Bulletproof For BJJ Podcast
Discussions on improving your BJJ, navigating mat-politics and all aspects of the jiu jitsu lifestyle. Multiple weekly episodes for grapplers of any level. Hosted by JT and Joey - Australian jiu jitsu black belts, strength coaches, and creators of Bulletproof For BJJ App. Based out of Sydney, Australia
Bulletproof For BJJ Podcast
Why Do People Love Jiu Jitsu So Much?
Why does joining a jiu jitsu gym so drastically change so many folks lives? What if it isn't the actual sport but the community that comes with joining a gym. Learn here why so many people get captivated by the sport of BJJ and the extra things that come with it.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another Bulletproof for BJJ podcast. What is it about Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu that makes us so obsessed? We got here through the UFC and fight skills, but is that why we stay? There is a certain element to BJJ that makes it more meaningful than we realize. That makes it more meaningful than we realize and we go deeper on why this thing, this weird thing, is keeping us in, locked in and loving it. Now we're going to go deeper on some topics which maybe you've never heard before and for anyone out there who's been part of a sports team, you get that vibe about what it is to be part of something and really, when you go from strangling someone to being their best mate, what is the unlock? And this is what today's episode is all about. Let's get into it right now. Also, if you're enjoying this content, we would really appreciate if you would like and subscribe and also share it with a friend. Appreciate if you would like and subscribe and also share it with a friend. This goes a long way to helping more good people like yourself get the good word from Bulletproof and we appreciate your help.
Speaker 1:Better, listen very carefully. A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Essentially, at this point the fight is over, so you pretty much flow with the goal who is worthy to be trusted with the secret to limitless power? I'm ready. I'm ready, individual right, but we could not do this without the people. In the same way, we could not do this podcast without you, the person watching and listening to this right now. And so it's this really intricate thing that we lose connection with our community as we get older because we have our families and businesses and so the communities get smaller. But I think the thing that's occurred to me more and more recently, what people love about what they find in Jiu-Jitsu is they find, like this new group of people and that sense of belonging is a huge reason why they'll put up with all the other nonsense. Yeah, what brought you here is usually not what keeps you here. Oh, bang, there it is. Yeah, because you don't. You don't come in going. Hey, man, I'm looking for community, I'm not looking for a new place. Seems pretty hot. You're like I want to learn how to fuck motherfuckers up ufc style and coach is like absolutely, we do that, we do that. Yeah, come and learn ufc right here, first class. And then you're like fuck cats here are super cool man. We went for this cool purple sweet thing after training the other day Ooh, fucking Delicious ice treat, yeah, you know. And then it's like you start doing comps and shit and then it's like your crew, yeah, you know.
Speaker 1:Actually, john Wellborn, do you know John Wellborn? Not familiar, not familiar. He is the coach of um. He's a strength coach of um, uh, victor hugo, okay. So he, he, he's an interesting guy, he. He ran an offshoot of crossfit called power athlete, okay, and it was basically a crossfit variant for, like, nfl players, oh, wow. So it was all about speed and power. And so all the weight it was just big weights, heavy lifts, short sprints and just like, and their motto is be the hammer, oh, wow, cool shit. Anyway, that's since moved on, but he trains Victor Hugo. He's got a gym, I think in Texas, like the rest of America, like all good corporations, yeah.
Speaker 1:But he posted a thing the other day where he's like, if you want to relive your youth, sign up to a jiu-jitsu gym, like, wrestle with a bunch of fellas and then, like, revel in the brotherhood that comes out of that experience. Right, because he's kind of new to it. I think he sometimes jumps in with them and you can see he's bigger than everyone at that, he's a fucking unit, wow. But he is still a white belt and shit. But I was like it's really true, right? Especially for a middle-aged guy or girl, you find jiu-jitsu and it does unlock some kind of youth thing and this brotherhood thing. It's not so unique when you're 20. No, because you usually still have brotherhood, sisterhood with friends. Yeah, school, uni, college. With friends. Yeah, uni, college, whatever. But yeah, once you've crossed into that middle age piece, you've usually drifted away from such circles and so it yeah, it really does restore that, or can, yeah, for sure. And I actually see it with power lifting, like just, there's a bunch of guys because everyone trains different days, similar days, like squat day, deadlift or whatever.
Speaker 1:But guys will come in when they're not training and just kind of be like oh, what's going on? Just hang out. And that for me, was so reminiscent of jiu-jitsu. They're doing some mobs or something. I just didn't understand. Nah, man, they're just pulled up like, oh yeah, what's Big Benny doing today? Oh, he's just doing tricep accessories. Fuck, mad grown men just sitting around hanging, yeah, and obviously there's a little bit of chat and they're like oh, yeah, how's family? And yeah, it's, it's, it's. I think.
Speaker 1:More and more we think, um, technology can provide solutions and, yeah, in a very uh, mercenary, mechanical way. Yeah, technology fixes a bunch of shit, but the the, the feeling that something is not right, or a certain amount of loneliness or displaceness that can come from being isolated, is absolutely cured by jujitsu. You know, even you think you think about your gym nemesis. Right, this is someone who you fucking want to kill and they, maybe, rightly so, want to kill you, but still you agree to this weird intimate dance that you must do in order to achieve the simulated killing. Hey, bro, thanks for today. That was sick. I'll see you next week.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I fucking hate that guy, fucking dick, fuck that dickhead. Yeah, fuck, he always goes for the footlock. Yeah, he's like that cunt, always wrestles. I fucking hate him. I hate him. But hey, hug it out.
Speaker 1:Jiu-jitsu is pretty good, bud, you've got to respect it, bud. Yeah, and it's of come through is so much of the kind of help self-help guru, fucking internet advice crew are always talking about. I mean, we're on that crew, aren't we? No, no, we we like right now, we are, but we're better than them because of jujitsu, needless to say. Needless to say, no, but what I'm saying is they always talk about self-resilience and like, pull yourself up by your bootstraps and all this shit, but join my uh, join my patreon and my group and my select group, where you pay money to join my mastermind it's called the wolf pack yeah, pretty much right where strong, independent men could stay strongly independent and toxic. We trade crypto by themselves, but in a group and do military training and have bad hairlines and possibly sex traffic.
Speaker 1:People in Bulgaria Um, yeah, that is what it is Shout out. And has anyone told you you have a you kind of you and Tate have a similar look. Fuck off, can't. Has anyone know what you're? Fucked, dude. I'm not saying you are similar people. He's a skinny bitch. Want toabe kickboxer? I am fucking jacked grappler of all time. Yeah, I'm talking about the face. Fuck off, no way.
Speaker 1:The only comparison I get is hey, guys, show of hands to the listeners who agree. This is this is my show of hands. Sound out in the comments. No, I get, I sometimes get keanu. And then, uh, yeah, mackleheny from um, always sunny in philadelphia, right, the dark prince talks about it. Yeah, yeah, we get. We get comments quite often on the instagram, like always sunny, yeah, and I'll take that because he's fucking. That guy's hilarious.
Speaker 1:There's something, there's some kind of tatism just in the look, not in the behavior. No, fuck off. I'm not accepting that at all. Fuck tate. But why do I? Why am I so repulsed by you trying to compare me to him?
Speaker 1:Because part of the reason why I seriously dislike a lot of that it's it's this idea of, like we talked before about false information, and part of the reason why I don't like certain fitness influences. I don't like certain people with certain podcasts, because what they're advocating for is creating more isolation, and this is absolutely not the answer. Can you qualify that for me? Like, give me an example? Well, no, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1:I do believe there is important aspects of being able to look after yourself, right, but I just think that is a basic way of living your life to make sure that you can be healthy or, like, have skills, so that you are not dependent on people, necessarily, right, that's just a personal philosophy. But this idea of separating people, whether it be classes, mental superiority, I'm the 1%, they're fucking plurbs, they're sheep this kind of bullshit, I'm not into that at all. Like I just think that this is actually what is wrong with society. And what's great about society is when we work together, and what's great about BJJ is it brings people together, and this is the thing I really wanted to get into around jujitsu, but also at least what we do with our business, like. What I've been pleasantly surprised about is the amount of people who are willing to help others, like in our community chat, like I actually wanted to use this chat not to talk about fucking Andrew Tate.
Speaker 1:How dare you hijack my conversation? You keep bringing him up, bro. How dare you hijack my conversation. You keep bringing him up, bro. How dare you even compare my face to him? I wanted to give a shout out to. It's out there now. It's just fucking get over it. It's just gaining momentum on the internet, bro. He looks so bad now. Have you seen the photos of? Anyway, we'll leave it. I haven't. No, it's bad. Anyway, it's all right. He should keep his head. I don't research him that often, that's all I say. No, it's just public media, but that's all right. He should keep his head shaved. I don't research him that often, that's all I'm saying. No, it's just public media, but that's all right.
Speaker 1:One of the things about this time of information abundance that we live in podcasts, social media, et cetera is that we've just got access to so much information, and it's excellent. We're big supporters of that. We put out information regularly, but one of the downsides of this is that it can make things really confusing about which information is correct or is right for you, and so JT and I see ourselves as aggregators of information when it comes to strength and flexibility and building a durable body for jujitsu, and this is why we designed our app. It's to help people like you cut through the bullshit and follow simple, easy to use programs that are going to make you as strong as possible and as flexible as possible in the shortest amount of time each week. If you jump onto the app, you can access various programs that are suited to whatever training situation you're in. So if you're a total beginner or if you've got plenty of strength experience, you'll find it suited to you, and if you don't have any equipment or you've got access to a full gym, you will find a program to match your needs. You can take a two week free trial right away. All you got to do is go to the app store, search Bulletproof for BJJ, download the app and sign up today for your free trial. And the best part about it is JT and I are going to coach you there. And you know what? If you don't love it, we offer a 100% money back guarantee. Send us an email Say I don't like the app and we'll flick your money back. So jump on the app store, get the app. Let's train, let's get strong for BJJ.
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Speaker 1:So anyway, I just like the photos. You like Joe. I'm like oh, joe liked that. Oh, how interesting. What is Joe into these days? I think what has surprised me about at least Bulletproof is the community. Like it's going into the chats and seeing other people jumping in to help other people, which it reminds me of jujitsu. Like it's just the willingness for people to go oh, you don't know what that is, oh man, I do it like this or oh, this is like that, and it's not always a hundred percent spot on, but like it's great because you know, generally camaraderie, it's assistance, it's the willingness to help another person and that's fucking, that's nice. Help another person, yeah, and that's fucking, that's nice.
Speaker 1:Um, I brought I actually had a flat tire yesterday, which is not great. It hasn't happened for years to have a flat tire. So I pull over and I go to servo and I'm at the um spot where you pump up tires. Anyway, wait, you didn't get a puncture, just flattened over time. No, no, it was a puncture of sorts. It was flat as a motherfucker. But I was like I don't know how pumped the spare is. So I had to get spare out and I was like I want to be somewhere I can pump it up. And I was kind of blocking another person from using it.
Speaker 1:But this dude pulled up and he was like, looking at me and I was like, oh, is this guy mean mugging me because he wants the air pump or whatever? And he's like you're right there, buddy. And I'm like, yeah, what's your fucking problem, dog? I've got a fucking piece of steel in my hand here which is for winding tires, but it could beat a motherfucker's skull in. He was like, do you want help? I was like, oh, no, I'm good, I'm good.
Speaker 1:He's like, oh, okay, well, I know, flat tires can be a bit shit. I'm like, yeah, man, cool, he's like you, sure. And I'm like, yeah, and he just, he just checking in on me. I was like, wow, how nice is that? What a lovely citizen, a complete stranger, who I would have beat his skull in with with a piece of steel, potentially just as my first, my first reaction Righto, fucking chopper.
Speaker 1:Right, what was so strange is like my immediate, my immediate thought was suspicion. I mean it's always like, oh, western sydney, bro, yeah, this guy's, anyone can get it. This could be a confrontation, right, it was not far from mount drew it. You know it could get rough out there and then, no, he was just, he was genuinely concerned and he's like, because it's a shit thing, you know, you see someone broken down or your flat tire and he was willing to help me and that actually, just that one interaction made the whole experience way more tolerable, because I'm like, oh, that's cool. You know people are good. Yeah, yeah, it's, it's. It's amazing what that'll do for you and I think, uh, whether it be bjj or you know how, you know our community, people getting injuries or struggling with something Eat to win nation, eat to win nation. Obviously, you know people eating good, helping other people eat good. You know it's very important.
Speaker 1:But I actually wanted to give some shout outs to a couple of the crew. Fucking, shout them out, bro, real quick, real quick. Just some key players in there, some people who are always in there I'm not in there as much as jt is. I'm keen to hear this. Uh, I want to. I want to just give a quick shout out to to ben hanawell, because he's just always in there. Ben hanawell, I know he's always in there. Notorious, yeah, but in a good way. Yeah, he's always brings the energy, contributes, yeah, um, stephanie wewong. Steph is always saying chats and fuck, steph, I haven't touched base with you yet. Yeah, no, it's cool. It's cool, um, it's cool, hans Fernandez.
Speaker 1:I thought it was Fernandez, but I didn't pronounce it right. It's not Fernandez. I don't think so, because I was writing it down. I'm like oh, I don't know if I'm going to say this right or wrong, but I'm going to give a shout out to Hans. How do you spell it? It's Facebook. I've written down incorrectly, I think I don't know. One of the guys told me his name, but he got told the name by another guy and that guy Well, here's the thing, because sometimes people's names on Facebook are like, and you're like is that a name? Like we got like Al Shanova. I'm like, is that really a name? Because the way it's spelled is like double O-N-O-O-V-E-R. You're like oh, this seems like I don't know if that's right Kyle Wood.
Speaker 1:Kyle's always bringing the details. Kyle Wood fucking legend, shout out, kyle. Kyle's always picking up on the details. He's like you know, you spelled this wrong. I'm like oh fuck, going to have to get back in the back for that. And I appreciate that about. Yeah, we appreciate that kind of nitpicking. Yeah, helping us to improve. Yeah, we got it. We got to do it, we got to fix these things.
Speaker 1:Um, kimon ang, kimon, he's. He's always got some good chats. Haven't hung out with kimon huey mcgee, young blood, ah, huey. Yeah, he came and tried. I'll tell you when he tried to do the handstand here. No, mate, this is just, he's a soldier. Well, like it was a freestyle week in between programs. Okay, so we're just fucking around with some shit. And I was like guys, you want to do some handstands? Like, yeah, it'd be sick. We're doing some handstands. I'm like you ever tried.
Speaker 1:He was in town, came training with us for a day and I was like you've done a handstand? He's like no. And I was like we're doing some chest to wall. You want me to show you how it works? He's like yeah, and I'm like you want to give it a go, or you want me to scout? He's like no, no, I'm good, I got this. And he fucking just before I could even say I would even finish coming out of my mouth of like do you want to give this a go? He was just like kicking up and he just collapsed and like, oh no, just spear like head first into the floor collapse like a sack of potatoes and and I'm like, ooh, this would break a model. And uh, he got. And I'm like, how are you? He's like I'm good, I'm good, yep. Nah, that hurt, but let's keep going. And I was like, fuck yeah, what a tough guy. I almost broke my neck. Shake it off. Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 1:Shout out to Harry. Harry the chef, our good friend. Oh, fuck yeah, harry. Yeah, legend, always, always posting stuff. He's always sharing the training with his kids too, which I love. Yeah, it's awesome. He gets his kids on the training at home. We've got the little gym at home. And also shout out to our man, ange, simone Strongman. Oh, fuck yeah, he's always in there with the chats and also he loves to play this in the car to his kids. He's like you see, kids, put some respect on my name. Yeah, you hear that. Kids, you do what your dad says, right, simone Strongman, shout out.
Speaker 1:And Tom Campbell, jamie Rossoss, quick shout outs erickson and uh, man, the list goes on like it's a it is. There's people we would have missed. We've totally missed some people. And the thing is, people will come in and out because we've got side chats and that's the thing. No shortage of bjj information out there tutorials, videos, you can download YouTube content, et cetera.
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Speaker 1:Today. I was thinking about community. This is the idea of community. I was thinking the other day how many WhatsApp group chats are you in? A lot, a lot, right, because we're trying to get people together. I start a new one every day, just Monday 21st of January, just like select all. Yeah, tuesday 22nd of January.
Speaker 1:And it also becomes a source of people like sharing memes and like. Sometimes it gives out a source of people like sharing memes and like sometimes I'm not in those. I actually I exclude myself from those ones. It's too distracting. Yeah, look I got that going on Instagram, right, with you sharing content with me. And shit, sure, jim, I mean most good BJJ gyms will have some kind of a group chat. Yeah, whether it's on Facebook or WhatsApp or whatever. And like it gets the in-jokes get like deeper and deeper and more cryptic and more cryptic, and if you're not in the chat for a couple of days, you miss a whole thing.
Speaker 1:But what I think is great about this not so much the infinite WhatsApp group chats it speaks to people's need to want to connect with other people. That's really what's at the heart of it. So I think what is enforced with bjj in the same way, you know I was saying about, like even the person you dislike the most, at jujitsu you are forced to be up close and personal with them. Yeah, whereas maybe at work if you hate that that supervisor or the general manager or whoever it is you can pretty much avoid them most of the time unless you've got some kind of fucking performance review or some bullshit yeah, but in jiu-jitsu you can't. They're there. Enforced closeness of jujitsu, which is even for the person you dislike the most, you still respect because you you have to engage with them on a skill level and it's not even a personality, even though you might detest their personality, like fuck that armbar so good. You know, even in the back of your mind you'd hate to admit it, but you're like they're really good at that and then that forces you to get better at this skill to counteract that and and that kind of builds the relationship, even though personally you wouldn't hang out. You know, just while, um, while giving the shout outs, we've got to give a shout out to auntie ray ray. Of course there's just queen ray. Yeah, she's the glue in there, just keeping shit going, making sure people getting looked after. Yeah, you bet, and I think the thing is we're going to see shout out uh, we're going to see ray more and more because she's on that, she's on the coaching, she's on the coaching fucking trajectory trajectory which is awesome coming up. It's cool to see and I think that that's the thing that, uh, you know, like many things jujitsu, gyms, chat groups, whatever people go in and out, right, you have times when people are really in it and then they go away and they come back, whatever it might be, but, um, it's that thing that you can come back to and I think that's the great thing about jujitsu.
Speaker 1:Whereas, like, I used to be part of like an all-age soccer team, yeah, on my gap year, which was you played soccer. Yeah, I played soccer as a kid and then I wouldn't say particularly skillful, I think at that time it was more fitness, they're like you can run, while some of the more skillful players were like, okay, get on, score a goal, jump off, pump a long neck, you know, like it was a very mixed bag. Ice pack on the knee. Yeah, it was a very mixed bag of, like certain skilled people it's all age soccer Unskilled people right, but I think we were like Division 10. Right, like it was like right far down the chain. But the cool thing was it was like a very reliable way to get the crew together. Yeah.
Speaker 1:But here is the biggest problem with that Not in terms of a sporting team, like there's off seasons, right, jiu-jitsu is all season, like it's never off. So even season like it's never off. So even holidays, even if you've not been in six months, you can just go oh, open mat and there you are, you're back in. You don't have to organize a whole team and it organizes itself. That's, that's what I'm saying. Whoever's available will be there and you know you can be there and do it. That's an interesting.
Speaker 1:It's an interesting comparison there about because, yeah, the off-season piece is nice because it's like a reset, sure, and then when it rolls back around to winter, you're like, fuck, yeah, soccer's kicking off soon, we're back in and it keeps you because you've got the game every Saturday or Sunday. It motivates you to go to training each week or a practice, yeah, yeah, it'd be interesting to try and do a similar thing for Jets, you know, yeah, but some people would hate it. But some might really love that. Some people might dig it. Yeah, I.
Speaker 1:I think the thing about it is that it gives it a very free. It's maybe that the the lack of structure around that is doesn't appeal to some people. That's why people love sports teams. But I think what you get with jujitsu is you do get the team element, but you also get the freedom to engage with it however you want, and that's, that's massive. I I think, uh, that's, that's something I've been missing from not doing jujitsu enough. And the thing I get like that taste of the beauty of jujitsu, which is, um, the open mat, which is like anyone could be there and it's like we're all there and it's all cool, like it's. It's such a great shared experience and I think that provides a really good antidote to the stress of isolated modern life. That's my take on it, folks, but community shout out to all y'all.
Speaker 1:Listen to this, support the thing. If you're on the app, we appreciate you and yeah, I mean, I think that we forget how important it is to have those other people and how meaningful that is. Hey, and just the thing, if you, if you listen to this and you're like where's this chat group? This is our chat group, exclusively for app subscribers. So when you sign up to our app and join the program, you get access to this thing, and it's within that group that we offer our coaching. Uh, mostly jt, a little bit myself, raylene, like we're all available, um, and that's where the, the people chat with each other and the whole shit unfolds. So if you want to get involved, sign up to the app and see us in there. Get amongst it. Yep, cool, peace you.
