Professor Todd Fox has been a Marine, a soldier, a SWAT officer and a no-holds-barred fighter, and today he trains military and law enforcement teams, advises film and television productions and runs security for major music tours. A fourth-degree black belt who trained under Rickson Gracie, he explains why the principles of jiu-jitsu stay the same on a sport mat, in a SWAT entry and on a film set, but the way they are trained has to change completely when the consequence is life or death, from simunition drills and fighting against cars on concrete to box breathing that pushes back tunnel vision.

Todd lays out the thoughts, emotions and behaviors model for handling stress and why small, repeated exposures are the real inoculation, advice Pete takes to heart two days before his own tournament. He shares stories of training Guy Ritchie, Jason Statham and Brad Pitt, and of Hollywood choosing what looks cool over what is real, because "if there is no consequence for action, why would I change my behavior?" He also tells of a student who was always the nail and never the hammer for three years, then turned up fifteen years later as a brown belt, and closes with his books, including Underpinning, written for jiu-jitsu instructors who teach police.

In this episode

• 0:00 Welcome
• 1:16 Meet Professor Todd Fox
• 3:20 Training for life-or-death consequences
• 10:40 Realistic training without a tap
• 13:56 Controlling the adrenaline dump
• 19:19 Stress inoculation and the TEB model
• 23:32 Nerves before Pete's tournament
• 28:39 Advising Hollywood on authenticity
• 34:05 Training Guy Ritchie and his crew
• 41:24 The student who was always the nail
• 46:47 Writing books on security
• 49:58 Underpinning: jiu-jitsu for police
• 58:19 Fear, humility and the truth
• 1:01:33 Where to find Todd's work

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