Amanda Bruse took home Gold as a black belt in her weight division at No Gi Pans in 2022, and also a Silver in the open division facing much heavier opponents. She’s also done amazingly well at ADCC Trials, No Gi Worlds, and is now competing in Combat Jiu-jitsu as well.
It’s remarkable that she’s only been training for 6 years; clearly, she’s doing something right, and in this conversation I try to find out what it is!!
Tune in to find out about…
- 2:37 – Learning how to train
- 9:09 – Her favorite submission competing against bigger opponents in the open division
- 14:42 – How to structure multiple training sessions per day
- 18:17 – Strength and conditioning for jiu-jitsu
- 21:45 – The most important thing to prevent overtraining
- 29:15 – Balancing training and university studies
- 35:58 – Wrestling for no gi jiu-jitsu
- 41:38 – Starting a clothing brand
- 48:00 – Visualisation for competition
- 53:59 – Her best advice for new people starting jiu-jitsu
- And more…
Amanda Bruse – Audio Only
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