Wildcatdojo Conversations
Karate is for everyone. So, join us each week for a 20 to 25 minute conversation on all types of subjects. We go from managing the distractions of daily life, through martial arts history and people, and common sense concepts to add to your self defense armor. Plus we have interviews and so much more. After spending over 40 years discussing life's challenges in a dojo, (both as a student and as a teacher) I decided it would be fun to share the conversations with everyone. And it is! We're having a great time with our guests each week thinking, talking and very importantly sharing a laugh or two along the way.
Show episodes
Fumio Demura is known for many things in Martial Arts. We did a biography of him back in 2020. Here"s the link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/5982394 What fun we had watching this movie, laughing and snacking. Somehow, in our review we mentioned Master Joe Hess. We"ve also done a biography on him: https://
First off - an Uke is a Japanese word meaning partner in Karate training. Have I got your interest? This episode has stories from Hanshi Malanoski and some feedback from followers of Hanshi Ray Batlle"s Facebook page. I thank them both. We also tell a few stories of our own and maybe clear up some confusion for people
We"re joined by Kim to talk about another history of female warriors. This one is full of myths, legends and of course controversies. While I was writing these notes, I decided to look back at other episodes we"ve recorded female fighters in history. Our first one was back in 2020, where we were introduced to 2 Japanes
We have two guests for this episode. I"m thankful to Sifu Jones from the UK who opens the show and to Shihan McKinnon who takes it home for us. Their input is amazing and appreciated. With Sifu Jones we talked about basics. That got us to thinking about the movie Budo. Since we did an episode on that, I"ll tag it here:
This episode is a listener request. Setting and maintaining boundaries, like so many things we"ve discussed on this show, is a lifelong responsibility (to yourself?). When the request came through, the person didn"t specify physical safety or internal challenges. So we tackled both. However, we"ve talked about physica
Welcome to a second look at Wabi Sabi: a Japanese philosophy that I"m going to define too simply as a celebration of imperfection. In this episode we look at 3 different books about the subject. Our first look at this, a favorite subject, was back in 2020. My favorite memory of that recording was our guests, Sensei Tr