Category: European Kendo Championships
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Guest Essay: “Relics” by Rosie Ogle (she/her) Wales.
We found ourselves in a cramped room, the air heavy with frankincense. The relics of St. Basil were shrouded, oiled, and watched over by an Orthodox monk who took one look at me and my husband and knew we were out of place. ‘You speak Serbian?’ he asked sternly. ‘No,’ I said, with the usual…
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The 34th European Kendo Championships with Viktorie Eichlerová (Czech Republic).
Foreword by Kate Sylvester. Chiming into the current status of the world, where democracy is under pressure and political and social issues continue to shape our societies, the European Kendo Championships (EKC) also reflects how world politics can impact kendo. Kendo practitioners are citizens of the world, and while we share the same practice, we…
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Guest Essay: “The loneliness of the long-running team-member” by Rosie Ogle (Wales).
‘I’m sorry,’ I said surrounded by an explosion of bogu-bags, half-empty water-bottles, and the curled flattened tubes of energy gels in the kit room of the thirty-third European Kendo Championships (EKC). ‘I let you down.’ My eyes were still full of tears from when we came off after not getting through our pool. The team…
Kate Sylvester Perspectives 