BJJ Black Belt AJ Clingerman Returns (Episode 356)

The Chewjitsu Podcast

Eugene Tsozik

Wrestling, Wellness, Brazilianjiujitsu, Sports, Interviews, Mma, Bjj, Health, Chewjitsu, Injuryprevention

5 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the Chewjitsu Podcast, we are joined by BJJ Black Belt and gym owner AJ Clingerman. AJ discusses the start of her "Roll Models" BJJ Camps, the idea behind a women’s only camp and what makes it unique from other camps, the challenges women face in BJJ, the importance of women’s only classes, red flags for women in BJJ, why many women start training, how to grow a women’s BJJ program, and getting more women to compete in tournaments.

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0:00.0	What up guys? Welcome to the jujitsu podcast. Today we're going to talk to a friend of mine, AJ Klingerman.
0:05.5	We're going to talk about jiu-jitsu. In particular, we'll talk about some of the challenges and some of the unique situations that women have in jiu-jitsu.
0:15.0	Now, just so we're clear, because I know, like, again, you know, it's so interesting when you, whenever you talk about anything
0:21.9	related to like one sex or the other, it's like, you know, you talk about, say, unique
0:27.6	situation about women and then you instantly think about maybe you're taking away from
0:30.7	men, right?
0:31.2	It's not the case.
0:32.0	Like, there's a really good book I read recently, and the guy is it's called of boys and men and it's by it's written by a
0:39.8	guy talking about some of the unique challenges that men have by no means is it like anti-woman
0:44.0	like the guy's like clearly like you read it like very much he's not like a crazy you know bro-manosphere guy
0:50.4	right he comes at it at a pretty like sort of logical situation. And his whole thing was
0:56.3	you can talk about, say, obstacles men have and you can still sort of say that women need to have
1:01.7	equal rights and opportunities, right? You can still have, you can hold two different ideas in your
1:05.4	mind. Not that anything that we say on this podcast today is very controversial. I think it's all
1:09.9	pretty straightforward. But I just share that. I think it's all pretty straightforward.
1:15.1	But I just share that with you because it's like sometimes I'll get messages from people as we talk about on the podcast. Someone's like, ah, Chewy's being a white night.
1:19.1	You know, I'm not being a white night. Like this is just normal like behavioral stuff, right?
1:24.0	Like by no means in a minute. I don't think many of you guys, because most of you
1:27.8	guys at listen are pretty normal people, but, uh, sometimes with the, the internet being what it is today,
1:32.8	it, it sort of conditions people to just look at everything from these binary, like terms and to
1:38.9	be very like adversarial anytime something, whatever, you guys get the idea. idea like I said nothing that we talk about
1:45.3	this podcast is very controversial but AJ shares some unique perspectives from being a woman she has a
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