THE PODCAST

Julian Torres joined the Marine Corps in 2007 as a machine gunner and was on the fast track, already five ranks up in three years, when he stepped on an IED about four weeks into his 2010 deployment ...

Professor Vivi Almeida is a first-degree black belt under her husband Flavio Almeida, her brother Marcio Feitosa and Master Carlos Gracie Jr., and one of the people working hardest to bring more wome...

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...

Back from a five-week break, Pete and Professor Lucas Rubbo talk about Lucas's first trip home to Brazil in five years. He admits he spent the first few days criticizing narrow streets and motorcycle...

Pete and Professor Lucas Rubbo compare how a beginner and an expert make decisions on the mat: when you are thinking, and when you are simply reacting. Lucas argues that the instincts that look effor...

Recorded the day before Thanksgiving 2022, ten days ahead of a belt promotion at their gym, this conversation finds Pete and Professor Lucas Rubbo asking why jiu-jitsu has belts at all and why the ce...

Pete and Professor Lucas Rubbo ask whether jiu-jitsu is an individual sport or a team sport, and Lucas calls it "the most individual team sport ever." You fight alone on competition day, he says, not...

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...

Pete and Professor Lucas Rubbo, who says 65 to 70 percent of his coaching is with kids, make the case for jiu-jitsu as a parent's choice alongside football, ballet or soccer. Lucas explains why size ...

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...