SDP 43: Avoiding "Gym-Jitsu"
Mind Of The Warrior
Dr Mike Simpson
4.8 • 900 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2018
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Jeff Mullenax is a combat veteran from the Unites States Marine Corp. He has spent 13 years as a law enforcement officer in Texas. He is a TTPOA advanced SWAT Operator, advanced SWAT Sniper, and Current Drug Interdiction K9 handler with Troy PD. Jeff has dedicated his career to helping fellow officers remain fit and proficient in defensive tactics. Jeff is a BJJ Brown belt, Professional Submission Grappler, IBJJF NoGi world champion, and USAW National Weightlifting Champion.
Tim Kennedy’s legend began at his local Army recruiter’s office on September 12th, 2001. His training to earn his Green Beret was featured in the book “Chosen Soldier.” Kennedy is now a Ranger qualified Special Forces Sniper with deployments in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and multiple other deployments around the world. He is the only soldier to win the grueling 3 day All Army Combatives Tournament three times. Kennedy has a black belts in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Modern Army Combatives. He is also one of the top ranked mixed martial arts fighters in the world, a position he achieved while simultaneously serving his country at the highest levels of special operations. He is currently ranked among the top Middleweights in the UFC. Tim has been featured on many television shows, most recently “Hunting Hitler” on the History Channel
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 with Tim Kennedy on Hunting Hitler on the History Channel.
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| 0:25.6 | Airb Hey everybody welcome back to the sheepdog project Doc with you as always first and foremost I want to thank everybody who sent me an email after the last podcast on how to pick a martial art and how to pick a martial arts academy. Wow, I was totally unprepared for that. |
| 0:30.9 | Previously I was getting about an email or so a week asking similar |
| 0:36.1 | questions and I actually thought that doing the podcast doing that episode would lower the number of emails that I was going to get. |
| 0:44.9 | Now that wasn't my goal. |
| 0:46.2 | It's not that I have a problem getting the emails. |
| 0:48.7 | It's that I thought, hey, a lot of you probably have that question. |
| 0:51.4 | Maybe you haven't thought to email yet you're a |
| 0:53.2 | little bit nervous about it but you have those those burning questions right |
| 0:57.7 | apparently a lot of you had those burning questions because I literally got flooded with emails from all over the country and even got an email |
| 1:08.5 | from one of our listeners in Australia which was great and took me a little bit of |
| 1:12.4 | extra research to help them out but |
| 1:15.8 | really appreciate it and I'm glad that everybody got so much out of it if you're |
| 1:19.9 | listening to this episode and you haven't listened to the last episode, go back and |
| 1:25.0 | listen to it. I think it's worth your while even if you're already taking |
| 1:29.9 | martial arts, even if you have been doing so for some time. |
| 1:33.0 | See if you agree or disagree with me and email me and let me know. |
| 1:38.0 | Again, always appreciate it. |
| 1:40.0 | Especially appreciate our international listeners. |
| 1:42.0 | Always want to hear from you guys. So far in Especially appreciate our international listeners. |
| 1:42.6 | Always want to hear from you guys. |
| 1:44.2 | So far in the last month, I've heard from Scotland |
| 1:49.0 | and I've heard from Australia. |
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