Stout Training

Pat Santoro is currently the head wrestling coach at Lehigh University.  He’s had good success both as a head and as an assistant coach in all of the college programs he has been involved in.  In addition to this...

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In this episode  Daniel Gracie gives great advice for BJJ competitors and practitioners on building a personal game.  He gets into the controversial subject of team loyalty and why it is important for students to reach their potential in Jiu...

"There is never a good time to do the wrong thing and there is never a wrong time to do the right thing" - David Reese talking about some life/training lessons from some of his teachers.

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In this interview Kru David Reese talks about how he spent 7 years fighting out of a Thai training cam in Thailand.  He gives some training and learning advice.  One emphasis is on the uniqueness of the art in Thailand, how it is trained, how fighters grow up in fight camps and how it differs from Muay Thai or Kickboxing in Europe and the USA.  He also talks about his goals for teaching and training fighters at Stout Training Pittsburgh.  We talk about upcoming events such as the trip at the end of 2016 to 13 Coins and other camps in Thailand as well as the Pittsburgh's first all Muay Thai fight card.  If your interested in Muay Thai, MMA or any fight sport there is lots of good takeaways for your.  If you are thinking of starting Muay Thai, MMA, or Kickboxing this will be a great introduction to the differences and similarities of these sports.

 

“There is never a good time to do the wrong thing and there is never a wrong time to do the right thing” – David Reese talking about some life/training lessons from some of his teachers. In this interview Kru...

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This interview was recorded at Edge Hoboken 9/14/2016. Dave Esposito discusses topics relating to teaching wrestling for Brazilian Jiu Jitsu athletes and MMA fighters. Dave is a two time all American NCAA wrestler and one of the best takedown artists...

In this podcast we talk about nuances of IBJJF rules and  Brazilian Jiu Jitsu competition strategy.   Alexandre Oliviera is an  active IBJJF referee.  He’s also an active competitor on the IBJJF circuit at Black Belt.  He has won and...

In this Podcast we discuss Belt Rank and Belt Promotions in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

A short bio of some of the people speaking are:

Warren Stout

Former DI wrestler at Lehigh U., Renzo Gracie Black Belt, former competitor in amateur MMA and black belt adult IBJJF Jiu Jitsu competitions, head jiu jitsu instructor at Stout Training Pittsburgh -Team Renzo Gracie.

Mike Wilkins

Former highschool wrestling coach, MMA Fighter (7-2 amateur, 7-2 pro as of 2016), brown belt in BJJ.

Andy Anderson

Amateur MMA fighter, blue belt in jiu jitsu, former JC  wrestler.

Logan Stout

Grappling competitor, purple belt in bjj, former high school wrestling standout.

Some of the specifics include:

* Getting advice from upper belts who are not formally in a teaching role. 1:00

* How Mike felt differently when he got promoted to purple vs when he got Brown.  3:00

* With rise of popularity of MMA and no-gi grappling does belt promotion and belt rank still matter?6:30

* Skill levels of any given belt rank now in 2016 vs six or eight years ago. 11:30

* Positive aspects of Belt rank for competitors and non-competitors

* Biggest misconception or problem with student about belt rank. 18:25

* criteria for specific promotions at Stout Training - Team Renzo Gracie 27:00

* Warren's belt promotions stories. 39:00

* Warren's black belt and the promotions in 2010 in NYC.  41:45

* Mike's closing point of how special belt promotions can be. 49:00