How we started

A friend had a wooden dao which she had used for Tai Chi many years earlier. It seemed simple enough, so that was how we started.

Then followed months where we made enough wooden dao for the whole class to each get one. Each one was better than the previous one. The development progressed slowly, but there was a constant rate of improvement.

Up to this stage, everything had been done by hand out of the shed in the garden. But as the dao got better and orders started coming in, it became clear that a bigger workshop was required. That's when we met Grant Bailey, who had a very well-equipped workshop around the corner with space to let for making dao.

Meanwhile, the ongoing support and input from everyone at the Kung Fu school was invaluable. Martial artists with years of experience suggested refinements that worked for them but the improvements worked for everyone.

The rest, as they say, is history. Though for us it's just the beginning.