To relieve the stress accumulated from this laborous drum-making activity, Mickie Okamoto decided to see if she could fit into a barrel. She got a little stuck, but she was okay. :)

[Kyodo Taiko at UCLA was the first collegiate taiko group to form in North America, founded under UCLA's Nikkei Student Union. Striving to live up to the group’s name, Kyodo Taiko functions as a family, sharing the joy and spirit of taiko with more and more of the surrounding community each year.]