What if I told you that you could practice Taido for over 100 hours every week? Would you be afraid? How do you think your performance would improve? Assuming that all this extra practice didn’t interfere with your job or family life, how would you imagine you overall quality of life to change? What do you think…
Taido’s hokei is more than a complex series of techniques. It’s the reflection of Taido’s principles and philosophy in a physical format. The hokei is a chance for us to express our own interpretations of Taido’s theory. The art of hokei lies well beyond the ability to simply perform the designated techniques in sequence and without errors. It’s…
nengi are twisting techniques, often executed against the oponent’s joints. the body axis is skewed against the direction of movement. these techniques flow best as combinations from other techniques and have a wide range of possible targets. here i have simply listed the defining characteristics and some examples of nentai technique. doko go kai nentai kasho — imagine being…
tengi techiques are closely related to taido’s unshin movements. the difference is that unshin is transportation, while tengi include integral strikes or other techniques. the most difficult obstacle to executing tengi is the tendency to perform them as a tumble-then-technique. here i have simply listed the defining characteristics and some examples of tentai technique. doko go kai
Growing up in Uchida Sensei’s dojo, kangeiko was always one of my favorite Taido traditions. Everybody came to kangeiko, even if they couldn’t make it to practice very often during the rest of the year. It was always like a family reunion. And the workout was HARD. We always started at 6am, and the floor would be…
