Episode 202 - Haisam Rida
The Chewjitsu Podcast
Eugene Tsozik
5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2022
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the podcast we are joined by BJJ black belt Haisam “The Giraffe” Rida.
Haisam shares his story of moving from Ghana, to Japan, and eventually coming to the United States. We chat about his start in Jiu-Jitsu while in Japan, why Haisam almost quit, how living with his BJJ coach changed his course in life and martial arts, making the tough decision to go to a larger gym to get more exposure, how Haisam met David Garmo and how this led to moving to Detroit, what aspect of his game he is working on most to improve, what he considers his breakout performance, the toughest part of competing, competition mentality, coming back after a loss, and the ruleset that fits his style the best.
Check out Haisam on Instagram @haisamajj
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| 0:00.0 | What's up guys? |
| 0:01.0 | So we're going to have Haisham Rita. |
| 0:03.0 | He's a grappler that's kind of exploded onto the scene as of recently, but as we'll talk |
| 0:09.5 | about on the podcast, he's been around for a while, we just haven't heard of him. |
| 0:13.2 | But he's someone where he first popped up on my radar when I was watching the Who's |
| 0:17.6 | number one tournament and he went against Orlando Sanchez and he choked him out |
| 0:23.0 | you know and that's a big deal you know i mean Orlando Sanchez beat some tough guys on to get |
| 0:27.0 | there and he went against him and got the choke it's intense and he's looked good ever since he's |
| 0:32.3 | beat some big names out there and so wanted to have him on the podcast and he has a fun story too because again he's |
| 0:39.1 | he's been all over the world he's lived in lots of different places and so again real cool story |
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