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#223 – Travis Stevens: Judo, Olympics, and Mental Toughness

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The Fundamental Principles of Gripping

The thing that's distinctly recognizable about judo is like when done at the highest level, like it seems effortless when the big throw happens. Gripping is having the ability to hold your opponent in such a way where you have the ability to be offensive and also defensive at the same given time. And so the beginning part of that is because there's a jacket, there's also this whole thing that you're master of, which is like, which is gripping.

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