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100: Starting a Women's Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Program

Beauty and the Gi: Gripping Conversations about Jiu-Jitsu and Life

11/11/20 • 38 min

How do you start a women’s Brazilian jiu-jitsu program? Should you offer classes for women only? How do you get women to try Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu? How do you build community and support with your team?

We are diving into these questions and more in the 100th episode of Beauty and the Gi. Jennifer Risser Guthrie joins us for this discussion.

Highlights [1:19] Why do you want to start a women’s team?

[1:35] What are the benefits of offering a class for women only?

[11:45] How to create a supportive community environment

[16:04] Structuring Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu class format

[21:53] How to get women to try Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

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104: When You Have a Bad Day on the Mat

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01/21/21 • 18 min

What do you do after a bad day on the mat? We’re sharing practices and ideas to help you turn it around. There is always something to be learned, even when you don’t think it was a good day on the mat.

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107: Black Belt Rachel Casias on Jiu-JItsu and life with Younger-Onset Alzheimers

Beauty and the Gi: Gripping Conversations about Jiu-Jitsu and Life

03/03/21 • 37 min

Black Belt and 7 Time Roll Model Grappling Camp instructor Rachel Casias makes a return visit to the podcast to talk about camp and her recent diagnosis with Younger-Onset Alzheimer’s.

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106: BJJ Black Belt Elisabeth Clay on Developing a Complete Game and What to Expect from Her Session at Roll Model Camp 2021

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02/17/21 • 29 min

BJJ Black Belt Elisabeth Clay shares how she has worked to develop a complete game, handling “haters”, and what we can expect from her session at Roll Model Camp 2021.

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111: Sean Patrick Flanery

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04/28/21 • 55 min

Sean Patrick Flanery is talking to us about making Born a Champion, his movie about Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He shares some great on and off the mat wisdom as we wrap up the episode.

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112: BJJ Black Belt and Founder of Conscious Kitchen LLC Sarah Block

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05/12/21 • 23 min

BJJ Black Belt and Founder of Conscious Kitchen LLC Sarah Block joins us to talk about eating healthy and jiu-jitsu.

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113: Injury Prevention with Darion Murdock

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05/27/21 • 26 min

Darion Murdock is a blue belt and occupational therapy assistant. She will be leading the Injury Prevention 101 workshop at this year’s Roll Model Grappling Camp.

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72: When it Feels Like Your Jiu-Jitsu Isn't Getting Any Better

Beauty and the Gi: Gripping Conversations about Jiu-Jitsu and Life

02/19/20 • 16 min

Have you ever felt you’ve reached a plateau with your jiu-jitsu? AJ walks us through some things that might cause you to feel that way and shares a number of ways to work yourself out of it.

We talk about why it is common for the ”Blue Belt Blues” to set in.

AJ also shockingly reveals that there was a point where she was stingy with her jiu-jitsu. Learn what caused it and how she got over it.

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180: BJJ Black Belt Sarah Chamberlain

Beauty and the Gi: Gripping Conversations about Jiu-Jitsu and Life

01/18/24 • 30 min

BJJ Black Belt Sarah Chamberlain is the first instructor to be announced for Roll Model Grappling Camp 2024. Get to know Sarah as she talks with AJ, Jen, and Risser. We can’t wait to learn from her at camp this summer!

(00:00) Episode Intro (01:18) Why Sarah Loves Warmups (05:15) Sarah’s Advice to her younger self when starting BJJ (14:03) The benefits of starting from bad positions (14:42) The evolution of Sarah’s game as she progressed to black belt (16:23) Dealing with degenerative disc disease (21:03) Returning to BJJ training after her pregnancy

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