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