Author: Reina Iwase

We have successfully completed our 5th Annual BUKA Tournament. Thank you to all members, alumni, and volunteers for helping out this big day to run smoothly. We have invited Yoshida-sensei as Shinpan-cho, and Hayashi-sensei (BUKA’s great senpai) as Fukushinpan-cho. We would like to thank the two senseis, as well as all the shipans  who volunteered their time for this event. We had a total of 54 competitors from four major schools: Brown, BU, Harvard, and NYU.

Individuals: No BU members were able to reach semi-finals. However, our beginners did a good job. Keep up the good work, beginners!

This year, the Boston University Kendo sent 14 competitors to the 20th annual Shoryuhai tournament. Shoryuhai is hosted by Harvard University and is made up of two part-an individuals tournament on day one, and a team tournament on day two. During the first day, Joe Yi made it to the final round of the preliminary matches in the Individuals tournament. On the second day, BU's A Team were ranked second in the preliminaries bracket and were able to proceed into quarterfinals. All members of BUKA fought hard and gained a lot of experience from their participation in this tournament!

BUKA participated in the 2015 Goyokai Tournament on November 15^th.
We were able to compete with kendo players from different age-groups and backgrounds because Goyokai is a dojo-hosted competition, different from a college-hosted tournament. We brought two teams to participate and six passionate spectators.
All BUKA members tried their best in this very competitive tournament.

Here are the results:
Women's Kyuu Division
1st place: Helen 
3rd place: Cici & Ji

Men's Kyuu Division
3rd place: Junyan

Congratulations!

Good job to the participants, and thank you to all for supporting us.
 

This past weekend, we welcomed three members from Brown University Kendo Club  for a joint practice. We did basic bogu-practice together, and did a mock team match to practice for the Goyokai tournament coming in two weeks. One of the Brown members said, "I enjoyed the practice, but I felt it was pretty intense" (paraphrased). 

Thank you to the Brown University Kendo Club members for coming all the way from Rhode Island, and to all who attended practice.