# Taido/Blog

> Taido theory, technique, and training.

https://taidoblog.com/

_Last updated:_ 2026-07-12

## Core Pages
- [About](https://taidoblog.com/about): This is all just my opinion... and here's why you should care.
- [Glossary](https://taidoblog.com/glossary): Quick definitions of common Japanese words and phrases used in Taido
- [What is Taido?](https://taidoblog.com/about-taido): Taido is a martial art created in Japan by Seiken Shukumine Shukumine had formerly created

## Topics
- [Teaching](https://taidoblog.com/teaching): Thoughts for Taido instructors. Seminar reports, teaching experiments, and pedagogical research.
- [Theory](https://taidoblog.com/theory): Taido is an art built on theory. These articles explain the conceptual framework behind the technical movements.
- [Thinking](https://taidoblog.com/thinking): Thoughts, ideas, and concerns about Taido and its role in our lives.
- [Training](https://taidoblog.com/training-methods): Training methods and practice routines for Taido students and teachers.

## Blog Posts
- [Professional Taido Instructors](https://taidoblog.com/professional-taido-instructors): Though we're told that nobody should make a living doing Taido, we probably don't have much choice if we want Taido to thrive outside Japan.
- [Tsune no Mi - the "Always-On" Postural Base for Taido & Everyday Movement](https://taidoblog.com/tsune-no-mi): Key Points for Good Technique & Movement Patterns
- [躰道トレーニングと競技のための実用的な呼吸技術と測定](https://taidoblog.com/kokyu): 注 以下のほとんどは英語で書かれChatGPT 翻訳を使用して翻訳されています 英語版 デモンストレーションビデオ 主要ポイント 過度の興奮と非効率的な呼吸は躰道のパフォーマンス
- [Practical Breathing Techniques & Measurement for Taido Training & Competition](https://taidoblog.com/practical-breathing-techniques): 3 Dead-simple breathing methods for better training, teaching, and competition.
- [Taido Featured in Tekken 8 by New Character Reina](https://taidoblog.com/tekken-reina): Taido makes its video game debut with collaboration from Tetsuji Nakano Sensei.
- [Seigyo in Society](https://taidoblog.com/seigyo-in-society): How does Taido theory translate to real life? It's less sexy than you wish it were...
- [Why We Start](https://taidoblog.com/why-we-start): Figuring it out could be the key to why people quit
- [Andy Fossett - Taido History](https://taidoblog.com/andy-fossett-taido-history): A somewhat reliable account with some pretty pictures
- [Taido Info & Directory Links](https://taidoblog.com/links): Taido links and useful, non-Taido links
- [How do we define the future of Taido, in practical terms?](https://taidoblog.com/future): What determines the actual, de facto definition of what we consider Taido? Or what we consider "good Taido"?
- [Sentai & Sengi](https://taidoblog.com/sentai): Sentai is a class of Taido techniques that make use of a spinning motion For the most part
- [Hentai & Hengi](https://taidoblog.com/hentai): Hentai is a class of techniques in Taido characterized by tilting the body axis Since most
- [Nentai & Nengi](https://taidoblog.com/nentai): Nentai is a class of techniques in Taido employing a twisting movement of the body Nentai
- [Improving Your Body to Improve Your Taido](https://taidoblog.com/fitness-and-taido): Years ago Rob Redmond one of the guys who inspired me to start a site about Taido in the f
- [Self-Inquiry](https://taidoblog.com/self-inquiry): Taido is a set of principles about being and doing Thats all it really could be after all
- [Have Fun](https://taidoblog.com/have-fun): I take Taido seriously for the most part and youve probably noticed in these tips that I c
- [Geometry](https://taidoblog.com/geometry): For this installment I want to talk about geometry Yay Since the last couple of lessons in
- [Watch The Foot](https://taidoblog.com/10-watch-the-foot): OK so last time I asked you to be mindful of your foot and knee alignment and glossed over
- [Lower Body Alignment](https://taidoblog.com/lower-body-alignment): The last tip dealt with posture which I basically used to refer to spinal alignment If you
- [Posture](https://taidoblog.com/posture): Some people have good posture Others dont Students who already have excellent posture dont
- [Perfection](https://taidoblog.com/perfection): Weve all heard that practice makes perfect In fact this is totally untrue We naturally imp
- [Accuracy](https://taidoblog.com/accuracy): By now you should have incorporated regular logging of your training Youve probably notice
- [Swing](https://taidoblog.com/swing): I hope youre putting these tips to good use and beginning to see results in your training
- [Balance](https://taidoblog.com/balance-2): Work on your balance Everyone knows that balance is important especially in sports Most sp
- [Breathe](https://taidoblog.com/breathe): Everyone knows that breathing is important in Taido just as in well pretty much everything
- [Relax](https://taidoblog.com/relax): This week I want you to remember to relax Its probably the most common advice in the world
- [Log Your Training](https://taidoblog.com/log-your-training): Making notes of your own observations will help tremendously Just take a few seconds to re
- [Is Taido Still Japanese?](https://taidoblog.com/is-taido-japanese): Should it be? Forever?
- [Taido Enrollment Notes](https://taidoblog.com/taido-enrollment): How to Grow a Dojo and Get More Students in Taido
- [Genkaku: What's the Point?](https://taidoblog.com/genkaku): Genkaku is probably the mostreviled rule in tournament Taido Players hate it Judges hate i
- [Ebigeri: Where to Look](https://taidoblog.com/ebigeri-where-to-look): A few days ago I got an email from one of the students in my email coaching program and I
- [Stretching for Taido](https://taidoblog.com/taido-stretching): I believe that attribute training is just as important as skill training Most Taido practi
- [Warming Up For Taido](https://taidoblog.com/warm-up): A while back I ran a poll about warm up methods and promised a followup article You are no
- [You're Probably Stretching Wrong](https://taidoblog.com/you-are-probably-stretching-wrong): Ill get right to the point Every dojo Ive ever practiced at does stretches but very few pe
- [Advanced Kobo Drills](https://taidoblog.com/advanced-kobo-drills): After mastering the basic forms of a few kobo routines you are ready to work with some adv
- [How Old Should a Black Belt Be?](https://taidoblog.com/how-old-should-a-black-belt-be): I certainly feel that we should encourage young Taidoka to reach the goal of black belt Ev
- [Games for Jissen](https://taidoblog.com/taido-jissen-games): Jissen is not simply a matter of one person controlling another person Both players have t
- [Optimizing Energy Balance](https://taidoblog.com/optimizing-energy-balance): This article is about some simple suggestions regarding ways to improve health and perform
- [A Little About Breathing](https://taidoblog.com/breathing): There are many ways to breathe I feel that the exercises I will outline below can lead stu
- [Asking the Right Questions](https://taidoblog.com/questions): There is a saying Ive heard in various forms that goes like this do not do what the master
- [More Thoughts on Young Black Belts](https://taidoblog.com/more-thoughts-on-young-black-belts): Anyone who has read much of this site knows that I have a lot of opinions about the beltra
- [Opportunities and Liabilities](https://taidoblog.com/opportunities-and-liabilities): In everything we do there are opportunities and liabilities Recognizing them at the approp
- [Why Flexibility is Important in Taido](https://taidoblog.com/why-flexibility-is-important-in-taido): In my last article Youre Probably Stretching Wrong I wrote that the standard 5 minute warm
- [The Broken Record Drill](https://taidoblog.com/broken-record-drill): Maybe Ive gone kobocrazy but I believe intelligent and creative use of koboderived drills
- [How I Teach Beginners](https://taidoblog.com/how-i-teach-beginners): Im a professional educator Thats what teachers say when they want to sound like experts I
- [Untai & Ungi](https://taidoblog.com/untai): Untai is a class of Taido techniques that includes jumping and lunging movements Since the
- [Kobo Jissen](https://taidoblog.com/kobo-jissen): This drill set straddles the line between kobo and jissen and I would suggest you practice
- [How to Fly](https://taidoblog.com/how-to-fly): Fact Taido uses lots of jumps If you want to be able to take full advantage of Taidos unsh
- [Technique and Principle](https://taidoblog.com/technique-and-principle): Most martial arts of which I am aware are essentially techniquebased By this I mean that t
- [Continual Training](https://taidoblog.com/continual-training): What if I told you that you could practice Taido for over 100 hours every week Would you b
- [hokei guidelines](https://taidoblog.com/taido-hokei-guidelines): Taidos hokei is more than a complex series of techniques Its the reflection of Taidos prin
- [Kangeiko](https://taidoblog.com/kangeiko): Growing up in Uchida Senseis dojo kangeiko was always one of my favorite Taido traditions
- [How to Practice](https://taidoblog.com/how-to-practice-taido): There is an outlined method for practicing Taido movements I have also spent a good deal o
- [Tentai & Tengi](https://taidoblog.com/tentai): Tentai is a class of Taido techniques based on gymnasticstyle tumbling and aerial movement
- [Kobo Drills for Jissen](https://taidoblog.com/kobo-drills): In Japan Kobo is not a practice method they are a testing requirement Nobody here practic
- [Notes on Working Drills for Jissen](https://taidoblog.com/taido-drills): This is just an easy list of guidelines that will help you get the most out of your kobo a
- [2008 Kansai Year-End Tourney](https://taidoblog.com/tourney-report-kansai-year-end-2008): On 23 December 2008 the Toyonaka Dojo hosted the 20th Kansai Region YearEnd Tournament The
- [Toyonaka Dojo](https://taidoblog.com/toyonaka-dojo): Toyonaka Taido is my dojo Well not my dojo but the dojo I primarily train at Toyonaka is o
- [Drills for Unsoku and Unshin](https://taidoblog.com/drills-for-unsoku-and-unshin): There are a lot of things that make jissen a fun and challenging game but the biggest thin
- [Basic Kobo Drills](https://taidoblog.com/basic-kobo): These basic kobo drills are designed to on work on specific weapon deployment and defensiv
- [A Working Definition of Kobo](https://taidoblog.com/working-definition-of-kobo): how not to think of kobo First I want to write a few words about what kobo are not Kobo ar
- [Using Incremental Progression](https://taidoblog.com/using-incremental-progression): The Problem with Traditional Kobo The usual style of training kobo is based on the idea th
- [Incremental Drills for Jissen](https://taidoblog.com/incremental-drilling-for-jissen): Compared to the various Kobo Drills the ones on this page look more and more like jissen a
- [Types of Hokei](https://taidoblog.com/types-of-hokei): As far as I knew when I was starting out there were only six hokei in Taido I was off by a
- [Is Taido Too Difficult To Be Popular?](https://taidoblog.com/is-taido-too-difficult): In America there are basically just two types of martial arts schools big ones that make m
- [Georgia Tech Taido Club](https://taidoblog.com/georgia-tech-taido-club): Profile Head instructor Bryan Sparks 3dan also Laura Sparks shodan Shelley Matthews sh
- [US Taido Dojo Information](https://taidoblog.com/us-taido): Taido in the US is complex. There is currently only one official dojo and an unaffiliated organization with a few others.
- [Building International Community](https://taidoblog.com/promoting-international-community): As I mentioned in my top 11 article one of my favorite aspects of my Taido experience has
- [Mits Uchida](https://taidoblog.com/mits-uchida): Mits Uchida is the founder and head instructor of the United States Taido Association Hes
- [Top 11 Reasons I Love Taido](https://taidoblog.com/top-eleven): I present my Top 11 the things I love most about Taido UnsokuUnshin Lets start at the tech
- [unshin](https://taidoblog.com/unshin): i recently spent five days talking and training with two of members of the hanshikai and l
- [A Kobo Parable](https://taidoblog.com/kobo-parable): I love coffee Always have as far back as I can remember actually knowing what coffee taste
- [Two Original Hokei](https://taidoblog.com/two-original-hokei): In light of the recent hokei assignment I gave the Tech Taido black belt candidates I deci
- [Belt/Rank Meaning](https://taidoblog.com/belt-rank-meaning): Ok So if you know me at all or have read many of the things Ive written you know that one
- [Hokei Assignment](https://taidoblog.com/hokei-assignment): This year will mark the completion of ten continuous years of operation for the Taido club
- [Uniforms](https://taidoblog.com/uniforms): Note to those practicing Taido outside the USA American Taido students typically wear stan
- [Unsoku](https://taidoblog.com/unsoku): Taido Footwork & Strategy
- [Taido's 5 Simple Rules](https://taidoblog.com/gojokun): The gojokun or five guiding principles is the set of statements that forms the heart of Ta
- [A Rough Definition of Taido](https://taidoblog.com/definition-of-taido): What is Taido, really?
- [What is (my) Taido?](https://taidoblog.com/my-taido-2005): 2005 Version