If you make one on Travis Stevens you've got to make one on Jimmy Pedro, his coach, and their gripping/kumikata system ! Keep it up ! I'm really digging your work !
Travis Stevens is really badass. I cannot think of a more complete grappler. His personality is extremely focused and competition oriented. I call him "the most dangerous man alive" and I don't care who used to be called by that name.
Everytime I don’t feel like training I just watch/listen to something Travis Stevens related. He truly is an inspiration and one of my favorite martial artists of all time, I can’t wait to go train with him some day.
You released this pretty much at the same time I bought his BJJ basics set off the Fanatics sale. Order of the heavens or what? I’m happy your channel is growing - it inspired me to finally start jiujitsu and I’ve been going for 2 months now.
Chadi he had some epic matches against Flavio Canto with awesome newaza on display. I hope you do a profile on Canto too!!! Edit: JUST noticed there was one lol 😂
90% of the black belts of his caliber (meaning competitive such as Garcia, Galvao, Roger Gracie, etc...) or just “regular” black belts? Just curious because I remember Dan and Dave Camarillo saying the top BJJ black belt when they started training toyed with them...
@@thebeast9606 90% of all black belts. Also Camarillo is nowhere near the level that Travis stevens ever was lol and he was probably toyed with under BJJ specific rules. Also many top bjj players said that Flavio Canto could beat most elite bjj players. This isn't just the exception, most Judo guys at that level would beat most bjj guys
@@hasanc1526 Yes, Flavio is exceptionally good on the ground, but I have a hard time believing Travis or Flavio beat Roger, Jacare, Maia, Xande, Marcelo, etc..in PURE groundwork. I get it that he’d beat a lot (thus your 90%), but the upper echelon I’d say would win far more often than not.
Nice to see you review a man whis not only a very accomplished judoka but also a recognizable figure in the jits world, especially having a Black belt from danaher before most of the "death squad" no?
Good judoka. I remember I read somewhere that there was not strong sparring partners in USA for him and he trained with young amateur high school boys.
@@karlievbayram811 u don't know what u are saying, trust me,u don't, when it comes to teaching Travis is better and advanced, even Jimmy Pedro's judo highlight was wacky and slow,very boring and sloppy, but Travis is a monster
Yes it's true. Travis and I are a year apart in age and back in the 2000 to 2005 era I got a chance to do summer session with him at that time I lived in Johns Creek Georgia literally diagonally opposite side of the USA. I competed mainly in Wrestling in highschool both USA Wrestling and AAU. Judo is virtually none existent when I was in highschool there was only one other teenage male around my age in the entire state of Georgia. The expense of traveling to compete in the gi grappling such as Judo, Jiu-Jitsu, and Sambo is the main reason I stopped after highschool. Even now in Alabama there is only two places that train Judo and they are four hours apart and do it as adjunct to Jiu-Jitsu rather than as a separate system.
I saw that fight live when he got that silver and all I can say was that he was flopping on his back and he got pinged for it. He might have good tachi-waza as you say, but, I never saw it. When you get tired you resort to the thing you are most comfortable - your brain goes on automatic - and he resorted to BJJ, his training was the thing that lost him that gold medal.
No offense, but that is a ridiculous statement. He wasn't trying to flop or pull guard in the Olympic finals. Sutemi-waza is a thing, and many elite level players go for sacrifice throws. Khalmurzaev was a beast in tachi-waza, and maybe Travis felt his best chance to win deep in to the fight was to go for a sacrifice throw and try to transition in to groundwork. Stevens was actually a high level judoka before he ever seriously trained BJJ, he only trained jiu-jitsu for fun and worked extremely hard at Jimmy Pedro's in the training room so his training background was definitely solid. He has in fact said many times that he never really used his jiu-jitsu in judo competitions, because his actual judo ne-waza was much more effective and focused to the IJF ruleset.
@@tuukkahyttinen6815 Well, I can only call it as I saw it, and it looked like he was flopping on to his back to me. As I recall he was pretending to do a tomoe nage (flop) when there was no chance of it actually working. Took me a while, but, I am getting more in tune with the referees as to when a person is flopping or not. Pretending to do a throw to transition to newaza is a shido. Training for two different sports with different rulesets at the same time is going to leave you at a disavantage in both.
Didn't Stevens do a video on his channel where he explains what he was doing in the match (assuming you are talking about the semi against Tchrikishvili that got him into the gold medal match)? If I recall correctly, his "flopping on his back" was actually a move that he practiced to exploit a specific weakness in that opponent's judo and take advantage of his superior ne-waza.
Bro be honest with yourself, world champion in judo is a extremely ambitious even if you start at 18. You can certainly be very good, but number one in the world at that age as a beginner is near impossible unless you already have an incredible amount of experience grappling and even then it’s highly unlikely
