Episode 116 - Bernardo Faria

The Chewjitsu Podcast

Eugene Tsozik

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

5 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Bernardo is a multiple-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu World Champion, owner and head coach of The Bernardo Faria Academy, and one of the co-founders of the popular martial arts website www.bjjfanatics.com

Bernardo talks about taking the unusual path of making a career out of Jiu-Jitsu, why winning the Jiu-Jitsu Worlds at purple belt was a pivotal point in his career, Bernardo’s training regimen that won him numerous world titles, how Bernardo learned about new BJJ techniques, Bernardo’s first experience in America and training with Gabriel Gonzaga, how to stayed motivated, the importance of being genuine, having a constant willingness to learn, life after BJJ and his decision to retire, working with elite athletes when filming instructionals in BJJ Fanatics, how the saying “Huge honor for me” started, how Bernardo has dealt with retirement and the importance of having a plan after retiring, balancing life after retirement, and much more.

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0:00.0	What's up guys? So today on the podcast, we have Bernardo Ferrea. This one's going to be a huge honor for me.
0:06.9	We actually talk about that in the podcast. But no, we got Bernardo with Fria. Quickbacks where I'll talk about this in a minute in the podcast. But Bernardo, like when 2010 was rolling around and he was kind of coming onto the scene as a black belt and winning everything i was watching him as a
0:21.5	heavyweight he was a heavyweight and he was playing half guard i was a brown belt playing half
0:26.0	guard and so for me it was like oh this is awesome so um i've had him out to the gym doing a you know
0:30.8	seminars i've you know talked to him numerous times and super super cool guy um that dude that guy that's
0:36.4	like hey guys it's a huge honor for me. And he's like
0:39.0	so happy and upbeat. That's the dude. Like if you meet him, that's him. That's Bernardo. So
0:43.2	incredibly nice dude. So I'm really excited to have him on the podcast. One of the, you know,
0:47.6	one of the greats of our time in Jiu-Zitsu. I mean, the guy's a multiple-time world champion in the heavyweight division. He's won the absolutes before, pans, everything.
0:55.7	So it's a big deal.
0:57.4	But with that said, I hope you guys enjoy the podcast.
0:59.8	We're going to get into pretty much everything from how he was training when he was winning the world championships and all that stuff to how he was training at a small gym initially before
1:11.8	he became like a big superstar in jiu-jitsu to kind of transitioning over to more of
1:17.8	an entrepreneurial sort of realm with his business that he has now.
1:21.2	So hope you guys enjoy it.
1:22.0	Hope you get a lot from it.
1:23.3	Guys is always big thanks to our sponsors.
1:25.4	First one is always Charlotte's Webb.
1:27.1	It's the CBD that we have on the podcast, and we have it on the podcast because, well, a couple years ago started using it.
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1:36.0	I like the consistency from it.
1:37.4	If you guys have listened to the podcast anytime recently, I've talked about how, you know, they did some studies or whatever where it was like 70% of the CBD that's out there is just, it's not what it says it is, right?
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