Pegasus Post: June 26, 2018

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14 Tuesday [Edition datE] June 26 2018
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Parklands kendo fighter to
do battle in South Korea
• By Jacob Page
PARKLANDS kendo
fighter Tania Butterfield is
keen to create her own slice
of history.
The 31-year-old will
be part of the first New
Zealand women’s Kendo
team to attend the world
championships in South
Korea in September.
New Zealand did not
send a women’s team
in 2015 because it did
not have a high enough
calibre of competitors, said
Butterfield. “It’s a huge
honour because the six of
us going have had to work
very hard to get there, so
it’s nice to be part of it.”
Kendo is a Japanese
form of fencing with twohanded
bamboo swords. It
was originally developed as
a safe form of sword training
for the samurai.
Other Canterbury Kendo
Club members Masa Matsunami
and Kai Edwards
were selected in the New
Zealand men’s team. Edwards,
a Cashmere High
student, will go to South
Korea as an apprentice.
Butterfield’s journey
started in 2013 when she
was an english teacher on a
two-year OE.
“At school I learnt Japanese
and we had to do a
project on a Japanese sport
and I was the only one who
chose kendo and I found it
really interesting,” she said.
“When I went to Japan,
I had a colleague ask me
if there was anything I
wanted to really do while I
was living there and I said
I’d like to give kendo a try.
MARTIAL ARTS:
Masa Matsunami,
Tania Butterfield
and Kai Edwards will
represent New Zealand
at the kendo world
championships in Korea
in September.
“One of my student’s fathers
invited me to try one
night and even left me this
broken english message
through Google translate
so I thought I should really
show up. Things just progressed
from there.”
Butterfield’s brother
Andrew was also a New
Zealand judo representative.
She has earned her
kendo brown belt and is
now up to her third dan.
Butterfield said the men
hoped to rank in the world
top eight at the competition,
while the women are
heading into the unknown.
She said kendo is more
mental than physical, and
it is one of the rare sports
where you can get better
with age. “Some of the best
in the world are in their
80s so it’s a sport for life.”
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