The Lockdown Chronicles

This week its the turn of Randy McElwee. Randy is an retired Green Beret, Pedro Sauer Black belt as well as a number of other black belts in different arts. We discussed his course that is designed to develop the skills of law enforcement in the current difficult climate and as always we picked his brain about his favorite Jiu Jitsu philosophies. You can find his academy at https://www.athensjiujitsu.com/

This week we had a great conversation with Kristen DeBruycker, Pedro Sauer Black Belt about being a keen kids instructor and developing their skills. We also talked about weight cutting for combat sports and the effect that can have on mental health especially for younger adults. We then discuss getting Women into Jiu Jitsu and tips for someone new starting as well as how guys should help a new woman starting and creating the best dynamic in your school. As always we cant wait to be back on the mats and getting to train with great people like Kristen. Check out the school she part own in Charlottesville Gracie Charlottesville: https://graciecharlottesville.com/

We are back in another lockdown and that means the podcast is back. This week we catch up with everything since last time and talk about the top 10 martial arts films that we think are essential viewing.

We sat down with Jeff Curran who is a veteran of all of the major MMA promotions as well being a Pedro Sauer 4th Degree. We talked about fighting and the psychology and nerves involved compared to Jiu Jitsu. Jeff also talked about the amazing experience of filming the instructional videos back in the day with Master Sauer. We also talked about Jeff's upcoming release of his online system www.jeffcurran.tv

This weeks podcast was a great one. We talked to David about the Philosophy of Jiu Jitu and all of the mental and social benefits it can bring as well as the life skills it can develop. I hope everyone will get as much as we did from this and its one i will keep going back to again and again.

Had a great chat with Geoff who is Blackbelt under Master Pedro Sauer. We chatted about all things Jiu Jitsu, how he started and we discussed the base and benifits that other martial arts can help or hinder learning Gracie Jiu Jitsu.

This week we sat down just the three of us to discuss everything that we had learned from the last 13 podcasts and mull over some of the things we have been thinking about regarding Jiu Jitsu. We worried we would have nothing to talk about but that was far from the case.

We sat down with Eddie Kone for a great chat about all things Gracie Jiu Jitsu. Eddie is a strong advocate for Gracie Jiu Jitsu and teaching the self defence curriculum that he learnt from the Gracie family and the community that can be built for people sharing the 'martial science', we hope you enjoy this one as much as we did.

In this episode we have a great talk with Cam Sobey. Cam is a Blackbelt under Master Sauer and Philip Grapsas. We had a great chat and got to delve in in as usual to Cams teaching philosophy, the online programme he has written to keep students engaged and how he believes it will help with learning.

What a pleasure to chat with Bill Jones, owner of Top Level Martial Arts and 2nd Degree Black Belt under Master Pedro Sauer. We talked about Big Guy Jiu Jitsu and how he structures his game as well as our usual theme of concepts and when the became clear for him as well as our usual rambling style. Enjoy!