Artists of Motion

Coming to us from Vallejo, CA USA is James "Bear" Roberts - Hanshi. Bear runs the Modern Warrior Arts Academy in Vallejo and takes us through his training history and gives us an overview of his Iron Cauldron system he's putting together to help people learn to use their bodies effectively and harness our tremendous internal energy abilities in a positive way. This is a fantastic chat - find Bear at https://www.modernwarriorarts.co...

Our guest this episode is Master of the Arts, Kenpo, Angelo Collado from Southern CA, USA. He’s been in the martial arts since the late 1970s, primarily in the kenpo lineages under notables like the late GM Frank Trejo and GM Yosh Furuya. He’s a 14x winner of the Long Beach International Karate Black Belt Forms competition, 4X IKC Grand Champion and 5x European IKC Champion. He was Inducted into the Masters Hall of Fame in 2000, an...

Mr. Terry McCord grew up in Huntington Beach, CA and started training in 1982, with formal training in several arts. He has studied karate, aikido and later found his calling in the arts in the American Kenpo lineages. Today he runs American Kenpo Consulting out of the great state of Texas, USA. His personal expression has evolved into Direction Method Weapon or DMW Kenpo. Hear about his Journey on a great episode of the Artists of...

Season 2, Episode 10 brings us 2018 Kenpo Karate Hall of Fame Inductee Associate Master Todd M. Durgan from Washington state, USA. Todd has studied several martial arts and is the head  of Phasic Kombatives Integrated. His specialty is in Contact Manipulation and he’s been featured in a couple of books, most recently as of recording date the third edition of the Journey by Tom Bleecker. He’s developed a series of Kenposters which a...

Season 2, Episode 9 brings us Sensei David Caban hailing from Colorado Springs, CO USA. He’s got more than 25 years of training in the martial arts in several different lineages. He’s certified to instruct both Math and Physics at the high school and collegiate level. He’s a veteran with almost 20 years of service with the US Air Force and we thank him greatly for his service. We were recording during a bit of a blizzard going on o...

GM Michael Persons got his start in 1966 in Downey, CA at the kenpo studio owned by GM Joe Dimmick, and trained under that lineage for 36 years. Along with GM Andre Oullette he was one of the first two promoted to 10th Degree Black Belt by Grand Master Joe Dimmick in Sam Pai / 3 Shields Kenpo in May 1996. Today he is a published author, and in the martial arts arena he is the head of 7 Winds Kenpo, teaching privately in South Carol...

He's an International Martial Arts Instructor. He's an author, he's a musician, he's a family man, and he's on the line with us for Season 2, Episode 5...this is Mr. Michael Miller from Pennsylvania, USA. He's owned his school since the early 2000's and has studied under some of the biggest names in American Kenpo, to which he's added training in numerous other disciplines. He was an undefeated amateur boxer, a wrestling coach, and...

He's been in the martial arts since 1975...Korean, Japanese, Chinese, American styles...even Irish Stickfighting. He's done quite a lot of training in his career to date with no stopping point in sight. He's also a blacksmith specializing in historical weaponry recreation. He comes to us from North Carolina, USA and he's here to share his story with us. Tune in for a great episode with a great human being...Sr. Professor Martin Sec...

We are back for Season 2 of the Artists of Motion Podcast featuring Grand Master Ted Sumner from the Tracys Karate lineage of Kenpo! GM Ted Sumner is a member of the Tracy Senior Advisory Board and holds a PhD to add to his martial CV. We have a great time chatting about his history in the martial arts and got to hear some fun stories from his law enforcement career applying his martial arts training live and in living color! We're...