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Bad Ass Queens from Britain
Wildcatdojo Conversations - May 20, 2024 11:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWhat 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://ww...
Finally We Tackle the Letter F
Wildcatdojo Conversations - May 13, 2024 10:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsSensei Jay joins the conversation today as we tackle Focus, Fighting Spirit and Fuki Bari (Looking it up? Type in Fuki Bara). What fun! Join us by listening and letting us know your thoughts. We can't talk about focus without bringing up Kimi. We did a whole episode on that. Here's the link: h...
Audie Murphy: The Most Decorated Soldier of WW II
Wildcatdojo Conversations - May 06, 2024 10:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWe're joined by Sensei Jay on our first in a series of episodes about people who have seen war and lived to tell about it. Today it is Audie Murphy. One of the things I wanted to look up and add to the recording was the definition of a military campaign. Since I missed that moment, I'm adding it...
Goals, Journeys and being Human
Wildcatdojo Conversations - April 29, 2024 11:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsToday Sensei Jackie and I discuss how to get out of our own way - mostly mentally - in a world full of distractions and with a brain that likes to push us around. It is much funnier than it sounds .We touch on aging. So for those of you that missed the aging episodes, here's a link: https://www....
Female Ninja - Did They Exist? I Hope So
Wildcatdojo Conversations - April 22, 2024 11:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsFinally we talk Female Ninja. We're joined by Sensei Lydia, so the conversation is fun and often off topic. Here's a few things we managed to talk about other than these awesome women. Back in 2020 we tackled the subject of Ninja. Here's a link, in case you missed it: https://www.buzzsprout.com/...
Experience - The Good, the Bad and The Funny
Wildcatdojo Conversations - April 15, 2024 04:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWe're joined by our old friend Darlene today, to discuss a quote about experience as a teacher....It relates to us at all ages and stages of life. For example we talk about the fact that a decade ago I created 3 songs for my Pre K students. One was called "Think Before you do it." Sensei Jackie...
The Naval War College; The Oldest of the War Colleges
Wildcatdojo Conversations - April 08, 2024 11:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsA year ago, we did an episode on the National War College (there's a link below, of course). Finally, we're following up with another episode. This time on the Naval War College. It's true we learn about the history, founders, and famous graduates. But seriously - how did we laugh this much! Aft...
Time Isn't Always on Our Side- An Archived Episode
Wildcatdojo Conversations - April 01, 2024 11:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsIn this episode, from Jan of 2020, we're visited by our friend and student Alex. Somehow we get into Mad Libs and Yes it IS an on line game now. Full time listeners may remember that we use months with 5 weeks to share archived episodes. If you likethese old episodes, I'm in the middle of uploa...
An Interview: Sensei Jackie is on the Hot Seat
Wildcatdojo Conversations - March 25, 2024 11:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsFinishing our trilogy on interviewing your 3 hosts - we finally talked Sensei Jackie into hers. This one includes stories from 'back in the day' and fun thoughts right now. She tries to turn the tables on us a few times by mentioning our interviews. So here are links - in case you missed them. H...
Finishing our Discussion of Some Guidelines from Grandmaster Urban
Wildcatdojo Conversations - March 18, 2024 11:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsGlad you could be here as we finish our discussion of some words from Grandmaster Urban's book The Karate Dojo. We started last week. (If you missed that episode I tagged the link below). We share information from 2 fine martial artists. This week we read a note sent to me by Master Robert Lasor...
More Excellent Adventures with the book - The Karate Dojo
Wildcatdojo Conversations - March 11, 2024 04:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWelcome to our 4th (or 5th?) journey into the content of Grandmaster Peter Urban's book The Karate Dojo. Obviously, we love this book. Today, with Sensei Rob Carbone, we're discussing some lines on (or about) page 77. We hope that you enjoy listening as much as we enjoy recording. (Btw- this ...
Female Warriors / Mythology - Amazon Warriors
Wildcatdojo Conversations - March 04, 2024 12:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsRyan joins in , as he always does, while we laugh and learn about the Amazon Warriors including of course, Wonder Woman. We covered a lot of ground here. Let me start by saying I did look up images of Batman and Wonder Woman (per Ryan's suggestion) and wasn't shocked or insulted... Meanwhile, t...
Helluvan Episode - Mail, Start Stories and More
Wildcatdojo Conversations - February 26, 2024 11:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThe name says it all! Sensei Randy joins in to help us carry the episode along. We hear how Steven and Sensei Jerri got into karate. And we hear from Hanshi Malanoski, Shihan Mckinnon and Sensei Rob C. with great letters. All these people have been on before. Let's start with Steven. He was a g...
The First of Our Kurosawa Series: The Hidden Fortress
Wildcatdojo Conversations - February 19, 2024 11:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsSensei Baier joins us today to discuss the classic film The Hidden Fortress. I'm sure you must have heard that this movie was the inspiration for the first Star Wars movie. There is a lot more to say. A couple of notes: Sensei Jackie mentions the theme from The Magnificent Seven. I did search a...
We Interview Thelma - She Received Her 5th Degree Black Belt at the Age of 90!
Wildcatdojo Conversations - February 12, 2024 11:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsToday we offer you a can't miss episode. We interview a fabulous, lovely, deadly 90 year old woman. I really don't need to say a lot more - Thelma and her family will fill in all the details. Enjoy a fun ride! There wasn't any mention of other episodes. So, there's nothing to tag. But you can l...
The Book of S.E.T. by Master J. Kelljchian - A Book Review
Wildcatdojo Conversations - February 05, 2024 11:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThe Book Crew is back with another book by our instructor Master Kelljchian. There was so much to say about this book that I had to cut 5 minutes and move it to the Stories and Bloopers reel! But we cover plenty - Including the fact that Master Kelljchian talked a lot about the elements. Therefo...
We talk Renshi, Ryogan Tsuki and more
Wildcatdojo Conversations - January 29, 2024 05:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsSensei Jerri joins us today as we try our hand at another episode of words from The Overlook Martial Arts Dictionary. This week it's the letter R. While discussing different ranks, Grandmaster Urban's book The Karate Dojo came up. We did a few episodes on this great book. Here's a link to one o...
History: Higaonna, Miyagi, Goju Ryu - There's a Story Here
Wildcatdojo Conversations - January 22, 2024 10:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsToday the show is jam-packed. We visit the lives of both Kanryo Higaonna and Chojun Miyagi, the naming of Goju Ryu Karate... And - dot matrix printers, the 1990s, and more. It's jammed with information and the usual fun. At one point we mention that our friend Max (a black belt in USA Goju Fede...
Notes - Ever Take Them? Do We?
Wildcatdojo Conversations - January 15, 2024 11:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsMy first note here is personal to Hanshi Malanoski. Even as I was trying to fix my original mistake on the word Jutte - I managed to say it with the emphasis on the wrong syllable. Don't worry, one day I'll get it right! Back to today. Steven and Geraldo join us today to talk about taking notes....
First Interview of 2024 - Landyn (Our Co-host!) We Finally Got Him In the Hot Seat
Wildcatdojo Conversations - January 08, 2024 11:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsFinally, We sit down and talk with Landyn. We cover everything from when he started karate, to what he does these days and how bright his future is shining. At one point he tells a story - one we haven't heard - about Master Kelljchian. (See our web presence for a pic.) Here's the link to our or...
Starting the Year with a Visit from an Old Friend
Wildcatdojo Conversations - January 01, 2024 10:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsHappy 2024. Megan is our guset today as we discuss - in the modern vernacular - mindfulness. But there is so much more to it. It's a wonderful archived episode to start the new year. First things first: Hey Megan - this is an official shout out to get in touch with that Master Kelljchian story...
Stories and Bloopers from 2023
Wildcatdojo Conversations - December 23, 2023 12:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWell, at least the last 1/2 of 2023. We include our usual word and dialog mess ups. But equally as fun is the stories from guests that didn't make it into the episode. There are references to almost every episode in the past few months - way too many episodes to include them all. But here are a...
More Weird Weapons - This one includes Pirates!
Wildcatdojo Conversations - December 18, 2023 10:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsSensei Derek joins us as we add the cutlass, nagamaki and more to our list of weird weapons. We even get into a quick discussion about how many weapons episodes we've had. I looked over old episodes, but didn't count. We mention the katana today. Back in August of 2020, we did 3 episodes on swo...
We Talk Terra Cotta Army and More with Sifu Jones
Wildcatdojo Conversations - December 11, 2023 10:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWe are so lucky to have a friend like Sifu Jones in our little community. Today he adds some information to our Long fist boxing discussion from Oct. In case you didn't catch that episode, here's the link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/13708596 Remember when I realized that the animals in Go...
We Talk Jump,.Jutte and More - J Words on the Menu Today
Wildcatdojo Conversations - December 04, 2023 10:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsLandyn, Sensei Jackie and I enter Dec with a letter episode. As the title says - we talk about words that begin with the letter "J". The conversations jumps all over the place. Quick correction from Hanshi Malanoski. I say the word "jutte" incorrectly. It should be said with 2 syllables (Jut-...
Meditation Fun with Kim and Matthew - An Interview
Wildcatdojo Conversations - November 27, 2023 12:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThere's no such thing as too many reminders to take a deep breath. Today we do that by visiting with Kim and learning about her journey of over 20 years in yoga, meditation and breathing. Matthew, her son, joins in too! Both Matthew and Kim joined us in 2022 to talk about the show Cobra Kai. H...
Achilles Should Be Known for his Wrath - Not His Heel
Wildcatdojo Conversations - November 20, 2023 10:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsRyan, our Myth-buster, joins us for a quick peek at Achilles. He's awesome. (You decide who I'm talking about after listening.) Just a quick caveat that I'll try to remember to put into our myth episodes in the future: This is mythology, not facts. By definition it's what someone said 1000s of ...
Kata - We Talk it Over With our Friend Shihan McKinnon
Wildcatdojo Conversations - November 13, 2023 10:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsI'm so excited we finally got to this conversation. And even more excited that we did it with our friend Shihan McKinnon. I waited on this, one of my favorite subjects, until I found the right spark. And that spark came from Shihan's blogpost on the subject. Here is a link to it: https://www.to...
Subjectivity VS Objectivity - The Battle Continues
Wildcatdojo Conversations - November 06, 2023 12:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWelcome to the first episode of our 5th year of recording. We're joined by old friends - Sensei Tim and his wife Glenda - both are school teachers and we share stories and ideas about being subjective and objective (just like the title says). Sensei Tim brought up the idea that failure is a grea...
We Revisit the Movie Budo (And mark 4 Years of Podcasting)
Wildcatdojo Conversations - October 30, 2023 09:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWelcome to an archived episode from 2021. The fact that the the 5th week of Oct. falls on our 5 year anniversary - well, that is just a fun coincidence! Here is what I'm thinking you might do: listen to the review, find the movie and stream it, and send feedback with your thoughts. This movie c...
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