The UKFP is now open for membership renewal and new applications for the year 2023! For current UKFP Members (as of 2022), the last day of your membership is on Jan 21, 2023 and you must complete all of your membership requirements to renew your membership for 2023 on or before this date.

The UKFP opens 2023 with the first official tournament since 2019! This tournament is for teams composed of 3 members, and open to all interested kendoka (whether UKFP members or not).

Last November 2022, the UKFP opened elections for the Board of Trustees. Here is the official list of the elected candidates.

The UKFP is proud to announce that we are organizing the first ever official Kendo grading here in the Philippines! Please check the information listed below, or scan the QR Code on the poster.

Philippine Kendo has recently concluded its annual Regional Kendo Shinsa Seminars with the Visayas Leg held at the Riverside Courts in Calindagan, Dumaguete City last 25 September 2022.

More than 50 attendees hailing from Davao Kendo Club, Davao Kenyukai, and Cotabato Kendo Club converged in the Rizal Memorial Colleges Gymnasium in Davao City last 04 September 2022 for the Mindanao leg of Philippine Kendo’s Regional Shinsa Seminars.

Kendo practitioners based in Luzon gathered for the first leg of this year’s Regional Kendo Shinsa (Promotional Exams) Seminars held on 21 August 2022 at the Ortigas Technopoint One in Pasig City, the first major event of the Philippine Kendo community since the pandemic began.

The UKFP is organizing a series of seminars designed to help participants prepare for the kyu or dan examinations during the 1st Philippine Dan Shinsa in November.

The venue for the month of May 2022 for the Metro Manila Godo Keiko Kai will be at The Upper Deck Basketball Court. This keiko is open to all interested kendoka either based in or visiting Metro Manila. We would love to have keiko with you.

This is an online panel discussion organized by Mr. Kunihiko Sugiyama of De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde for his thesis project. It is scheduled for this coming Saturday, April 16, from 2pm onward. The discussion is meant to highlight Kendo as an art, and how it is applicable for Filipinos, especially in modern times.

The UKFP is restarting the Metro Manila Godo Keiko Kai. This is a joint training session where any kendoka either based in or visiting Metro Manila can join in. Sessions are set to resume starting April 10.

We are checking the feasibility of holding a dan shinsa (dan grading) in November in Metro Manila.