 Good morning and welcome back to why in the morning and as usual on Tuesdays we have entrepreneurship Tuesday in this particular session we are going today into an interview that looks at fitness and entertainment and also the business aspect of it remember you can follow us across all our social media handles that is at Y254 channel at Michelle Ashira at Ramagugo. So today Matt is pertaining fitness and I have a quote for you from one of the kickboxes known as Carlson Gracia says always enter like a kitten and live like a lion but never enter like a lion and live like a kitten always be humble Hey hey! This is Syuko from the studio. I am joined with none other than Turkey the master who is a fitness instructor. How are you? I am fine thanks How are you? I am fine thanks You are on this side of the table for that It has changed very soon. Matt is pertaining kung fu, kickboxing? It has changed because most people always think that if you are a martial artist or a combat sports person, you have to be able to do what you want to do. If you are a C.C.P. or silver, you have to be able to do what you want to do. You have to be able to do what you want to do. If you are a C.C.P. or silver, you have to be able to do what you want to do. If you are a C.C.P. or silver, you have to be able to do what you want to do. But for now because it is an interview first, I am going to go to the studio Okay, take the master. When did it all began? Like your interest and passion when it comes to martial arts? Okay, I was at 12 years, I would say. By that time I used to watch people like Mike Tyson. He was a boxing buddy. Mike Tyson was famous there. I used to watch him wrestling. He was a wrestler at the time. So when I watched him, I felt like he was a combat sports person. After that, he was very flexible. At the age of 12, I used to watch him wrestling at Taekwondo. So when I went to Taekwondo, in fact, by the age of 17, I was in the national team for Taekwondo. And then on Sunday, I met a Taekwondo kid. It's my nickname. So just to start us off, maybe we can get a little bit of definitions on a couple of things. What do you want to confuse? What's the difference between martial arts? Kung Fu, Tai Chi, Tai Won. Then we have Krav Maga. Okay, I'll give a difference today because most of the guys for sure don't confuse the arts. What's the difference between martial arts and other arts? All in general, martial arts. Martial arts means that you have to know who are the legs, the entire body, who are the elbows, who are the combination of all. So martial arts is Taekwondo, kickboxing, Kung Fu, there's Ushu, there's Krav Maga, there's Shotokan, Karate. Karate has a lot of branches. There's Kokenya, there's Shotokan, there's Gujuru, there's Japan. Then there's Judo, there's Japan. Then there's Tongilmodo. You can start now. It entails hands and legs. Now the difference is that with Taekwondo, 75% is kicks, 25% punches. With Karate, 75% is punching, then 25% is kicking. Now if we get to kickboxing, kickboxing is a combination of everything. With kickboxing, we have different kinds of kickboxing. We have Muay Thai, which is a low kick, and most of you want to differentiate between Muay Thai and kickboxing in general, Muay Thai guys, they always put on shots. Muay Thai is in Tokyo, Thailand. Then kickboxing in Tunafanya, you're an American type of boxing. So with kickboxing, you use punches. As a boxer, 50% kicks. With Taekwondo, 50%. So a combination of boxing, Taekwondo and other arts, you can kickboxing. And that's why in kickboxing mostly, the only thing we don't use that guys from Muay Thai use, is elbow strike and then knee strike. But by the time we train people for self-defense, we have elbow strike, knee strike, everything, which I'll show people after this interview. I'll show the viewers how it's done. We have crab maga here. Crab maga is an Israeli type of martial arts. Mostly it's military. Crab maga is all about self-defense. Okay. We're looking forward to see those kind of moves. I'll show you the crab maga. Oh, so you'll show the crab maga in Tunafanya. Yes. So my co-host is Tonya. So for how long have you been doing this? I've been doing this for, let me say, 28 years now. I've been a coach for 25 years. And right now, I'm the national coach for Kenya kickboxing. Oh, I see. Yeah. And in the Federation of Kenya Kickboxing Federation, I'm the competition secretary nationally. Competition secretary in any federation is the guy who makes sure that there are tournaments, certification of anything on the federation, he and your man are competition secretaries. But what you can do is kickboxing. I've faced kickboxing nationals before as a competition secretary in the national coach. But to connect what's different, come as a secretary general, and vice chairman, technical, and chairman. Okay, good stuff. And for someone who's watching us, and they wonder, I want to join. If I want to be part of people who like, you're entertaining the guys you'll also see, who have learned martial arts as well, who is eligible to join your team? I know that everybody is eligible. Everybody can join, everybody can do it. Whether you are, okay, I don't like to use some words in fact. Let me say whether you're big, whether you're short, tall, thin, whatever, at whatever age you can do it. But the best age to start martial arts is three and a half or four years, if you're capable. If you have an exposure to martial arts, then age limit, because the oldest in martial arts is 70s. And it's a gender, all can do it. Female and male can do it. And you can do any kind of martial arts. Unless you're a martial artist, you can still use your legs. You see? Because if you're a martial artist, you can do any kind of martial arts. It's really good. In fact, let me tell the viewers, martial arts are about self-defense and discipline. It's not all about beating up others or showing off on the streets. You only use martial arts if your life is in extreme danger. And the reason why we train martial arts is to defend our country, the society and those who are unable to defend themselves. We don't train martial arts to get beat up others or mug people. We do martial arts for self-defense and discipline. And that's why we have martial arts in schools. Kids do martial arts. It's also good for your brain, the entire body. Let's look into the benefits of martial arts apart from self-defense. It's a benefit that I think already people are talking about it. Can it be used for fitness? Yeah, martial arts is all about fitness. Mostly it's about kickboxing. Martial arts is one of my strengths. I'm a kid. Even if I'm a kid, it means that I'm going to take care of myself. And I'm also going to do kickboxing. Martial arts in general. I emphasize more on kickboxing. I'm telling the truth. Kickboxing mostly, most people nowadays like doing kickboxing. Because in a day or two, you have to work out. Because with kickboxing, because you see, if you go all about martial arts, boxing is not martial arts. Boxing is sports. But now kickboxing is martial arts. Because of the combinations of every part of your body. But now what I do say is this. If you look at the difference between training of boxers and martial artists, boxers are more conditioned. And that's why when we train, boxers always move every time on footwork. And that's how now kickboxers also train. So it's more conditioning, more cardio workouts. So it makes you lose a lot. You turn a lot. Then it builds the confidence and everything. Okay. So let's look at the business aspect. How do you guys monetize from this? As a business? Okay. As a business. I don't know if it's a story or a tournament. But I want to talk a lot about events, event sizes. I'm not sure if it's COVID. And players who are kickboxing nationally. Me as a kid, the compensation secretary for the national team. We organize tournaments as soon as possible. I spread to other clubs. I don't know if it's COVID. But the only thing now, the way we always keep up with this as business wise, I have different kinds of clients, personal trainings. Because mostly, like me, I have more personal trainings at people's homesteads. When I'm at home, when I'm at work, when I'm at home, I'm at my friend's. I'm at my client's. Then we talk to each other. Different packages, huh? Yeah, different packages. I'm always busy. I'm always there. I always tell my friend that I'm not a good student. I'm always there. I appreciate the idea. I always have to be there. I'm always there. But I'm always at a place like Rwanda. I'm always there. I'm always at a hotel. I'm always there. I'm always there. Absolutely. So, how do you guys pick up your place in place of Eastland where you're going to martial arts out of interest and passion? And in other words, you're free of charge. Oh, not free of charge. Okay. You're free of charge. You're always there. That's how it is. You're free of charge. Okay. But I'm almost free of charge because the charges are all different from the charges that I take to FALTI. Yes. And I'm always there. Because my team The national team most of the time we are in Kenya with Team Zuri There are any kind of sponsors, it's just a machine So when I come to Kenya, I have a machine and it's in Dandora So I tell them to come and help me So we have a semi-veh We have to go to the bay But when we are on the train We have to go to Kidmaster, Kenya To my YouTube channel To subscribe to my YouTube channel to Kidmaster, Kenya Any time you are watching In general fitness In general fitness In general fitness Because I have a lot of clients In the games I have a place to train I have a place to take the city council Dandora, he has a face tool He has a city council He has a face tool And he is a good person For that question I have a good idea Not only martial arts Or music Plays, MCAs But also the government as a whole To try To find a place Recreational facilities To find a place To find a place To find a place To find a place To find a place To find a place To find a place To find a place So, let's say In this school Eat your dinner You get busy Oh that I'm going to study To go to school You're awesome I give you the talent You don't always give hands With my history My parents My siblings but the size is the same as that of the two and they are now familiar and they are the ones who I want to share with you and that's why I'm here today Alright Alright, so make sure you stay tuned I try to fit for a channel as you can find us across all our social media handles