http://www.shinkendotoronto.com/Shinkendo_Toronto/News/News.html Here you can read about news and events regarding Shinkendo Toronto. iWeb 2.0.4 http://www.shinkendotoronto.com/link.php?link=News/Entries/2009/6/22_Seminar_with_Kaiso_2009.html 4cf781e4-1dae-414f-9409-b9005780d969 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:46:26 -0400 <a href="http://www.shinkendotoronto.com/Shinkendo_Toronto/News/Entries/2009/6/22_Seminar_with_Kaiso_2009_files/100_1589.jpg"><img src="http://www.shinkendotoronto.com/Shinkendo_Toronto/News/Media/100_1589.jpg" style="float:left; padding-right:10px; padding-bottom:10px; width:144px; height:108px;"/></a>June 12th to 14th was the seminar in Rimouski Quebec with Obata Toshishiro, the founder (Kaiso) of Shinkendo. The seminar as usual was a great opportunity to train with fellow Shinkendoka from other dojos, while learning new techniques and refining old ones under the instruction of the founder of the art.<br/><br/>The seminar included training in bojutsu (six-foot staff), and an excellent cutting demonstration by Kaiso which included Nito-Ken (two sword) cutting.<br/><br/>Kaiso enjoyed his trip to Canada and has already planned to come back for another seminar next year.