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The Chewjitsu Podcast

Episode 73 - Bellator MMA Middleweight John Salter

The Chewjitsu Podcast

Eugene Tsozik

Wrestling, Sports

4.9653 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

John Salter joins the podcast to discuss his career in wrestling and transition to MMA. John shares the ups and downs of his MMA career, overcoming a major neck injury, the story of how he got his black belt from Shawn Hammonds, how he comes up with his hilarious gym promo videos, and his upcoming Bellator MMA 233 Main Event fight against Costello Van Steenis.

Follow John on Instagram @johnsalter_mma

John's BJJ Gym: Salty Dog Jiu-Jitsu https://saltydogjiujitsu.com/

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up guys? So today we're on the podcast with one of my training partners, team members, John Salter.

0:07.1

He's getting ready for one of his upcoming Bellator fights. He's a middleweight there.

0:11.1

You recently had a fight with Lovato, had a really tough fight with him, and he's back in the

0:16.5

back into the Belator ring getting ready for one of his fights coming up next week at the time of filming this.

0:21.5

We talked a little bit about his training leading up to the fight. We talked about his starting jiu-jitsu. He was a wrestler first, then got into jihitsu afterwards, and got into the whole fight business. And so you can listen to that. And he also had a really, I didn't know this about him because I've trained with him several times. he's one of the toughest dudes I've ever rolled with.

0:19.7

And he had a surprising injury that I would have been. really, I didn't know this about him because I've trained with him several times. He's one of the toughest dudes I've ever rolled with.

0:39.4

And he had a surprising injury that I would have never guessed. But everything's going really well. And he'll tell you more about how that whole thing went down. So anyway, we'll jump into the podcast, guys. As always, if you want to support the podcast, check out our Patreon at patreon. dot com slash the jiu-jitsu podcast. At the time of filming this last night, Eugene and I went through

0:38.3

and we filmed a podcast. Check out our Patreon at patreon.com slash the jiu-jitsu podcast. At the time of filming this last

0:55.3

night, Eugene and I went through and we filmed a series of exercises that are really useful.

1:00.7

It's some exercises that Eugene has given to several of the people inside the gym to help

1:06.1

them out with like lower back pain and back pain that's caused from the imbalances that

1:10.3

jihitsu creates. And so we created a video walking people through a set of three four exercises that

1:16.5

can address that really simple exercises that you can do just you know honestly when you're

1:20.8

I actually show at one point like I was reading a book like when I read at night I actually

1:25.4

do one of the X modified version of the exercise with a foam roller when I'm reading. So if you want to check that video out, be sure to

1:31.6

check our Patreon out. And then also if you guys want to save some money, if you get into the whole CBD thing, I know everybody talks about it and everybody's, you know, saying it's awesome, myself included, you can go to charlotsweb.com and you can use the promo code Jiu-Jitsu 10.

1:28.8

I share this with you.

1:30.2

I really like the recovery gummies with turmeric i think they taste really good and i personally use the tincter uh every night with the chocolate mint although i'm going to try out some of the other flavors coming up soon um but again it's the one that i use and it's the one that i share with you guys so all right guys and with that said let's get started with the podcast

2:01.7

are you at your main eventing right

2:04.6

yeah that's pretty cool

2:06.8

have you ever had a main event before

2:08.2

my last fight was that was the first time

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