The best way to keep violence out of your life is to be prepared for it. Listen below or on iTunes (subscribe! rate! review!).
Episode 16: Jeff Mount
I get to have a great conversation with Jeff Mount. He’s a third-degree black belt in Krav Maga, the chief instructor and director of operations at Krav Maga Maryland, and a trainer of other Krav Maga Worldwide instructors, which is how I first met him. He’s extremely thoughtful about training, particularly about training other instructors. Pretend there’s a fist emoji and a heart emoji in this description.
Laura Heiman: BJJ to fight anxiety and depression
Being able to calm yourself in a situation that’s not in your favor is good. Laura mentioned Submit the Stigma, an organization doing good work in the jiu-jitsu community to provide education about mental illness and support for those who are affected. Listen below or on iTunes (subscribe! rate! review!). Save
Monday Walkout Song: Laura Heiman / Rock Superstar
Here’s your beginning of the week walkout song, this week from Episode15 guest, Laura Heiman.
Laura Heiman: Best friends in this sport
I’ve made some of the best friends I have in this sport.
Laura Heiman: Make yourself win
You can’t just win because you’ve spent more time on the mat. You have to go out there and make yourself win.
Episode 15: Laura Heiman
Laura and I talk about jiu jitsu, ego, teaching, and being a female while dealing with all of those things. Laura juggles her day job, the gym she co-owns, raising two badass little girls, her own training, her dogs, and her jiu jitsu ambitions. She’s doing all of it. Listen and learn.
Matt Caballero: Learn cool shit every day
You can train with people and do these things and learn cool shit every day if you want to.
Matt Caballero: I knew you could do it
I love being able to bring somebody to that idea of, like, “I never thought I could do this.” And then they do it, and I say, “I told you. I knew you could do it, and you just had to let me help you do it.” . . . I really want to be able to help other people come into their own. Photo above by Sabrina Jones.
Matt Caballero: Bleed together
When you bleed together, you find this common ground that is so visceral that you can’t help but let everything else that’s superficial just fade away.