Word: shintaido
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Mitsuharu Hadeishi '87 founded the Harvard-Radcliffe Shintaido club in his freshman year. Already, Shintaido has gained the status of an official Harvard athletic club, of which there are now eight permanent members...
Michael Thompson, who instructs the club, introduced Shintaido to the United States nine years ago. He is also the highest ranking instructor in the country. Hadeishi started practising Shintaido with Thompson in the first club that was created in the United States...
...Shintaido was created by Karate master Hiroyuki Aoki in the early 1960's. According to members of the club, Aoki wanted to develop a martial art that reflected our time...
...Shintaido incorporates the full variety of expressions," says Ben P. Schireson, an assistant to an instructor in San Francisco, "We start out by being open and vulnerable and then we express the full series of emotions of a lifetime...
Schireson also points out that Shintaido is not competitive; it offers neither colored belts nor competitions. He says that the level of a Shintaidoist is determined by an examination which measures his knowledge...