Episode 4

Liz Goodman is an amateur MMA fighter and BJJ Purple belt from the Midwest. Liz speaks on women in MMA and her journey into the sport of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. With assistance from the professor, Liz has helped build a large BJJ women’s program at Pinnacle University. She is highly motivated to continue to grow the program and incorporate her other venture Adaptive Adventures everywhere she can!

Marc Von Ahnen is a comic book fan from Des Moines, Iowa, who created a comic book as a homage to some of his favorite movies like Jaws or Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, and Army of Darkness. It is called Ahab Van Helsing vs Nosferatu Carcharodon. A comic about a vampire that gets eaten by a great white shark and becomes a vampire shark. In addition to discussing his work, the conversation goes into a deeper conversation about helping people who have been in a tough situation and also even discusses air guitars.

Jason Keaton, or “Blind Fury”, is a Black Belt in Brazilian Jiujitsu under Master Renato Tavares. Jason began training Martial arts early in life with wrestling at the Kentucky School for the Blind. Wrestling taught him the value of hard work and self-discipline. At 14 he started training Wing Chun under Louisville KY’s legendary Grandmaster Henry Cook and Master Dan Shipp. Jason later discovered Brazilian Jiujitsu and began devoting his time to training and competing MMA at Four Seasons MMA in Lexington, Ky.

Jason Keaton has fought in the King of the Cage, Kentucky Fighting Challenge, Extreme Combat Challenge, Kaizen Challenge, Rage on the River and other promotions. Jason is also Brazilian Jiujitsu 2nd Degree Black Belt under Master Renato Tavares. Jason is the first American black belt under Master Tavares.

In addition to being a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu he also holds rank as black belt in Sambo and a brown belt in Judo. As a Level 4 combatives instructor at Ft. Benning, GA and FT. Knox, KY Jason has trained over 10,000 soldiers including UFC fighter Dan Barrera and Strikeforce/UFC fighter Lorenz ”The Monsoon”” Larkin.

Jason loves teaching and guiding Adults and Children in the art of Jiujitsu to help them better their lives and living the Jiujitsu Lifestyle!

Episode 1

Comments on the most recent political debate that just occurred and a deeper conversation about life in the military.

Welcome to the Life By The Grip podcast! A podcast based on point of views. One person who spent a life in the military and one person bringing perspective from the civilian life. Both artists by nature with plenty to say!

We welcome you to the the party by talking In this first episode we talk a wide variety of topics ranging from BJJ to Aaron's military experiences to politics to the pandemic!