The Nicholas Gregoriades Show

Ryan Ford is host of one of the best jiu jitsu shows around, the Grappling Central Podcast. In addition to that, he’s a super-interesting guy with some wonderful stories of his time spent training at the legendary De La Riva academy in Brazil. He also has great insights into what it takes to survive as a full-time professional in the jiu jitsu industry.

Check out Ryan’s fantastic Grappling Central Podcast.

verything you've ever dreamed of achieving in combat sports Robert Drysdale has already done - he's an ADCC champion, BJJ World Champion, MMA star and owner of a successful academy in Las Vegas.

Robert has now turned his focus to the history of jiu jitsu, traveling to both Japan and Brazil to find out the truth about the roots of the art and its unsung heroes.

Check out Robert's Closed Guard movie project or visit his academy website.

Successful public speaker and author of the excellent Motivation: Stories on Life and Success from Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Black Belts, Chuck Rylant joins us to share actionable ways of achieving your goals both on and off the mat.

Check out Chuck’s site.

Brian Jones has an extremely impressive set of certifications in the fields of exercise science and strength and conditioning. He’s used this knowledge in combination with his 2nd degree black belt to create training programs that are valuable to any grappling athlete.

Brian discusses these programs as well as his trip to train an obscure form of grappling in Iceland.

Check out Brian’s academy website.

As a former military man, Gerald Garland has travelled the world and 'seen some shit' to say the least. Gerald is the type of person that everyone is always happy to see on the mats - he radiates positivity and is always willing to help.

After finally finding happiness with wife number 4, Gerald shares the lessons he's learned the hard way on how to maintain a successful relationship while also remaining devoted to jiu jitsu.

Whenever brown belt Huntley Smith engages with something, he does so with total commitment and devotion, and jiu jitsu is no exception.

Huntley's relentless pursuit of excellence has created an unparalleled learning environment at his academy, and he shares some of his teaching strategies with us.

Check out Huntley's Podcast

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There is nobody who has immersed themselves more fully into the jiu jitsu lifestyle than Roger Gracie black belt Oliver Geddes.

Not only has he had over 1000 competitive matches and refereed hundreds more, but he also travels the world teaching full-time.

Oli talks about his life on the road and shares the secrets to his amazing physical transformation and rapid jiu jitsu progress.

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Despite being relatively isolated from the jiu jitsu world on the tiny island of Trinidad, brown belt Rondel Benjamin has made some very astute observations about the training process and how to perfect it.

Rondel also talks about the similarities between free-diving and jiu jitsu. He explains how we can become more integrated beings and thus better jiu jitsu athletes.

Check out Rondel's academy page

Ninjitsu is one of the least understood of all the martial arts. It’s not, as commonly believed, all about sneaking and assassination.

Ninja and BJJ black belt Simon Yeo joins us to set the record straight and delivers some wisdom on business, touring with Royce in Japan and the art of buying $20K swords at auctions.

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World renowned instructor and Rickson Gracie black belt Henry Akins relates the highs and lows of his incredible jiu jitsu journey.

Henry gives us an open and honest account of how the death of one of his best friends and training partners almost caused him to quit

jiu jitsu. He also gives an amazing account of how a 40-year old Rickson was able to beat Saulo Ribeiro during an intense sparring

session.

This is one of our best episodes - don't miss it!

Check out Henry's site.