The 12th Goyokai Tournament 第１２回五葉会剣道大会

The 12 Goyokai tournament was held on October 22 and 23, 2011. This time we had 140 participants and there were hot matches in all divisions.

Especially we had 14 youth participants this year (we had 6 last year) and they competed in individual division (Youth division) and also in a team division. (Boston v.s. New York).

All children were so excited, but audiences were more excited as they were at Boston Red Sox vs. NY Yankees. All kids seemed enjoy their match.

Pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shufukai/sets/72157628961968221/

Tournament results:

Jr. Youth: 1. S. Bell, 2. K. Tsuji, 3. Y. Scalia and Nishiura

Sr. Youth: 1. E. Kim, 2. E. Cho, 3. M. Katakura and T. Okada

Youth Team: 1. New York, 2. Boston

Men’s Kyu: 1. J. Son, 2. S. Choi, 3. C. Mercado and R. Ha

Women’s Kyu: 1. F. Chu, 2. S. Kim, 3. U. Kou and H. Chen

Women’s Dan: 1. T. Yoshida, 2. M. Saito, 3. A. Nasu and J. Ariyama

Shodan: 1. J. Wu, 2. C. Dennis, 3. D. Lam and J. Park

2 dan: 1. M. Madison, 2. Y. Byun, 3. C. O’Donnell and C. Bell

3 dan: 1. A. Obeidallah, 2. J. Lee, 3. A. Nasu and J. Yun

4 dan and above: 1. S. Kamata, 2. N. Kasai, 3. Y. Miura and T. Hoang

Team: 1. Ontario A, 2. GSK A, 3. Shufukai A and Kenshinkai A

第１２回五葉会剣道大会が１０月２２日、２３日にわたって行われました。

今年は１４０人が集まり、子供の部、女子級、男子級、初段、２段、３段、４段以上、団体それぞれの部で熱戦が繰り広げられました。

特に今年は子供の部が１４人集まり（去年は６人）個人戦とボストン対ニューヨークの対抗戦も出来ました。周りの大人の方が伝統の一戦ボストンレッドソックス対ニューヨークヤンキース（日本でいう巨人阪神戦）さながらの盛り上がりでした。子どもたちもとても楽しかったと喜んでくれていました。

写真はこちらから。http://www.flickr.com/photos/shufukai/sets/72157628961968221/