Episode 235 - Casey Halstead

The Chewjitsu Podcast

Eugene Tsozik

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

5 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2022

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Chewy and Eugene are joined by 10th Jiu-Jitsu Planet Black Belt and the head coach and owner of 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu - Las Vegas, Casey Halstead.

Casey discusses his start in Jiu-Jitsu, how Jiu-Jitsu impacted his life after getting out of a difficult relationship, starting Jiu-Jitsu at an old-school gym that was against cross-training and the process of changing to a 10th Planet gym, training with Eddie Bravo, how Casey’s game evolved when changing gyms, why you should eliminate techniques at black belt, Casey’s thoughts on why Eddie Bravo gets so much hate, his process for learning new techniques, how to develop leaders in the gym, why Casey made a goal to say “Yes” to every opportunity in 2017, the biggest challenge with opening a Jiu-Jitsu gym, the importance of putting culture first, when Casey started to feel “old” on the mats, what Casey recommends for body maintenance and his experience with stem cells, the #1 idea an older grappler needs to learn, his decision behind moving to Vegas, how he got into coaching MMA, and his gym mission statement for the gym.

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0:00.0	What's up, guys? Welcome today to the podcast. We have a guy named Casey Halstead. He is an acquaintance of mine.
0:07.1	I met him originally out in Las Vegas when I was out there with one of my guys, Brandon, doing the ADCC trials back in 2022, which is this year.
0:16.6	But, you know, hey, this is going to live on in the future. So you might be to this in the the future like 2003 so a year ago um so stupid i love this i well i just it's always
0:28.8	interesting it's like whenever i say it's like whenever i say it's like whenever i have a
0:31.2	private lesson with someone and we record like their techniques that they went over of like
0:35.4	talking to you in the future um because this is going to go on for a long time.
0:38.8	Anyway, talking about Casey, met him out in Las Vegas.
0:42.3	Super nice.
0:43.2	Invited or opened up the gym.
0:44.7	I, a friend of mine referred me to him.
0:46.8	Opened up his gym to us.
0:47.9	Super, super nice guy.
0:49.7	Really tough guy, a team, a tough group of people.
0:53.1	One of his guys went out there did really well at the
0:55.6	competition and so again you know was excited to have him on the podcast today we're going to kind
1:00.7	to get into how he got into training which is pretty interesting but also then talking about
1:05.6	you know being an older grappler on the mat because a lot of you guys that are getting into
1:08.8	jiu jitzy were not exactly like you know 10 or 12 or a teenager or whatever like a lot of you guys that are getting into jihitsu are not exactly like, you know, 10 or 12 or a teenager or whatever. Like a lot of you guys getting into this are in
1:15.1	your, you know, 20s, your late 20s, 30s, 40s even, right? Even older in some cases. And so
1:21.2	there's just different things that it's, we all just know this. There's just a difference between
1:25.2	starting grappling when you're like in your teenage years or as a child or even in your early like 20s versus like mid 20s late 20s 30s 40s and
1:33.7	so on and so again we'll try to gain some interesting perspectives there for you guys to gain
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