European Kendama Open championships. Full details at http://www.kendama.co.uk/EKO2011.html (http://www.kendama.co.uk/EKO2011.html)
Beginner division, Advanced division, Speed Trick and Best Trick. Plus the chance to meet 4 top-notch Japanese players and see just how it all should really be done. Probably the biggest kendama event outside of Japan, ever.
Get your Excite on!
(Just signed up)
Making plans to get to Munich - I'm out of practice but I might give this a go :).
Hey Duncan! Welcome aboard. Cool that you'll be in Munich (hopefully).
So, dust off that 'dama, & stick it by your kettle! :)
About to hopefully get a few days off work for it, should be incredible, especially meeting some kendama vets! Does anybody know best way of getting from Munich airport to the venue? And cheap is always a bonus :)
Matt! Cool if you can make it there!
http://www.ejc2011.org/index.php?pid=108 (http://www.ejc2011.org/index.php?pid=108) is a bit sparse, but it at least suggests a few stations.
Looks like we now have an actual venue listed for the event now: http://www.ejc2011.org/programme/ (http://www.ejc2011.org/programme/) lists "Show Big Top".
There is some more information here:
http://www.ejc2011.org/information_letter/information_letter_en.pdf (http://www.ejc2011.org/information_letter/information_letter_en.pdf)
Looking forward to welcome you guys here in Munich.
Cheers
Sebastian
Update on the European Kendama Championship:
Katsuaki Shimadera a.k.a. Shakemid a.k.a K.Cima (6th dan kendama-do; 1st class JKA trainer licence; 33), Satoru Akimoto (6th dan kendama-do; 1st class JKA trainer licence; 28) and Tomoya Mukai a.k.a. Emperor1063 (6th dan kendama-do; 1st class JKA trainer licence; 25) from Japan will join us for 6 days at the EJC in Munich, judging the competitions and doing a couple of workshops for beginners and advanced players.
Check their videos in case you don't already know them:
けん玉の超高度な技 - Extreme Kendama α (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2swtpVXmi8#) (K.Cima)
http://www.youtube.com/user/asidematoi1983?feature=mhee#p/a/u/0/AU8q5lfO0Kk (http://www.youtube.com/user/asidematoi1983?feature=mhee#p/a/u/0/AU8q5lfO0Kk) (Akimoto-san)
http://www.youtube.com/user/emperor1063?feature=mhum#p/a/u/0/9qFihLJai2s (http://www.youtube.com/user/emperor1063?feature=mhum#p/a/u/0/9qFihLJai2s) (Mukai-san)
Hi folks, for everyone who still doesn't know how to get there, here is a car pool list for you.
http://www.ejc2011.org/carpool/ (http://www.ejc2011.org/carpool/)
Don't hesitate: travel! This will be the ultimate kendama party of Europe this year!
Void! Come on, rent a bus and bring the guys abroad!
A plea from someone who isn't going... Take loads of videos, and share them when you come back!!
There will even be a television station on the ground to cover the event.
So we will get a couple of footage BatDancer ;)
For all those who still need some motivation to get their ticket to Munich next week, her you go:
Thanks to Shimadera-san and our other firends at the JKA we will have a Mugen Charity Auction for the people in eastern Japan.This is a unique chance to get one of the last Mugens out there.
Check out this pic from Shimadera-san:
(http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/5290/mugencharityauction.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/143/mugencharityauction.jpg/)
See you there folks :o
And if you STILL needed another reason...
There are 2 TICKETS FOR EJC 2012 up for grabs as prizes in the comp, courtesy of Sunrise Kendamas.
So gutted I can't go :(
Would totally be up for that auction too! Damn, guess I'll have to just stick with my Wine...
For those that can't go, Juggling Live (http://jugglinglive.com/) is covering the EJC event with live streaming, and has plans to stream at least some of the EKO (http://jugglinglive.com/schedule/). Keep checking back there for updates (and don't forget the times shown are German local time).
Ah this would be so fun to attend. A white Mugen would be awesome... but I'm afraid I'll just never be able to bring myself to pay current Mugen prices
Some first impressions of the EJC2011 in Munich.
Kendama Europe & the first day at the EJC2011 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avMf8HU3dss#ws)
glad to see the kendama's making up for the rest of the convention (from what i've heard). Hope the problems aren't ruining it for you guys, keep clicking!
I totally wish I could be there... looking forward to some tasty videos of all the action. :)
So? A quick post with results for the poor kendamers that could not attend it..... pretty please
I saw just the names in a tweet from Ceska Kendama
QuoteTomoya Mukai won European Kendama Open 2011 after a long battle agains Nicolas Shopher.
QuoteSatoru Akimoti won the speed trick kendama competition
Quote from: shalafi on 10 August, 2011, 18:14:05
So? A quick post with results for the poor kendamers that could not attend it..... pretty please
I saw just the names in a tweet from Ceska Kendama
QuoteTomoya Mukai won European Kendama Open 2011 after a long battle agains Nicolas Shopher.
QuoteSatoru Akimoti won the speed trick kendama competition
Check out...
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/16555825 (http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/16555825)
I just came back because I saw the video on ustream and I see it has been posted already :)
Very impressive.
A great day, great fun, great drama.
Quick results for now, more to follow in a BKA site post next week.
EKO 2011
Advanced Division Winner: Tomoya Mukai
European Kendama Champion and Swiss Kendama Champion: Nicolas Schopfer
Norwegian Kendama Champion: Lars
Dutch Kendama Champion: Lucas
Austrian Kendama Champion: David N.
German Kendama Champions (tied): Sebastian Hohentanner & Jochen Drechsler
Speed Trick Champion: Satoru Akimoto 17.2 seconds (New record time)
Best Trick: Tom Derrick - 'Munich Tower'
Beginners Division Winner, & Spanish Kendama Champion: Pablo
Finnish Kendama Champion: Marko A.
The speed trick winner had a horrible way of doing things. A few of the tricks wasnt executed properly. Candlestick in particular.
But congrats to all the winners. :-)
Was an amazing couple of dama days, the level was so high! I will write more especially the post comp stuff in the evening when I have caught up on sleep in a real bed! I think I may have been won over by one of Alex's Bilbo's though... Many friendly faces, can't wait to see them all again, safe journey home!
Full Results and a review are here (http://www.kendama.co.uk/EKO2011review.html).
I'm curious, what is "Munich Tower"? I suspect it's not a conventional trick, but I wonder what it was that made him win best trick?
Very impressive the beginners competition.
And I see that I am no longer the Spanish Champion... that's good, now I have a new challenge :)
Quote from: HansNickmans on 12 August, 2011, 15:07:09
I'm curious, what is "Munich Tower"? I suspect it's not a conventional trick, but I wonder what it was that made him win best trick?
The best trick was put up on JugglingLive: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/16556320 (http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/16556320)
If you skip to 10.24, then you can see me pull the trick. Not too hard, but novel :-)
great meeting all of you, had a great time!
Void, how those the score works? how is it that i have more misses than points? haha
Nicolas :)
Hey,
It was a nice week , and nice to meet you all.
I hope to see you next year at the EJC too
it is from 28-7-2012 till 5-8-2012 in Poland Lublin.
See ya
Quote from: KendaMushroom on 14 August, 2011, 16:17:54
Void, how those the score works? how is it that i have more misses than points? haha
I'm assuming you're actually curious as to how the scoring worked, and not just laughing about having more misses. Since I was helping Void scorekeep, I can help answer this a bit. As you went through the competition, we simply kept track of all your misses. So, if you happened to have to do Bat (I remember your groans of pain everytime you had to do that one) and you and your competition missed all three attempts, you both got three misses. If you won that round in the end, you would only have two points against your misses, so those misses could add up quickly. Thus, points were simply how many you won over the course of the competition. Since you needed two to move on in any given round, you would have had a minimum of 8 by the time you made the final, where you needed 3 to win (since you managed one point against Mukai, you ended up with 9 points). It looks weird on paper, but that's only because people you competed against probably had as many misses as you, but you ended up moving on in the end so their total misses look artificially small.
Hope that helps.
Hey Duncan, thanks for that explanation, I was indeed curious. I think I remember a round where we both missed 6 times. makes sense now thanks again. hope you're well...see you guys at the next event! 8)
Here are some thoughts from me on the week:
http://www.kendama.co.uk/ejc2011.html (http://www.kendama.co.uk/ejc2011.html)
Comp review coming separately.
That was a great read Void, I would like to take the opportunity to congratulate you and Alex again on your Dan-status. I think I would of reacted in the same way... Is this JKA-invitation gonna be an annual thing? Because it seems to raise the entire experience to another level (although I have only witnessed the first EKA....)
Thanks The Void, for posting the story.
i'm a little touch again, it was a amazing week, and i'll take it with me forever.
Thanks to all the players that where present that week.
never thought that it have so much impact on me.
Awesome text Void! ...You're a LEGEND!
I need to practice those moshikame I want to join you and alex on the Dan latter!
Quote from: KendAlex on 17 August, 2011, 05:38:41
Thanks The Void, for posting the story.
i'm a little touch again, it was a amazing week, and i'll take it with me forever.
Thanks to all the players that where present that week.
never thought that it have so much impact on me.
Congrats again! 1.000 moshi kames are next!
A review of competition day, plus the full results, are now here (http://www.kendama.co.uk/EKO2011review.html).
Full video of the competition coming on Friday.
Glad to read that there was an all-Spanish line up, I know Alex and Pablo, not sure who Miguel is :)
I am no longer alone in spanish kendama scene!!
One for the weekend...
The FULL video is now up. 2h46m, very large file size. Don't say you weren't warned.
http://www.kendama.co.uk/EKO2011video.html (http://www.kendama.co.uk/EKO2011video.html)
Hey void!
I think the video of the eko may be broken around the 1 hr 46/47 min mark... ( I was only flicking through it on me lunch break!)
Must have taken you you absolutely yonks to upload aswell! :-\
or maybe my pc just sucks... well it does, but didn't want to have to find out like this :-p.
Hmmm. Well, I've checked, and both the files I uploaded are okay before the upload. That's not to say they did not get corrupted during the upload though - and I admit I have not re-downloaded them yet to test this. My (unfounded) suspicion though is that your computer was buffering the file as it opened it, and had only got as far as 1h46m at the time. Have you tried using different players to play the file back? (and which file did you download? Large or small?) MPlayer, VLC, Quicktime/iTunes should all be able to cope with the file.
I recommend you use a download manager program to download the files. (I use iGetter).
Anyone else had problems (or better yet, successes)?
I downloaded the large one already. It works fine (2h46 or something like that). I admit that I only watched my part (bad Ganman ...) and the end. But everything seems to be fine
lars
Thanks Lars. Matt sent me a message, and it turns out he only had half the file, as it had filled up his hard drive.
Well, I did warn you, Matt!
Meanwhile, something you all might miss.... keep your eyes on Matt from 2h28m30s. :-)
I've downloaded the "small" one and it worked fine.
Amazing competition BTW. Both semi finals and final were great and also the speed trick was quite amazing.
Also glad to see many people jumping from beginners to advanced ;)
Did anyone get a good look at the Emerald mugen? 'green wine' must've looked incredible! :)
Yes, I saw it. The finish was just like the Wine Mugen, but a deep emerald green. The paint was just thin enough for the woodgrain to be just visible through it, with what I presume was a layer or two of clear varnish over the top.
It was one of only 50 made for the competitors in a 2007 Japanese competition (I forget which one). This one had a noticable ding near the top of the ball, where it had been dropped.
It was very nice, but I wouldn't have paid €310 for it!
Only 50? I was aware it was (beyond) highly rare, but I thought there would have been a few more of them. I guess not.
I'm jealous me your lookers too, Void. Not many people have seen one of those before!
I just remembered "Duncan's challenge", which happened one evening at the EJC. He challenged me to get an index-finger lighthouse, then transfer it to a standard LH. I managed it, only for Akimoto-san to immediately top it by Falling Down afterwards.
Quote from: The Void on 23 August, 2011, 11:43:42
It was one of only 50 made for the competitors in a 2007 Japanese competition (I forget which one).
I think it was the "All Japan Kendama Championship 2007". Each of the 50 players who made it to the final round(25 pairs, 1on1elimination rounds) got one.
Oops, somehow we missed Mirek's awesome photoset.
See them on flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kendamaczech/sets/72157627314472521/with/6045853590/) or on facebook (http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150356564989673.396355.69876059672&type=1).
(http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/263350_10150356568374673_69876059672_9567060_7144213_n.jpg)
Thanks Mirek!!
Kendama.de have posted an album of 19 new photos (and "more will follow") here:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.365450933490854.74900.113236518712298&type=1 (http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.365450933490854.74900.113236518712298&type=1) (Hopefully it's visible to non-facebookers too...?)
Some very nice shots. Thanks Marc!