5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2020
⏱️ 101 minutes
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On this episode of the podcast we are joined by 2 x ADCC and Pan Am Champion “JT” Torres.
JT joins the podcast to discuss his start in BJJ, his first competition, the importance of mental toughness, giving up everything to train with some of the greatest coaches in BJJ, how he developed his pressure style, opening his gym, finally winning the ADCC, and proving the doubters wrong.
Follow JT Torres on Instagram @jtorresbjj and check out his gym at www.essentialbjj.com
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0:00.0 | What's up guys? So today on the podcast, we have J.T. Torres, two-time ADCC champion, |
0:04.6 | Noki World's champion, one of the best guys in Jiu-Jitsu that is around right now. |
0:09.9 | And he's here at my gym doing a seminar this weekend, and we wanted to have him out on the show with you guys in the podcast. |
0:15.9 | And it's really cool. So we went through the podcast, we just finished finished and he told a really cool story. |
0:21.3 | So for any of you guys that are getting into Jiu-Jitsu and you want to hear how tough it is |
0:25.7 | and how many challenges you'll face along the way to get to something big like a world |
0:29.9 | championship or an ADCC championship, those sorts of things. |
0:32.9 | He starts, again, getting in from everything from training with like his at the first gym |
0:37.0 | way back in the early 2000s with a blue belt and then goes all the way into his training with obviously govow and opening up his gym and everything in between and I don't want to take too much away from the story because it's a really cool story so again I hope you guys enjoy this one as always if you want to support the podcast check out charlesweb you can go to their website char charlesweb.com, and use the promo code jujitsu and say 15% on the order. |
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1:32.1 | Like I've been adding, I've been doing the CBD. I've been doing around 30 milligrams of CBD in case you guys are curious. |
1:37.3 | And then I make sure that at nighttime I increase my salt intake before bed. So I'll have like a meal with a little salt just to kind of retain the water. Because again, salt, sodium, you know, like some sea salt helps intramuscular |
1:49.5 | retention with the water so that you're not pissing all night. Especially if you're training |
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