THE BASICS
Today’s guest is Eli Knight, who is a BJJ black belt, instructor and YouTube coach who has an awesome YouTube channel which showcases Jiu-Jitsu Technique videos as well as techniques and concepts to help in the areas of both Self-Defense and Sport.
In this interview, we cover his story, how to use BJJ for self-defence, how to cut the learning curve in martial arts, how to be the best student you can be, the benefits of BJJ and so much more. I am a massive fan of Eli and his videos really helped me when I was starting out in BJJ and it was an honour to feature him.
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WHAT WE COVER
In this interview, we discuss gems like:
- Who he is and what the lure of martial arts was for him
- How Eli used martial arts as an outlet to help him deal with some traumatic events
- The use of BJJ as a self defence
- Where modern guys are going wrong with how they deal with stress and trauma in their life
- The true fundamentals of fighting and how things change depending on number of opponents, situation, weapons etc.
- How can you adapt gym BJJ to be used in the street to defend yourself
- Are there universal concepts of when to do x or utilise Y or is BJJ a fluid art that is consistently changing from situation to situation
- How and when the different still of chokes should be used
- Are there must learn techniques that all men should know to be able to defend themselves?
- How can you teach BJJ to different types of people with different experience, different body forms
- What has helped him in speeding up his skill development the most
- Is social media a good thing for BJJ teaching or does it open up beginners to people who are fraudulent or unsuitable teachers
- How can you learn to use your aggression when it is needed – how to know when to use it and how to use it
- His opinion on the recent celebrity surge doing BJJ
- How can you become the best BJJ student possible
- How do you learn to stop judging yourself and comparing yourself to others
- What else should we be doing in addition to learning and developing on the mats?
- What he has learnt from becoming a father
- The Fast-Break questions make a return!
- What does he want people to take from this interview
- How you can keep in touch with him and his current projects
SOME THINGS TO REFLECT ON
In this interview, a lot of jewels of self-improvement are discussed. Some of these and their associated thoughts include:
- Training a martial art can help you learn about yourself and help you deal with difficult times in their life and how to deal with the anxiety and stress. Training a martial art can help you be able to view life in different ways and to be able to understand life in a deeper way as well as better confidence and self-esteem and be a badass who can defend himself … a win-win situation!
- Check in with a friend, especially someone you haven’t spoken to in a while or someone who has had a rough time recently. Make sure they know they are not alone.
- BJJ is necessary for fighting, it is one of the most important skills to know, especially if weapons are involved too. Unfortunately we are nearly all going to encounter some level of violence in our lives. By training a martial arts, you are able to keep level headed, control the situation, defend yourself etc.
- Situational awareness is a good skill to develop but ‘crazy things happen’, you need to be able to defend yourself if things happen, you do not always get a chance to remove yourself from the situation.
- If you are struggling to keep motivated in class, find a new way to love the technique again, learn to look for little changes and improvements, change the focus
- Don’t do something just because your hero is doing it, do it because you can transform and evolve from doing it. Get the inspiration from your hero but do the action because it will benefit you.
- It is OK to use other people as a bench mark for pushing yourself but you need to realise more likes or being a faster learner etc does not make them better than youl. We all learn at different rates, you are on your own journey, you only fail if you give up. Keep going and you will hit those goals you seek.
- Change your mentality, remove the negative way of seeing things. Instead of ‘I have to’ or ‘I need to’, instead think ‘I get to’ or ‘I have the chance to’ instead. Stop doing shit you hate, find out what you love and figure out a way to do it.
- ‘Fall in love with the process rather than the result’ and you motivation will remain a lot longer
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