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The Problem With...

#35 Izaak Michell

The Problem With...

James Smith

Society & Culture

4.99.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Today I'm joined by a future Brazilian Jiu Jitsu superstar Izaak Michell. Izaak is one of my instructors in No-Gi and is making waves on the competition circuit taking names. Izaak has experience training with the 'Danaher Death Squad' and brings some of his insights to the podcast in this episode. Great listen.

@izaakmichellbjj

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0:00.0

I'm gonna introduce you. Isaac is Michelle, not Mitchell, right?

0:04.4

Michelle. Isaac Michelle. Yeah, it's like French.

0:07.2

Right? Is it French name? Yeah, it is. Yeah.

0:09.6

Sweet. I'm not French, but it just is. Okay.

0:11.9

Yeah. All right, Michelle. Michelle.

0:13.5

I've got to introduce you as probably one of the best instructors that I've had in

0:17.6

Giu-Jitsu, where I've trained in Bali, Sydney, London, and I've had Brazilian

0:24.4

Blackbelts, English Blackbelts. And from like an instructor ship standpoint, you are

0:29.5

kind of one of my senseys at the moment in the no-geegame.

0:33.0

Me and a few of the other people that I train with at a garage

0:36.4

were literally blown away at your ability to coach.

0:39.8

So I want you to thank you for coming on. I think you're going to be an incredibly

0:42.8

interesting person for the listeners. And funnily enough, I said to my housemates,

0:48.8

I was like, I'm gonna get Isaac on the podcast. And I said, we rolled maybe three times.

0:55.0

And the way you've beaten me in the role should be illegal.

0:59.2

I can't believe it's legal for one man to do that to another man.

1:03.3

And Cam even said that I could create an only only fans page.

1:06.8

Recording you beat me up, which I don't think I will do.

1:10.4

But tell us a little bit about your journey thus far. How long have you been training?

1:16.8

Firstly, thanks. That's really kind of you.

1:19.1

Yeah, so I've been training for just over six years now.

1:22.9

So when I first started at Jujutsu, I was 16 and I was living in an adult

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