Southern California Naginata Federation

09/21/2025

On September 13-14, 2025. SCNF hosted Kimura Sensei for Tendo Ryu Seminar. We are always thrilled to have Kimura Sensei take the time to come out to SoCal to teach us more Tendo Ryu. This year we had the added pleasure of celebrating Kimura Sensei being awarded the rank of Hanshi. 😀

08/10/2025

We are one year behind ... 😁 ... But celebrating none the less ... 50 years of naginata in the United States...

02/06/2025

We don't post enough, but when we do, it is good... On January 25, 2025, one of our own tested for Godan in Tokyo, Japan. Proud to announce that our man, Antoni Rossi, tested and passed. CONGRATULATIONS!!! (He was not the only one, Bryce Harrop and Kesley Harrington from PNNF test and passed for Godan as well... CONGRATS to them!!!)😃🙂😀

01/03/2025

AKEMASH*TE OMEDETOU!!! Happy New Year!!! Welcome 2025. Quite an eventful 2024 year. From reconnecting to our friend Soba-San in Tokyo to World Naginata Championship in Boulder, Colorado. Looking forward to see what 2025 has to offer us. (me personally, hoping to meet more of our naginata brethren... 😀)

07/20/2024

From the SCNF perspective, happy to have seen our members compete and LEVEL UP!!!

07/20/2024

2024 WNC in Boulder, Colorado (U.S.A.)is now over (for a some days now). Happy to have seen some friends from before. Happy to have made new friends. Looking forward to the next time naginata practitioners from around the world gather again. 😀

07/11/2024

It is time... World Naginata Championship... SCNF welcomes all coming to Boulder, Colorado...

TEAM USA

United States Naginata Federation website for providing information about USNF activites. A Japanese martial art of both power and grace, is characterized by the grandeur of its sweeping movements. Naginata is for people of all ages interested in either competitive fighting, or in the physical beaut...

06/29/2024

SCNF will be supporting Gardena Valley JCI this weekend at the 2024 Matsuri...
https://www.jci-gardena.org/gvjci-upcoming-events.html

Come support if you can... 😀

COME VISIT US!

05/13/2024

How to wear Naginata keikogi and hakama! The long awaited instructional video for how to put on all parts of the uniform, and a few different ways to put it away neatly.

0:20 Naginata keikogi1:45 Obi3:30 Hakama (T knot)9:03 Hakama (No Obi, Bogu knot)12:57 What NOT to do14:40 Hakama length15:40 Tips for mobility inside of gi16...

04/23/2024

Bunka Sai is an annual tradition! Every year our students collaborate with Nakano Sensei’s El Camino College students and perform in a Naginata demonstration.

Jam packed!!

Dantai Kihon
Shikake Oji
Tendo Ryu
Zen Nihon
Uchikaeshi with bogu
Kakarigeiko
Point demo
Jigeiko

Thanks to our performers:

Nakano Sensei
Catherine Mikuni
Shannon Lew
Ruben Sensei
Grace Sensei
Adam Lew
Armand Rabanal
Lulu
Harrison
Josh
Giovanni

Southern California Naginata Federation Performing at the 49th Annual Bunka Sai in Torrance CA

10/18/2023

I was forwarded a picture from our Seminar and Taikai. Casey seemed to be enjoying herself. 😁