The annual traditional seminar of Takeda sensei was carried out in Turku (Finland) on 20-22 of March 2009.
Delegation of Japanese sensei’s:
Mr. TAKEDA Ryuichi, Kendo kyoshi 7.dan, Yamagata University
Mr. SAITO Koji, Kendo kyoshi 7.dan, Sendai University
Mr. CHIBA Haruhide, Kendo kyoshi 7.dan, Tohoku Fukushi
Students from Japan also came to the seminar to assist the sensei’s: Mr.Watanabe Masataka, Mr.Yamaguchi Ryota, Ms.Noguchi Saori, Ms.Endo Kaho, Ms.Saito Misato.
Borichev Alexei and Zhukov Konstantin from Gekken Club came to Turku to take part the seminar. There were 80-90 participants and they all were from Finland except these 2 sportsmen.
There were kata training, kihon-geiko and shinsa (examination). So Alexei passed 2 Dan shinsa, Konstantin – 3 Dan shinsa.
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