Melbourne University Kendo Club in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | Martial arts school

Melbourne University Kendo Club

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 8344 5405

Address: Melbourne University Sports Centre, Tin Alley Road 3010 Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.muken.com.au

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20.01.2022 Congratulations to Jeong sensei for coming 3rd in the All Korean 8th Dan Championship! We are very lucky to have learned from you!

18.01.2022 Congratulations to Tomonori Sakai and the Men's Open Team for winning the MUS 2019 Club Individual Performance of the Year and Club Team Performance of the Year! Well done! Read more here: https://sport.unimelb.edu.au/play-s/club-resources/awards-1

15.01.2022 Congratulations to all who attempted their grading today - we’re happy to announce everyone who attended has passed! Duo An 2K Aaron 1K Enoch and Jason 1D... Cheryl 3D Takeshi 4D In particular, we want to welcome our new yudansha members, Enoch and Jason!!! Thank you to all Instructors and friends who have trained with us to help us improve on our kendo. Well done everyone

14.01.2022 Today we hosted the 5th Inter University Taikai. Students from Melbourne University, Monash, RMIT and VU participated and displayed excellent performance in their shiai. We are confident that you will represent Victoria well at the Uni Nationals in September! Here are the results from today; Men’s kyu individuals... 1. A Vo - RMIT 2. J Jason - RMIT 3. A Pastore - RMIT Women’s kyu individuals 1. N Lieu - UoM 2. CL Loi - Monash 3. A Njauw - Monash Open dan individuals 1. K Okabe - UoM 2. K Almeida - RMIT 3. J Wildey - Monash Open teams 1. RMIT 2. Monash A Fighting spirit awards (in no particular order) CS Loi - UoM CL Loi - Monash C Zhou - RMIT A Shahril - UoM Thank you to all shinpan and volunteers who made this event possible. We hope that the inter university taikai will continue to provide our university level kenshi with more shiai opportunities, and also the opportunity to connect with other uni-aged kenshi and support one another in your kendo journey!

13.01.2022 Over the weekend, Muken participated in the 2019 Victorian Kendo Championships. Once again, our members performed outstandingly and we managed to clinch 6 golds, 4 silvers and 1 bronze - we managed to hit our goal of 6 cups!!! (Whew ) We would like to thank our instructors who have given us their time and guidance, and also to all members of the kendo community who have trained with us and helped us learn. To our first years - next year is your turn! We are able to perform w...ell because each year we have dedicated members like yourselves who help us grow stronger as a club collectively. This year’s results are; Men’s Kyu Individual 2nd: Enoch Chan Women’s Kyu Individual 1st: Nicole Saccardo 2nd: Amelia Ding Women’s Dan Individual 1st: Julie Tran 2nd: Yaya Bonggotgetsakul Men’s Dan Individual 1st: Tomonori Sakai Equal 3rd: Richard Ten Kyu Men’s team 1st: Muken Kyu Women’s team 1st: Muken Open Women’s team 2nd: Muken Open Men’s team 1st: Muken Fighting Spirit Award: Liliana Bray Congratulations to all competitors! Let’s continue working hard together and come back even stronger and better next year!!! (time to try for SEVEN CUPS!!? :p)

12.01.2022 Hope the fried chicken provided fuel for next week good luck to all at the Inter University Taikai on Saturday!!! Ps: no pancake boi(s) this time!

12.01.2022 We held our annual awards night & dinner yesterday! Hopefully everyone had a great time, and maybe you’ll have better luck with your post-keiko hair in the following year. Get some tips from Richard 10! Thank you to all club members who made this year such a fun year, and thank you to all the senseis who have continued providing us with your guidance so we can improve as a club together. Next week will be the last two training sessions of the year, but we will be back on 6th Jan 2020. See you then! Let’s make the following year an awesome one again

09.01.2022 Schedule for the day! Please share with your fellow participants 10:30 registrations open 11:15 shinpan briefing 11:30 opening ceremony... 11:45 men’s kyu individual 12:45 women’s Kyu Individual 13:30 open dan individual 14:00 open teams 15:30 kachinuki 16:15 closing ceremony 17:00 dojo close See more

08.01.2022 Hello all! Please see attached the schedule for this Saturday’s Inter University Taikai! Shinpan briefing at 11:15 - please share this with your fellow participants :)

07.01.2022 MUKEN training will be closed from this Thursday until further notice. Please look after yourself and stay safe. We'll come back stronger

07.01.2022 Come find us on Sports Day! Find out more about kendo and how you can get involved!

02.01.2022 We will be at Clubs Day tomorrow from 11am to 3pm with a demo at 1pm. Come and visit! Free trial next Monday :)