Episode 99 - “A walk through the martial forest” With Sensei Russ Smith & Sensei Marcus Davila

About this episode

The episode features a discussion with Sensei Russ Smith and Sensei Marcus Davila about various aspects of martial arts and their new podcast.

In this episode we’re joined once again by Sensei Russ Smith and Sensei Marcus Davila, who have now started their own fantastic podcast. We talk about teaching, testing, kata, self defence and much much more. Always a pleasure chatting and learning from both of these guys, we hope you enjoy it as much as we did. Sensei Russ also has a new book out which is highly recommended (link below) https://www.burinkan.org/burinkan/Books.aspx Socials and Merch https://www.instagram.com/glynham1990 https://www.instagram.com/ conversations_on_karate https://twitter.com/convokarate?s=21 https://www.facebook.com/conversationsonkarate www.conversationsonkarate.com Our training notebook! https://amzn.to/3zTtAwu Our Merch! https://www.teepublic.com/user/conversationsonkarate Buy us a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/KarateConvo Music courtesy of https://www.purple-planet.com

People in this episode

Host: Conversations on Karate

Guests: Sensei Russ Smith, Sensei Marcus Davila

Topics covered

• martial arts
• teaching
• kata
• self defense
• podcasting

Keywords

• karate
• martial forest
• self defense
• kata
• teaching

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Burinkan, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, TeePublic, Purple Planet

Books & works: new book

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