The Martial Arts Podcast: Recent Episodes
Adam Bockler
Adam Bockler hosts The Martial Arts Podcast to chronicle the adventures martial artists have encountered and endured throughout their lives.
With a martial arts career spanning across four different decades, Kim Aldus says martial arts is empowering. Listen NOW to Kim Aldus on The Martial Arts Podcast The multiple-time USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame inductee says helps boost her self-confidence by proving to herself that she can do it. Mrs. Aldus joins me for a… Continue reading Kim Aldus: Martial Arts Is Empowering
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“Karate is a way of life, and it has been for me,” says Jim Price. “It’ll always be that way until the day I die.” Mr. Jim Price is a black belt instructor with more than 40 years of experience in the martial arts, having trained since he was 20. He teaches Mr. Matthew Schell, who… Continue reading Episode 08 – Jim Price: Karate Is My Way of Life
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Get ready to listen to us eat pizza and talk martial arts on this edition of The Martial Arts Podcast. Listen now! This podcast features the Karate-Kung Fu Connection of Eddy Parker and Michael Brand. Sifu Eddy Parker and Couri Fu represent SOCA (School of Combative Arts) in Peoria, Ill., plus Sensei Michael Brand from Brand’s Martial Arts in… Continue reading Episode 07 – The Karate-Kung Fu Connection
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Listen now! Sensei Matthew Schell recently sat down to talk to me about what he feels is missing in modern-day karate that he is instilling in his students. He talks briefly about his instructor, Mr. Jim Price, and Mr. Price’s instructor, Master Phillip Koeppel. Sensei Schell runs Tora Hakutsuru Kan Martial Arts Academyin Morton, Illinois.
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Listen to The Martial Arts Podcast with Dexter Parker Sifu Dexter Parker has been a Peoria martial arts mainstay for more than 40 years. The hung gar kung fu stylist says that kung fu has some answers to the human condition, such as who we are, what we are and why we are. Mr. Parker… Continue reading Episode 05 – Dexter Parker
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Listen now! Mr. Joe Walker is a multiple-time world champion martial artist with more than 54 years of experience. In this podcast, we talk about his start in judo, why judo teachers had more students than karate teachers in the early 1960s and how karate took over, his experience training with Grandmaster Robert Trias, how… Continue reading Episode 04 – Joe Walker
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Listen to this podcast! (right click, Save Link As…) Mr. Eddy Parker opened up with me about a variety of topics: How his uncle trained him old-school in martial arts without him even realizing it until later How he blew people away with kung fu in a sparring tournament Why the martial arts are like a… Continue reading Episode 03 – Eddy Parker
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Look, I’ll be honest. I just started podcasting last month, so I don’t know all of the ins and outs of it yet. But last week, when I tried to push my new episode live, I hit a snag. The post appeared in my FeedBurner feed, but it wasn’t iTunes wasn’t updating appropriately. The link… Continue reading Help! My Podcast Won’t Work Because I Don’t Have An Enclosure Tag
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Listen to this podcast I sit down with Steve Aldus – who teaches me the Chinese martial arts of tai chi chuan and Hsing-i chuan – to talk about what it was like learning martial arts in Hong Kong in the 1970s. We also talk about how, when he came back to America, he was… Continue reading Episode 02 – Steve Aldus – The Martial Arts Podcast
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Listen to this podcast In the first-ever edition of The Martial Arts Podcast, I sit down with my karate instructor, Dave Hawkey. Mr. Hawkey talks about how he got started in martial arts, as well as the types of things he was seeing in Japan, Okinawa and the Philippines in the 1970s. Subscribe on iTunes!
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