THE PODCAST

Professor Steve Barnes is a jiu-jitsu black belt and a police officer of more than ten years who has worked as a use-of-force instructor and served on a SWAT team in California. He first tried jiu-ji...

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...

Professor Robson Moura, a multiple-time IBJJF black belt world champion and Hall of Famer with 35 years on the mat, tells Pete and Professor Lucas Rubbo how jiu-jitsu found him as a skinny kid playin...

Coach Andrew Gulla, head coach at Gracie Barra Queen Creek, grew up as a catcher with his dad as his coach, and by his senior year of high school had a state championship, first-team all-state honors...

Professor Reggie Almeida left a corporate career in Brazil, where he worked as a commercial consultant reporting to a CEO, to accept an offer to teach jiu-jitsu in the United States in 2008, at 37, w...

Professor Alex Martinez, a Navy veteran who started jiu-jitsu at 40 and is now an Arizona black belt, academy owner and host of the BJJ Foxcast, joins Pete and Professor Lucas Rubbo for the show's fi...

Mina Burnside, a Gracie Barra brown belt in Arizona, tells Pete and Professor Lucas Rubbo how she started jiu-jitsu in 2013 at 17. Choosing between Taekwondo and jiu-jitsu, she went with the gym that...

Omid Rahimi spent a couple of years in law enforcement, nearly a decade as a wildland firefighter, mostly on hotshot crews, and more years as a city firefighter and EMT, with helicopter rappelling, h...

Professor Chris Fowler is a professional abstract painter and a jiu-jitsu black belt who spent years working in realism before he found his voice by bringing his two loves together. Rather than paint...

Jennifer Vollmann is a triathlete, triathlon coach and mindset coach who has won an extreme triathlon and races at the Ironman distance, yet she did not consider herself an athlete until about age 29...

Tom Dwiggins is an Air Force veteran with more than 30 years in the fire service, fire chief of the Chandler, Arizona fire department since 2016, and a newly promoted black belt. He started jiu-jitsu...

Professor Freddy Trillo spent 30 years in law enforcement in South Florida, including SWAT, and now teaches jiu-jitsu to police officers. In 1992, as a rookie in Opa-locka, a small department with on...