2014 All Florida Kendo Tournament
This past weekend Toku Bu Kan competed in the 2014 All Florida Tournament on the campus of UCF. The entire dojo made a strong showing at the tournament with true sportsmanship being displayed by all. The final standings are below: Individual women...
Visitors from Canada.
This past week we hosted two visitors from Canada, Mr. Carlos Chourio and Mr. Thomas...
Toku Bu Kan Sword Demo – 47 Ronin Movie Press Event
Toku Bu Kan was asked to conduct a Kendo and sword demo for the up coming movie 47 Ronin. The demo was featured on CNN Latino Miami and talks about the training needed for the movie by the actors. Also, a behind the scene look at the filming is below: Toku Bu Kan...
3nd Latin American Kendo Championships
Members of the Dojo participated in the 3rd Latin American Kendo Championships held on 15th and 16th Nov 2013 at Medellin University in Medellin, Colombia. More than 300 Kenshi from 16 countries were participating in the events as well. Becerra Sensei was asked to...
14th Goyokai near Boston
Three members of the Dojo participated in the 2013 14th Goyokai near Boston in the individual and team competitions. Afterword we stayed for goodwill keiko with the participating...About Toku Bu Kan Dojo
The true winning is not by power, trickery nor anger, because winning using these things will create feeling of revenge or feeling of unhappiness, however wining by true virtue (Toku) is true winning, even your opponent will thank you when defeated by you and respect your quality.
Therefore we are using this Virtue (Toku 徳)for the Dojo’s first kanji, and for the second kanji we use Bu ( 武) as in Budo. And the last kanji is Kan ( 館) as in group.
(徳武館) Tokubukan has a deep meaning and is giving us a goal to strive for.