The Saber Martial Arts Podcast
The official podcast of the Saber Martial Arts Foundation (SMAF). With over a century of combined martial arts experience, we break down tactics, teachings, and techniques, with a healthy touch of humor, helping to perpetuate the research and development of lightsaber-based martial arts around the world.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 101 minutes
- Episodes
- 75
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
15. Between the Mesh (or, The Sword That Cuts Two Into One)
Welcome to a show about generating curriculum! That should be a sufficiently brief and misleading description of what you'll actually hear on this episode of The Saber Martial Arts Podcast. Fode an…
14. Whooped Into Shape
Sweat. Huffing and puffing. Blood. Tear-stained cheeks. Caloric breakdown. Fear. Anxiety. Loss. Doubt in the face of adversity. No end in sight. Weight of mind and body. These are the prec…
13. You Only Ever Get Paid In Results
Fode, Alan, Katie, and Nick from the SMAF Board of Directors discuss some of the ins and outs of starting a saber school or club. Whether you're an experienced Head Instructor or a fledgling practit…
12. Persuade Me (Smithy's Anvil I)
In the premiere of a new SMAFcast serial, SMAF Master Sabersmith and the owner of Ki Sabers, Kyle Vaz, walks listeners through the experience of buying a new combat LED saber, specifically his flagsh…
11. Shii-Cho Me What You Got, Shawty (Swords & Sabers Redux I)
SMAFcast is infiltrated by Head Instructors from six different Affiliate Schools to resuscitate the series of podcasts that started this whole SMAF thing in the first place, "Swords & Sabers"! Fode (…
10. The Rule of 10,000 Titles
Kenny Novero, 3rd Degree Black Belt and Instructor for Phoenix Saber Academy, spends a couple hours talking about the nerd-turned-teacher life with Fode and getting totally bragged on by Sifu Venable…
9. Home-Brew Ryu
Fode-san and Sifu Venable are super honored to bring this week's guest, Sensei Kay Sakaue from SMAF Affiliate School SoCal Saber Academy, to your ear-dojo! We discuss East-vs-West in the world of ma…
8. Independently Healthy
Tonight's guest is Noah Kim, Founder and Head Instructor of SMAF Affiliate group, the Confederacy of Independent Saberists. Noah shares tales of his martial upbringing, how he became a sabersmith ou…
7. Accidentally Juyo
This week's featured guest is Matt Maughan, aka Maestro, from Bendu Saber Combat! The BSC YouTube channel has been a standard of quality for Forms-based SMA over the last decade, taking a highly aca…
6. Battle Proctors & Wanderers
In our latest SMAF Affiliate School feature, Fode and Alan are joined by some of our oldest allies in the saber community, San Diego Sabers' own Andre, Marina, Matthew, and Serena! We learn about th…
5. Captain's Sparchives I
We hope you enjoy the first edition of the Captain's Sparchives! Fode and Katie are joined by SMAF Affiliate and Sabersmith Kyle Vaz of Ki Sabers, to commentate a gang of sparring footage from variou…
4. Service With A Saber
The Board welcomes Kyle Vaz, owner of Ki Sabers and the Official Sabersmith of SMAF, to chat about his Force-dreams of crafting the world's most useable combat sabers, his penchant for cereal soup, a…
3. Warrior in a Garden
Head Instructor Courtney Monroe of Saber Light Knights joins the Board of Directors in the first SMAF Affiliate School feature episode! Courtney and the Board lay down the law on elitism in the sabe…
2. Tiger Fork
The second installment of our intro to the SMAF Board of Directors! We're roasting the duels from Genndy Tartakovsky & Paul Rudish's "Star Wars: The Clone Wars Microseries", and the martial arts tal…
1. Weaponizing Nerdiness
The SMAF Board of Directors roasts the lightsaber duels from Dave Filoni's "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" and discusses the influences of real-world martial arts on saber combat in the series, in the i…