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Malachy and I got back together to continue our discussion, including:
1. Championship Mindset.
2. How we can beat people who are better than us by taking them into a part of our game that may be better than theirs.
3. How to improve while injured.
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On this episode Malachy joined me to discuss:
1. His "JREAM" Podcast.
2. Adapting to injury.
3. What made him interested in producing grappling instructional DVD's.
4. His conceptual approach to Jiu-Jitsu as a coach and player.
5. Using concepts to "cheat" techniques and get ahead of your opponents.
6. Game Planning with Kimbo Slice for his Ken Shamrock fight.
7. MMA Game Planning exercise (Max Holloway v. Volkanovsky).
8. A look at MMA matchups and why the style of the fighters is more important than ranking in any matchup.
9. Ways to improve BJJ competition (creating a viable overtime option, and ways to fix the advantage in IBJJF)
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Luis Joined me to discuss:
1. Safe training in busy academies, and why even as a seasoned judoka he recommends most rolls start with one person up and one person down in guard.
2. How Judo teaches effortless domination through kuzushi and how to translate that to BJJ and grappling.
3. Sweep theory he learned from Kit Dale.
4. Why the simplest moves are the best even in creating dilemmas.
5. Learning from Sensei Youtube.
6. Origins of the Blue Belt Mafia.
7. Being trained and ranked up to Brown Belt by a fake Black Belt, demoting himself and working back up from White to Purple.
8. The first callout ever on The Old Rollers Podcast.
Check out the Blue Belt Mafia on Facebook or at www.bluebeltmafia.com.
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Matt is a brown belt under Nick "Chewy" Albin at Derby City MMA. This interview was conducted while he was competing in the Professional Grappling Federation's round robin tournament. The PGF scoring system only gives points for submissions, with emphasis on chokes or "kills" because they are worth more than two times the point value for joint locks.
Matt joined me to discuss:
1. His start in Jiu-Jitsu.
2. Early days getting humbled and how he dealt with it.
3. The PGF (Professional Grappling Federation) point structure, and how his triangle game plays into moving up the ranks in that tournament.
4. Training and recovery for the PGF weekly match structure as an older competitor (39).
5. Building a game plan around his triangle game that includes wrestling and top game.
6. Switching gyms to train at Derby City MMA with Nick "Chewy" Albin.
7. Mat culture at DCMMA.
Check out the PGF youtube page here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/TenthPlanetDecatur
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If you only listen to one episode of this podcast let it be this one or maybe episode 1.
This interview with Tom Corrie completely changed my mentality on longevity. I don't want to put traditional show notes on it, and have gone back and forth with what to add.
Listen to this episode beginning to end, as I have done multiple times and tell me you don't leave it with a different attitude and sense of possibility after you finish than you had when you started.
I can only say that whether The Old Rollers Podcast is "successful" or not by any traditional metric of podcast success, having done this interview and how it has affected me and my BJJ journey has made this adventure worth it lock, stock, and barrel.
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Kent joined me to discuss:
1. Learning from DVD's and YouTube.
2. Building a BJJ community and cultivating a positive culture in a BJJ club.
3. Being a teacher from the time he was a white belt and turning that experience into a business as a teacher.
4. Note taking techniques.
5. ERM BERRRRRS!!
6. How to learn from the haters in YouTube comments.
7. BJJ is a mental health activity.
8. How to run a class.
9. Why the students who rep the technique taught in class the most are always the ones that improve the fastest over time.
10. Giving a game plan to a student for rolls and competitions and how that can drive student retention.
11. Why losing in training drives learning.
10. His Tozi Pass tutorial on YouTube which has had a huge impact on me. Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkkZ0PE-w-I
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On this episode Dr. Ron Pavkovich AKA Uncle Ronnie joined me to discuss:
1. His decision to change career paths from Law Enforcement to the Medical Field via Physical Therapy.
2. Common injuries he sees with BJJ athletes in his practice.
3. Injury prevention and reduction through Strength and Conditioning and Mobility work.
4. The benefits of coming to class when you can't roll due to injury.
5. How to pick a PT if you do a sport like BJJ.
6. Modifying your game to accommodate acute or chronic injuries to stay on the mat and continue to improve.
7. Longevity benefits of Warm-ups and Cool-downs for BJJ athletes.
8. Balancing training load for ligament and tendon health.
9. Why sleep is the biggest key to recovery.
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In this episode Sean joined me to discuss:
1. The early days of MMA in the USA.
2. Competing in the UFC at the age of 18.
3. Transitioning from Kickboxing to MMA.
4. Why Buffalo, NY is the ultimate party city.
5. Joining the Lions Den, and mistakes made/lessons learned during his time there.
6. Meeting and learning from John Saylor.
7. How cultural norms affect grappling traditions and why SAMBO culture was the best fit for him.
8. How adaptation and change is required as an athlete ages both in technique and strength and conditioning needs.
9. Taking the driver's seat in training and injury rehab.
10. The Apache Leg Pin System and Scythe Armbar system. Check out his seminar here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K33NOcVatII&t=383s
11. How armlocks and leg locks are related.
12 How a wrist injury led him to develop "hands-free" submission finishes and ultimately upped his finishing skills.
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On this episode Jason Clark joins me to discuss:
1. How Jason introduced me to Jiu-Jitsu.
2. Jason's intro to BJJ from a friend with a VHS tape of UFC 2 while he was in the military.
3. Early days at the Relson Gracie Academy in Hawaii.
4. Getting his blue belt from Royce Gracie.
5. Sparring with strikes.
6. Why removing strikes allowed even self defense jiu-jitsu to evolve.
7. Grappling with weapons.
8. His time as a research scientist studying kidney development and birth defects, and how that experienced informed his jiujitsu journey.
9. Why you should put your BJJ belt rank on every resume.
10. The "1 Year Rule" from Angela Duckworth's book "Grit."
11. How he structures his classes and why he emphasizes culture in his youth and adult classes.
12. His scholarship offer for LEO's.
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On this episode Brian Freeman discusses:
1. His introduction to BJJ through his daughter.
2. Meeting his BJJ instructor and coming up with a training plan based on his abilities.
3. Why we are all adaptive athletes in one way or another.
4. Coming to his first class and learning to move in new ways organically through BJJ training and trial and error.
5. Adjusting concepts to his body, and its abilities and disabilities.
6. Using BJJ competition as a training stimulus vs. just going to win or lose.
7. How Kyle Maynard influenced his BJJ journey.
8. Having a game built around attacking from unorthodox or bad positions.
9. Why 40 is the best age for a BJJ athlete.
10. Life lessons from Renzo Gracie.
11. Why coming to class when injured is still beneficial even when rolling is not an option.
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In this episode, Alex discusses:
1. The origins of the G-Roll.
2. Self defense and MMA case for knee shield and G-roll.
3. Competition game planning and how and why to only fight on your terms.
4. S. W. O. T. Analysis. (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) for the competitor and for the recreational practitioner.
5. Structuring the class for optimal skill development.
6. Why we must embrace suffering to improve and how Jiu-Jitsu is a great method of personal growth through suffering.
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On this episode Dr. John Lee discusses leadership and cultures, and how they drive outcomes. How to create and maintain a culture of excellence.
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On this episode my coach Michael Seals and I discuss lessons learned from the first 11 episodes of The Old Rollers Podcast.
I wanted to bring him on to get his perspective as a Black Belt and grappler with a lot more experience than me.
I am really grateful that Mike has agreed to do a series of these recap episodes, because he really helps me put in perspective the most important elements of the shows that I have the privilege to record with such amazing guests.
If you are new to the show this is a great place to find out what episodes you want to check out.
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In this episode Lachlan Giles, the Giant Killer of ADCC 2019 joined me and gave a master class on injury prevention and modulating training intensity and volume for the competitive athlete and the hobbyist.
Highlights for this episode are too many to list, but I'll try anyway:
1. How to create a skill acquisition phase of your training leading up to competition, and transition to a body tempering competition phase.
2. How Craig Jones used a very light rolling style to learn technical solutions up through the belt ranks then turned on his athleticism later when his skill base was ready.
3. How to schedule technical learning, drilling, positional sparring, and open rolling to maximize development in minimal time.
4. How he game planned for ADCC, and lessons learned from that experience.
5. How his competition game has evolved and why certain rolling styles don't lend themselves to competitive acumen over time.
Lachlan's YouTube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVX5F9uZyzzSI9juQRp_2Hw
Lachlan has instructional dvd's available at BJJFanatics.com you can use the code LACHLAN10 for a 10% discount.
He also has some material available at grapplersguide.com use the code LACHLAN for a discount there as well.
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On this Episode Rob Biernacki joins me to discuss:
1. Concepts based instruction, what it is and how we can use it as teachers and practitioners to speed up problem-solving.
2. Why BJJ's de-centralized nature has advantages for the evolution of the sport and art, but has limitations in that we don't have a codified shared language of techniques and movement.
3. Why games such as his famous "fuck your Jiu-Jitsu" can speed up learning in domains where it can be difficult to pick up on things that seem to be "intangibles" such as guard retention and sweep prevention.
4. Why play is such an efficient way to learn.
5. Why longevity and skill acquisition are interrelated.
6. Why competition accelerates learning.
7. Goal setting and how it relates to skill and longevity. Think "start with the end in mind" ala Josh Waitzkin's book "The Art of Learning."
8. How to create excellent BJJ practitioners rather than just select for toughness or innate talent.
9. How to use Roger Gracie's method to get great training with lower-ranked individuals, while building them up to be better and better partners.
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In this episode, Vlad Koulikov was gracious enough to join us for a discussion on a wide range of topics such as:
1. His early grappling and MMA career.
2. How his training and diet had to change after 35 and especially after 40.
3. How to modulate intensity and listen to the body in both grappling and strength and conditioning.
4. The effect that the Dan Gable "Grinder" mentality has had on American grappling culture, and how it could negatively affect skill development and longevity.
5. Strength and conditioning, and gymnastic movements and how they have helped his grappling.
6. The culture he tries to infuse in his academy and why culture is so important.
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In this episode, Mike Mihas AKA Mr. Jiu-Jitsu tells us about:
1. The early days of BJJ and MMA in America.
2. How BJJ has evolved since then both technically and culturally and how social media has affected it.
3. Sport Jiu-Jitsu Vs. Self Defense Jiu-Jitsu, and why it doesn't matter that much in a fight which style you practice in the gym. Ex. No one pulls guard in an actual fight.
4. Mistakes he made in his training and things he has done that YOU SHOULDN'T.
5. What pitfalls cause people to quit and how to avoid them.
6. How to use open mats to prepare for your first tournament.
7. How Jiu-Jitsu has changed him and made him a better person.
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In this episode Dr. James Escaloni discusses:
1. His early days in grappling, and becoming a Physical Therapist.
2. How to modulate strength and conditioning with grappling so that we can always recover, but also perform at our peak.
3. How to listen to the body and temper our muscles and joints in different movement planes so that we can "bullet-proof" our body to the stressors of Jiu-Jitsu and grappling.
4. How to select a gym or academy based on culture, and why that will make injury less likely.
5. How to select training and rolling partners, and how to help new grapplers become great training partners.
6. Time Management, and how to balance strength training, grappling, work, family, and life.
7. How to prepare ourselves to be "athletic" via athletic development protocols that are often seen in kids, and how to put them to work for the Old Rollers.
8. Methods of increasing the longevity of our athletic performance via strength and conditioning, diet, and recovery. (it sounds complex but he breaks it down into a few simple steps that will work for EVERYONE)
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On this episode Strength and Conditioning Coach Jim Laird shares his take on:
1. Why turning your training down a notch can speed your rate of improvement.
2. How the Russian Wrestling Team influenced his thoughts on rolling *hint* they prioritize skill development over intensity.
3. Why a Strength and Conditioning Coach would rather his BJJ athletes focus on efficiency and only use strength in reserve.
4. Why every training protocol must be supportive of the trainee's needs and goals, and every protocol will be different based on an individual's needs.
5. Why we must recover as hard as we train. We must "work in" in order to be able to work out.
6. Why walking in nature can boost our recovery from training.
7. How to "shut off" after evening training for those of us who have a hard time going to sleep after class.
Reach out to Jim at Gymlaird.com or look him up on facebook, instagram, or his youtube channel by searching for Jim Laird.
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On this episode Joel talks about:
1. His early days wrestling on the US Air Force "All Air Force Wrestling Team.
2. Meeting and training under Sean Daugherty.
3. The "My tie or no tie" concept, and how to apply it in any grappling scenario.
4. Why technique wins, but conditioning is so important.
5. Strength and Conditioning, and accepting limitations while working around them.
6. What he wants his personal legacy and the legacy of Snake Pit U.S.A. to be.
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