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The Chewjitsu Podcast

Episode 301 - Zoltan Bathory and "Epic" Matt

The Chewjitsu Podcast

Eugene Tsozik

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

5643 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Chewy and Eugene are joined by Judo Black Belt, BJJ Black Belt, and the guitarist from the band “Five Finger Death Punch,” Zoltan Bathory. We are also joined by BJJ Black Belt and owner of "Epic Roll," Matt Wahlstrom.

On this episode, Zo discusses his dream of moving to the United States to become a musician, starting Judo at 9 years old, the discipline instilled through martial arts, achieving the impossible through martial arts, the martial arts mindset, how Zo met Matt from “Epic Roll” and became a co-owner in the company, the crazy story of when Zo first met Royce Gracie, the process of learning BJJ, training your worst positions in BJJ, adjusting Judo takedowns to work for BJJ, the value of competition, building a partnership with the PGF (Professional Grappling Federation), what makes the PGF competition so unique, exciting, and different, and longevity for BJJ.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What up, guys? Welcome to another episode of the Chiu-Jitsu podcast. Today's podcast, we are going to have two guests.

0:06.6

We'll be having the, he's a judo black belt and jih Tzu black belt and guitarist of five-figure death punch.

0:13.9

Zoltan. I don't know what is, I don't know. Bathory. So he says so. He goes by Zoh. Yeah. So, yeah. So, um, and so we're having him on the podcast and we are also having a return guest, Matt from Epic Roll who we found out. You'll hear this on the podcast. He has been dubbed Epic Matt. Um, and so he's the, you know, the original starter, founder of Epic role, one of our sponsors in the podcast and I've trained with them before and he's been on the podcast before. And so we're going to talk to them both about like obviously Zoe's involvement

0:39.6

with martial arts, how he got started on it.

0:41.4

I actually really liked hearing him talk about becoming a, you know, coming to America.

0:46.4

Yeah.

0:46.7

Because I always love hearing immigrants talk about what they feel and what they experience

0:51.1

when they come to this place because it's like, it's like like anything else sometimes distance and some separation can sort of give you some

0:58.4

appreciation yeah whereas a lot of us you're born here everything else it's

1:02.4

sometimes it's very easy to take it for granted so anyway we get into the

1:05.6

podcast we'll talk about his involvement we'll talk about some cool stuff that

1:08.7

both epic girl has going on and their involvement

1:11.2

with a big competition that's coming up that I'm excited to see and you guys can listen to it, enjoy it,

1:16.2

and there's a lot of cool stuff from it. So, as always, thanks to our sponsors for help and make the

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1:51.6

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