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The Chewjitsu Podcast

The "BJJ 80-20 Rule" (Episode 383)

The Chewjitsu Podcast

Eugene Tsozik

Wrestling, Sports

4.9653 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Chewy and Eugene discuss the "Pareto Principle," also known as this "80-20 Rule." We discuss the idea of 20% of your BJJ techniques accounting for 80% of your success in grappling.

We discuss if the "80-20 Rule" could be a trap and make your game too limited, how to identify what needs to change and how to get out of a rut, when the best time is to reflect on your training session, changing your idea of success during training, actions vs outcomes, and why to become "outcome independent."

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What up, guys. Welcome to the Jiu-Jitsu podcast episode. What are we on now?

0:05.0

383, lots of threes now, getting bigger.

0:09.7

So we've got a podcast. We're going to go off on a tangent about a idea.

0:14.0

It started off with the podcast we did last week.

0:16.4

We were talking to John Hanson, who came on the podcast.

0:19.6

He, you know, competed the 80C World Championships,

0:21.6

tough grappler, and he shared that idea of the 80-20 principle. And so if you're familiar with it, it's a principle that, you know, exists and, you know, a lot of times it's look at economics, but it kind of exists in a lot of different places. And it's not always exactly 80-20, but it's just like a working mental model for different things.

0:39.5

And we'll talk about some, just some ideas. and it's not always exactly 80, 20, but it's just like a working mental model for different things.

0:39.4

And we'll talk about some, just some ideas to chew on that you can consider.

0:43.7

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0:47.2

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1:28.3

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1:52.3

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2:03.0

it'll give you all the perks, all the info. You can join for free if you want to. There's a

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free option there. But if you want to join up and support the podcast directly, you can do so for

2:11.0

a very inexpensive price and get access to a bunch of extras, including seminar recordings,

2:16.4

stretching routines specifically for jihitsu practitioners and extra bits from many of our guests that we've had on the podcast over the years.

2:23.4

All there for you for an inexpensive price and you support the podcast, Patreon.com slash the Jitsu podcast.

2:30.3

Also, if you guys want to join my daily email that I send out, you can do so by going to my website at chujitsu.net slash join.

2:38.4

J-O-I-N, if you go there, I'll give you a free e-book and a video that goes into some different strategies on being more focused with your training.

2:45.9

Super important.

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