Queen City Kendo Club

Good afternoon,
Due to the 4th of July holiday, there will be no Iaido practice tomorrow!

Due to special Jodo practice going on this weekend, we'll need to cancel Iaido tonight. Kendo will refund as scheduled on Wednesday.

Last week, some of us traveled to Indianapolis to visit Imafuji-sensei at the Gotokukan dojo. It was a tough time, but extremely worth it! It's good to travel to different dojos from time to time to spar with people you normally don't.

Awesome godo keiko! The East Central US Kendo Federation members came all the way from Ohio and Kentucky to Gotokukan Kendo Dojo, Indiana this morning. Thank you very much for coming! We had a blast!

Practice started a little late on Wednesday due to a little visitor. It eventually flew out the door and hopefully is living it's awesome, batty, life.

A visitor from Transylvania caused us to end class a little early today...

Some members from the Osu Kendo Club and the University of Cincinnati Kendo Club (UCKC) paid us a visit last Wednesday for practice! Then some of us went to UDF for some refreshments afterwards (unfortunately, they stopped selling ice cream by time we got there).

We've actually been practicing under the Queen City Kendo Club name for almost a year now, but my schedule has been so hectic as of late that I've only just begun to make the necessary changes to our online presence.

It's been almost a decade since we've had a dojo location in Kentucky, so we thought that it's high time that we change the name to better reflect where we practice. We chose the name Queen City because that's the nickname of Cincinnati, which is where we currently practice.

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After a brief hiatus for a few weeks, we had our Kendo practice last week. It's great to be back in the dojo again!

Photos taken by Benjamin Au-sensei