BJJ black belts Robert Drysdale and Frank Curreri Forza team up once again to produce a fast-moving, thought-provoking LIFEJITSU podcast tackling a wide range of issues.

You can listen at iTunes:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/lifejitsu-art-of-life/id1370299516?mt=2&i=1000418795954

You can also listen to the tw0-hour, two-part podcast on the Anchor app.

Topics discussed include:

• What’s the best age to start kids in jiu jitsu and how hard should you push them?

 

• Robert Drysdale names the most talented jiu jitsueiro No one’s Ever Heard Of;

 

• Drysdale: “We’re living in the Age of Marketing …” Great Marketing > A Great Competition Resume;

 

• What Airports Can Teach Us About Human Psychology: 

 

• Drysdale talks admiration for a Jiu Jitsu star who dropped to his knees and cried as if a relative had died — because his brother lost a match;

 

 

• What’s the one thing all great MMA fighters have in common? Frank Forza shares an unforgettable and compelling insight from one of MMA’s top managers (Minute 28);

 

• When kids cry on the mats — and why it is sometimes a super positive sign;

 

• Drysdale talks ‘ The two days I felt like a God’ … (Minute 31) ;

 

• Robert shares a profound story that FRANK MIR recently told him involving two fisherman — a parable of sorts that makes us rethink who’s smarter … the person who needs a $1 billion to be happy or the person who’s happy with $100 in their pocket?

 

• Robert offers love advice and the odds that he — twice married to BJJ black belts and twice divorced from BJJ black belts — will marry a THIRD Bjj black belt!;

 

— Robert talks nicknames in Brazil: “If someone refers to you by your real name in Brazil — they don’t like you! There’s no such thing as political correctness in Brazil.” 

 

• Instructor’s Dilemma: Lay it on the line in live practice rolls and/or competition (and risk credibility if you’re beaten regularly in class) or Hide Behind Your Black Belt and seldom compete (Minute 40)?

 

• Robert discusses interviewing Renzo Gracie’s father (like his son also an incredibly colorful character) and talks about the Renzo he knows.