Latinamerican Championship in Quito, Ecuador 2010

All the members from the Kendo Clubs Gotokukan and Shotokukai Guatemala are invited to be part of the 1st Latinamerican Championship in Quito, Ecuador 2010.

The Championship will be held in the Rumiñahui Coliseum from October 8th to the 10th. The last day to send your application to be part of the Guatemalan Kendo Delegation is June 23rd of 2010.

If you want to know more information about the requirements and how to apply to get a permission, please send an email to mussap@gmail.com and kendogua@intelnett.com .

We will soon have more information about hotels, transport, etc.

Since there will be kendo examinations during the Championship we added an examination option for you to download the content and check the katas you should perform. If you want to make an examination you need to request permission to our authority and this needs to be done 2 weeks before the Championship.

We hope to get many applications and have a great number of participants to this event.

New Kendo Dojo in Quetzaltenango!!

It's a great pleasure to announce that thanks to our authorities we will soon share our kendo knowledge and experience with kenshis from Quetzaltenango. Two kenshis from Quetzaltenango will come to Guatemala and learn techniques and share with their kendo peers.

We are really happy that Guatemalan Kendo is growing and that we are in the right path!

We will have more information of the activities we will be having with the new kendo dojo in Guatemala and other activities and visits we will receive.

2nd National Kendo Seminar in Guatemala

An excellent Seminar from our dear Sensei Masahiro Imafuji! With a great total of 40 participants during the practice at the Gotokukan Kendo Club dojo, we close another incredible and exciting part of the Guatemalan Kendo.

Masahiro Imafuji Sense shared and instructed us with kendo techniques that will help us grow every day as persons and as kendokas.

During the firs day (Friday), some members of the Gotokukan Kendo Club received Masahiro Imafuji Sensei at the Aurora airport and took him to be part of a welcome lunch with two of their Senseis Enzo Marsicovetere and Carlos Campos.

During lunch they enjoyed the great place and took the chance to celebrate with a big cake the birthday of Carlos Campos Sensei.

That same day the kenshis couldn’t wait for the kendo class! The warm-up for that day was conducted by our Senpai Rodrigo Aguilar Mussap and it was followed by the instructions of Masahiro Imafuji Sensei. That day we practiced the basics of kendo including kihon and we had a Godogeiko practice in the end.

During Saturday morning we went to one of the dojos of the Shotokukai Kendo Club to share with them everything that Imafuji Sensei shared. More than 30 participants from the Shotokukai dojo shared with the kenshis of the Gotokukan dojo

and contemplated an amazing seminar with the Volcan de Agua view. Imafuji Sensei was pleased and happy to share with both dojos during this morning.

We continued the seminar at the Gotokukan dojo were we kept learning about kendo and all the knowledge you get by practicing it.

Sunday was the last day of the Seminar and Imafuji sensei trained for some hours with our 3 senseis, it was an impressive performance by our 3 senseis and Imafuji Sensei. After this we had some kihon practice and we took a nice lunch were we shared some words from our dear Sensei Carlos Campos.

After lunch there was a small taikai were 3 members of the Gotokukan dojo took the first places followed by Godogeiko.

After an amazing weekend we all got together for the sayonara party, were we shared special moments and words with Imafuji Sensei.

We hope to have more activities like this and keep on helping Guatemala Kendo to grow strong

and together.

Congratulations to the top 3 during the Taikai:

1st place Stuardo Garcia

2nd place Omar Castillo

3rd place Dieter Haussner