Miami Budokan Iaido and Kendo Instructors
The Miami Budokan Iaido and Kendo Instructors have a broad range of experience, training, rank and backgrounds to help you reach your training goals. All of our instructors hold fully certified ranks and teaching certificates in the arts they teach.
“If you put your mind in one place, the rest of the body will lack its functioning. If you do not put it anywhere, it will go to all parts of your body and extend throughout its entirety… Because this is so, leave aside thoughts and discrimination, throw the mind away from the entire body, do not stop it here and there, and when it does visit the various places, it will realize function and act without error.”
Takuan Soho – The Swordman’s Handbook, translation by William S. Wilson
Senior Instructors
Rodney Castillo
Iaido Program Director
Head Instructor and Board Member
- AUSKF Iaido 4 DAN
- AUSKF Kendo 3 DAN
- RSR Kobudo Renshi 5 DAN
Jose MIGUEL Contreras
Kendo Program Director
- Kendo 5 DAN
Instructors
Pedro Sors
Iaido Instructor
President and Board Member
- AUSKF Iaido 4 DAN
- RSR Kobudo Renshi 4 DAN
Ben Sardinas
Iaido Instructor
Treasurer and Board Member
- AUSKF Iaido 4 DAN
- AUSKF Kendo 2 DAN
- RSR Kobudo Renshi 4 DAN
Jenyer Paez
Iaido Instructor
- AUSKF Kendo 3 DAN
- AUSKF Iaido 2 DAN
- RSR Kobudo Renshi 4 DAN
Dr. Juan Pablo Vaccari
Iaido Instructor
- AUSKF Iaido 2 DAN
- RSR Kobudo Renshi 5 DAN
Technical Advisors
Kunikazu Yahagi
- Soke, Ryushin Shouchi Ryu (Kobudo)
- Kendo Kyoshi 7 DAN (ZNKR)
Kazuhiza Kaneda
- Iaido Hanshi 8 DAN (ZNKR)