Greenville Kendo Club

Greenville Kendo Club Greenville Kendo Club meets Saturdays 10:30AM-12:30PM at New Location!!: Dance United at 580 Woodruff Road, Greenville, SC.

In 2010, Greenville Kendo Club was started with a couple of students and enthusiastic parents led by Yokote Sensei at a local Kyudojo (Archery practice place). After we moved our Dojo to Greenville YMCA, Onoda Sensei joined and the number of the members keeps increasing. Currently, we have teachers from Columbia Kendo Club, SC (Nakahara Sensei and Ishimori Sensei) and we are grateful for the conti

nuous support from the fellow Kenshi and Sensei from out of state Dojos. Since December 2020, we relocated our main practice location to Knights of Sienna Fencing Academy. We are a non-profit style organization and the member dues help to support dojo operating cost including rental fee to Knights of Sienna Fencing Academy, YMCA and other expenses. Kendo, is the art of Japanese fencing. "Ken" or tsurugi is from the character meaning sword. The character for "Do" or michi includes the meaning way or path which translates as "The way of the sword". A path in life which is followed through the training of kendo. (Excerpt from AUSKF)

It is a balanced exercise that coordinates foot, sword, body, breath, and voice. While regular practice will condition the body, it takes time to develop the mental control needed to master the seemingly simple techniques. And it is with this mental alertness that anyone can overcome any opponent and become a great Kenshi.

04/03/2026

Hi, everyone!
We will have kendo practice this Saturday.
Please join our practice from 10:30AM to 12:30PM as usual.
See you there! 😄

03/27/2026

Ishimori Sensei at Columbia Kendo Club is inviting us to Godo-geiko on Sunday.
Greenville members, if you can make it, please join the Godo-geiko at Seven Oaks Park Gym on Sunday, 3/29 from 2:30PM.🙂

Send a message to learn more

We had great Keiko today!Lyons sensei from Southern Ohio dojo has visited us today and gave us very valuable instruction...
03/01/2026

We had great Keiko today!
Lyons sensei from Southern Ohio dojo has visited us today and gave us very valuable instructions.
We really enjoyed and learned a lot of things.

Lyons sensei, thank you very much for visiting us and please visit us again!

01/30/2026

All,

Once again, we have been monitoring the weather reports regarding the winter storm expected this weekend.
Unfortunately, we need to cancel kendo practice on Saturday January 31.
Please stay safe and warm.

We will resume our normal schedule on February 7th.

01/23/2026

All,

We have been monitoring the weather reports regarding the winter storm expected this weekend, and we have decided to cancel kendo practice on Saturday January 24.

We will resume our normal schedule on January 31.

12/20/2025

Great practice today!
We will take a break next Saturday as it will be Christmas week.
We will resume our normal practice on January 3rd, 2026!
We wish everyone a wonderful Holidays and Happy New Year! 🎆

Very special visitor came today!We had a few members absent today, however, Chad visited our new dojo during our practic...
10/12/2025

Very special visitor came today!
We had a few members absent today, however, Chad visited our new dojo during our practice this morning!
It was great to seeing our long time Kendo friend returning! We hope he will be able to join our practice from next week!

08/31/2025

Thank you very much, Davis sensei for leading our practice today!
We learned lots of great things today!
Please join our practice anytime when you are visiting Greenville!

Today, two new member joined our practice for first time! They found us at the Bon Dance Festival last week! It was great to have sensei for their first practice!

Have a great Labor Day weekend and see you next Saturday!

08/29/2025

Hi everyone!
This Saturday, Davis sensei from Columbia Kendo Club and his daughter will join our practice again! It will be great practice, and we may have some new people visiting us as we met several people interested in Kendo at the Bon Dance Festival last weekend!
See you all at 10:30!

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Our Kendo demonstration went very well and many visitors indicated interest to Kendo!We hope some people we met at Bon ...
08/24/2025

Our Kendo demonstration went very well and many visitors indicated interest to Kendo!
We hope some people we met at Bon Dance Festival will join the club.
Thank you very much Ishimori Sensei, Colombia Kendo Club members, and Mr. Tsumura from Charleston Kendo Club for making our demonstration great!
Thank you JAASC for inviting us to this great event every year. 😊

08/23/2025

Just a reminder, no morning practice this Saturday, August 23rd.
Instead, we will meet at the Bon Dance Festival site at 1:30PM to prepare for the Kendo demonstration.
Ishimori Sensei will be leading our demonstaration and Columbia Kendo Club will be joining us.
Our demonstration will start around 2:55PM.
GKC Members! See you at 1:30PM!

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Dance United, 580 Woodruff Road
Greenville, SC
29607

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10:30am - 12:30pm

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