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Our sponsored Kenshi, “Big” Kai, competed in the New Zealand Kendo Federation National Championships this weekend!! 🇳🇿

Kai had a very tough pool, facing both the Auckland champion and the champion and captain of the New Zealand National Team. Regardless of the results, we are incredibly proud to have one of our sponsored Kenshi representing his country and competing at his national championships!! 💪✨

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Two beautiful Kiji Do we recently made.
Two totally different finishes 🥰

Which one is your favorite?

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It’s been a while since we’ve posted a cool Do… too much going on! 🤣

It’s no wonder we had so many people coming to our designer, Vishwaas, for Bogu consultations last weekend. Some even mentioned that they wanted to speak with him in person before placing their order. At California Budogu, we do our best to make any design a reality! 🌸

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Throwback to last year’s Nito Camp in Idaho! We’re looking forward to seeing our Idaho friends again at the 14th U.S. Nito Camp in just ONE MORE WEEK!!✨⚔️

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We were honored to gift some of the Tsuba that we designed for the AUSKF Championships to the special guests from Japan— Isato Matsuda Sensei (Hanshi 8-Dan) and Tsukasa Takeuchi Sensei (Kyoshi 8-Dan). We also had the chance to give one to Tagawa Sensei (Hanshi 8-Dan) and Kajitani Sensei (AUSKF President).

It was such an amazing experience to meet and have the chance to chat with them all in one place. Definitely a special memory from the AUSKF Championships✨😊

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Some cool photos from CA Budogu member, Dennis. More photos coming soon✨📸

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Congratulations to all of the winners of the 2026 AUSKF National Championships, and especially to all of the individual 1st Place winners who brought home the championship Do designed by Vishwaas and crafted by Budogu Watoku!!

🥇Congratulations to the following 1st Place winners✨

Junior Boys: Kai Romero — SCKF
Junior Girls: Clara Kim — PNKF
Mudansha: Daisuke Hanaoka — SCKF
Senior Men’s: Hayato Okawa — SCKO
Senior Women’s: Akiyo Kawamura — NCKF
Senior Boys: Luke Ido — SCKO
Senior Girls: Lynn Uemoto — AEUSKF

Women’s Champion: Kanon Saito — SCKF
Men’s Champion: Branden Wang — WKF

The Men’s and Women’s Champions also received a CA Budogu EMERALD Bogu set.

We are incredibly proud to have sponsored prizes for some of the best kendoka in the United States. Congratulations again to all of the winners!✨😊

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Back in Los Angeles, but we had a quick Keiko with some of our international California Budogu team members before heading home!✨

Thank you to our team members who came from far away— Eri from Japan 🇯🇵, Luciano from Chile 🇨🇱, Carlos from Peru 🇵🇪, and Shamina from Houston 🇺🇸 for joining us.

Most of the rest of our team was there too, but they were the responsible ones manning the booth 😆

More photos of the event coming throughout the week!!

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The AUSKF National Championships have officially come to an end!✨

Thank you to AUSKF for giving us the opportunity to sponsor this incredible event alongside our good friends at Hokubei Budogu. This has by far been one of the biggest opportunities we have had since starting California Budogu, and we are truly grateful✨🙇

We would also like to give a huge shoutout to our team’s home federation, SCKF, for their amazing results, including 1st Place in the Men’s Team Championship division, along with many other team and individual placements. Thank you for giving us the chance to support one of the strongest kendo federations in the United States 🇺🇸

Congratulations as well to our sponsored kenshi, Kai and Kouta, for both winning 2nd Place in their team divisions!

We brought our official CA Budogu photographer, Dennis, to the event, so please look forward to some cool photos coming soon!✨📸

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Congratulations to the 2026 AUSKF Champion— Branden Wang! Branden made history as the first to win the AUSKF National Championships men’s division two times in a row!!✨🥇

Being a sponsor of his Dojo, Ildo Kendo Dojo, we couldn’t be happier to present the custom Do we designed, along with our CA Budogu EMERALD Bogu set, to such an incredible champion!!

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