Episode 309 - Sloan "Caveman" Clymer

The Chewjitsu Podcast

Eugene Tsozik

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

5 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Chewy and Eugene are joined by Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt, high level competitor, and head no-gi coach at Legion AJJ, Sloan "Caveman" Clymer.

Sloan discusses the importance of honesty as a coach, how to develop high level submissions, learning Jiu-Jitsu from his dad while training in his barn, moving across the country to pursue grappling, what it was like training under Richie “Boogeyman” Martinez, moving to Legion AJJ and training under Keenan Cornelius, tips on becoming a high level competitor, the importance of taking tough matches, not making a big deal of the wins or losses, some of his most valuable learning experiences from competition, why being nervous is useful before competition, dealing with competition anxiety, and how Sloan got his nickname “Caveman.

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0:00.0	What up, guys. Welcome to today's podcast. Today we have a good grappler, a guy named Sloan
0:05.4	Clymer, the caveman is his nickname. And we're having on the podcast. I've watched Sloan at several
0:10.7	tournaments. He's one of the guys where if I go out to a tournament, like say trials or something
0:15.5	like that and I see him like on a mat, I'll run around to go watch his match because they're
0:20.5	typically fun.
0:21.3	They're exciting.
0:22.5	He's going for a finish.
0:23.9	He's, you know, going for the attack.
0:25.4	And so I find his style enjoyable.
0:27.3	And so I wanted to have him on the podcast.
0:28.7	And so he reached out to him.
0:30.3	He's also a nice guy.
0:31.5	Yeah, he's super cool.
0:32.2	Usually when I see him out at tournaments or whatever, we always kind of make it a point. We'll come say, hey, whatever. I think we talked to him at like ADCC in 2020.
0:38.9	Probably did. He was super cool.
0:41.2	Yeah, he was a nice, yeah.
0:42.0	So he's always a super cool guy. So I wanted to have him on the podcast.
0:45.5	Obviously, we'll talk about his started jih T nuggets to take away for your own training and your
0:54.5	own development.
0:56.0	And anybody that may be a little bit younger who's thinking about like getting up and,
1:00.5	you know, taking the leap into full-time jihitsu and, you know, up and moving to a different
1:04.8	city or whatever, then this could, he did that.
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