Wildcatdojo Conversations

It's true, somehow Sensei Jackie, Sensei Landyn and I  got to the word contempt. But also, we celebrate surpassing 7 years of podcasting. But back to contempt....

The impetus to this was a simple pop up screen one day and I'm surprised to say we had so much more fun that I expected. 

Early in the episode Sensei Landyn mentions Brene Brown. I mention the spelling here in case you want to look her up. I did - very interesting. 

This episode brought up an old interview with our friend, Sensei Rebekah. She is a p...

A special thanks to Sensei Landyn for opening the show. Sensei Jay threw out the idea of us spending an episode talking about the adventures of teaching small children. I immediately said "absolutely". And we did.

Hey, if you have a great story, get in touch and share it so we can build another episode. 

Master Kelljchian used to say that the children taught him more than he taught them. We did an entire episode on that. Here it is:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/17659642

We also did an episode asking k...

We had so much fun talking with Sensei Bennett that we kept the conversation going through his life as a marine and leading to his current role of helping others. I loved his quote "That consistency of inconsistency is too consistent."             Thanks Sensei.  

I'm attaching his first interview, even though it was just last week - in case you missed it. 

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/19882546

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Do I need to say that  Sensei Jackie and I had so much fun meeting a new friend. 

A big shout out to Sensei Bennett for his time and a number of great stories of his decades in karate. 

At one point he mentions that he and Sensei Tracy were kids together. It is a wonderful coincidence that we interviewed her. (Thanks Shihan Tracy - I hope you're doing well!) Here's that episode:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/16424997

Shihan Seymour was also responsible for us doing an episode on The Tomb of...

Welcome to a busy episode.  Sensei Jay joins us as we tackle a common term in karate and one that isn't common but is a little controversial....you'll see. 

Sensei Jay was a guest on an episode called "A Real Fight, A Real Mess" - He re's that link:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/3293584

With the word flight we opened the conversation to a lot of ideas. One of those things was back in 2022 when we did a few episodes on aging:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/11594095

On the la...

I'm not 100% sure how we ended up discussing a lady bandit from 1800s Arizona, but I'm glad we did. What an interesting piece of history. 

We're joined by Sensei Jay - the voice at the beginning and end of our show! Not that familiar with him? Here's one of his first appearances. We talk Archery:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/6125029

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That's right. The first time we talked about time was in January of 2020. Here's that episode if you want a refresher:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/2351981

We also try to  catch up on some listener mail. In case the mention of it makes you want to listen, here are episodes mentioned in our listener mail. 

Back in April, we did an episode on the power of laughter. Here'a a link:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/19060264

And we mention our episode on Yogi Berra (the war hero and baseball player). Li...

Sensei Randy joins us for a look back 30 years to the original Mortal Kombat. Feeling blue and need a laugh? This is the episode for you. 

If you want to see the movie, it  streams on Prime and HBO Max. Or, find a DVD for sale cheap. 

There isn't a lot of need for me to connect other episodes, so I think I'll tag our first movie review ever. Sensei Jackie and I watched it in 2021 - the Karate film Budo: 

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/900748

Enjoy listening and click below if y...

You cannot have too many episodes on character development. Today we're lucky enough to have a new guest, Sensei Chrissy, for a comparison of Native American culture and Goju teachings as they were taught to us by Master Kelljchian. 

We had so much fun and information overflowed the time we had. Of course, we have tackled the code as taught by Master Kelljchian before. I'm going to tag an episode below. However, I'm tagging the one I put on YouTube. (Maybe you don't know I've been uploading old episodes to YouTube - so here's a way to c...

So much to add to this classic episode. We were in our first few months of recording and you can hear that. Still, the content is worth hearing.

Our guest was our friend and fellow Black Belt Sensei Greg Ebenfeld. I mention that he is a Trust and Will Attorney in Broward County Florida. Since, this episode back in 2019, Sensei Jay and I used his services and I 100% recommend him. You can call his office at: 954-430-5644. What he did in his profession, that I didn't expect, was make the event comfortable, and even a little...

Thanks Hanshi, for being so generous to return with answers to questions I amass. Even if you don't train in Goju karate, you'll love these stories. 

First, Hanshi talks about the Urban Legacy Foundation - a scholarship foundation going strong today.  We encourage you to support it. Here's an  email address to get you started:

[email protected]

Our first interview with Hanshi Malanoski was in 2021. Here's the link:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/9551496

One more thing: If time and $ allow, click the link below and show us a lit...

Thanks Sensei Tracey, for hanging out and talking Taoism books with us today. As always, it was a fun. 

During the episode I mention that, as you can see, the word is spelled with a "T" but is said with a "D" - Daoism (as it were). I googled why? It is a simple 1/2 hour search if you're interested. But here are the highlights: a) it was an interpretation of it's time, b) the sound is breathy and lives between our 2 letters - T & D, and finally c) some recent prints have changed the "T" to a "D...

Today's show is probably not as closely focused on karate as usual. During the conversation with Sensei Landyn we got so interested in what he was saying that we lost ourselves in the conversation. 

I hope you do the same. If you followed the show from the beginning, you know that  (now Sensei) Landyn has been an integral part of the show since age 11. It is nice to take a minute to share in his upcoming trip to his University years. 

In a moment of nostalgia, I'll tag our first episode here. You can hear Sen...

Frankly, I'm surprised that we got here too. But here we are. No need to look up critical thinking before you listen- we cover it - in our own way! 

We touch on 3 episodes that have run in the past. One of them was the saying 'Plan your work and work your plan." Here's a link to listen:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/15115807

Another fun conversation involved another saying by Grandmaster Peter Urban about practice:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/10778035

And finally, we touch on adventure. How? Listen and f...

Sensei Derek, Sensei Jackie and I share all kinds of stories about our experiences in  On The Job Training and Education. And we want to hear your experiences. We also add a thing or 2 we found in our reading and we bring it back to karate training. 

I bet you're wondering how I'm going to connect this back to Karate? Listen to the end and see. 

I'm going to attach a link to an episode we did where, at least for part of the time, we talk about the power of adaptation; an important part of...

It's always a pleasure to talk with Hanshi McKinnon. He brought it to my attention that Britain fought WW2 for 2 years before the USA got involved. That is the theme of todays show.

Before you get mad at us for featuring Britain. We've done many shows on USA Warriors involved in WW2. The first one we did was with Sensei Jay about his dad. Here's the episode:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/8329162 

Want to learn more about Hanchi McKinnon? We met him back in 2021. Here's the first interview we did with him:

A friend, Sifu Mike Allen, introduced us to Sensei Victor. What a pleasure to interview him and learn about his background, history and style. Btw - Some great stories are enclosed. One of them includes hitting the makiwara. We did an episode on that. Listen to it here:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/8708384

When we began talking about weapons, we touched on an ancient weapon - the Tinbe-Rochin (Small sword (rochin) and shield (tinbe)). Of course we did an episode that included it. Here is that link: 

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/5877109

The first thing we say as the episode opens is that we love Letter Episodes; exploring ideas and not really sure where the conversation is going to go. The 3 of us talk, laugh and learn. 

The conversation travels all over the place. Let's start with a term used often in America in the dojo - oos (This spelling is a nod to Master Kelljchian. It's commonly spelled osu). Back in 2019, we did a 5 minute short on the word osu and you can listen to it here:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/1979593

During our d...

For the past year or so, we've been trying to create this opportunity to interview Sensei Lasorsa about his father, Frank. There is so much love, laughter and history in this episode. Two of the long stories Sensei told us had to be cut for time. We'll share those in December in our next episode of outtakes. Definitely check out our Insta to see the pic of Frank in WW2. Thanks Sensei, for sharing your dad's story.

As always if you keep reading you can see ways to support our work. Sometimes it's nice just to tell...

In the 7 years of doing this podcast, I've never been "on time" to connect our episode to the holiday that is happening. (For those of you who might be interested - I'd need a bigger staff to pull that off.) 

However, this year, this episode is about Fathers and is airing the Monday before Father's Day! Congratulations to all - us and all dad's who go the distance.

I need to mention that Sensei Jay, who has a story here, has 3 sons. All of them know their dad to be amazing. But time only allowed f...

I love that I don't discard our mistakes. I love sharing them and I especially love the chance to bring back guest stories. We have plenty and here are some of the episodes we're referencing.  In the first few minutes we mention the term wabi sabi. Here's one of our episodes on that:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/16898149

Just in case you missed some episodes in the last 6 months, here are some  that provided the laughter today. Everyone of these qualifies as a favorite.

In no special order we have -

Fe...

This episode was one of our first 10 shows. That was 7 years ago! We're joined by Glenda and we cover many aspects of being prepared to defend yourself - just in case. 

We have done many episodes on Self-Defense. I randomly picked this one to tag in:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/3293584

Sensei Jackie mentions one of Master Kelljchian's favorite sayings about kindness. We did an episode on that in 2025:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/16484256

I wonder if this episode is the one that makes you scroll down and click t...

Welcome to another Letter episode. Today we're with Sensei Derek discussing over-extension, outside blocks and more. During today's discussion we mention that it might be fun to tag an old letter episode into the notes. I decided to tag our first letter episode, which is from 2021:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/8108455

Also, along the way Sensei Derek brings up a great old saying: What we do alot of we become very good at. We did an episode on that. Here it is:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/1891706

I always think of...

We love doing these homages to Master Kelljchian's thoughts and wisdom. This quote is directly related to weapon's dexterity. But, with Sensei Derek's help, we travel all over the place with it. (What else is new!). 

I'll tag 3 episodes here. First off we reviewed Master Kelljchian's book 365 Days of the Warrior in 2021. Here's a link:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/7049776

Much of what we discuss relates back to self-defense. We've done a number of episodes about this subject. This one is from 2020, with Sensei Jay:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/3293584

Back in 2005 Hanshi Malanoski started a blog called That's My Satori and I'm Stickin to It. Today we discuss all kinds of things relating to the blog. We hope you enjoy it. Hanshi has been kind enough to be on the show six times. Our first two times were interview style. Here they are. Part 1:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/9551496

And Part 2:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/9637889

Thanks to Hanshi and thanks to all of you for listening. Want to help support us? Click the link below:

Today we talk with Sensei Jay about the great baseball player, Yogi Berra.

Whenever we have Sensei Jay on there's laughter and good stories. I'm attaching a couple of other episodes that Sensei Jay recorded with us. He did an episode about his dad, also a WW 2 vet back in 2021:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/8329162

And since Master Kelljchian, and his individuality came up a few times in this episode. Here's an episode about him. We recorded it with Sensei Jay in 2020

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/2384333 

Because Yogi B...

Mark Twain said "The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."

Sensei Landyn, Sensei Jackie and I laugh our way through this serious subject (or visa versa).

And to answer the question we asked ourselves - Andrew Stanton and Daniel Gerson wrote Monsters Inc. Congrats on a good job gentlemen. 

This episode was so jam-packed I had to cut a few great stories. You'll have to wait for our 'out-takes' episode in a few weeks to hear more on this. 

Thank you for listening and even considering cl...

A huge thanks to Mike and his dad Ed for hanging out with myself and Sensei Jackie. Thank you. Very much like last week, today's conversation is all over the place. We range from personal stories to our mutual love of self-control (self-discipline). If somehow, you've made it this far into listening and haven't heard our episode on Self-Control as a super-power - you can catch up here:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/8586375

Enjoy listening and thanks for your support. As always - here's the support link jic:

Tagged below is the interview where we met Mike Andrus. That led us to Ed....like our conversation with Mike - our time with Ed covers many subjects. You won't be bored. I thank Ed and Mike for their time and hope you all will get in touch after listening.

Here's the episode with Mike in case you missed it:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/18782978 

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This week we discussed a push blade, infinity knife and sword from India. Sifu Rob Jones is familiar with all 3 and we enjoyed his company and his expertise. We first met Sifu Jones in 2021. Here is our first interview:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/8931796

As the conversation went on, weapons laws in the UK came up. Here's the episode we did on that: 

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/12568140

And finally, we mention Sifu's katana. We have talked about many Japanese swords on this show. Here is the episode with Sifu:

You'll hear right away that we watched this movie Exactly when we needed it. Laughter ensued with our guest Sensei Randy. If you've never met him, here is one of his earliest episodes:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/3554455

I actually did do a minimum of research to help us pick a movie. The research brought me to a site called The Bad Movie Bible. The host is funny and has great clips from all kinds of movies. If you have never heard of it (I hadn't) check out his YouTube page here:

https...

I love when the conversation is so full, it takes two episodes. We start by continuing Sensei Liam's challenge of picking if his example is one of strength or power. Remember to let me know, so I can let him know, if you liked the game and if you agree or disagree with our opinions. 

In this episode, where we talked a lot about internal growth, we also referenced a number of old episodes. Let's start the tags with a recent episode. Sensei Tracey brought up a book that talks about how to harness Fear - especially f...

Sensei Liam is back. He brought the subject of Strength and Power with him. We enjoyed it so much, we've added Part 2 for next week. Today's show focuses on the external applications. But, as usual, we're all over the map. One thing we do is refer to a couple of the other times Sensei Liam joined us. He was on in 2021 talking about the relationship between Obligation and Opportunity. Here it is in case you missed it:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/9763317

One of my favorite episodes with Sensei Liam happened when he applied his...

I'm starting these notes with a shout out to Joy for introducing me to today's guest - Mike Andrus. 

We had so much fun learning about his journey, his Security Company - Safe Day Services, and his style - Systems of Combative Arts. 

Often, when talking to Martial Artists, the subject of self-control comes up. Of course, we did an episode on that. In fact it was one of our first episodes. ! Here's a link:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/1815622

Mr. Andrus and I both have Self-Defense books on Amazon. I've po...

This episode first aired in 2020. In fact it was our 19th episode! (This is our 330th:) Most of the things we mentioned in this episode we have subsequently discussed. Here are a few. When we talked about Judo, we mentioned women in training back at the beginning of the 1900s. (The memory of that episode makes me smile.) Here's a link:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/5247724

We mentioned (and how could you not!) Mas Oyama. Here's the epiosde we reorded on him:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/8895295

And finally, Elvis, and...

A few weeks ago, after recording the Fear episode with Hanshi, we got to talking about his time as a Paratrooper. Unfortunately, I had turned off the recorder. But fortunately, we realized we needed to invite him back to share the stories. I'm tagging in his first interview. (We met in 2021 and he's been a regular on the show ever since. Thank you so  much Hanshi!) Here's his first interview: 

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/8625686

Thanks for listening today and thanks for continuing to scroll down. If you do you can check out the link to...

Sensei Jay joins us today to do a little history and a few personal stories on these terms: Obi, Out of the Line of Fire and One Knuckle Punch. 

Sensei Jay has been on the show quite a few times. One of his first visits is an episode called A Real Fight, A Real Mess. Here it is if you'd like to listen:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/3293584

During our discussions on the belt system, we mention Judo and the founder. Here's a link where we talk about Jigoro Kano:

https://w...

So much going on in today's episode. Let's start with the fact that I'm using opening drumming furnished by the Fushi Daiko Drummers of South Florida. We interviewed the founder, Ben, and here's a link:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/15446850

We touched on alot of old episodes discussing the amazing Sister Linda Sim. One of them, an odd connection, was our show on Audie Murphy. Here's that link:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/14969721

We also touched on aging. Here's one of the episodes we did on that subject:

https...

So much to say here....Let's start with the fact that I'm quoting our guest Hanshi TD McKinnon in the title. Thank you Hanshi. 

Now I'll include a caveat. When we do episodes like this, we're not claiming to have 'the answer' for anyone. We're just old-timers talking about karate concepts. Therefore, if you have great ideas on how you deal with anything we talk about - Please Share with us!!

Hanshi McKinnon has been on the show many times. Here are a few:

We met Hanshi back in 2021. Here is his first i...

Is it possible to spend 20 minutes talking about a 4 letter word and have fun? It is if you're as crazy as we are and the word is Can't. Listen and tell us your stories. Sensei Jay joined us today. At one point, the conversation turned to his dad. Back in 2021, Sensei Jay told us a lot about his dad's military experience. Here's the link:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/8329162 

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