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Interview with Piet Wilhelm

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Interview with Piet Wilhelm

Fellow Renato Tavares black belt, Piet Wilhelm, talks about his personal journey in the martial arts, current BJJ and shares some helpful training advice with me on the podcast. Starting off your training in grassy fields without a black belt to learn from isn’t most people’s ideal condition. But Piet managed to continue on and now runs a successful gym and affiliation, and he still steps out on the mat to compete.

I hope you guys enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed doing this interview.

New episode of the Matwind Podcast

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My podcast project is still going strong. I recently did an interview with Saulo Black belt Ben Eaton.

In this episode I talk with Saulo Ribeiro black belt, Ben Eaton, and get some of his insights and experiences in BJJ such as. . .

– Starting his training in the midwest without highly skilled instructors.

– Leaving his job as a full time police officer to pursue BJJ.

– Dealing with acl tear that put him on the shelf for nearly 7 months at a time when he felt like he was at the top of his game.

– Tips on how to deal with our egos and frustrations during training.

and a lot more.

Click here! to listen to the episode

Check out the podcast website at www.matwind.com

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I received a great response from the first episode of the podcast so I hope everyone enjoys this one!

As always, thanks for thanks for reading and thanks for listening!

Chewy

 

 

Training with a purpose

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Just finished another interview for the podcast project I have coming up. I’m having so much fun and learning so much about these awesome people. I hope everyone has as much fun listening to these podcast episodes as I’m having making them. The launch date for the podcast is September 1st, 2013 in case you’re interested. Even though the podcast is still a little over a month out, I figured I would take a minute and share 1 little chunk of advice that seems to keep coming up during these interviews, and its something I’ve blogged about before. The reoccurring tip that these black belts talk about when it comes to improving at BJJ is . . .

“to train with a purpose”

I know sometimes its fun to roll and not focus on anything, but If you feel like you’re not growing on the mat or that you are hitting a plateau. Then take some advice from some high level guys and train with a purpose! Give yourself a goal to achieve during your training session, try to hit a new move you’re working on or try and improve the weak areas of your game. If you’re a good bottom guy, try and work your top game. If you’re a good sweeper, try and submit from the bottom. You get the idea. Hitting those goals will build some positive momentum mentally and improve your game by focusing on improving in a particular area.

Hope everyone’s training goes well and I hope you hit whatever goals you set for yourself!