it is not really a Brussels’s tradition to celebrate the carnival, but for once our members decided to take the opportunity to work on the element of surprise. In any battle the element of surprise can provide an overwhelming advantage. It is estimated that surprise in warfare improves the odds by a factor of four; one man could defeat four; ten defeat forty and so on. Let me tell you that with the selected diguises we were closer to a factor of ten …
A shinnenkai (新年会, literally “new year gathering”) is the Japanese tradition of welcoming the arrival of the New Year. This year the Yaegaki kai gathered at Japanese restaurant – Wataro– to welcome the 2013 year, hoping it will be full of hard renshu and fun daini dojo. It was a good time to relax and celebrate with great food and nice drinks (Beer/Shōchū 焼酎/Nihonshu 日本酒). Yeahhh …
Posted: January 26th, 2013 under Dojo, News.
Tags: Shinnenkai