Ken's TAIKO!
This is a video of a special performance that I was asked to do for my Aikido club's Christmas party. I got together an elite team of drummers: Chika, Nagisa, Saori & Tao (two leaders of the group). Get this: the night of the performance, I get to the place where I was meeting the others and Tao told me Nagisa had been sick all day - fever and vomiting, poor girl. I felt bad because I know she was really looking forward to doing this. Not only that, her absence threw a wrench into our format because now Saori would have to play both timekeeper AND do Nagisa's part. Turns out this was a blessing in disguise because Saori is SO GOOD. I learned later in the night, she was a professional at one point. She is the one behind me.

Let me just say that this was EXHAUSTING. By the end of the performance, I was half past dead. Very physically strenuous, but very impressive to watch too, if done right (see Saori!).

Special thanks to Brett Plotz for taking this video!
Enjoy!