Whistlekick Martial Arts Radio Podcast #359: McDojo
Channel: whistlekick
Date: 03/01/2019

On today’s episode, Jeremy talks about one of the more intriguing topics in the martial arts, the McDojo paradox.

A McDojo is generally known in the martial arts world that has low standards for promotion and its high prices. Although one is free to identify one for himself,  it poses many questions as well such as is it right to label a school a mcdojo or is there an ultimate authority for martial arts to categorize a school as such? On this episode, Jeremy talks about the McDojo Paradox. If you are interested, listen to find out more!

Jeremy Lesniak:

Hey, what’s up everybody?  Welcome! This is whistlekick Martial Arts Radio episode 359.  Today, we are talking about The Paradox of McDojos.  My name is Jeremy Lesniak.  I’m your host for the show.  I’m the founder of Whistle Kick, and I love the martial arts, and that’s why I do this show twice a week.  That’s why Whistle Kick is a thing.  That’s why we do all the other projects that we do here at Whistle Kick.  If you want to check out what we do, the best place to start is whistlekick.com.  You can see everything that we do from there.  Or if you just want to skip right to show notes and transcripts for this podcast, you can find those at whistlekickmartialartsradio.com.  And while we do offer many of our products on Amazon, if you head on over to whistlekick.com, you can save 15% using the code podcast15.  So what’s a mcdojo?  Well back on episode 119, with sensei Robert Ingram, we’ve talked about mcdojos.  And of course, you may not know him by that name, but you may know him from his social media brand McDojo Life.  And, sensei Ingram and I have had the opportunity to talk on a number of occasions most of which were not part of an episode.  But ever since we put that show to bed, I’ve has this idea rattling around at the back of my head, that there is something deeper to the idea of a mcdojo.  Something that we really need to be aware of that we don’t really talk about.  That’s why this episode is titled The Paradox of McDojos.  First, I do want to apologize, ok?  Um, I’m a little bit under the weather.  You might hear it in my voice.  I’m gonna do my best to not cough and of course if I do cough were are probably gonna chop all that out.  But it is affecting my thought process a little bit and is affecting my voice.  Got some phlegm going on. Um, but I was ready to talk about this and I’ve found over the years that when I’m ready to tackle a subject, it’s best not to wait.  So I’m not waiting.  We’re talking about it now.  Here we go.