Welcome to Tao Inc and Martial Artist Photo

 
   Lee Fjelstad, President of Tao Inc
OUR MISSION:
  Providing a way to express gratitude to the martial artists who devote time, money, and their heart to the study of a style, its history, and the instructor with whom you train.  It is with sincere appreciation that the community where you live benefits from your training, your hard work, and your discipline to live honorably. 

WHAT WE CAN OFFER:
  We capture memories that can last a lifetime.  Students will have a way to remember their hard work and achievement and instructors that helped them find the path. 

  In addition to your photograph in print, many of the layouts are designed to display the history of the style you practice.  As a student, layouts can also contain a photo of your instructor(s), school logo, or particular sayings or maxims.

  These layouts come to you ready for framing on the wall of your school or in your home.  Our work is frequently displayed next to certificates of rank.  As your rank changes all you need do is send us another photo and we can print a revised layout.  If the new layout you choose is the same size then you can stilll use the same frame. 

With enough participation from your school we can come directly to you and shoot the photographs using high end digital equipment.  We can do multiple photos and let you choose which shot we use in the layout.  We can even consider attending a tournament and set up an area to take the photographs.  This makes a great promotional and draw to your sponsored event.
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My personal thanks for taking a look at a new project.  To my knowledge no one is doing anything like it. 

I would like to give you a brief  introduction of an idea.  I have been a martial artist for over 30 years.  In that time I have had the distinct privledge to train and learn from some extradordinary people.  It is with sadness that I do not even have a poloroid picture of some of these masters to remember my too short time with them.  I have run small schools, taught privately to both the affluent and to the less fortunate, and all the while continued to study and to learn.  I always wanted to remember the men and women I am proud to have known and who gave me an understanding of how to use my skill and more importantly, when to be restrained, in order to mature into what we all strive for as martial artists.  These fine people taught me to honor both the past and present and to look toward the future. 

Part of this project is to offer personalized photo layouts fhat focus on the martial artist, not for self-agrandizment, but to respect hard work and achievement.  Part of the layouts we offer can be devoted to the hostory of the art you study or the school's instructor, or the founder of the style.  This small tribute is for all martial artists of every style around the world as they offer their knowledge, honor those they teach and those that taught them. 

This project will hopefully be something we can all be proud of and a way of remembering why we are martial artists, and why what we are is so important to the world today.  In addition to the email contact form on this site I can always be reached through the Verbal Judo Instittue where I am the Vice President at 941-350-9559 or through my web site at the Institute at www.verbaljudo.info or www.verbal-judo.com and please accept my thanks for taking the time to view this site and for your time.

Lee Fjelstad
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