Canadian Iaido Association

Completed! CIA 2005 Summer Iaido Seminar

Featuring H. Kato Sensei, 10 Dan, Hanshi, assisted by Kaneda Sensei, Kyoshi, Ted Davis, 7th Dan

Dates:

May 27 -29 , 2005

Location:

Main Gym, McKinnon Building
University of Victoria,
Victoria, BC, Canada

61 people attended the seminar and 31 people passed their dan examinations. This was a record for the number of people testing at a CIA seminar.

The following people passed their dan examinations:

Shodan:

• Alan Moore
• Benoit Lafrance
• Chung Peng Lim
• Don Deacon
• Graham Glockling
• Isaac Brule
• Kelvin Po
• Randy Martin
• Walter Wong
• Wm. Alan Watt
• Yasuna Murakami

Ni dan:

• Bahman Ebrahimi Goltapeh
• Diane Mirro
• Eric Chan
• Jesse Janzen
• Kenneth Hill
• Peter Chua
• Raymond Fujino

San dan:

• Christopher Buechler
• Larry Vliet
• Susan Smiley

Yon dan:

• Chris Tooley
• Daryl Louie
• Jordan Soames
• Sabine Naujoks

Go dan:

• Bob Davis
• Denton Hewgill
• Gregory Williams
• Hiro Inoue
• James Broadwell
• Peter Gunstone

Congratulations to everyone who passed! This was a very hard working seminar in the hottest days of the Summer. This is the first year that the CIA has awarded Go Dan levels certificates and is the highest level that it’s authorized to give.