JAMES GIULIANO is the special guest for today’s episode! There needs to be a full Get To Know episode just for this Australian Kata legend, but for now we have brought him in to discuss an exciting new opportunity with Kaizen Culture, and the landscape of kata on the international stage compared to when he was at his peak throughout the 2010s Send us your thoughts to our email and have your say to what we discuss on the show! We would love to hear your feedback! kaizenculture.info@gmail.com Better yet... Sign up to our list to be fully part of the community! https://kaizenculture.org/…

Join in the conversation as we discuss the first National Team Training Camp of the Year and the CONTROVERSIAL new selection criteria for athlete’s selection at the 2025 Oceania Championships! We also touch on the Aussies competing this weekend at the Series A in Larnaca, as well as a BIG update to our Kaizen Culture website. Send us your thoughts to our email and have your say to what we discuss on the show! We would love to hear your feedback! kaizenculture.info@gmail.com Better yet... Sign up to our list to be fully part of the community! https://kaizenculture.org/…

We have so much planned for you to take advantage of in 2025!! Watch Parties, Podcasts, Our September Seminar and more. Tune in to hear all about it as we talk about the year ahead. Plus, despite it being only the first month of the year, Aussies are already overseas competing and the first National Team Training Camp begins tomorrow! Send us your thoughts to our email and have your say to what we discuss on the show! We would love to hear your feedback! kaizenculture.info@gmail.com Better yet... Sign up to our list to be fully part of the community! https://kaizenculture.org/…

After 21 episodes, this is it for 2024! Thank you so much for jumping on board and contributing so much to this amazing karate community! The inaugural Karate World Cup is next week and we refresh everyone on what the competition will look like, how it works and going through the Australian team that will be fighting over there! We even give our picks on which teams will make it through the groups and which country will win it all! Send us your thoughts to our email and have your say to what we discuss on the show! We would love to hear your feedback! kaizenculture.info@gmail.com Better yet... Sign up to our list to be fully part of the community! https://kaizenculture.org/…

We sit down with special guest Hannah Sullivan to revisit a massive week in Victoria last month for Kaizen Culture and Karate Australia. Going through some of the things that went on during the WKF Teams Squad training camp and a bit of insight to how the team is tracking for Pamplona. We also debrief on the Super Seminar weekend! Send us your thoughts to our email and have your say to what we discuss on the show! We would love to hear your feedback! kaizenculture.info@gmail.com Better yet... Sign up to our list to be fully part of the community! https://kaizenculture.org/…

Two of Australia’s young guns, Emily Nguyen and Iris Webb, came away with 5th place from the Cadet, Junior & U21 World Championships! Listen in as we discuss not only their amazing runs from the championships but also highlight some of the other performances from team Australia! We also share our takeaways from Venice and some insight from Sensei Robyn Choi who was there watching. Send us your thoughts to our email and have your say to what we discuss on the show! We would love to hear your feedback! kaizenculture.info@gmail.com Better yet... Sign up to our list to be fully part of the community! https://kaizenculture.org/…

It's time for us to go through each and every Aussie who will be repping the GREEN & GOLD for us all in Venice at the Cadet, Junior & U21 World Championships. The event kicks off next week and we want you all to know exactly who is going, a little bit of insight to the team and maybe some extra bits of advice for the young ones travelling Send us your thoughts to our email and have your say to what we discuss on the show! We would love to hear your feedback! kaizenculture.info@gmail.com Better yet... Sign up to our list to be fully part of the community! https://kaizenculture.org/…

What better way to highlight some of our great Aussie performances at the recent Series A in Salzburg than with the one and only, Shaun Yuen! Mitch & Nathan welcome Shaun onto the podcast to also share his insight from the event, and some of the interesting nuances about the Series A that people may not realise or think about. Junior Worlds is also coming very close. Shaun and Mitch reminisce on their time together representing Australia at Junior World. Send us your thoughts to our email and have your say to what we discuss on the show! We would love to hear your feedback! kaizenculture.info@gmail.com Better yet... Sign up to our list to be fully part of the community! https://kaizenculture.org/…

A couple of Aussies are overseas making their mark on the world stage; Max Noble, Iris Webb, Celia Tran and the ultimate traveller, Shaun Yuen! Salzburg has a new rule change that may go against everything the Series A and Premier League system was so great for. Top 32 are allowed to compete now?! We also have confirmed the sessions for the Super Seminar. Listen in to find out what will be covered and who should be bookmarking this event in their calendars! Less than a month away!! Send us your thoughts to our email and have your say to what we discuss on the show! We would love to hear your feedback! kaizenculture.info@gmail.com Better yet... Sign up to our list to be fully part of the community! https://kaizenculture.org/…

Australia just had its most successful Olympics this year in Paris! We want our sport to be part of that glory too, but will it ever happen? Listen in on this week’s episode as Mitch, Nathan & Jon (welcome back!) go through the ins and outs of our long crusade of becoming an Olympic sport, how well we presented in Tokyo 2020, and why we potentially blew our chances of making it in the games again. Send us your thoughts to our email and have your say to what we discuss on the show! We would love to hear your feedback! kaizenculture.info@gmail.com Better yet... Sign up to our list to be fully part of the community! https://kaizenculture.org/…

This is the first ever episode of our Get To Know series of The Kaizen Culture Pod! We can't think of a more influential and amazing role model of Australian Karate to kick off this series than Michelle (Mish) Wilson. Mitchell sat down and had an insightful chat with Mish at the 2024 National Championships in Geelong. Probably only just scratching the surface with the topics spoken about, but nonetheless Michelle shares her story and some amazing wisdom around what it takes to be an Australian National Karate athlete. Surviving longevity, how the sport can push for more inclusivity, being a successful competitor, dealing with hard times, non-selections and losses, having twins and then coming back to compete for another 8 years at the highest level. Sit back and Get To Know to the wonderful and inspiring Mish Wilson! Send us your thoughts to our email and have your say to what we discuss on the show! We would love to hear your feedback! kaizenculture.info@gmail.com Better yet... Sign up to our list to be fully part of the community! https://kaizenculture.org/…

What a weekend it was in Geelong! Hard to believe the 50th National Championships has come and gone! Tune it to Mitch and Nathan as they discuss some of the big moments from the weekend and wrap up a successful National Championships put on by Karate Victoria, including the spectacle which was the final day! We have a lot to say about how awesome everyone was about Kaizen Culture’s second Nationals, and we chat about the next big thing we have lined up for the karate community! Send us your thoughts to our email and have your say to what we discuss on the show! We would love to hear your feedback! kaizenculture.info@gmail.com Better yet... Sign up to our list to be fully part of the community! https://kaizenculture.org/…

The 50th National Championships is here! Jes Bromley joins us, as we have some more exciting things to share about how Kaizen Culture is going to be there. It’s also a good time to share some comp day rituals and interesting quirks about the mayhem of a National event, and generally just get pumped for a big weekend! Send us your thoughts to our email and have your say to what we discuss on the show! We would love to hear your feedback! kaizenculture.info@gmail.com Better yet... Sign up to our list to be fully part of the community! https://kaizenculture.org/…

The biggest Australian event of the year is 2 weeks away - the 2024 Australian National Championships! Nathan, Mitch and Jon share their travel tips, how to prepare and stay ready for a competition while on the road and their thoughts on an ideal pre-comp training session. The boys also discuss Kaizen Culture’s presence at the National Championships and what you can expect from us. Lastly, Nathan has recently returned from across the Tasman and will share his behind the scenes insights and thoughts on the 2024 New Zealand Open and NZSS Cup. Send us your thoughts to our email and have your say to what we discuss on the show! We would love to hear your feedback! kaizenculture.info@gmail.com Better yet... Sign up to our list to be fully part of the community! https://kaizenculture.org/…

We have had numerous Aussies take part in international training camps and the Kaizen boys feel there has never been a better time to highlight how significant these camps can be to an athlete's development. Listen in as Mitch, Nathan and Jon go through our Aussie representation overseas this last month. The boys then move the conversation to the other side of the world as they talk about the LAST Premier League tournament of the season in Casablanca, Morocco, where the Grand Winners of 2024 were announced, and more goss about the Premier League competition! Send us your thoughts to our email and have your say to what we discuss on the show! We would love to hear your feedback! kaizenculture.info@gmail.com Better yet... Sign up to our list to be fully part of the community! https://kaizenculture.org/…