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…
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…
On 23 December 2008, the Toyonaka Dojo hosted the 20th Kansai Region Year-End Tournament. There were a total of about 30 participants from Osaka, Kyoto, and Kobe Gakuin University. Since this year’s National Championships were so late, we only had about two weeks to rest and prepare before this event. This included creating tenkai and team…
For the past two years, US Taido has performed at the annual JapanFest in Atlanta. It’s always a fun event for those interested in Japanese culture and a good venue to showcase Taido. I’ve been hearing over the past month or so how much effort everyone had been putting into preparing to put on this demo, and I really…
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…
