Welcome to the new BKA Online

The British Kendo Association (BKA) was founded in 1964 as a non-profit making organisation to foster and develop the practice and spirit of Kendo, Iaido, and Jodo along traditional lines.

For more information, please read our Mission Statment.

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What's new

- Note that there has been slight changes to the requirements for kendo IKKYU and SHODAN grades. Have a look at the Announcements page for details. To see the BKAs entire grading procedures check out this page for the full outline.

- Octobers pre-grading seminar application form is available to download in doc and pdf formats. The location will be Tora Dojo in London. Check out the BKA Calendar page.

- British kendo open taikai application form available to download here (word).
- Application deadline is Saturday 30th August.

Events and Announcements

Please don't forget to check the BKA Calendar and BKA Announcements pages.

How to use this site

You can navigate around this site by using the menu bar to the left of the page.

This site is first and foremost an informative one and not in anyway graphically orientated... so I apologise for the lack of images ahead of time.

This website is done on a volunteer basis, so please have patience with us.