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End of Fall 2009  Happy Holidays! 11/19/09 Shodai Sensei, 2008 AKJF Champion in Houston  As part of this year's AUSKF Education tour, SUSKIF hosted Shodai Sensei at the Houston Budokan. Around 20 members represented Cougar Kendo at the special keiko. 10/25/09 8th Invitation Longhorn Team Taikai  Pictures here 10/20 & 22 Cougar Kendo Says 'WHAT OWL?'   Shirts on sale for $15 @ PGH. 11/12 & 11/24 09/24/09 Visit from Koga Sensei  Thank you for Keiko! 09/10/09 After Keiko Dinner  Thanks for the awesome birthday dinner guys! - Shamina 09/08/09 Cougar Kendo @ Experience It!  Cougar Kendo performed a short demo and had a booth at the Rec center's Experience It! event. Pictures can be found here. 08/26/09 Cat's Back  That was nuts! 08/25/09 First Fall Keiko  12 New members already?? Pictures Soon! 08/21/09 Last practice at the Budokan  07/24/09 Keiko at the Dojo    Images and Videos to be posted in the Media Section soon. 06/20/09 Car Wash I at Panera Bread    Cougar Kendo's first car wash was a success! Mark Sensei 'chaperoned' while members of the club worked and burned under the sun. In addition to raising a couple hundred of dollars, the club received many honks and whistles, along with a few phone number requests. Also, special thanks to Jennifer Maza, the sister of Nancy and Yaya, who stayed all day to help the club. 06/06/09 Garage Sale @ Marci's 05/09/09 End of the Year Party aka Mark-Sensei's and Iris' Surprise Birthday Party    More photos here. 04/30/09 Last Practice for Spring 09, End of Cougar Kendo's First Year    Within one year Cougar Kendo.. . Acheived Sports Club Status . Has gained over 30 members, becoming one of the larger sports clubs . Averages 20 members per practice . Put 10 people into bogu . Participated in its first taikai . Etc! .. Thanks to the wonderful instruction by Mark-Sensei and the help from many of the sempai at the Houston Budokan. THANK YOU! After the last keiko, Mark-Sensei was presented his first gift - a red shinai bag made by Marci Moseley. One of the first set of shinai bags to be used by Cougar Kendo. 04/24-26 Dallas Nabeshima Cup/Texas Open - Cougar Kendo's First Taikai     Cougar Kendo did extremely well for it's first taikai. The club was able to send 8 competitors: Shamina Chang, Michael Harris, Peter Lee, Robert Lott, Neal Nesbitt, Chris Nguyen, Nancy Maza, Andrew Tatuaka, and 4 helpers: Judy Lin, Marci Moseley, Radha Patel, David Tran to Dallas. Half of the competitors were able to win their first match; three proceeded to win their second; and one member, Nancy Maza, proceeded to win her third, with a very bloody toe as a souvenir. Congratulations to Nancy for receiving a fighting spirit award! More photos Here. 4/08/09 Bake Sale II at the UC    Bake Sale! 4/07/09 Shiai Practice 
  Craig sensei, TheBerge sensei, and Morton sensei from the Houston Budokan made a special trip to UH to give an informative lesson on shiai. 3/25/09 The Daily Cougar Feature 3/13/09 1st Bake Sale at the Rec Center March 09     Fresh meat! 2/21-22/09 SUSKIF Seminar & Testing     Koike-sensei and Maeda-sensei visited Houston to lead the 2009 SUSKIF seminar and testing. Congrats to Shamina Chang and Peter Lee for making nikyu! (And Andrew for learning some kata. :P) 01/26/09 Shoudo  During Nakamoto-Sensei's Japanese class, calligraphy master Kenji Matsumoto brushed for the Kendo club "Ki Ken Tai no Ichi". 01/25/09 Mochitsuki    Last Sunday, the advisor, Nakamoto-sensei, and a couple of the members of Cougar Kendo were initiated into the tradition of Rice Pounding, Mochitsuki, at the Houtson Budokan. Fresh out of automatic mochi machines, Kendo members and guests of the dojo had only mallets and a mortar to pound the pounds of glutinous rice into paste. During the labourious pounding, people were able to drift over to the tables filled with pot luck goods. (Kerstein-sensei's Tortilla soup did not survive the onslaught by the hungry.) Luckily, only the mallets involved in the pounding suffered any injury, which were minor. 01/20/09 Spring 09    Keiko at UH Resumes! '08-'09 Winter Break     |
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