THE PODCAST

Professor Otavio Sousa, introduced by Professor Lucas Rubbo as a six-time world champion, ADCC medalist and the head of a school in Huntington Beach, California, started jiu-jitsu at 13 in Brazil and...

Professor Jason Hawkins returns to talk about his book, Light on the Gentle Art: The Jiu-Jitsu Sutras, a set of short sayings modeled on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and written while he was laid up ...

Australian-born entrepreneur John Graham has lived what Pete calls several lifetimes in one: rugby player, CrossFit competitor, boxer, bodybuilder, gym owner and fight promoter. With Professor Lucas ...

Professor Matt Arroyo, a former UFC fighter who runs a Tampa gym of 500 to 600 families, traces his drive back to his Uncle Jimmy. At 15 he had failed every ninth-grade class except gym, until a five...

Professor Dan McCarthy was a 28-year-old competitive kickboxer when he saw the early UFC and went looking for this ground game. Now 55, a father of five, a money manager and management consultant, an...

Coach Tim Stinson found jiu-jitsu as his college baseball career ended, then had to choose: two weeks after his MMA fight he was hired as a full-time firefighter-paramedic, and his chief made clear t...

Professor Malachy Friedman, whose online technique videos reach millions of people, started at 18 or 19 by getting choked by a blue-belt friend in the front yard and refused to put on a gi for years....

Professor Jason Hawkins has spent 42 years in martial arts, starting with karate at 12, and teaches at Three Rivers Academy in western Kentucky. A longtime yoga practitioner who rereads the Yoga Sutr...

Professor Eli Knight came to jiu-jitsu from taekwondo and Japanese jiu-jitsu in a small town, watching bootleg Gracie tapes before the first UFC and traveling to seminars and camps to learn. He recei...

Mike Cheney teaches jiu-jitsu, wrestling and weapons-based self-defense at Endeavor Defense and Fitness in Hilliard, Ohio, and joins Pete, hosting solo, the morning after Thanksgiving. He explains th...

Aaron Jannetti is a three-stripe brown belt, a gym owner in Columbus, Ohio, and a self-defense instructor whose teaching covers knives and firearms alongside jiu-jitsu, Krav Maga and kickboxing. With...

Professor John Renken started fighting professionally in the mid-1990s, when jiu-jitsu was barely known in the US, his own jiu-jitsu instructor was a blue belt, and he could walk into an event with n...