Anxious Black Belt Podcast

In few words, I stopped enjoying on line interactions and decided to withdraw and start living in physical world. Future content will be irregular. Thanks to everyone who supported this podcast it was fun! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lesbubka/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is inspired by conversation between Jamie Clubb and Jan Drachman about the movie Sound of metal. Important question from that conversation is what would you do if you cannot do what you love? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lesbubka/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode I would like to bring your attention to qualification collecting. I’m very much guilty of that, thinking that more is better. In reality that is not necessarily true, less but better quality is what you need. Hope you will enjoy this one --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lesbubka/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/a...

Thoughts and feelings about freedom training and what future holds for us. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lesbubka/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode I talk with my friend and partner in crime, Cassandra Charles. We discuss an important topic with regards to Karate's approach to females and the impact of skin colour. I hope you will enjoy this one!  If you got some value from this episode or simply like it, please share via social media and with your friends. If you did not enjoy it please impose it on your enemies and make them...

In this episode I had the pleasure of talking with Goju Ryu practitioner, Zoe Jagger-Hinis Sensei. Zoe has a passion for equality and mental health within the martial arts. She is a Karate instructor, blogger, YouTuber and a contributor to the Bugeisha magazine. It was a huge pleasure to meet and chat with a like minded Karate-ka promoting the same values in South Africa. I hope that you will enjo...

No guest this week just me rambling about. You might enjoy it or not, who knows? Thank you for giving it a go. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lesbubka/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Abigail and I become friends during the disability coaching course few years ago, Abi is a fantastic young martial artist with a bright future. Her work is very important in the world of Karate, where man dominate the landscape. Unfortunately in Karate there is still a lot to be done for inclusion and equality, hopefully with passionate martial artists like Abigail this will change in the future....

This week my guest on Accidental Podcast is Mike Turbitt. Mike is the founder of Team Black Belt, an authority on teaching children and the author of the book, How to Build a Black Belt Business. I have followed Mike's work for a few years now and admire his passion for teaching children - his enthusiasm is highly infectious. His methodology for teaching children is first class. I have used some o...

In this episode I discuss something that happened in one of our sessions, where I had to use communication and understanding in order to resolve a stressful situation. If you got some value from this episode or simply like it, please share via social media and with your friends. If you did not enjoy it please impose it on your enemies and make them suffer! If you would like to support the show wit...

In this episode my guest is the excellent Don Came from Kissaki Kai Karate. Don is one of my favourite people to talk with about all things Karate, and in this episode we expand on our conversation. We discuss injury recovery, bare feet training, foundation training and structure.  During the discussion we mention a few clips, if you are interested in watching them the links are below: Foundation...

Melanie and I met online. We have a mutual friend, Matt Jardine, who suggested that we should talk together as we might have a few things in common. Matt was right - Melanie and I have quite few things in common, both of us do martial arts, write books and support mental health. It was a very interesting conversation and I hope you will enjoy it. Please find a few more words about Melanie from her...

In my training Gi is a special place; it is my armour, something that helps to protect me.  It has also helped me to let go of my emotional armour, and go out there and be who I am. If you got some value from this episode or simply like it, please share via social media and with your friends. If you did not enjoy it please impose it on your enemies and make them suffer! If you would like to suppor...

Christian and I met online a few years back, on one of the practical Karate groups. I enjoyed reading his point of view on the art of empty hands, so I thought why not get him on a podcast. I'm glad I did, Christian is a nice person and fun to talk to, we covered tons of material from wrestling, overcoming obstacles, special needs programmes, competing and being different in the Karate world. I ho...

In this episode I talk with my student Danny Mason. Danny has been training with me for quite some time and is over half way to black belt, and at first glance this seems ordinary. However, it is far from ordinary. Things that we take for granted can for Danny be a major challenge due to his autism. Danny describes the world through his lens and what Karate means for him, what benefits he has gott...

In this episode I talk with Jon McLean from Warrior Spirit  Martial Arts. We focussed on making the switch from 3K Karate to Applied Karate. We also talked about the impact of martial arts on growing up as a young person, mental health and autism. I hope that you will enjoy this conversation. Please check out Jon's work and make sure you subscribe to his YouTube channel.  YouTube: https://www.yout...

In this episode I'm chatting with my student Raquel Fulgoni. Raquel is a black belt in couple Karate styles, our conversation is focussed on mental health, differences in different school, female point of view and what to look in the Karate dojo before starting.  Hope you will enjoy this one and both Raquel and I hope to meet you on the seminars in near future.  If you got some value from this epi...

In this episode I talk with Charles. Those of you who are in practical Karate circles will know him as a well spoken, intelligent Karateka. He chose a line of social work as a way to help people, but the reality of that work crushed him. Now he is meditating his way out of depression. I'm happy to say he is doing very well. In our conversation we covered mental health, social work, raising childre...

Few thoughts and reflections about dark side of Karate. How simple April’s fool post turn into real project and responding to readers requests. I hope you will enjoy this one! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lesbubka/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I met Sensei Gary a few years back, it was a great seminar. He struck me as a very straight forward and honest teacher, we stayed in contact via social media and I was right, Gary is an honest person and if you ask for an opinion you get one, not necessarily the one you wanted but always honest. I like that. So in this episode we talked about mental health and Karate, Gary's experience in Kyokushi...

In this episode my guest is Lucci Del-Gaudio, an entrepreneur, Ju-Jitsu practitioner, author and podcaster. We explored Lucci's mental health crisis and how he managed to improve his wellbeing.  We also discussed the workings backstage of one of the best martial arts expo's - Kaizen.  We talk about Ju-Jitsu and it's importance in Lucci's life and his new book about it. I hope that you will enjoy t...

In this episode my guest is Mike Clarke Sensei. Mike has a gift of telling interesting stories with the effect of mesmerising listeners. I was totally immersed in his story! The story of a man going through tough times in his life who then finds Karate and becomes a world renown author and journalist. I hope you will enjoy this Interview. If you would like to know more about Mike's work please fol...

I had the pleasure chatting to Carl Fisher, BJJ black belt and Precision Self Protection grappling instructor about a variety of topics. Ranging from vital points, grappling arts to self protection and mental health. I hope you will enjoy this conversation as much as I did, please leave your comments below. If you think this was useful please like share and subscribe. Your support is greatly appre...

In this episode I'm explaining impact of lockdown #3 on my mental health. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lesbubka/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode I talk with Tiffany Richards from the Peaceful Warrior and Healing Centre.  Our conversation revolves around mental health, overcoming obstacles, infuriating martial artists and a female perspective on self-defence for women. You can sense that Tiffany is super passionate about her martial arts. It was very interesting to listen to her martial story from starting in martial arts to...