Whistlekick Martial Arts Podcast #316: Nathan Porter
Channel: whistlekick
Date: 06/08/2018

Sensei Nathan Porter is a martial arts practitioner and instructor from Massachusetts. He is the founder of Rising Storm Training Academy.

When you are a kid whose fascination with the martial arts ranks as high as toys and candy, it would certainly be a treat to wear a uniform and train in a dojo. However, Sensei Nathan Porter had no access to martial arts training as a young child. As he stepped into high school, Sensei Porter started his training in different disciplines and eventually started his own school at the age of 20. Sensei Nathan Porter has an admirable passion for teaching martial arts and it’s certainly the center of his life. Listen to learn more!

Jeremy Lesniak:

Hey there thanks for dropping by this is whistlekickmartialartsradio episode 316. Today I’m joined by Sensei Nathan Porter. If you’re new to the show I’m Jeremy Lesniak I’m the host of the show I’m the founder whistlekick where we make sparring gear and apparel and a whole bunch of other stuff that you can check out online whistlekick.com, Amazon maybe at your own martial arts school. You know a lotta stuff going on. Let’s talk about today, let’s talk about Sensei Nathan Porter. I had the opportunity to watch him and then train with him over a couple years at Master Terry Dow‘s symposium his weekend long training event. I saw him last year Sensei Porter that is working with quite a few different people primarily children and some of the more acrobatics that are adjacent sometimes smack in the middle of martial arts and I loved his energy. Well this year I made sure that I took his class loved it had a great time wonderful instructor wonderful energy and I just had this gut feeling cause after 300 something episodes you can get a gut feeling that he would make a great guest well guess what he said yes when I invited him on. We scheduled, he came on and it was great. This is a wonderful episode I had a lot of fun he’s a really thoughtful person and I’m sure you’re going to enjoy it as well. So sit back as we welcome Sensei Nathan Porter. Hello Sensei Porter how are you?