The Saber Martial Arts Podcast

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"The Way of Cleaning" is back for Round 2! Sakaue Sensei is in the Captain's chair again to help Fode and Alan tackle the nitty and gritty topics within the current climate of both martial arts as well as "Star Wars". Please don't forget to Share this podcast with your friends and training partners, and thank you as always for Subscribing! Learn Saber Martial Arts and become an SMA Affiliate! Beco...

SMAFcast is beyond honored to bring you this exclusive conversation with lifetime martial artist, dojo brother of SMA Instuctor Kay Sakaue (who joins the chat), and resident expert on all things related to Japanese swords and martial arts from History Channel's "Pawn Stars", Sensei Mike Yamasaki! Mr. Mike broke his own no-podcasts rule (as a favor to Kay) to bring his vast experience and humorous...

Fode and Alan finish their commentary series for "The Acolyte" with finale episodes 7 and 8. Spoiler alert: we kinda loved it! Lots of martial arts and Force powers displayed in these episodes, as well as a cameo from a certain Muun Sith Lord. Thank you, as always, for listening! Please Subscribe and Share SMAFcast with 5 friends! Learn Saber Martial Arts and become an SMA Affiliate! Become an Off...

Please excuse the soothing background sonics of Fode's Millennium Falcon (and the occasional adult verbiage) as he and Alan record their conversation while driving to a seminar in Ann Arbor, MI to get certified as Coaches, Judges, and Combatants in the new official USA Lightfencing system, developed and curated by Darth Nonymous of Terra Prime Light Armory! Please enjoy this bonus release, and Sub...

Sifu and Fode break down the safety gear from weapons-based systems that we now use in SMA and saberfighting. Please Subscribe, and Share this episode with a needy nerd you know! Learn Saber Martial Arts and become an SMA Affiliate! Follow SMA on Instagram Subscribe to Saber Martial Arts on YouTube Train & Fight in an Official SMA "Duelist" Jersey!

Sifu Alan and Your Main Man "Sensei" Fode are joined by fellow OGs of the mixing-real-martial-arts-with-lightsabers game: Sifu Chad "Darth Nonymous" Ironmonger and Sifu Damon "General Sun" Honeycutt from Terra Prime Light Armory! Just like sitting at the bar with your favorite martial arts teachers or sportsball coaches, this chat is filled with nostalgic waxings as well as tidings of the future,...

Sifu Alan and YMM Fode commentate episodes 5 and 6 of "The Acolyte". After struggling through the previous two episodes, these provide welcome restitution with huge Saber Martial Arts payouts and re-canonization of some hella popular Legends material. Thank you for listening, and please Subscribe for more SMA content! Learn Saber Martial Arts and become an SMA Affiliate! Follow SMA on Instagram Su...

Double-bladed saber, crossguard saber, saber whip, saber sai, saber pike, saber tonfa, saber...nunchaku? Saber...scythe? Three-section saber?! If somebody has tried to turn your favorite non-sword weapon into a lightsaber, we're probably going to talk about it in this episode of SMAFcast . Thank you for your friendly listenership; please drop us a Subscribe and drop your homies some Shares! Learn...

During their roast-commentary for episodes 3 and 4 of "The Acolyte", Sifu Alan gives YMM Fode a new "certain point of view" and now Fode doesn't hate these episodes anymore. Please Subscribe and Share SMAFcast , and THANK YOU for listening! Learn Saber Martial Arts and become an SMA Affiliate! Follow SMA on Instagram Subscribe to Saber Martial Arts on YouTube Train & Fight in an Official SMA "...

From Teras Kasi, to the Echani dueling arts, to Zama-Shiwo and whatever it is that Mace Windu uses to dismantle oodles of B2 Supers on Dantooine with his bare hands in the greatest animated Star War, as well as the real-world counterparts and proxies of these fantasy non-lightsaber martial arts. Thank you for Subscribing, and please Share for +100 to Charisma! Learn Saber Martial Arts and become a...

After Fode gushes about his newly refurbished tomahawk, he and Alan settle in to commentate the first two martial-arts-filled episodes of "The Acolyte" in the vein of Fode's original podcasting foray. Thank you in advance for Subscribing and Sharing The Saber Martial Arts Podcast ! Learn Saber Martial Arts and become an SMA Affiliate! Follow SMA on Instagram Subscribe to Saber Martial Arts on YouT...

Your Main Man Fode and Sifu Alan come at you with a brief (for SMAFcast at least) May wrap-up, including our panel at GameX; getting kids and families involved in SMA and getting SMA involved in a community; "the great equalizers"; putting your nose down, shutting up, and doing the work; communication & collaboration; shout-outs & future plans, aka perpetuation of the lightsaber. Thank you...

Join Master Venable and Fode-san for the long-anticipated "Saber May-hem: SMA Summit" LIVE from Gamex by Strategicon! Guests include: Kay Sakaue, Tony Negron, Ryan McKenna, Matthew Dominguez, Aureo Francisco, Damon Honeycutt, Darth Nonymous, Alain Bloch, Charley Cummings, and Faisal Milan. Saber groups represented: Phoenix Saber Academy (AZ), DE Saber Martial Arts (OH/DE), SoCal Saber Academy (CA)...

"Sojido: The Way of Cleaning"; Kay Sensei is featured in a new SMAFcast series where we "clean the dojo" of some hot topics from the world of martial arts and the galaxy far away. Junior Black Belts, the term "Osu", and evolution vs. traditionalism (again) in both Star Wars and martial arts. Join us every month for another Sojido session in Sensei's saberdojo! Thank you for Subscribing to Saber Ma...

In keeping with some recent outreach events and SMA programming, Your Main Man and Sifu Alan discuss the always-riveting task of teaching kids. From Pre-K to late teens, to adults who behave like kids, teaching our Younglings and Padawans is a privilege but also requires a dedicated passion and a sense of import. And humor (lots of it). Thank you for Subscribing and Sharing! The Official Website o...

After some uppity banter about how awesome it feels to be a Star Wars fan in the month of May, Sifu Venable does the unthinkable and brings up Form VII! That's right, we're actually indulging you nerds and your devilish interests in Juyo and Vaapad, two flavors of one "forbidden" SMA Form; how Form VII fits into the Phoenix, DESMA, and overall SMA curricular frameworks, some of the lore surroundin...

Your Main Man Fode and Master Venable promote saber events on/around Star Wars Day; nunchaku anxiety takes ahold of Fode in pursuit of his purple sash; bowing into the dojo, the parking lot, and how good manners are just good; interplay of tradition, modernization, and sport-ification in martial arts; intention is everything; shout-outs and previews of things to come, and a plea to the sabersmiths...

Sifu and Fode get into the development of their own versions of SMA Forms 5 and 6; some of the martial stylings that influenced these Forms, and maybe some of the more eclectic themes that flavor their Shien/Djem-So and Niman/Jar'Kai. As always, thank you for Subscribing and please Share this episode with a martial nerd or three! Saber Martial Arts Official Site Follow SMA on Instagram Subscribe t...

In this week's edition of SMAFcast , Your Main Man Fode and Sifu Alan discuss the nuance of traditionalism vs. evolution in martial arts; different scoring methods at tournaments; a quote from an Arnis Master sets the tone for a chat about our philosophies on gear and rulesets for saberfighting; finally, we give a big danke shön to our Deutschlandian listeners. Don't forget to Subscribe and Share...

Our tricenarian episode is rolled in with the furious clacking of Sifu Venable's PlayStation controller as Master Splinter surrogates his services against hordes of mindless mousers; a little talk of "Bagua" (ie Baguazhang) leads to some diddly riffing on how Sifu and Fode have developed each of the first few SMA Forms in their own respective curriucula, and a shout-out to our Kiwi listeners turns...

Fode-san catches up with Sensei Kay of SoCal Saber Academy and San Diego Sabers! Kay is not just a popular SMAFcast guest, but he is also a Martial Artist steeped in traditions old and new, a great ambassador for SMA and martial artistry as a whole, and an open-minded Sensei with a penchant for uplifting those around him. Thank you for listening to this episode, and please share it with a friend a...

In our second installment of HEOP supplemental episodes, Fode puts the DE Saber Martial Arts curriculum under Sifu Alan's microscope with his own "holocron" videos on Shii-Cho, Makashi, and Soresu. Complete with companion footage, analyses, and behind-the-scenes tidbits, this series aims to help you understand The 7 Forms of SMA, how real-world martial stylings inform our creation and training of...

In a new series of Holo-Education Outreach Program (HEOP) supplemental episodes, we'll highlight educational content from not only Saber Martial Arts teachers, but from the, shall we say, "expanded universe" of Martial Arts as a whole. This first week, we check out a few of Phoenix Saber Academy's instructional videos on Shii-Cho, Makashi, and Soresu. Complete with companion footage, analyses, and...

Sifu and Your Main Man get superbly nerdy over the martial quality and enjoyability of lightsabers in video games, from today's 4K masterpieces all the way back to the 8-bit button-mashers of yesteryear. We also chomp on a roast of medium-rare Ray Park footage, and give unsolicited props to a modern brother of the blade. Plus, Sifu Alan poses an invitation to any saber fanatic who's listening! As...