Taido’s hokei is more than a complex series of techniques. It’s the reflection of Taido’s principles and philosophy in a physical format. The hokei is a chance for us to express our own interpretations of Taido’s theory. The art of hokei lies well beyond the ability to simply perform the designated techniques in sequence and without errors. It’s…
Note: This article makes use of some Japanese characters. If they look like gibberish on your computer, try changing your browser’s text encoding and installing the appropriate language packs. If that doesn’t work, you will just have to use your imagination. What is Taido? People often ask me what Taido is. I find this very frustrating.…
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…
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
