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Sensei Jay  joins the conversation today as we tackle Focus, Fighting Spirit and Fuki Bari (Looking it up? Type in Fuki Bara). What fun! Join us by listening and letting us know your thoughts. We can't talk about focus without bringing up Kimi. We did a whole episode on that. Here's the link: 
https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/8501411
And while we were there we talked about makiwara training. So, of course I had to tag that episode here:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/8708384 
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We're joined by Sensei Jay on our first in a series of episodes about people who have seen war and lived to tell about it. Today it is Audie Murphy. One of the things I wanted to look up and add to the recording was the definition of a military campaign. Since I missed that moment, I'm adding it here. There could be one or two of you who are like me and have heard the term but never thought about it's meaning, here is what I found: A military campaign is a large scale, long duration military plan that is usually part of a larger war. So, now we know.
On to our guest; Sensei Jay is the beginning and end voice on the podcast (Thank you Sensei). He's been on many times. I am tagging one of his first episodes below. In it we take a look at a specific katana called the Masamune Katana that has been lost for over 75 years. Here's the episode:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/5050196

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We appreciate our listeners and thank you for sharing the podcast with friends.  Reach us all over the web. Facebook and twitter are simply wildcatdojo. However, insta is wildcatdojo conversations. (There's a  story there.)
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And for our webpage, where you can also find all the episodes and see some info about the dojo:
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Today Sensei Jackie and I discuss how to get out of our own way - mostly mentally - in a world full of distractions and with a brain that likes to push us around. It is much funnier than it sounds .We touch on aging. So for those of you that missed the aging episodes, here's a link:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/11508081
And you have to touch on meditation to tap into self-control and center yourself. We've done a few episodes on this subject. Here are a couple. In 2020 we did a 5 minute short on how to meditate. Here's the link:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/2567317
And we've done a few episodes about the power of the big, deep breath. Here is one we recorded with Sensei Melissa:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/12326414
If you haven't checked out the content on YouTube yet (I've been uploading old episodes). Here's the 5 min short on that platform:
https://youtu.be/Vm_kUn2HWak?si=SbuWY197Jd1sEdf-
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We appreciate our listeners and thank you for sharing the podcast with friends.  Reach us all over the web. Facebook and twitter are simply wildcatdojo. However, insta is wildcatdojo conversations. (There's a  story there.)
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And for our webpage, where you can also find all the episodes and see some info about the dojo:
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Finally we talk Female Ninja. We're joined by Sensei Lydia, so the conversation is fun and often off topic. Here's a few things we managed to talk about other than these awesome women. Back in 2020 we tackled the subject of Ninja. Here's a link, in case you missed it:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/4401074
The conversation also turned to one of our many favorite weapons - fans! Here is the episode we did on that:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/13396539
And finally, we mentioned I have no idea how??) the episode we did on the movie 3 Ninjas. We did that with our movie friend, Sensei Ben. Here's the link
https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/12974175
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We appreciate our listeners and thank you for sharing the podcast with friends.  Reach us all over the web. Facebook and twitter are simply wildcatdojo. However, insta is wildcatdojo conversations. (There's a  story there.)
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And for our webpage, where you can also find all the episodes and see some info about the dojo:
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We're joined by our old friend Darlene today,  to discuss a quote about experience as a teacher....It relates to us at all ages and stages of life. For example we talk about the fact that a decade ago I created 3 songs for my Pre K students. One was called "Think Before you do it." Sensei Jackie brought it up so I'm tagging it here:
https://youtu.be/34tyQbcSfeI?si=n2F2DXxU53EWAsuT
Did that make you laugh like crazy?
If you like this subject, you can check out our episode on consequences:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/12439186 
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We appreciate our listeners and thank you for sharing the podcast with friends.  Reach us all over the web. Facebook and twitter are simply wildcatdojo. However, insta is wildcatdojo conversations. (There's a  story there.)
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And for our webpage, where you can also find all the episodes and see some info about the dojo:
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A year ago, we did an episode on the National War College (there's a link below, of course). Finally, we're following up with another episode. This time on the Naval War College. It's true we learn about the history, founders, and famous graduates. But seriously - how did we laugh this much! After you listen you can send us some advice on how to be more serious! Or you can click these links and listen to more shows.
Here is the link to the National War College:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/127501
I love that this episode got us to discuss Military Clergy. That gives me the opportunity to tag the interview we did with our friend Sensei Rebekah, also from the military and also in the clergy. She is amazing:
 https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/10974172
On top of all that, strategy came up in this episode. (As it often does.) So....another opportunity to link one of our episodes on strategy. Here ya go:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/6639256
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We appreciate our listeners and thank you for sharing the podcast with friends.  Reach us all over the web. Facebook and twitter are simply wildcatdojo. However, insta is wildcatdojo conversations. (There's a  story there.)
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And for our webpage, where you can also find all the episodes and see some info about the dojo:
http://wildcatdojo.com/025-6/podcast.html .
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In this episode, from Jan of 2020, we're visited by our friend and student Alex. Somehow we get into Mad Libs and Yes it IS an on line game now. Full time listeners may remember that we use months with 5 weeks to share archived episodes.  If you likethese old episodes, I'm in the middle of uploading them to YouTube. Check other episodes (with slide show) here:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wildcatdojo
See ya next week!

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We appreciate our listeners and thank you for sharing the podcast with friends.  Reach us all over the web. Facebook and twitter are simply wildcatdojo. However, insta is wildcatdojo conversations. (There's a  story there.)
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Finishing our trilogy on interviewing your 3 hosts - we finally talked Sensei Jackie into hers. This one includes stories from 'back in the day' and fun thoughts right now. She tries to turn the tables on us a few times by mentioning our interviews. So here are links - in case you missed them. Here's Landyn from back in January:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/14230334
And mine was in Aug. of 2023:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/13436455
She also mentions Sensei Jay (the voice of our intro and exit). He's been on the show many times. One of my favorites is when he talked about his dad's military life. Here's that conversation:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/10656980
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Glad you could be here as we finish our discussion of some words from Grandmaster Urban's book The Karate Dojo. We started last week. (If you missed that episode I tagged the link below). We share information from 2 fine martial artists. This week we read a note sent to me by Master Robert Lasorsa. Coincidentally, we did an episode on a saying he is famous for. Here's a link to that episode: 
https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/11610212
There is so much going on in this episode. One thing is that we refer to how often our episodes are dedicated to character development. So much so, that our first episode was on it! We reran that episode in January of 2022 - jic you missed it: 
https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/9867755
Since this is all about Grandmaster  Peter Urban's writing, I thought it would be fun to offer you the chance to hear more: 
https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/2196104
Thank you for making it this far down the show notes! Read on for the link to "support the show and know that it is appreciated. 

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We appreciate our listeners and thank you for sharing the podcast with friends.  Reach us all over the web. Facebook and twitter are simply wildcatdojo. However, insta is wildcatdojo conversations. (There's a  story there.)
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And for our webpage, where you can also find all the episodes and see some info about the dojo:
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Welcome to our 4th (or 5th?) journey into the content of Grandmaster Peter Urban's book The Karate Dojo. Obviously, we love this book.  Today, with Sensei Rob Carbone,  we're discussing some lines on (or about) page 77. We hope that you enjoy listening as much as  we enjoy recording. (Btw- this ended up being 2 episodes - we'll finish the conversation next week!)
The subject of kata came up - how could it not? And Sensei Jackie remembered that a few years ago Sensei Carbone gave us a video of a kata he built. Haven't seen it? Check it out here:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VETT9qnJoYo
We first tackled this book with 2 episodes on Grandmaster Urbans Guidelines For Self-Analysis. Here's a link to the first one:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/2196104
It's difficult to talk about karate without bringing up the elements. That is another subject we've done several episodes on....Here's the one on Fire/Speed:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/4966106
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We appreciate our listeners and thank you for sharing the podcast with friends.  Reach us all over the web. Facebook and twitter are simply wildcatdojo. However, insta is wildcatdojo conversations. (There's a  story there.)
On YouTube (where we now upload old episodes - complete with a slideshow) 
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And for our webpage, where you can also find all the episodes and see some info about the dojo:
http://wildcatdojo.com/025-6/podcast.html .
And of course, we love it when you support our sponsor Honor Athletics. Here is their link:
https://honor-athletics.com/
Thank you for listening.