In today's episode my good friend Sandy Sbrissa and I talk about tournaments. Why you should consider doing tournaments, how to prepare for tournaments and as coaches instructors what we feel are the characteristics required to be successful at tournaments. We also take a trip down memory lane to discuss some of the tournaments we competed in and frankly how tournaments have changed over the years. Get your best Gi ready, dust off your sparring gear and get ready for some tournaments talk……

In this episode my good friend and all around great martial artist Aaron and I talk about movies. In fact, we talk about some of our favourite martial arts movies. Movies that are guilty pleasures and others that actually inspired us to start our journey in the martial arts. If you are a karate or martial arts enthusiast like we are the truth is you can't go wrong with any of these movies. You'll get a "kick" out of watching each of them.

Today were talking about books. Specifically books on karate and martial arts. Not only are we discussing six books that every martial arts should have in the library, we also talk about why, as a martial artist, you should read these books and the benefit you will get from them. Kick back, relax and maybe get your reading glasses ready.

So maybe you're feeling stuck. You've been training for a while and you've had a roadblock. Or maybe you're training for something, a grading, a black belt test maybe a tournament and you just need that extra boost. In this episode we take you through six different things you can do to quickly improve and enhance your karate training. Like many other things in karate though, these tools can be taken and used in other parts of your day to day life.

Hey everyone, here's our very first episode of the brand new Canadian Dojo Podcast. Why have I decided to start a podcast on all things karate? You'll have to tune in to find out the answer.