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Matheus Diniz is a rising star in the world of BJJ. He is a Brown Belt training at Marcelo Garcia's academy.  On Saturday 9-27-2014 he won the Pans nogi, Brown belt in the heavyweight division.

In this interview we talk about

• What it is like to train at Marcelo Garcia's acdemy
• Winning the Pans on 9-27-2014
• Why it is important for him to have exciting fights
• His training schedule
• What makes MGinaction such a great environment
• Advice for a first time competitor
• What he was like as a blue belt
• What happened in his first 2 BJJ matches
• What he does before a match
• Advice for developing a game plan
• What it means to "start the match" and "always move forward"
• Advice for people during their first year of BJJ

Matheus Diniz is sponsored by MGinAction.com

Matheus Diniz Facebook page

Quote of the week: "Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you will be among the stars" Bernardo Faria

Article of the week: "When Hugs Get Dangerous: Guys Rolling w/ Women" by Jesse J. Saxon

The BjjBrick Podcast is in iTunes, and Stitcher radioBernardo Faria is one of the top BJJ black belt competitors on the mat today.  He credits a lot of his success not to being talented but to training very hard everyday.  He is currently training and teaching at Marcelo Garcia's Academy. Look for him this October competing in Worlds No-Gi, IBJJF PRO and NY PRO.

Bernardo talks about:

• His early training and school
• Teaching and training hard for competition
• Training with Marcelo Garcia
• Why he is able to put all his effort and determination in a match
• Why he likes his half guard so much
• His deep half guard dvd that will be released soon
• His short term and long term goals
• Focusing on doing your best and not focusing on winning
• How he gets ready before a match
• His omoplata and why he goes 100% for the submission and not the sweep
• His very first BJJ match
• Advice for someone doing their 1st tournament
• What he was like as a blue belt (his longest belt)
• Why it is important to develop you own game
• Why you should set your own goals
• Traits he likes to see in his students
• His matches with Rodolfo Vieira

Contact info Bernardo Faria on facebook page here

More info on Bernardo's Deep Half Guard DVD!!

Quote of the week: "train hard fight easy" this quote was presented by Yuri Simoes

Article of the week: Teamquestmma.net "8 Tips For Teaching Kids Martial Arts"

The BjjBrick Podcast is in iTunes, and Stitcher radio Yuri Simões is one of the top competitors at the heavyweight division in BJJ.  He is competing for the Caio Terra Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Association.  He has been doing BJJ for 13 years, compeating for most of it.In this interview Yuri Simões talks about:

• His main goal of becoming a black belt world champion
• Starting Jiu-Jitsu at the age of 7
• Overcoming his rough start at competition as a kid
• His training habits
• Competing with an injury
• His last competition at worlds
• His two wins over Rafael Lovato Jr
• A Metamoris Match between Simões and Lovato Jr
• His dreams to compete in ADCC and Abu Dhabi Pro
• The possibilities of doing MMA in the future
• How he will change his focus when transitioning to MMA
• His first year in the black belt division facing many guys he looked up to
• He has learned more about Jiu-jitsu since he has got his black belt than before the black belt
• Why he is always learning and expanding his Jiu-jitsu

Contact Yuri Simões

• Like Yuri Simões Facebook page
• Yuri Simões website
• Yuri Simões instagram

Quote of the week: "ABC always be choking" Brian Marvin

Article of the week:  "7 people you meet training bjj"

The BjjBrick Podcast is in iTunes, and Stitcher radioBrian Marvin is a 1st Degree Black Belt under Master Carlos Gracie Jr.  This interview is packed full of great advice for the new grappler and the experienced competitor alike.  Professor Brian Marvin has recently opened a Gracie Barra School in Sugar Land Tx. This interview we talk about:

• His early days of training (BJJ and MMA)
• His smashing and attacking style
• ABC (Always Be Choking)
• How he developed his style of BJJ
• Teaching the BJJ kids program
• His new academy in Sugar Land Tx, a suburb of Huston
• His goal to be a BJJ World Champion
• Why he learned so much when he started teaching BJJ
• Why you should be keeping a note book
• Why he will mentally review his game plan before a competition
• How to get better when you are only training with lower ranked students
• How he has been doing the same basic techniques since he was a white and blue belt
• A common mistake made by new students
• How to improve your specific game
• Why new students should set small goals for BJJ
• Tips for doing the omoplata

Quote of the week: In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali, I didn't have any fear. I thought, 'This is easy. This is what I've been waiting for'. No fear at all. No nervousness. And I lost.

Article of the week: Train or contact Brian Marvin

• Gracie Barra Sugar Land Website 
• Sugar Land Facebook page
• Email info@gbsugarland.com

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This week we have our first repeat guest Roy Marsh from Sandhills Jiu-Jitsu. Roy is a Black Belt under Royce Gracie. He has been training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu since 2001.  In this episode we talk about learning other martial arts and training Jiu-Jitsu.  He gives lots of great advice and he may just change the way you thing about the martial arts.

Some of the martial arts we talk about in this episode

• Hapkido
• Judo
• Muay Thai
• Taekwondo
• Boxing
• Wrestling
• Karate
• Kung Fu
• Fencing
• MMA
• and more

Quote of the week: "Iron sharpens iron. So that one man sharpens another. I think that it is very true. If you are not in a training environment where you are getting smacked in the head, you are getting tapped out, you are getting challenged on a daily basis, then you are not getting any better. You’re not improving. Your workout partners are a very important piece of your progression as an athlete and the character that you are building as a person as well. Those are key components and finding that right place is a piece of it.”
Randy Couture “Wrestling For Fighting”

Article of the week: How to Accelerate Your Brazilian Jiujitsu (BJJ) Game By Brandon Groce From appliedmma.com

Lots of great BJJ and MMA information at http://www.roymarshjiujitsu.com/  Email Roy at roymarshjiujitsu@gmail.com

Epi 17 Interview with BJJ Black Belt Roy Marsh

Epi 16 Brian Freeman- Training BJJ with a T4 Spinal Cord Injury