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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 a great time with our guests each week thinking, talking and very importantly sharing a laugh or two along the way.
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So much to say here....Let's start with the fact that I'm quoting our guest Hanshi TD McKinnon in the title. Thank you Hanshi. Now I'll include a caveat. When we do episodes like this, we're not claiming to have 'the answer' for anyone. We're just old-timers talking about karate concepts. Therefore, if you have great ideas on how you deal with anything we talk about - Please Share with us!! Hanshi McKinnon has been on the show many times. Here are a few: We met Hanshi back in 2021. Here...
Is it possible to spend 20 minutes talking about a 4 letter word and have fun? It is if you're as crazy as we are and the word is Can't. Listen and tell us your stories. Sensei Jay joined us today. At one point, the conversation turned to his dad. Back in 2021, Sensei Jay told us a lot about his dad's military experience. Here's the link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/8329162 As always we thank you for your support and urge you to go one step surther and click the link with...
Yes, talking about a unique and poisonous garden in the UK. Did you all hear our episodes on poisons from 2022? Here's a link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/10340583 That link does double duty. Yes, it's about poisons, but it is also one of the other times Sensei Lydia joined in the conversation! Enjoy. We also mention the Yew tree. Both Sensei Jackie and I think it came up in one of our Archery episodes. (We did 3). Here they are. Let us know if we're right and the Yew bark is u...
I want to start by mentioning that Master Hess has books for you to buy. An easy search brought them up in both Amazon and Thriftbooks under Joseph C. Hess. In Master Kelljchian's 365 Days of the Warrior book, he has a quote from Master Hess and today we discuss it. Speaking of Master Hess, we did an entire episode on Master Hess. Here's the link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/12516431 Another thought that comes up in this episode and in both fights and arguments is E...
We' were so lucky to be joined by Shelby today to discuss this great Zen concept. We had a blast and hopefully you will too. Shelby has been on a few times. I think her first appearance may have been when we were celebrating our 25th episode! Here's the link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/3383908 Thanks Shelby. Zen philosophy is behind the viewpoint we're tackling today. We've talked about it many times on the podcast. Here's one episode, from a couple of years ago: https:/...
Last week we started this discussion on Self-Defense books. This week we add a third book to the mix. It's called The Gift of Fear. Sensei Tracey joins us again as we get deeper into the subject. We have discussed self-defense before on the program. Check out last weeks episode notes for more. This week I decided to tag an episode on Female warriors. Sensei Tracey was in that one also, and Sensei Sherry was there too! Here it is: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/8153789 ...
Sensei Tracey joins us today to discuss 3 different Self-defense books. Mine, Master Kelljchian's and a man named Gavin de Becker who wrote a book called The Gift of Fear. Sensei Tracey has been on so many times. One that I love was back in 2021 when we talked about the Tanto (the knife). https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/8061673 Also, we have done so many episodes on reality defense. I chose this one to tag in. It is from 2019. Glenda joined us and we had fun. Here's the link:...
Well we've run into both medical and technical difficulties this last few weeks. Don't worry, no one is on the verge of death. Everyone is ok. When life interrupted the flow of our work, we dug in and decided to listen to this old episode. It made us smile and we hope it makes you smile too. Stay tuned till the end for a bonus giggles (or groans). Laughter always helps. Since this episode aired we did, in fact, do episodes on the sayings of Master Brown and Master Lasorsa. Here's ...
Yay! It's time to revisit our great guests, stories and plenty of mistakes from the past 6 months. I'll tag as many episodes as I can below. Did you hear our 2 episodes with the voice of the podcast (Sensei Jay)? Here's the one we did on Camouflage: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/17972128 And here is the one where we talked about WW1 planes. Boy did we laugh: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/17625084 I say in the episode that I'll try to include this episode on the...
Welcome to December 2025 and an episode from 2021. This episode is packed with stories about breaking (tamishawara). Remember that back in 2021, when this was recorded Sensei Landyn was a kid. In the years between then and now Sensei Landyn has done many breaks including the required one with the nunchaku mention in this episode. We also mention quite a few episodes, including one on Kimi (focus). Here's the link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/8501411 After this episode ori...
Sensei Lydia and Sensei Randy joined us to have a fantastic afternoon of movie watching and the riotous discussion that followed. We hope you enjoy it. A big thank you to Sifu Michael Ng for the recommendation. We've done lots of movies, but I feel good about tagging this one because we do mention it in the episode. Jic you missed it: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/17516251 And while I'm tagging. How about I tag the first movie we reviewed. It's called Budo. Listen here: htt...
A few episodes back we actually aired our 312th episode (6 years). Wow! Thanks for coming along for the ride. Sensei Jackie and Sensei Landyn (remember - he was 12 when we started!) were talking about it and decided to push record while we talked. This is the result. We talked about so many things, our great guests (thanks guys), new friends (we're so lucky), and keeping in touch with old friends (again - it brings a smile to my face). Then the discussion turned to episodes. I couldn't fit al...
Today Sensei Jackie and I are lucky to meet Sifu Rod Dalby from England. We mention that our introduction to Rod was through our friendship with Sifu Rob. Here's our first (of many) conversations with Sifu Rob Jones: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/8931796 And somehow we manage to talk about the old tv show Kung Fu Of course, we did an episode on it. Here's that one: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/7903534 We had a blast recording and hope you enjoy hearing about Sifu Ro...
With Sensei Landyn we tackle more words, ideas, and a weapon! The weapon discussion takes us to Master Kelljchian and his creativity. We have talked about this twice before. Once on YouTube. Here's the episode: https://studio.youtube.com/video/jXw5SU_rEl8/edit And of course, here on the podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/10817110 While discussing empty hand we remember the authors of one of our go-to resources - Emil Farkas and John Corcoran. Here's the episode we did on thei...
First off, I should mention that this episode - #312 - marks our 6th year anniversary. Congrats to us! Soon we'll spend a few minutes looking back and laughing. But back to today. We are SO lucky to have Rich, from Senbukai Goju, on again today. If you check out our Socials you'll see the art that his Sensei in Japan gifted to him that relates to this subject. This episode did lead to many other subjects we've tackled. Like everything, this skill is related to breathing. We did two epis...
A big thanks to Rich for his time and his stories. This episode is packed with way too much information and entertainment to try to explain in these notes. However, we were so busy talking and laughing that we forgot to say the name of the recently published book by his Sensei. Here's a link to the Amazon page: https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Karate-Goju-Ryu-Techniques-Methodology/dp/1300398760/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3TJOEL162BLAQ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.9ROjRYySgJnFDh62pxPyD1wlYYaPpqm1K9py3fqu...
The idea of camo came up during our WW1 research. I didn't think it was going to be as huge, weird and interesting as it became. I hope you have the same result as a listener. Please let us know. And as we say every week, slide down just a little farther and click the link to show us some financial love. Thanks! Here's the last episode we ran on WW1 - just a few months ago: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/17625084 Support the show Thanks so much for listening and shari...
First and very importantly - Thank you Master Kelljchian for leaving such a wealth of information and memories. Everyday we miss you. As the title states, the impetus for this episode was one of Master Kelljchian's meditations on the Box and the Ball. The conversation led us to So many episodes we have done. There are too many for us to tag them all. Here are a few. Let's start with our first book review. It happens to be about the book mentioned in this episode! Here's the link: ...
For this episode, you really need to check us out on Twitter or Insta. We've posted a few pictures of this one of a kind weapon. Couple that with how much fun it is to talk with Sifu and we consider ourselves lucky to share today. If you're a fan of weapons and / or a fan of Sifu Jones you'll enjoy this episode from last year: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/15219883 One more thing, in case you don't remember. We were talking about our favorite strikes and I mentioned an o so men. ...
What fun it is to run into someone you haven't seen in decades. That serendipity led us to this interview where we catch up on old times, look forward, and talk about Martial Arts. It turned out that a kobudo weapon was one of his favorite weapons. We did 3 episodes on Kobudo weapons. Here's the episode where we introduce them: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/5484121 And here is the one where we discuss Kama and more : https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/5660665 Please consi...
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