Episode 713 - Rapid Fire Q&A #15
In this episode, Jeremy and co-host Andrew Adams take on another iteration of the Rapid Fire Question and Answers.
Rapid Fire Q&A #15 - Episode 713
Jeremy and co-host Andrew Adams tackle a series of questions from you, the listeners, and some guests in the form of a Rapid Fire Q&A. Here are the questions they tried to answer:
What are things to do with awards and medals from competitions other than taking space on the shelf and collecting dust?
Do you still have belts that are no longer your rank in the associated style?
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After listening to the questions and answers, it would be exciting for us to know your thoughts about it. Don’t forget to drop them in the comment section below!
Show Transcript
You can read the transcript below.
Jeremy Lesniak:
Hey, what's going on everybody? Welcome. This is whistlekick Martial Arts Radio episode, we're not sure, but it is Q&A number 15. We don't know where these episodes are anymore because sometimes they come out in a different order. And we said, you know what? Let's give ourselves the flexibility. Who's we? Well, it's me, Jeremy Lesniak and co-host Andrew Adams, what's going on Andrew, nice job wearing the same shirt, nice shirt totally unprepared, or both. We don't coordinate this stuff. But we're both wearing our free training day 2021 shirt. So yeah, if you're new to this show, and what we do at whistlekick, I would encourage you to start at whistlekick.com That's where you're gonna find all the stuff that we make, and we produce things like this show. First Cup, our books, there's a lot going on over there. And if you use the code PODCAST15 in the store at whistlekick.com to save 15%. And you'll help support the show.
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Andrew. Q&A time. We, you know, have been together for a few weeks. So it has been felt alive though. It's not live, because we have normally we're normally in person when we do them. So there's been some chaos, right? Like we had all in the weekend a couple weeks ago and leading up to and after that. There's just been a lot going on. And you know, this is one of those places that a lot of shows will say we're gonna go on hiatus. We've never been on hiatus. No, we don't do hiatus. We recorded an episode that has already aired right by the time this comes out. The episode we recorded last week with me. Practically feeling like I was in a coma of illness. I believe it will be last week's episode. Okay. I dragged myself out of bed so we could record an episode and kick the can another week. Because we don't go on hiatus. Yeah, but here we are the 15th installment of the q&a format. And the Live is fun. But my favorite part is, it's just kind of the way you sit there, playfully hoping for me to fail.
That's not through watching a clock. So this past weekend, as we're recording this, I went to a tournament, which was the first time in 25 years. And so I chose a couple of questions today from my list of questions sent in from people, a couple of which have to do with tournaments. So I thought that would be kind of fun. By the way, he did well, I took third and a fourth. I don't know if that's well. I don't care about your placement because you can't control how anybody else does. That's fair. You Andrew did well. You certainly did well in the videos, you did well. Yeah, I was pleased.
Andrew Adams:
Okay, so this first question comes from Chris [00:04:53-00:04:55]. And the question is what are things to do with trophies and medals from competitions, other than letting them collect dust and take up room on shelves?
Jeremy Lesniak:
So there are a handful of things that people do. Back when I was competing heavily in my teams, I had a number of contemporaries who would donate the trophies to their school for their schools, like in house tournaments. Maybe they'd, you know, maybe if they pop a plaque off if they'd had a plaque indicating, like, what the event was. And as an aside, this is why when we had a tournament in 2016, we bought really, really nice metals, because metals don't take as much room. I have played with the idea of some kind of trophy swap in a buyback sort of website. But the cost of shipping them just doesn't work any more, like the economics that would make it work. By the time you're shipping the man it doesn't work. I know people who will take off the piece that says, you know, oh, this tournament this year, you are in this place, and they throw them away. It's been a long time since I've seen a trophy that was made of anything but plastic back in the 80s. When I started, you know, I'm sure these are still at my mother's house, their trophies to have marble bases. They were really nice.
Yeah, I'm looking at some right now actually, yeah, back when I was a kid, because I still have them, and guess what they're doing their best to go. I think that I think this is where we need to recognize that just because something exists, just because you earn something doesn't mean that you need to retain it in its totality as a memory, or to validate that, I don't know anybody who's ever said, I don't believe that you were second place that tournament. And then they ran home and they grabbed that trophy and sent a picture. Now I'm sure it's happened. But it doesn't really matter. Probably doesn't matter. And that's where if it does matter, you save the piece off the front. Or maybe you take pictures of them, and then you throw them away. Most of my trophies that I've acquired over, you know, my adult life have ended up in the trash. Because I look at them, and they're collecting dust.
I don't have a good way to display them. So if what you need Chris or anyone else is my permission, not that my permission is irrelevant, but if that's what you want, it's my permission to throw them away. You have my permission, throw them away. Now if you want to have fun with them, you aren't going to throw them away. This is where they become great weapons practice targets.
Andrew Adams:
Yeah. So like, his question was twofold, like, you know, is there when we read it exactly, is one of the things you can do with them other than collecting dust, throwing them away is actually one idea. I like the idea of taking the plaque off. Maybe saving that making a huge, like plaque thing you can put these little plaques on that's kind of neat. Donating them for other things is a great idea. I actually have a friend. We know this, you know this mutual friend as well. Daniel [00:08:42-00:08:44] used to run a soapbox derby. And I don't mean like you build a little like th8 like the Boy Scout one I'm talking about. You sit in this and you are good down, right. And he would take all the trophies and like spray paint them and like all funky colors and like glued other things on them to make them look gaudy. And fun, right? And that was the trophy you'd win for the soapbox derby. It was just an old martial art trophy. Like you know, and so we've got reused. And you know, maybe eventually it'll get thrown away at some point, but at least, you know, it saved them a little bit of money having to go out and buy a bunch of new trophies. So I like the idea of donating to some other cause.
Jeremy Lesniak:
And if you're handy and like a DIY person, you know, there's dramatic differences in the quality of trophies, you may find that some of the flourishes on some of the larger event trophies aren't plastic, you know, you might have like, like an open winged Eagle. And that piece happens to be made out of you know, some chintzy metal. Well, you might have four to six of those across a few trophies. That could be a coat rack. Or you know a tie rack or something you know because they all have holes, screwing from the back mountain and now you can hang hats. I don't know anything. Yeah, hanging hats like that were there. It doesn't fit over my headphones. That's okay. How big of a hat would it be to fit over my head? That's a big hat. All right, moving on.
Andrew Adams:
So that's good. I mean, it is okay to throw things away. But if you can reuse them in some way, even better.
Jeremy Lesniak:
Now, something that a lot of people don't know. And I know this from hosting tournaments, working with tournament promoters, etc. A lot of tournaments that do trophies, they do not put those little plaques on ahead of time. You go pick up your plaque and your trophy or and they say no, you put it on, or they'll put it on for you. You don't have to take the trophy. Because a lot of those bands will do similar trophies next year. Interesting. Okay. I know people who don't take their trophies. Some of them take their plaques. Some of them don't care.
Andrew Adams:
Yeah, it gets to a point where when you start to get so many of them, it gets to be a burden.
Jeremy Lesniak:
You know, I like riding back from Hartford, and a Dodge Caravan. Four of us were three, five and a half feet tall because we were questioning my height because it was so close to how tall I was. And I had one arm on it, because I just couldn't. Yeah. Like, where do I go in this? And it was a long drive back to me. So all right, good job. promoters. Stop buying and distributing crummy, really tall trophies. Nobody loves you for that. If you want to do a few grams, I get it. It's fine. Her wallet is smaller trophies, and they will stick around.
Andrew Adams:
Yeah, yeah. For grams. And certainly, if it's your first one winning like that does kind of mean something. At the tournament. This weekend, everybody won medals. And they only had big trophies. And they were four and a half five feet tall just for grants.
Jeremy Lesniak:
Really nice medals.
Andrew Adams:
Yeah, they were. I'd show you but I don't have more here. All right, let's talk about Patreon. A little bit more like we kind of know, I jokingly had the subliminal message. Right?
Jeremy Lesniak:
Where's the one? I think I tossed the episode last week.
Andrew Adams:
But we give stuff like people don't. Sometimes I think they don't realize what they really get. Like, it's not just you contributing a little bit of money to help the show continue, which, let's be honest. That's what happens. Like if permissions allow the show to continue to happen.
Jeremy Lesniak:
If people want to think of it as a donation, that's fine. It's totally fine. I don't mind that. But that's not how I'm built. I don't want to put a tip jar out. Yeah. And actually, there is a tip jar at Marshall at whistlekickmartialartsradio.com. Like, somebody wants to relate, I don't want to buy anything. I just want to give you money, can I do this? And we set it. I think it's literally the only time that's happened. And that's fine, if that's what works for people, right? Because one of my fundamental rules in business is I don't turn down money. I would be a bad business person by turning out money. Sure. But on the road to making whistlekick profitable, you know, there we need to collect revenue from a lot of different places, because that gives us more time to scale all the things that we do, you know, the show continues to grow and the more money we have coming in, the less money I have to find out of my own pockets to put in to keep things running. Not that this is a complicated endeavor, but it still costs money.
So we look at you know, what is it that people would pay for and we I don't think we've run through the list recently, but I'll run through the list. So $2 you get a weekly update, that weekly update is who's coming up on the show, sometimes I'll post other things. Here's what's going on at whistle kick. You know, it's to show focus because the contributors seem to be so focused. But if you want to know when we hint about a big upcoming guest on the First Cup or something, who that is, that's where you're gonna find out. And it's $2 a month. At the $5 and up tiers, you start to get physical rewards, stickers and shirts and things like that. Coming back at you. If $5 you get a bonus audio episode every month. At $10 you get a bone This video episode every month and the audio, and you know that, yeah, it's all it's all cumulative, right? Next year is 25. And you get drafts of upcoming books.
So like the first people to read martial arts handbooks where people on Patreon, when we roll out a new program, we throw that program for free to those people that $25 tier. And when you figure we've released like $400 of programs that covers more than a year of Patreon. Yeah, that's all the other stuff at 50 and $100, you get access to the school owners mastermind group that we run. And if you don't have a school, we're working on a non-school owner's sort of mastermind, but worst case, I'll train you. I'll coach you. I will find a way to use that. Thanks for your contribution.
Andrew Adams:
Yeah, it's to me, it's about supporting the things that you love. And I first became a Patreon subscriber not to whistle kick of another podcast network, because it was valued. It was something that I valued, like it, I listened to it so much. And it gave me so much joy, that it was worth it to me to give them five bucks a month. Because it was I was supporting something that I loved, you know. And it gives me joy to know that I'm doing that.
Jeremy Lesniak:
You've mentioned before that you still contribute to the whistlekick, Patreon because you still listen to the shows and you still find value in and we're doing something right? If that's what's going on for you. And then looking again at the fact that it is so rare, we lose a Patreon contributor, you know, Patreon gives us a graph when we log in, and it's just a steady upward line. You know, it's not big money, but it helps. It really does help.
Andrew Adams:
One of the last things about Patreon I like being a subscriber because I get these stickers and you can't see them. I mean, I can maybe move the camera around my head. But over here on my right I've got my printer. And I've got all my wins covered when we have meetings. I see it's covered. Yeah, it's pretty funny.
Jeremy Lesniak:
If you like stickers are one of the common rewards in the merch. You get quarterly merch rewards. Yeah. When we added that we didn't raise the price.
Andrew Adams:
Question number two question two we just talked about and I just reordered that I wasn't going to ask this question this week. But this month, since we just talked about it's okay to throw things away. Right. We talked about the trophies. Another question from Chris. He must have been on a tournament minders mindset as well. Do you still have your belts that are no longer your rank in the associated style? Or conversely, not shown on Black Belt rank but all your other belts from when you were a kid?
Jeremy Lesniak:
So let's keep in mind, I have used the same belt since I was 16. I earned my first degree at 16. I've used the same belt. It is a star, it's a good belt. It's just now starting to show signs and we really show signs. I'm careful when I tie it up I don't I suspect my mother has my karate belts in college I think the only belt I have from college is my shoulder con brown belt which is somewhere like Campbell belts are up there you know I've worn the same white belt when I've gone to New Schools quite a few times. It's a cheap way out. If I was actively training in multiple schools, where I had different ranks, I would very much see value in holding on to those belts. I'm a sentimental person. I understand that belt. is just about it's a piece of cloth really doesn't mean anything? But it does mean something to me. Those belts that I have that are not, you know, right there I'm nodding my head because this is where I keep my current martial arts stuff, whatever. It's still around, it's just, you know, in a box in the garage. I'm not throwing any of them away.
Unless I am never training at that school again. And there are a couple places I've trained where I've never trained. That's cool. Yeah. I don't need those belts anymore. And those belts, if they're useful, you know, hey, you guys do purple belt at your school. Right? Here's the size for you know, I try not to throw things away in general. Yeah, I mean, I guess it's just that you built me more than trophies. Oh, 100%. Which experience? If God forbid, my house started to wash away. My belt, my black belt is the first thing. The most important thing I would grab, I mean, maybe my phone for logistical purposes. But yeah, there are very few things in here that are more valuable to me. Yep. Which explains why you would say throw trophies away. But you yourself feel a personal attachment to your belts, which totally makes sense. And I feel the same way. But I also recognize that it's just about, you know, I think when I first photo trained, I was, you know, younger, and when, okay, I guess everyone's younger.
Think about it, yesterday, I was younger. Anyway, that's a Mitch Hedberg joke. It is a whichever joke. But I was a kid. And I wish I had kept those belts, because I took a number of years off, like, upwards of 10 years. And within that time frame, I don't remember what happened to them, but they are gone with no idea where they are. And when I went to the next school I went to, I didn't have any of my belts.
Andrew Adams:
But the instructor, you know, believed me when I said I had been a brown belt. And so he just got me a brown belt. So I didn't have white, yellow, or any other color belt. And then I got my black belt. And then I took another time, you know, another span of time off. And then when I wanted to go retrain again, my black belt shrunk. Yeah, that's what happened. That's a shame how that happens. You just leave it, you leave it out there on the rack. And it's, you know, I had to buy a new black belt because I didn't have one to wear. And I do wish I had my earlier belts. So, let's talk about reviews. We'll call reviews. So just to remind everyone, there are four places. I am hearing that Spotify is allowing reviews in some cases now.
Jeremy Lesniak:
Oh, cool. So, Spotify was just ratings. At some point. Well, I'll double check Spotify, Apple podcasts, Google reviews, and Facebook. Those are the places that you can leave reviews that are most important. There is no bad place to leave a review. If you listen with a stitcher or pod bean or some alternate podcast player, where they have their own review metrics, please, please leave a review everywhere. The more places you leave reviews, the better it is for us. And we give you a gift certificate to the whistle kick store. If we read your review on the air, and today we have two reviews, just to give you an idea, we don't get a ton of reviews. As evidenced by the fact there's no Facebook review to leave today. So if you were to leave a Facebook review, for next month, it was a pretty good shot. We're gonna read it and you're gonna get a gift certificate. And it's not a $2 gift certificate. It's a $20 gift certificate. So there you go. All right, this first one is from a Google review from Don.
I really enjoy this podcast because they explore so many facets of the martial arts world and the guests are always interesting. I don't know why XL just opened. I am new to the martial arts world and this podcast has given me so many things to think about as I learned my art. Thank you Don. I really appreciate that. Glad you can find the podcast about it. And the second one came in on an Apple podcast. This is from chuckles 72 In a great podcast, I'm rather new to the world of martial arts. And I stumbled onto this podcast. And I am so grateful to guests and discussions have been enriched by study in my approach to karate. Now, those were both left at roughly the same time, there is a chance that both of those are dawn. To me, I'll send you two gift certificates. So, contact Jeremy. Email me, Jeremy@whistlekick.com. We'll get you those gift certificates. Thank you for leaving your reviews. All right.
Andrew Adams:
Are you ready?
Jeremy Lesniak:
I'm ready. Okay. So this doesn't seem like it's the Chris record show. But with the tournament, he just happened to have good questions this week. So he paid you?
Andrew Adams:
No.
Jeremy Lesniak:
He slipped you 20, though. And you said, Chris, I'm only reading your questions from now on, until he figures it out. And I just figured it out. No, you can't sneak one past me.
Andrew Adams:
Question number. What is the hardest part about judging in a competition, I will go both sides, sparring, and more.
Jeremy Lesniak:
All right, sparring, it's the ability to see a whole bunch of things going on at once. Your need to be aware of what everybody's hands and feet are doing, where they are in the ring. And to position yourself in such a way that you are remaining as objective as possible. To observe what's going on. One of the there's a social media account point fighter that they will often put up some really challenging decision videos. And it's you know, it's some manner of clash. Did the backfist get in? Or was it the sidekick, right? Like, and they're really making you think, and I'll sit there and I'll watch these things 20/30 times. And I find it interesting, you know, academics watching this. But at the moment, what like, of competition, if I'm not sure, I'm not making a call. And that's the thing that people need to remember is that you need to be sure what, for example, one of my pet peeves.
Everybody who's ever refereed a tournament has been told. Assuming we're working some kind of point fighting metric here. If you cannot see the technique, land on its target, you cannot call it. And yet, every time I referee I see people in my rank who have more than enough experienced people who should know better, there's no way they could actually see that technique connect with that target. And if you're not 100% sure, or, you know, reasonably sure, close to 100%. Short, you shouldn't be calling it. There's more risk of doing harm by making a bad call and making no call. So that's the sparring side for forms. I used to think of this in a much more complicated way. But I've simplified it, as I've spent more time in the center chair, and helping newer referees get better. Number one, the way you learn the form is irrelevant. Unless you were at a competition, where that is explicitly part of the rules. It's irrelevant. I don't care if you know that person forgot apart, I don't care if you know that move was taught to them as a sidekick and water frontage. It is irrelevant. Do you know that much detail about everybody who's competing? If the answer is no, then you are being unfair to that person. That's number one.
Number two, it all comes back to based on what they demonstrated to you. Who would you less want to get into a fight? Who at the end of the day, if I have two people and I'm like okay, they both did pretty good. You know, the stances on this one. We're pretty good here and on this one over here. You know, I really liked their hand techniques, but I'm not sure. And it feels like it's the same score. What do I want to get out if I fight with less? Oh, definitely this person should win. Because think about all the criteria in which you are scoring the forum, intensity, realism, strength, power, balance. These are all things that make them a more formidable fighter. No, that does not mean that their form would be directly applicable. So they're fighting on the street. But it means it's them showcasing their skill. Right? That's what it is. So when, when, when I've got nothing else to fall back on, that's what I look at. And I've been looking more and more when I score. How true does that hold? And it works really well. Cool. Anything else? Well, I got it? All right. Do you have anything to add? No, I have not judged enough. Hardly ever really to have any sort of answer that would hold any sort of weight.
I mean, because I haven't done it. I can only conjecture when I would think, but for me, when I watch in our school, people do forums, the first thing I'm looking at is stances. You know, it was always said to me early on that, you know, strong stance means strong karate. So I can personally see what I'm looking at, I tend to look down a lot, I will look at people's feet, their feet, tell me almost everything I need to know about what's going on the rest of the body. Yeah. Let's talk about the programs that we run. Okay. So, I don't mean, that's kind of a broad term, because we do so much right. But we have some training programs that I think people might enjoy knowing about if they don't. So one of them is, we're just talking, sparring would be a speed program, right? How we get faster than we talk about these periodically. Because I think it's important to remind people that training and job and training, the way you've always trained is likely to get you the same results you've always had. And that it requires new understanding, new input, new goals, to progress.
And I started learning more about how the body gets faster at things. And it wasn't in the context of martial arts that I was learning this. And it really made me take a step back and say, well, everything we think we know about speed and martial arts is really being taught wrong. And I think we've talked about the speed development program on the show, what we call fast in our whistlekick nomenclature, the FAST program is very different. If you look at it, you would see a tremendous amount of rest time, and very few repetitions. Here's why. Andrew, will you agree with me that the way I train in anything generally becomes the way I perform?
Andrew Adams:
Yeah, I think most people would. Yeah, if you know, most of us have heard. practice makes permanent, right? It's that same idea.
Jeremy Lesniak:
So if I want to get faster, and I work on getting faster, 50 minutes into a 60 minute intense class, and I'm throwing techniques as fast as I can, or those really as fast as I can. They may be as fast as I can at that moment. Yeah, but am I conditioning my body to become faster? Or am I conditioning my body to be mildly competent and have probably pretty bad form? When I'm tired? So unless you go in with some structure to become faster, you're not going to get faster. You may move your average techniques up speed wise, but your capacity for getting faster. You drum right like I've watched you drum, I've watched people drum. There are some drum movements. And we call them movements. rudiments, rudiments. Yeah, that speed is quite relevant, right like that. We're doing things that are quite difficult, and you're doing them with timing. And you'd also teach drumming? Are you going to have someone who's exhausted and they're there? They can barely hold on to the sticks. Work on that stuff at that time? No. Does that benefit them?
Andrew Adams:
No, no. And I often tell them that slow imperfection is still perfect, fast and wrong is still wrong. So we gradually built it up. We don't you know, like you gotta get there eventually.
Jeremy Lesniak:
And this is the heart of the FAST program is recognizing that this is how Progress works. And you can take it, you can plug any technique you want into it. And it's an eight week program and a 12 week program. I don't remember. It's a multi month program. Yeah. And coming out the other side, that technique that you were working on will be significantly faster. The rest of your techniques will be known. Somewhat faster. Yeah. Awesome. And you're available at whistlekick.com.
Andrew Adams:
And you can use a coupon code, you can use the discount.
Jeremy Lesniak:
Sure, can. Maybe the people who left the review will want to use your get your to get on it. There you go. All right. Are you ready for your last and for your final last question of the day we get on? It is not from Chris. Is it from Christina Ricardo?
Andrew Adams:
Oh, no, but that would have been a good No, it's for me, actually. Okay, this is a question and it's not a tournament really. And the question is, I do not expect you to name names. But have you ever recorded an episode and not released it? And what would have caused that to have happened?
Jeremy Lesniak:
With we've started episodes that we pulled the plug on for audio quality. Okay. We've recorded episodes that had to be re-recorded. There is one episode of someone who I think very highly of in the when we recorded it came out great. But it was in the batch of four. In the transition between Skype and zoom. Skype was just like, yeah, we recorded blank, empty audio files. Keep in mind, this was years in the doing that I knew what I was doing. This was Skype being stupid. That's why we switched to zoom. I was able to re-record the other three, this fourth one that person was busy, they've remained busy. I've stopped asking. You know, I think they were probably offended because I wouldn't be too it feels like you've wasted your time. There's a subtext on the question that kind of wonders. Has anybody ever been such a jerk? Or said such terrible things that we didn't put the episode out? The answer's no. And that is because we can always flag it as explicit. If they're, you know, swearing up a storm. We don't bring people on for subject reasons.
You know, like, we're not going to go grab somebody for the purpose of having them talk smack about somebody else. And on the rare occasions when someone wants to start slinging mud, tell them to stop. Because that's not what we do. Now, if I think the most likely reasons that we would not put an episode out after recording a full episode, because for listeners, viewers, if you don't know this, after I record, Andrew does listen or watch, right, so we get a second set of eyes and ears on it. Mostly you're gonna listen to or watch it anyway. And you get the fun of being able to hear the pre and the post conversation. But you're also looking at it and sometimes I'll ask you, like, do you think this part was okay, you know, do you think we were okay here? Right.
So now we've got another opinion on it. And if you said to me, I think we need to talk about this, we would talk about it. And we would decide, you know, do we chop a piece out which we've other than then, you know, audio quality and stuff like we don't do that. We run it as if I could imagine people being jerks. There was one episode once with someone that I very much respect. We grew up together. And at the end of the episode, they emailed me and said, You know, I didn't like the way I spoke about that person. And it was only a couple minutes in the middle. Can we do it again? I really think it was fine. He's like, “You know what? I gotta be honest. Like, I really tried to speak kindly of everyone. I felt like I broke that line for myself”. I'm going to ask you if you're gonna put it out. Don't put that part out or, you know, so we recorded because I wanted him to be comfortable with that. So that's probably the closest to what we're talking about.
Andrew Adams:
Yeah, yeah, makes sense. And I can think of one other instance where a guest said something and then came back and said, you know, what? Can you just believe the name? Like I said the name that you know, like, and I get that people say things and realize, and maybe I'm not comfortable with that.
Jeremy Lesniak:
Because my interview style is very hands off. People just kind of go and they fill space and they talk. And that's a hallmark of the show. I love that we do that. But sometimes it leads people to saying things that maybe they wish they'd said a little bit differently. And we want to be kind to our guests. All right, that's a good question. All right.
Andrew Adams:
That's it for our questions for Q&A.
Jeremy Lesniak:
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