http://farm.shintaido.org/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1114

These photos were taken by by Sarah Prince, Stephen Billias, and Bela Breslau.

http://www.shintaido.org/gallery/PacShinKangeiko10

These initial photos were taken by Jim Sterling. If you have more photos to add, please send them to photos@shintaido.org.

• Shintaido as a sub-culture: a loot at the meaning of vulnerability by David Franklin
• Exploring Peace Through Movement: Ito Sensei Workshop in Washington D.C. by Lee Ordeman
• International Shintaido College by Connie Borden
• To Belt or Not To Belt by Jennifer Peringer

• Hideki Oi demonstrating sword drawing kata
  
• A montage of Aoki Sensei practicing and performing sword movement
  
• Aoki Sensei and Hideki Oi teaching a sword keiko
  

http://farm.shintaido.org/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=888.

The document describe the roles of the examinee, the exam goreisha, and the exam coordinator.

In 2006, the document was turned into web pages and appendices were added by Shin Aoki which provide sample forms that the exam coordinator might need.

Finally, after being forgotten about, it is now available online. The Examination Book can also be accessed from the Member Resources page.

Most recently Hideki Oi of Shintaido Japan added a few videos which demonstrate sword techniques:

• Aoki Sensei leading a group class followed by a demonstration of various drawing and cutting techniques.
• Aoki Sensei cutting bamboo with a sword.
• Aoki Sensei performing sword kata.

Also, Atsushi Soneda of Japan has posted many videos (> 20) showing waterfall training. Here is an example:

Lastly, Pierre Quettier has posted a series of 16 videos showing aspects of Tenshingoso. Here is an example:

One way to stay abreast of these videos as they appear on YouTube is to subscribe to his RSS feed in your news/RSS reader:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=shintaido&orderby=published

Shintaido means "new body way" from d franklin on Vimeo.

Shintaido Practitioners:

Greetings! This is to announce that the short Shintaido video shot last October at the Shintaido Northeast Fall Gasshuku is complete and is on-line.

You can watch and download the video (Quicktime) at this link:

http://www.shintaido.org/video/Shintaido_Means_New_Body_Way.mov

Soon the video will also be on YouTube and on Vimeo.com, and it will be possible to embed it on other websites. There will also be versions you can download to your iPhone or other mobile devices.

On behalf of the SOA Board of Directors, I would like to thank the SOA members who provided valuable feedback that was essential in making this final version. This truly was a community effort.

During the feedback sessions at the Pacific Shintaido Kangeiko and Shintaido Northeast Kangeiko, many of you offered excellent suggestions about how to share this video with the world. Now we can start putting those suggestions into action together. If you have specific ideas, we hope you'll step forward and help make them happen.

We are in the process of registering this video with Wiki Commons as open source media, free for anyone to show, duplicate, share, embed on websites, etc. (as long as they aren't making money from it).

If you have access to other websites where it would be appropriate to link to it or embed it, please feel free to do so.

Please contact me if you have ideas for where this video might be shown. Perhaps it could be entered in film festivals, or distributed to other communities you might be a part of. Any creative ideas for expanding the viewing of this video are welcome.

Many thanks to David Franklin, who edited the video. Also thanks to Rob Kedoin and Bill Burtis, who provided subcommittee guidance during and after the filming, and to videographer Carlyn Saltman, and to the many people who appeared in the film, including Shin Aoki, Joe Zawielski, Gianni Rossi, Bela Breslau, Anne-Marie Grandtner, Deb Zawielski, Margaret Guay, and others.

Best to all,

Stephen Billias
for Shintaido of America
sbillias@comcast.net

UPDATE 8/24/2009: The video is now available online at Vimeo!

UPDATE 8/30/2009: The video is now available online at YouTube!

Thank you very much, Heather!

The earliest issue is the Winter 1986 newsletter which contains the following articles:

• Shintaido Survey: Columbus Day Gasshuku 1985 by Jim Cumming
• First there is a mountain, Then no mountain, Then there is by Annelie Wilde
• Zen Story by Michelle Grenier
• Back to the Future by Michael Thompson
• Local News by numerous authors around the US
• The Meaning of White by H. F. Ito

Next is the Summer 1989 edition with the following articles:

• How Does Attacking Help? by Lee Ordeman and David Franklin
• National Gasshuku Update
• Learning, Understanding, Transmitting: an interview with Robert Breant translated by Laurence Mourey
• Around the Country
• Bernard De Crest - A Bientot by H. F. Ito

The Winter 1989 edition contains:

• The Mission of Shintaido by Michael Thompson
• 1989 Summer Gasshuku
• Giving Thanks at Goleta by Sandra Bengsston
• Cutting Into the New Year by Lou Meyer
• Surfing Shintaido, a Real Life Wakame by Leslie Goldberg
• Johnny Shintaido
• Ito's New Year Message by H. F. Ito

The Spring 1991 edition contains:

• Education as Sacred Initiation by Jean-Rémi DeLéage
• October 1990 Gasshuku by Eva Thaddeus
• Letters
• Exam Results
• Make a Travel Case for your Bo or Bokutoh by Michael Buckley

The Body Dialogue #3 (1994) contains:

• Farmers with Guts, Warriors with Roots by Faith Insgulsrud
• Facing Death by H. F. Ito
• Circles Around the "Parliament of the World's Religions" by Friedemann Schulz
• In the Space between Life & Art by Michael Thompson
• The Power of Plants: The Roots of Well-Being
• Return of the Wanderer by Annelie Wilde
• Thanks and Other Notes

The Body Dialogue #4 (1995) contains:

• Horse of the North, Ship of the South - A Talk with Mr. Hiroyuki Aoki, the Founder of Shintaido interpreted by Lee Seaman and Shin Aoki
• Facing Death by H. F. Ito
• "It's Kind of Hard to Describe" by James R. Sterling
• To The Members of Shintaido of America
• As Soon as We Are Born by Michael Thompson
• What You See is What You Get by Bill Burtis
• Some Cross-Cultural Observations by Hiroyuki Aoki, translated by Lee Seaman

The Body Dialogue #5 (1996) contains:

• Shintaido of America's 20th Anniversary by Kazu Shibao
• ...and the United Nations' 50th by Roby Newman
• No Bones About It by Friedemann Schulz
• "Superkata" a how-to manual for instructors by David Franklin
• Research, Development, and the Core by H. F. Ito
• "That's it - I QUIT!" by Christine Conran
• Don't Know Much 'bout Philosphy by Michael Thompson

http://www.shintaido.org/gallery/PacShinK09

Shintaido examinations provide an opportunity for assessment of our practice by several very senior instructors. Exams are rigorous and challenging, and it is quite common for a practitioner to repeat the same exam several times before advancing to the next level.

We celebrate the commitment and courage of all examinees, who spend long hours in preparation and then demonstrate their form in front of the examiners and the audience.

KARATE

Name	Results
Nobuko Jones	9 kyu
Michael DiPietro	Shodan
Chris Nash	Shodan
Byron Russell	Shodan

BOJUTSU

Name	Results
Martha Rodriguez	5 kyu
Byron Russell	Nidan

• Aoki Sensei Interview by Jamie Hamilton, Linda Foss, and Peter Furtado. Interpreting by Masahiro Minagawa
• 2008 International Closing Remarks by H. F. Ito
• A Shintaido Wedding
• Shintaido in Australia by Vera Costello
• Taimyo Project by Linda Foss