Episode 277 - BJJ Black Belt World Champion Jessa Khan

The Chewjitsu Podcast

Eugene Tsozik

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

5 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the podcast, we are joined by BJJ Black Belt and World Champion, Jessa Khan.

Jessa discusses starting BJJ at 8 years old, moving to California to train with the Mendes brothers and Art of Jiu-Jitsu (AOJ), which sport helped her BJJ progression the most, the biggest difference training with the Mendes brothers compared to other gyms, deciding to train BJJ full time, how being homeschooled helped Jessa focus on Jiu-Jitsu, Jessa’s training schedule, what keeps BJJ interesting, how she overcame a rough patch in her Jiu-Jitsu career, favorite position and submission in BJJ, how to make a basic techniques work at a high level, and Jessa discusses her upcoming match against Danielle Kelly for the ONE Women’s Atomweight Submission Grappling World Title on September 29th, 2023 on Amazon Prime.

After podcast thoughts: Chewy and Eugene discuss the idea of taking a break from training, what some of the benefits of taking a break are, and how to create an optimal learning environment.

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0:00.0	What up, guys. Welcome to today's podcast. Today's podcast, we have Jessica Khan, who is going to be competing at one of one FC's grappling matches coming up, which will be available in Amazon Prime. If you guys have never actually watched a one FC show, it's available on Amazon Prime if you've got it. So it's pretty cool, which will be fighting over there at the arena there in the Singapore,
0:22.7	which is super cool, big stage for grappling.
0:25.5	We had the founder of one on the podcast before.
0:30.8	And again, he's trying to integrate not just like MMA, but do all of these different martial arts.
0:36.8	You see kickboxing. You'll see MMA. You'll see grappling. I think it's a pretty cool thing to give,
0:40.9	like some of these other martial arts in their pure form, another stage to do the thing on, you know?
0:45.4	So it's super cool. So we're going to get into the podcast with her. It was a little bit of a short one.
0:50.2	I guess something happened where she was basically tightly packed between teaching classes and some other stuff.
0:57.2	So we got 30 minutes with her.
0:58.2	So at the end of the podcast, Eugene and are going to do a little bit extra to fill out a little bit more time in there.
1:03.5	And we'll talk about some ideas related to what we talk about in the podcast with her.
1:07.8	So hopefully you guys enjoy the episode.
1:09.3	And as always, big thanks to our sponsors for helping make the podcast happen, Charles Webb.
1:13.7	Charles Webb CBD. It's one of my favorite supplements for recovery. It's one of those things
1:17.7	where, again, as you train more, as you get older, recovery is like one of the biggest things
1:23.1	that you become obsessed with. Talk to any older right and when i say older i don't even
1:29.6	mean like old i mean like you get anywhere close to 30 and you talk to anybody that's been
1:34.6	training for a couple of years right you're still a young you're still a young man right um you're
1:39.1	you're you're getting close to like middle age but you're still in good shape right but you think
1:42.9	about you know someone that's close to 30, any of you guys listening to
1:47.7	this, you know, you start approaching that.
1:48.8	And all of a sudden, things just feel different.
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