Episode 227 - Rob From "McDojoLife" and Matt From "Epic Roll BJJ"
The Chewjitsu Podcast
Eugene Tsozik
5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2022
⏱️ 127 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the podcast, we chat with Rob, who runs the popular Instagram and YouTube channel McDojoLife, where he exposes fraudulent martial artists. We are also joined by Matt Wahlstrom, a BJJ black belt and owner of Epic Roll BJJ apparel company.
Rob and Matt discuss what it was like attending ADCC 2022 in Las Vegas, the popularity of Jiu-Jitsu and what can help grow the sport more, how modifying the scoring criteria can make matches more exciting, the high production quality of the ADCC, the best example of Jiu-Jitsu in a movie, bad Jiu-Jitsu movies, Nicholas Cage movies, the movies that inspired our love for martial arts, fraudulent martial artists like Frank Dux, updates on the McDojoLife documentary, how and why people get convinced to follow fake martial artists, the ultimate goal of the McDojoLife channel, one red flag you must pay attention to from an instructor, and some good channels to follow for effective self-defense.
Follow Rob on Instagram @Mcdojolife and Matt @epicrollbjj
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What up, guys? Welcome to another edition of the Masterpiece Theater. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to another edition of Masterpiece Theater. |
| 0:08.0 | Now, welcome to another episode of the Jiu-Jitsu podcast. |
| 0:10.8 | So today we have Matt from Epic Roll. |
| 0:13.4 | You guys probably have heard from Matt. |
| 0:14.9 | He's been on an episode with us back in the past. |
| 0:17.8 | And we've got Rob from McDojo life. |
| 0:20.4 | So McDojo Life is is if you haven't seen it |
| 0:23.1 | it's a very popular on instagram and in getting your own youtube where you know he's puts |
| 0:28.5 | this stuff out there and basically he puts um illegitimate martial artists on blast where he |
| 0:35.3 | basically says look they're doing stuff some people don't like him because he can |
| 0:38.8 | be very brash but as we'll kind of talk about later in this podcast where some of the stuff that |
| 0:44.0 | they're teaching is downright dangerous to be showing to people um it just is it's like one of those |
| 0:49.8 | things where it's it may seem a little mean sometimes because he's telling me this stuff doesn't work and |
| 0:55.0 | whatever and maybe in our today society we can see that as mean but you're literally dealing |
| 0:58.9 | with in some cases sometimes you're dealing with people that are just like strip conmen sure |
| 1:03.5 | sometimes they're just you know slightly negligent and then sometimes i don't know what it is but |
| 1:09.0 | you know it's like there's there's a spectrum there but uh we get into it and you know, the these these guys are our buddies. So this is a longer podcast and we we kind of go all over the place. Everything from like old martial arts movies to crazy martial arts stuff to just different stuff. So, you know, hope you hope you guys enjoy it's a little different than |
| 1:28.1 | our normal stuff where we try to give like a super actionable tip that you can take away from |
| 1:32.5 | your train today's going to be a little bit more fun we're going to hang out with our buddies |
| 1:35.5 | talk about ADCC talk about martial arts movies talk about like bad martial arts and uh some fun |
| 1:41.0 | stuff and there's some fun stories to stories to be had along the way. |
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