Episode 1111 - Martial Arts Word Association 16: Road Trip Edition
In this episode, Jeremy and Andrew use a word association game to see if Jeremy can relate random words to martial arts! This time the words are all road trip related!
Martial Arts Word Association 16: Road Trip Edition - Episode 1111
Another episode of “Martial Arts Word Association” where Andrew gives Jeremy a random word that he could connect to martial arts. All of today’s words are road trip related!
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SHOW TRANSCRIPT
Jeremy Lesniak (04:35.349)
Hey, what's going on everybody? Welcome back. It's another episode of Whistlekick Martial Arts Radio, your favorite martial arts podcast. Jeremy Lesniak joined by Andrew Adams. And on today's episode, it's a word association. We haven't done one of these for a while. Andrew says it's a theme. I don't know what the theme is, Andrew, it is.
Andrew Adams (04:53.848)
So the theme is road trip.
Jeremy Lesniak (04:59.507)
not Roadhouse.
Andrew Adams (05:00.545)
not Roadhouse.
Jeremy Lesniak (05:03.027)
Road trip. Road trip the action or road trip the movie with. OK. OK, good. Although I have seen the movie road trip more times than I should because it's not very good. I've seen the movie Roadhouse.
Andrew Adams (05:03.682)
Road trip.
Andrew Adams (05:08.782)
The action.
Andrew Adams (05:16.642)
and I've seen the movie Roadhouse.
Jeremy Lesniak (05:22.538)
It's okay.
Was that the one we did with Craig? Did we do that one with Craig? So for the audience, we did a series of how to fight episodes and we would take a movie and pick like kind of the main combative character. And three of us, we would bring on a guest and we would watch it. And then we would talk about how we would fight that person. And so this one, the Roadhouse one was how to fight Dalton.
Andrew Adams (05:29.61)
Hmm... Class,
Andrew Adams (05:51.788)
Yep. And I don't remember who we did it with.
Jeremy Lesniak (05:54.661)
I don't either. I just remember hair, lots of hair jokes.
Andrew Adams (05:58.595)
Yep. All right, so.
This is gonna be fun. This is gonna be fun. So my wife and I are planning a vacation this summer and we're trying to figure out whether we're going to fly or whether we're going to drive. And so that made me think of this road trip. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, yes, yes and no.
Jeremy Lesniak (06:05.855)
That was fun.
Jeremy Lesniak (06:09.908)
Nice.
Jeremy Lesniak (06:17.813)
I think it depends on where you're going.
Jeremy Lesniak (06:22.889)
You're not driving to England.
Andrew Adams (06:24.814)
Well, that's fair. That's fair. You're right.
Jeremy Lesniak (06:27.197)
You could, but it takes a very long time and you've got to go the wrong way.
Andrew Adams (06:31.34)
Yeah, and everywhere's walking distance if you have the time.
Jeremy Lesniak (06:34.581)
That's very true.
Andrew Adams (06:35.626)
and money. Yeah. All right. So Road Trip Edition Word Association, your first word is GPS.
Jeremy Lesniak (06:42.493)
All right, let's do it.
GPS, Global Positioning System. All right. I was actually just thinking about GPSs.
Last night was watching.
Jeremy Lesniak (07:02.217)
Force Go.
and they're calling in the helicopters. I'm not muted. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what to tell you. That's weird. Okay. I was watching Forrest Gump and just, they're calling in helicopters to come gather up the wounded, but I don't think they had GPS back then. And so I was just kind of thinking through that. Fascinating to me. The idea.
Andrew Adams (07:08.12)
You're muted, I can't hear you. I can't hear you. now I can hear you. You're watching Forrest Gump.
Jeremy Lesniak (07:33.609)
that we can so quickly pinpoint where we are using a, mean, face it, you can get a cheap phone for, you know, 30 bucks, 20 bucks, and know exactly where you are in the world is amazing. That's pretty cool. Even when Wi-Fi and cell signals don't work, GPS works because it's satellite based. Now, how does that relate to martial arts? Because that's what we do here on.
Jeremy Lesniak (08:06.118)
You know where you are.
You know exactly where you are. You may not know where you're going. You may not know where you've been and where you are relate to where you're going. That's something that, I don't know, my headphones are being annoying. That's something that tends to happen as an instructor, right? It usually requires having been there to be able to look at someone's situation and say, I see where you are and where you're going.
But where are you in your martial arts? Where you are supposed to be. Because everyone's journey is different. We've talked about this as the path is the same, but where you put your feet can be dramatically different.
And the more you're trying to find, I am here and I'm supposed to be there, the more frustrated you're going to be.
Andrew Adams (08:59.438)
Mmm.
Jeremy Lesniak (09:01.785)
martial arts is not a strictly academic program. There's no, I've got to graduate in four years. I've got to take these classes. We all show up so dramatically different and martial arts helps us get.
get on a path moving forward. But there's no end point. And there's no, you know, we have generally have rank. But I was just talking about this guesting on somebody else's podcast earlier today.
even within the same school.
Different people do the same things different ways. There's no, you you know this form and you do it fast and you know this form and you do it with power and you're both awesome, but you you've got too much power, so stop doing power and you gotta speed. no, it's such an individualized journey. There is no absolute like GPS.
Andrew Adams (10:01.582)
All right. Yield sign.
Andrew Adams (10:08.974)
In case you're unsure, that's the triangular sign. Red and white.
Jeremy Lesniak (10:13.794)
I'm very, okay, okay.
Small detour. I recently, not a detour sign. Small, you're gonna yield to my detour, my tangent. I recently spent a week in Aruba. Aruba does not have traffic lights. I did see one, it wasn't turned on. You know what Aruba has?
Andrew Adams (10:20.322)
Not a detour sign, yield sign.
Andrew Adams (10:39.756)
My guess is you're gonna say yield signs?
Jeremy Lesniak (10:42.257)
A lot of them. You know why? Because there's only one place on earth that has more of an affinity for roundabouts than Montpelier, where I am, and Keen, where Andrew is. And it's Aruba.
Andrew Adams (10:56.972)
Hmm. Interesting.
Jeremy Lesniak (10:59.615)
Do you know what the directions were every time I went anywhere? In 400 meters, take the something exit off the roundabout. And it was like every four to 800 meters. It was constant. lots of yield signs in my recent history.
Andrew Adams (11:05.902)
There's your room.
Andrew Adams (11:10.478)
That's funny.
Alright, so how to yield sign. Yeah, okay.
Jeremy Lesniak (11:22.609)
everything has to take its place in line.
Jeremy Lesniak (11:29.971)
I've known a lot of martial arts. I've been one of them. I want to learn that new form. I want to learn that new form. I want to learn that new thing. I want to learn that new thing. You haven't refined the 75 other things that you've got. Those have to get better. They have to occupy the right place in your timeline. You can learn this thing, but the more new things you've got, the harder it becomes to go back because you're juggling advanced skills without having refined the skills because generally,
As you improve a form, you're improving certain skills. The refinement of those skills comes with the refinement of the form. And that is, in most martial arts curriculums, how they are placed.
So you've got to yield to your ambitions so you can build your foundation. We've talked about it as building the widest base of the pyramid you can, because that's how you build the tallest building.
Andrew Adams (12:25.806)
Okay, so sticking with the sign theme, what about speed limit signs?
Jeremy Lesniak (12:33.927)
Hmm, speed limit signs.
Jeremy Lesniak (12:40.521)
Theoretically, speed limit signs exist because people who know things say that for the safety of yourself and others, given the road conditions.
That's the fastest you should drive. Let's assume that is true, because otherwise it becomes very difficult to answer this.
Jeremy Lesniak (13:04.295)
a good instructor.
will manage a student's expectations. Expectations, especially early on, tend to revolve around rank, maybe competition, and they tend to be connected with time.
I have students that come to me. Can I you think I'll have this rank by this date? It's possible, maybe.
It's a question of how often you come to class, how hard you work, how much you're doing at home.
Jeremy Lesniak (13:47.327)
We'll see. I'm not telling them no, not telling them yes. If somebody came to me and said, will I have a black belt from you in a year? Probably not. Is it possible with our curriculum? Yeah, but you're probably not working a job. You're probably training 60 hours a week and coming to every class you can. I don't see too many people doing that.
Jeremy Lesniak (14:17.813)
The speed limit is the thing that so many of us push back on. Most most people I know, you know, I drive the speed limit. drive five miles an hour above the speed limit. I drive 10. Right. Like it's it's a it's a boundary. And we define ourselves when we're driving a car in large part. With the speed limit, if the speed limit, you know, we pass a sign, the speed limit is higher. We drive faster. You know, if I'm doing if I'm in a 45 and I'm.
Drive in 50, if I hit a 55, I'm driving 60. Pretty common for people.
Jeremy Lesniak (14:57.557)
I think that speed limit...
Jeremy Lesniak (15:05.149)
within our training, you've got people who are always gonna, they're gonna show up to class. That's the extent of their training. You have people who...
they'll do a little bit at home once in a while, but they're consistent with it. Then you've got other people who train a little bit every day or a lot every day, or once a week they do an hour or two. That's kind of their speed limit. I'm gonna do the minimum. I'm gonna do this much above the minimum. I'm gonna do this much above the minimum.
Andrew Adams (15:41.592)
Okay, gas station.
Jeremy Lesniak (15:45.589)
You gotta recharge, you gotta refuel.
This is some of the language we've started talking about as we've found more and more of what people value about Marshall Summit and a lot of the Whistlekick events. They feel recharged. They feel reconnected and inspired by their training. So I'm going to make the shameless plug here that it's the gas station.
is the event. It's the thing you do outside of your typical training that allows you to rest, take a break, turn off the car, maybe get a snack, clean the windows, kick the tires. Always check your tires when you're the gas station. Make sure you have air.
Jeremy Lesniak (16:39.631)
set yourself up for the next part of the journey. Because that's really what a gas station is. Gas station is not for where you've been, it's for where you're going. You could pull into the gas station without any gas, you could run in on fumes, and if that's your destination, you're done. But you're probably going somewhere else.
Jeremy Lesniak (16:59.741)
Where do you want to go?
Andrew Adams (17:01.934)
All right, speaking of tires, how about spare tire?
Jeremy Lesniak (17:06.931)
Hmm.
Jeremy Lesniak (17:16.595)
Your spare tire is...
for when things don't go to plan.
Nobody drives over anything in the road expecting that the tire is going to blow or leak. Right? Like that's never part of the plan. We never say, okay, I'm going to turn left here and then my right front tire is going to lose air. I turn left and then I get ready to turn right and go, there, and now the tire pressure system's kicked on and okay, so this tire is flat. I pull over and I put the spare tire.
We don't generally have a lot of things in our training that don't go to plan unless we're trying to set these really big complicated plans. And that's usually mitigated by a good instructor. Right. We talked about that, the speed limit and the expectations. So I think.
I think the next best.
Jeremy Lesniak (18:19.814)
relation between martial arts and a spare tire would be safety equipment.
protective gear, mouth guard, that sort of thing. Because if we're sparring and there's some contact, we're not trying to hurt people. But stuff happens. By the way, we have great foam sparring gear. If you haven't checked it out, should check out Lisle Kicks sparring gear. For what it is, for the kind that we make, it is the best of the world and nothing touches it.
Jeremy Lesniak (18:56.957)
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Andrew Adams (19:03.998)
Alright, Next word, fast food.
Jeremy Lesniak (19:09.941)
Mmm.
I just spent three hours training my body and mind and now I'm gonna go have a greasy bag of fries.
Andrew Adams (19:23.054)
But when you're on a road trip, lots of people do it.
Jeremy Lesniak (19:24.617)
Yeah, but you're on a road trip.
And plenty of people do after training, right? Like I know, I know plenty of people. used to, in my Taekwondo days, quite often I would drive by McDonald's on the way home. And I think out of like the seven, eight years, I think I stopped once.
Andrew Adams (19:45.346)
but there are lots of people that do. We won't mention any names because we don't want to embarrass Bill Wallace.
Jeremy Lesniak (19:47.209)
But there are plenty.
Jeremy Lesniak (19:51.957)
And I want to be clear, I'm not knocking McDonald's. There's actually a longer thing we could get into here. But the end conclusion, it's not the meat, it's the bread that is the problem.
Jeremy Lesniak (20:12.965)
Why do we eat fast food? For most of us, it's for two reasons. It's convenient and it tastes good.
I don't know really any other reason. It's not really cheap anymore. I mean, you could do it cheap, but it's not really cheap anymore. It's about, it's the taste and it's the convenience.
Jeremy Lesniak (20:49.021)
You know what the fast food of of martial arts is? It's that sparring combo. That you get people with that they know you're going to get them with and they hate you for it, but they're kind of jealous of it and. You know that you should spend time practicing other things, but you don't because this works so well. Now, maybe all of you don't have that. But I bet quite a few of you do.
Andrew Adams (21:00.29)
Hmm.
Jeremy Lesniak (21:18.485)
Jeremy, I don't know. I do. It's this it's this it's this and this or it's the way I do this for me. It's this weird
low, low knee movement round kick that I just kind of dropped down right on people's necks. just go, and they're like, I didn't even see that coming. I was like, yes.
Andrew Adams (21:39.564)
All right, luggage.
Jeremy Lesniak (21:43.285)
It's a gear bag. It's how you transport the stuff that you're going to need on your road trip. Your gear bag is how you transport the stuff you're going to need for your training.
Andrew Adams (21:52.783)
Okay, now also often in luggage you will find travel sized toiletries.
Jeremy Lesniak (22:02.911)
This is very specific.
Andrew Adams (22:05.784)
Well, because it's not toiletries. These are travel sized.
Jeremy Lesniak (22:09.491)
Right. man. It's trying. I'm trying to think of what's in my gear bag. The travel size toiletries. Equivalent in my luggage, aka my gear bag. It's.
Jeremy Lesniak (22:34.601)
Best I got is the change that's fallen out of my clothes when it's in there. don't... Wow.
Andrew Adams (22:47.416)
think this will be martial arts word association. I think it's 18. So it's taken 18 to stump you on travel sized toilet.
Jeremy Lesniak (22:55.463)
Yeah, that's why I'm not letting this go, because I know you haven't stumped me yet, and it's pissing me off.
Okay, hold on. You might have to trim some of the time that I spend thinking here, because I'm not, not... You're just gonna make the audience suffer through my mumbling and breathing? Fantastic. right. Complaints can be sent to andrewatwhistlekick.com. Okay.
Andrew Adams (23:07.076)
no, I'm not trimming any of it.
Jeremy Lesniak (23:22.579)
toiletries. Toiletries of the th-
Andrew Adams (23:25.208)
For most people, involves shampoo and conditioner. I know for us, it doesn't.
Jeremy Lesniak (23:29.693)
It does not. Although I wash my beard. So I actually brought, I brought beard shampoo on vacation. Yeah. The travel size toiletries are the things that you need while traveling to give you a minimum comfort so that you can in
Andrew Adams (23:33.23)
That's
But it's also like toothpaste and body wash and all that stuff.
Jeremy Lesniak (23:59.284)
joy or at least not feel deficient during your travel because travel is not always vacation. So if you go on a business trip, maybe you know if it's a two-day thing maybe you don't need a razor. But if you're gone two weeks you're probably going to want a razor.
Jeremy Lesniak (24:18.523)
And you do that so you don't feel gross and lame. And so you can go to your business meetings or if it's vacation, you know, maybe you're not cutting your hair, but maybe you're bringing deodorant because spending your vacation time with smelly armpits wouldn't feel good. So it's it's about comfort and and setting yourself up for.
Now, I think for some people, could be a direct analog, what they keep in their gear bag. I know plenty of people who keep deodorant. I keep, I do.
For some people, it is a change of clothes for before or after class, right? Like, I got sweaty. I'm going to change my undergarments.
Andrew Adams (25:20.718)
Okay, moving on next word. Hotel. It's gonna have to we're moving on hotel. Hotel you're on a long road trip maybe haven't gotten your final destination yet. You're going to break it up into multiple days and you need to stop at a hotel.
Jeremy Lesniak (25:23.317)
Does that count? Is that good enough? Okay. What's that?
Jeremy Lesniak (25:41.183)
Hmm, it's the parking lot. It's the parking lot of where you train or the parking spot, right?
for two reasons. One, you have to get there first, right? You can't go train without parking. It doesn't work. Two, people who've been training a long time will start to think about their training in the car as they park, they're thinking about it more, and they're kind of getting into training mode. If you're on a multi-day road trip,
and you stop at a hotel, it's not the final destination, but it's still exciting. You're still in vacation mode, even if most of what you're doing is getting a few hours of sleep and a meal. It's setting you up for that. It could also be, the other answer for this that I've got could be kind of stretching and warming up on your own in the corner. A lot of us that have been training a long time do that.
Andrew Adams (26:46.286)
Mm-hmm.
Jeremy Lesniak (26:49.169)
It is not the same. The stretching that I do, it's not the same as training. It's not class. But it is individualized and helps me benefit from class training more. It's like training light. Hotels like vacation or whatever.
Andrew Adams (27:11.214)
All right. That was the last word that I had for word association road trip edition. You went in a different direction with toiletries than I would have. will, tell you where I would have gone. So you, and I think perhaps because you had done luggage with gear bag. And so you were trying too much to pigeonhole the travel size toiletries into your gear bag. But to me, travel size toiletries are like one step sparring. Like it's just.
Jeremy Lesniak (27:14.941)
I am unstumpable.
Jeremy Lesniak (27:21.713)
yeah, where would you have gone?
Andrew Adams (27:41.066)
It's like just a little, you're just going to do a little bit. Like you're just learning this one step and then you're doing, you know, little, but it's not really sparring. It's just, it's little bite-sized travel parts. That's why we're gone.
Jeremy Lesniak (27:56.438)
Okay, okay, I see it. I see it. That's right, that's right. And to any of you out there, if you want to help Andrew on one of these in the future, by all means, you should reach out to him.
Andrew Adams (27:58.275)
But it's not word association for me, so it's worth it for you.
Andrew Adams (28:07.916)
Yeah. And I like the theme ones. We've done pet edition, we've done winter, we've done summer. Like I like the theme. So if you can give me a list of nine or 10 words that fit a theme, send them along. Andrew at whistlekick.com.
Jeremy Lesniak (28:10.282)
Yeah.
Jeremy Lesniak (28:13.683)
We've done a bunch of them.
Jeremy Lesniak (28:19.561)
Yeah.
Jeremy Lesniak (28:23.721)
Yeah, thanks for spending some time with us. We appreciate you as much as we We ask you for things. We ask you to subscribe and share and join the email list is the big thing that we ask you for. It is only because we want to continue to grow and reach more martial artists. So because so many of you tell us that you find benefit from this show, we want to get every martial artist to see the show. So right now.
If you are subscribed and you get the emails, which are the two big things that we want you to do, then I would ask you, think of one martial artist you know and ask them, do you check out this show? Just one. If everybody did that, we would double.
Andrew Adams (29:10.774)
be awesome. And if you're on YouTube, you could see what I'm holding in my hands right now and the cool thing that I'm doing with it. But you wouldn't know if you're not watching. And look, other direction.
Jeremy Lesniak (29:16.341)
But you wouldn't know.
Jeremy Lesniak (29:23.379)
Wow, that's super cool.
Andrew Adams (29:27.276)
left hand.
Jeremy Lesniak (29:28.327)
Andrew is, Andrew is multi-talented. That is not a thing I can do. All right, everybody. Thank you so much. Until next time, Andrew, you start us off. Smile and have a great day.
Andrew Adams (29:32.866)
There you go. You got to go to YouTube and check it out.
Andrew Adams (29:40.706)
Train hard and have a great day.