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Mind Of The Warrior

MOTW #143: Jay Wadsworth

Mind Of The Warrior

Dr Mike Simpson

Mma, Philosophy, Combat, Self-improvement, Education, Nutrition, Mixedmartialarts, Military, Fitness, Health, Society & Culture, Medicine

4.8900 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Jay wadsworth is a BJJ black belt and former police officer who has dedicated his life to teaching LEOs pratical and pressure tested defesnive tactics.

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Mike Simpson has served over three decades in the military as an Airborne Ranger, a Special Forces Operator, and finally as a Doctor of Emergency Medicine assigned to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Throughout his career, Mike has deployed to 17 different countries, from counter-narcotics operations in the jungles of South America, to the Global War on Terror (GWOT) in Southwest Asia and North Africa.

Along the way, Mike has been trained as a demolitions expert, SWAT Sniper, High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) parachutist, civilian paramedic, Special Forces Medic, Operations and intelligence Sergeant, and finally, a board certified Emergency Medicine Physician.

Mike is also a martial arts enthusiast, who trains in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai. His passion for martial arts motivated him to become a practicing fight doctor. As one of the foremost experts in both tactical trauma medicine and combat sports medicine, Mike is highly sought after as a lecturer and instructor, working extensively with Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighters, law enforcement, and military organizations providing medical care and training. He co-stars on Hunting Hitler on the History Channel.

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0:00.0

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0:56.3

podcast today my good friend police officer Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt.

1:01.1

Damn fine Patriot and all-around badass,

1:05.1

Jay Wadsworth, brother.

1:06.5

Thank you so much for coming on.

1:08.3

Thanks, man.

1:09.0

Appreciate having me on.

1:10.3

I know we've been trying to do this for a little bit now,

1:12.4

schedule or busy

1:13.0

literally years. Yeah. Finally made it happen. Finally. We made it happen and I'm

1:19.3

excited man super excited as always. Me too, brother.

1:24.0

So we, so some background, so Jay and I actually met at a training event that he was instructing.

1:32.0

I gotta say if if you ever see the name Jay Wadsworth on a seminar,

1:40.5

on a training event, you absolutely need to stop whatever you're doing, take out a second mortgage, do whatever is necessary.

1:47.0

This is training that you absolutely need to avail yourself of and that includes all the amazing video content that you guys put out online.

1:57.6

When did you, as an individual, let's see where the chicken and the egg kind of falls in here. Were you active in Brazilian

2:06.8

Jiu-Jitsu before getting into law enforcement or was this something that came along later

2:12.0

as a recognized necessity as part of the job?

2:16.1

Yeah, so this is it's kind of for me it was a little bit backward so I went to the

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