How To Use Deliberate Practice To Improve In BJJ (Episode 413)
The Chewjitsu Podcast
Eugene Tsozik
4.9 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, Chewy and Eugene discuss the main principles of "deliberate practice" from the book "Peak" by Anders Ericsson and how to better develop and maximize progress in BJJ.
We discuss why talent is overrated, why some people excel physically at specific sports and why BJJ is unique, training for skill and not for knowledge, why developing skill is a "messy process," what makes a "skilled" coach in BJJ, the importance of having a "mental representation" of the technique, trying to acquire skill is not always fun, and how to get out of plateaus.
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| 0:00.0 | What up, guys. Welcome to the Jiu-Jitsu podcast today. We're going to give you guys a cool book to check out. |
| 0:05.6 | For me, it's one of those books. If you're a coach or even if you're just trying to understand stuff to help you get better and more skillful in anything, I think it's a great book to get. |
| 0:15.2 | We'll give you that book recommendation here in a bit. And we're also going to give you some ideas on training. And for me, like when we go |
| 0:22.4 | through some of this stuff, I'll illustrate when and why. But I think if you do this stuff right, |
| 0:29.8 | you can structure it in a way where I don't want to say it's effortless because it does take effort, |
| 0:34.6 | right? But there is a situation that happens with a lot of people in jiu-situ and also a lot of other things |
| 0:41.2 | where there's this frantic desire to improve, to get better, to move the needle forward and so forth. |
| 0:49.5 | But you lack a few things. |
| 0:52.2 | And so even though you got all this desire and all this like, I want to do this, |
| 0:55.6 | you just want to keep getting stuck. |
| 0:58.2 | And if you do it right, again, it's not effortless, but it's like you have this sort of structure or this sort of concrete path in front of you that allows you to just kind of do what you're going to do |
| 1:12.1 | and you get better without having to really think about it so much or you know you there's there's |
| 1:16.6 | less beating yourself up or hitting these plateaus that people run into and everything else and |
| 1:21.0 | so I'll talk about how to structure that because that's been my experience and when I get someone |
| 1:24.7 | who follows this advice it's kind of the same thing. |
| 1:28.2 | And so whether you're a hobbyist or a coach or if you're, you know, competing all the time, it can be useful to you. So we'll get into it here in a second. Appreciate you guys for being here with us. Big thanks to our sponsors. Athletic is one of our, you know, sponsors here. And they make microdose THC mintsints if you're watching the YouTube videos of a |
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