Episode 191 - Henry Akins

The Chewjitsu Podcast

Eugene Tsozik

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

5 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2022

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of The Chewjitsu Podcast, we are joined by BJJ Black Belt Henry Akins.

Henry is a BJJ Black Belt under Rickson Gracie and the founder of "Hidden Jiu-Jitsu."

On this episode, we discuss teaching and learning Jiu-Jitsu, and how the way Jiu-Jitsu has been taught has not evolved with the sport.

We also discuss the most beneficial type of training with least risk of injury, how to make techniques automatic, the importance of starting slow, how to supplement your Jiu-Jitsu outside of class time, what it was like training in the early days with Rickson Gracie, whether the basics have been lost in the progression of Jiu-Jitsu, how to make the basics more effective, creating pressure through movement, the importance of weight distribution, and an interesting thing to focus on when breathing.

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0:00.0	What's up, guys? So today on the podcast, we have Henry Aikins. Henry Aikins is a jitzy black belt. He learned under the great Hicks and Gracie. Many of you guys probably know this. I know he's pretty popular within the community. Today, the episode that we do with him today is going to be a little bit different than say the normal episode where we kind of fill each other out and talk about stuff like,
0:21.0	you know, how'd you get started and everything else? Because most people, he's done a lot of
0:26.5	podcasts and he's already said that story a million times. So instead, what we're going to do today
0:29.9	is we're going to talk about teaching, jihitsu, learning jihitsu. And throughout this, there will be
0:36.1	a lot of useful tools and techniques for you
0:38.6	to be able to implement into your training yourself, whether you're an actual coach at a gym and you
0:43.3	can adjust the training. There's a lot of good stuff for you. And then if you're someone who, you know,
0:47.7	is just a student who doesn't have control over the training, there will be some good stuff for you
0:51.3	as well within the episode. So again, I hope you guys appreciate the episode.
0:54.3	Hope you enjoy it and you get something from it.
0:56.9	And big things to our sponsors that help make this podcast happen,
0:59.4	Charlotte's Web.
1:00.3	You can go to their website at charlotsweb.com slash jihitsu to pick up any of the CBD products
1:04.9	that you're interested in.
1:06.3	Currently, if you're curious what I'm using,
1:08.6	I've been experiencing a little bit of struggles sleeping.
1:14.3	This is a very new thing to me.
1:17.1	I don't know if you guys have ever had this before.
1:18.8	I've never experienced sleeplessness.
1:21.1	I'm one of these people that generally, no matter what's going on, I can fall asleep like that in an instant. But I also tend to be a bit of an
1:30.0	overthinker. Mainly for like, I'm very much in my head to some degree thinking about things.
1:37.3	And recently I've had this issue where I've just been kind of like thinking a little bit too
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