Wildcatdojo Conversations

The title says it all. We talk yoyos and boomerangs and we share our adventure throwing the boomerang. To make it more fun Sensei Derek is our guest. We relate the boomerang back to everything from Axes to Kobudo weapons and more. In case you missed some of those episodes. Here are some links.  We covered axes in 2021: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/6894266 Although we had 3 or 4 episodes on ko...

This week, we travel back to 1994 and watch / discuss the movie 3 Ninjas Kick Back with our guest Sensei Ben. There's ninjas, they're kicking. What's not to like? Listen and also - share your opinion. Sensei Ben has been on before - he was on the Super Sentei episode. Here's the link in case you missed it: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/8739454 We also talk about our last mo...

As you listen today, to our 2nd interview with Hanshi Keith Teller talking about his boxing program for Parkinson's; I hope you get a sense of his strength, energy and karate spirit. We sure did. As always, it's a jam packed 20 minutes. Here's a link to Hanshi's web page in case you want to contact him.  https://www.gainesvilledojo.com/ And of course to our sponsor - Honor Athl...

This week, as the title tells you, we are so lucky to interview Hanshi Keith Teller. If you don't know his name yet, you will in a few minutes. He shares everything from his days in the very hot (in summer) Brooklyn dojo to his time here in his Florida dojo. Enjoy this episode and tune in next week to talk about his Champions Boxing Program for Parkinsons.  I don't have any episodes to t...

We hope you're enjoying these Mythological Hero episodes as much as we are. Thanks to Ryan - as he IS our expert, and thanks to Pam also. This week we hear that Gilgamesh is not only the most ancient, but possibly the craziest. Listen and tell us what you think.  We mentioned both Sun Wukong and Hercules. So they are tagged here - in case you missed them. Here's Sun Wukong: https://www.b...

Our friend from Tasmania, T.D. McKinnon, returns to talk about his time working in personal security. Conversations with Shihan are always entertaining and enlightening. And this one is no exception. If you aren't familiar with Shihan McKinnon, listen to our first interview  here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/8625686 He also joined us on one of our two episodes on Aging while Training (o...

Have you ever heard of the National War College? Let us know. Sensei Derek joins us today as we discuss some details about it. The subject came up when we were recording our book review on Sun Tzu's The Art of War. In case you missed that episode, here's the link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/8241544 At the end of the episode, during listener mail, I mention the Master Joe Hess epis...

Whether 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 and I updated a few things for you. One of them is that we did interview Sensei Max (who is s...

Sun 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! Thanks for listening. Here are 2 links to an episodes on Musashi. The first one is ab...

Today'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 Archery in 2020. Here's the YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyQn3q6y...

This 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 our first interview with him from 2021: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/8931796 But back to today'...

Welcome 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/477379/6535051 And we mention his kickboxing career. When we were talking we thought we hadn'...

Welcome 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=ymQsjiZddwg   And if that's not enough - we sing it to the tune of a song from the...

Today 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 anywhere you already listen): https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/martial-maze As always, here is...

With 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 swords in 2020. Here is the link to our first episode: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/4763822 And he...

Welcome 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 surprised. We do mention an episode that ran a year ago on the karate saying Consistenc...

Today 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 appearance on our episode about home safety: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/11142251 In the episode Ryan...

What 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 sound proofed as much as possible, the sound is a little 'tinny' compared to...

We 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 talking about chariots, which we talked about in our gladiator episodes. Here's a link to one of t...

Tune 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: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/2985007 In case we have a any new listeners, I though...

Sensei 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://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/2196104 Also, we spoke to a young man who spent 6 months in a C...

Today 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 do something different, I went all the way back to year 2 and retrieved one of Sensei Dereks fir...

We'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: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/10340583 And we mention the episode we did on the karate say...

Sensei 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 singing a song we recorded 8 years ago to remind us that consequences exist. It's worth...

We'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/477379/11550495 In that episode we mention an app called Listenable. They have a great course...