North Leeds Jitz

This week on the show we are joined by one of our founder members Nicky Simpson. 

Nic has many accolades to her name, here are just a few: she's been a firefighter for over 12, a high-level cross-fit competitor, a Muay Thai fighter, an International rugby player and she is also one of a few REORG sponsored athletes. 

Last year she was promoted to blue belt on the podium after winning her division at the English Open. She now continues to train alongside the rest of her family here at GBRL.

You can follow Nicola on Instagram here: @nsimo26

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This week on the show we are joined by our culture and care champion - Sarah, known to everyone at the academy by her nickname 'Sopes'.

Sopes was one of the earliest founding members of the academy along with the rest of her family.

She has since competed and done incredibly well already earning her blue belt. 

You can keep up with Sopes here: @sazzle891

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This week on the show we discuss how to stay motivated and disciplined with your training even when the going gets tough!   We also give advice on how to train in new study hall sessions, discuss the upcoming Kendall Reusing seminar in February and the other planned events for the year.

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This week on the show we throwback to May 2018 when Coach T interviewed Prof. Khalil for the first time.   Unfortunately, the team caught covid this week so it's not a recent episode but we'll be back to a regular routine next week!

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This week on the show we are again joined by Prof. Adisa to discuss Miyamoto Musashi's thoughts and concepts, seeing if we can relate what he wrote about 400 years ago can be applied to BJJ today. 

Check Adisa out on Instagram: @bishopchronicles 

The book we discuss: Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era

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This week on the show we catch up with Prof. Adisa Banjoko after he delivered an excellent seminar here at GBRL. 

We discuss what he's been up to since we saw him last including getting his black belt. We also discuss his plans for 2022.

Check Adisa out on Instagram: @bishopchronicles 

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This week on the show we had the pleasure of being joined by Professor Stefan Zoll. 

Prof. Stefan is a 2nd-degree black belt under Ricardo Liborio and owner / founder of BLKLAB Jiu Jitsu in Saudi Arabia.

Stefan is a renaissance man having been a former professional footballer, a competitive chess player, an expert in languages and linguistics, music composer and of course a Brazillian Jiu Jitsu black belt.

Check Stefan out here: @stefanzoll

Check his school out here: @blklabjiujitsu

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This week on the show we are joined by Professor Khalil Bostan who was recently promoted to back belt by Victor Estima.

We discuss Khalil's BJJ journey reminiscing with Prof. Mike about their early days of training together.

Check out Coach T's 2018 interview with Khalil here: T1EP5

Follow Khalil here: @khalillbostan

Catch him for a class at @gracie_barra_harrogate

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This week on the show we are joined by the owner and CEO of ONE Championship and Evolve MMA - Chatri Sityodtong

Chatri has an amazing and inspirational story to tell growing up in Thailand training Muay Thai, going to Harvard University to study Business and living off $4 per day to eventually starting ONE championship which is now the 7th biggest sports property in the world.

Learn more about Chatri here: https://youtu.be/lE_6zT32Mz4

https://chatrisityodtong.com/story/

Follow Chatri and ONE here:

@yodchatri

@onechampionship

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This week on the show Coach T is in Roger Gracie Academy HQ joined by Professor Oscar Gugala.

Oscar is both an instructor and an accomplished competitor having just won double gold at the English Open.

 We discuss Oscar's journey from growing up in Poland to living and teaching in London.

Follow Oscar here: @oscargugalabjj

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