Show Notes
This interview was recorded on June 24, 2018, at the Dojo Bar in Naha Okinawa. http://www.dojobarnaha.com
The interview followed two days of Long Fist Mantis training conducted by the Sifu Yoshida Naotsugu and his Senior Coach John Eusebio.
Yoshida Sifu was born in Tomigusuku Okinawa 41 years ago. At age 9 he began training in Goju Ryu under famed Master Seneha Shigetoshi. At age 12, due to his fathers work, he moved to mainland Japan but returned to Okinawa each summer to live with and train under Seneha Sensei. In his high school years he also began training in Long Fist Mantis Kung Fu under Master Gao Dao Sheng.
The conversation was recorded at he dojo bar it was a little noisy with the World Cup playing in the background and people enjoying their own conversations. Apologies for the parts that are hard to hear but as anyone knows it is these types of settings were we often have the best conversations and sometimes deeper learning than we may actually have while in the dojo.
This podcast is on the long side being over one hour but it was a free flowing conversation accompanied by free flowing Dojo Bar Awamori and I felt it best to leave it is one piece.
Special thank you to James Pankiewicz, owner of the Dojo Bar, and Kancho of the Asato Dojo for hosting us and thereby becoming the unofficial sponsor of this episode.
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