University of Minnesota Assistant Wrestling Coach Luke Becker (Episode 341)

The Chewjitsu Podcast

Eugene Tsozik

Wrestling, Wellness, Brazilianjiujitsu, Sports, Interviews, Mma, Bjj, Health, Chewjitsu, Injuryprevention

5 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the podcast, we are joined by University of Minnesota Head Assistant Coach, Luke Becker.

Luke is an accomplished wrestler and the 2002 NCAA National Champion, 2002 and 2003 Big Ten Champion (157 pounds), Four-time NCAA All-American (2000-03), member of the 2001 and 2002 National Championship teams, and a member of the 2001, 2002 and 2003 Big Ten Championship teams.

Luke is also an accomplished coach and has helped Gopher wrestlers earn 64 All-America certificates, a group that also includes eight individual Big Ten championships and three individual national championships. Also, during his time as assistant coach, the team has earned three trophy finishes at NCAA Championships.

Luke joins the podcast to discuss his start in wrestling, finding a love for wrestling, skill development of athletes today as compared to when he started wrestling, his thoughts on drilling for skill development, the most difficult part of transitioning from high school to college wrestling, how to build mental and physical toughness, a typical wrestling practice, conditioning for grappling, common wrestling injuries, how to encourage and support your child in pursuing wrestling, the importance of having fun, training with Brock Lesnar, wrestlers transitioning to MMA, his favorite win and loss as a wrestler, and what it's like having Gable Steveson coming back to Minnesota to wrestle.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	What up, guys. Welcome to this episode of the Jiu-Siu-Skitsu podcast. Today we have coach Luke Becker,
0:06.1	who was a, you know, a very accomplished college wrestler, high school wrestler,
0:10.5	you know, wrestler in his own right. And then he's become a very accomplished wrestling coach
0:14.4	at the University of Minnesota. And again, we're going to jump into this podcast here
0:19.2	in a second. And we're going to get into him talking about both his wrestling career and also coaching. And one of the things that I really
0:25.4	enjoyed about this podcast or talking to him was, even though the sports are different,
0:30.6	they're kind of cousin sports, right? Like wrestling and judicious, they're kind of, they're almost
0:34.0	like related. And there's so many similarities similarities like there's a lot of things that he
0:38.6	touches on it talks about in his own words that we've had so many high level world champions
0:43.4	myself others talk about in relation to jih Tzu he even talks about how they train their types of
0:51.0	practices how they do techniques how they do do live drilling, all that stuff.
0:55.6	The stuff that I think is interesting because, you know, you're talking about a sport that's
1:00.1	a bit more developed than jiu-jitsu, right? Because it's had more money, more funding,
1:06.8	pouring into it for a longer period of time. And so, you know, wrestling in America is far more develops than
1:13.5	Jiu-Jitsu in America.
1:14.3	Jiu-Jitsu is coming a long way and everything's good and great.
1:16.4	But as far as the training, sort of the way that we train, it's coming a long way.
1:22.0	And we've made a lot of progress, especially in the last few years.
1:25.1	But again, you get to hear how they talk about training.
1:31.6	And some of it's going to seem very similar to you guys who are in gyms that do a lot of the same stuff.
1:35.2	And then some of you guys, maybe you're listening to this and maybe be a little bit different. But anyway, cool stuff.
1:36.6	Hopefully you guys enjoy the podcast and are able to take a couple ideas away for your grappling for your jihitsu.
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