![]() ![]() You're not just going to sit around doing nothing so I was working in a sandpaper factory, hated it and it was more my attitude than it was the job although the job wasn’t that great either. The real story, my wife only found out about it a few years ago and I'm not going to get into that just for legal reasons but, suffice it to say, when I was 20, a buddy of mine and I, I was working in a sandpaper factory and my life basically felt like it had no meaning, no purpose, no direction and I was one of 8, one of 10 kids, but my mom had 8 miscarriages so my brother and I were the only 2 that lived and so I had this feeling that my life has some greater purpose than working in a sandpaper factory and I had dropped out of college because I really didn’t know what I wanted to study and I didn’t want to waste my parents’ money because they were going to pay for it while I was there and they had a rule, either you're working or you're in college. you didn’t just start training a couple years ago. ![]() How do you get from, instead of asking you how you ended up in martial arts, I'm going to guess there’s some overlap in there. That idea of efficiency definitely shows up in the martial arts and that’s why I see that pattern in the brain definitely correlates between the 2.Ībsolutely. As a software tester, you got to figure out where's the breakage, how do I test through and hit the biggest impact with the least effort. There's user interface, authentication, there's always things that go on authentication and all these different types of handshakes then we go into query bases and databases and we’re pulling off what we got 8 layers of the layer cake, of all these different stuff. I used to test software for a company called Lexus Next and it's legal research software. Being able to discipline your body, thinking a certain way, the flow of martial arts and being able to do that in the technical sense because you have to be able to move through. Yeah, I think it partly must be just the way the mind works to deal with the processing and the layering and this sort of, they correlate. ![]() I was in IT and I should probably have somebody go through and figure out what percentage of guests have jobs in IT. I don’t know what it is but that was my background before whistlekick. Here we have another martial artist on the show who works in IT. Right, martial arts, we learn to change and adapt in battle. I used to work in software testing when I had a non-martial arts job and I know the exigencies and “joys” of technology and the layers of how things don’t always talk to each other and handshake and oh, hey, it was a misfire here, cool, let’s just figure it out. ![]() We didn’t do a great job the first time we had you scheduled and bobbled some things and dropped some balls that were being juggled and I appreciate your willingness to come back. Hey, I'm excited too and I want to publicly apologize for a situation that the listeners wouldn’t’ve even known about but when I mess up, I own it. Hey Jeremy, great to be here! I am very excited for this conversation. Sifu Roadruck, welcome to whistlekick martial arts radio. He has a way about him that I found really compelling and I'm sure you're going to enjoy this episode so let’s do it. Today’s guest, Sifu Roadruck, comes to us as a recording pro and gives us, what I can only describe, as a clinic on things that most of us are going to be concerned about with regard to martial arts. We’ve got some video stuff over there on YouTube too. Remember, we bring you this show twice a week and you can find audio, not only at but in your podcast app, in our podcast app or even on YouTube. That’s going to get you 15% off the new hooded sweatshirt or t-shirt or anything that you might find interesting. If you consider what you do to be traditional martial arts, we’re probably not going to tell you you're wrong and that’s why we do everything we do and you can see everything that we do at and if you happen to wander into our store over there, you can use the code PODCAST15. Why do we say traditional martial arts? Because we’re including everything. I'm Jeremy Lesniak, host for the show, founder at whistlekick and a devout., passionate follower, devotee of the traditional martial arts. Today, I'm joined by my guest, Sifu Jeremy Roadruck. Hello there, welcome! This is whistlekick martial arts radio episode 446. You can read the show notes below or download it here. You may find more about Sensei Jeremy Roadruck on his Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube channel.If you are interested in The Parenting Program, you may visit their website or listen to the podcast! Show Notes ![]()
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