Episode 127 - BJJ Black Belt Tom Halpin

The Chewjitsu Podcast

Eugene Tsozik

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

5 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Tom Halpin is an Irish born BJJ black belt under Roberto "Cyborg" Abreu.

Tom is the 2019 ADCC Euro Trials champion and Combat Jiu-Jitsu Champion.

Tom discusses his travels from Ireland to Miami and how the training in Miami impacted his development and lead to earning his Black Belt.

Tom also shares his mentality for competing, using inspiration from other sports for strength training, the recent No-Gi Polaris Squads event he competed in and his upcoming Polaris title fight at the Gi Polaris Squads event, his preferred rule set, the uniqueness of the ADCC and why its the most difficult tournament to win, the importance of a positive self-image, and how to achieve your best performance in competition.

Check out Tom's upcoming Polaris Title Fight on UFC Fight Pass on November 7th.

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0:00.0	What's up guys?
0:00.8	I said to do on the podcast, we have Tom Halpin.
0:03.6	Tom Halpin is a Irish jih Tzu fighter and he is going to be on Polaris coming up soon
0:10.6	and we're going to talk to him.
0:12.2	I don't want to get, I'm looking at the board.
0:13.9	We have all this cool stuff.
0:14.9	He's got a lot of cool titles to his name and he's accomplished a lot of cool stuff. And I don't want to talk about it because then it would kind of take away from the fun of discovering maybe who he is.
0:23.5	If you don't know who he is, you're going to discover who he is on the podcast.
0:26.2	But super nice guy.
0:27.1	I had a fun time talking with him.
0:28.9	And so we'll get into the podcast.
0:30.8	As always, guys, if you want to support the podcast, you can do so a number of different ways putting in my narrator voice so that I actually some of you
0:39.3	guys are probably fast forward right now but you could be listening to this you
0:42.8	could be listening to me right now anyway if you want to support the podcast you can
0:46.1	go check out Charlotte's Web you know it's funny the other day I got one of the
0:50.4	one of the students actually sent me a message he got some of the gummies another one got some of the gummies, another one, got some of the gummies, the sleep gummies,
0:57.9	and liked them.
0:58.7	You know, because again, they have both the CBD, which is awesome, and it's also got
1:01.5	some melatonin in it, which has some good benefits.
1:04.4	And I have another guy gave him a tincture to try, and he's enjoying it.
1:09.4	He said he feels like he's getting something from it.
1:11.9	So he's going to go on for a while and then he's going to get off of it,
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