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The Chewjitsu Podcast

Episode 71 - BJJ Purple Belt A.J. Clingerman

The Chewjitsu Podcast

Eugene Tsozik

Wrestling, Sports

4.9653 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

A.J. is a gym owner, she runs the Extreme Grappling Open Tournament, runs the Roll Model Women's Grappling Camp, and is a Jiu-Jitsu purple belt.

A.J. shares the difficulties she had with starting and running a Jiu-Jitsu gym and how they turned the gym into a successful business, the unique challenges that women face on the mats, injuries she has dealt with, and her plans for the future.

Indiana Brazilian jiu-jitsu Academy:

https://www.ibjja.com/

Roll Model Women's Only Grappling Camp:

https://www.thefighthub.com/shop/roll-model-womens-only-grappling-camp-may-2020/

A.J.'s Podcast: "Beauty and The Gi"

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's going on, everybody?

0:02.7

Welcome to episode 71 of the jujitsu podcast.

0:05.6

Just a quick announcement.

0:07.1

We had a beautiful intro done and an outro, but we had some technical difficulties, so

0:12.7

sound quality wasn't the best.

0:14.7

So Chooey will be on doing his intro and outro on your next episode.

0:18.2

But guys, you're stuck with me for this one.

0:20.5

On this episode, we have A.J. Klingerman.

0:23.5

AJ does it all.

0:25.2

She is, first of all, a gym owner.

0:27.9

She runs the ego, which is the extreme grappling open, which has been around since the early 2000s.

0:32.4

She's a jiu-jitsu purple belt, and she does a ton with women's jujitsu.

0:38.5

She runs a huge women's only jiu jitsu camp.

0:41.8

We'll give you some more insight and information on that on the episode.

0:45.5

We were honored to have her on the show.

0:47.4

She's got so much knowledge and so much experience in jiu-jitsu.

0:51.1

She's been around for a long time around martial arts.

0:55.4

So, guys, I hope you guys enjoyed this episode of the Jiu-Jitsu. She's been around for a long time around martial arts. So guys,

1:00.4

I hope you guys enjoyed this episode of the Jiu-Jitsu podcast. As always, if you want to support the podcast, head over to patreon.com slash the Jiu-Jitsu podcast, and it's just seven bucks. We have

1:06.8

all kinds of stuff on there. We're getting ready to add a ton of videos on injury prevention for the low back.

1:13.6

So check that out.

1:14.6

That'll be out soon.

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