Wildcatdojo Conversations

Enjoy this conversation with Sensei Lydia, Sensei Jackie and myself on this eye opening piece of history. One thing I got wrong is this: I referred to the mini series on Hulu as The Last Samurai, but it is actually a remake of a mini series from the 80s called Shogun. Oops! Hope it doesn't insult your ears. If you make it through, please think about supporting us by using the link below and t...

Taiko is a Japanese term for any kind of drum. Over time the art of drumming, like other art forms, became a world wide phenomenon. I was lucky enough to make a friend of one such artist - Ben. Sensei Jackie and I were extra lucky to go to their dojo and see many of their drums, meet a student - Orion and get this interview.  I know you're going to hear our joy as we share our mutual love of...

We have fun recording this episode on a saying by Matsamura Sokon. Our guest is Hanshi Steven Malanoski. Jic you're not familiar with him. I'm including his interviews with us from 2021. Here is the first one: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/9551496 And he was kind enough to continue the conversation a few weeks later: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/9637889 The next thing you'l...

This archived episode from our Wrestling series is worth listening to for so many reasons. If you're hearing it for the first time or as a repeat, you laugh and learn. A fun 20 minutes that includes Sensei James as our guest. The first time he was on we discussed Miyamoto Musashi. Here's a link, in case you missed it: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/3858080 During recording we referenc...

Thanks for checking out today's episode. The words we're discussing are: To be good, find a good teacher, to master teach. This is something I heard Master Kelljchian say decades ago. Sensei Derek joins us today to mess around with the concept. We had fun - as we always do. Before we got into this weeks episode we discuss 2 pieces of listener mail we got regarding the episode on Planning...

We love doing  remnants from past episodes. This one has so many stories! All the episodes referenced were in the last 6 months - except during the word bloopers when we have quite a few from a weird weapons episode from last Dec. Here it is if you missed it: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/14134852 A couple of other episodes that we reference are: the wonderful interview with our 90 year old ka...

What fun we had interviewing Ms. Kapp. Between her podcast (Meticulous Moments), her motivational speaking and her training in Shotokan , the conversation was lively and went to fast. Speaking of Shotokan, we have discussed Gichin Funikoshi a few times. Here's one of them: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/10908006 Now back to Juanita Kapp. Her schedule is so busy that she had to do the inter...

Chinese weapons with Sifu Jones is on the menu today. Our first interview with Sifu was back in 2021. Here's a link in case you missed it: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/8931796 Sifu talks about swords and spears he uses and owns. I put a video of him on our twitter (and insta) page.  Here's a link: https://twitter.com/wildcatdojo We mention that we've done too many episodes on w...

Spending time with friends A memory forever That makes me smile. Enjoy our latest book episode - we take a little bit different approach today - a few books on one subject - Haiku. The first thing that happened was that Sensei Jackie mentioned that Haiku reminded her of our episode reviewing the movie Budo. Heres the link so you can see for your self: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/9007481 Than...

Sensei Lydia joins in this week to talk about John Corcoran and Emil Farkas - the authors of The Overlook Martial Arts Dictionary and the book Martial Arts Traditions, History, People. We covered so much information in this episode. Somehow we got to Ninja - and of course - we did an episode on that. Here's a link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/4401074 And we also mention the episode we d...

Geraldo returns today to talk about a maxim we attribute to Grandmaster Peter Urban. Geraldo was on 6 months ago, when we discussed note taking in karate. Here's a link - in case you missed that episode.  https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/14235323 Today the conversation ranges from how many famous people have said the phrase to long term planning to doing kata in the dojo. We did an entire ep...

What fun we had learning about Queens that fought in Britain with our guest Shihan T.D. McKinnon. Shihan has been on many times. Just last November we discussed Kata with him. The episode I want to tag here is the one where he talks about life as a bodyguard.  Listen - if time allows: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/12796037 This is not our first time talking about the history of women who fough...

Sensei Jay  joins the conversation today as we tackle Focus, Fighting Spirit and Fuki Bari (Looking it up? Type in Fuki Bara). What fun! Join us by listening and letting us know your thoughts. We can't talk about focus without bringing up Kimi. We did a whole episode on that. Here's the link:  https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/8501411 And while we were there we talked about makiwara trai...

We're joined by Sensei Jay on our first in a series of episodes about people who have seen war and lived to tell about it. Today it is Audie Murphy. One of the things I wanted to look up and add to the recording was the definition of a military campaign. Since I missed that moment, I'm adding it here. There could be one or two of you who are like me and have heard the term but never thou...

Today Sensei Jackie and I discuss how to get out of our own way - mostly mentally - in a world full of distractions and with a brain that likes to push us around. It is much funnier than it sounds .We touch on aging. So for those of you that missed the aging episodes, here's a link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/11508081 And you have to touch on meditation to tap into self-control and cen...

Finally we talk Female Ninja. We're joined by Sensei Lydia, so the conversation is fun and often off topic. Here's a few things we managed to talk about other than these awesome women. Back in 2020 we tackled the subject of Ninja. Here's a link, in case you missed it: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/4401074 The conversation also turned to one of our many favorite weapons - fans! H...

We're joined by our old friend Darlene today,  to discuss a quote about experience as a teacher....It relates to us at all ages and stages of life. For example we talk about the fact that a decade ago I created 3 songs for my Pre K students. One was called "Think Before you do it." Sensei Jackie brought it up so I'm tagging it here: https://youtu.be/34tyQbcSfeI?si=n2F2DXxU53EWA...

A year ago, we did an episode on the National War College (there's a link below, of course). Finally, we're following up with another episode. This time on the Naval War College. It's true we learn about the history, founders, and famous graduates. But seriously - how did we laugh this much! After you listen you can send us some advice on how to be more serious! Or you can click the...

In this episode, from Jan of 2020, we're visited by our friend and student Alex. Somehow we get into Mad Libs and Yes it IS an on line game now. Full time listeners may remember that we use months with 5 weeks to share archived episodes.  If you likethese old episodes, I'm in the middle of uploading them to YouTube. Check other episodes (with slide show) here: https://www.youtube.com/res...

Finishing our trilogy on interviewing your 3 hosts - we finally talked Sensei Jackie into hers. This one includes stories from 'back in the day' and fun thoughts right now. She tries to turn the tables on us a few times by mentioning our interviews. So here are links - in case you missed them. Here's Landyn from back in January: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/14230334 And mine wa...

Glad you could be here as we finish our discussion of some words from Grandmaster Urban's book The Karate Dojo. We started last week. (If you missed that episode I tagged the link below). We share information from 2 fine martial artists. This week we read a note sent to me by Master Robert Lasorsa. Coincidentally, we did an episode on a saying he is famous for. Here's a link to that epis...

Welcome to our 4th (or 5th?) journey into the content of Grandmaster Peter Urban's book The Karate Dojo. Obviously, we love this book.  Today, with Sensei Rob Carbone,  we're discussing some lines on (or about) page 77. We hope that you enjoy listening as much as  we enjoy recording. (Btw- this ended up being 2 episodes - we'll finish the conversation next week!) The subject of kata...

Ryan joins in , as he always does, while we laugh and learn about the  Amazon Warriors including of course, Wonder Woman. We covered a lot of ground here. Let me start by saying I did look up images of Batman and Wonder Woman (per Ryan's suggestion) and wasn't shocked or insulted... Meanwhile, this episode got me to thinking about the first time Ryan brought us a Myth. We learned about ...

The name says it all! Sensei Randy joins in to help us carry the episode along. We hear how Steven and Sensei Jerri got into karate. And we hear from Hanshi Malanoski, Shihan Mckinnon and Sensei Rob C.  with great letters. All these people have been on before. Let's start with Steven. He was a guest when we talked about Gichin Funakoshi: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/4133990 And Sensei Je...

Sensei Baier joins us today to discuss the classic film The Hidden Fortress. I'm sure you must have heard that this movie was the inspiration for the first Star Wars movie. There is a lot more to say. A couple of notes: Sensei Jackie mentions the  theme from The Magnificent Seven. I did search and listen and it's worth the 5 minutes it takes - in case you're just hanging. We also me...