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The Chewjitsu Podcast

Episode 180 - Jacob Couch

The Chewjitsu Podcast

Eugene Tsozik

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

5643 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the podcast, we are joined by Jacob “The Hillbilly Hammer” Couch.

Jacob is a Jiu-Jitsu brown belt, No-Gi Brown Belt World Champion, and trains out of Pedigo Submission Fighting.

Jacob discusses how he got his name Hillbilly Hammer and the saying “Biscuits and Gravy,” what its like being a late replacement for tournaments, Jacob’s competition mindset, his favorite rulesets to compete in, ADCC prep and weight cutting, the transition to Pedigo Submission Fighting and what its like training there, how Jacob started training, the match that cemented Jacob as an elite grappler, if he gets nervous before competitions, pursuing grappling full time , what it was like living at the gym, how it has been traveling and meeting new people, what its like having Heath Pedigo as a coach, how Jacob deals with going to practice when he is less motivated, how Jiu-Jitsu has evolved over the years, and how to overcome a loss.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up, guys? So today on the podcast, we have Jacob Couch, the, quote, Hillbilly Hammer.

0:07.7

The, so Jacob is a, he's a young cat. He's a competitor doing really well for himself right now.

0:12.8

And we've, Eugene and I and pretty much everybody at our gym has known Jacob for a long time because he's from Kentucky.

0:18.7

So, you know, been a Kentucky boy and he's been competing.

0:22.4

And so, again, you know, a lot of times he would, you know, be similar tournaments to us.

0:27.4

He's trained at the gym of a couple times.

0:29.4

And so super cool dude.

0:31.0

And we wanted to have him on the podcast because he just, he just got over having some great wins at the worlds. He had a really great performance at the Who's number one and wanted to talk to a dude who came from a very, you know, small rural town.

0:43.1

And I kind of talked to him about, you know, competing and all that kind of stuff.

0:46.3

And again, he's still young.

0:47.5

He's 22 years old right now.

0:49.2

He's got, sky's the limit, man.

0:50.6

He's going to, he's already that good.

0:52.8

Yeah. limit man he's gonna he's already that good yeah so he's doing real well for himself so we'll

0:54.3

talk about all that stuff and uh you can listen to it and hopefully pull something away for

0:58.2

your jihitsu or just simply be entertained a little bit by listening to a young competitor

1:02.3

talk about what he's going through he's also training in case you you might you may know

1:06.5

this depending on how you follow this he's training out there pet it goes the daisy fresh is what the

1:11.4

people a lot of times call it because of the i guess the laundry mat or whatever um so again the

1:15.8

uh interesting interesting stuff so stick around listen to it as always this podcast is brought to you

1:21.8

by brought to you by that sounds like an old school um advertisement like remember when we were like kids and they'd have tv shows and today's program is brought to you by. That sounds like an old school, um, advertisement. Like, remember when we were like

1:28.6

kids and they'd have TV shows and today's program is brought to you by boom. And they'd start

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