250 episodes
Wildcatdojo Conversations Sensei Michelle
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- Health & Fitness
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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Another New Friend: Juanita Kapp
What fun we had interviewing Ms. Kapp. Between her podcast (Meticulous Moments), her motivational speaking and her training in Shotokan , the conversation was lively and went to fast. Speaking of Shotokan, we have discussed Gichin Funikoshi a few times. Here's one of them:https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/10908006Now back to Juanita Kapp. Her schedule is so busy that she had to do the interview while traveling. Don't let the outside noise distract you from the laughter filled conversation. Ms...
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Chinese Spears and Swords with Sifu Jones
Chinese weapons with Sifu Jones is on the menu today. Our first interview with Sifu was back in 2021. Here's a link in case you missed it:https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/8931796Sifu talks about swords and spears he uses and owns. I put a video of him on our twitter (and insta) page. Here's a link:https://twitter.com/wildcatdojoWe mention that we've done too many episodes on weapons to count. Picking ones to link was tricky, but here's one we did on the Ax:https://www.buzzsprout.com/47...
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Haiku - An Unusual Book Episode
Spending time with friendsA memory foreverThat makes me smile.Enjoy our latest book episode - we take a little bit different approach today - a few books on one subject - Haiku. The first thing that happened was that Sensei Jackie mentioned that Haiku reminded her of our episode reviewing the movie Budo. Heres the link so you can see for your self:https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/9007481Thanks for listening and keeping in touch.Support the Show.We appreciate our listeners so much and hope th...
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The Authors of One of Our Most Read (and re-read) Karate Books
Sensei Lydia joins in this week to talk about John Corcoran and Emil Farkas - the authors of The Overlook Martial Arts Dictionary and the book Martial Arts Traditions, History, People. We covered so much information in this episode. Somehow we got to Ninja - and of course - we did an episode on that. Here's a link:https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/4401074And we also mention the episode we did on Fumio Demura. Listen here:https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/5982394Btw - I did compare the publish...
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Plan Your Work And Work Your Plan
Geraldo returns today to talk about a maxim we attribute to Grandmaster Peter Urban. Geraldo was on 6 months ago, when we discussed note taking in karate. Here's a link - in case you missed that episode. https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/14235323Today the conversation ranges from how many famous people have said the phrase to long term planning to doing kata in the dojo. We did an entire episode on kata last year. Here's a link jic:https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/13912400Thanks for be...
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Bad Ass Queens from Britain
What fun we had learning about Queens that fought in Britain with our guest Shihan T.D. McKinnon. Shihan has been on many times. Just last November we discussed Kata with him. The episode I want to tag here is the one where he talks about life as a bodyguard. Listen - if time allows:https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/12796037This is not our first time talking about the history of women who fought. We did one back in 2020 about 2 Ferocious Women. Check it out here: https://www.buzzsprout....