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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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E063: Paul Caswell - Black Belt

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2025/02/08

Paul Caswell is living the dream! Having started Lau Gar Kung Fu in his 20's, he now trains Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and has recently been promoted to Black Belt. Paul is incredibly intentional in all of his jiu jitsu practice, and shares some of the detail that has got him to where he is today.We talk about the benefits of using the Kata gatame in the game, and ways that Paul records and measures his progress, gaps and skills in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Exploring how he approaches competition, and some of

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E062: Natalie Day - Black Belt

JIU JITSU Lou ·

2025/02/01

Natalie Day is a Mum of two, and a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Black Belt who shares her story from being a Social Worker, feeling lonely and having not yet discovered her tribe, through finding her calling, to now having found human connection and growth in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.Natalie took the brave step in giving up her career as a Social Worker, to go all in on learning how to teach jiu jitsu. Having a dedication to serving people, and especially young people is what Natalie focuses her energy on, not

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E061: Professor Salvo Pace - Black Belt

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2025/01/25

Professor Salvo joins me to talk about jiu jitsu for community, and welcoming new students. Travelling around the UK, and all over the World to teach, or train Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is something that grows our game, both in the art and in life.Progressing skills in Jiu Jitsu, is done by training more jiu jitsu is very wise advice shared by Salvo in this episode, and whilst we can find ways to enhance our own health, training jiu jitsu is the only thing that is going to make us better. Salvo talks

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E060: Jolie Boyle - Black Belt

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2025/01/18

Jolie joined a Women's Open Mat at the age of 33, and is now a Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu having had an amazing journey. She shares her experience of training, and testing her jiu jitsu at both open mats and competitions.Getting through sad times in life has been helped by training jiu jitsu for Jolie. Over time, she has increased her ability to listen and act upon intuition, as much for life in general as well as for jiu jitsu. Jolie shares heartbreaking stories of the domestic abuse she

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E059: James Gwinnett - Blue Belt

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2025/01/11

James Gwinnett is now a Blue Belt, who needed a new challenge when he started training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Having spent years doing Ultra Marathons, it was seeing and hearing Tom Hardy competing, and describing how life changing BJJ was in dealing with addiction. James was inspired to begin his journey of sobriety back in 2013, after a number of years of heavy addiction and depression due to injury, and began long distance running.As a new parent, James now balances his family life with regularly

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E058: Craig Young - Black Belt

JIU JITSU Lou ·

2025/01/04

Craig Young is a Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu having started training by-chance. Craig shares that very first experience; all the bad, and all the learning. Finding an outlet for his mental health was supported with training jiu jitsu regularly, and now has an incredible amount of focus, dedication and gratitude for competition.Moving gyms as a new Black Belt, can be intimidating. Craig talks about joining Checkmat Essex, with Spencer Hewitt, and being welcomed by everyone at the gym. Craig has

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E057: Mike Leng - Blue Belt

JIU JITSU Lou ·

2024/12/28

Mike started martial arts as a child, albeit 'McDojo' martial arts, and it wasn't until he first experienced UFC that his love for the all-round approach of martial arts came into play. Mike took a period of 8 years out of training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu due to life experiences, and now trains as a Blue Belt at Stealth Teesside.Being a Nutritionist for the last 16 years, Mike now serves Athletes and Hobbyists in the world of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. We discuss the importance of health and nutrition for

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E056: Simon Morgan - Black Belt

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2024/12/21

Simon Morgan is a Black Belt and has just returned to training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu from an Arthroscopy, and a bit of an ACL repair, and he shares his experience of his last 15 years practicing the art, for Simon, BJJ is a way of life.Attending 40+ BJJ events gives Simon the opportunity to keep hold of his limbs and not get injured as much! Seeing friends and having fun really is a priority at these type of Open Mats and Seminars.Simon has the open-mindedness to want to learn from everyone, even as a

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E055: Dan Lester - Purple Belt

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2024/12/14

Dan Lester is a Purple Belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and started his martial arts journey back in 2014, during the time of the infamous Ice Bucket Challenge. One of Dan's specialism is leg locks, and combining that with his mission to support a mental health charity with seminars and open mats, he really is doing amazingly.We talk about Blue Belts being the 'Buffet Belt', where one might have a little go at everything, and it's not until the Purple Belt where one might skip warmups, and be found

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E054 Julia Scardone Livesey - Brown Belt

JIU JITSU Lou ·

2024/12/07

Julia Scardone Livesey is an icon in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and Judo in the UK. She now is moving to Thailand to continue her journey, along with the rest of her family. Julia shares her competition story, which began back in Brazil as a child. We talk about competing, winning or losing and the benefits of testing out your BJJ skills, together with some of the barriers that are faced when taking part in competitions.Bringing high level women, that train Brazilian Jiu Jitsu together was the initial aim

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E053 Zoë Lundy - Purple Belt

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2024/11/30

Zoë is a Purple Belt who eats, sleeps and breathes Jiu Jitsu. She started Judo as a kid, and has since overcome the frustration of learning Brazilian Jiu Jitsu at the beginning as she observed no purpose to it all. Zoë has an incredible confidence in her standup game from her Judo experience and she also has incredible skills at taking the back. Her goal is to be a well-rounded fighter.Having a coach is an integral part of the journey for Zoë. Leigh Remedios has contributed a significant number of

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E052: Spencer Hewitt - Black Belt

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2024/11/23

Spencer is now a third degree Black Belt after starting martial arts during his childhood, and ended up injuring his back boxing, losing his muscle strength until he started training and sparring in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Spencer shares the challenges of going from being very active and physical, to losing his confidence, a drop in mental health, and changing careers.The story of learning to deal with customers, especially in retail has served Spencer in dealing with individuals joining his BJJ

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