Episode 37. Staying a Student for Life
The conversation
About Mike Oliver.
Mike Oliver sat down for Kumite Lifestyle. That conversation is episode 37, “Staying a Student for Life”.
Mike is a lifelong martial artist, an Isshinryu karate black belt and a dojo owner in Sacramento, California.
Early in his training, a comment that he had great attention to detail and would make a great sensei one day changed the course of his life. He started paying close attention to how classes were taught.
Mike talks about humility and ego, accepting where you are before you can change it, cross-training in jiu-jitsu, and martial arts that reach beyond the dojo walls.
“you have such great attention to detail”
From the episode
- Accept the way things are before you try to change them.
- One kind comment can change someone's life.
- Your best students are the ones who show up.
- Discipline
- Isshinryu Karate
- Location
- Sacramento, California
- Rank
- Black belt
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