Karate is for everyone. So, join us each week for a 20 to 25 minute conversation on all types of subjects. We go from managing the distractions of daily life, through martial arts history and people, and common sense concepts to add to your self defense armor. Plus we have interviews and so much more. After spending over 40 years discussing life's challenges in a dojo, (both as a student and as a teacher) I decided it would be fun to share the conversations with everyone. And it is! We're having…
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So much to add to this classic episode. We were in our first few months of recording and you can hear that. Still, the content is worth hearing. Our guest was our friend and fellow Black Belt Sensei Greg Ebenfeld. I mention that he is a Trust and Will Attorney in Broward County Florida. Since, this episode back in 2019, Sensei Jay and I used his services and I 100% recommend him. You can call his…
Thanks Hanshi, for being so generous to return with answers to questions I amass. Even if you don't train in Goju karate, you'll love these stories. First, Hanshi talks about the Urban Legacy Foundation - a scholarship foundation going strong today. We encourage you to support it. Here's an email address to get you started: urbanlegacyfoundation2@gmail.com Our first interview with Hanshi Malanoski…
Thanks Sensei Tracey, for hanging out and talking Taoism books with us today. As always, it was a fun. During the episode I mention that, as you can see, the word is spelled with a "T" but is said with a "D" - Daoism (as it were). I googled why? It is a simple 1/2 hour search if you're interested. But here are the highlights: a) it was an interpretation of it's time, b) the sound is breathy and…
Today's show is probably not as closely focused on karate as usual. During the conversation with Sensei Landyn we got so interested in what he was saying that we lost ourselves in the conversation. I hope you do the same. If you followed the show from the beginning, you know that (now Sensei) Landyn has been an integral part of the show since age 11. It is nice to take a minute to share in his…
Frankly, I'm surprised that we got here too. But here we are. No need to look up critical thinking before you listen- we cover it - in our own way! We touch on 3 episodes that have run in the past. One of them was the saying 'Plan your work and work your plan." Here's a link to listen: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/15115807 Another fun conversation involved another saying by…
Sensei Derek, Sensei Jackie and I share all kinds of stories about our experiences in On The Job Training and Education. And we want to hear your experiences. We also add a thing or 2 we found in our reading and we bring it back to karate training. I bet you're wondering how I'm going to connect this back to Karate? Listen to the end and see. I'm going to attach a link to an episode we did where,…
It's always a pleasure to talk with Hanshi McKinnon. He brought it to my attention that Britain fought WW2 for 2 years before the USA got involved. That is the theme of todays show. Before you get mad at us for featuring Britain. We've done many shows on USA Warriors involved in WW2. The first one we did was with Sensei Jay about his dad. Here's the episode:…
A friend, Sifu Mike Allen, introduced us to Sensei Victor. What a pleasure to interview him and learn about his background, history and style. Btw - Some great stories are enclosed. One of them includes hitting the makiwara. We did an episode on that. Listen to it here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/8708384 When we began talking about weapons, we touched on an ancient weapon - the…
The first thing we say as the episode opens is that we love Letter Episodes; exploring ideas and not really sure where the conversation is going to go. The 3 of us talk, laugh and learn. The conversation travels all over the place. Let's start with a term used often in America in the dojo - oos (This spelling is a nod to Master Kelljchian. It's commonly spelled osu). Back in 2019, we did a 5…
For the past year or so, we've been trying to create this opportunity to interview Sensei Lasorsa about his father, Frank. There is so much love, laughter and history in this episode. Two of the long stories Sensei told us had to be cut for time. We'll share those in December in our next episode of outtakes. Definitely check out our Insta to see the pic of Frank in WW2. Thanks Sensei, for sharing…
In the 7 years of doing this podcast, I've never been "on time" to connect our episode to the holiday that is happening. (For those of you who might be interested - I'd need a bigger staff to pull that off.) However, this year, this episode is about Fathers and is airing the Monday before Father's Day! Congratulations to all - us and all dad's who go the distance. I need to mention that Sensei…