Hombu Dojo Podcast
HDKI Ireland instructors Ross and Ru discuss their karate lives and their karate adventures.
Displaying 4 items of Hombu Dojo Podcast with the tag "fails".
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Episode 13: There's a guy in your way and then pain happens.
2 September 2019 | 44 mins 30 secs
England, Norway, Ohio, black belt, bunkai, christian oygarden, dave hazard, dojo, dublin, fails, grading, hdki karate, hombu dojo, iain abernethy, karate, kata, kihon, kumite, martial arts, nidan, paul uren, ross stewart, ru mew, scott langley, self defense, shotokan, training, yondan
Christian Oygarden and Paul Uren share their very insightful views on kata, bunkai, and developing as a middle-aged karateka. Besides all the wealth of karate wisdom shared herein, this episode also contains a very bad and slightly offensive Iain Abernethy impersonation.
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Episode 12: Great vengeance and furious anger!
26 August 2019 | 45 mins 32 secs
Ohio, black belt, customer service, dojo, dublin, fails, fitness, grading, hdki karate, hombu dojo, karate, kata, kids, kihon, kumite, martial arts, nidan, parents, ross stewart, ru mew, scott langley, shotokan, tabata, training, yondan
With Kevin Downard Sensei from Ohio, our current intern, we talk about getting out students ready for grading and dealing with difficult parents.
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Episode 10: Competition!
26 July 2019 | 1 hr 23 secs
Strategy, competition, confidence, fails, fitness, gyaku zuki, hdki, hdki karate, hombu dojo, karate, ross stewart, ru mew, scott langley, shotokan, skif, squad, tactics, team, training, well being
After our annual national championship, we sat down for a good long chat about the competition itself, about the competing spirit, and training for competitions.
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Episode 9: Tommy Sensei joins us for beers and karate banter
24 July 2019 | 41 mins 45 secs
fails, guinness, jesse enkamp, karate, kata, richard amos, rick hotton, ross stewart, ru mew, scott langley, self defense, sensei, shotokan, shu ha ri, steve ubl, tommy butler
Episode 9 is a direct continuation of episode 8. These two episodes go together. After Tommy had finished training he went for a beer run and then sat down and joined the discussion. We covered a lot, including Shu-Ha-Ri, kata applications, self-defense and of course the fails of the week!