Episode 1: Leaving everything behind and starting an academy in Taiwan
Interview with Dan Imal Reid who moved from Scotland to Taiwan and started a highly successful Jiu Jitsu academy. Daniel Reid Facebook BJJ Kaoshiung BJJ Tainan BJJ Globetrotter blog – Taiwan The BJJ...
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* 34m31s: “There’s not a single thing about COMPETITION…”, I should have said, of course. I’m tired :D Is competing in BJJ bad for you?
View ArticleEpisode 3: Caribbean Island Camp
First attempt at a podcast episode from one of our camps. I brought my little microphone around me during the Caribbean Island Camp and tried to capture the atmosphere, behind the scenes stuff and a...
View ArticleEpisode 4: The BJJ Globetrotter of the year, Robert Barker
In this episode I talk with Robert Barker who has visited 100 academies around the world this year and won the “BJJ Globetrotter of the year” award. Panda’s Odyssey blog Robert’s blog on...
View ArticleEpisode 5: Growing up in the favela and starting a new life in Europe + how...
In this episode, I interview Bruno Matias. He is one of the veteran coaches of the camps, the official victory dance coach of BJJ Globetrotters and also the one guy I was deadly afraid to meet in...
View ArticleEpisode 6: Taking six months off work to go on a Jiu Jitsu trip across the...
Adam, Dee, Lilly and Kobe are not your usual Jiu Jitsu backpackers. They’re a family of four from Australia and they’ve been traveling 6 months across the United States to train Jiu Jitsu in as many...
View ArticleEpisode 7: How to travel off the beaten path – a phone call from the...
Ruadhán from Ireland is an expert in traveling off the beaten path. I caught him for an interview while he was at a Polar Bear safety course in Svalbard, north of the Arctic circle and we had a long...
View ArticleEpisode 8: How to sail the world on cruise ships to train Jiu Jitsu, roll...
I have a visitor on the island who has been working on cruise ships for 18 years and sailed the world, always bringing his gi. We talk about how to roll with strangers when visiting other academies and...
View ArticleEpisode 9: Mike & Rebecca – A life of adventure, frugality and planned...
Mike and Rebecca Sweeney were full time BJJ and MMA instructors, when they decided to stop training, sell their academy and everything else they owned, to buy a boat and sail from Canada to the...
View ArticleEpisode 10: The BJJ Globetrotters Boat – About following a crazy dream,...
Viktor and Dan had a dream since they were kids; buy a boat and sail around the world. This is the 4-year-in-the-making story of how they tried, failed hard and then ultimately succeeded. Enjoy! The...
View ArticleEpisode 11: The story of the BJJ Globetrotters camps, 2018 review and 2019...
In this episode, I talk about the story of how the BJJ Globetrotters camps started and about the background of each of the many camps we do at this point. We also look back at what happened in the BJJ...
View ArticleEpisode 12 – Becoming an instructor at the BJJ Globetrotters camps
Charles Harriott was teaching at his first BJJ Globetrotters camp one year ago. Since then, he has been part of many of our events and in this interview he is telling about his experiences with...
View ArticleEpisode 13 – How Priit Mihkelson from Estonia suddenly became one of the...
If you’re training BJJ and have been online for the last few years, chances are very high that you have come across some of Priit’s recent instructional videos. In this episode, I speak with him about...
View ArticleEpisode 14: A long walk on the beach with Ben Westrich for a talk about...
Quarantine special! The first in a series of podcast episodes I’ll be recording while under lockdown due to the Corona virus. I can’t record at home, so I took a long walk on the beach and called my...
View ArticleEpisode 15: Ordering pizza online for Valerie who got stuck in Kazakstan’s...
Valerie Jean took up a much controversial offer on the Members of BJJ Globetrotters Facebook group to fly to Kazakstan and teach Jiu Jitsu, all inclusive. Those who were nervous for her to get stuck...
View ArticleEpisode 16: Heather quit her office job, bought an old VW bus, drove it...
In this episode, I talk with Heather Raftery about how she quit her office job to become a Jiu Jitsu Gypsy, living in a 50 year old Volkswagen bus and training Jiu Jitsu full time. We also talk about...
View ArticleEpisode 17: Bobby and Amanda started BJJ program in Moldavian village, now...
In this episode I’m talking with Bobby and Amanda McMasters who I met in Romania during my trip around the world back in 2011. They had volunteered through the Peace Corps and Bobby had been setting up...
View ArticleEpisode 18: A talk in the forest with Chris Haueter on tribalism, hierarchy,...
Chris Haueter has had a big influence on my Jiu Jitsu and even on the creation and philosophy of BJJ Globetrotters. I sat with him in the forest at our camp in Maine and had a little chat about random...
View ArticleEpisode 19: How David from Canada used Matsurfing to go on an epic trip...
Matsurfing is couchsurfing style network for Jiu Jitsu travelers and it is—unknown to many—actually how the idea of BJJ Globetrotters started out in the very beginning. It’s a little corner of our...
View ArticleEpisode 20: The 10th anniversary of BJJ Globetrotters!
It’s been 10 years since I sketched out a logo for a patch idea and BJJ Globetrotters came into existence. We celebrate that with a special episode where community members are “calling in” from many...
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