Episode 69 - Jon "Thor" Blank Returns
The Chewjitsu Podcast
Eugene Tsozik
4.9 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the podcast, 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt Jon "Thor" Blank returns to discuss what he's been up to since being on the podcast a year ago.
Jon shares how things have changed since he won The EBI Combat Jiu-Jitsu Middleweight Tournament in 2018, what its like competing in big tournaments such as the ADCC and Kasai Grappling, and the opening of his new gym "10th Planet Allentown."
Jon also breaks down his matches from the 2019 ADCC tournament including his strategies going into each match, the wins, the losses, and the incredible atmosphere of the ADCC.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up guys? |
| 0:03.3 | So today on the podcast, we have John Thor Blank. |
| 0:05.9 | He just recently took fourth at the ADCC Championships and he took third at the trials |
| 0:12.0 | in the West Coast. |
| 0:13.9 | And we had, it's so funny. |
| 0:15.5 | Like we were just, you know, we scheduled him there. |
| 0:18.0 | And when I was headed here to do the podcast with him I looked on my phone |
| 0:21.1 | and you know you'll have those little like notifications of stuff that happened like last year |
| 0:25.0 | the year before and all that stuff on episode 18 of the podcast last year we had him on talking about |
| 0:32.0 | it and last year he just you know sort of like had his coming out party by going in into the EBI, the one with the fighting. |
| 0:42.2 | Combat Jiu-Chi-Gi-Gi-Jitsu, sorry. |
| 0:44.0 | I have a brain fart. |
| 0:45.3 | But he had the combat jih Tijuana and he came out and beat everybody without throwing any strikes, |
| 0:49.9 | which I thought was just crazy. |
| 0:51.3 | And then he's had a really cool year this year where he's been competing a bunch in big tournaments. And he did really well and had some solid wins at the |
| 0:58.5 | ADCC championships just a couple weekends ago. So we're going to talk to him. And my favorite part |
| 1:04.1 | about this podcast is listening to him sort of go down the line as he's competing against these guys |
| 1:08.8 | and talking about the experiences and the strategy |
| 1:10.8 | that was going into each match that he had. So I hope you guys enjoy this. I think there's going to be a lot for you guys if you're a competitor. And there's even a little bit of if you guys are ever interested in being a gym owner, we talk a little bit about that. But I hope you guys enjoy this one. As always, if you guys want to support the podcast, you can do so a number of different ways, |
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| 1:45.2 | the rub. That rub came in handy last night because that was, I pulled back muscle. Put the rub on |
| 1:51.0 | and pulled back muscle isn't painful anymore. It's amazing. Anyway, so you can get that. You can |
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