Hombu Dojo Podcast
HDKI headquarters instructors Ross and Ru discuss their karate lives and their karate adventures.
Displaying 3 items of Hombu Dojo Podcast with the tag "self defense".
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Episode 19: Let the boy wear his Batman t-shirts
13 January 2020 | 1 hr 23 mins
adventure, aikido, anime, attack on titan, batman, chat, conor mcgregor, dragonball z, fun, hdki karate, japan, john kavanagh, journey, karate, lithuania, martial arts, mma, portland, rokas, self defense, shotokan, spear, straight blast gym, switzerland, training, uchi deshi
Rokas has found viral fame through YouTube with his "Aikido vs. MMA" video. 100k subscribers later, Rokas shares his story through his channel "Martial Arts Journey". He came to the dojo with a sore ankle and we had an amazing time talking to him. This is a fun and insightful episode.
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Episode 13: There's a guy in your way and then pain happens.
2 September 2019 | 44 mins 30 secs
black belt, bunkai, christian oygarden, dave hazard, dojo, dublin, england, fails, grading, hdki karate, hombu dojo, iain abernethy, karate, kata, kihon, kumite, martial arts, nidan, norway, ohio, 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 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!