Yuri Simoes is a two time ADCC World Championship, a two-time IBJJF black belt Absolute No-Gi World Champion, and a two-time Pan American Champion. In our chat we go deep into developing the motivation required to train at such a high level, recovering from 2 horrific knee injuries and winning ADCC, the importance of self defense training, how he took down a Olympic Judo champion in … [Read more...]
Training with BJJ World Champions
This episode of The Strenuous Life Podcast started out so well! After debating the plot holes in The Last Jedi we moved on to discuss the role that Rob and leglocks played in the training camp for ADCC champion Yuri Simoes. Also we touched on what makes multiple time BJJ World Champion Caio Terra so damn good. But then things went off the rails and we pissed off leftists, rightists, geeks, … [Read more...]