Man. Myth. Morland.: My new outdoorsman technique is unstoppable

In future episodes, OLN’s most prominent outdoor experts will share their knowledge with Yoshi as eastern tradition meets western expertise. From sporting clays with Tom Knapp to log rolling with Ironjack World Champions, OLN's master outdoorsmen will teach Yoshi their discipline while learning from his Samurai ways. While discovering each other’s skills these experts manage to share enjoyable, fun and leisure moments together always mindful of the pleasure and joys that life in the outdoors, no matter how approached, should bring to us.

“Yoshi brings his own unique approach to each sport,” said Williams. “Because of his rigorous martial arts training he has intense focus and composure. Given the Samurai’s reverence for nature, Yoshi is at one with the outdoors and quickly builds a rapport and relationship with OLN’s other hosts. He is adept with a range of weaponry: swords of all sizes and shapes, bows and arrows, and even guns.”

I caught Samurai Sportsman, staring Yoshi Amao, last night on OLN, and was instantly hooked. Like Iron Chef, it manages to be simultaneously outrageously campy and earnestly appealing. OLN is airing it fairly frequently over the next couple months, so check it out. Last night's episode featured renowned lumberjack Mike Sullivan:

Samurai Sportsman follows in the footsteps of the great lumberjacks of the American forest as he tackles axe throwing and log chopping with champion Mike Sullivan. The two masters of the blade - Mike with an axe, Samurai Sportsman with a sword - face off in a ninja star throwing competition.

For those of you in the NYC area, Yoshi hosts separate samurai sword fighting workshops for beginning and advanced students every Saturday.

Remember when cable television first became popular, and speculation ran rampant that all this programming would eventually result in unforeseen millions of boorish pulp shows, each catering to the basest common denominator of its target demographic? Well, that's what happened, and it's awesome.

Basically, I see this new interest simply a continuation of your martial-arts TV/Video addiction. Don't try to tell people who don't know about it otherwise. But it would be nice to have some satellite-action at my house to see what you're talking about.

I'm a big fan of "Samurai Sportsman".
I heard that Yoshi Amao, a host of Samurai Sportsman, will appear on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on Thu, April 8. I'm really excited to see
Yoshi doing Samurai sword fighting with Conan!