Episode 272 - John Combs
The Chewjitsu Podcast
Eugene Tsozik
5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
John Combs is a Jiu-Jitsu black belt and high level competitor.
On this episode, John discusses his start in grappling as a wrestler and his transition to training BJJ full time, how a wrestling camp significantly improved his wrestling, his biggest struggles when transitioning from wrestling to Jiu-Jitsu, how John overcame a devastating knee infection, how to decrease Jiu-Jitsu injuries, how to improve performance as an older grappler, how John started to develop his Jiu-Jitsu game, how to compete against someone who has a win over you, how John studies Jiu-Jitsu, John’s routine between Jiu-Jitsu matches, how he implements new techniques and whether he uses drilling or active rolling, training with and around injuries, his proudest achievement in BJJ and goals moving forward, and John’s advice to white and blue belts.
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| 0:00.0 | What up, guys. Welcome to the Chih Tjitsu podcast. On the podcast today, we have a really tough competitor. |
| 0:05.5 | A guy I've met several times going through, uh, or being at tournaments and things like that, a guy named John Combs. |
| 0:10.8 | And so he's going to be in the podcast with us today. We're going to talk about some of the things that he does for competitions, everything from the way he studies, jih Tutsu, the way he implements techniques, all that kind of stuff and, you know, bits and pieces of who he is, like just like any other podcast. But |
| 0:24.3 | nice guy, a fun guy to watch. You know, if you ever go to a competition, if you go over there |
| 0:30.0 | and watch one of his matches, they're usually entertaining to watch. He's going after it. He's not |
| 0:33.7 | just sitting back doing nothing. He's trying to finish the match. And he's a, sitting back doing nothing he's trying to finish the match and he's just comes |
| 0:38.6 | across as a super nice guy again i say he comes across because again i i always like think about that |
| 0:43.3 | i don't know them super well but it seems like he's always been a nice guy to me yeah he's very cool very |
| 0:48.5 | fun conversation um he was honest about stuff and like you know went through some pretty gnarly injuries which was |
| 0:55.8 | cool to hear he's taking some significant time off of the mats off of training and it's just |
| 1:01.1 | cool to hear how he kind of made his way back and and kind of what he values now what he puts |
| 1:06.3 | emphasis on as well to make his jiu jih Tzu as good as it. Yeah, and one of the things when you guys are listening to that, |
| 1:12.5 | when he does talk about the injuries that he sustained at the time off that he had, |
| 1:16.3 | keep that in mind the next time you have injuries because you will listen to someone like |
| 1:20.2 | a black belt talk about, you know, how long they've been training. |
| 1:23.3 | Oh, I've been training for 12 years or something. |
| 1:25.5 | It's not quite 12 years, right? |
| 1:30.6 | There's typically a substantial amount of time that they've taken off for injuries. |
| 1:32.0 | Life gets in the way. |
| 1:33.5 | I mean, things just happen, right? |
| 1:36.1 | I mean, you know, I say I've been training since 2003. That is true. |
| 1:38.7 | But I've also been off the mat for, you know, a lot of time for injuries or little, |
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