{"id":7286,"date":"2025-11-06T00:53:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T13:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/?p=7286"},"modified":"2025-11-06T00:53:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T13:53:31","slug":"qkr-members-in-international-kendo-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/?p=7286","title":{"rendered":"QKR members in International Kendo Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the last two weeks 6 of our members, Mio Tardy (2D), Jack Dye (4D), Alex Paukovits (4D), Anna Opertowski-Marshall (4D), Kaori Langley (4D) , Tomoe Kawami (5D) met in Japan to join some Kendo events.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first weekend we joined Otsuhai in Okayama which was an all women\u2019s competition held at Miyamoto Musashi Budokan. It was such a beautifully organised event highlighting the incredible kendo abilities of women across Japan of all ages!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-7285\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4233-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4233-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4233-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4233.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During our last weekend in Japan, we met up in Tokyo to compete in the 22nd International Tournament organised by the International Goodwill Kendo club. There were individual competitors and teams from America, Taiwan, Korea, Japan and Sweden! It was such a great opportunity to connect with other Kendoka across the world and another incredibly organised event!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our members competed in the Individual 5 Dan and under Women\u2019s tournament in Tokyo where Tomoe Kawami placed 3rd! Alex Paukovits placed 2nd in this event!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-7284\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4034-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4034-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4034-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4034-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4034-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4034.jpeg 1477w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Such a great effort from all our members and we can\u2019t wait to continue working hard for our next upcoming events.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kind regards,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ken Okamoto<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last two weeks 6 of our members, Mio Tardy (2D), Jack Dye (4D), Alex Paukovits (4D), Anna Opertowski-Marshall (4D), Kaori Langley (4D) , Tomoe Kawami (5D) met in &#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7287,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7286\/revisions\/7287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}