The Taichido Newsletter back issues

The synopsis for each newsletter below gives a general gist of our contributions, which makes up the thematic content and is what is archived here. Other general information and furniture that appeared on the original newsletters has been omitted.

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2008:

Issue 71 January 2008
Essentially "taichido" is a composite word; one we simply 'made up'.
Aside from the Romanisation of the written words of "tai chi" from the Chinese and "do" from the Japanese, the two are altered further by rolling them up into the one word title of "taichido".

February 2008
no newsletter

Issue 72 March 2008
Gary looks at the Martial Art belt system. Although tai chi we tend to think of as a health meditative form, it derived from (and still has) a martial art aspect – tai chi chuan. The grading or belt system for martial arts is well-known, but do you really understand what it means?