Hello everyone! Our dear Pioneer Radzif has kindly written down some of the information that you should know about the club so do read what's written below. Before you start, let me give you a brief introduction of this blog. If you guys have noticed, the club has 2 blogs. This is one of the 2 and the other is the one that ends with cca.sg for the link. Before SP started using cca.sg as a form of standardization for all the CCAs in SP, this blog was used as the club's blog (still in use) so do visit this blog every once in a while for updates. I will post on the club's wall on facebook as well to inform everyone when there are new posts.
Training Centre
There are 3 Training Centres under NihontoDo mandate where official training takes place. SP is one of the Training Centres. The other two are RP and HQ(hombu). The art appoints a Sensei-in-Charge as the head of each training centre, responsible for settling Syllabus and Teaching Cadre matters. Every year, a competition is held so that practitioners from across the training centres may mingle and get to test each other's ability.
School Club
SP Kenjutsu was founded in 2007 as SP Chanbara. It was later named SP Kenjutsu in 2009 as the club adopted NihontoDo as its focus martial art.
The SPKC main committee is in charge of maintaining day-to-day functions.
These include keeping track of equipment stock, booking of training venue, planning the annual Singapore Polytechnic Open, freshmen orientation and other social activities. Members who are interested in taking up more responsibilities should indicate their interest to the club seniors.
Some of the above responsibilities can be done through the Department of Student Development (DSD). The DSD are school administration who approve and give funding to certain club events. For example, they are able to provide budget for competitions and camps. The current DSD Officer is Ms. Cindy.
Three members from the pioneer batch of 2007 have remained to this day. They are Valerie, Ain and Radzif. As alumni who also hold senior positions within Nihontodo, their opinions are still strongly taken into account whenever major club decisions are to be made.
A practitioner with regular attendance may be able to attain 1st Dan during his 3 years in poly. The colored belt ranks are entry, red, green, blue, brown and black.
Entry level fees are $30, intermediate level fees are at $40.
*students get a 50% off from full adult price which is $80 for entry and $100 for intermediate
**as students of SP, they get a further $10 discount
Brief introduction to NihontoDo
Nihontodo translates to 'Way of the Japanese Sword'. It is a modern hybrid kenjutsu system that significantly utilises sparring as a method of training.
There are several modules in NihontoDo. Swordplay is the first module, and it consists of learning the fundamentals of sword handling with the short sword, or kodachi. Then comes Sports Kenjutsu, where the practitioner moves on to the long sword, spars with the choken and practices kihon with the bokken. The next three modules of Combative Kenjutsu, Battodo and Tameshigiri are advanced modules taught after 1st Dan.
Sincerely
Tan Yu Fang
Social & Welfare Mentor
Special thanks to Pioneer Radzif for typing out all these information.
