I talk to Sam Kressin, a Black Belt in BJJ who also trained extensively with catch wrestling legend Billy Robinson. Sam is also a talented visual artist with a degree in exercise and sports science and runs Embodied Strength. We discuss how he found jiu-jitsu and...
I talk to Andy From School Of Grappling about the book “Mind Over Muscle: Writings From The Founder Of Judo” By Jigoro Kano. We explore the philosophy of Judo as written and explained by Kano while also discussing his views on physical education and the...
I talk to Rob From McDojoLife. Rob has been a lifelong martial artist with a black belt in Karate and a Purple Belt in Jiu-Jitsu. McDojo life has a massive social media presence that you have likely seen before, where it exposes fakes, frauds and phoneys of the...
I talk to John B Will about four decades of coaching, the craft of class design and how lessons from the mat translate to business, money and life. Australia’s first Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black-belt explains why teaching starts with purpose, why “dessert” techniques can...
I talk to Daniele Bolelli, author, martial artist & university professor. He is the host of multiple podcasts, including the Drunken Daoist podcast, the History on Fire podcast, and a frequent guest on the Joe Rogan Experience. I talked to Daniele Bolelli...
Kano Jigoro lived his life as an excellent teacher and athlete and left a legacy as the founder of Judo. He would start university in 1877; wanting to learn a martial art, he looked for Jiu-Jitsu teachers who would take him on as a student. He figured that the best...
SMART goals are a commonly used framework when talking about goal setting and achieving your goals. Now it’s important not to think of smart goals as the only way to set your goals because it’s merely one framework that you can potentially use. But smart...
The skill acquisition process in martial arts is an incredibly complicated topic with multiple competing theories, each with its own body of research backing them. A simple way to look at this process describes three separate stages of skill acquisition (Cognitive,...
I talk to Priit Mihkelson, A Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt From Estonia and founder of Defensive BJJ. Priit always has a lot of interesting takes on the teaching, training & traditions of Jiu-Jitsu, and after recently relocating his school, I took the chance to ask him...
