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...

From the 2009 world Taido championships: Kanaeko, the Japanese player, received a score for a kick which obviously missed his opponent. Antti, the Finnish player, displayed much better movement during the match, yet lost on a bad call. Adding insult...

OK. So I’m not sure about this, but I’m willing to give it a try. I’ve created an open forum on Taido/Blog that you can access at Taido Forum. You’ll need to register in order to post, but it should be a simple and painless process. Basically, I’ve...