Professor Charlie Liu is the co-founder of Digitsu and a long time BJJ practitioner. He talks about self defense, small joint manipulation, asking questions in class, starting Digitsu and filming disaster stories.Click “Read More” for show notes! SHOW NOTES:

• Origins
• Training Japanese JuJutsu before BJJ
• Royce Gracie
• Early UFC commentary
• Japanese JuJutsu compared to BJJ
• Small joint manipulation for self defense
• Realistic perspective of self defense
• jiu-Jitsu’s ability to demonstrate effectiveness
• Draculino’s ball grabbers video
• Why asking questions in class is good for everyone
• Training with Matt and Nick Serra
• Combative Jiu-Jitsu style and longevity
• The birth of Digitsu
• Information overload and balancing video study
• Competing with Youtube
• His favorite thing about running Digitsu
• His favorite technical insight he’s learned
• Paul Schriener
• Filming disaster stories
• Abmar Barbosa
• The Pummel
• Cooking “like a mofo”
• David Jacobs
• Renzo Stories
• Paul Creighton (Ryan’s instructor)
• Future goals