SGI-USA West Territory Youth Festival - Taiko Drumming

[77greenhat]

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[aayarijanian]

An amazing experience! NAM MYOHO RENGE KYO (YMD chorus group). I am so honored to have taken the Vow that day.

[colecarroll808]

This was amazing! Very powerful and moving! Great Job Youth! - Nicole Hawaii YPG Youth.

[alivingfire]

Wow... very Powerful :)

[sophie96792]

ahh!! i was there! so awesome!!

[jasmineyoulovergirl]

omg i was so there : D and also i will be participating in this years festival now! teehee but im scared i have stage freight anyone here who played taiko before can maybe give me som words to calm my nerves?

[Panameno718]

this always gives me chills :)

[JulieluvLHK97]

lol this is like awesome..... u guys could barely c meh...

[jessiep02]

Is this the young men's division? Cause it used to be Young Women's Division that did taiko. And I hated the fact that I wasn't old enough to participate. I was stuck in kotekitai's Fife & Drum Corps, but wanted to do Taiko.

[Nyoakushin]

@jessiep02 that was a mixture of youth. aww.. why were you stuck in fife and drum corps when you wanted to do taiko? :< it should've been okay for anyone to choose whichever group they wanted to be in.

[jessiep02]

@Nyoakushin because there was a ,minimum age limit and i was too young for taiko at the time.

[Nyoakushin]

@jessiep02 aww.. i didn't know that.. :< well i'm sure you did awesome in the fife and drum corp ^^ are you able to do taiko now?? or soon?

[jessiep02]

@Nyoakushin Not in the oganization now.

[jessiep02]

@Nyoakushin Not in the organization now.

[alaskantaiko]

sensei! my faveorite part im in the last part

[ApathyofHeart]

Yay our festival in Chicago went really well too! This makes me so excited to see.

I'm surprised you were able to have so many real taiko drums, most of our taiko groups' had to be made...

[boxfulloftangerines]

yay taiko!!! <3

Represent West Coast, woot!

[oarmedt]

I just broke out in tears when I saw them Perform . AMAZING!!!!!

[yukiyukihamada]

this is awesome!!!

ROCK THE ERA event is coming soon in HAWAII (honolulu) on 7/25/2010!!!!! please support us!!!!! we gonna win!!!!!

[arnoldlee321]

WONDERFULLLLLLLL

i thought i missed something but i didnt!!!!

[megnasty06]

OMFG YOU HAD IT YESSS I BEEN LOOKIN TO SEE THIS I WAS BEHIND THE SCENESE THE WHOLE TIME WHOOOOOO TAKIO

[susumuimua]

My Parents are Pioneer members, as a fortune baby I see all of you youth standing up. Now at 50 years of age I see all you YOUTH standing up to take us in to the next stage of Kosen-Rufu. My Daimoku is with you all. Cherish these memories. I have so many of Brass Band and all the conventions in the 70's, long bus rides to stand united and bring forth Sensei and his mentors dreams of the future..We are in good hands. My Daimoku is with ALL OF YOU......ROCK THE ERA.

[OneCupApple]

to all of u people out there, i was in this!!!!!, im directly in the center, outer row on the oppisite side, with my right facing the stage- Mckenzie Roch

[nickithewolfe]

This is awesome.

[yangwans]

WOW! What an amazing performance of the taiko drummers! Congratulations!

[Actionotica05]

Being in this performance will be a memory that I will cherish for the rest of my life. We achieve "Many in Body, One in Mind" through united daimoku!!! Playing the bell was harder then I first though, but with the determination to never be defeated, the bell players united together to set the rhythm for the drums to follow. Everyone sounded perfect! I'm so proud to stand next to all the youth Taiko players in West Territory! We have won again for Sensei

[alaskantaiko]

NICE!!! I was there in the preformance and the only taiko player from Alaska and only 1 other person from AK was preforming my cousin in hip hop dancing

[alaskantaiko]

@alaskantaiko nam myoho renge kyo

[beesknees4life]

if anyone has the rockband performance please post it

[NancyDrew06]

I have never seen so many Taiko performers performing altogether in a group as big as this, outstanding job everyone, and this is only the being of it, well done!!!!!

[rebeccabrianceau]

nova nova nova

[kappaquinn]

Fantastic! If you have Hip Hop please post!!! My daughter is in Hip Hop.

[mountainangel1]

Sweet! -BAC

[rebel3978]

what happend to the gymnastics videos if you have it you should post it

[Jakoffasaure]

thank you X100 I've been waiting for this to show up...THIS was the most fun i have ever had.... T-A-I-K-O OHHHHH STAND UP!!!!!

[sexyman1225]

I want a hip hop video up so badd

[sexyman1225]

I want a hip hop video up sooooo bad

[ballsofrock]

This is soooooo SICK!!!!!!!

[Johnnypadre]

Great stuff, 4848! Do you happen to have the ESD performance?

[JUSLIVN4848]

@Johnnypadre Hello johnny yes this was truly awesome!! a day i will never forget :) im not sure if have the ESD however i do have forever sensei, after rise.

[lildreamer1313]

OMG! Thank you sooooo much for posting this as I was a part of Fife & Drum and couldn't see any of the performances. This is awesome!!! Let's continue to carry out the Rock The Era spirit throughout our lives for absolute victory! <3

[buddhachili]

Awesomeness beyond!!

[irvine0]

I went there but I cannot get in. I was put into the overflow city in the parking lot. Hope a youth took my place in there. I missed a lot of action. Though I saw it in the bif screen TV but I hope to see the official DVD in the near future. Thanks for the upload. It is very clear.

[carriedon124]

Thank you so much for posting this! They were awesome! I was outside with ESD when Taiko performed so didnt' get to see it but the drummers were all so excited when they came out after their performance I knew it must have been great!

[TheBreeze888]

Thank you. It resonates inside your soul. It is an expression of our determination. I missed seeing the performances being so far behind the scene

[briwhe123]

omg i can see myself thank you for posting this

[krislewis48]

Thanks so much for the video. I was not able to go to the festival, being a parent, but not a leader (only area leaders and above were allowed to go from our zone). I supported our taiko group and helped my son and d-i-l make her drum, so I felt a little sad that I could not see her play. This made me feel so much better! I am so glad it all went so well, and I know Sensi is too.

[cheetocairo]

wow, thank you for sneaking a camera in! :-) it's good quality too, what type of camera do you have? Everyone was so completely amazing! Congratulations youth!

[JUSLIVN4848]

@cheetocairo yess we Rock The Era!!!! :) thanks! i have a canon rebel t1i and it records 1080p

[zipnpup]

Wow this is fantastic!! They did fabulous! My son performed. Thanks so much for posting.

[321livi]

Thank you for posting!! <3

[jensax]

Awesome!!!!

[kary213]

omg!!!! someone filmed it! thank you thank you thank you

I wanted to see this pretty badly

thanks for risking 250 dollars on it

lol

anyhow wow taiko really had alot of ppl but this is the best I've seen of them in any performance! taiko I'm proud, you guys have improved so much during this festival

[mybrown89]

Congratulations everyone! :)

[100PercentConfused]

TAIKO WAS so great i remember being back stage listening to them and being nervous because hip hop was gonna be soon

[twoice1]

@100PercentConfused i wish i could have heard taiko at the festival but i didn't. im gonna say that is the best ive ever seen them preform, there way more in sync than they are at pratices, it was amazing

[100PercentConfused]

@twoice1 i know they gave me chills they were so good ahahaha and they look CLEAAAN

[jabbatheninja]

@twoice1 Thats how Rock band was! At first we were totally not together, it was just like a mass of chaotic noise, but by the time we played....it was like we were one being...

[majiknine]

Thanks so much taiko members. That was an incredible experience, and I'm proud to have been a part of it!

The battle has just begun!

[MaeTheWolfDemon]

@majiknine I agree it was a most wonder experience to have been part of this awesome group! 8D Together we triumphed and succeeded! 

[MaeTheWolfDemon]

Omg this was truly amazing, and it was so much fun to get to preform like this in front of 20,000 people watching! I was so nervous at first when I first got in there, but once we started playing the drums everything just changed and I became so excited and pumped! =D Way to go taiko~!