Wildcatdojo Conversations

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...

The end of 2022 is here. I can not believe how fast it went. We managed to get 2 full episodes of bloopers out of this year (The usual amount, now that I think of it.) Laugh along with us as we look back on episodes we recorded in the last 1/2 of the year - and scroll down to check out episodes you might have missed. We did a you tube video  on Master Kelljchian's creativity. It is totally wo...

Today's book - Classical Chokes - was written by our instructor, Master Joseph Kelljchian. In editing I realized that we never stated on air that choking is dangerous. It is not a game and shouldn't be used unnecessarily. Master Kelljchian put a warning in the beginning of the book stating all this. Having said that - let's get to the fun: We spend time talking about everything from...

Join in the conversation today with Landyn's friend Raymond. Honestly, I couldn't describe this conversation if I tried. It ranges from elections, to dojos and from debate to talky 6 year olds. I bet you will be entertained and I'm always interested in your feedback. BTW-  the conversation was supposed to be about self-control and we managed to occasionally stay on point! We didn&ap...

It is so difficult to pick which type of episode is our favorite. We love them all. But today, with just the basic crew of Sensei Jackie, Landyn, myself and another old karate adage we manage to have fun and learn (two favorite things!). Please listen and send feedback. We love your opinions. I have a quick correction. Somewhere in all the talking I said that another karate saying was 'Repeti...

Today we're joined by Sensei Derek to laugh as we look at the history, science and modernization of catapults and trebuchets. (With a few distractions as we start.) Need I say, there are a lot of opinions along the way. If you want to understand why Landyn dislikes the word Constantinople, you'll need to listen to our next Blooper episode. It will air on 12.26. Catch it anytime after tha...

We had fun, with our guest Pam, as we talk about everything from ridgehands to responsibility. Of course we're all over the subject map during the conversation. For example: We mentioned that Pam first appeared on the show in our Home Safety episode. Here's the link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/11142251 And somehow our element episodes came up. I'm linking in the water episode...

With a lot of help, we finish our trilogy on the sayings printed in Master Kelljchian's Beginning Karate Book back in the 1980's. We did my saying and Master Brown's saying earlier (they're tagged below). Today's episode is on Master Robert Lasorsa's saying. We made many references to other episodes and here are a few: We talk about the 10 Virtues, which we brought up...

This week we finish our series on Aging - that is unless you send us some feedback, or come on the show to talk more about it. We'd love to hear from you. Sensei Jay is on today's show and we have a fantastic interview with our friend Sifu Rob Jones in the UK. So much fun and discussion - listen and tell us what you think. We mentioned our first Aging episode that aired just 2 weeks ago:...

Happy Halloween. This week marks our 156th episode; 3 years of podcasting! To celebrate we invited our friend and mythology correspondent on the show to talk about Thor - in both mythology and Marvel. What fun we had recording this. Btw - Ryan mentions a man on YouTube named Dr. Jackson Crawford. I checked it out and totally recommend you take a look. He's smart and entertaining. During the e...

I got a few requests to do an episode on continuing to train while continuing to age. Again I ask; Could it go any other way?  I reached out to friends and got so much feedback that we've actually filled Two episodes. We hope you enjoy this  first one that includes an interview with our friend in Tasmania - T.D. McKinnon . We mention our meditation episode in the podcast and I was correct - t...

We hope you enjoy going back and listening to old episodes once in a while. We all kind of do! This one is great because it's a subject you could visit 100 times and still hear something new. Check out the graphic on twitter (wildcatdojo) if you don't already follow us! We mention the second episode on the same subject. Here's a link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/2234144 And ou...

What fun the Book Crew had reviewing  the book Autumn Lightening by Dave Lowry.  In case you don't already know, the book crew consists of Senseis' Tracey, Jackie, Jim and myself. This week we were lucky to have Landyn on hand also. Tune in for details. Other details include a mention of Sensei Tracey's Food website. Here's a link: https://www.thebigeasycook.com/ You totally ne...

Each summer we try to watch a movie and share it with you all. This year two things are true: we're late - summer is over. But  we finally sat down for an afternoon and watched the movie Monkey King Reborn. It's an animated film from 2021. We had fun and hope you have fun listening. Let us know what you think of the new take on this ancient mythical monkey.   We mention the Sun Wukong ep...

Another great week here at Wildcatdojo Conversations, as we talk with my brother in law, Myron,  about everything from his time in the Air Force to how life has been in retirement. Landyn, Sensei Jackie and I learn a lot of cool things and we hope you will too! We don't really mention any other episodes this week. So I thought I'd link a couple of our first interviews. Maybe this will en...

Finally we got Sensei Randy back on the show to discuss an old karate saying - Karate is for everyone, but everyone is not for karate. Listen and tell us your opinions! Of course we digress throughout the show so here are some of the links to our lack of focus.  Did you know we have T shirts: https://www.cafepress.com/wildcatdojo And of course we love our sponsor Honor Athletics: https://honor-ath...

You can see in the title - this will be a fun day. Landyn, Sensei Jackie and I take a look at a female gun toting Onna Bugeisha from the 1800's. But more important; we spend the second 1/2 of the show sharing a note I received from Hanshi Malanoski regarding our last book episode. Just the amount of subjects we covered will tell you how jam packed this episode is. We touched on:  An episode w...