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#143 Learning BJJ Today, BJJ in Asia Pt 1, Abu Dhabi Pro A team of Brazilian jiu-jitsu fighters in Japan. This week we will begin a multi-part series on the show with first-hand accounts of Brazilian jiu-jitsu in Asia. Our focus will begin, of course, with Japan. A friend and training partner from San Diego recently visited Axis Jiu-Jitsu in Tokyo, which is run by Rickson Gracie black [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #142 Braulio Estima, Copa Alliance in Sao Paulo Gracie Barra’s Braulio Estima. Today on The FightWorks Podcast cohost Dan and I start off by discussing the results of the most recent BJJ Poll (Should Blue and White Belts Be Allowed to Perform Heel Hooks?), with help from a listener who called in. We will also get the scoop on the Copa Alliance which was held [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gracie Barra San Clemente Video Flavio Almeida faces portraits of Gracie Barra leaders. Twenty Gracie Barra black belts made the trek to San Clemente, California on Sunday to celebrate the official opening party of Flavio Almeida’s academy and take part in his promotion to a three-stripe black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. The FightWorks Podcast headed north from our headquarters here in San [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #141 How BJJ Helps You Off the Mat Rhalan Gracie attempting a triangle. What does Brazilian jiu-jitsu do for you when you are not actually doing BJJ? We asked you, The Mighty 600,000 that question and you responded! We received some great phone calls on our toll free number from you, which we put before our guest, a sports and forensic psychologist here in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #140 Roberto “Tussa” Alencar, Emily Kwok Roberto “Tussa” Camargo at the 2008 BJJ Pan-Ams. Roberto “Tussa” Camargo is a black belt from Gracie Barra who has been a common face on the Brazilian jiu-jitsu competition scene here in the USA for the last few years now. If Tussa enters a competition, you can expect to see him on the podium! Here are [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Carlos Gracie: The Creator of a Dynasty, by Reila Gracie For a long time we Brazilian jiu-jitsu fanatics have relied on Kid Peligro’s wonderful book, The Gracie Way to read about the history of our favorite sport and martial art. This year Carlos Gracie: The Creator of a Dynasty was published in Brazil. The book is a biography of Helio Gracie’s brother Carlos and was written [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #139 Emily Kwok, Robert Drysdale Emily Kwok in her match at the 2008 BJJ Mundials against Gracie Barra’s Ana Laura Cordeiro. Our feature interview this week is the first half of our conversation with Emily Kwok, who won the 2007 Brazilian jiu-jitsu World Championship in the women’s middleweight division as a brown belt and will be receiving her black belt in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #138 Reducing Jiu-Jitsu Competition Anxiety, Part 2 Chris Moriarty lowers the boom on an opponent at the 2008 BJJ World Championships. If you’ve stepped on the mat in a tournament, you have no doubt felt that burning anxiety in your belly. Getting nervous before competing in a Brazilian jiu-jitsu competition is universal. How can we reign in those emotions to make sure we [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #137 Robert Drysdale Update, Gracie Barra Competition Network Robert Drysdale at the 2007 BJJ Mundials. Brasa jiu-jitsu ace Robert Drysdale will join us this week on The FightWorks Podcast. Drysdale, who defeated Marcelo Garcia in the absolute division of the ADCCs in 2007, has been busier than ever. In our chat in this episode Drysdale answers two questions from you, the Mighty 600,000, about [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Happy 95th Birthday to Helio Gracie For those who didn’t hear the news, one of the creators of Gracie / Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Helio Gracie turned 95 years old on October 1st. In the video above, courtesy of TatameTV, Rickson Gracie, standing alongside his brothers Royler and Rolker, gives a speech to over fifty black belts from many academies. Our good friend Breno [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #136 Competition Nerves in Jiu-Jitsu Brown belt World and Pan-Ams champion Chris Moriarty. Man we have so much Brazilian jiu-jitsu to talk about on The FightWorks Podcast this time. In addition to a special co-host this time around, we have three segments for you. Show me anyone who has ever entered a Brazilian jiu-jitsu competition and I will show you someone who [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #135 Strength & Cardio Training in BJJ Martin Rooney performing a pull up on the beach in Rio. So I get a message on our MySpace page from Christian, a member of the Mighty 600,000 from Arizona, wondering if we had any gym routines for Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioners. So I says to myself, “I don’t, but I know who does”. Martin Rooney is a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #134 Changing Jiu-Jitsu Schools Part 2 The place you train - will it always be the same? This week we conclude our conversation around changing where you train Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Our guest this week is Gumby from OnT heMat.com, who can provide a different angle to the topic than in our previous discussion. Gumby has been in the jiu-jitsu scene over ten [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #133 Changing BJJ Schools Two competitors at one of the World Team Trials earlier this year. (Hey it’s hard to find a photo of someone changing BJJ schools!) Our feature story this week on our Brazilian jiu jitsu internet radio show is about changing BJJ schools. Change happens. It’s a part of life. Sometimes it is under circumstances that are [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #132 Penny Thomas Penny Thomas (far left) holding her first place trophy at the 2007 ADCCs in New Jersey. Penny Thomas left her native South Africa behind to pursue better training in Brazilian jiu-jitsu years ago and after much hard work has captured some of the most coveted titles in jiu-jitsu and grappling, including gold medals at the 2007 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #131 The Naked Episode Contrary to what your dirty mind is conjuring up with this title, this episode of our Brazilian jiu-jitsu internet radio show does not involve nudity. Just the thought of recording audio while naked with cohost Dan on the other end of the phone weirds me out. This episode is, however, unlike any you’ve ever heard. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #130 BJJ No-Gi Mundials 2008 Black belt absolute division winner of the 2008 BJJ No Gi World Championships, Antonio Braga Neto. Whoa what a show this time we have for you on this episode of the home of BJJ radio on the web, The FightWorks Podcast. It’s got so many parts I think it is better to put them in bullets! A [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #129 Tarsis Humphreys Tarsis Humphreys in a match against Xande Ribeiro at the 2008 BJJ Mundials. Alliance Brazilian jiu-jitsu is known for producing champions, ranging from Marcelo Garcia, to Rubens “Cobrinha” Charles, to Lucas Lepri and Chris Moriarty. This week on the show we will sit down with another stud from the Alliance team, Tarsis Humphreys. Tarsis was in town [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #128 Choked Out Here we go again! It’s another episode of the home of Brazilian jiu-jitsu audio content on the web, and this time around we will sit down with our resident medical correspondent and UCSD Emergency Medicine Specialist Aaron Schneir M.D., aka Doc about what it means to be choked unconscious in Brazilian jiu-jitsu! So in this episode [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #127 Olympic Judo, Tadeu, and MRSA Roger Gracie is almost thrown by Brazilian judo team alternate Leo Leite at the 2008 BJJ Mundials. Our BJJ podcast episodes keep getting bigger and better! We have a huge episode this time around. First thing is first: safety. You guessed it - I am bringing up MRSA again. It was reported that a fellow grappler died [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #126 Weight Loss in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Brazilian jiu-jitsu is so good at melting fat off people that I don’t know why there isn’t waiting lists to train. Honestly if you personally have not experienced weight loss from training BJJ, I’ll bet that you know someone who has. And unlike well, every other workout I can think of, jiu-jitsu is fun [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How to Listen to Old FightWorks Podcast Episodes As I mentioned in our latest show on Nelson Monteiro and the ADCC, I sometimes get email from folks asking how to listen to our older audio shows about Brazilian jiu-jitsu history, competition, news, etc. Here’s one quick shortcut: our Episodes category. All our shows should carry that categorization, so clicking on that link will bring [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #124 Rubens “Cobrinha” Charles, Toney Waldecker Cobrinha wins at the 2008 Pan-Ams. Rubens “Cobrinha” Charles is our guest this week on The FightWorks Podcast 2008 BJJ World Championships. Not familiar with the name? Well if it helps at all, Cobrinha came in first place in the past two years in the Featherweight division of both the Pan-Ams and the Mundials! In this [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #123 Andre Galvao Andre Galvao’s hand is raised after defeating the very tough Braulio Estima to win first place at the Mundials. This time on The FightWorks Podcast we bring you Andre Galvao, of Brasa Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Galvao is a multiple time world champion who has had an amazing year, which recently culminated in taking the gold medal in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #122 Tony Passos, BJJ in Hawaii, & Wilson Reis The BJJ academy of Relson Gracie, lead by Andre Derizans. Another extended episode of Brazilian jiu-jitsu audio for you on The FightWorks Podcast this week! A few people have mentioned that they wish the show were longer, and while I am not actively trying to make it so, we’ve done it again. We’ve got three segments for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #121 Xande Ribeiro 2008 BJJ Absolute Champion Alexandre “Xande” Ribeiro, the 2008 black belt open andheavyweight division Brazilian jiu-jitsu world champion. Brazilian jiu-jitsu family! We’ve done it again! We have a colossus of a show for you this time on The FightWorks Podcast, your home for BJJ audio news online. Coming fresh off the 2008 BJJ Mundials, the main feature of our [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #120 2008 BJJ World Championships Roger Gracie smashed more opponents yesterday at the Mundials. In today’s episode of The FightWorks Podcast, we have coverage of the biggest BJJ events that have taken place since our last show. The promotion of Gracie Barra’s Carlos Gracie Jr to red and black belt after 32 years as a black belt. Earlier this week on TheFightWorksPodcast.com [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Carlos Gracie Jr. Discusses Receiving the Red and Black Belt Carlos Gracie Jr., the head of Gracie Barra, offers his thoughts on his unexpected promotion, the importance of pursuing one’s dream, and how there is no place he would rather be than on the mats. Video was shot on June 3, 2008 in Irvine, California. (If you’d like to see the original, clearer version of this [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Renzo Gracie Awards Carlos Gracie Jr. His Red and Black Belt An emotional Renzo Gracie presents his uncle Carlos Gracie Jr. with his red and black belt, an elite rank in Brazilian jiu-jitsu held by very few practitioners. Carlos Gracie Jr. is the head of the International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation and the leader of Gracie Barra. (If you’d like to see the original, clearer version of this [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rickson Gracie Honors Carlos Gracie Jr. Rickson Gracie offers his thoughts on his cousin Carlos Gracie Jr., the head of Gracie Barra, moments before Carlos was awarded his red and black belt by Renzo Gracie on June 3, 2008 in Irvine, California. (If you’d like to see the original, clearer version of this video, it’s found in m4v format on our BJJ [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #119 2008 BJJ Mundials Preview Roger Gracie, winner of the 2007 Black Belt World Championship open and super heavyweight divisions. The 2008 Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu World Championships takes place this coming weekend in Los Angeles and The FightWorks Podcast breaks down everything a BJJ fan needs to know about our sport’s biggest event! Our first conversation will be a round table between FightWorks [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #118 Xande Ribeiro Talks 2008 BJJ Worlds, Black Belt Ed Kennedy Xande Ribeiro. The 2008 Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu World Championships are just around the corner! For those who have been living under a rock, they will take place June 5-8 at Cal State University in Long Beach. Chatter is heating up about how the black belt divisions are shaping up and who will come away with the gold [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #117 Robert Drysdale, BJJ Mundials Volunteering & BJJ Travel Tips Caleb and Dan in Rio outside Gracie Humaita. This week on Episode 117 of The FightWorks Podcast we’ve got a three-parter for you. You’ll hear: The last five of our Ten Tips for Brazilian jiu-jitsu travel, which we began in Episode 116. Don’t leave home without them! A conversation with Mike Buckels, part of the International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #116 Royler Gracie, Breno from Fight Quest, Rio BJJ Travel Tips Royler Gracie at Gracie Humaita in Copacabana. This week The FightWorks Podcast returns to Rio de Janeiro, where our cohost Dan just headed for some much needed rest, relaxation, and serious Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Such a trip can only result in some great content for this week’s show. We cannot endorse the idea of heading to train in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #115 Joel Tudor, Pro Surfer Turned BJJ Addict Joel Tudor at Rodrigo Medeiros’ academy in Pacific Beach in San Diego. This week on The FightWorks Podcast our guest is Joel Tudor. Tudor is a brown belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, but he is more widely known for being the best surfer in the world when it comes to long boards, having won world championships for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Our Google Gadget Explained in Video Curious about what The FightWorks Podcast Google Gadget is all about? Hopefully this video will explain things a little better. You can watch the embedded video on YouTube above or download a higher resolution video by clicking here. And if you haven’t done so yet, Click here to go grab our Google Gadget! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #114 Cauliflower Ear, Robert Drysdale A hard-earned case of cauliflower ear, aka auricular hematoma. Recently I posted a quick blurb on TheFightWorksPodcast.com regarding cauliflower ear in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Based on the comments left by readers, the topic appeared to generate a good amount of interest so I figured it was time to discuss it on The FightWorks Podcast itself. Armed with [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #113 Leglocks and Foot Attacks Alliance brown belt Chris Moriarty sinks a kneebar at the 2008 Pan-Ams. Leg attacks! Sometimes demonized and generally feared for their ability to do lasting damage on your opponent, the kneebar, heelhook, and straight footlock command attention when encountered in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. This week on the The FightWorks Podcast, cohost Dan and I speak with GrappleArts.com’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #112 Luciana “Luka” Dias & the Grappling World Team Trials Luka Dias celebrates her victory over Michelle Nicolini to win the black belt women’s absolute division at the 2008 BJJ Pan-Ams. This week on The FightWorks Podcast our feature interview is with Luciana “Luka” Dias, who won the gold medal in the 2008 Brazilian jiu-jitsu Pan-Ams held at the end of last month in Carson, California. Luka [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #111 BJJ Pan-Ams Wrap-Up, Training in Brazil Fabio Gurgel (white gi) in his return at the 2008 BJJ Pan-Ams. Today on The FightWorks Podcast we will sit down with Kid Peligro, the most prolific author of Brazilian jiu-jitsu books to date, to discuss last weekend’s the BJJ Pan-Ams tournament from the United States Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation. Kid and I will recap the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008 BJJ Pan-Ams: 31 T-shirts Brazilian jiu-jitsu tournaments are pretty colorful events. You normally see lots of: red and blue mats black, white, or blue gis BJJ T-shirts While we wait for the DVD to be released for this past weekend’s 2008 BJJ Pan-Ams, I thought it might be interesting to deliver a visual of what you would have seen off the mats among [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #110, Martin Rooney’s Training for Warriors, 2008 BJJ Pan-Ams Martin Rooney’s new book, Training for Warriors. Prepare yourself. This show is a big one! Coming to you from Carson, California and the United States Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation’s annual Pan-Am tournament, we’ve got interviews with the Atlanta-based Romero “Jacare” Cavalcanti, who leads the BJJ powerhouse team Alliance, and Rickson Gracie’s son Kron. Each will discuss their respective [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rafael Lovato Jr. Prepares for the 2008 Pan-Ams Rafael Lovato Jr. was named OnTheMat.com’s Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Player of the Year in 2007 and has high hopes of repeating his success in BJJ competition again this year. We caught up with Lovato Jr. at the University of Jiu-Jitsu in San Diego, run by Saulo and Xande Ribeiro to discuss what he is doing to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #109 Felicia Oh Felicia Oh taps Megumi Fuji at the 2007 ADCCs. Felicia Oh is a celebrated Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner and submission grappler who had a banner year in competition in 2007. Oh won first place at the Pan-Ams that year in both gi and no-gi competition, and came in second place at the Abu Dhabi Combat Club submission [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #108 David Mamet, Writer and Director of Redbelt David Mamet, writer and director of Redbelt. Photo courtesy of Willa Mamet Photography. If you’re a listener to the FightWorks Podcast there’s a good chance that Brazilian jiu-jitsu is your lifestyle. The phenomenon of BJJ affects people like us differently and can manifest itself in surprising ways. Some minority of the folks out there who cannot live [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #107 Wellington “Megaton” Dias Wellington Megaton Diaz (l) against Jeff Glover (r) in competition in 2006 Wellington “Megaton” Dias hails from Rio de Janeiro, where he was awarded his black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu at the age of eighteen at Gracie Humaita. With more than thirty years of BJJ training, Megaton continues to compete in tournaments today when he is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #106 Flavio Almeida and Gracie Barra Flavio Almeida, Gracie Barra black belt. Flavio Almeida is a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu under Gracie Barra and is the brother of Ricardo Almeida, who we had here on the show back in episode 89 of the Fightworks Podcast. Flavio is a former world Brazilian jiu-jitsu champion in the middle heavyweight division and now holds [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #105 Robert Drysdale, ADCC Absolute Division Champion Robert Drysdale (r) in his victory over Marcelo Garcia. 2007 was a huge year for our guest on this week’s edition of The FightWorks Podcast. Robert Drysdale’s year got off to an explosive start when he beat Marcelo Garcia in the absolute division of the prestigious Abu Dhabi grappling championship. Not satisfied with submitting Garcia, who many [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #104 Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Author Ed Beneville Ed Beneville after winning a match at the 2006 Masters’ World Championships in Rio. Ed Beneville is a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu under Joe Moreira and has produced two popular books on Brazilian jiu-jitsu: Passing the Guard: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Details and Techniques: Volume 1 The Guard (Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Details and Techniques) Beneville’s third BJJ book will be released [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #103 Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Women Hanette Staack wins the 2007 lightweight world championship in the womens’ black / brown division. Her opponent, Gabriela Bermudez, would take the silver medal.This week on The FightWorks Podcast we discuss the experience of women Brazilian jiu-jitsu. If you’re a guy, is it awkward when training BJJ against a girl? If they are a higher [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #102 Where Do Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Gis Come From? OTM’s Scotty in Hong Kong seaching for gi suppliers. All brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioners out there have intimate knowledge of the gi. You learn quickly which brands you like, what size works for you, you probably have your own care routine like washing it and air drying it, or washing it and putting several dryer sheets in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #101 Sandro “Batata” Santiago and Tips for BJJ Beginners Sandro “Batata” Santiago in the blue gi works a sweep on an opponent. This week on The FightWorks Podcast we speak with Sandro “Batata” Santiago, a black belt under Roberto “Gordo” Correa. Among several topics, Batata talks about common mistakes that Brazilian jiu-jitsu beginners make, as well as the care one should use when selecting a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #100 Dean Lister’s New Gym in San Diego Dean Lister’s new gym, the Throwdown Elite Training Center. Yesterday marked the opening of a new martial arts gym in San Diego. Normally that would not distinguish it from many other days in San Diego but this facility stands apart. The Throwdown Elite Training Center will be manned by UFC fighter and San Diego local Dean [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #99 On The Mat’s Best of 2007 Rafael Lovato Jr. is delared the gold medal winner at the BJJ Mundials against Big Mac in 2007. On the Mat.com recently announced their annual “Best of” awards for 2007 and we thought the topic was worth some examination. The editorial staff of OTM (i.e., Gumby) came on board with co-host Dan and I to give [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #98 Alex Brandao Translates BJJ Portuguese Do you compete in Brazilian jiu-jitsu? Have you ever faced an opponent from Brazil? It can be tough when your opponent and his coach are communicating in Portuguese trying their best to make sure you get caught in a BJJ submission! This week on The FightWorks Podcast, we get the inside scoop from Alex Brandao. Brandao [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #97 BJJ No-Gi World Championships Jeff Monson and Bill Cooper in the black belt absolute division finals. Saturday the International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation held its inaugural no-gi World Championships in Los Angeles. It was a day full of surprises and although some of the big names in the sport of BJJ were not present, the event was full of excitement and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #96 First BJJ No-Gi World Championships This coming Saturday the International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation will take a firm step forward in its development by holding its first World Championship of No-gi Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Carson, California. While submission grappling tournaments have been around for some time, this event caters to true Brazilian jiu-jitsu practiced without the gi and is going to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #95 The Blackbelt Training Network of BJJ Does it sometimes feel like Brazilian jiu-jitsu is being tugged in different directions by those with an interest in how it develops? Various stakeholders from different lineages of BJJ, to tournament promoters, to marketers all have an idea of what the sport should be, and it is not always the same thing. This week on The [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #94 Paulo Vasconcellos, Super Challenge of Grappling Promoter As you hopefully saw in our previous article about the Super Challenge of Submission Wrestling in Sao Paulo, there is a marquee submission grappling tournament on the way December 8th from Brazil, the origin of modern ground fighting. With a competitor list that is on par with the ADCCs or the Professional Submission League, the Super [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #93 Robson Moura Interview Robson Moura after winning the world championship this year. How often do you get to hear the thoughts of a seven-time medalist in the Brazilian jiu-jitsu? Robson Moura, BJJ world champion as a super featherweight and Nova Uniao member, stops in to tell us about his career, which is far from over. Robson Moura began [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #92 BJJ Black Belt Corner Trio The Black Belt Corner Trio Due to the calculated interference in our schedule from the mortal enemy organization W.O.R.K., we were unable to synch up with the guests we wanted to present to you on The FightWorks Podcast this week, despite our greatest efforts. But that doesn’t stop the show! What we’ve done is dip [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #91 Javier Vazquez Interview Javier“Showtime” Vazquez is a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and is known as a natural athlete with potential for great success in combat sports. Javi Vazquez is well-known in the west coast BJJ scene for his prowess in tournaments and did very well in mixed martial arts until a series of injuries derailed [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #90 CSAC’s Armando Garcia; NoLimits Fighting Debacle Last Weekend We have two guests on this weekend’s episode of The FightWorks Podcast! Our first guest is Armando Garcia, the Executive Officer of the California State Athletic Commission. We discuss the six months of MMA fighter drug testing results from the CSAC that was released on Wednesday. We’ll go over what types of fighters are testing [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #89 Ricardo Almeida, Rener Gracie, and Fernando “Margarida” Hey everyone, hope you enjoyed UFC 77 yesterday. Here’s what we’ve got in store for you on this week’s episode of The FightWorks Podcast, which meets the Intergalactic Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Empire’s criteria for “totally sweet”: A conversation with Ricardo Almeida, black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu under Renzo Gracie. He began competing in mixed martial arts in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #88 Shayna Baszler, Saulo Ribeiro This week on the show we have three guests with us! We’ll start off with an interview with Shayna Baszler , a mixed martial artist with a record of 8-4-0 who will be fighting Jennifer Tate on Friday, October 26th on the EliteXC on SHOWTIME card. As our first guest on The FightWorks Podcast [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #87 Ryan Jensen, Kyle Maynard, and the Story Behind Grapplers Quest in Philadelphia After taking a week of for some sorely-needed rest and relaxation, The FightWorks Podcast returns with a full head of steam! This week on the show we hear from UFC fighter Ryan Jensen, who will be taking on Brazilian jiu-jitsu superstar Demian Maia on October 20th at UFC 77: Hostile Territory. Jensen lost in his [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeff Glover Highlight Video from ADCCs There were a lot of great things to watch at this year’s ADCC’s. A few from that weekend had to do with Jeff Glover, the 145 pound black belt product of Ricardo “Franjinha” Miller, who currently teaches at Marc Laimon’s Cobra Kai in Las Vegas. Here are some that I remember: Jeff Glover versus Leo Viera [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #86 Luis Heredia and Richie Hightower Interviews Our feature interview this week is with Rickson Gracie black belt Luis “Limao” Heredia. As a purple belt, Heredia accompanied Rickson when he left Brazil to come to the United States and Heredia never looked back. Having trained alongside the Gracie brothers in the original garage in Los Angeles when they arrived, Heredia has made [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #85 Rodrigo “Comprido” Medeiros Interview, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson We’ve got a crazy show for you this week on The FightWorks Podcast. We’re going to start off with a lengthy interview with seven-time Brazilan jiu-jitsu world champion Rodrigo “Comprido” Leite Medeiros thanks to our new correspondent Bruce Hoyer. If you don’t know what “Comprido” means, check out some Brazilian fighter nicknames. I’m going to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #84 Red Belt Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Movie Back in April we posted news about a movie underway that is based around Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which - no secret here- is basically our favorite thing to talk about on The FightWorks Podcast. The movie, titled Red Belt, was written and directed by David Mamet, an Oscar-nominated playwright and screenwriter. With such an impressive [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #83 Stephan Kesting Interview This week on The FightWorks Podcast we speak with a Canadian martial arts pioneer, Stephan Kesting. Kesting is a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu under 6th degree black belt Marcus Soares and known for his instruction. Further, he has run a popular website for ground fighting called GrappleArts since 2002. We’ll learn a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #82 The 2007 Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Mundials: Seven Interviews The wait is over! The 2007 BJJ World Championships episode of The FightWorks Podcast is here! In this overdue episode we’ll hear from: Braulio Estima, a Gracie Barra competitor who was expected to make big waves this year but was kept out of competition with a knee injury Kron Gracie, who has been a brown belt just [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website More Video Interviews from the 2007 BJJ Mundials Bruce Hoyer does it again! Complementing his Early Video Interviews from BJJ Mundials, he’s posted his conversations from the 2007 BJJ world championships in Long Beach, California with Eduardo Telles, Marcelo Garcia, Kron Gracie, Chris Moriarty, and Dave Johnson. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Early Video Interviews from BJJ Mundials Bruce Hoyer from BJJRadio.com is already in Los Angeles and delivers this vid… Good coverage Bruce! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #81 2007 BJJ Mundials Preview The Brazilian jiu-jitsu world championships are less than a week away! Are you excited yet? Don’t tell me you thought the only big thing happening this weekend was UFC: 74 Respect! Well, American football has the NFL preview from Chris Berman and his gang… college basketball has Dick Vitale and crew, and Brazilian jiu-jitsu has The [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #80 Rolls Gracie Recollections from Bob Anderson The term “legend” is likely over-applied in sports like ours. Great competitors come and go, and some truly stand out. But all Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioners who hear the name Rolls Gracie would agree that “legend” is an apt way to describe him. Rolls Gracie’s name is brought up often in our interviews with Brazilian [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #79 Coach Bob Anderson and Nutrition for Grapplers With all the recent focus on ways that combat sports athletes, particularly mixed martial artists, have been attempting to improve their performance using substances that are not allowed by athletic commissions, we thought we would spend some time on natural, healthy, and legal things you can provide your body. Coach Bob Anderson’s knowledge on grappling [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The MTL, Brazil’s Team-Based MMA League If you’re familiar with the International Fight League, you have a decent understanding of how one can apply a team system to a sport that has traditionally been focused on the individual. In the short history of the Manhattan-based IFL, they have managed to gain a lot of attention and are now closing in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The MTL, Brazil’s Team-Based MMA League If you’re familiar with the International Fight League, you have a decent understanding of how one can apply a team system to a sport that has traditionally been focused on the individual. In the short history of the Manhattan-based IFL, they have managed to gain a lot of attention and are now closing in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #78 Ginastica Natural & Alvaro Romano, Xande Ribeiro, and Savant Young Another packed and varied show for you here on The FightWorks Podcast. We’re going to start with an interview with Alvaro Romano. Romano is the inventor of Ginastica Natural. Very successful combat sports competitors like BJJ world champions Saulo and Xande Ribeiro swear by Ginastica Natural, and Romano is currently training 145 pound MMA [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #77 Jason Lambert and Kid Peligro For our feature interview this week on the FightWorks Podcast we headed out and travelled up to the North County Fight Club in Carlsbad, California to sit down with UFC fighter Jason Lambert, who defeated Renato “Babalu” Sobral in his last UFC appearance and recently signed a contract to fight against Wilson Gouveia at UFC [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #76 Fabio Clemente Interview This week’s feature guest on the biggest Brazilian jiu-jitsu show on the web is none other than Alliance black belt Fabio Clemente. Clemente instructs at Studio X in New York City alongside Marcelo Garcia. His titles include being the winner of the 1995, 1996 and 2006 Pan-American heavyweight, superheavy and open weight championship titles. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #75 The Business Side of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu; Black Belt Corner: Gumby This episode of The FightWorks Podcast isn’t so much about training Brazilian jiu-jitsu, competition news or history of the sport, but more about helping BJJ schools thrive. What are the business practices a school can use to make it more successful? We speak with Jeremy Lafreniere of Capital Jiu-Jitsu on the do’s and don’ts [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #74 Staph Hits The FightWorks Podcast & Rodrigo Medeiros Black Belt Corner The rising star that you’ve heard the least about in combat sports over the last few years is undoubtedly the staph infection. It’s made appearances during reality television, afflicting Kenny Florian and others during the first season of The Ultimate Fighter. More recently cases have been reported among such names as Forrest Griffin, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #73 Romero “Jacare” Cavalcanti Interview Our guest this week on The FightWorks Podcast is Romero “Jacare” Cavalcanti, a sixth degree black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and the head coach of Team Alliance. Jacare was one of the very few to receive his black belt from Rolls Gracie before his untimely death in 1982. We love these opportunities on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Relson Gracie on Allegations of Royce Gracie Using Steroids Relson Gracie stopped in San Diego, California for a seminar on June 17, 2007 at Fabio Santos‘ academy. In this video, we sat down with Relson to discuss his thoughts on the California State Athletic Commission’s recent report that Relson’s brother Royce Gracie tested positive for steroids. The report, if accurate, is particularly [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #72 Dave Camarillo, Rampage’s Accusation, and Royce on Steroids? This week on The FightWorks Podcast we have our hands full. Zach Arnold of FightOpinion.com and I start the show off by discussing Quinton “Rampage” Jackson’s claim that he was asked by PRIDE executives to lose by knockout or technical submission in his fight against Kazushi Sakuraba in exchange for a $2,000 bonus. Cohost of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #71 Don Dunn of Never Submit, Thierry Sokoudjou, and the World Team Trials in vegas I was pretty nervous as the week was drawing to a close and I hadn’t lined up much in the way of content for all of you, the mighty 600,000. Things happen fast around here sometimes, and we’ve lined up another great show.We’re going to start off with an interview with Don Dunn, the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #70 Lovato wins Gold, Ryan Hall, MMA Girls, Gabe Ruediger, and Jason “Mayhem” Miller Wow this is another packed show. Let’s start with the big news: On the weekend of May 26th in Brazil, the Brazilian jiu-jitsu National Championships (”The Brasileiros”) were held in Rio de Janeiro. The accomplished American grapplers Rafael Lovato Jr. and Ryan Hall headed down to the tournament to participate. We’ll hear [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Myth of Fewer MMA Submission Victories Introduction This post could also be titled, I Owe Royce Gracie an Apology. Recently I’d begun feeling as if less fights end in submission using traditional Brazilian jiu-jitsu moves like the triangle choke, rear naked choke, armbar, kneebar, etc. I think there are two reasons for this nagging fear: Perhaps it’s due to an apprehension [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #69 Kyra Gracie Interview & Never Submit Writer James Hergott In a sure sign of things to come, this week on The FightWorks Podcast we welcome our first female guest, Kyra Gracie. Growing up in a house with Renzo Gracie, Ralph Gracie, and Ryan Gracie, Kyra, who is now 21, was exposed to Brazilian jiu-jitsu at a young age. No doubt one of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #68 Breakdown of IFL in Chicago, Fabio Santos Open in San Diego This week on The FightWorks Podcast we welcome a new personality to our family, Chicago correspondent Luis. Not-so-coincidentally, Luis attended the International Fight League’s event that took place in the Chicago suburbs which included a showdown between the Southern California Condors against the San Jose Razorclaws and the Quad City Silverbacks against the Chicago [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #67 The Canadian Grappling Scene, Royce Gracie, Carlos Valente At The FightWorks Podcast, we understand that the sport we love, Brazilian jiu-jitsu and submission grappling, is a global phenomena. We have a pretty good connection with our neighbors in Europe thanks to Jude Samuel. In this episode of The FightWorks Podcast we turn our eyes northward to our neighbors in Canada, who [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #66 Interviews from the 2007 ADCCs As you can see from the last two posts on The FightWorks Podcast, cohost of The FightWorks Podcast Dan and I travelled to New Jersey this weekend to cover the 2007 Abu Dhabi Combat Club World Championships of Submission Grappling. What an event. In this episode of our show, Dan and I give our brief [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #66 Interviews from the 2007 ADCCs As you can see from the last two posts on The FightWorks Podcast, cohost of The FightWorks Podcast Dan and I travelled to New Jersey this weekend to cover the 2007 Abu Dhabi Combat Club World Championships of Submission Grappling. What an event. In this episode of our show, Dan and I give our brief [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #65 Kurt Pellegrino, Baret Yoshida & Zach Arnold Interviews The Abu Dhabi Combat Club World Submission Championship is less than a week away, and we’re gearing up coverage here on The FightWorks Podcast! Two of our three interviewees today will be competing this coming weekend in New Jersey at the ADCCs. Kurt Pellegrino is a Hermes Franca black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #65 Kurt Pellegrino, Baret Yoshida & Zach Arnold Interviews The Abu Dhabi Combat Club World Submission Championship is less than a week away, and we’re gearing up coverage here on The FightWorks Podcast! Two of our three interviewees today will be competing this coming weekend in New Jersey at the ADCCs. Kurt Pellegrino is a Hermes Franca black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #64 Pablo Popovitch and Evan Shoman Interviews Having just returned from an overtime victory in Las Vegas over six-time BJJ world champion Saulo Ribeiro, we interview the Brazilian grappler Pablo Popovitch, who has been instructing Brazilian jiu-jitsu in Florida for over ten years now. Pablo discusses his prior experience in the biannual Abu Dhabi Combat Club submission grappling championship and his [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #64 Pablo Popovitch and Evan Shoman Interviews Having just returned from an overtime victory in Las Vegas over six-time BJJ world champion Saulo Ribeiro, we interview the Brazilian grappler Pablo Popovitch, who has been instructing Brazilian jiu-jitsu in Florida for over ten years now. Pablo discusses his prior experience in the biannual Abu Dhabi Combat Club submission grappling championship and his [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #63 Ricky Lundell Interview Not many Americans can say they began training Brazilian jiu-jitsu at 6 years old. Even fewer become like a son to a Rickson Gracie black belt like Pedro Sauer. When you have that rare combination of fortune, you wind up with someone like Ricky Lundell, the youngest American to ever receive a black belt, and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #63 Ricky Lundell Interview Not many Americans can say they began training Brazilian jiu-jitsu at 6 years old. Even fewer become like a son to a Rickson Gracie black belt like Pedro Sauer. When you have that rare combination of fortune, you wind up with someone like Ricky Lundell, the youngest American to ever receive a black belt, and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #62 Kenny “Kenflo” Florian UFC Post-Fight Interview This week on the show co-host Dan and I are joined by BJJ black belt Kenny “Kenflo” Florian. Kenny was a contestant on season 1 of The Ultimate Fighter and impressed many with his heart in his bouts versus tough opponents Diego Sanchez and Sean Sherk. On Thursday April 5th Kenny fought Dokonjonosuke [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #62 Kenny “Kenflo” Florian UFC Post-Fight Interview This week on the show co-host Dan and I are joined by BJJ black belt Kenny “Kenflo” Florian. Kenny was a contestant on season 1 of The Ultimate Fighter and impressed many with his heart in his bouts versus tough opponents Diego Sanchez and Sean Sherk. On Thursday April 5th Kenny fought Dokonjonosuke [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download |