Peter Iacavazzi: Atos Jiu Jitsu 4th Degree Black Belt & Founder of 5x5 Mission Ready Training
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Nick Lamagna
5.0 • 101 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2021
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Join Nick Lamagna on The A Game Podcast with guest, Peter Iacavazzi, Atos 4th Degree Brazilian Jiu JItsu Black Belt and founder of 5x5 Mission Ready Training.
The "5X5 Mission Ready" Combatives and Defensive Tactics program was designed to give all military, law enforcement and first responder personnel the ability to efficiently and effectively handle real world hand-to-hand combat situations. Based on real fight scenarios and principles used by the most elite mixed martial arts fighters and professional combat athletes, the system features a progressive curriculum that focuses on the three ranges of close-quarter combat (striking, clinching, grappling).
Peter is a long time martial artist and fitness expert, he has won multiple world championships including the Pan-Ams, 7x US Nationals, World No-Gi and European Title. He is also the founder of the Stand By Me program which teaches children to deal with conflict through non-violent means
By the end of this episode you will learn ways to train smarter for longevity on and off the mats to keep good health and energy mentally and physically for adults over 40. You will hear an amazing story rubbing shoulders with some of the most elite athletes In Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, understand the best martial art for military and law enforcement and take away key life lessons to help you in business and day to day interactions.
Peter has trained along side and competed with the who's who of brazilian Jiu Jitsu including Mark Turner, Megaton Dias, JT Torres, Andre Galvao, Keenan cornelius, Royce Gracie Fabricio Werdum, Lucas Barboza, Jonnatas Gracie, Ronaldo Souza Junior and Kurt Osiander
You can find Peter Iacavazzi on:
Website: https://www.5x5missionready.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-iacavazzi-2b887b10/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Peter-Christopher-Iacavazzi/100015173554861
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pciacavazzibjj/?hl=en
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| 0:00.0 | My guest today on the A game podcast is Peter Yachovazzi. |
| 0:05.0 | Peter is a fourth degree presenting to Blackbell under Aetos and Andre Gail Val. |
| 0:09.4 | He's also the founder of 5 by 5 mission ready training which teaches defensive tactics to military law |
| 0:15.4 | enforcement first responders and other personnel to efficiently handle a real world hand to hand combat situations. |
| 0:21.1 | It's based on real fight scenarios and principles used by the most elite mixed martial arts fighters and professional combat athletes in the system features a progressive curriculum focusing on the three ranges of close quarter combat including striking, clinching, and grappling. |
| 0:34.0 | Peter is a longtime martial artist. |
| 0:36.0 | He's won many different titles as we'll talk about. |
| 0:38.0 | And he is also the host of another program called Stand By Me, |
| 0:41.0 | where they teach children to deal with conflict through non-violent means. He is also a great guy. I spent a lot of time with him in Chicago. He's a great Jiu-Jitsu practitioner. He's very well spoken. He's got a ton of life experience. |
| 0:53.0 | He's traveled all over the world training Jiu-Jitsu, |
| 0:55.1 | training law enforcement, meeting different people. |
| 0:57.6 | And just a good guy. |
| 0:58.6 | He's got a great background. |
| 0:59.5 | He's got a great story, and I think you'll take a lot of really good key |
| 1:01.7 | lessons from this. |
| 1:02.9 | We started obviously talking about Jiu-Jitsu and anybody who was into Jiu-Jitsu will absolutely love this episode with the amount of names he drops that he has been affiliated with, |
| 1:12.0 | trained with, been friends with, competed with, it's absolutely amazing. |
| 1:16.0 | It's really a who's who roller decks. |
| 1:17.7 | Then we start going into some of the principles of self-defense in combat and how he |
| 1:21.4 | changed the military. |
| 1:22.2 | We talk about his background as a model. |
| 1:24.6 | We talk about lessons learned throughout the world training and we talk about a lot of things that relate to Americans and patriotism in general that may have been lost in recent years |
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