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2nd Annual Ota Cup Taikai – Results

Congratulations to everybody for the success of our internal tournament, the 2nd Ota Cup Taikai.

Congratulations also to the winners. Results are below:

Mudansha Division
1st – R Pacis
2nd – D Alston
3rd – Y Park
3rd – K Pacis


Yudansha Division
1st – J Oliver
2nd – M Brown

2011 Ota Cup Taikai Champions – East Georgia
M Brown
K Langenbach
T Langenbach
J Lin
J Oliver

Atlanta Kendo Kai at the 1st Annual Georgia Kendo Taikai

Atlanta Kendo Kai at GKA Taikai

Atlanta Kendo Kai attended the 1st Georgia Kendo Association Taikai and Shinsa held from May 28-29 in John’s Creek, GA.

Congratulations to our dojo’s Derrick Alston for getting 3rd Place in the Mudansha Division and Jesse Schwed for getting 3rd place in Youth D.

Congratulations also to our following members who passed their promotion testing:

Andrew Melim – 5kyu
Matthew Graham – 5kyu
Ric Osuna – 5kyu
Kwang Hee Chang – 5kyu
Jon Suggs – 5kyu
Jesse Schwed – 5kyu
Glenn Redd – 5kyu
Clay Fambro – 4kyu
Jeffrey Lin – 4kyu
Rodney Pacis – 2kyu

Everybody did a great job! Let’s build upon this and practice harder. See you at keiko!

More pictures from the event:

Atlanta Kendo Kai Attended the 23rd Annual Cleveland Taikai

 

Atlanta Kendo Kai - 2011 Cleveland Kendo Taikai

Atlanta Kendo Kai proudly announces that Yoshimi Desouza won First Place in the Womens Division!

Congratulations, Yoshimi!

Congratulations to Kenneth Robinson for passing Nidan, to Sean Gill for passing Ikkyu and to Derrick Alston for passing Sankyu.

Thank you to Inoshita Sensei and everyone in Cleveland for another successful tournament.

A special thank you to Kato Sensei for everything he taught us.

Check out a few videos from the tournament:

Litterbach (ATL) vs Hatakeyama (SH/NY)
Y Desouza (ATL) vs S. Lane (CHA) – Women’s Finals
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