Whistlekick Martial Arts Radio Podcast #310: Donovan Blair
Channel: whistlekick
Date: 2018-07-16

Mr. Donovan Blair is a martial arts instructor and practitioner from Texas. He is the bassist for the rock band, the Toadies.

How often do we hear martial artists start their journies when they see a martial arts movie as a kid? We do get that a lot and our guest today is not that different aside from one thing. Mr. Donovan Blair is a first-degree black belt in taekwondo, an author, and a musician who plays bass for the rock and roll band, the Toadies. Mr. Blair had an ADHD when he was a kid and martial arts helped him with that. He and his brother turned to music and made it a successful career but never leaving the martial arts. Mr. Donovan Blair’s journey to the martial arts has definitely helped him on his journey as a musician. Listen to find out more!

Jeremy Lesniak:

Hey everybody thanks for tuning in, this is whistlekick martial arts radio and we’re back another episode. Today’s episode 310 and were joined, I’m joined by martial artist and musician Mr. Donovan Blair. If you’re new to the show maybe you don’t know my voice I’d love you head on over to whistlekickmartialartsradio.com check out the other 309, wow, crazy number of episodes that we’ve done. On Mondays, we do a conversation interview episode with someone from the martial arts community, on Thursdays we have more of a topic driven show sometimes I’m joined by a guest or multiple guests as we focus on something singular. Might be a topic that’s driving me crazy recently or it could be something that one of you wrote in and said when you think about this? But through it all, twice a week we bring you the best martial arts content we can because we are traditional martial artists and we wanna share that with all of you. Of course the other thing that we share is all the stuff that we make whistlekick.com from protective equipment and training accessories to fun and functional apparel, it’s all in the name of the traditional martial arts the thing that brings us together all over the world, a lot of us and martial artists are great people. I think so that’s why do they show, that’s why I have the best job in the world. There are a lot of martial arts books out there and some of them a really good, some of them are really bad and I hear from a lot of you as you read through these books will it was from a listener writing in talking about a book that today’s guest comes. This listener found the book and they said you know here’s this guy who’s martial artist and a musician and maybe you want to have him on the show. Well, fast forward and we do have them on the show and I have to be honest this was one of my favorite episodes ever. I had such an amazing conversation with Mr. Blair, I was engage we would just we had fun and I think you can hear in his voice too hopefully it comes through in mine. If it doesn’t I’m telling you point-blank, I had a lot of fun but that doesn’t mean that we didn’t get into some great stuff, Mr. Blair was open and authentic and talked about his life and challenges and the ways that music and martial arts connect for him and I found it fascinating. So whether you are a martial artist are not a musician or not, I expect that you’re going to take something from this episode. So without any further ado, here it is.