The 2024 Winter Championship is an annual, internal competition that is open only to RKC Dojo members. This year it will be held on 8 June 2024 (Saturday) at the Rivonia Sports Club.
The following competition categories will take place this year:
Kendo Kids Ages 8-10 Competition
Kendo Kids Ages 11-13 Competition
2-Person Kata Competition
Individual Kyu Grade Bogu Shiai
Individual Dan Grade Bogu Shiai
3-Person Team Competition
FAMILY, FRIENDS and SPECTATORS ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND! NO ENTRANCE FEE FOR SPECTATING!
The program for the day is as follows :
Shiai-Jo Layout
Competition Rules:
There will be various rules for the various competitions:
For the 2-Person Kendo Kata Competition, the following guild lines are in place:
Open to all ages and members of all 3 of the arts at the RKC (Kendo Iaido and Jodo)
A team of 2-competitors is predetermined by the competitors and must reflect accordingly on the registration forms.
The competition bout will consist of performing 3 kata's that are selected by the competition committee before hand. This will change with each stage of the competition.
The Kata to know will be the "Bokto Ni Yoro Kendo Keiko-Ho Kata set (1-12); and possibly Nippon Kendo Kata (1-7)
2 teams will compete simultaneously in front of 3 shimpans.
At the end of the bout, the one shimpan will call, "HANTAI", and the shimpan will simultaneously raise their flag for the team they thought performed the kata the best.
For the Kendo Kids in Bogu, Kyu Grade & Dan Grade shiai, the following rules will apply:
There will be 2 categories of KENDO KIDS IN BOGU:
Ages 8-10 years old
Ages 11-13 years old
The matches will be done in accordance with the FIK Shiai rules, AS WELL AS the temporary FIK rules that are in place due to the pandemic.
Fights will be done as sanbon-shobu.
ALL fights will be max. 2-mins long. Finals will be 4 mins.
All dan grades and above might be required to be shimpan when possible.
For the 3-Person Team Shiai, the following rules will apply:
Team of 3 members (Dantai-shiai). Teams will be “randomised” prior to the event.
Each team will could only consist only of 1x 4th or 5th dan member. The rest of the team will be randomly selected.
Maximum of a 5-dan-total by all members; Minimum of 2 members; No age limit; lowest grade of team will fight CHUKEN position.
The matches will be done in accordance with the FIK Shiai rules, AS WELL AS the temporary FIK rules that are in place due to the pandemic.
Fights will be done as sanbon-shobu.
ALL fights will be max. 3-mins long. Finals will be 5 mins.
Matches are decided number of fights won then number of ippons scored If there is still a tie, matches will then be determined by ippon-shobu by the Daihyosha (team representative).
All dan grades and above might be required to be shimpan when possible.
Registration Fee & Link
The registration fee for this competition will be R150, which will cover the expenses incurred to host this event. Any surplus funds raised will be donated to the #SendRayAway campaign, our crowd-funding initiative to help Ray sensei achieve this dream of a Kendo 6th dan!
Read more about this initiative here:
REGISTER FOR THE 2024 WINTER CHAMPIONSHIPS HERE:
(REGISTRATION CLOSED)
THE DRAWS WERE DONE RANDOMLY DURING THE WEEK OF 3 JUNE 2024:
Detailed pool and KO fight orders are available in the following downloadable files:
SHIMPAN LIST:
Competition Results
KENDO KIDS COMPETION (Age 8-10 year olds) 1st Place - Suri WILLIAMS (10) 2nd Place - Zi Jie Marcus LIN (10) Fighting Spirit - Nathan HO (9)
KENDO KIDS COMPETION (Age 11-13 year olds) 1st Place - Caden HOWELL (13) 2nd Place - Connor DINGLI (12) Fighting Spirit - Jamie LEWIS (12)
2-PERSON KATA COMPETITION 1st Place - Luc Jean MARQUET & Lear PATHER 2nd Place - Sayuri & Somaria RAMJATTAN
INDIVIDUAL KYU-GRADE COMPETITION 1st Place - Somaria RAMJATTAN 2nd Place - Lear PATHER Fighting Spirit - Gabriel PIKTJIA
INDIVIDUAL DAN-GRADE COMPETITION 1st Place - Charles SUN 2nd Place - Aura NAIDOO Fighting Spirit - Luc Jean MARQUET
3-PERSON TEAM COMPETITION 1st Place - Aura NAIDOO, Ethan CUI, Matthew MICHEL 2nd Place - Logann NAIDOO, Lisa CHIVANGA, Charles SUN Fighting Spirit - Ethan CUI, Niri RASAMIJAO, Gabriel PIKTIJA
SHYUGO AWARDS - "Continue to train hard and improve body & mind"
Gabriel MUNKS
Jamie LEWIS
Lisy RASOAMAHENINA
Nathan HO
Yeshaai GOVENDER
Yunting CHEN
"A successful RKC Winter Championship comes to an end!
Thanks to all those who made it a success! From the Logistics team of Matthew, Decclan, Gus, Nirri and Lisa, plus all the other additional volunteers who assisted when needed, and to the competitors and spectators!
Our dojo grows stronger each year thanks to our joint commitment to the dojo and each individual's training efforts. Thank you 🙏" - Warren HO
LET's KEEP TRAINING HARD TOGETHER!🔥
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The Ryū Ken Chi (RKC) Dojo train the traditional Japanese martial arts of Kendo and Iaido (sword-based martial arts), as well as Jodo (the art of the short staff), that encourages the cultivation of the human character.
Kendo Kid is also available for children aged 5-13 years old.
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