Taido is a martial art seen in Tekken by Reina. But it was invented by a Karate master from Okinawa. The question is... how effective is it? Let’s find out 👊
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Today I'm trying Taido, a crazy martial art from Japan.
Then I'm testing it in real sparring.
This will not be easy.
Because if this works, Taido could become my new secret weapon.
Luckily, my teacher is the highest ranked master outside of Japan.
What makes Taido so special?
Taido thinks like three-dimensional.
Everything you can do standing, you can do in the air or on the ground.
By combining three levels of motion, Taido achieves ultimate creativity.
We want to have people who become creative.
That is their aim.
This was the brainchild of Seiken Shukumine, a karate expert from Okinawa.
And now I'm gonna learn four of its unique techniques, starting with this.
So I dive down and I swing this leg first.
Continue with next leg and I stand up.
And then after this movement, you can add a kick.
Yeah, or punch or sweep or whatever.
Okay.
So I can, for example, make a kick like I do around here.
Yeah.
And then I go low on the...
Okay.
And switch.
Okay.
Wow.
Since you are so experienced, we jump on to the next.
Okay, okay.
Wow.
So I go down here, from here.
Taido has lots of awkward circular movements.
This is because something happened during World War II.
Shukumine was drafted to the navy.
Okay.
Yeah, as a kaiten driver.
So it's a small submarine.
Same task as their air force.
Going with the small submarine with the bombs and suicide.
Like kamikaze.
Last kamikaze, but under the water.
Wow.
Yeah.
So he thought, can I use karate for this?
But then he was, it's too direct.
So maybe they shoot me down or whatever.
So he start to use the submarine in different way.
Drive it different way.
And he was lucky because his submarine was not ever given the order to deploy out.
So he survived the war.
Yeah.
And after that, he moved to Tokyo.
Yeah.
He start to teach his karate.
So he taught an Okinawan type of karate.
But Taido looks very different.
Yes.
So he thought that karate is too in the box at that time.
So he want to create more free thinking.
Use your body more.
Try to find other ways.
After realizing the shortcomings of karate,
Shukumini invented a new martial art based on his wartime experience.
He called it Taido.
Wow.
Oh!
Epigiri.
It's a shrimp kick.
Shrimp kick?
Yeah.
Hit you here, maybe.
Yeah.
Maybe hit you there.
Yeah.
And there.
Oh, the face.
Yeah.
That was a way to close the gap.
So can we do the opposite?
Yeah.
If you're very close to the opponent, how can you make space?
So I can quick move back.
And then I can do the roll.
And then, boom.
If you block that one.
Yeah.
So I could go around.
Then you kick.
Push your body inside.
Okay.
And roll out of it.
Okay.
After two hours of training, it's finally time to test my Taido kicks in real sparring.
But for some reason, things are not going as expected.
Every time I try a kick, my opponent sees it coming.
I'm literally hurting the floor more than my opponent.
I decide to try a new opponent.
But unfortunately, Taido is even harder when your opponent is shorter than you.
At this point, people are almost laughing at me.
That's when I suddenly remember something that Sensei Michael told me at the end of our lesson.
If I want to use some of these kicks in a fight, in the dojo,
what is your best advice to be successful?
I want to start with one technique, for example.
A sweep.
Move, move.
Okay.
Yeah.
Boom.
And then I go around.
Oh, right.
One technique.
If it doesn't work, move to the next one.
And the next one.
To stress them.
And then maybe you have to change strategy.
Turns out, the secret of Taido is to combine several movements into a flow.
Because if one technique doesn't work, maybe the next will.
Suddenly, everything changes.
When I combine different movements, Taido starts to work.
It's almost like magic.
I become creative, effective, and fearless.
Because I know if a technique doesn't land, I'll get a second chance.
And a third.
And a fourth.
Because a flowing river doesn't stop for anything.
It keeps going.
It finds a way.
And it might sound crazy, but maybe crazy is just another word for creative.
We want creative persons who bring out new things.
Yeah.
Copycat.
Once or twice.
But imagine yourself.
Try to find yourself new ideas for Taido.
