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How To Do Everything

Santa Claus, Ninjas and Fruitcake Toss Day

How To Do Everything

NPR

4.21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2014

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

This week a Ninja Master gives Santa some tips on sneaking around and how to make 2015 the best year ever.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's almost Christmas.

0:02.0

Merry Christmas, Ian.

0:04.0

It explains the sound effects we're hearing.

0:06.0

It's festive.

0:08.0

That's weird.

0:09.0

Santa will be sneaking into homes around the world to deliver presents. It's very important that

0:15.8

he not make too much noise. So how does Santa keep quiet? We're going to help him

0:20.3

out now with some Ninja skills.

0:22.8

At least some karate skills.

0:25.0

Sensi Bombayani is an eighth degree black belt.

0:28.7

He doesn't actually like to talk about that.

0:30.8

And he's the chief instructor for the International

0:33.1

Traditional Karate Association here in Chicago. So, since, what advice do you have for

0:39.0

Santa? To begin with whether from chimney or whether from entering through the door, I would recommend first

0:46.2

mental preparation intellectually.

0:48.8

I think create a paradigm of joy that I'm going to do something wonderful for children. Therefore, it sets the

0:58.7

body automatically into more relaxed and fluid and energetic and calm and then when they

1:07.2

take the next action everything flows well. Basically awareness really is

1:12.0

number one. And then breathing calmly and

1:17.0

stepping slowly.

1:19.0

The other thing we know about Santa is that he has a large belly that shakes

1:24.0

shakes like a bowl full of jelly.

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