How To Improve From BJJ Injuries and Losing Matches (Episode 394)
The Chewjitsu Podcast
Eugene Tsozik
4.9 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, Chewy and Eugene discuss dealing with injuries and also losing matches.
Eugene discusses dealing with a knee injury and what he is working on for recovery as well as how he is dealing with taking time off of training. Chewy also discusses not making the podium of a tournament for the first time in almost 10 years, the mistakes he made in his match, and what he will do differently in the future.
We also discuss injury rehab ideas and mistakes, how injuries can radially change your game, Chewy breaks down his 2 matches at No-Gi Worlds and the mistake he made that potentially cost him the match, how to take strategic, tactical, and technical takeaways from a loss, the value of feeling disappointment, the idea of "no days off."
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| 0:00.0 | What up, guys? Welcome to the chichitsu podcast. And a lot of times when we speak to you guys, |
| 0:05.4 | we're coming to you from the sort of after the fact, after it's over, after the thing that we're |
| 0:10.1 | dealing with is done. And then we, you know, hopefully dole out a little bit of advice to hear |
| 0:14.6 | some idea to chew on that can be useful. When we have guests on, we're interviewing them |
| 0:19.5 | and talking about the struggles. |
| 0:21.0 | They've dealt with an overcome, but today we get to talk to you from the standpoint of |
| 0:26.2 | actually being in it and talking about what we're going to do and what we have done and |
| 0:30.3 | kind of the process. |
| 0:31.2 | And so, you know, for any of you guys that are dealing with injuries or have dealt with |
| 0:35.0 | injuries, you will deal with injuries at some point. |
| 0:38.2 | Or if you've ever dealt with the frustration of not performing in a competition like you'd like, |
| 0:42.4 | or like you know that you're capable of, which I did this past weekend, which I've done before, |
| 0:46.9 | but it's been a long time since I've done it. |
| 0:48.7 | We're going to get into some ideas on how to course correct, recover, get better performances in the future. And hopefully this will help you all, whether you are, you know, experiencing an injury, frustration after a poor performance or anything of that sort. And so stick with me and stick with me and Eugene and we'll help you out with that and give you some ideas to chew on and also kind of pull back the veil of social media. Because a lot of times get to come to you you know this is what they say like you know the social media someone's Instagram pages or highlights right when everything's going good we get to be with you guys well things aren't so good not necessarily terrible but not the best and talk to you real time and then you also get, you know, over the course of the months where, you know, |
| 1:28.4 | ideally, usually you'll recover and I will dig myself out of this and come back in form. So hopefully this is helpful to you guys. And a big thanks to our sponsors for helping make this thing happen. Athletic, um, Mince. The athletic is a company. The name, by the way, is A-T-H-L-E-T-H-C. |
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