Episode 24 - BJJ Black Belt Lachlan Giles
The Chewjitsu Podcast
Eugene Tsozik
4.9 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2018
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Lachlan Giles is a BJJ Black Belt and high-level Jiu-Jitsu competitor from Australia. He is the head jiu-jitsu coach at Absolute MMA in St. Kilda, Australia.
Lachlan joins the podcast to discuss his start in martial arts and jiu-jitsu, coaching, training, overcoming injuries, competition prep, and he also shares some of his favorite memories from jiu-jitsu training and competition.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, guys? So today on the podcast, we talked to Lachlan Giles. He is an Australian blackbelt. He's been in the ADCC. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm really fantastic competitor. And again, I've never trained with him, but from talking to him, sounds like he's a great coach. |
| 0:14.8 | Honestly, we spent about an hour talking to him. This podcast definitely could have gone a lot longer because there was so much to talk about. And again, the dude's, you know, you can tell he's very bright and he's very thoughtful with his jiu-jitsu. So I'm excited to give this one to you guys. With that said, let's get started. Hey, man, so thanks for coming on the podcast. Really appreciate it. Yeah, thank you. Thanks for having me. Yeah. Just to get started, man, just give us a little |
| 0:39.1 | background on kind of where you're from and kind of how you got into Jiu-Jitsu. So I'm from |
| 0:44.6 | Melbourne, Australia. I got into Jiu-Jitsu. I started out doing other martial arts, |
| 0:52.8 | Kung Fu actually, after watching a Jet Li film, I think |
| 0:58.0 | it was a long time ago. And it would have been about 13, 14 years old then. And then I think |
| 1:06.0 | I was about 14 or 15 when I came across the first UFC on VHS. |
| 1:11.6 | Saw Hoyce Gracie doing his thing and I thought, okay, I better learn some |
| 1:16.6 | Jiu-Jitsu and so I tried it out and then I never look back since pretty much so. |
| 1:21.6 | Obviously it's changed a lot since I first started. |
| 1:25.6 | This is, it was probably an interesting time in Australia. What, what, is this roughly, like when you got started? This would have been, what, 2002, 2002? Okay, so we started around the same time. I started in 2003. I wrestled first and then did Jiu-Zitsu 2003, so around that same time. Okay. Awesome. |
| 1:44.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:44.9 | Very good. |
| 1:45.6 | And so what was it like going from Kung Fu to Jitsu? |
| 1:49.4 | Was there like a schism a little bit there where you were trying to get into a grappling |
| 1:52.8 | opposed to a striking art? |
| 1:55.0 | Well, I mean, actually, where I had done the, where I was training the kung fu, the guy had a little bit of |
| 2:03.4 | jiu-jitsu experience as well. |
| 2:05.8 | He actually was the one that showed me the VHS tape. |
| 2:08.9 | So he did incorporate a tiny bit of grappling into the audio's teaching, which was good |
| 2:14.1 | because then I suppose a little bit less unfamiliar. |
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