This photo pretty much sums up the second half of last week.
Most episodes of The FightWorks Podcast are like drinking an aged cabernet: an often complex, bold, and sophisticated taste that challenges the drinker. This week’s episode of The FightWorks Podcast is something more like enjoying a merlot: an earthy, casual affair with no barriers between its experience and enjoyment.*
If I hired a company to write a description of how this week’s episode of our Brazilian jiu-jitsu radio show differs from all other shows, it might read like the above paragraph. But, I did not. Allow me to set the stage for today’s show.
So on Tuesday I had surgery to repair the severed ACL and LCL that I sustained during jiu-jitsu warm ups back in January. The level of pain I felt on Wednesday and Thursday were beyond anything I can remember, and since then I have been religious about taking the heavy doses of pain killers that my orthopedic surgeon prescribed. They are industrial strength pain killers and while yesterday was not so bad, I was not able to speak very well for most of last week.
But that was not enough to prevent me from putting out an episode of our Brazilian jiu-jitsu internet radio show for the Mighty 600,000! I called up Mike Lee, a fellow San Diegan and long time BJJ practitioner who also works for Bad Boy Inc and told him we were going to put a show on no matter what.
Mike came over to the FightWorks Podcast headquarters (shown above) and we had a casual discussion a few recent events in the world of Brazilian jiu-jitsu. I unfairly pick on jiu-jitsu in the United Kingdom and my absent co-host Dan, we take a few listener emails and even answer a voicemail we received on our toll free line 877-247-4662. En fin, a little different than what The Family is probably used to, but a fun ride nonetheless. Any Brazilian jiu-jitsu talk is good Brazilian jiu-jitsu talk.
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* the fact that this prose even entered my brain tells you about the potency of these pain killers
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Thanks for your contribution Caleb even with your injury!
stay strong bro!
Caleb: Did not get to listen yet. However, hang in there and thanks for feeding our appeitte for BJJ. Merlot or not that fact that you put a show on in that condition rocks. The 600,000 thanks you.
Speedy recovery!
Take care.
Caleb,
Best wishes for a good recovery and rehab. Thanks for the updates, take care.
may the force be with you.
I wanted to know what your follow up like has been with your knee. I just got LCL, arcuate lig and popletius muscle repaired. Full tear on LCL and arcuate but I think the doctor just tightened up the popletius as it didn’t seem torn on MRI. I wanted to know when you might be rolling again and back in gym as I am unsure how strong my knee will heal. There’s not that much information on this type of repair on BJJ boards… good luck with recovery.