Olympic Wrestler Jake Herbert (Episode 359)
The Chewjitsu Podcast
Eugene Tsozik
5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2025
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the podcast, we are joined by Olympian, 9X U.S. National Champion, 3X World Medalist, and BJJ Purple Belt Jake Herbert. Jake is a husband, father of four, and business coach.
Jake discusses his start in wrestling, how he got his kids to start training in grappling, pros and cons of specialization vs training in multiple sports, "living through your kids,” starting BJJ, the importance of camaraderie, how his training has changed as he has gotten older, training for longevity, making the decision to retire from wrestling, how finding religion was impactful for Jake, the importance of having a "white belt mentality," the importance of drilling and positional sparring for skill-development, and how to work with Jake for business coaching.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What up, guys. Welcome to the Chiu-Jitsu podcast. Today we have a Olympian on the podcast with us. |
| 0:05.5 | We have Jake Herbert, who is, again, an Olympian, a world silver medalist, two-time |
| 0:10.6 | an NCAA champion. I mean, an amazing wrestler, right? Wrestled at the top. And what was funny |
| 0:16.1 | was the past year in 2024, we had the |
| 0:21.8 | chichitsu open up in Michigan, |
| 0:23.7 | Frankenmuth, and Jake Herbert registered. |
| 0:27.8 | And, you know, my partner, Jeff was telling me about it. |
| 0:31.0 | He's like, yeah, we got this guy, Jake Herbert. |
| 0:32.3 | I was like, Jake Herbert's wrestling? |
| 0:34.3 | Like, hell? Like, what is he doing coming? |
| 0:36.6 | You know, I just was surprised to see his name because, again, this is like, |
| 0:39.2 | this isn't like a, you know, a kind of good college wrestler or like a kind of good |
| 0:44.3 | I mean, this is like one of the best, right? |
| 0:46.7 | When you, when you think of wrestlers, right, you think, okay, like, he won the hot |
| 0:49.6 | trophy. |
| 0:50.4 | Yeah, he's like the best wrestler in the country right well the high short they give it to like an outstanding |
| 0:55.1 | wrestler of that year right it's like this big thing in college i mean amazing wrestler and so you know he |
| 1:01.0 | goes in there in my partner jeff he was like he goes i'm going to stand with him i was like what you know |
| 1:05.5 | i'm thinking like man go pull his pull his pull guard and go for his legs, I want to feel it. You know, and, uh, which again, I, you know, I think that there's some fun in there |
| 1:11.9 | because you're like it's, it's, it's, you know, at this point, all of us are, you know, |
| 1:15.4 | late 30s, 40s, we're out there having fun. |
| 1:18.3 | You know, it's not, it's, it's, it's all extra. |
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