The Jiu Jitsu Mindset Podcast · Interviews
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Keith Steinacher was 29, a former high school heavyweight wrestler lifting weights at a local wellness center, when he walked past a room of white belts rolling on mats and got thoroughly beaten by a...
Professor Corey Guitard, who runs 10th Planet Calgary, started jiu-jitsu in January 2012, the same month he started graduate school in political science. He was teaching research methods as a TA and ...
Professor Jason Hawkins returns to walk through two passages from his book, Light on the Gentle Art: The Jiu-Jitsu Sutras. He explains what a sutra is, a short and deliberately vague saying meant to ...
Pete and Professor Lucas Rubbo talk about what kids gain from jiu-jitsu and from competing. Lucas sees children's problem-solving grow over a matter of weeks, and tells the story of a student who had...
Professor Sam Joseph walked away from a career in telecom sales leadership to open his own academy, putting his life savings into a few thousand square feet with no students and building it into a tr...
Welcome to another episode of "The Jiu-Jitsu Mindset" podcast with your hosts, Peter M. Deeley Jr. and Professor Lucas Rubbo. In today's episode, we're honored to have Professor Robert Drysdale as our...
Welcome to "The Jiu-Jitsu Mindset" podcast interview with your hosts, Peter Deeley and Professor Lucas Rubbo. We are honored to have Professor Pedro Sauer as our guest in this episode. Professor Sauer...
Professor Kenny Kim, a Korean American instructor with close to 22 years in jiu-jitsu, has wanted to be a martial artist and own a gym since he was a boy. He tells Pete and Professor Lucas Rubbo that...
Professor Daniel "Coyote" Souza is a sixth-degree black belt with 43 years in the martial arts, starting judo at age five through a social program at his kindergarten in Brazil before moving to jiu-j...
Professor Chris Wojcik started jiu-jitsu at 17 in Chicago, wanted to be a storyteller, and wrote a novel draft when gyms closed during the pandemic. Freelance writing paid the bills, but teaching was...
Professor Sal Spinelli, a musician and martial artist, started as a teenage Bruce Lee fan in Florida, until he tried to kick the hat off a bandmate's head and kicked him in the head instead. His band...
Professor Christian Simmerling grew up ski racing and playing football, played professional football for a few years, and found in jiu-jitsu a way to keep an athletic career going into his 40s and fi...
