Craigieburn Martial Arts Centre

23/11/2025

Congratulations Daniel Minero on passing your 4kyu iaido exam.

23/11/2025

23/11/2025

Practising dive rolls at the dojo.

06/10/2025

Students of the Intermediate class performed a demonstration at the Dai Nippon Butoku Kai Australian Branch Taikai. The students demonstrated great skill and courage in front of a panel of nine senior DNBK Sensei and other participants. There were martial artists from Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and Germany.
We are very proud of their achievement 🤩

13/08/2025

Leanne and Kevin travelled to South Australia last weekend to teach Jujutsu, Iaido and Jodo to our friends at Kiai JuJitsu Kan. Big thank you to Anthony Johnson and his team for their wonderful hospitality.

14/06/2025

Kevin & Leanne drove a 3,871km round trip to Brisbane to attend an Iaido and Jodo seminar with Takizawa Sensei and Kozuka Sensei from Japan.
Even though it was an extremely long drive, it was a great seminar and worth the effort.
It was our longest drive in the Tesla with a total cost of $286.09 from the Tesla Superchargers. The car was usually ready in about 15 minutes, but I needed extra time to stretch and relax, so I charged it more than required. Leanne purchased a mini fridge for the car, which kept my supply of energy drinks icy cold, from Jacar for only $149.
So, including keeping our drinks icy cold, the trip cost us only 7.4 cents/km (plus 4 days of driving 🤣)

13/05/2025

On the 20th April 2025, Kevin & Leanne and our students, Jan & Elena (along with her family), went to Japan for 3 weeks. The main reason for the trip was to participate in an event held by the "Dai Nippon Butoku Kai" at the birthplace of modern Japanese martial arts, the "Butokuden" in Kyoto, which was built in 1895. Unfortunatly, we are not allowed to share photos of the event, but we also did a lot of sightseeing.
The Japanese Princess Aikiko was a special guest at the opening ceremony and dinner. Kevin and Leanne demonstrated Jujutsu at Ise Jingu. This is the shrine of the Japanese Emperor, and holds one of the three Japanese national treasures. It is reputed to be the first Shinto Shrine built in Japan. At the Butokuden, the Australian team demonstrated jujutsu, iaido and jodo.
The event was held over 7 days with 250 participants from 20 countries.
Kevin received the President of Dai Nippon Butoku Kai Award for Excellence in preserving and transmitting Japanese culture.
All members received awards for their outstanding demonstrations.
It was an amazing experience that was transformative and will remain a lifelong memory.
Two of the coolest places we visited was: the site of Miyamoto Musashi's famous battle in Kyoto and the shrine Miyamoto Musashi visited before the battle.
At the shrine are the remains of the original tree (600 years old), which was the meeting place for the battle. The shrine shaves off small slivers of the tree and makes "Victory Amulets" for purchase. Needless to say, we all have one attached to our sword bags 🥰.

We have plenty of photos to share of our sightseeing experience, but they are in no particular order.

28/02/2025

We held our Dojo Kagami Biraki on 18th January 2025
Big thank you to the instructors who taught on the day. It was an inspiring way to begin our training for 2025.

Leanne created a video from the photos and videos she took on the day, it goes for about 5min.

A big thank you to everyone involved in the day, it was great!!

The instructors were:
Ramon Aperia (Jujutsu)
Chris Bradbury (Jujutsu)
Jason Gray (Karatedo)
Mick Ognenovski (Karatedo)
Gary Oliver (Kobudo)
Ron Ramadge (Jujutsu)
David Snell (Jujutsu)
Kurt Tancredi (Jodo)
Clem Ting (Iaido)
Kevin Walsh (Jujutsu)
Damian Wilson (Karatedo)

Participating dojos were:
Anshin Ryu Ju Jitsu
Craigieburn Martial Arts Centre
Ivanhoe Jujutsu
Lion Bushido Karate Academy
Maryborough Karate Club
Melbourne Dragons Martial Arts
Omoikiri Budō Kai - Bendigo
Satori Budo Kan Australia

08/01/2025

Hanshi Kevin and Kyoshi Leanne have been invited by the Dai Nippon Butoku Kai to demonstrate Jujutsu at Japan’s oldest and most revered shrine, Ise Jingu shrine.

It’s an amazing honour to be selected from the huge pool of talented martial artists attending the DNBK “World Butoku Sai” event in Kyoto.

This is great recognition of the standards achieved at Craigieburn Martial Arts Centre.

This will occur on 26th April 2025

Ise Jingu(Ise Shrine) is the shinto shrine that the Japanese adore as "Soul of Japan". Located in Ise city, Mie Prefecture, Japan.

13/05/2024

In March CMAC hosted the first Rensei Taikai in Australia for the International Division of the Dai Nippon Butoku Kai. Which is one of the Premier martial arts organisations in Japan.

It was a great day with participants from as far away as Queensland and South Australia. I have created a 6-minute slideshow.

This is "Rensei Taikai Melbourne 2024" by Kevin Walsh CMAC on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.