Wellington Iaidō Club

More pics from the grading April 2024

Congrats to everyone that graded at the national seminar last weekend (27th-28th April 2024).

Our member Liam passed 3rd Kyu grading!

What's the relationship between Kendō and Iaidō? Check out this article from the folk at Tozando Japanese Sword Katana Shop

The Relationship Between Kendo and Iaido | Tozando Iai in martial arts refers to either pulling out your sword quickly to strike your opponent from a sitting position with the sword in the sheath.

Iaidō, it's all about the little details...

Congrats to our members for passing gradings at the National Seminar 8th October

Tina 3rd kyu
Uwe 2nd kyu

We'll be at the Japan Festival Wellington today from 11am - come down and learn more about iaido, kendo and naginata martial arts 🥷🥷🥷

Congratulations to all our Wellington Iaidō members for passing gradings on the weekend. Cintya, Christian and Tina.　おめでとう! (^^)/

Congratulation to all the successful applicants for the Kyu grading in Iaido and Kendo Held this morning at our dojo ...Well done everyone !

Our Saturday 3-5pm open training sessions have now restarted.

If you are new to iaidō, Tuesday 6-7pm sessions are the best option to get started.

See https://wellington-iaido.com/getting-started/

Training starts back on the 16th June with our beginners induction we kicked off just before the lockdown.

We're full up but may run another introduction course later in the year.

Thanks for everyone holdding in there and getting through the lockdown.

Keiko is suspended until further notice due to the current covid-19 situation in New Zealand. Hope everyone is doing ok out there! がんばって！

The dōjō is back in full swing after the holidays. We will be running a 10 week introduction course in iaidō starting Tuesday the 10th March. If you're looking for a good grounding in what this martial art is all about you can find out more about the course of our website. https://wellington-iaido.com/getting-started/10-week-introduction-to-iaido/

10 week introduction to Iaidō » Wellington Iaidō Club What is Iaidō?Iaidō is a Japanese martial art focused on using the sword, drawing and cutting in a single stroke. It is practiced in prearranged movements called “kata” against different scenarios and surprise attacks from imaginary opponents.Course detailsAll beginners from 15 years and up welc...

We have a new 1st kyū and Sandan (3rd Dan) at Wellington Iaidō Club after a great October National Seminar in Auckland last month! おめでとうございました!⛩

Big thanks to Matthew Fox-Wilson from Auckland Iaido Club for a great full day of training on Saturday! Also big thanks to everyone that put in the effort throughout the whole day. See you at the National Seminar in October.

Thanks to Victoria University of Wellington and Japan Information & Cultural Centre, Embassy of Japan NZ for inviting us to give a demonstration of iaido last Friday - great turn out and good to give people some hands-on with bokuto and dismantling a sword.

Thanks to everyone who attended our seminar over the weekend and Ke Bin Chin for coming down from Auckland Iaido Club! Next one at the end of August.

Congratulations to our newest graded members!

This weekend was our first national seminar for 2019 and we were lucky enough to be under the instruction of Kaneda Sensei.

We're sure that everyone who attended had a great time and learned a lot regardless of their level!

Many thanks to Kaneda Sensei for taking the time to come to New Zealand and teach us, it's always a pleasure to host you.

And congratulations to the seven newly graded participants from around the country!

We will be posting more photos soon.

Well done to all our beginner iaidōka - only 2 weeks to go on our 10 week introduction course (and a lifetime to keep practicing!). We'll be learning kendo kata and how to perform iaidō enbu (demonstrations) to round out the course.