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If you aren’t already famil­iar with Taido, the Introduction to Taido is the best place to get started.

For those of you who have been around a lit­tle while, I don’t update very often, but don’t for­get that there are over 100 arti­cles on Taido in the archives. If you ever have any ques­tions or requests, please get in touch, and I’ll do my best to help.

Taido Tip #13: Self-Inquiry

This entry is part 14 of 14 in the series Taido Training Tips

Taido is a set of prin­ci­ples about being and doing. That’s all it really could be after all. Just like any other phys­i­cal dis­ci­pline (sport, dance, sex cult), Taido includes instruc­tion on why and how to use the body in response to var­i­ous types of stim­u­lus. In this respect, Taido is not spe­cial or unique. It’s sim­ply one of many edu­ca­tional mod­els by which one could learn to be effec­tive and effi­cient in life.

If you are going to prac­tice Taido for any length of time, it would ben­e­fit you to spend some time intro­spect­ing about why.

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Taido Tip #12: Have Fun

This entry is part 12 of 14 in the series Taido Training Tips

I take Taido seri­ously for the most part, and you’ve prob­a­bly noticed in these tips that I can be very intense when it comes to cer­tain details. So far, I’ve given you a lot of detailed infor­ma­tion on devel­op­ing cer­tain skills and attrib­utes that will improve your Taido. But in this install­ment, I want you to take a step back…

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Taido Tip #11: Geometry

This entry is part 13 of 14 in the series Taido Training Tips

For this install­ment, I want to talk about geom­e­try. Yay! Since the last cou­ple of lessons involved align­ment, it seemed like a good time to dis­cuss how Taido uses line. It would be vir­tu­ally impos­si­ble to train Taido for any length of time with­out hear­ing of the notion that Taido moves three-dimensionally. This is really the linch­pin of…

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Taido Tip #10: Watch The Foot

This entry is part 10 of 14 in the series Taido Training Tips

OK, so last time I asked you to be mind­ful of your foot and knee align­ment and glossed over some of the rea­sons that this is impor­tant from a bio­me­chan­i­cal per­spec­tive. Good stuff, and if you actu­ally prac­ticed it, you should be notic­ing bet­ter con­trol of most of your tech­niques by now. Today, I want to explore a tac­ti­cal reason…

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Taido Tip #9: Lower Body Alignment

This entry is part 11 of 14 in the series Taido Training Tips

The last tip dealt with pos­ture, which I basi­cally used to refer to spinal align­ment. If you have improved your pos­ture over the past cou­ple of weeks, you know that using your body cor­rectly can have a big impact on your Taido. This time, we’re going to work on another aspect of body struc­ture. Hinges A hinge is…

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