Meet The Masters

Master Farrelly joined  me for the first episode of Meet The Masters on April 21st, 2020 to talk memories of Grandmaster Beaudioin, quitting as a kid and returning, breaking stuff and more.

WTSDA Region 21 Director Master Hutchinson joined me May 6, 2020 to talk about his martial arts history, traveling to Peru, his awesome region and more.

Master Treacy joined us on May 5, 2020 to talk about starting the martial arts, teaching during the pandemic and more.

Master Jorgensen joined me to talk about starting martial arts as a kid, teaching, training with Master Vaughn, meet the master interviews and more.

Master Perry joined me to talk about training with Master Porco, region 9, getting the opportunity to teach for Master Valentin, watersports and more.

Master Acri joined me to talk about his start with the Conrad's, opening his own dojang, his epic beard and more.

Master Weinberg joined me on November 16th, 2021 to talk about starting martial arts at an older age, being a bad student in Tang Soo Do class, writing a book with Grandmaster Strong, his work on the Region 8 scholarship fund committee and more!

Master Becky Wolverton joined me on December 2nd, 2021 to talk about starting martial arts with her kids, training with Master DeBaca, being the director of Region 1 in WTSDA and more.

Jenn Luneau from Vaughn's Dojang joined me on Dec. 28th, 2021 to talk about starting the martial arts with her family as a kid, growing up in the association, becoming a teacher and more.

Master Mukherjee from Austin Karate Academy joined me on April 2nd, 2021 to talk about growing up in India, getting his start in martial arts, finding his way to WTSDA and all of the friends he has met along the way.

Master Rob Kloss of Cornerstone Martial Arts joined me January 11th, 2021 to talk about Grandmaster Shin and seeing him at the European Championships, to delivering rugs to his house, how martial arts shaped him as a person and more!

Master Roman from Romans Shin Karate joined me in February 11th, 2021 in a bit of a lost episode.  This was the only interview I have streamed via YouTube thanks to a Facebook snafu.  We talked about being a charter member of WTSDA as a kid, growing up with the association, having instructors like Master Chambliss and Master Godwin as role models and more!

Master Jim Debaca from California joined me January 23, 2021 to talk about starting the martial arts, his years of competing and traveling for kickboxing, the start of the WTSDA, his many training partners throughout the years and more!

Master Vance Britt joined me on October 19th, 2021 to talk about his martial arts journey.  From training Tang Soo Do in Korea, his time at Grandmaster Shins Burlington school, the charter convention, his love for the sword and much more is talked about in our conversation.

Master Drew Hobbs from Robinson's Martial Arts Institute joined me on September 29th, 2021 to talk about his journey in martial arts, from starting as a child, returning after 20 years, training then and now with Master Robinson and more.

Masters Kristie and John Gebhardt joined me on September 24th, 2021 from Alaska to talk about being students of Master Wick, training as a family, creativity demos and more.

Master Soon joined me on August 20th, 2021 about his journey to WTSDA, moving around, training with Master Khan, starting to teach in Virginia and more!

Master Fredricks joined me on September 7th, 2021 as we talked about growing up in a Tang Soo Do family, having Master Wick as an instructor and kind of an uncle, handstands, HDL and more!

My good friend Master Mo joined me on August 11th, 2021 to talk about early training memories, words of advice from Grandmaster Shin, what training for 30 years means to to him and more.

Master Stine, one of the highest ranking masters in WTSDA joined me  on July 16th, 2021 to talk about his martial arts history, traveling, training partners and more.

Master Ben Harper from Great Britain Tang Soo Do joined me on August 3rd, 2021 to talk about wanting to be a ninja turtle, what it feels like to have been train TSD for almost 30 years, being a detective and more!

"Master E" joined me on July 15th, 2021 to talk about moving from the city to the country as a kid with his grandmother, finding confidence in the martial arts, being too loud for some (haha) and more in this great talk.

Master Auer joined me on July 6th, 2021 as we talked about starting the martial arts, testing in front of Chuck Norris as a kid, training with Master Stine and eventually taking over his dojang and more.

Master Lappin joined me on October 7th, 2020 to talk about her start in martial arts with Master DeBaca, building leaders inside her studio, getting to work with her daughters and more.

Dan and Anthony joined me on December 14th, 2020 to talk about the project to raise money to reopen Beaudoin Academy of Karate.