Mat talk with mileage.
The Chewjitsu Podcast treats Brazilian jiu-jitsu as both a sport and a long-running personal practice. Episodes move from technique plateaus and MMA history to aging, kids, injury recovery, sponsor reads, and blunt reflections on gym culture.
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The Chewjitsu Podcast is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu show that sounds less like a studio product and more like experienced grapplers thinking through training out loud. It is warm, direct, and restless. Recent episodes move between practical mat problems, personal reflection, combat-sport history, gym culture, and the everyday business of staying healthy enough to keep training. Improvement is a central concern. The show returns to repetition, deliberate focus, plateaus, open rolling, and the strange way a position can miss the first time and then click much later. It also spends time on the bigger question of what modern jiu-jitsu is becoming. An episode built around Robert Drysdale's new book looks at the split between sport BJJ and MMA, arguing through the tension between competition games and techniques that still make sense when strikes enter the picture. The show is not only technical. A three-part birthday-message series turns a personal newsletter into a long reflection on age, lifestyle, attention, and building a life that fits. Those episodes are loose, candid, and sometimes repetitive in the way spoken advice can be when it is being worked through in real time. Injury and longevity are another major lane. The conversation with Dr. Megan Jimenez brings in the perspective of someone described as a jiu-jitsu black belt, kenpo karate black belt, and orthopedic surgeon, with attention to positions to avoid, warm-ups, rolling safely, training with women, aging, and coming back from injury without repeating the same mistake. The show can get heavier when the culture demands it. In an episode on hero worship and admiration, it addresses sexual misconduct allegations, bad leadership, memes around serious harm, and the difference between respecting skill and excusing behavior. It does not rush to sound definitive. It thinks in loops, qualifies, remembers, and then lands the point. Long sponsor reads are part of the experience, including gear, CBD, CBN, functional mushroom products, balms, and microdose THC mints. That can be a feature or a filter. For listeners who want tight tactical instruction only, the tangents may feel slow. For grapplers who like mat wisdom mixed with stories, recovery talk, old-days nostalgia, and plainspoken opinions about where the sport is headed, it has a lived-in appeal.
Made for: For Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioners who want training advice, injury-aware longevity talk, and honest reflection on gym culture. It especially fits listeners who enjoy conversational episodes that wander from technique into life, aging, and combat-sport history.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by treating jiu-jitsu as a whole lifestyle rather than a collection of moves. Its strongest moments come when personal anecdotes, training problems, sponsor-side realism, and broader cultural questions all sit in the same room.
The Chewjitsu Podcast features your host BJJ Black Belt Nick "Chewy" Albin of chewjitsu.net and his co-host BJJ Black Belt and Physical Therapist Dr. Eugene Tsozik.The show covers topics such as Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, MMA, training, diet, health and injury-prevention, Q&A sessions, and interviews.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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The Chewjitsu Podcast follows Brazilian jiu-jitsu beyond individual techniques, tracking how training shapes competition, recovery, leadership and life away from the mats. Nick "Chewy" Albin and Dr.
This is where your bad tournament becomes a life audit before the bruises fade.
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A grappling podcast turns hiraeth, busy jiu-jitsu rooms, and phone-free time with Luca into a quiet argument for noticing now.
The Jiu-Jitsu Podcast's "The Good Old Days of BJJ" treats nostalgia less as a mood than as a practice: noticing the life that may later feel unreachable while it is still underway.
A clear, balanced look at how competition changed Brazilian jiu-jitsu's relationship to fighting.
The Chewjitsu Podcast uses Robert Drysdale's new book to revisit a durable MMA question: why Brazilian jiu-jitsu has changed so much while wrestling has stayed such a reliable base in rings and cages.
A careful look at how one coach's example can reshape a grappler's standard for leadership.
The Jiu-Jitsu Podcast takes on a hard question inside grappling culture: where admiration ends and hero worship begins. Framed around allegations of sexual misconduct and bad behavior, the host explains why he waited to speak, avoiding the rush to be first or to benefit from…
A candid grappling conversation about finding a game, losing balance, and keeping training in proportion as life changes.
Nathan Orchard's conversation with the host moves from the search for a personal jiu-jitsu game into the harder question of how a person stays steady as training, age, and daily life keep changing.
A grounded jiu-jitsu episode about turning a setback into course correction.
The Jiu-Jitsu Podcast uses a rough competition outing and the grind of training injuries as a way into course correction. The episode stays close to the frustration instead of looking back from a tidy distance, tying recovery to the hope of better performances down the line.
A grounded look at how grappling's discipline can carry into work, learning, and life off the mats.
This episode turns a familiar question about grappling away from the mats into something more personal. Chewie traces how starting at 15 meant wrestling and jiu-jitsu were not just activities but part of growing up, so the lessons are hard to separate from the rest of his life.
Jiu-jitsu stories from beyond the scoreboard.
Mat talk, jokes, and practical jiu-jitsu.
Discipline after the hype fades.
Old-school karate, pressure-tested for real life.
Jiu-jitsu stories from inside the academy.
Blunt BJJ talk for getting less stuck.
Hosts Nick 'Chewy' Albin and Dr.
Interview with Joe Miller, founder of First Optimal, discussing functional medicine, hormone optimization, gut health, and the importance of blood work for effective supplementation.
Host Nick 'Chewy' Albin shares four life lessons learned from 25 years of grappling.
The host shares the final part of a three-part series on a birthday message he would send to his 25-year-old self, including a sponsor segment for THC mints.
The host introduces part two of a birthday message for people in their 20s, but spends most of the time promoting sponsors Epic Roll and Charlotte's Web.
The host shares a birthday message he wishes he received at 25, offering life and lifestyle advice based on his experiences, broken into multiple podcast episodes.
The host discusses reasons why people don't improve in jiu-jitsu, emphasizing the importance of repetition and structuring training for better learning.
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Rob moved out of state, and Chewy says he was one of the guys he wanted to be ready for at ADCC.
Robert Drysdale argues the 1975 rule set rewarded guard work and weakened takedowns.
The Chewjitsu Podcast examines February 2026 allegations of sexual misconduct and other boundary violations in jiu-jitsu, including how close physical contact can obscure intent.
The Chewjitsu Podcast interviews 10th Planet black belt Nathan Orchard about developing a personal jiu-jitsu game, including the accidental creation of the dead orchard.
The host discusses dealing with BJJ injuries and competition losses in real-time, offering advice on recovery and improving future performance.
Host introduces world champion Jiu-Jitsu black belt Roosevelt Sousa and discusses his unique mindset and training approach leading to success.
The host previews the upcoming CGI 2 event, discussing his initial skepticism and eventual enthusiasm, and invites listeners to say hi at the event.
Ryan Hurst, a black belt in judo and brown belt in jiu-jitsu with a gymnastics background, discusses building a resilient body for martial arts on the Jiu-Jitsu Podcast.