The Quest To Finally Master Leglocks

I'm going to hang out with Mateusz Straczynski , Straczynski , straczynski , hang out with Mateusz Szczecinski , szczecinski , szczecinski , so his last name implies that his family is from Szczecin , which is the home city of my wife , szczecin and he's , which is in the far , far west of Poland , it's an hour and a bit from Berlin .

And also his coach , camille Wilk , who's also a beast leg locker , and they're doing it . They're doing it at Absolute MMA in Melbourne . And guess who else is going to be there ? Joseph Chen oh yeah , might have heard of him . And obviously Lockie and Levi and all the other bad mofos going to be there , mikhail , like , it's great .

And so I'm super excited because it's three days , it's a , it's a two a day over three days , kind of thing . Poland seems

to have a very , seems to punch above its weight , I mean actually , no , it's kind of silly because their population be much larger than ours .

No , I don't not necessarily like poland's relatively , relatively small compared the rest of europe , right , in terms of landmass , there were times in history but their population , sure , it's more than they took over the whole map . Like you know , these fucking tiny european countries have a hundred million people . We've got this huge country like 25 million people .

Yeah , and , and the thing is the truth is I don't , we should , I should have googled that . I don't know the population of pol . My wife will kill me right now . Chuck it in , chuck it in , okay , but anyway , seems to be like a lot of really high level Polish grapplers . Yeah , I mean , adam Wazinski comes from Poland . He's Polish , right ?

Yes , he's a multiple time champion now . Yeah , he seems to win a bunch of shit . Yeah , man , we , yeah man . We met him at the ADCC in 2019 , him and his partner , and he just looked like a porn star , because he didn't have the full beard , he just had the mustache and the long blonde hair . He just looked like a 70s boy . He's such a lovely guy .

He , um , at world's no gi . He's a brown belt and he trains from gorilla . Gorilla MMA , uh , which is in Warsaw . I've been to their gym . Um , the gentlemen's . The young gentleman's name escapes me . I'm finding it now oh , pavel Javorski . He's a beast .

Yeah , wow , uh and so , uh , and so why are these guys doing a Leglock camp at Absolute , like what's the connect ? They did a Leglock camp with Owen Flanagan as well . They did one in Europe , I don't know . They're just on a bit of a tour , I believe , and they obviously got some good shit . They got some great shit .

And I think the great thing about Lockie is , even though he is really good at Leglocks , he's like well , what you guys working on ? Because they , oh right , he beat Levi in Polaris . He's the Polaris champ , right , and so it's like what a great way for Levi to get better , to get that guy in and for them to have leg lock battles , yeah Right .

Also , joseph Chen will be there . Now some people say they didn't give Joseph enough rest when Levi beat Joseph . Yeah , so they're saying maybe Joseph Chen got unfairly done by when did Levi beat him At Polaris ? They had like a tournament thing . Yeah , okay .

And they're saying that , yeah , maybe he wasn't rested enough and Levi got his back and it was kind of all over him . Levi was rested , joseph was not . But I think what's great about getting so many good people together is you just get a crazy fusion of learning , like

you know , provided everyone's open to sharing . We've seen J-Rod training with Tynan Dalpera . I recently saw Lucas Lepre training with Tynan Dalpera . Is Lepre still in there doing the thing ?

No , he's retired , but you could probably see him pop out for a super fight or something the greatest middleweight with one of the greatest lightweights of all time and have them sparring together . It's crazy . It'd be awesome to see Lepre do like a who's number one or some shit . Yeah , for sure , and what I ?

I saw the opportunity and I'm like these guys are the absolute best at what they do in the world . Three days with these guys , just two days . I actually I pick up a lot from that .

I think the benefit , the reason why I wanted to talk about this , is and I think people have been changing the format of a seminar Now I've talked shit about seminars in the past .

I think we both said that it's hard to gain real insight from just two hours with a world champion , cause they might just be showing some some stuff that you're like oh , this isn't relevant to me , I don't know what this is . And you meet them .

You take the photo , like when I went to the Lucas Lepre seminar , well , it was fucking sick , but I remember nothing , nothing , and at the time I was like I'm having a real hard time with this . But Lucas has a very slow cadence as well .

He's a very , but also he's so fucking high level in the game that you're like there was like 37 steps , yes , to this part , every little grip , and yeah , it's so perfect . But yeah , yeah , that's right , we have been critical because it , because it is well , it's a big part of the jujitsu economy that um , jujitsu um pros make money off a seminar tour .

Yeah , especially if you just want a big championship , right , yeah , especially if you just won a big championship , right , yeah , that's how you're going to make your money for the year . You can do 20 seminars , however many thousands of dollars per seminar . That's how you get your money .

Kind of like a recording artist , you don't necessarily make money off the album , you make money off the tour . But the question is , how effective is it as a learning tool ? What I really liked about this setup is it's a morning session and an evening session , three days . Yeah , that's good .

And so , yeah , there's rolling , there's specific training and you're getting input from a few different people and with a lot of high level people on the mat . I'm fucking pumped for it . Yeah , that'd be sick . I got a secret . You know what that secret is ? It's this , my friends , it's electrolytes .

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What like for my learning style and I think you're better . Like you know , you are an encyclopedia when it comes to jiu-jitsu , but for my learning style

, I would like if I'll do morning and evening for three days , I would almost like to cover only like the same thing , one or maybe two things . So it's like hey , for the first three sessions , we're just doing this . Yeah , and so you just get the second more reps , third session more . You know , I love that idea . I always believe that less is more .

Yeah , you know , yeah , I think and I I think this probably comes from coaching experience , because you've said this before um , you mentioned this when you , I think you , did the range of strength seminar that what you also liked about it was that he didn't over coach . I think you , you , that was like a strong thing .

I remember from that that you like that he allows people to try a thing before he even said , you know , like cause I might do it really well , so he doesn't need to say anything , and then he can kind of observe people's success and failure and go from there .

And and I think , if you've been in the coaching game for a while , like just detailing and explaining to the nth degree doesn't guarantee that the person's going to do it better . Like letting people try the thing and fuck up is a really good way to then guide them . Yeah , but for me , I just want to roll with those motherfuckers .

I just want to roll , joseph Chen , so I can be like yeah , okay , here's the truth , or I'm making a comeback . Folks , well , I totally am .

I'm so back , but no , I want to feel , because I've observed these guys on the internet Like God , they look like savages , right , but I just for me , there's some truth in rolling a person that you can learn a lot from .

Are they really aggressive , or are they really calm , or you know how smooth are their transitions for you to just go , it really does translate to you understanding them as a jujitsu person , and so that's what I'm excited for , as much as the learning . I want to hang out with those super killers and just just fucking copper feel .

I want to see you get highlighted . I'm going to be so highlighted , bro joseph chen media team , please highlight this motherfucker . No , it'll be easy . If man , if kid dale's still in town , I will be memed hard . Oh , he's been . He's been in melbourne , he's been at absolute training a bit , which is cool , which is nice , like kid's a .

And so Kit is the king of just catching people in bad moments , like Craig definitely modeled himself on Kit , because Kit just always just would just catch in a bad moment and keep it and then make a meme out of you . This is before Instagram , you know , but no , it's going to be exciting . I'm excited to report back .

So , leglock Camp , if you're interested , if you're in Australia or you're in Melbourne , you're thinking about it , I will be there . Come watch me get highlight reeled by the best . When is it ? It is on May 3rd , 4th and 5th . I believe it's the first weekend in May . How about that ?

Yeah , I'm pumped for it Like I haven't done a jiu-jitsu camp or seminar for ages . You know , it seems like a good point for me

to mention I'm actually doing a three-day workshop myself next month . Ooh , do tell A Japanese joinery . Oh , totally unrelated , I'm going to learn how to make a box . Ooh , with , like handmade dove or you know , people are just like what the fuck ? The engagement just drops , you know .

So in Japanese joinery they have a type of joint called splicing joints , which I told you about , where they connect shorter lengths of timber to make a longer length .

Yeah , which we don't really have a name for that in Western joinery , because we just use a longer piece of timber , right , right , Whereas they would I want to really waste exactly bits , yeah , and so they're . They're the really intricate joints of , because you're trying to connect two beams to make a structure that's still strong .

So they've got these really fun joints , right , as you've seen , we share them with each other all the time . Yeah , it's mad . So the box the guy's gonna teach to make a box using those joints , oh , like a bit of a test tester .

Well , yeah , and so it's like a lot of high level mark , like marking and measuring and cutting and whatnot Precision , yeah , but you , but it's , you know , still like a nice little fucking box for your pen and pencil or whatever . Nah , it's so cool . I'll report back , guys .

Yeah , yeah , I'm going to leg lock Joey and he's going to give me a gift of a box . Happy days . But no , I'm keen to report back . We'll do an episode about the joinery . I'll do an episode about the lack of joint integrity that I will now suffer , but no , I'm pumped for

it . It's good to be back . I'm so back That'd be sick , fuck yeah , it must be nice for you two to catch up with Lockie . Yeah , I'm going to have a talk to him about the Giles trials oh yeah , which is exciting and more about Team Australia . So we'll get some insight from that . Fuck yeah , fuck yeah . There it is , folks , choo you .