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Mind Of The Warrior

MOTW 69: My Journey, My Story

Mind Of The Warrior

Dr Mike Simpson

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

4.8900 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

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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Transcript

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0:00.0

The Welcome back to Mind of the Warrior everybody. Doc with you here as always

0:17.5

really appreciate all the tremendous support that you guys give to this podcast that you give to the website.

0:26.2

I-fax are flying off the shelves.

0:28.8

I'm barely able to keep up with the orders, but I enjoy it.

0:31.8

I know that it's something important for everybody

0:33.8

to have quite frankly. Last week of course I did the podcast talking about

0:38.6

getting back to basics and where I forgot to mention what the whole point that I was really trying to make and this is the

0:45.0

danger of doing a podcast without show notes to go off of is last week I went out with the

0:51.4

guys from from sheepdog response to refresh a lot of my skills, especially as it comes to shooting, because I quite frankly I hadn't been shooting in a while,

1:01.0

partially because of COVID,

1:02.8

partly because of the ammo crisis,

1:04.2

partially just because of time.

1:06.4

And I recognize that I needed to go back

1:07.9

and do some very basic stuff.

1:09.7

And not just go out on my own and do it,

1:11.2

but do it with some people watching me.

1:15.0

Because these are perishable skills.

1:17.3

When you go long periods of time, without shooting, without fighting,

1:21.0

whatever it might be, it's perishable, and it's always important to get perspective

1:24.8

and have people watch what you're doing and give you tips and notice hey notice

1:28.1

you're doing this with your grip you're doing this with your trigger squeeze

1:34.2

looks like you're doing this you know with with your side alignment whatever it might be so that was that was a point

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