Gracie Jiu Jitsu HQ instructor, father and Marine Alex Stuart
The A Game Podcast: Real Estate Investing For Entrepreneurs
Nick Lamagna
5.0 • 101 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2020
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Nick's guest on the A-Game podcast today is Alex Stuart, a black belt and Instructor at Gracie Torrens in Torrance, California. He does private sessions and also teaches classes for all levels, ages, and backgrounds. He's an extraordinary teacher, served in the armed forces, and has a podcast called the Armbar Podcast. He is full of knowledge and stories, so stay tuned and listen!
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Show Notes
- Humility - 4:57
- Ask yourself: "Where is your top?" - 6:00
- The positions in Jiu-Jitsu - 7:41
- Jiu-Jitsu can help you gain more confidence - 9:12
- When he was a blue belt - 12:09
- His explanation for Jiu-Jitsu - 13:22
- Know how to talk to your students - 14:50
- What do you do in a street fight? - 17:40
- Teaching a lesson - 21:05
- Perseverance is key - 25:47
- Stop asking yourself: "What if…?" - 30:04
- Be thankful with what you have and what you do not have - 31:50
- You always have to look at intention - 36:36
- What's Jiu-Jitsu? - 37:13
- Jiu-Jitsu and Life are one for Alex - 39:59
- Learning to have patience - 42:06
- Everything is an art - 43:15
- If you do not trust yourself, who do you trust? - 47:37
- Everybody deserves greatness - 50:42
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the A-game podcast with Nick Lamania, digging into the minds and |
| 0:05.8 | experiences of some of today's brightest entrepreneurs in real estate and |
| 0:09.9 | business, along with Hollywood stars, UFC Fighters, and your favorite rock bands. |
| 0:18.0 | My guest today on the A-game podcast is Black Belt and main instructor at Gracie Torrance in Torrance, California, under Henner and Heron |
| 0:26.9 | Gracie. His name is Alex Stewart, STU A R T. You can find him on Facebook as Alex Stewart. You can also find him on Instagram at Superman underscore Alex A L-E-X-54. You can find his gym, Grac-U-S-U-D-O-E-X-G-T-O-T-O-T-O-T-O-T-O-T-O-T-O-T-O-T-O. 54. You could find his gym, Gracie University.com, or you can stop by |
| 0:46.0 | Gracie University headquarters in Torrance, California, and he does private sessions and |
| 0:51.0 | also teaches a lot of the classes for all levels, all ages and |
| 0:54.8 | all backgrounds. |
| 0:56.1 | If you would like to book him, you can just call up and ask for his contact info or you can |
| 0:59.9 | just come into the gym just like I did. |
| 1:01.5 | He is a great guy. I've been doing privates and |
| 1:03.7 | training with him for a few years now. I really think he teaches a lot like |
| 1:07.4 | Mr. Miyagi. He's got great philosophy. He's earned a black belt in an |
| 1:11.0 | extraordinarily short amount of time. |
| 1:13.0 | His Jiu-Jitsu is extremely high level. |
| 1:14.6 | He's an amazing teacher. |
| 1:16.3 | He's served in the armed forces. |
| 1:17.6 | He's got his own podcast as well, called the Armbar Podcast. |
| 1:21.1 | He is full of knowledge, full of stories. Just a great guy, great human |
| 1:26.5 | being, great instructor, great black belt, and he's been a really good guy for me |
| 1:30.2 | to learn from and to talk to him to be around whenever I get out there in California. |
| 1:34.6 | We share some mutual friends and he's just a good dude. |
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