Exciting matches today at the first ever annual Mid-South Kendo Team Taikai aka LR-Memphis Team Taikai here in hot and humid Little Rock, AR. The Memphis group outnumbered us 15 to 10 in total numbers. Arkansas Kendo Club, however, managed to win the team taikai against Memphis with total wins of 8 to 4. The youth matches were looking pretty good and the adults did quite well too. There were also many family members present.
The taisho for Arkansas was Mike Sentany who now holds the AKC Trophy Cup. Two kantosho awards were given by Dr. Michio Kajitani sensei to Mathew of Arkansas and Tanaka of Memphis. Some people took video of the matches but I don't know if we will ever see them. The taikai ended around 10:45am. Then we preceed to have open keiko until 11:45. Afterwards, we all went to New China Buffet for lunch.
Aside from using up all of the AFB's tape to fix the floors and create the court, everything seemed to have went well. Cheers, until next time.
A special thank you to Mathew's mom for bringing the drinks.
Sunday, June 3, 2007
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