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🗓️ 4 January 2021
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Chewy and Eugene discuss the book “Opening Closed-Guard: The Origins of Jiu-Jitsu In Brazil: The Story Behind the Film” written by Robert Drysdale.
We chat about the history of BJJ, some of the surprising things we learned, the impact of the Gracie family, the evolution of Judo and Jiu-Jitsu from Japan to Brazil, how the martial art has changed, and whether jiu-jitsu is different in the U.S.
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0:00.0 | What's up guys? So today on the podcast, we, uh, Eugene and I are talking about a book that we're reading. |
0:05.7 | Um, no, no, hold on a second. Before you start fast forward, and like, oh, stupid book. |
0:09.5 | No, this is a jihitsu book. So the book is, um, by Robert Drysdale. It's called, uh, opening |
0:14.7 | closed guard. And the book is about a documentary that he's, that he's doing that should be released soon but the book goes in and |
0:21.5 | he has some little you know blurbs and tidbits and information that he's sharing from his |
0:25.8 | experience and then along with that he's going through and interviewing all of these |
0:30.7 | Brazilian American and Japanese like jiu jitzy like masters and judo masters right people |
0:36.7 | that have just, |
0:42.7 | especially a lot of these old guys that are, you know, 80, 70, something years old, that have been training jih Tjitsu for a long time. I was looking at one point. They were like, I started |
0:47.1 | Jiu-Jitsu in 1940. I'm like, oh my God, like, you've been doing this stuff forever. So really cool book. And so what I wanted to do today is we're going to have them on next week, but I wanted to share and I wanted to talk with Eugene about it because I think |
0:58.8 | the book's fascinating and talk about some of the ideas that are going on through the book and share |
1:03.6 | them with you guys because some of these facts might be really interesting to you. I think that |
1:06.6 | when I read them out that they're really interesting. So I hope you guys enjoy this. So you can listen to this episode. |
1:11.7 | And the next week, listen to the interview that we have with Robert Drystale. |
1:15.0 | Big thanks to our sponsor, Charlotte's Web. |
1:17.1 | They are the CBD of our choice, the choice that I use. |
1:20.1 | I'm actually, true story. |
1:22.5 | I'm hopping off of it for a little bit. |
1:24.8 | I do this every so often because a lot of times it's weird. |
1:28.4 | Like you'll start using something and you forget what it's like to use it, right? |
1:32.7 | Because it just, it feels baseline. |
1:34.1 | I do this with coffee. |
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