Roy Dean: Becoming the Black Belt
Enter the Lionheart
Lawrence Dunning
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2022
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Roy Dean is an ambassador for the art of jiu-jitsu. A lifetime martial artist, he also holds black belts in Kodokan Judo, Aikikai Aikido, and Japanese Jiujitsu. Roy recently received his 4th degree in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu from the legendary Roy Harris.
Roy is highly regarded Brazilian Jiujitsu Instructor, and the creative mind behind many utterly unique online repositories of instructional content, beautifully produced and subtly infused with Roy’s Zen mindset.
Roy has also published two seminal jiu-jitsu books: “The Martial Apprentice” and most recently, “Becoming the Black Belt”. We discuss Roy’s lifetime journey in the martial arts, his philosophies in life, training as an older black belt, yoga, psychedelics, his passion projects and what is next for him.
Becoming the Black Belt: One Man's Path in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
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| 0:00.0 | A single theme is too narrow for great minds and daring hearts. |
| 0:06.6 | Get ready to enter the Lion Heart with your host, Lauren Stunning. |
| 0:10.3 | I'm really looking forward to talking to Roy D because I've been fan of his for a long |
| 0:20.7 | time. |
| 0:21.7 | I first heard about Roy when I read his fantastic book Becoming the Black Belt, and I loved |
| 0:26.7 | hearing about his Jiu-Jitsu and martial art journey. |
| 0:29.9 | He came from traditional martial arts to Jiu-Jitsu, as did I, and he's always been an |
| 0:34.8 | innovative and creative Jiu-Jitsu instructor. |
| 0:38.6 | With his background in professional audio and visual arts, his Jiu-Jitsu content is so |
| 0:42.6 | well produced that his YouTube videos have millions of views, which is an insane amount |
| 0:47.4 | for Jiu-Jitsu videos, seeing as Jiu-Jitsu is still not yet a mainstream sport. |
| 0:51.6 | But it's a testament to Roy's unique plan of artistry, traditional martial arts, |
| 0:57.0 | and Jiu-Jitsu. |
| 0:58.0 | I hope that you enjoy our conversation. |
| 1:00.3 | I'm here with the great Roy Dean. |
| 1:02.1 | Thank you so much for doing this, Roy. |
| 1:03.6 | Oh, God, it's my pleasure. |
| 1:05.2 | I have to tell you this. |
| 1:07.2 | I love when things come together. |
| 1:09.1 | So I picked up your awesome book, which I'm going to recommend to everybody, Becoming |
| 1:13.1 | the Black Belt, and I read it. |
| 1:14.4 | I think you wrote it a long time ago, right? |
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