Incredible! Dodge technique in Taido, With English subtitles

0:09 The moment the body disappears,

0:10 a kick comes out suddenly!

0:12 This is the Ebi geri of Taido.

0:15 What’s the way to block it?

0:18 What’s the way to dodge it?

0:20 You want to know that, don’t you?

0:22 Here is what we saw!

0:26 You must feel ‘Wow! Really!?’

0:30 Let’s take a lecture!

0:35 Now, a new project starts!

0:36 This is a verification of TAIDO. Episode 2

0:39 Our members are Taka Ishibashi who has 40 year Budo experience.

0:43 Shotokan-ryu karate 4th dan, Noriaki Nakazawa.

0:49 And this is our guest,

0:51 Tetsuji Nakano sensei of Korenkan.

0:55 Let's taste Taido together!

1:01 I’m Kazuki Yamaga from Nakano sensei’s dojo.

1:04 Would you please show us your Ebi-geri?

1:07 Sure.

1:22 Please try, Taka san.

1:25 It’s sharp, isn’t it?

1:27 Well... I didn’t expect such a sharp technique from her cute looking.

1:32 It looks dangerous.

1:33 It should be.

1:40 It’s fast as I expected!

1:42 Wow!

1:45 Amazing!

1:47 It’s very quick as I guessed.

1:48 Will you try, Nakazawa sensei?

1:51 Even a young lady can make such a great movement.....amazing.

1:57 We don’t use muscles to go down.

1:59 We just lie down.

2:01 But the speed of lying down is like this.

2:05 Not that fast.

2:06 So we don’t resist the gravity

2:09 and make use of the dropping force.

2:11 For example, you need muscles to push down the shoulders.

2:15 Releasing the tension from up here and making the shoulders down from here are different.

2:21 So we push the shoulders straight down from this position.

2:24 And at that point, we release the tension from the hip joints so it doesn’t disturb the movement.

2:28 You may have heard the word ‘Hiza-nuki’ (Making the knees relaxed) often.

2:31 My opinion is that it’s better to relax the beginning of the thighbone.

2:35 So what I do is relax the hip joint.

2:40 I see Yamaga san does the same.

2:43 Same for Karate. Hiza(Knees) are emphasized so often but we also hear you need to relax on the hip joints.

2:49 I’ve heard often from Naka sensei that it’s about the hip joints rather than the knees.

2:53 I see. That point is same.

2:56 So Yamaga san.

3:11 Very quick.

3:14 Could you please show the kick to the camera?

3:27 It is a straight movement.

3:30 I would be able to react if the movement were circular even little.

3:36 But it’s really straight.

3:37 In addition to that, it comes from underneath.

3:40 It’s similar to a pointing punching. It’s a pointing kicking.

3:41 Yes. That’s the one.

3:43 Only the bottom of the foot is coming.

3:47 I can't find other parts of her body.

3:50 How do you move when you dodge an attack ?

3:54 For example, give me an Ebi-geri.

3:58 Wow!

4:00 What?

4:05 Something like this.

4:06 I see. ‘Don’t you block?’ That’s what I said first time I met you.....

4:12 Maybe you’d better not to use blocks, had you?

4:16 I don’t say we have no blocks actually.

4:20 We’ve got many blocks and we practice them.

4:23 We CAN block but we dodge attacks rather than blocking.

4:27 We block only when we couldn’t make a dodging.

4:30 Could you show the movement slowly?

4:33 With your explanation please.

4:37 At first, the moment her body goes down, I start moving.

4:42 And hook the leg and pull.

4:50 You must be scary.

4:51 Yes. That was my first time I’ve taken this technique.

4:54 Was it?

4:55 Sensei!

5:01 I see. That’s why your response was so real.

5:05 Did you get surprised?

5:06 Yes. My leg got completely scooped.

5:08 Right. Do you hook the heel?

5:11 Could you please help, Nakazawa sensei.

5:15 Taido has got the principles of the movements

5:19 such as ‘Sen’ spinning, ‘Hen’ sinking and ‘Un’ jumping.

5:25 It looks I’m using my hand

5:27 but actually I’m using my body.

5:30 So at this point, I lock the heel and move back with my body. Not pulling the leg by my hand.

5:36 There is another one.

5:40 We have a movement of twining off the opponent’s knee.

5:45 I do this with weak power. Please try not to get collapsed.

5:51 I can collapse him with this one.

5:56 I see.

5:59 You don’t use the power very much?

6:01 Not at all.

6:04 It’s a same movement as Ebi-geri.

6:06 When the opponent comes in, I just go in like this.

6:11 And make a twining at this point.

6:16 This movement is consisted of holding and twisting.

6:19 Also we have some other techniques for twining a leg off.

6:24 Our specialties are using footwork and taking an angle to dodge an attack

6:30 or changing the movement during moving back, when the opponent comes in.

6:36 I see.

6:38 While we transfer the center of the gravity, we change the movement.

6:45 Transferring the center of the gravity and changing the movement are together.

6:49 I used to use blocks because I have experiences of Karate and Kick boxing.

6:53 But we can’t do it if we use blocks .

6:56 We need to improve our skills by following the rule ‘No blocking’.

7:01 That’s the best factor to maximize our dodging skills.

7:05 I don’t think using blocks is bad.

7:10 But I think Taido is a very attracting Budo to develop your dodging skill.

7:17 This is the Taido ‘s surprising way to dodge.

7:20 Moreover the opponent gets turned over easily.

7:23 We’re going to search the secret of it!