Re: sengi. I recently saw a forum post from a Shotokan teacher who found some Taido clips on YouTube, and his comment was something like “From what I can tell, you are required to spin around before punching or kicking.” There are certainly some players who tend to do a lot of spinning in jissen (I used to be one of them), so I shouldn’t be surprised that sengi is considered fun.

Probably you could tell us examples how to get more creative with kihon training by approaching the movement as separate from technique…?

I’ve thought about the best way to do this for a while, and it’s going to have to be video, which means it’s going to have to wait until I get a chance to record some video. I have a ton of stuff I want to record, but no camera and limited time.

Still, I think it could be a good addition to the training articles here. I’ll move it forward in the priority queue.