Yaegaki-Kai

The 18th Belgian Iaido Championships 2015 took place this Sunday 10/05/15 in Sint-Niklaas. Belgian Iaido level is increasing every year and we were rewarded with thrilling matches and finals. Congratulations to all the participants and organizing Dojo: Tamiza Kendo Kai The Brussels Yaegaki-kai did very well this year as well as our Eishin-Kai brothers from […]

Great results for the Belgian Team at the 19th European Iaido Championships 2012 in Stevenage !!! A rewarding event including one day seminar and two days of competition with more than 180 participants. Everybody in the team was very happy to meet again all European Iaido friends under a northern (even for a few minutes […]

Taikai are great opportunities to show your every day practice results and perform outside of your dojo. A chance of being judged by high level sensei, judges with sharp eyes. An opportunity to practice under pressure and raise your level by competing against other Iaidoka. A wonderful time to make new friends, meet old ones […]

A few post ago I wrote that during our last trip we made some shopping just before departure. In our shopping bag there was a series of DVD edited by Hertz-International. It has been some years now that I was looking for the Hakone taikai DVDs and I was very happy to find them at […]

It has been some years now – first time was in ’96 – that Yuki and I go in Japan once or twice a year for Iaido, Family and tourism. But this time was the shortest journey we have ever had -> 5 days with only one thing in our mind IAIDO … Day 0: […]

Having this year the opportunity to be present in Japan for the 106th Kyoto taikai. I thought it would be nice to gather some information about that mythic event. The Zen Nippon Kendo Embu Taikai (better known as The Kyoto taikai) takes place in the Butokuden (武徳殿) in Kyoto city. The Butokuden construction started in […]