As far as I knew when I was starting out, there were only six hokei in Taido. I was off by a bit. Taido has five kinds of hokei. Each type of hokei looks totally different from the other types. This is because they are each designed to practice different things. Firstly, there are the six –tai hokei which…
With Thanksgiving next week, the winter holiday season is fast upon us. Every year around this time, I’m forced to wrestle with what I feel is a very stressful and difficult aspect of social membership in America — the giving of gifts. I am terrible at gift-giving, and if I thought I could get away with it, I would boycott the holidays wholesale.…
lately, i’ve been thinking a lot about what relative proportion of various training types and methods to use to create an optimal platform for skill development in the class at georgia tech. as usual, i have sixty-ish variables going around in my head about what to do when for what students. i’ve had the benefit of being…
well, i’ve given it a little time, just in case there was a surprise turnover, but things have panned out just as i expected — hengi is the number one favorite taido technique. 41 people cast their votes in my poll about favorite taido techniques, and the results are not even close — 16 votes for hengi over 9 votes for tengi in…
Unless there’s a damn good reason not to (like our 30th Anniversary Tournament last year), American Taido hosts a yearly practice excursion sometime during the summer. We load up the cars, stock up on beer, and drive the entire school to the beach for three days of practicing and partying together. Year after year, summer camp is…
