The RYU KEN CHAMPIONSHIPS - Summer 2025 Edition
- RKC Dojo
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Our annual event, "The RYU KEN CHAMPIONSHIPS - Summer 2025 Edition", will be held on Saturday, 18 October 2025 at the Rivonia Sports Club.
The following competition categories will take place this year:
1) 3-Person Mixed-Team Kendo Competition. All participants will be placed in a pool and randomly-generated teams with be created! The total Dan grade sum for each team will be that of 5 Dan. Participants must be in bogu and 13 years or older.
2) Dojo Champions Individual Kendo Competition. Each dojo is to submit 2 of their dojo champions to take part in this 16-person individual competition event!
The registration fee for this competition will be R150 per person
Please note that the competition fee will be billed to your home dojo.
FAMILY, FRIENDS and SPECTATORS ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND! NO ENTRANCE FEE FOR SPECTATING!
The program for the day is as follows :
08h00 - 08h30 : Hall Set-Up
08h30 - 08h50 : Registration & Self-Warm Up & Shinai Check
08h55 - 09h00 : Opening Ceremony
09h00 - 12h00 : 3-Person Mixed-Team Kendo Competition
12h00 - 12h30 : Iaido + Jodo Demonstration
12h30 - 14h50 : Dojo Champions Individual Kendo Competition
14h50 - 15h00 : Closing Ceremony
Shiai-Jo Layout
Competition Rules:
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.
ENCHO only from KO rounds.
INDIVIDUAL EVENT fights will be 3-mins long. Finals will be 5 mins.
For INDIVIDUAL EVENTS, the top 2 player of each pool will proceed to the KO rounds.
TEAM EVENT fights will be 3-mins long per fight. Finals will be 5 mins.
The top 2 teams per pool will proceed to the KO rounds.
For the team event, 3-person teams will be randomly selected amongst all the participants! To keep it fair, the dan grade sum will not exceed 5th-dan! This will be factored in when the random draws are done.
Team fighting orders to be submitted ONE MATCH BEFORE their fight!
Registration Fee & Link
The registration fee for this competition will be R150, which will cover the expenses incurred to host this event.
REGISTER HERE:
Registration by Sunday, 12 October 2025.
Random draws will be done on Monday, 13 October 2025 @ 1pm via a Live Streaming session!
THE PRIZES:
THE DRAWS :
THE SHIMPAN:
Competition Results
A. TEAM EVENT
1st Place:
2nd Place:
3rd Place:
Fighting Spirit:
B. INDIVIDUAL EVENT
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 6-13 years old.
RKC DOJO has 2 training venues within Johannesburg - RIVONIA and OBSERVATORY.
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