Welcome to the first part of this year’s Q&A end of year podcast! Thanks to everyone who submitted questions and topics!

In this first part (76 mins) we cover the questions on self-defence, kata history and general training!

The second part will be out soon and it covers questions relating to bunkai and my personal like and dislikes! The third part will cover the future of practical karate,  teaching and miscellaneous questions!

As is something of a tradition with these end of year podcasts, I’ve also included some spoof advertisements :-) All very tongue in cheek!

Thanks for the support of the podcasts and I’ll be back with more very soon!

All the best,

Iain

The crossover podcasts with Wim Demeere and myself are always popular! In this one Wim and I discuss teaching; with a specific emphasis on one-on-one coaching and seminar teaching. Wim does a great deal of one-on-one coaching; whereas I do very little. Conversely, I do lots of seminar teaching; whereas Wim does not teach seminars that often. We therefore had questions for one another about our experiences and relative felids of expertise.

The podcast makes for an interesting listen, which we feel brought out a lot of information that will be useful to all martial arts instructors; particularly those who may wish to branch out from group teaching to also provide one-on-one and seminar instruction.

It’s always great to talk to Wim and I hope you enjoy the podcast!

Welcome to this special cross cover podcast with myself and Wim Demeere! As you will know, Wim and I did a cross over podcast last year where we took listener’s questions. In this podcast, Wim and I discuss our top training tips for martial artists and self-defence practitioners. It was a wide-ranging and fun conversation! I hope you enjoy it!

Check out Wim’s show notes for this podcast here: https://www.wimsblog.com/category/podcast/

It’s been a while since I released the last podcast, but the good news is that I have a number of podcasts recorded which I will be bringing you very soon!

Thanks for your support of the podcasts!

All the best,

Iain

Welcome to the first part of this year’s Q&A end of year podcast! Thanks to everyone who submitted questions and topics!

In this first part (70 mins) we cover all the questions relating to Self-Defence, Training and General Karate.

In the second part (out very soon!) we will cover questions related to: Kata and Bunkai, Stance and Technique, Weapons, and Miscellaneous.

As is something of a tradition with these end of year podcasts, I’ve also included some spoof advertisements :-) A big thanks to Dylan Tucker who also submitted some advertisements. Some of these adverts contain very mild “bad” language. Nothing overly offensive, but it’s probably wise to ensure young children aren’t in earshot.