Tag Archive: nentai

Point of View in Tournament Judging

In my last post, Bad Calls in Taido Tournaments, I charged that we have too many bad calls in Taido tour­na­ments and that this has many neg­a­tive impacts for our art. In order to illus­trate my point, I dis­played a video taken from the most recent Taido World Championship. The video seemed to strike a nerve with a lot of…

Poll Results: Which Technique is the Most Fun?

This poll ended up run­ning a lit­tle longer than I had planned, but the cool side ben­e­fit is that it gave more peo­ple time to vote and share their opin­ions. Let’s Make Taido Fun I think Taido is crazy fun to do, and I don’t seem to be the only one. At the sem­i­nar for rain­bow belts prior…

Shooting Dice

I some­times play a game with dice  —  I call it “the ran­dom new tech­nique game”, and I’m going to out­line it here so you can exper­i­ment with sim­i­lar ideas. Using a ran­dom mod­i­fier such as a die or a deck of cards is noth­ing new, and I’ve heard lots of sto­ries about dif­fer­ent ver­sions used for work­outs and games in sports training…

unshin

i recently spent five days talk­ing and train­ing with two of mem­bers of the han­shikai, and let me tell you this much  —  they are crazy excited about unshin. every­thing we prac­ticed came back to a very select num­ber of themes, and the pos­si­bil­i­ties of mov­ing in full 3-space was one of them. i’ve had this arti­cle on…

nengi

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…