HeyJaredThe Grappling Monthly Podcast
The Grappling Monthly Podcast celebrates the art, the community, and the culture of grappling. Join host Sébastien Maniatopoulos as he chats with guests from around the grappling world.
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Leaving the Office Job For the Jiu-Jitsu Mats | A Conversation with Beatrice Jin (opens the original)
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"My job is to teach jiu-jitsu, not to train jiu-jitsu... But my dream is to train jiu-jitsu." Beatrice Jin is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt who teaches, competes, and helps run Kogaion Academy in Arlington, Virginia. She found BJJ eight years ago, by accident, after moving to Washington, DC for an internship with plans to become a journalist. She does not consider herself an intuitive grappler, and that has shaped how she learns: through systems, high volumes of positional sparring, and delib
How Do You Show Up As A Black Belt? | A Conversation with Professor Mike "Murdah" Carrasco (opens the original)
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"I don't know if I found jiu jitsu so much as it found me." Mike "Murdah" Carrasco is a Brazilian jiu jitsu black belt, DJ, bboy, and artist who trains at Legacy Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in Burbank and teaches nogi at Matspace in Burbank. This conversation is about approaching grappling as a game rather than a contest, and what that changes: how long you last in the sport, what you learn from a new partner, how you carry a BJJ black belt into someone else's gym, and how much of your identity jiu jits
Jiu-Jitsu, Parenthood and the Long Game | Ariane Dang & Steven Harty, Mizu Studio Montreal (opens the original)
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What does it mean to build a life around jiu-jitsu when the rest of your life refuses to stay the same? Professor Ariane Dang and Stephen Harty join The Grappling Monthly Podcast at Mizu Studio in Montreal for a conversation about Brazilian jiu-jitsu as a long-term practice rather than a fixed identity. Both are BJJ black belts whose relationships with the art have changed over time. Competition, teaching, relationships, parenthood, work, and the simple reality of getting older all alter what tr
I Don't Remember Life Before Jiu-Jitsu | A Conversation with Nicholas Guillemette (opens the original)
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Nicholas Guillemette teaches full time at Team Evolution HQ in Gatineau, Quebec which is located in Canada's National Capital Region. He started at five, quit completely from sixteen to nineteen, and has trained full time since coming back. Our conversation is one about finding your limits. Where they sit, how he found it, and what he will not spend to cross it. We talk training volume, lifting, what a heavyweight owes the room when he rolls at somebody else's gym. Why wrestling changed his comp
Not All Good Fighters Make Good Coaches | A Conversation with Prof. King Osimco (opens the original)
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Professor King Osimco started jiu-jitsu in Iloilo, in the Panay region of the Philippines, at a point when there was no affiliated gym in his hometown and instruction came from downloaded videos. He trained in the United Arab Emirates on a four-day emergency response rotation, riding two hours each way to reach a mat. He is now a black belt, one of the head coaches at Centre Evolution HQ in Gatineau, and the director of its Muay Thai and MMA programs. This conversation covers the whole route, we
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