Martial Arts Weapon and Campus Diversity

Unlike most diversity speakers, Clint Cora utilizes martial arts elements in his talks. Here is a campus showcase video clip that shows how he ties in university campus diversity with his martial arts weapon, the bo staff. Of course, since the bo staff is his top martial arts weapon to use in competition, Clint physically demonstrates some of the moves on stage with this weapon, much to the delight of audiences.

Martial Arts Weaponry At Toastmasters Conference

The last few venues I've presented my motivational talks in were nice sized rooms where I was able to use my full sized bo staff during the parts of my speech where martial arts are used.  I was even able to do this at the past weekend's Toastmasters conference where I did a workshop.  In many or even most venues, I usually do not get enough room to use my real bo staffs.  Instead, I have to use a shorter broom stick which still does the job but things are much nicer when I can use the real full length bo staff.  The use of my bo staff during my motivational talks really differentiates myself from others as a professional motivational speaker and the audiences appreciates this.

Audience Participation With Karate At Toastmasters

I've been getting volunteer members from my audiences during my motivational keynote talks to come up on stage with me to try out some easy karate bo staff moves. It's to illustrate a key concept of comfort zone expansion. This part of the talk is always appreciated by the audiences as they get to see one of their own up there with me on stage. I will try to incorporate this segment in all my keynote talks from now on. I will definitely include this as part of my keynote at Comfortably Speaking Toastmasters club in May.