Episode 217 - Javier Vazquez

The Chewjitsu Podcast

Eugene Tsozik

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

5 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2022

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Chewy and Eugene chat with former MMA fighter, UFC veteran, and BJJ black belt Javier Vazquez.

Javier discusses his start in wrestling, how he discovered the UFC, his objectives for training and fighting in MMA, what it was like training BJJ in the late 1990’s, the most effective Jiu-Jitsu for MMA, how rule changes in MMA can change how Jiu-Jitsu is used, Javier’s first MMA fight experience, the “Central Path” strategy, mental preparation, how Javier used his mindset and "The Gerson Method" to help overcome cancer, using the idea of “Connection” to improve his Jiu-Jitsu while unable to train.

Javier also discusses his teaching and class curriculum, how to balance a curriculum with other ideas and techniques that may arise, a key Jiu-Jitsu concept, who has the best Jiu-Jitsu for MMA, how Javier fought 3 rounds on a torn ACL, and his on-line learning curriculum JVOS Online.

You can follow Javier on Instagram @jvjiujitsu and check out his JVOS Complete Course at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/jvos

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Transcript

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0:00.0	What up guys? Welcome to the podcast today. We have a sort of an OG of Jiu-Jitsu and MMA fighting.
0:06.2	I got him Javier Vasquez. So, you know, he sent me a message and was asking about, you know,
0:10.8	beginning on the podcast and stuff like that. And this was a guy who, you know, and I talked about
0:15.4	this little bit on the podcast, but I think it's fun to preface it with this. He was someone I watched or couldn't even watch because you couldn't, like the old days
0:23.8	back in the day when like the King of the Cage fights happened, there was really nowhere to
0:27.6	watch them.
0:28.5	You could watch them when they came out on DVD or whatever, but if you weren't out in
0:31.5	California on these Indian reservations where they were at, you couldn't, you couldn't,
0:35.5	you couldn't watch them.
0:36.3	So like there was no way to, no way to get a hold of him.
0:38.8	And him and a few other guys were guys that I would fight because I would go into the
0:42.4	underground forum.
0:43.3	You'd watch, yeah.
0:44.0	And I'd go to, well, they wouldn't watch it, but you would like see people talking about
0:47.6	it or you'd get to play by play, like the underground forum and Sharedog and stuff like
0:51.1	that. and Sherdog and stuff like that and they would talk about these guys that were fighting and he was one of those dudes who came up a lot in those particular organizations like that and the WEC and stuff and you know for a good reason because he was a really good ground guy you know like good Jitsu good a good grappling good fighting and again so it was fun to talk to him fun to talk to someone that know, I kind of grew up watching when I was young when I was, you know, 16, 17 years old getting into MMA and then I'm looking at this guy through pictures and through play by play and text on forums and stuff like that.
1:23.2	You all you guys listening, if you're new to this sport, you know, BGJ and MMA and stuff, you don't realize how lucky you are.
1:29.0	It's so abundant.
1:29.8	It's everywhere.
1:30.5	You know, it's never been like this before.
1:32.4	Yeah.
1:33.0	Although I know that a lot of people listen to us are, you know, 25 and older.
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