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Zen - An Episode from 2020
Wildcatdojo Conversations - May 01, 2023 07:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWhether you heard this back in 2020 or not - it's worth a re-listen. The concept of zen is a power in every day routine and in emergencies. With Sensei Lydia we discuss everything from one of Grandmaster Urban's sayings to what the dictionaries say to our personal interpretations. Sensei Jackie...
Book Episode: The Art of War
Wildcatdojo Conversations - April 24, 2023 07:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsSun Tzu's book: The Art of War rivals Musashi's Book of Five Rings as the most famous for strategic looks at fighting. We've already talked about Musashi (links below). So now we're tackling this book. After listening please send us some feedback. Or tell us a book to put on our reading list! T...
Round 2 on the Letter A: We attack it with Gusto
Wildcatdojo Conversations - April 17, 2023 07:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsToday's episode includes conversation about everything from attack to Aikido. And we're joined by Sensei Jay, so fun was had. We did an episode on Aikido in 2021. Here's the link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/8241544 Landyn's word was Archery and we did 3 episodes and a YouTube Live on Arc...
Gun Laws in the United Kingdom; We Learn About Them
Wildcatdojo Conversations - April 10, 2023 07:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThis week Sensei Jay joins us to talk with our friend, Sifu Rob Jones, as he shares with us some of the gun laws from the UK. Knowing nothing about their laws, we were happy to learn. Sifu Jones is a strong, smart and very experienced Martial Artist. If you are not familiar with him. Here is o...
Master Joe Hess is Amazing
Wildcatdojo Conversations - April 03, 2023 07:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWelcome to a long overdue episode dedicated to Master Joe Hess. He is a man of too many accomplishments to fit into one episode, but we did our best. We mention how he was a bodyguard to Elvis. And we did an episode on Elvis. Here it is if you haven't already heard it: https://www.buzzsprout.com...
Consequences - We Make 'Em
Wildcatdojo Conversations - March 27, 2023 07:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWelcome to an episode with myself, Sensei Jackie and Landyn. As the title suggests it's about consequences and it ends with us singing a song I invented years ago for kids. We posted it on YouTube...you'll hear.....in case you want to check it out - here's a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
We Interview Two Martial Artists From Western Mass. - Amazing
Wildcatdojo Conversations - March 20, 2023 07:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsToday we meet new friends from Western Mass. Our guests are Israel Lopez Sensei and Barak Yalad Shidoshi. They are karateka and podcasters..... Oh, and Landyn is back! So enjoy this interview - we sure did. The name of their podcast is Martial Maze. Here's a link (although you can find them any...
Simply S Words
Wildcatdojo Conversations - March 13, 2023 07:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWith help of Sensei Lydia, we have fun talking about Shurikens (Throwing stars), Swords and Serenity. As we do every week, we laugh and share stories and are slightly tangential. But somehow we managed to get to the point! When we were talking about swords, I remembered that we did 3 episodes on...
Breathing - Truly a Life Changer
Wildcatdojo Conversations - March 06, 2023 08:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWelcome to an episode we've been looking forward to. We're joined by Sensei (and Dr.) Melissa to talk about a special class our friend Sensei Cindy held a decade ago on breathing. If you, while listening, don't catch the deep breathing bug -and laugh more than you thought you would - I'll be sur...
Ryan Returns with Mythology- Artemis and Apollo
Wildcatdojo Conversations - February 27, 2023 08:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsToday we travel from revenge to space talking with Ryan and Pam about the warrior gods Artemis and Apollo. Ryan is our regular expert on warrior gods. Here is his first appearance when we talked about the Monkey King: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/11213311 And his mom Pam made her first appe...
A Class of Young Students Talk About Hard Work
Wildcatdojo Conversations - February 20, 2023 08:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWhat a great time we had - and the "we" was Sensei Randy, Sensei Tim, Sensei Jackie, and, of course, me - talking with some young people from one of our advanced classes. We talk about the karate saying "Hard work, long hours and constant repetition." This was recorded at a dojo. Although we sou...
Weird Weapons From History
Wildcatdojo Conversations - February 13, 2023 08:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWe attack (get it?) 13 weird weapons from history. Go to our twitter or insta pages to see pictures of the weapons. In this case - a picture really IS worth 1000 words. Sensei Derek joined in the fun and we cover everything from a Urumi to the Tzar Tank and so much more. At one point we're talk...
A Conversation With a Friend - Welcome Sensei Carlos
Wildcatdojo Conversations - February 06, 2023 08:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsTune in to meet our friend - Sensei Carlos and discuss the karate saying "Our Biggest Opponent is Ourselves." If you're a regular listener, you won't be surprised to hear we had fun. One of the topics we talked about was Ego. Way back in 2020 we did a whole episode on that. Here is the link: htt...
A Story from the book The Karate Dojo - An Archived Episode
Wildcatdojo Conversations - January 30, 2023 08:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsSensei Jackie, Landyn and I welcome you to our first archived episode of 2023. We chose the episode where we shared a story from Grandmaster Urban's book - The Karate Dojo. (It's a fine book. Check it out if you don't already own it!) Here is another episode where we reference his book: https:/...
Spies - We Talk About Some Famous and Not so Famous Ones
Wildcatdojo Conversations - January 23, 2023 08:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsToday we're joined by Sensei Derek to discuss spies. We started espionage last week. And this week, we cover some famous spies from history. We were all amazed at the different characters that make up the spy game. After you listen, share your spy story with us . We'd love to hear it. Just to d...
Espionage Was Always Part of Life
Wildcatdojo Conversations - January 16, 2023 08:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWe're joined by Sensei Lydia and Sensei Derek as we take a look through the history of Spy v Spy. There are surprises around every corner. (Hey, a spy joke!) Join in the fun. Can we talk espionage without talking about poisons? In case you missed our entire episode on poisons - here's the link: ...
Continuing Letter Episodes with the Letter C
Wildcatdojo Conversations - January 09, 2023 08:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsSensei Jay joins in today as we discuss words like courtesy and can't. If you've listened to letter episodes before then you know that they are based on an exercise I sometimes do with students, always unpredictable, and usually funny. Today does not disappoint. For example, Landyn and I start...
Hercules - Man, Demigod, or Just Another Crazy Warrior
Wildcatdojo Conversations - January 02, 2023 08:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWe're Starting 2023 with Hercules. How much fun is this? Ryan joins us, of course. He is, after all, our mythology expert. Hercules was (is?) a hoot! We are all over the conversation map on this one. We bring up Thor and although he ran recently, I've tagged him below: https://www.buzzsprout.com...
Bloopers: Some Laughter As We Close Out 2022
Wildcatdojo Conversations - December 26, 2022 08:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThe end of 2022 is here. I can not believe how fast it went. We managed to get 2 full episodes of bloopers out of this year (The usual amount, now that I think of it.) Laugh along with us as we look back on episodes we recorded in the last 1/2 of the year - and scroll down to check out episodes ...
Classical Chokes; The Book Crew Read It
Wildcatdojo Conversations - December 19, 2022 08:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsToday's book - Classical Chokes - was written by our instructor, Master Joseph Kelljchian. In editing I realized that we never stated on air that choking is dangerous. It is not a game and shouldn't be used unnecessarily. Master Kelljchian put a warning in the beginning of the book stating all t...
We Interview a Non Karateka Who Loves Self-control as Much as We Do
Wildcatdojo Conversations - December 12, 2022 08:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsJoin in the conversation today with Landyn's friend Raymond. Honestly, I couldn't describe this conversation if I tried. It ranges from elections, to dojos and from debate to talky 6 year olds. I bet you will be entertained and I'm always interested in your feedback. BTW- the conversation was s...
If Our Karate is Perfect - An Old Saying Discussed
Wildcatdojo Conversations - December 05, 2022 08:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsIt is so difficult to pick which type of episode is our favorite. We love them all. But today, with just the basic crew of Sensei Jackie, Landyn, myself and another old karate adage we manage to have fun and learn (two favorite things!). Please listen and send feedback. We love your opinions. I ...
Catapults and Trebuchets - Things That Fling
Wildcatdojo Conversations - November 28, 2022 08:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsToday we're joined by Sensei Derek to laugh as we look at the history, science and modernization of catapults and trebuchets. (With a few distractions as we start.) Need I say, there are a lot of opinions along the way. If you want to understand why Landyn dislikes the word Constantinople, you'l...
We Take a Run at Words That Begin With R
Wildcatdojo Conversations - November 21, 2022 08:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWe had fun, with our guest Pam, as we talk about everything from ridgehands to responsibility. Of course we're all over the subject map during the conversation. For example: We mentioned that Pam first appeared on the show in our Home Safety episode. Here's the link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/4...
We Take a Run at Words That Begin With R
Wildcatdojo Conversations - November 21, 2022 08:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWe had fun, with our guest Pam, as we talk about everything from ridgehands to responsibility. Of course we're all over the subject map during the conversation. For example: We mentioned that Pam first appeared on the show in our Home Safety episode. Here's the link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/4...
Finishing the Three Sayings: Thank you Master Lasorsa
Wildcatdojo Conversations - November 14, 2022 08:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWith a lot of help, we finish our trilogy on the sayings printed in Master Kelljchian's Beginning Karate Book back in the 1980's. We did my saying and Master Brown's saying earlier (they're tagged below). Today's episode is on Master Robert Lasorsa's saying. We made many references to other epis...
Aging While Training Part 2 - So Much to Say
Wildcatdojo Conversations - November 07, 2022 08:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThis week we finish our series on Aging - that is unless you send us some feedback, or come on the show to talk more about it. We'd love to hear from you. Sensei Jay is on today's show and we have a fantastic interview with our friend Sifu Rob Jones in the UK. So much fun and discussion - liste...
Warriors From Mythology: Thor
Wildcatdojo Conversations - October 31, 2022 07:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsHappy Halloween. This week marks our 156th episode; 3 years of podcasting! To celebrate we invited our friend and mythology correspondent on the show to talk about Thor - in both mythology and Marvel. What fun we had recording this. Btw - Ryan mentions a man on YouTube named Dr. Jackson Crawford...
Training While Aging; Could it be Any Other Way?
Wildcatdojo Conversations - October 24, 2022 07:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsI got a few requests to do an episode on continuing to train while continuing to age. Again I ask; Could it go any other way? I reached out to friends and got so much feedback that we've actually filled Two episodes. We hope you enjoy this first one that includes an interview with our friend i...
Grand Master Urban's Guide to Self Analysis-An Archived Episode
Wildcatdojo Conversations - October 17, 2022 07:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWe hope you enjoy going back and listening to old episodes once in a while. We all kind of do! This one is great because it's a subject you could visit 100 times and still hear something new. Check out the graphic on twitter (wildcatdojo) if you don't already follow us! We mention the second epi...
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