The Jiu Jitsu Mindset Podcast · Interviews
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Pete and his professor, Lucas Rubbo, try to make sense of jiu-jitsu's crowded competition scene for anyone used to one Super Bowl champion. Lucas explains how the IBJJF grew out of Brazil, holding it...
In the show's second episode, Pete Deeley and Professor Lucas Rubbo take on the most basic question: why should anyone learn jiu-jitsu? Lucas lists the obvious boxes, fun, fitness and friends, then a...
Pete and Professor Lucas Rubbo walk through what the first four weeks of jiu-jitsu look like for three kinds of beginners: young kids, young athletes and older or injured adults. For children, Lucas ...
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...
Professor Philipe Della Monica, a fourth-degree black belt who leads the Gracie Barra academy in Irvine and coaches professional MMA fighters, joins Pete and Professor Lucas Rubbo. He started jiu-jit...
Welcome to "The Jiu-Jitsu Mindset" podcast, with your hosts Peter M. Deeley Jr. and Professor Lucas Rubbo. In this episode, we have the pleasure of welcoming Mr. Mark Schultz, a distinguished figure ...
