The seminar will be led by Abe sensei, assisted by other 7dan sensei.

• sign up online
  • deadline is 6/30/25
  • please make one pass through the form for each person attending, including 7dan sensei
  • bento $12 each (7dan covered by SCKF)

• place: Walker Junior High School
  8132 Walker St, La Palma CA 90623

• sign in closes 8:45am sharp

• attendance is restricted to 2 dan and above who already know and can perform the basics of all 10 kata

• all dojo head instructors and assistant instructors are encouraged to attend especially if any of your kenshi has ever failed kata at shinsa

• bring the following:
  • bokuto set (tachi and kodachi)
  • keikogi and hakama
  • tare and nafuda
  • bento payment
    if paying by check, make payable to Southern California Kendo Federation, one check per dojo)
  • bogu and shinai (there will be godo geiko at the end)

• note: starting in April 2024, applicants for 3dan and above shinsa (including kodansha/shogo ranks) must have attended one kata seminar and one shinpan seminar within the previous 2 years

Attendance by rank:

7D(12)    6D(8)     5D(9)      4D(23)    3D(23)    2D(17)     TOTAL: 92

Attendance by dojo

ALH(1)    CHUO(11)  CM(7)     COV(4)    GED(11)  IS(5)     JCI(3)
LOS(3)    NOR(3)    OCB(5)    PCI(3)    PLNO(1)  SD(5)     SS(-)
STYO(11)  TOR(10)   VAL(2)    VEN(5)    WS(-)

• 2 Dan
  1. Ahn, Eliza (VAL)
  2. Doi, Kazumi (STYO)
  3. Greco, Leslie (IS)
  4. Ji, Daniel (NOR)
  5. Kim, Josh (VEN)
  6. Maekawa, Sakiko (OCB)
  7. Mochizuki, Miwa (GED)
  8. Nam, Dave (TOR)
  9. Pappa, Alex (GED)
  10. Roh, Demian (OCB)
  11. Ruiz, Abraham (TOR)
  12. Rundle, Joe (GED)
  13. Sentinella, Clyde (SD)
  14. Shih, Ben (IS)
  15. Stephan, Ron (VEN)
  16. Takatsuki, Kaori (JCI)
  17. Ujiie, Shingo (GED)
• 3 Dan
  1. Alaoui, Chakib (CHUO)
  2. Bennett, Erich (CM)
  3. Crawford, Sam (PCI)
  4. Fujiwara, Yutaka (CM)
  5. Fukusumi, Yuhki (VEN)
  6. Han, Chris (STYO)
  7. Lee, Han (CHUO)
  8. Lee, Byunghyun (CHUO)
  9. Lisa, Tauchi (CM)
  10. Miyata, Matthew (GED)
  11. Mizuhashi , Masaki (TOR)
  12. Motoki, Brandon (OCB)
  13. Paik, Nikie (CM)
  14. Paulsen, Joshua (TOR)
  15. Roberts, Gregory (IS)
  16. Sambo, Jazel (SD)
  17. Sambo, Angel (SD)
  18. Shim, Seong (SD)
  19. Shin, Insung (CHUO)
  20. Wellichinda, Izogbu (STYO)
  21. Wollaston, Adriane (PCI)
  22. Yoon, Paul (JCI)
  23. Yun, Sean (STYO)
• 4 Dan
  1. Allison, Zidi (TOR)
  2. Charng, Johnny (IS)
  3. Chinen, Masaaki (GED)
  4. Choi, Eun Seok (TOR)
  5. Goya, Yoshinori (OCB)
  6. Hagiwara , Mika (STYO)
  7. Honda, William (LOS)
  8. Huang, Michael (CHUO)
  9. Inada, Charles (CHUO)
  10. Inouye, Jamie (VEN)
  11. Kawai, Kent (JCI)
  12. Kouadri, Theodore (PLNO)
  13. Lee, Andy (CHUO)
  14. Makiuchi, Teppei (STYO)
  15. Makiuchi, Kyoko (STYO)
  16. Morioka, James (CHUO)
  17. Ono, Clark (GED)
  18. Paik, Thomas (CM)
  19. Roh, Aaron (OCB)
  20. Taguchi, Takahiro (GED)
  21. Towata, Noriko (VAL)
  22. Williams, Nathan (STYO)
  23. Yi, Pyong (STYO)
• 5 Dan
  1. Dong, Allyson (VEN)
  2. Kang, Albert (CHUO)
  3. Kongo, Hidenori (GED)
  4. Ra, Richard (CM)
  5. Segawa, Shiori (CM)
  6. Sunwoo , Eric (CHUO)
  7. Takanashi, Robert (LOS)
  8. Tew, Tom (IS)
  9. Yamasaki, James (PCI)
• 6 Dan
  1. Chinen, Katsushi (GED)
  2. Honda, Judy (LOS)
  3. Imai, Hideki (STYO)
  4. Kariya, Yoshijiro (NOR)
  5. Kim, Steven (COV)
  6. Shikai, Yuriko (CHUO)
  7. Tew, Saeko (COV)
  8. Zau, Susan (SD)
• 7 Dan (instructors)
  1. Abe, Kevin (LOS)
  2. Arima, Kazuharu (STYO)
  3. Brown, Jason (TOR)
  4. Chinen, Katsuo (GED)
  5. Harada, Brandon (STYO)
  6. Kato, Tomoji (COV)
  7. Kodama, Jean (NOR)
  8. Sakaue, Masataka (COV)
  9. Shinada, Shuntaro (ALH)
  10. Yang, Chris (TOR)
  11. Yang, Danny (TOR)
  12. Yuge, Tim (TOR)