Fact: Taido uses lots of jumps. If you want to be able to take full advantage of Taido’s unshin, tengi, and ungi, you will need to have plenty of jumping skill at your disposal. This article is about building these skills. Before I get into my recommendations for improving your jump, I want to make a brief disclaimer…
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…
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…
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 to work out. Though quite…
This past weekend, I traveled to Tokushima for a one-day training camp and learned a few things. All together, there were almost twenty of us coming in from Tokyo, Kansai, and Hiroshima. Among these were a few people I hadn’t met before and a few I met at the recent camp in Tottori. Tokushima Taido
