Episode 172 - BJJ Black Belt Tomer Alroy

The Chewjitsu Podcast

Eugene Tsozik

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

5 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2021

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Chewy and Eugene are joined by BJJ Black Belt Tomer Alroy.

We discuss the growth of BJJ in Israel, Tomer's start in Jiu-Jitsu, when his Jiu-Jitsu started to evolve and improve, the benefit of competition, how to study your matches, warm up ideas/tournament prep, how to build confidence/get out of a mental funk, Tomer's other interests before BJJ, Tomer's approach to training, how to know when a technique is tournament ready, Tomer's Jiu-Jitsu inspirations, preferred rulesets, one skill that is a huge advantage in No-Gi, and much more.

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0:00.0	What's up, guys? So today we have Tomer on the podcast, Tomor Al Roy. He is a jih Tzu practitioner from Israel.
0:08.2	So he and I had like sort of we, it's such a weird world we live in, right? We met each other, air quotes, met each other for the first time through Instagram. We were talking and we kind of loosely kept in touch or would
0:21.7	comment on each other's stuff from time to time. And then randomly, I was at a competition in
0:27.8	Indiana coaching my students for a competition and I see him in a crew of guys from Israel,
0:34.8	right, their team. And again, I'm not thinking to see guys from Israel in Indiana, right?
0:39.4	But he was there and he was competing.
0:41.2	We chatted for a little bit.
0:42.8	And, you know, seemed like a super nice guy.
0:44.7	So I was like, yeah, let's get him on the podcast sometime.
0:46.8	Talk to him a little bit.
0:48.0	And it's fun to talk to people from different parts of the world about Jiu Jitsu, because as he'll talk about, you know,
0:55.6	Jiu Jitsu, you know, it's grown a lot in Israel.
0:58.2	And I know that from a friend of mine who was in Tel Aviv, you know, that it's one of those
1:02.3	things where it wasn't like, it's not like in California.
1:05.2	You know, it's one of those things where a lot of these guys are kind of trailblazing
1:08.3	the path for other people to follow in the future.
1:11.3	So real fun.
1:12.7	He's also a, I don't know what is, I don't know if he's got a degree in it or not, but he studied
1:17.2	psychology in school.
1:21.1	And so when you hear him talk, he'll talk about jiu-and-again, he has a very, like, very much
1:27.0	thinks about the mindset and the
1:28.3	approach to that and give some tips on that stuff so lots of lots of tips on this for
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