Taido was thought up Seiken Shukumine. He started this Japanese budo style in 1964. The definition for Taido karate is “way of the body,” and it is based on an older Okinawan karate form called Te.
This was not the only time that Shukumine had founded a new martial arts style. When he was only 25, he created a new kind of karate he called Gensei-Ryu.
Karate and other martial arts had been widely practiced in the West for a number of years. In those years, prior to Taido, most instruction was rudimentary and the original techniques for this “empty handed” style of fighting remained essentially unchanged. yet, the world was going through