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11.17.09
Remember to RSVP for dim sum sunday on the forums

11.9.09
No practice this Wednesday!

11.4.09
Red Robins this saturday on 11/7 at 7 PM after the Kent taikai. Be there or learn the tournament stories on your own from facebook stalking.

11.4.09
Congrats to the Tacoma Taikai team for taking home 1st place for the 3rd year in a row!

10.2.09
Tournament dates you should remember: Kent Takai- Nov 7th, PNKF Taikai- Nov. 21st.

Jeff Marsten - 7th Dan Kyoshi
Founding member of the UW club back in 1972. Currently the head instructor for Bellevue, Highline and Sno-King Kendo clubs, he also assists at the UW on a weekly basis, is an advisor to the PNKF Board of Directors and Coach for the 2002, 2005 & 2008 PNKF teams to the National Championships. Married to Glennis, who doesn’t practice Kendo, but has two out of four kids that do (Elizabeth and Jeffy). Now a retired mechanical engineer from Boeing, he teaches MORE Kendo.

Peter Mizuki

Luke Shindo

John Sullivan

Denny Wong
Hasn’t practiced kendo in 30 years but is in the Seattle area as a shareholder at the law firm Graham & Dunn, where he specializes in tax law. He received his JD from Cornell University in 1982, is married and has a son and a daughter. Class of 1973.