#80 Rolls Gracie Recollections from Bob Anderson
August 12, 2007
The term “legend” is likely over-applied in sports like ours. Great competitors come and go, and some truly stand out. But all Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioners who hear the name Rolls Gracie would agree that “legend” is an apt way to describe him.
Rolls Gracie’s name is brought up often in our interviews with Brazilian jiu-jitsu classics Carlos Valente, Fabio Santos, and Romero “Jacare” Cavalcanti, all of whom attest to Rolls Gracie’s historic role in the development of Brazilian jiu-jitsu at a crucial point in its early history. Despite a premature death due to a hang-gliding accident in 1982, his willingness to integrate grappling techniques that were not a part of Brazilian jiu-jitsu opened the door to a new era in the sport, an effect that some say prevented the sport from sliding into stagnation.
Last week here on The FightWorks Podcast, cohost Dan and I discussed nutrition with wrestling legend and nutrition expert Bob Anderson. Bob stayed on the line with Dan and I and was kind enough to share his experiences of training with Rolls Gracie in the mid- to late 1970’s. As you’ll hear, the two met rather coincidentally and the exchange of ideas that took place between them had an impact on the sport we know today as Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
And before we shut the show down, we’ll have an installment of The Black Belt Corner. We’ll speak with none other than Carlos Gracie Jr.! Carlos, also known as “Carlinhos”, is the creator of the International Federation of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Confederação Brasileira de Jiu-jitsu which run the largest BJJ tournaments in the world: the Mundials, Pan American and European Championships.
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#79 Coach Bob Anderson and Nutrition for Grapplers
August 5, 2007
With all the recent focus on ways that combat sports athletes, particularly mixed martial artists, have been attempting to improve their performance using substances that are not allowed by athletic commissions, we thought we would spend some time on natural, healthy, and legal things you can provide your body. Coach Bob Anderson’s knowledge on grappling sports and nutrition is encyclopedic. The coach has trained dozens of world class athletes, like Randy Couture and Dan Henderson. With one of this masters degrees being in nutrition, and more than fifty years of mat experience in freestyle and greco-roman wrestling, sambo, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and more I’m probably not aware of, we couldn’t find a better expert on the subject.
Make sure you have a pen and paper when listening to this one, because the Coach drops some serious knowledge on Dan and I during this show. If you’d like to catch up with the Coach face to face with questions about training, diet, and the like, he is on staff at No Limits gym in Irvine, California.
We also discuss the responses our listeners sent in when we requested what supplements you take. Thank you very much for all your responses! We drew two names at random from all the entries we received and our winners are Bruce Hoyer and Timmyle Larrabee. I’ve sent you both emails asking for your addresses so I can get your DVDs to you!
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#71 Don Dunn of Never Submit, Thierry Sokoudjou, and the World Team Trials in vegas
June 10, 2007
I was pretty nervous as the week was drawing to a close and I hadn’t lined up much in the way of content for all of you, the mighty 600,000. Things happen fast around here sometimes, and we’ve lined up another great show.
We’re going to start off with an interview with Don Dunn, the director of the movie Never Submit. On May 27 in Episode 69 of The Fightworks Podcast, we spoke with the writer of the original script for Never Submit, James Hergott, who has brought legal action against the production company Imperia Entertainment, asking a judge to stop work on the project until Hergott’s allegations have been straightened out. We inquired with Imperia Entertainment at the time for their side on the matter back then, and we’ve finally synched up with them. Dunn bring us up to date on the project.
We will speak with Thierry Sokoudjou, whose career has been on a meteoric rise over the past twelve months. Sokoudjou will give us an update on his status and also give us an update on Marcelo Garcia’s preparation for his first mixed martial arts fight. Garcia, the 5′8″ Brazilian jiu-jitsu superstar, spent last week at Team Quest in Temecula working his stand up game.
Lastly, On The Mat.com’s Gumby brings us up to date on the action at the World Team Trials from Las Vegas this weekend. Gumby’s got some great perspectives on the significance of this competition and will bring us up to speed on why this one is special.
Ricky Lundell against Alberto Crane
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Congrats to Mark Cody and Josh Glenn of American University
March 24, 2007
For the first time in school history, American University brought home a national title in wrestling. No doubt it’s due to the work of a former interviewee here on The FightWorks Podcast, Coach Mark Cody. Cody’s student Josh Glenn won the 197 lb. national title at the 2007 NCAA Wrestling Championships recently.
Cody also played a role in the formation of two very prominent wrestlers who became mixed martial artists: Randy Couture and Matt Lindland. Not likely a coincedence that all have done so well. Congratulations Coach Cody.
Episode #6 Mark Cody Interview; BJJ & Wrestling
December 7, 2005
What can Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioners learn from wrestlers? Let’s just say, “a thing or two”. In this episode we speak with Mark Cody, head wrestling coach of American University. Why’d we pick Mark to speak with? Well the fact that he’s a metro ride away doesn’t hurt, but also because Mark mentored current mixed martial artists Matt Lindland and Randy Couture, both some of the biggest names in the sport at the moment.
We also learn who (finally!) won the iPod in the drawing that’s been underway here since episode one. Will it be you? And as if that wasn’t enough, we’re going to announce another give-away!
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