Episode 163 - BJJ Black Belt Joel Blanton

The Chewjitsu Podcast

Eugene Tsozik

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

5 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Joel Blanton is a Jiu-Jitsu black belt who has been training for over 20 years.

Joel and Chewy share their first encounter at a tournament, how training in Professional Wrestling led to Joel's start in MMA, what the MMA scene was like in the early days, his start in Jiu-Jitsu, the ability to avoid confrontation, how to come back from a loss, tips for recovery for older grapplers, how to keep training exciting, giving back through Jiu-Jitsu, and applying lessons learned from Jiu-Jitsu to life.

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0:00.0	What's up guys? So today on the podcast, we have a friend of mine. His name's Joel. Joel is a black belt and jih Tzu, former professional MMA fighter. And Joel and I had our very first encounter with each other when I was a blue belt. He was a, he was not actually a blue belt. But we had our first encounter at a competition together. And we'll talk about the story of that for some of you guys that maybe have watched the one.
0:23.7	One of my old videos is where I was on the mats, or not on the mats, on the out in the back talking by the railroad tracks.
0:31.9	When it's like some of my early videos where I'd walk up and down.
0:33.9	Yeah.
0:34.1	I remember those.
0:34.9	And so one of those things I was talking about a match where
0:37.7	me and this guy had a back and forth battle. Um, and then, you know, that kind of thing. And
0:44.0	like at one point, I slapped him in the face. And so we'll talk about that in a minute,
0:47.0	um, get into more details about it. But it's super cool guy and, uh, be some nuggets for you guys that are training. He's also an older guy at this point.
0:55.5	He's about 50 still training.
0:56.8	So if you're a little bit older,
0:58.1	or maybe you're like me and you're kind of maybe cruising to that older age,
1:02.8	a little bit more quickly than you'd like to be.
1:05.7	I found this out recently.
1:07.0	So we were, we had it three weeks off from training because my injury,
1:09.6	my shoulder.
1:10.2	Yeah.
1:10.4	It's fine now and then I had a vacation in Costa Rica had my first like normal week back oh man like I just
1:17.2	felt so out of shape which I never really feel out of shape like you know I could take like a month
1:22.5	off and I could come back when I was younger and I still feel great's like, man, I'm trying to hang with these young guys.
1:28.3	Get back on the horse, buddy.
1:29.5	Yeah, I got it's, I lose the cardio faster now.
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