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🗓️ 13 May 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Amanda Leve is a Jiu-Jitsu black Belt, multiple-time ADCC Trials winner, and former professional MMA fighter.
Amanda joins the podcast to discuss how a medical condition abruptly stopped her MMA career and how this encouraged her to dive back into grappling competition, how Amanda got started BJJ, how Amanda developed a passion for MMA, developing a different perspective on practice, how working with a mindset coach helped athletic performance, the importance of a warm up, Amanda’s experience competing against Gabi Garcia, Amanda's tournament prep, dealing with competition anxiety, the importance of posture to show confidence, how to build cardio for grappling, recovery for, how to know when you need to take time off from training, Amanda’s favorite takedown and submission, and the most influential person in her martial arts career.
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0:00.0 | What up, guys? So today on the podcast, we have Amanda Levy. So, um, you know, again, |
0:04.5 | it's one of those things. Anytime I go to a tournament, like, or I watch one, I typically |
0:09.7 | walk away with like, I want to go talk to that person, you know, like, because again, with the |
0:13.3 | podcast, it's like, you know, I get to just talk to people. And so I'll find people, a lot of times it goes to their game. Like, I'll find people that I find interesting to watch jitsu-wise and compete. |
0:23.6 | And like she's one of the female competitors where if I see her competing, I want to go watch her. |
0:28.2 | Because like she has, I think it's like a very much like a fighting style jihitsu. |
0:33.7 | We're in obviously she's an m mhm fighter so you know there's a certain sort of mindset that |
0:38.9 | comes into with mma which is like i'm going to fight you right i'm not going to play it safe i'm not |
0:43.9 | going to like oh let me like just whatever i'm coming after you and it's very much your style like |
0:48.6 | you know it's it's going to be an entertaining match and she's going to go after it. And so like she's one of the female competitors. I want to go watch her. So when she was competing this at the ADCC trials, she came up, |
0:58.5 | she won the East Coast and then in the West Coast she ended up coming up short because she got |
1:02.2 | injured in the finals match when I, you know, I think she was winning that match up until she got |
1:06.7 | injured, which again, it was a bummer to see it. But we have Amanda Levy here on the podcast with us, and it's going to be a fun one. |
1:13.2 | She'll talk about everything from like the MMA fighting that she did and how she, like the doctor basically told her she can no longer fight. |
1:20.7 | They kind of told her, totally it's going on there. |
1:22.9 | And then again, adjusting to jihitsu and kind of how her training. |
1:26.7 | And we talk a lot about her training style and |
1:28.6 | things that she does, both mentally and physically for matches and everything else. And so, again, |
1:34.1 | hopefully you guys enjoy the podcast and get a few tips from the podcast. You know, again, that's kind of, |
1:39.7 | to me, like I'm writing down notes and I can look at this thing and be like, you know, some of you guys that |
1:44.1 | are, you know, newer competitors or maybe you're thinking about competing or whatever |
1:47.7 | might be she shares a lot about her process for this and I think it could be useful for people |
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