Episode 287 - 10th Planet Black Belt Sean Applegate

The Chewjitsu Podcast

Eugene Tsozik

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

5 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, we chat with 10th Planet Black Belt and head coach at 10th Planet Atlanta, Sean Applegate.

Sean discusses how he discovered Jiu-Jitsu, how he learned Jiu-Jitsu without high level coaches nearby, becoming a head coach with less than 2 years of training, the process of balancing training and coaching, the value and importance of competing, the three Layers of Jiu-Jitsu (the physical, spiritual, and the mental aspects), the importance of accountability, why the Jiu-Jitsu mats bring out the good and bad in people, coming to terms with getting older and slowing down in Jiu-Jitsu, the importance of personality when formulating a BJJ competition game plan, Sean’s preferred way to teach technique, the importance of creating necessity for your students, how to balance running a gym with professional grapplers and hobbyists, why coaching in Jiu-Jitsu contradicts high level coaching in other sports, how Sean trains while being a full time coach, and his definition of a black belt.

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0:00.0	What up, guys? Welcome to today's podcast. Today on the podcast, we're going to have a coach jih Tjitsu practitioner, but as he'll talk about a little bit later on the podcast, he's definitely become more of a coach.
0:11.6	A guy named Sean Applegate from the, from the south. Right now he has a gym in Atlanta, Georgia, and he originally got started in Gulf Shores.
0:22.6	You know, originally I met him and his crew back somewhere in 2000 I think 2000 and 13 2014 somewhere in that
0:30.7	range cool they were picking up some mats from the gym that we we had my buddy of mine had
0:35.7	him in storage he was selling them to different. And then I came across him, you know, knew him, you know, often on
0:41.8	about who he was for a while. But last January, we were having a local competition. We had this
0:47.2	little team tournament thing. And I came across him and some of his guys and they were really good.
0:51.0	You know, he was a super nice guy. His guys were really cool, and he had a lot of
0:54.4	young guys that were doing very well, and I was impressed with their ability. And so at some point,
0:59.7	I knew we were going to try to get him on the podcast. And so today's podcast is going to be fun.
1:04.4	It's one to let you guys kind of get an idea of what you're getting into is he'll talk a little bit about kind of how he taught himself
1:11.2	jiu-jitsu in some respects because he was in a place back in the day where there wasn't a whole
1:15.6	lot of black belts or high-level guys surrounding him and so he was having to learn jihitsun chunks
1:20.5	and then teaching a lot of it to himself and then at the same time we'll get some strategies and
1:25.3	some ideas for your own training if you listen to it carefully. And then we'll also talk shop about being a coach and some of the things that
1:31.3	he thinks are useful and ideas that could be useful for training. And, you know, we even talk a little
1:35.7	bit about the idea versus drilling, situational role gaming. And, you know, the different ideas,
1:40.8	because, again, everybody is online trying to tout that they have the answer, right, opposed to what I always say is like an answer.
1:50.5	This is one way to solve this problem, right?
1:52.7	And so he shares his ideas on it, what's worked really well for him as a coach, which again, I think there's merit to it because he's turned out some decent guys who are his, you know, his guys, his jitsu guys from white to black belt and some of these blue and purple belts that he's cranking out.
2:06.2	And they're tough dudes.
2:07.1	So anyway, hope you guys enjoy the podcast.
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