Melbourne Budokai Kenshikan Dojo

Interested in Kendo, Iaido or Naginata?

All the arts at MBK are commencing intro courses in the first week of February 2026 and spots may still be available!

Visit our website for more information ☺️

Intro Courses For anyone interested in starting either Kendo, Iaido or Naginata for the first time please see the information below regarding the next introductory courses for each of the respective arts.&n…

Congratulations to all the MBK members who competed today at the Mumeishi 3s Taikai. Great effort by everyone. In particular to Claire Baker who was awarded a Fighting Spirit Award - an incredibly important award in any taikai. A reward for one's effort. Well done everyone!!

Congratulations to all our MBK members who have progressed to the next grade in November 2025.

Especially Noriko Matsumoto sensei and Ryan Hikima sensei who achieved 7th Dan in Tokyo on 14 November (pictured with Yoshida sensei who was an ex-MBK member prior to returning to Japan).

We are fortunate to now have five 7th Dans at MBK (Four Kendo sensei and one Iaido sensei)!

9 November - Club based 6th to 4th Kyu Kendo Grading

22 November - VKR Iaido Grading

23 November VKR 3rd to 1st Kyu Grading

The annual MBK hosted Okada Sensei Workshop is in just over a week!! We look forward to seeing you there!

Details of session times and costs are within the registration form below.

Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions!

Registrations open until 17 October: https://forms.gle/X516AMHPPXNB7R6fA

A massive congratulations to Stephen Flahavin the newest MBK Life Member. It was at yesterday’s (freezing) MBK Annual General Meeting that we were able to acknowledge and celebrate Steve’s contributions over many, many years. He is our beloved senpai and we are happy to share this moment with you!

Congratulations to the Victorian Kendo Team who attended the 47th Australian Kendo Championships in Canberra last weekend!

Congratulations to Kentarou Nibu-Jones who came 2nd 🥈with a dominant performance in the Men’s Dan Individuals.

VIC Team Results:

Men’s Kyu Team 🥈: Eric Tu Tran
Women’s Dan Team 🥉: Yuko Mayumi, Kristine Ventura and Claire Baker
Men’s Dan Team 🥈
Women’s Kyu Team 🥈
Kata Pairs 🥇

The 7 month campaign draws to a close but we keep working towards the next one!

Registrations now open! Our very own Matsumoto sensei is one of the chief instructors ☺️

Registrations are open!!
https://events.humanitix.com/7th-oceania-women-s-kendo-seminar-and-taikai

Congratulations to all members in Naginata, Kendo and Iaido who participated in their Kyu and Dan gradings this month!

Not pictured are our kendo club-based grading candidates, an additional 15 members attaining 6th, 5th and 4th Kyu.

We also successful finished the Iaido intro course and our Kendo intro course finishes this week!

https://youtu.be/ueD5jaJQBiQ?si=-lBRiRTws8v3Y_FR

A short film with some friends of MBK appearing

WARRIORS OF BUDO. Episode Five: Kendo by Empty Mind Films Trailer for our upcoming new release in the Warriors of Budo series, Episode Five: Kendo. No other Budo or Japanese martial art is so closely identified with...

Final official MBK Naginata training session for 2024. Have a safe and happy break for Christmas and New Year
Also you can see other Naginata posts on Facebook at
Victorian Naginata Renmei

Mumeishi 3s - Saturday 7 December 2024

Always a fun day (special guest: humidity 🥵). MBK had three entrants in the Women’s Individual Taikai and two teams in the team events.

Women’s Individual Taikai
3rd Place - Kristine Ventura 🥉
4th Place - Claire Rippon

Mumeishi 3s Taikai
Both teams came away with 1-1 for the pool matches and many ippon scored. We’re growing in confidence and will keep training to improve! So ends the last competition for 2024!!

NOVEMBER Grading Photo Dump!!

10 November - our 6th to 4th Kyu kendo club based grading including the first grading of our July kendo intro course.

23 November - VKR Iaido Grading, where we had a whopping 15 members go for gradings from 6th Kyu to 3rd Dan.

23 November - Naginata Kyu grading! Apologies, we got too excited to take a group shot but congrats to all!!

24 November - VKR Kendo 3rd to 1st Kyu grading, where 9 members inched closer towards the Dan grades!

Congrats to all MBK members 🥳 thank you to our senseis and senpai for your guidance, onwards to the next one!!