4th PNKT Group Photo  Now on it’s fourth year, Kendo Clubs across Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao clashed swords once again in the annual Philippine National Kendo Tournament!   Organized and hosted by Manila Kendo Club, held at Celebrity Sports Club, October 26-27, 2019, the #4thPNKT gathered kendo practitioners of the United Kendo Federation of the Philippines namely Cebu Kendo Club, Davao Kendo Club, Dumaguete Kendo Club, IGA Kendo Club Philippines, Iloilo Kendo Club, Manila Kendo Club, and OISCA Negros Kendo Club. It was a weekend of friendly competition, learning, camaraderie, and of course ..read more

by Chenney Navarro I’ve always been called out as someone who is too technical in my kendo approach. While some appreciate how it dissects concepts and movements into bite sized pieces, others find it too cerebral and unnecessarily nitty gritty. For the latter, it is usually because of differences in methods of learning. Kendo has always been taught and learned through experiential volume practice. If you do something thousands of times you will eventually figure out how to do it right. This can be an effective approach early on, where almost anything will be an improvement from nothing. And w ..read more