Ep. 154 - Meet Ramesses & Get Ready for Our Live Event

I am pleased to announce the forthcoming live episode of the ATA Nation podcast, which marks a significant milestone in our journey. This momentous event will transpire on Saturday at 3 o'clock Eastern Standard Time, where we shall engage with esteemed guests such as Grandmaster Tammy Harvey Stauber and distinguished instructors from the Empower Her seminar at the World Championships. Participants will have the opportunity to interact with us in real-time, allowing for a dynamic exchange of questions and comments. Furthermore, this episode will feature insights from representatives of ATA Team Mexico and ATA Team Philippines, who are poised to showcase their talents at the Songam Cup. I invite all our dedicated listeners to join us in this extraordinary experience, which promises to be both enlightening and exhilarating.

Takeaways:

• The ATA Nation podcast is celebrating its 154th episode, showcasing the dedication of its loyal listeners.
• In this episode, we announced our inaugural live stream event scheduled for Saturday at 3 PM EST.
• We will feature esteemed guests including Grandmaster Tammy Harvey Stauber and representatives from ATA Team Mexico and Philippines.
• The podcast aims to engage viewers by allowing them to comment and ask questions during the live episode.
• Athletes are encouraged to focus on self-improvement regardless of competition outcomes and to inspire others around them.
• We are excited about our future episodes, including an exploration of the Whale Pass Alaska adventure with Team USA.

Episode Transcript

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We're getting ready for ourfirst live episode.
Hear all about it.
Let's get started.
Welcome to the Ata Nation podcast.

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Welcome back Ata Nation toanother episode of the At Nation
podcast.
This is is episode 154.
Can you believe it?
I can hardly believe it.
Thank you for being with us.
Thank you be for being loyallisteners and viewers.
Here is the exciting news.
We've been talking about itthe last couple episodes but if you
are listening to this today itis Friday, Tomorrow, Saturday at

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3 o' clock Eastern Standard Time.
We are going live for ourfirst ever episode of the ATA Nation
podcast on on live stream.
We're going on the ATAsYouTube channel and their Facebook
channel as well.
So this is what you got to do.
Head over tomorrow toatanation podcast.com live@a nation

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podcast.com live.
We're super excited.
We've got Grandmaster TammyHarvey Stauber is going to be on
as well as some otherinstructors from the Empower her
Empower her seminar at World Championships.
We're going to be talking tosome people from ATA Team Mexico

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and ATA Team Philippinesrepresenting for the Songam cup at
World Championships.
We're going to be also talkingto Mr.
Raffle from the atm max teamall about things coming atm exit
worlds and other places.
So guys, this is going to be ajam packed episode and what's great
about it being live is thatyou can comment as we're there and

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we can ask them questions.
We can bring your commentsonto the screen.
I am super thrilled about this.
We've been running someamazing live video shows with our
licensees over the last sixmonths and I want you guys to experience
some of the live as well.
So tune in tomorrow, 3 o'clock Eastern Time atanation podcast.com

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live or just go over to YouTube.
Go find the ATAs YouTubechannel and click the subscribe button
so you'll get notified when wego live.
Okay, you'll be able to checkthat out there and there's lots of
other stuff where you've beenputting on there.
So some really fun clips fromthese episodes with our athletes
of the week with neatanimation and let me know what style

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you like best.
I've been trying differentstyles in that I haven't done like
the puppet Muppet style yet.
But maybe, maybe we'll do thatthis week.
We'll see.
Hey, that reminds me, it'stime for our Athlete of the Week
at Nation.
We have another awesomeathlete with us today, all the way

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from Lion Country.
I hear what's Your name, sir?
My name is Rims Carnero, sir.
Ah, nice to meet you.
And you are.
What school did you train at?
I trained in Integrity MartialArts in Cutler Bay, Florida.
Cutler Bay, Florida.
Down there with Senior MasterIsaacs and Grandmaster Isaacs.
An awesome place down there.

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You guys got like, there'slike 400 integrity schools down there
now.
I think Senior Master Isaacsis trying to take over the state,
I hear.
Hey, we love to hear a littlebit about people's history.
First, how old are you right now?
I am 13 years old, sir.

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Thirteen, okay.
And what rank are you?
I'm a second degree black belt.
Second degree black belt.
Fantastic.
And so how did you get startedin martial arts?
I was 4 years old and I wasreally, like, fascinated with, like,
the Ninja Turtles, and Ialways want to, like, become one
of them, and my parents put mein Integrity, and now I'm here.
It's been history since then.

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Right.
Okay, most important question then.
Which Ninja Turtle is your favorite?
Michelangelo.
Michelangelo, very popular.
Donatello's better, but okay, great.
So, hey, question about competition.
You're one of these athletesthat the junior ambassadors have
been picking up to highlight.

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It's great to see lots ofdifferent athletes highlighted at
tournaments.
What's your favorite event tocompete in?
My favorite event to competein is sparring.
Because I love the competitivenature of it.
And, like, it doesn't matterhow many times we hit each other
or how hard outside of themat, we're always friends.
I love that.
I tell my students all the time.
We always, you know, what'sthe nicest thing before you go into

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a sparring match?
You always shake hands.
You hug, you say, which isjust kind of a crazy thing to think
about.
Like, we.
We go around kicking people inthe head, but before and after we
shake hands and hug, we'relike, hey, yeah, no, that's fine.
So sparring is your go to event.
I love it.
What, what about, like, if youhad to pick an event that was maybe
not in your top level events,what event would that be?

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Well, I don't really have,like, an event I don't like the most.
I like all events because theyalways, like, bring something.
I always learn something fromeach event, and I always try to be
1% better in each event.
So I don't really have, like,a least favorite.
Oh, man, that's a great answer.
Very cool.
So we are right now as werecord this, getting ready for district

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championships and then worldchampionships around the.
Around the bend.
What are you.
What kind of goals do you havefor the end of this season, the.
Kind of, the type of goals Ihave for the end of the season, I
definitely try to get anotherworld title and try to get a district,
some district titles toqualify for some events that I maybe
didn't qualify for for Worlds.

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Gotcha.
What, what event have you orevents have you gotten world championships
in before?
World Creative WeaponsSparring, and we got it in team sparring
last year, sir.
Nice.
Good job.
You said creative weapons wasone of them.
What creative weapon do you,do you use?
I use the nunchuck, sir.
Nice.
And then in traditionalweapons, are you a chuck guy too?

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Yes, sir.
Yeah, I gotta have thoseflying double chucks, right?
Yes, sir.
You got it.
Hey, what about look into the future?
You know, you're 13, maybe notnext year, but just as you look at
the future of your Taekwondotraining as an athlete, as a competitor,
maybe as a, as a student, whatare you looking at as some longer

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term goals for yourself?
Definitely Mastership.
I do one day want to become aMaster, sir.
I love that.
I am.
You know what?
I am so impressed with thenumber of students that I have got
to interview through thisseries that have that goal of becoming
a Master, and it's so cool.
You guys can most certainly bea great generation of masters.

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You know, we get to see, youknow, I, I'm personally excited to
be able to be like, Iinterviewed that guy, you know, when
he's now I'll probably be likewith a cane or something awful there,
but I'm not that old.
But going for master, that's awesome.
You guys got some great rolemodels there and integrity for you.

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As you look at, you know, thepeople around you, as you look at
your own competitive nature,what does it mean to be an athlete
that goes beyond the belt?
For me, what it means to be anathlete that goes beyond the belt
is to inspire othercompetitors that maybe doesn't mean
to have to be in the same ringas me, but to push them and for them
to always do their best, nomatter the outcome and, and to always

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be happy with how they did.
Oh, I love that.
I think it's so important.
That's such an importantmessage for all kinds of people.
Especially like this time ofyear, we're going to have a lot of
people that aren't going toget the title they wanted.
You know, I mean, there's,there's 10 people or more in the,
in the Tournament of Championsfor that division.
One person walks away with a title.

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You know, there's a lot ofpeople who don't walk away.
And what you said there aboutmaking sure that they, you know,
think about how they did forthemselves, how they improve themselves.
Great inspiration for peopleas they get ready for worlds and
nationals.
Obviously we want you guys towin, you know, titles and stuff,
but have you.

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Here's a, Here's a question.
Have you gone competed in theTOC or district and not got the title
that you wanted?
Yes, sir.
And how did you.
How did you deal with that?
I just made sure to work twiceas hard for the next year and just
be prepared for whateverhappens the next time around.
I love that.
Good.
It's all about the journeythat you're.

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You're participating in.
It's not always about the end result.
So.
Great advice, sir.
What a great athlete.
Any other last words for ATAnation out there before we let you
go?
I'm sure you've got lots to doand train.
I think I hear Senior MasterIsaacs back there telling you to,
like, do more jumping jacks orrun 100 more miles or something.

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Just for every competitor totrain hard, do their best, and good
luck for TOC and districts.
Ah, great.
Thank you so much for yourtime, sir.
Thank you for being aninspiration for other athletes out
there in ATA Nation.
And good luck in all your competitions.
Thank you, sir.

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Love it.
Another amazing athlete of theweek, guys.
These athletes just keepcoming and I'm so impressed to get
to meet these guys, see whattheir goals are, get to talk to them
about, you know, theirfavorite events and stuff.
I.
I think it's really cool.
I just did another interviewthat'll go off later in July today
before this episode, and itwas great.

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Really exciting stuff.
Now, don't forget to tune intoour live.
Okay?
World Championships is aroundthe corner right now.
Some of you, some of our loyallisteners will be down in Little
Rock at the athletedevelopment camp.
Guys, I know you are going tobe going through T shirts like crazy,
sweating it up, working hard.

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Senior Master Isaac's makingyou do those runs.
You know, all the amazingcoaches out there.
It's going to be, I know, agreat time.
So next month we're going todo another live episode.
And so we're going to betalking to Team usa, some captains
from Team usa.
We'll be talking to them.
We're gonna be talking aboutthe Whale Pass Alaska adventure that

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you can have with song onTaekwondo in Whale Pass, Alaska.
We're going to be talkingabout that.
That's going to be the liveepisode that we're going to do in
July.
So tune in Saturday 21st Junefor our first live event.
And then we will be doinganother live show in July with some
other amazing guests.
So do not miss them.
I'm thrilled.

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We have just such a packed summer.
All kinds of amazing stuffgoing on.
You should see my schedule tomorrow.
It's nuts.
But you know what?
As ATM martial artists, we'reout there taking action.
You can't just sit around.
If you're going to be achampion beyond the belt, you can't
just be sitting on the couch.
Right?
You got to be taking action.
Okay, so that's your actioncall for today.

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Get out there, take action, bea champion beyond the belt.
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