The BJJ Fanatics Podcast

By Ryan Ford

Our mission with this podcast is to help YOU grow on the mats! We do this by presenting deep, insightful interviews every week with the best athletes, coaches and legends of BJJ and Grappling. Whether... more

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The podcast currently has 1,290 episodes available.

The BJJ Fanatics Podcast episodes:

August 15, 2017 Episode 211: Rose Gracie
Rose if the founder of Gracie Worlds tournaments. She talks about growing up in the Gracie family, her perspective watching Jiu-Jitsu spread to the US, her views on belt ranks, tournament bias and cannabis use in BJJ and MMA. Click “read more” for show notes!
SHOW NOTES:

* Growing up in the Gracie family
* Grandmaster Helio’s position on the women in the family learning Jiu-Jitsu
* The members of the family she spent the most time with
* A bird’s eye view of the growth of Jiu-Jitsu in the US
* Her father’s path of bringing Jiu-Jitsu to the American masses
* How the UFC changed the martial arts landscape
* Grandmaster Helio’s feelings on spreading Jiu-Jitsu outside Brazil
* Pedro Valente Jr
* How being a female Gracie made dating difficult
* Ryan Gracie / Poop bombs
* Ryan Gracie’s death
* Jiu-Jitsu’s bad reputation in Brazil during the 90’s
* The importance of morals in martial arts
* Her opinion on belt ranks
* Her inspiration to start the Gracie Tournaments
* Bias in tournaments
* Why she believes in the submission only rule set
* Combat Jiu-Jitsu
* Eddie Bravo’s involvement with Gracie Tournaments
* Drug testing
* Her opinion of Cannabis use in BJJ and MMA
* Upcoming Gracie tournaments
* The future for Gracie Tournaments

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1h 32min
August 15, 2017 Episode 211: Rose Gracie
Rose if the founder of Gracie Worlds tournaments. She talks about growing up in the Gracie family, her perspective watching Jiu-Jitsu spread to the US, her views on belt ranks, tournament bias and cannabis use in BJJ and MMA. Click “read more” for show notes!
SHOW NOTES:

* Growing up in the Gracie family
* Grandmaster Helio’s position on the women in the family learning Jiu-Jitsu
* The members of the family she spent the most time with
* A bird’s eye view of the growth of Jiu-Jitsu in the US
* Her father’s path of bringing Jiu-Jitsu to the American masses
* How the UFC changed the martial arts landscape
* Grandmaster Helio’s feelings on spreading Jiu-Jitsu outside Brazil
* Pedro Valente Jr
* How being a female Gracie made dating difficult
* Ryan Gracie / Poop bombs
* Ryan Gracie’s death
* Jiu-Jitsu’s bad reputation in Brazil during the 90’s
* The importance of morals in martial arts
* Her opinion on belt ranks
* Her inspiration to start the Gracie Tournaments
* Bias in tournaments
* Why she believes in the submission only rule set
* Combat Jiu-Jitsu
* Eddie Bravo’s involvement with Gracie Tournaments
* Drug testing
* Her opinion of Cannabis use in BJJ and MMA
* Upcoming Gracie tournaments
* The future for Gracie Tournaments

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1h 32min
August 15, 2017 Episode 211: Rose Gracie
Rose if the founder of Gracie Worlds tournaments. She talks about growing up in the Gracie family, her perspective watching Jiu-Jitsu spread to the US, her views on belt ranks, tournament bias and cannabis use in BJJ and MMA.
...more
1h 32min
August 11, 2017 GCP Community Focus: Javier Palomo
Javier Palomo is a black belt in several martial arts, a purple belt in 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu and a Catch Wrestling instructor. He talks about the value of exploring other grappling styles and different tournament rule sets. Click “read more” for show notes!
SHOW NOTES:

* His recent silver medal at US Combat Wrestling
* His martial arts background
* Differences and similarities among grappling styles
* The value of cross training as a grappler
* Keeping an open mind
* His favorite grappling rule set
* Should all take downs be scored the same?
* The benefit of various rule set options
* The influence Reilly Bodycomb has had on him
* Competing while training with multiple teams and styles
* His advice to grapplers who want to be well rounded

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51min
August 11, 2017 GCP Community Focus: Javier Palomo
Javier Palomo is a black belt in several martial arts, a purple belt in 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu and a Catch Wrestling instructor. He talks about the value of exploring other grappling styles and different tournament rule sets. Click “read more” for show notes!
SHOW NOTES:

* His recent silver medal at US Combat Wrestling
* His martial arts background
* Differences and similarities among grappling styles
* The value of cross training as a grappler
* Keeping an open mind
* His favorite grappling rule set
* Should all take downs be scored the same?
* The benefit of various rule set options
* The influence Reilly Bodycomb has had on him
* Competing while training with multiple teams and styles
* His advice to grapplers who want to be well rounded

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51min
August 11, 2017 GCP Community Focus: Javier Palomo / Well rounded grappling
Javier Palomo is a black belt in several martial arts, a purple belt in 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu and a Catch Wrestling instructor. He talks about the value of exploring other grappling styles and different tournament rule sets
...more
51min
August 10, 2017 Episode 210: Kenny Florian
UFC veteran and Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt Kenny Florian talks about BJJ in the 90’s, positive mentality, managing nerves and emotions and the value of setbacks. He also talks about commentating for the UFC and trades Royce Gracie stories with Ryan. Click “read more” for show notes!
SHOW NOTES:

* His origins
* Jiu-Jitsu in the 90’s
* Ryan and Kenny trade Royce Gracie stories
* Team sports vs martial arts
* The guard
* Breakthroughs in Jiu-Jitsu
* His new academy in Los Angeles, Meraki Jiu-Jitsu
* The life changing experience that made him pursue Jiu-Jitsu full time
* The beginning of his MMA career
* Striking for Jiu-Jitsu
* Being coachable
* Managing nerves and emotions while under pressure
* Training at Tri-Star
* The value of setbacks
* The biggest obstacle Jiu-Jitsu has helped him overcome
* His decision to retire from MMA
* His commentary career

Check out the tournament Kenny is a part of, KASAI Elite Grappling!
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1h 22min
August 10, 2017 Episode 210: Kenny Florian
UFC veteran and Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt Kenny Florian talks about BJJ in the 90’s, positive mentality, managing nerves and emotions and the value of setbacks. He also talks about commentating for the UFC and trades Royce Gracie stories with Ryan. Click “read more” for show notes!
SHOW NOTES:

* His origins
* Jiu-Jitsu in the 90’s
* Ryan and Kenny trade Royce Gracie stories
* Team sports vs martial arts
* The guard
* Breakthroughs in Jiu-Jitsu
* His new academy in Los Angeles, Meraki Jiu-Jitsu
* The life changing experience that made him pursue Jiu-Jitsu full time
* The beginning of his MMA career
* Striking for Jiu-Jitsu
* Being coachable
* Managing nerves and emotions while under pressure
* Training at Tri-Star
* The value of setbacks
* The biggest obstacle Jiu-Jitsu has helped him overcome
* His decision to retire from MMA
* His commentary career

Check out the tournament Kenny is a part of, KASAI Elite Grappling!
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1h 22min
August 10, 2017 GCP Episode 210: Kenny Florian
UFC veteran and Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt Kenny Florian talks about BJJ in the 90's, positive mentality, managing nerves and emotions and the value of setbacks. He also talks about commentating for the UFC and trades Royce Gracie stories with Ryan.
...more
1h 22min
August 08, 2017 Episode 209: Raf Esparza
Comedian, Writer and Co-Host of The Verbal Tap Podcast Raf Esparza joins the show to talk about Professional Wrestling moves that work in Jiu-Jitsu, Ryan’s shattered childhood dreams of being a pro wrestler, the direction of the UFC and running the USSGL. Click “read more” for show notes!
SHOW NOTES:

* His origins
* Switching from No-Gi to Gi
* Professional Wrestling moves in Jiu-Jitsu
* Abdullah The Butcher / Hardcore Wrestling
* Ryan’s shattered childhood dreams of being a pro wrestler
* The correlations between Pro Wrestling and MMA
* The entertainment focused direction of the UFC
* US Submission Grappling League
* Some of the difficulties of running a tournament
* Working with kids
* His future plans in Jiu-Jitsu

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1h 14min

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How many episodes does The BJJ Fanatics Podcast have?

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