Hero Worship vs. Admiration In BJJ (Episode 402)
The Chewjitsu Podcast
Eugene Tsozik
4.9 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, Chewy and Eugene discuss the recent allegations against Andre Galvao.
We discuss importance of boundaries in Jiu-Jitsu due to the closeness of grappling, the important of safety at the gym, reaching your breaking point, if power corrupts leaders, "Hero Admiration" vs. "Hero Worship," and what the Jiu-Jitsu community do differently moving forward, and red flags to be aware of.
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| 0:00.0 | What up, guys, welcome to this episode of the Chiu-Jitsu podcast. On today's podcast, we're going to get into some of the different stuff going on in Jiu-Jitsu right now with like the allegations of, you know, sexual misconduct and bad behavior. |
| 0:15.1 | And, you know, a lot of that stuff that's going on right now at the time of recording this is like February of 2006. As we'll talk about the podcast, I kind of waited a little bit to kind of think about |
| 0:25.5 | it and see what was going on and kind of gather up some of my thoughts. I didn't want to make |
| 0:29.9 | some sort of post about it or some sort of podcast about it where I feel like people are, |
| 0:35.5 | it's kind of like the news. It's like, you know, like when the news comes out really quickly and they get the story |
| 0:41.3 | really wrong because they didn't think it through. |
| 0:43.7 | They're just trying to be first. |
| 0:45.8 | You know, I don't really care about being first. |
| 0:47.6 | And especially with something like this where I feel like a lot of people are just making |
| 0:52.5 | memes and profiting off of people who are |
| 0:55.6 | experienced something like really bad, traumatic, gross in some cases, like, you know, |
| 1:02.3 | different variations, different intensities as far as emotions go, but it's not good, right? |
| 1:06.5 | I want to profit off that. |
| 1:08.0 | You know, I wanted to like sort of talk about it. |
| 1:09.4 | But I did, but the thing is I did want to talk about it from a standpoint of like what I, what I see it as and also too, just sort of calling it out and also talking about that some of this behavior is not just affecting women. There's also a male side to it, although the way that it's, the way that it manifests is a little different, |
| 1:30.2 | right? And this, but this breaking down of boundaries of trust. And so we'll talk about that. |
| 1:34.4 | We'll talk about some different ideas around it. We'll also talk about the idea of |
| 1:38.3 | how hero worship in a certain way, I think is almost necessary or is very valuable to us, but when it goes too far |
| 1:46.8 | and how to sort of kind of think about that. But anyway, thank you guys for being here on the |
| 1:51.0 | podcast today. I appreciate you guys for listening and watching. If you guys want to check out |
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