Episodes
![212 Master Angelo Collado](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog2227384/ColladosAOM_qg8m99_300x300.png)
Wednesday Mar 20, 2024
212 Master Angelo Collado
Wednesday Mar 20, 2024
Wednesday Mar 20, 2024
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, and has taught internationally in several countries over the years. He founded ASTASIA (ah stah cia) with his son, his tactical and edge weapon system based in kenpo principles. Hear all about it and more on this episode of the Artists of Motion!
![211 Mr. Terry McCord](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog2227384/McCord_300x300.png)
Monday May 10, 2021
211 Mr. Terry McCord
Monday May 10, 2021
Monday May 10, 2021
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 Motion Podcast!
![210 Mr. Todd Durgan](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog2227384/Durgan_pkka_w_back7wb74_300x300.jpg)
Monday May 03, 2021
210 Mr. Todd Durgan
Monday May 03, 2021
Monday May 03, 2021
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 are training aids for kenpo systems, and is presently working on the followup to his Constituents of Contact Manipulation” book he released a few years ago.
![209 David Caban - Sensei](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog2227384/Caban_300x300.jpg)
Monday Apr 26, 2021
209 David Caban - Sensei
Monday Apr 26, 2021
Monday Apr 26, 2021
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 outside his dojo, so we’ll apologize in advance if we have some connectivity shenanigans. Enjoy the episode and if you're ever in Colorado Springs, look him up!
![208 "Coach V" Viran Ranasinghe](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog2227384/Viran_300x300.jpg)
Monday Apr 19, 2021
208 "Coach V" Viran Ranasinghe
Monday Apr 19, 2021
Monday Apr 19, 2021
Our featured guest today is “Coach V” aka Viran Ranasinghe out of Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. Primarily focused training and teaching Tang Soo Do and Kenpo, he oversees a large school with multiple disciplines taught every week. He’s a distance runner in his spare time with a degree in Business.
![207 Hanshi Jon Rodriguez](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog2227384/Jon_300x300.jpg)
Monday Apr 12, 2021
207 Hanshi Jon Rodriguez
Monday Apr 12, 2021
Monday Apr 12, 2021
Season 2 Episode 7 features Jon Rodriguez - Hanshi. He is the Certified Chief Instructor of the Contra Costa Budokan, and the senior student aka Senpai of Seibukan Jujutsu. Jon holds advanced black belt level degrees in several martial arts and has been actively training and teaching since the early 2000's. We have a great chat covering a wide variety of subjects relative to his training and the life lessons he has received from his efforts learning various systems of martial arts.
![206 Grand Master Michael Persons](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog2227384/persons_300x300.png)
Monday Apr 05, 2021
206 Grand Master Michael Persons
Monday Apr 05, 2021
Monday Apr 05, 2021
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 Carolina. Hear about his journey, what he's doing today with 7 Winds Kenpo, and the fantastic books he's written and those soon to be published.
![205 Michael Miller](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog2227384/brotherhoodmiller_300x300.jpg)
Monday Mar 29, 2021
205 Michael Miller
Monday Mar 29, 2021
Monday Mar 29, 2021
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 trained with Joe Lewis for the last four years of Joe's life. I had a blast chatting with Michael, get to hear about his writing projects and about how martial arts have influenced so much of his life outside the dojo. Enjoy this episode, it was a fantastic conversation!
![204 Sr. Professor Martin Seck](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog2227384/seck_300x300.jpg)
Monday Mar 22, 2021
204 Sr. Professor Martin Seck
Monday Mar 22, 2021
Monday Mar 22, 2021
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 Seck.
![203 Shihan James Knudson](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog2227384/Knudson_300x300.jpg)
Monday Mar 15, 2021
203 Shihan James Knudson
Monday Mar 15, 2021
Monday Mar 15, 2021
From beautiful Anchorage, Alaska USA we bring you James Knudson - Shihan from Seibukan Jujutsu of Anchorage. James has studied several arts and we cover a wide range of topics from his experience in business as well as martial studies. Look him up if you're looking for construction work or solid martial arts training in the Anchorage, AK area.