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Our standards had slipped a little. Over the past few years preparing for our annual Taiko Festival, more and more “escape clauses” found their way into the all school experience of our Soran Bushi training environment.  

From the reasonable – performance taiko players didn’t need to rehearse because they wouldn’t perform it at the festival – to the less reasonable – rock band players didn’t need to rehearse because they needed to rehearse for the show – to the questionable – backstage crew didn’t need to rehearse because ... I don’t remember why, Soran Bushi had evolved from “all in” to “coalition of the willing” to “why didn’t I think of getting out of it that way?”