Using a life or death moment to find your true north with Jay Jackson / COMBAT

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

“You can sit there and wallor about it ‘like I almost died.’ Or, you can be the person who says ‘how can I use this to make myself better?” That’s the question Jay Jackson asked after he was held at gunpoint for nearly 90 minutes.

SpartanUp Combat Series host Ryan Warner talks with Jay about the harrowing experience that changed his life: when Jay was in college, he was held at gunpoint for nearly 90 minutes before turning the tables on his aggressor. That moment shaped Jay’s life and in this episode you’ll learn...

-How to use the scariest and most painful of moments to find your true North

-Why wrestling provided both the mental and physical tools to learn from the experience

-What did Jay do in the days following the attack?

-Why is he grateful to have had the experience?

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0:00.0	you can sit there and wallow and pity about it like I almost died and what if it happens again and get yourself all nervous or you can or you can be the person that's like okay that happened and I'm still going to deal with this, but how can I use this to make myself better?
0:15.0	You're listening to Spartan Combat on Spartan Up.
0:20.0	Learn from battle tested combat athletes athletes with your host Ryan Warner.
0:25.0	Spartans!
0:27.0	Welcome back to the combat series.
0:29.0	My guest today is Jay Jackson, a former Stanford wrestler, now teacher who shares his experience of being held at
0:35.8	gunpoint and how that impacted the rest of his life.
0:39.8	This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by our friends Juliet and Kelly Sterr at the ready state.
0:45.0	Get a free trial and then save 10% for life by using the code Spartan10 when you register at the ready state.
0:52.0	dot com. Register at the Ready State.com.
0:53.0	J Jackson. Welcome to the podcast, sir. How are you?
0:58.0	I'm doing great. I'm very happy and honored to be here. Love the podcast, huge fan,
1:03.5	and seeing your live of guests,
1:05.7	I'm just incredibly humbled.
1:08.0	Well, we're gonna thank Joe DeCina
1:09.7	for the, Joe DeCine for this one.
1:11.9	He said there was this Olympic wrestler Jay Jackson, but no, I'm kidding of course. But now it's great to have you on man and I'm nervous about this conversation because I know we're going to go with some sensitive places. I'm excited because I don't think people fully understand just how incredible your story is through a number of angles. so let's dive right on into it man
1:34.2	when did the wonderful sport of wrestling enter your life Mr. Jay? So my dad is
1:40.9	a wrestling coach and actually a Hall of Fame wrestling coach in Washington.
1:44.3	He wrestled at University of Washington and he was an assistant coach there and then he had a 35 plus year coaching career.
1:50.6	So it's something I was always born into and it kind of runs two generations deep. My grandpa was a was a wrestler. So he was an amateur wrestler and a professional wrestler in Colorado and he actually used to go around from mining camp to mining camp and challenge
2:06.4	challenge people to wrestle. That's how he made money during the depression. So it runs, it runs at least two
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