Episode 300 - 10th Planet Black Belt Andy Varela

The Chewjitsu Podcast

Eugene Tsozik

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

5 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Andy Varela is a 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt and high level competitor.

Andy joins the podcast to discuss his start in training MMA and then eventually focusing on Jiu-Jitsu at 21 years old, what it was like having a father who was an MMA coach, moving to Las Vegas to pursue a career MMA, competing in a grappling match against former UFC Middleweight Champion Sean Strickland, how he developed Jiu-Jitsu style focused around attacking the back, the inspiration to elevate his Jiu-Jitsu game, the decision to stop training MMA, Jiu-Jitsu inspirations, favorite tournament format, how he trains for longer matches, the value and benefit of teaching, tournament prep for ADCC, and the main lessons learned form losses.

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0:00.0	What up, guys. Welcome to today's podcast. Today's podcast is going to be with one of the more exciting
0:06.0	jih Tjitsu practitioners and competitors out there. I originally watched this guy. I forgot what
0:11.8	the tournament was. And I was just like, man, look at this dude. Just go. He's just jumping after
0:17.0	submissions and being very reckless and we're still winning, right, which is usually a very
0:21.3	hard combo to have to actually be able to win matches and be reckless and going for the submission.
0:25.8	And then I saw him at the trials a couple years later. I was like, oh, my God, look at this guy.
0:28.8	Great. And so, again, we and Eugene were talking, we're kind of thinking, well, who do we want
0:34.7	to have on the podcast? And it was like, Andy Varela. Perfect. Let's have that guy on the podcast. And so we got Andy on the podcast. Um, we talked to
0:40.7	as coach Casey. You'll hear us reference him a couple times. We had coach Casey on the podcast
0:45.2	before as well. Cool guy. Yeah. So if you listen to this podcast and you'd like to go to that
0:50.8	rabbit hole, just put an in jujitsu podcast, Coach Casey,
0:56.7	and you'll find him up somewhere on the interwebs.
1:01.4	But again, Andy is a jihitsu practitioner, competitor,
1:03.7	you know, very exciting style.
1:05.2	If you haven't watched any of his matches,
1:06.5	I would encourage you to do so.
1:09.2	And we'll talk to him about, you know,
1:12.3	he's starting to Jitsu, some of the ways he trains.
1:16.2	You know, he's got a very simple training style, simple training regimen.
1:18.3	And we'll get into those details.
1:21.3	And hopefully you guys are able to take something away from it for your own jihitsu.
1:24.7	And as always, thank you guys for being here on the podcast.
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