Episode 273 - "Big" Dan Manasoiu
The Chewjitsu Podcast
Eugene Tsozik
5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the podcast, Chewy and Eugene are joined by Jiu-Jitsu Purple Belt "Big" Dan Manasoiu.
Dan joins the podcast to discuss his start in Jiu-Jitsu at age 14, his 6-hour commute from Pennsylvania to train at Renzo Gracie New York, what set Renzo Gracie New York apart from other gyms, getting humbled by smaller grapplers, his daily training schedule, the advantage of teaching Jiu-Jitsu, how he fine tunes a technique to work at a high level, dealing with internet trolls, his strength training routine, his thoughts on John Danaher’s commitment to his students and to Jiu-Jitsu, his proudest Jiu-Jitsu achievement, favorite Jiu-Jitsu rule set, and his hobbies outside of Jiu-Jitsu.
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| 0:00.0 | What up, guys. Welcome to the Chiu-Jitsu podcast. Today we have Dan. |
| 0:04.0 | How do you say his last name, Sal? Manasso. Manasso, Manas, I don't know. |
| 0:09.3 | Big Dan. Big Dan. Big Dan from New Wave. He's getting ready for the ADCC championships and some of the open tournaments. |
| 0:19.6 | And he was a guy that I watched last year, I guess it was almost two years ago at the, |
| 0:25.3 | the West Coast trials back in, I guess was it, was it 2021? |
| 0:30.4 | Feels like forever ago. |
| 0:31.5 | What was 20, it was 2020. |
| 0:32.9 | It was the beginning of 2022. |
| 0:34.7 | So watching the West Coast trials, super good guy. I didn't know who he was at the time. It was just this big 2022. So watching the West Coast trials, he was super good guy. |
| 0:39.1 | I didn't know who he was at the time. |
| 0:40.2 | It was just this big guy that was going through. |
| 0:41.8 | And everybody was like, hey, he's a blue belt, you know, leg lock and he made it to |
| 0:46.1 | the finals. |
| 0:47.3 | And it was a close finals match. |
| 0:49.5 | He lost on a on a strategic error. |
| 0:51.9 | Oh, wow. |
| 0:52.1 | You know what I mean like which I think if I think if the match was |
| 0:55.2 | watching him compete now if he was competing in the match I think he wins that match yeah um again |
| 1:00.1 | because he again it was more of a thing that he did that sort of caused it right um but uh since then |
| 1:05.6 | obviously he's been winning a lot of stuff he's been doing really well for himself and uh getting |
| 1:10.6 | better and better and |
| 1:11.4 | so I wanted to have him on the podcast and so sent a message out. We had him on for any of you |
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