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The Chewjitsu Podcast

Episode 166 - Rules For Jiu-Jitsu 3: Grips First (Live Q&A)

The Chewjitsu Podcast

Eugene Tsozik

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

5643 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the podcast, Chewy and Eugene discuss the importance of establishing your grips for Jiu-Jitsu techniques, and how this has an immense impact on your Jiu-Jitsu game.

We discuss different types of gripping, using feints with gripping, modifying grips to make techniques work, problems that white belts have with gripping, decreasing grip/hand fatigue, reducing injury risk to the hands, and how to improve your grips.

Live Q&A starts at 55:00

Topics Covered: 

Getting back to training, choosing a gym based on distance vs. schedule, younger grapplers using more leg locks, decreasing risk of injury when getting stacked on bottom, suggestions on recovery and thoughts on ice baths and sauna, formula for choosing a weight class for competition, tips on improving neck strength, how instructors determine when a student is ready for a belt promotion, how to improve low back flexibility, how to reduce jitters from drinking coffee.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up guys? So today on the podcast, we're going to be doing another rules for Jiu-Jitsu entry.

0:04.6

This one's going to be kind of consider it the sort of the building block of the way that I approach everything I do technically, right?

0:11.7

So some of them are a little bit more mindset focus. This one's more technical, but again, it's a way that I approach.

0:17.8

It's the very first building block the the smallest sort of component

0:21.4

if you will of the technique that I begin to go for so hopefully this is useful to you this was a

0:26.9

YouTube live podcast originally so afterwards we jumped in and did some Q&A and so we answered a lot of

0:33.0

questions there everything from recovery and injury related to sort of stuff offhand,

0:39.7

like the stuff that I put in my coffee to make sure I don't get jitters.

0:42.5

So hopefully this is useful to you and you get a nugget of information to chew on for

0:46.6

your training or for off the mats as well.

0:49.3

And thank you for being here.

0:51.0

As always, thank you to Charlotte's Web for helping support the podcast and bring us to you.

0:56.3

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1:02.8

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1:17.7

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1:23.0

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1:28.2

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1:31.5

I want to make sure I'm getting what I'm getting.

1:33.2

And this way I can replicate.

1:34.6

It's the reason why I weigh my food.

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