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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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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.
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