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The Bay Area Martial Arts Podcast

May 22, 2018

Wade’s guest today is Peter Ajemian, of Soja Mind/Body — a physical fitness studio in Berkeley, California. The Soja studio is really more of a “playground” in martial arts — you don’t learn a certain style, but instead, they offer a variety of courses ranging from traditional self-defense to yoga and Tai...


May 15, 2018

In light of the recent Mother's Day celebration, Wade appropriately interviews a tough mother of three. Whitney is a stay at home mom who decided that she needed something that was going to engage her physically and mentally — and tennis just wasn’t going to cut it. In 2005, after her youngest child went off to...


May 8, 2018

Most —  if not all — martial artists appreciate the community in which they study. Wade Pitt’s guest today, Rob Schenk, enjoyed it so much that when the head instructor decided to potentially shut down the studio he was studying at (due to their age), he stepped up — not only as an instructor — but to run the...


May 1, 2018

“I get paid (and paid well) to go into a situation, usually alone and usually outnumbered by sixty or more criminals, and maintain order. I prevent them from preying on each other or attacking officers. That’s the job. Now, since I don’t fight every day or even every week (anymore — I’m a sergeant now, one...