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JIU JITSU Lou

Welcome to the Jiu Jitsu Lou Podcast, the show in which I discuss the challenges and successes from the best in the world of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.So, to inspire you, and make you feel more confident in starting or continuing with your jiu jitsu journey, I will be chatting with those personalities and brands we may have heard of before, but don"t really know what goes on before they get to the mats!It takes someone like you to even think about starting in this sport, so come and follow my personal

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E083: Corey Pickard - Purple Belt

JIU JITSU Lou ·

2025/06/28

Corey Pickard, better known as 'BigRed' has recently returned from training with 10th Planet, and getting engaged to his beautiful fiancé Lucie in Las Vegas. He shares his story and how he managed being romantic, and training BJJ on the same holiday!Corey has appeared on a few Invitationals, and has now been bumped up to Main Card, with the other Corey in the Battle of The Corey's in the upcoming Grapple Worlds. Back in his Blue Belt days he began to fall out of love with Jiu Jitsu until he stated

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E082: Kevin Johnson- Brown Belt

JIU JITSU Lou ·

2025/06/21

Kevin Johnson is a Brown Belt based out of Tennessee, and started out in martial arts with his brother after watching the UFC legend Royce Gracie. Due to lack of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu schools back then, they started MMA, which later lead onto BJJ. Kevin shares his experience of working in Law Enforcement and having a Jiu Jitsu mindset. Growing up as one of six siblings, Kevin shares his experience, and now as a family man, juggling life, teaching and training Jiu Jitsu.Facing adversity is part of many

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E081: Corey Kent - Purple Belt

JIU JITSU Lou ·

2025/06/14

Corey is 100% a fan of meeting new people in the sport of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, even more so now he has embarked on his BJJ Referee journey. Corey recalls the early days of his Purple Belt promotion, his match losses and not quite feel worthy at that point. He has grown a great deal in Jiu Jitsu, and learnt things like patience and discipline to apply back to the rest of his life.Corey shares his first experience as a supervised referee after scoring highly on the Level 3 UKBJJA Referee Course, and

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E080: Kerry Poulter - Purple Belt

JIU JITSU Lou ·

2025/06/07

Kerry is a Purple Belt, a BJJ Coach, a Mum and works full-time. She shares how she is inspired by her daughter, and also shares the horrific experience of being a held hostage at gun point in one of her first jobs in Banking.Feelings of despair and anxiety can take hold of any of us. Kerry shares overcoming feelings of this type, and doing the hard stuff in life, like training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Building up her resilience helped Kerry have the awareness of behaviours when meeting her biological

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E079: Neil Walker - Purple Belt

JIU JITSU Lou ·

2025/05/31

Neil Walker is Purple Belt, has been an avid martial arts fan for years, and started with a Yoga based Kung Fu and MMA, before progressing through Traditional and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Neil shares his story of having not just one, but two heart attacks at a young age.Describing himself as an Enthusiastic Hobbyist is the tone Neil now sets for himself. Being mindful of keeping his heartrate in check and keeping training on the mats for as long as possible. We talk about the importance of Strength and

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E078: Dr Jen Case - Black Belt

JIU JITSU Lou ·

2025/05/24

Dr Jen Case, or Dr Jen Jitsu has an incredible repertoire of academic and sports accolades. Dr Jen set out to solve her own problems in weight cutting and nutrition whilst being an MMA Fighter. She now works with all athletes as a qualified professional. She made a significant change in her attitude, and life experience when a coach noticed her potential and offered her the opportunity to be not just good, but great!Listen and learn about the complexities of glass blowing, and the parallel

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E077: Ollie Kelly - Purple Belt

JIU JITSU Lou ·

2025/05/17

Ollie Kelly is Purple Belt, and more than that, is fully responsible for me starting my journey in the sport of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Ollie has always been a fighting sports fan and took part in Judo and Boxing in his early school life, growing up in France. Having children, and seeing the benefit that Jiu Jitsu brings them, encourages us as adults to also start training.Progressing through the early white belt days, especially being age thirty or over, brings its's own challenge, not least thinking

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E076: Dr Christle Guevarra - White Belt

JIU JITSU Lou ·

2025/05/10

Christle Guevarra is a White Belt, and was very much a car forum kinda girl with her Subaru back in the 90's, and was encouraged by a now Black Belt to start training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu over 10 years ago. It has taken that amount of time for Christle to decide to giving it a go, and even now she's already competed twice in the last year, with a huge amount of fun and drive for life on the mats.Christle shares her practice of the solo sport of powerlifting, and the transition through life to Jiu

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E075: Graham Hill - White Belt

JIU JITSU Lou ·

2025/05/03

Graham Hill is a White Belt, and trains at Grow Jiu Jitsu in Bicester having transitioned from running, to focus on developing his strength now with Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. His first introduction to martial arts was Muay Thai, which seemed to suit the first transition to growing strength. We talk about mindfulness as a practice to ground in the moment, and also meditation in the form of repeatedly drilling mindfulness, which does resonate with the practice of jiu jitsu.Using techniques to improve our

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E074: Sula-Mae Loewenthal - Black Belt

JIU JITSU Lou ·

2025/04/26

Sula-Mae Loewenthal launches straight in to talk about her win at ADCC Trials in 2024. She shares her emotional challenges along the way to her recent Black Belt promotion, and is certainly not shy about being on the big stage.Sula-Mae talks about going from anxiety to pure flow state, and being completely focused to win.The strategic mindset, and thinking that Sula-Mae shares is something to be admired, in addition to her overwhelming dream sense of winning. Be prepared to immerse yourself in a

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E073: Ange Taylor - Purple Belt

JIU JITSU Lou ·

2025/04/19

Ange Taylor makes a second appearance on the show, and this time opens up about her competition and life experience in the last year. Taking steps to be independent can be a challenge later in life, and Ange shares how much she has achieved, and overcome.Dealing with past trauma can be difficult for anyone, Ange shares how resilient she has been and her courage to work through the road of healing. Knowing that Jiu Jitsu is her safe space, gives Ange the ability to breakthrough her deep anxiety, and

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E072: Andy Chapman - Black Belt

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2025/04/12

Andy Chapman is a Black Belt and trains twice a day every day, and this has been the same for the last 10 years. Andy shares his competition mindset, and also the business growth of Team Ryano Limavady in Northern Ireland.Andy talks with compassion for bringing BJJ hobbyists along with the club, and the importance of making everyone feel the energy where they feel welcome and wish to stay, and continue their own journey for a long time.Finding similar grade, weight and age competitors to yourself,

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E071: Cara Waller - Purple Belt

JIU JITSU Lou ·

2025/04/05

Cara Waller is a Purple Belt and talks of her experience in being part of competition team, and the value it brings, not just to her level of competition but also of her mental health and wellbeing. She is very reflective and mindful, observing and aware of her own performance, compassion and fighting spirit. We discuss the self-talk that can affect us as Jiu Jitsu practitioners, and those of us that experience anxiety.Cara opens up about her growth and awareness around her own ADHD diagnosis, and

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E070: Frankie Lee Monaghan - Yellow Belt

JIU JITSU Lou ·

2025/03/29

Frankie Lee Monaghan is a Yellow Belt, and joins me with her Dad, Kevin. Frankie shares her lack of confidence before starting Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and the challenges with being bullied. It wasn't until a School Sports Week that Frankie was introduced to Jiu Jitsu, that her life changed for the better.Kevin her Dad, echoes Frankie's resilience and tenacity for life, as well as the heartbreaking story of noticing Frankie's sadness during the period of bullying at school. Frankie now has high

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E069: Lillie Marlow - Yellow Belt

JIU JITSU Lou ·

2025/03/22

Lillie Marlow is a Yellow Belt, and joins me with her Mum, Kayley whom I first met when speaking to Olivia Marlow on Episode 20. Lillie shares the story of when she started training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu at the age of 6, and how fun and cool it was, an how the last 7 years have progressed.International competitions are common place for The Marlow's, and Mum Kayley is a pro at organisation, and is very well placed to support Lillie in her competitive growth. Lillie shares her guard game, in Worm Guard

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E068: Taya Jones - Yellow Belt

JIU JITSU Lou ·

2025/03/15

Taya Jones is a Yellow Belt, and a Gracie Barra Ambassador for 2025. Taya joins me with her Mum, Danielle who sounds like she does a great deal for Taya, together with her Dad. We talk about competition, and competing in a kids Absolute with all different weights and belts. Taya talks of the challenges in fighting competitors who are smaller and faster than her.Danielle, her Mum shares the story of the application process, and the seminar when Taya was told that she had been selected to be a Gracie

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E067: Georgina Victoria Stanciu - White Belt

JIU JITSU Lou ·

2025/03/08

Georgina Stanciu is based in Spain and, wow, what an incredible woman! Georgina shares starting Brazilian Jiu Jitsu when her son started around a year ago, and as well as growing her skills, she has overcome the fear of people touching her, to the point of hating having beauty treatments, and her hair done. She now gets completely undone regularly with training and preparing competing in the sport.We didn't acknowledge Georgina's pup Macken (named by Georgina's son, after Chris Macken

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E066: Rich Thompson - Black Belt

JIU JITSU Lou ·

2025/03/01

Rich Thompson, First Degree Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is all about consistency and resilience. Starting out being inspired by Jean-Claude Van Damme back in the day, with karate and body building. Rich's take on building skills and improving is another level, he describes stacking and layering skills.Working on your mindset, and focusing on gratitude is of high priority to Rich and his continued success in competitive Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. When there are elements of your jiu jitsu game that

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E065: Vanessa English - Black Belt

JIU JITSU Lou ·

2025/02/22

Vanessa English, aka 'Jiu jitsu Woman' is taking things more slowly, as she is recovering from her latest ACL surgery. This isn't her first rodeo, and she shares some fantastic advice on how to prepare and recover in the most effective way.She is a woman on a mission to return to competing, and sparring with intensity, despite her surgeries, tattoos and a not so recent growth into adulthood! We talk about the intensity of competition, and the variety of intensity as one progresses through the

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E064: Enea Lapa - Black Belt

JIU JITSU Lou ·

2025/02/15

Enea Lapa, also known as BJJ Comedy, has recently been promoted to Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. He started Jiu Jitsu just to find a way to stay in shape as a twentysomething. As like many of us, Enea went into his first class thinking he could beat most guys in the room, of course this wasn't the case!Jiu Jitsu has changed Enea's life from many perspectives, and has always used his determination to keep going. The mindset he shares is that training and competing at Jiu Jitsu is not going to be

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