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Walking the BJJ Gauntlet covers everything from the history of Brazilian Jiujitsu, why it matters, its effectiveness as a street defence and kids being bullied, as a bulwark against PTSD and anxiety, what happens in a BJJ class, even how to survive your first three months training. We’ll also explain the belt grading system and we’ll remove, or perhaps even add to, the great mystique of the black belt. At the end of each episode, John will deliver a little secret black belt’s tip .Stay tuned for that. New podcast weblog
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Monday May 01, 2023
B-Team maven and UFC super coach Craig Jones on why Sambo is for Sissies!
Monday May 01, 2023
Monday May 01, 2023
Today’s guest is Craig Jones, the Dylan Mulvaney of grappling it is said, who has dominated some of the best jiujitsu athletes in the world including Tye Ruotolo, Luiz Panza and Nicholas Meregali although, not, SJJA’s own Charles Negromonte.
Lately, Jones has entered the night thoughts of women, some boys, and innumerable non-binary sexpots worldwide with his mastery of reality television via his B-Team YouTube channel.
However his greatest success must be his role as grappling coach for UFC fighter Alexander Vokanovski, still the #1 pound for pound higher in the world, and who gave hell to Islam Makhachev in their all-time duel for the lightweight title.
The first thing you ask Craig, who’s in Australia for his round of Sambo is for Sissies seminars, is to explain his theorem. Because isn’t the prevailing wisdom, if sambo was easy it’d be called jiutjisu?
Monday Mar 20, 2023
Women in jiujitsu with grapplers Lou and Lisa
Monday Mar 20, 2023
Monday Mar 20, 2023
In the latest episode of Walking the BJJ Gauntlet, two of SJJA's most formidable grapplers, Lou and Lisa, talk of the challenges facing women in a male-dominated sport.
"You feel like a new-born baby giraffe," says Lou, "but it's so addictive!"
Tuesday Nov 15, 2022
BJJ Superstar Charles Negromonte on the joys of teaching
Tuesday Nov 15, 2022
Tuesday Nov 15, 2022
In this episode of Walking the BJJ Gauntlet, BJJ superstar and SJJA Zetland instructor Charles Negromonte talks of the profound joys of sharing his jiujitsu knowledge, the mental health benefits of rolling and his ongoing association with the great Roger Gracie.
Wednesday Jun 01, 2022
World-renowned author Peter Maguire on writing ”Breathe” for Rickson Gracie
Wednesday Jun 01, 2022
Wednesday Jun 01, 2022
Today’s guest is a surfer, war crimes investigator and author of Law and War – a book about the Nuremberg Trials, Facing Death in Cambodia it’s topic the Cambodian Genocide and what we’re going to be hitting today, Breathe, the new-sh bio on jiujitsu icon Rickson Gracie.
Now, if you love jiujitsu, you’ll know Rickson. Son of Helio Gracie, undefeated across his forty years of jiujitsu and MMA, a 450-o record; he was the king of Vale Tudo in Japan, earning a million bucks or thereabouts a fight.
Peter Maguire came to jiujitsu as as a black belt in Jeet Kune Do. In the early nineties, he strolled into Rickson’s wildly notorious Pico Boulevard gym in Los Angeles and life sure did take a turn.
Man, some of the stories.
Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
Jeremy Skinner and James "Tenacity" Tomlinson on vegetarianism for BJJ athletes
Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
Jeremy Skinner is a killer on the mat but refuses to allow an animal to be killed for his culinary pleasure. In this episode of Walking the BJJ Gauntlet, Jeremy and co-owner of Bulletproof for BJJ James Tomlinson discuss why you might want to go plant-based, ethics etc, how it will affect your training and how you can sharpen your diet overall.
Friday Feb 26, 2021
Friday Feb 26, 2021
James Tomlinson is a man who came into Brazilian jiujitsu armed with a black-belt in Taekwondo only to be belted to hell and back.
For the next thirteen years, JT trained non-stop until he held a black belt in BJJ, competing hither and yon, Brazil, America, Canada.
JT's an author, an inventor of a jiujitsu card game (JuGo) and comes equipped with fantastic stories of heel-hook kings Lachlan Giles and Craig Jones and of rolling with "mythological creatures".
"I'm an adversity seeking creature," he says.
Friday Jan 22, 2021
Friday Jan 22, 2021
Jeremy Skinner is a brown belt under Lachlan Giles at Absolute MMA in Melbourne. What makes Jeremy stand out, howevs, is his speciality, leg locks: kneebars. Heel hooks. Ankle locks. Toe busters. Ain’t a joint in your stilts he can’t break. Even better, this killer on the mat refuses to allow an animal to be slaughtered for his culinary enjoyment. A man of the world and he’s only twenty five.
Tuesday Dec 08, 2020
Tuesday Dec 08, 2020
Got the training blues? Hitting the gym five times a week and still can't progress? In this episode of Walking the BJJ Gauntlet, black-belt John Walton reveals the hacks that will get you moving forward.
And the road from purple belt to brown belt? John explains what it takes to get Brazilian jiujitsu's penultimate prize.
Saturday Oct 31, 2020
Saturday Oct 31, 2020
A common belief is that no-Gi is the training you want to do if you want to get street ready. No one wears a Gi to a bar, am I right?
In this twenty-minute interview, John Walton explains the differences in approach, grips, submissions and why you might want to learn the fundamentals with a Gi before squeezing into a rash shirt.
Friday Oct 30, 2020
The road from blue belt to purple belt
Friday Oct 30, 2020
Friday Oct 30, 2020
As much of a milestone is the blue belt, purple is when the game changes significantly. Walk into a gym wrapped in a violet cord and the respect is immediate.
It also means you've got a target on your back, as seen by feisty higher-ranked blues.
So, how long does it take to shuck the blue?
And what does it mean for your game and for you as a person?