Questions About Olympic Judo?
July 24, 2008
Hey FightWorks Podcast listeners,
As judo is such a big part of our sport (BJJ) and the Olympics are on the way we know it’s time to discuss judo a bit on our show.
Do you have any questions about how judo works, what we should watch out for, or big names or countries that will do well in judo in the August Olympics?
If you’re a BJJ person and have any questions at all about judo, email them to me and I will ask an upcoming judo expert about them on our show!
Please respond asap because the interview will be tomorrow!
You can contact me at caleb AT (this domain) DOT com.
How to Listen to Old FightWorks Podcast Episodes
July 17, 2008
As I mentioned in our latest show on Nelson Monteiro and the ADCC, I sometimes get email from folks asking how to listen to our older audio shows about Brazilian jiu-jitsu history, competition, news, etc.
- Here’s one quick shortcut: our Episodes category. All our shows should carry that categorization, so clicking on that link will bring you to all posts here on the site associated with audio interviews. From there you can browse old audio interviews with BJJ black belts that you may want to hear.
- And here’s a quick trick I mentioned in Sunday’s show. All of the actual audio files which contain our BJJ internet radio shows have the exact same file format. Here’s the link to Sunday’s show, which was episode #125:
http://www.thefightworkspodcast.com/podcasts/fightworkspodcastepisode125.mp3
See the 125 in there? If you want to hear episode 121, you’d just put
http://www.thefightworkspodcast.com/podcasts/fightworkspodcastepisode121.mp3
into your browser. It will start downloading (and probably playing) the audio file.
- Dont’ forget our FightWorks Podcast Google Gadget! If you don’t remember what that is, here’s a video explanation!
Hope that helps! As always, let me know if you have other questions by emailing me at caleb AT (this website) DOT com!
UPDATE Friday July 18 12:49 AM: I should’ve mentioned that not every single episode we’ve ever done is available; there are a few from episode 1 through episode 25 which may not be posted (if memory serves). One of these days I’ll try to make them available.
Our Google Gadget Explained in Video
May 3, 2008
Curious about what The FightWorks Podcast Google Gadget is all about? Hopefully this video will explain things a little better. You can watch the embedded video on YouTube above or download a higher resolution video by clicking here.
And if you haven’t done so yet, Click here to go grab our Google Gadget!
FightWorks Podcast Google Gadget Now Available!
April 30, 2008
From the feedback I’ve gotten since we began our humble BJJ internet radio show here back in September 2005, I know that people listen to the show in many different ways. Sometimes people listen on their iPod or mp3 player, and sometimes they listen from their desk. If one thing is constant, it’s that people like as many options as possible in terms of where they can listen to and how they get our audio shows.
Our crack team of web engineers, BJJ experts, and audio gurus are all hard at work discovering a way to telepathically deliver The FightWorks Podcast’s BJJ news and interviews straight into your brain. But we’re having difficulty because it’s tough going and the whenever the BJJ experts get frustrated, the meetings inevitably end with everyone else choked unconscious.
So for the meantime we’re announcing our Google Gadget. If you have a Google or Gmail account, this allows you to embed our flash player right in your Google start page (aka iGoogle)!
Click here to go grab our Google Gadget!
The more options that are out there to access the show, the better, right? Even if you do not plan on using your Google start page, if you could add this to your iGoogle, it would be a big help to me. The more people there are that use this gadget, the more likely it is that Google will accept our gadget to appear in their official Gadget Directory. That would be awesome!
Best BJJ Blog of 2007: Prancing and Sucking
December 31, 2007
It’s official! We have a winner. The Brazilian jiu-jitsu community has spoken and declared that the best BJJ blog of 2007 is Val Worthington’s blog called Prancing and Sucking! Congratulations Val. Courtesy of Grapplers Quest, you win two GQ DVDs which will be sent out in short order.
Here’s how the top three candidates fared:
- Prancing and Sucking, bjjvisionquest2006.blogspot.com - 389 votes
- Aesopian, aesopian.com - 368 votes
- John Will’s BJJ Australia, bjj-australia.blogspot.com - 194 votes
Aesopian will receive one GQ DVD as well for coming in second place. Sorry John, there was no prize for third place but you got so many votes I thought I just had to show folks how well you did.
One thing I noticed… as far as I know, with the exception of John Will, all of those super folks in the top three are BJJ purple belts (correct me if I am wrong, someone). And… I am a purple belt too! I don’t know if that means anything but if so I hope that the great work everyone is doing continues on as folks progress to brown and black belts.
In addition to being able to give credit to some folks who work hard on their sites, I hope that the Best BJJ Blog of the Year contest here exposed you to some new ways people are talking about and sharing BJJ on the internet. Just as we all learn when we are on the mats training and grappling against each other and we share techniques and advice, BJJ blogs are an excellent way to promote the same sort of exchanges when we are away from the mat.
Who knows, perhaps some new folks will be inspired to begin their own BJJ blog after seeing what some other people have been doing in 2007. Judging by the increased quantity and quality of BJJ blogs in the last twelve months, I think things will continue to get even better.
Thanks to everyone who voted and if you come across any Brazilian jiu-jitsu blogs that are special, please contact me so it can be considered for our Best BJJ Blog of 2008!
CORRECTION 12-31-07 7:59 AM PST I mistakenly had ShogunHQ in third place the first time this article was published. Thank you Slideyfoot for pointing out the error! My relatives in Australia would not be happy to see me make that mistake! 
FightWorks Podcast Studio on Holiday
December 22, 2007
That’s right Family - I received notice today from the powers that be that our beloved state of the art recording studio will be closed until January.
So there will be no new episodes of our Brazilian jiu-jitsu radio show until Sunday, January 6th.
I know, it sounds like forever to me too. I get serious separation anxiety with just the thought of being disconnected from the Mighty 600,000 of you.
Remember that there is still time to vote for The Best BJJ Blog of 2007, if you have not done so already. That poll ends on December 30th, which should give you time to check out all the candidates. We will announce the winner on December 31st.
I will leave you for now with Alicia Anthony’s photos from the 2007 BJJ No-gi World Championship. Lots of big names in there and unbelieveable matches, and Alicia’s done it again by providing an awesome history of the competition.
Happy holidays to all of you, and BE SAFE!
BJJ Radio Never Easier
December 18, 2007
My next project.
I think we do an alright job of making The FightWorks Podcast pretty easy to find and listen to. But we know there is always room for improvement, and The FightWorks Podcast team of MIT-trained communications infrastructure specialists I figured out another way to make it easy to listen to our shows.
But let’s review where we came from first. Until yesterday, here were the ways you could find our show:
- iTunes - the great thing about subscribing to our show in iTunes is that iTunes will check our site on a regular basis and automatically download our newest episode to your computer. If you’ve got an iPod or iPhone, it can also make sure that you can take the number one Brazilian jiu-jitsu internet radio show with you wherever you go!
- in Posts here - Yep, every Sunday when we release a new show there will be a little link that says mp3. You can always click that link and your browser will begin playing the newest episode.
Now we’ve made another way to listen to great interviews from the biggest names in BJJ. If you are reading this on our website (as opposed to reading this in a feed reader that is subscribed to our RSS feed or by email subscription) you have probably already noticed that we have a brand spanking new Flash player embedded on our site!
“Why do I care about this ‘Flash Player’, Caleb?” you ask? Well because now you can scroll through a ton of our older episodes without leaving the site’s homepage and simply click to listen to them.
It is pretty sweet and something I should have done a long time ago. Honestly I did try installing a mini Flash player that would appear inside posts that contained new episodes but at the time I was not as smart as I am today 
and I think this incarnation with multiple episodes all located in one spot may be more useful anyhow.
As I said above though, I do know there’s always room for improvement. If you have any suggestions on ways to make The FightWorks Podcast an even better show, ways to make the site better, or if you just want to let me know what’s going on in your neck of the woods, shoot me a note at c a l e b *at* the fightworks podcast *dot* com!
No Show This Weekend!
September 28, 2007
Sorry for the late notice! It’s my birfday this weekend (that’s right, all weekend) and honestly it’s been muy loco around here. When you put those two things together, it means it’s time for a break here at The FightWorks Podcast main recording studios here in San Diego. I’ve declared it a no-work-weekend for all FightWorks Podcast production staff. Those of you in the data center and in other operational roles - I’m sorry, but there’s still the 600,000 out there counting on you to make sure all the old episodes of the show can still be downloaded. We’ll drink a toast to you while we’re out celebrating in Tijuana.
Hasta pronto, cabrones!
Bruce Hoyer On Board The FightWorks Podcast
September 8, 2007
Great news for our fans and listeners! We’re very excited to announce that Bruce Hoyer will be contributing content to The FightWorks Podcast! Bruce has done some excellent combat sports coverage in the past. Some of my favorites are his video interviews from the 2007 Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Mundials. You’ve seen some of them posted on the site here already but they’re worth posting again:
- BJJ Mundials Interviews 1: Fabio Santos, Romulo Barral, Rodrigo Medeiros, Saulo Ribeiro, Bill “The Grill” Cooper, Walter Cascao, and Mike Fowler
- BJJ Mundials Interviews 2: Eduardo Telles, Marcelo Garcia, Kron Gracie, Chris Moriarty, and Dave Johnson
- BJJ Mundials Interviews 3: Leo Viera, Andre Galvao, Maryanne Mulhany, Robert Drysdale, Tarsys Humphries and Romulo Barral
Bruce has already begun hunting down some top-level interviews for us that will appear on The FightWorks Podcast and we couldn’t be more excited. Expect some great stuff on the way soon!
#81 2007 BJJ Mundials Preview
August 19, 2007
The Brazilian jiu-jitsu world championships are less than a week away! Are you excited yet? Don’t tell me you thought the only big thing happening this weekend was UFC: 74 Respect!
Well, American football has the NFL preview from Chris Berman and his gang… college basketball has Dick Vitale and crew, and Brazilian jiu-jitsu has The FightWorks Podcast! We brought in jiu-jitsu’s big gun of BJJ analysis, Gumby from OnTheMat.com to help break down the competitors of the 2007 BJJ world championships. We’ll discuss the details of all black belt divisions, male and female.
What do MMA fans look like? Eighteen to thirty-five year old males, if you ask the marketing survey folks. In this episode of The FightWorks Podcast we’ll also have a quick interview with someone who breaks the stereotypes of what you think is your average mixed martial arts fan.
FYI, we will delay our normal release schedule and be posting our next episode on August 27th, instead of on Sunday as we normally would. We can’t deliver a show to the 600,000 out there (that’s you) with only one day of the action from the black belt division, so we’re going to hold off and with any luck have the show out on Monday for you.
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