Inviting all juniors and seniors to a night of bowling! We encourage everyone to come along and have outside-Kendo fun! :) Aside from the bowling there is a bar, pool and a lounge to chill in, followed by a dinner afterwards!
Date: 1st of April Time: 5PM-7PM Venue: Strike Bowling Bar Melbourne 245-247 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 Cost: $26 (Paid at counter of venue) + Dinner RSVP: ASAP! (Preferably by the 24th of March) Requirements: Be awesome! Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/events/179307915520376/
All beginners: Information has been forwarded to your inbox of the "ICHIBAN" starting equipment pack, which will contain a shinai, a shinai bag, and a uniform set. Price is $125. If you wish to order the ICHIBAN pack, please fill in the form attached to the email, or fill one in at training. Deadline for orders is the 2nd of April.
A shinai maintenance session will be held on the 2nd of April (Monday) after training. Here you will learn how to disassemble your shinai and take care of the different bits. This is VERY important as a well maintained shinai helps prevent it from breaking and splintering. We will begin selling shinai to beginners starting from next Monday, please try to have your own shinai by the 2nd of April as you can then take your shinai home and practice what you have been taught.
An end of beginners course pizza night will be held on the 19th of April. There will be drinks and food paid for by the club, as we offer everyone an opportunity to socialize and get to know the various members better.
On the first weekend of May ( Friday 4th to Sunday 6th) we will he holding out annual training camp in Ballarat. Costs for the event have yet to be finalized, but it should be around the annual amount of $100 AUD. The general idea of camp is a full days worth of training on Saturday, as well as half day training on Sunday. The camp offers you the chance to improve tremendously in kendo over the short weekend. In addition to that, we usually also get people from the Monash Kendo club to join us. This provides you with a good opportunity to get to know people there, as well as develop some friendly rivalries.
Finally, I would like to remind everyone that the seniors usually hang out for a drink (and sometimes dinner) after training on Monday. Feel free to hang around after training to join us.
If you would like to register for the forum, please use your full name as your user name. The reason for this is that forum registration is for club members only. Even though the forum is not used a lot it is checked regularly. Feel free to post any questions or comments you may have about kendo or the club and we will do our best to answer them promptly."
All 2012 MUKEN beginners should have received an email invitation to join the muken-beg@googlegroups.com emailing list.
This is the main avenue of communication between the club and you, so it is important that you accept the invitation. All future correspondance will be through this mailing list.
If you have not received the invitation, please check your spam folder. If it is not there either, and you do not receive it in the next few days, please notify enquiries AT muken.com.au
If you are attending the Australian Kendo Championships, held in Canberra over the Easter break, please send the club the following information -
Full Name, Competitions entering, Attending Seminar? Attempting Grading? Attending Dinner?
Please read the email that has been sent to you for further instructions.
All members wishing to grade in the upcoming gradings -
1st Kyu - 3rd Dan, 25th March, Kenshikan
1st Dan - 4th Dan, AKC, Canberra
must send their information (Full name, Current Grade, Grade Attempting, DOB) to the club via email before Saturday end, and also must submit a grading application paper form with payment by next week.
The Melbourne University Kendo Club will be visiting the Clyde Hotel this Thursday, 8th of March, after training.
All new beginners and seniors are encouraged to attend.
This will be an opportunity for beginners to mingle and for seniors to get to know the beginners. There will be ice-breaker activities to help with this process. We're sure you'll make some new friends after this night!
Please note that you do not have to drink alcohol! Indeed, nothing goes down better than a Coke after training!
Dan Grading (attempting 1st Kyu +) Date: 25 March 2012 Time: TBA Location: Kenshikan
If you wish to attempt either of these gradings please: 1. Email enquiries AT umkc DOT org DOT au your details AS SOON AS POSSIBLE (by the end of today) - Full name, current grade, grade attempting 2. Fill in the grading form and submit it to the club with payment by next week. It is attached to the email that you should all have received (if you haven't please notify me).
