I can imagine that being in combat, your ability to hold your own in all kinds of engagements is a consideration? 1 activity that I could recommend to someone to improve their lives overall. So it’s a very good all-around physical conditioning tool.
You want to have explosive energy and you want to have endurance. You want to be strong for it and flexible for it. Jiu Jitsu is a great workout both mentally and physically. How did practicing Jiu Jitsu add to your life? He’s a big 14-year-old, so we can get at it. I have a son, and he has been training almost from birth. I see kids who are five years old, one guy who just started and he’s 72 years old. What kinds of people do you see at your gym? I have been doing that for the last 25 years. Right after that I went down to that gym, signed up for classes, and started going two or three times a day. He showed up at my house after three years of training and asked if I wanted to spar. One of my friends, Jeff Higgs, another Navy SEAL, found a gym in San Diego and started training for real. When did you end up furthering that initial training? People were still paying to go to a traditional dojo to meditate and hit boards that weren’t hitting back. Mixed martial arts in general were pretty hidden from the general public. It was probably 10 moves in total that he was using, and that is all it took for him to destroy us like we were children. He took us and taught us a few of the basic moves including the rear naked choke, the armbar, the guard, and the mount. He was probably in his forties and a high-level white belt, which at the time meant that he could beat anybody, because nobody knew anything about it.
That SEAL master chief had actually trained with the legendary Gracies in their original gym in Torrance, California. Now Willink has his own gym, Victory MMA and Fitness, where he trains Jiu Jitsu not only as a combat system, but also as the ultimate tool for personal betterment - a subject he’ll elaborate on this week as a guest of director Peter Berg’s Wild Card West Boxing Club’s Call & Answer speaker series.Ĭan you speak more on that first experience you had with Jiu Jitsu? ALSO: CrossFit's Navy SEAL Workout Read article
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