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Welcome to the third Taido/Blog interview. If it seems like I have a bias towards only interviewing Swedes, it’s only because they’ve been the ones who have returned their responses the fastest. I’m hoping that some other nations (cough, cough, Finland, cough…) can be represented here soon. I first met Mikael Jansson, or Mickey, in…
Welcome to the second Taido/Blog interview. Again, I’ve interviewed a Swede… Hannes Kannisto is a good friend of mine, and I’ve enjoyed hanging out with him at various events and entertaining him and his wife when they visited Osaka. He’s a fellow beer-lover and father to a beautiful little girl. We’ve spent many hours discussing…
This is kind of exciting for me. I first had the idea to interview people I respect on Taido/Blog during the 2009 World Taido Championships in Hiroshima. With some many truly excellent people hanging around and talking about Taido, it was only natural that a lot of ideas got shared and lot of interesting subjects…
Toyonaka Taido is my dojo. Well, not my dojo, but the dojo I primarily train at. Toyonaka is one of the northern suburbs of Osaka; I live in neighboring Suita, so the commute is fairly painless. We practice at Budokan Hibiki, which is a large public training hall, and we usually have plenty of space…
I’ve lived in Japan for a few years now, and I’ve gotten to see and experience a lot of really cool things. I’ve practiced zazen at five hundred year old temples in Kyoto, admired Picasso ceramics at the Hakone Open-Air Museum, picked tea in the hills around Mt. Fuji, made my own Cup Noodle at…
Note: Some people didn’t understand this article the first time around and took parts of it as an attack on my teacher – a man whom I greatly admire. I have attempted to abate this somewhat by narrowing the focus of this article and dealing with tangential issues in separate posts. Some of the content…
I am not a violent person. Despite my skill at making others want to hit me, it has always been more my style to ignore insults and walk away from physical confrontations. My quick wit has been a tremendous advantage to me in talking my way out of potential trouble. However a few years ago,…
