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025 - BJJ Beginner Tips with Ritchie Yip
025 - BJJ Beginner Tips with Ritchie Yip
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Length:
56 minutes
Released:
Jan 24, 2015
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Podcast episode
Description
BJJ Black Belts Ritchie Yip and Stephan Kesting have a wide-ranging discussion, centered around tips that BJJ beginners need to know. Material covered includes: Whether beginners should in their own class or mixed in with more advanced people Things to look for when checking out a new school How to avoid situations where you’re just going to get maliciously rag dolled by senior students How instructors can teach a class of differing levels What the the only real spiritual benefits of martial arts training is How to tell if a martial arts school is run by a complete A-hole Why training with black belts only is a huge mistake What happens when people interested in taking a kickboxing class end up in the jiu-jitsu class by mistake Why learning jiu-jitsu is much harder than learning boxing, and how not to get discouraged during that learning process The most insane idea Stephan has ever had for making a training dummy And much more... For more about Ritchie check out www.infighting.ca For more about Stephan check out www.grapplearts.com
Released:
Jan 24, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
019 - Clark Gracie on Training, Competing and Growing Up Gracie: Stephan talks with 2013 Pan American middlweight champion Clark Gracie about training, competition, growing up Gracie, and yes, that famous picture with the hair and the omoplata. by The Strenuous Life Podcast with Stephan Kesting