Note: Lest I come off as if i were trying to sound like an expert, I should mention here that my Japanese is not great. I am not fluent in Japanese, but I am fluid in using Japanese to the degree I understand it. My Japanese language skills are exactly as good as they need to be in order to do…
i have included is the verifiable official histories of taido groups representing the lineage of my taido group up to 1984. from 1984 onward, the events and descriptions listed constitute my personal observations.
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 originally included here has been…
A while back, I posted an article featuring my “Bottom 11″ — the things that, in my opinion, suck about Taido. Some of these have been fleshed out in more recent articles, and some are just so dense that I have a hard time trying to work my way around them. I plan to expound on each point in due course,…
I love Hirosaki. It’s the place where I first thought to myself “you know, I should live in Japan someday”, and it’s also the place where I met possibly the greatest love of my life so far. Besides that, it’s just a beautiful town, and they have plenty of Taido going on. In fact, this year is the 30th anniversary…
