Episode 318 - ADCC Trials Winner and National Champion Wrestler Michael Pixley
The Chewjitsu Podcast
Eugene Tsozik
5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2024
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the podcast we are joined by Michael Pixley.
Michael is a Jiu-Jitsu purple belt training out of Pedigo Submission Fighting, he is the NAIA 2017 National Champion and Wrestler of The Year, 2019 NCAA Division 2 National Champion, 2x World and Pan Am Champion at Blue Belt, and the 2024 ADCC West Coast Trials winner in the <99 kg division.
Michael shares some of his most intense weight-cut stories, starting out in Judo and then transitioning to wrestling, his toughest wrestling match and the turning point in his wrestling career, how he beat the number one ranked high school wrestler in the country, his switch to Jiu-Jitsu and his first class at Pedigo Submission Fighting, the most challenging part of transitioning from wrestling to BJJ, the major difference between wrestling and BJJ practices, his thoughts on drilling, the driving force for his rapid improvement in BJJ, favorite BJJ ruleset, dealing with competition nerves, what helped him get over the hump to win ADCC Trials, how his wrestling style has kept him injury-free, his thoughts on the Craig Jones Invitational, what Michael does to relax, his favorite place to travel, his advice to younger grapplers, and what it's like learning from Heath Pedigo, and the culture at Pedigo Submission Fighting.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What up, guys. Welcome to today's Chiu-Jitsu podcast with ADCC trials winner, Michael Pixley. |
| 0:07.7 | He'll talk about it in the second, won multiple college wrestling titles, and he won the 80-C trials at West Coast this past year. |
| 0:15.5 | Stud wrestler, very nice kid, very nice young man, came, uh, taught some wrestling last talk about the podcast. I'm like if I'm going to get my butt kicked, I got to do it first before you're tired from rolling with all the students. |
| 0:40.3 | Got to get him ice fresh. So anyway, um, fun podcast. Check them out afterwards. |
| 0:45.5 | Great stuff. Great wrestling style for any of you guys that want to study how to do low risk, |
| 0:50.1 | high reward takedowns or if you're a little bit older and don't want to be shooting. He's got some great upper body type of like slide bys and throws and things like that. |
| 0:58.0 | So it can be a great study for you if you like to study jitzy matches. |
| 1:02.0 | Again, thanks to our sponsor, Charles Webb, for making the podcast happen. |
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| 1:17.3 | And again, for me, it's part of recovery as I get older, doing all sorts of different stuff |
| 1:22.1 | to try to help aid that recovery. |
| 1:24.9 | Share some more stuff with you guys in the future on that. |
| 1:27.4 | But again, try to do all sorts of different stuff to aid recovery. And one more stuff with you guys in the future on that. But again, try to do all |
| 1:28.7 | sorts of different stuff to aid recovery. And one of those things is CBD and I take it at nighttime. |
| 1:33.5 | Usually it sort of follows a nighttime routine of a little bit of magnesium with some vitamins |
| 1:39.4 | at night. When I go to sleep, I'll take a shower and then I'll have my CBD and then I wind down, |
| 1:45.5 | listen to audio books, read a book, whatever, do something to like, you know, |
| 1:48.6 | then I also have some like red light lamps, red light bulbs, dim the lights down and then |
| 1:53.5 | just sort of unwind and have at least about 30 to 40 minutes before bed to just chill and |
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