Episode 176 - NAIA Wrestling Champion Brandon Reed

The Chewjitsu Podcast

Eugene Tsozik

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

5 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Summary

Brandon Reed is a 3x NAIA College Wrestling Champion, 2021 NAIA Wrestler of the Year, and recently became the 2021 No-Gi Blue Belt Ultra Heavyweight World Champion.

On this episode Brandon discusses his childhood and feeling like he didn’t fit in, being out of shape as a kid, discovering wrestling, getting adopted by his wrestling coach, developing his winning mentality, developing his work ethic, the best style of wrestling for BJJ, the most difficult adjustment from wrestling to BJJ, dealing with self-doubts, Brandon’s competition Mindset, the importance of being intentional in practice, the benefits of the Gi for a wrestler, Brandon’s goals in martial arts, the importance of not showing weakness, and the key to getting out of a bad habit.

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0:00.0	What's up, guys? So today on the podcast, I want to give you guys a warning. We're talking to one of my newer students, Brandon, who is also a three-time NAA collegiate wrestling champion. And we use, he uses the F-bomb more than any episode that we've ever had.
0:18.0	He may have, he may have beat Kurt Oceander for F-Bomb.
0:22.5	We need to count.
0:24.2	Somebody maybe will count them and tell us how many.
0:26.5	Yeah, if you feel so inclined.
0:28.5	He has channeled his inner David Goggins and he's, that's right.
0:31.5	He's burned it up.
0:32.1	But I mean, there's a lot of good stuff on the podcast, though, but I'm just letting
0:35.3	you know, because I know some people have sensitive ears. I'm just letting you know what's coming in beforehand, you know, so before we get into it.
0:41.7	But that said, it's a cool episode.
0:43.4	Again, he is a college wrestling good insights into the methodology behind getting better at stuff that he kind of shares with what he did with college and what he's doing with Jiu-Jitsu now.
1:00.2	And I'm hoping that we'll be able to come back in the next couple months with some updates on his positive progress in competition because he won a, you want a Naga, which a Naga which was for him me just playing around almost you know but it'll be
1:13.6	interesting to see what he does at worlds and everything else obviously he's not
1:18.1	competing at white belt he still wears a white belt at the gym you know even though
1:22.0	he's I mean he can he can thrash some dudes that have been trained for a decade
1:26.6	whatever but he's a white belt at the gym he's got two stripes and then he's he's thrash some dudes that have been training for a decade, whatever.
1:29.4	But he's a white belt at the gym.
1:30.1	He's got two stripes.
1:33.6	And then he's, he's competing at Blue Belt because I have to start him at at Blue Belt.
1:34.2	He can't put that guy in a white belt.
1:35.9	I mean, it would be, it would just be so mean.
1:37.6	I mean, even putting him at Blue Belt's kind of a, you get stretched a little bit, but at least in the ghee, blue belt and no ge he can do like expert divisions and stuff like that where he competes against guys of like
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