Choosing The Right Gym For You (Self-Defense vs. Sport) (Episode 377)
The Chewjitsu Podcast
Eugene Tsozik
5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2025
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Summary
On this episode we answer a question from an anonymous podcast listener.
“Bob” wrestled in high school and is currently a member at a self-defense gym, but has been cross-training at a Sport/Competition gym and really liking it. “Bob” is wondering if he should switch gyms if he wants to become a successful competitor.
We discuss why wrestlers prefer Sport Jiu-Jitsu, why martial arts and fighting is like a language, how creating limitations and rules can lead to creativity, if the best athletes in Jiu-Jitsu are competitors, how Chewy picked his first gym and why he left his first gym, the challenges of splitting time between two BJJ gyms, and what decision "Bob" should make about where to train.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What up, guys? Welcome to the jujitsu podcast number something or other. And today's podcast, |
| 0:07.8 | we're going to talk about where you got a question rather from one of you who listens to the podcast |
| 0:12.9 | and you're in a situation where you're possibly wanting to train at multiple gyms and you're having some issues from one of your gyms with it. |
| 0:23.5 | And we'll talk more about it in a second. |
| 0:25.0 | Just talk about general ideas related to choosing the right gym for you, |
| 0:28.6 | switching if you need to you, that whole thing. |
| 0:30.7 | A big thanks for our sponsor for helping make this podcast happen, athletic mints. |
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| 0:56.3 | And they have a several different mince for several different purposes. |
| 1:00.6 | So they have, obviously, they have their, one of their mints is called flow, which is to help get you into a more relaxed flow state. |
| 1:06.9 | They have power, which is obviously for training, doing something intense. |
| 1:10.7 | And then they have one called rebound, which as the name would sort of lend itself towards us, you know, trying to help you rebound and recover. |
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| 1:23.7 | I think it's two milligrams. |
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| 1:28.7 | And, you know, |
| 1:34.8 | like that one time you had too many special brownies or anything like that. But they can be nice. |
| 1:39.5 | I like to every now and then during training sessions, I'll use one of the flow mints, |
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