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The Chewjitsu Podcast

Episode 296 - Judo National Champion Austin Cook

The Chewjitsu Podcast

Eugene Tsozik

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

5643 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Chewy and Eugene talk to Judo U.S. National Champion, U.S. Open Champion, World Cup Medalist, and Medical Doctor Austin Cook.  Austin also specializes in teaching No-Gi Judo on his Instagram page @badboymedicine https://www.instagram.com/badboymedicine/

Austin joins the podcast to discuss his start in Judo, his process for learning Jiu-Jitsu, whether Judo or Jiu-Jitsu is more sustainable for longevity, how he got into BJJ, the cross-over between wrestling, Judo, and Jiu-Jitsu,  why he stopped grappling for 6 years, whether you should specialize in a sport, how his medical experience changed his ideas on training, ideas on decreasing overtraining, the incredible benefit he got from "shadow drilling," how to handle competition nerves, how high-level Judo practice is structured, the idea behind his Instagram page @badboymedicine, social media trolls, the biggest difference between Judo and BJJ, how he maintains a high level of skill while training once every couple of weeks, and ideas on longevity for grappling.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What up, guys. Welcome to another edition of the Chiu-Jitsu podcast. Today we have a friend of mine, Austin.

0:06.1

His Instagram moniker is Bad Boy Medicine. He's a judo. So he was a U.S. Open champion, very good judo player.

0:14.3

He plays a lot of Nogi Judo now, and where he's coming out this weekend to my gym to teach a, mainly a foot trip class because for me,

0:22.1

like I've watched some of his videos.

0:24.3

He's got excellent foot trips.

0:25.6

And foot trips are one of those things where I want,

0:28.9

as a school,

0:29.7

I want to dive into those more and I want to dive into those more because it's such a,

0:32.8

like low risk,

0:34.0

higher reward takedown.

0:35.1

And you can begin to use it almost like a jab and boxing where you're keeping a person off balance.

0:39.4

And they can't, they're not allowed to just settle into a good position because you're constantly keeping them dancing.

0:44.5

And for anyone that's been hit with a really good foot sweep, it's one, it's a beautiful move.

0:49.3

But it's so, it's so strange because it's like you lose your footing it's like you just fall down a flight of stairs and you know hit the mat it's like you just lose your footing and there you go and they

0:58.1

exert very little force to do it so um so he's going to be teaching that at my gym we'll have

1:02.9

some youtube content as well so if you guys are like pop over to youtube you can do that as well

1:07.2

and then you can find his instagram at bad boy medicine over on Instagram. He'll talk about where that, where that name came from. And again, thank you guys for

1:15.3

being here. Big thanks to our sponsor, Charlotte's Web for helping make the podcast happen.

1:19.3

If you guys are getting a little bit older and you get into interested more into recovery and

1:24.1

all that kind of stuff, if obviously if you're maximizing your sleep, you're maximizing your diet, you're doing

1:29.2

all those things right.

1:30.4

And that's where, you know, okay, supplementation can help.

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