The Porrada Podcast

Thank you for listening to and supporting The Porrada Podcast. This time around I talk with Jeff Martin, an early member of my home academy, a black belt, coach and podcaster. If you'd like to support the show, consider joining the Patreon: www.patreon.com/theporradapodcast Follow the show on social media: @theporradapodcast And check out my Jiu-Jitsu Etc. photography: @porradaphotography

The fast approaching opening of the gigantic Isanti Grappling club prompted me to take Chris and I's relationship from DMing reels to hanging out on the microphones in my den. I had to hear about it. 2020 spoiled his first move toward his gym but this time around him and Mike Waverick are getting it done. @isantigrapplingclub If you'd like to support the show, consider joining the Patreon:...

Thank you for listening to and supporting The Porrada Podcast. This time around I talk with Danny Hutchinson, AGAIN, this time he's a double black belt and telling us about his new upstart, Black Belt Safety, which serves to better educate and prepare for active shooter situations. www.blackbeltsafety.org If you'd like to support the show, consider joining the Patreon: www.patreon.com/thep...

Thank you for listening to and supporting The Porrada Podcast. This time around I talk with Ryan Simonis a relatively new black belt who is not short on mat experience. We talk through his journey as well as several current events in the world of jiu-jits (i.e. CJI). If you'd like to support the show, consider joining the Patreon: www.patreon.com/theporradapodcast Follow the show on social med...

Thank you for listening to and supporting The Porrada Podcast. This time around I talk with Kaisar Saulebuyev about his late start in jiu-jitsu, competition at the highest levels, rule sets, Borat and his home country, and much more! If you'd like to support the show, consider joining the Patreon: www.patreon.com/theporradapodcast Follow the show on social media: @theporradapodcast And check o...

Thank you for listening to and supporting The Porrada Podcast. This time around we've got another Minnesota Jiu-Jitsu OG, Mason Mclellan. I swung down to his gym in Chanhassen, MN to hear his story, his take and about his gym If you'd like to support the show, consider joining the Patreon: www.patreon.com/theporradapodcast Follow the show on social media: @theporradapodcast And check out m...

Thank you for listening to and supporting The Porrada Podcast. Have you ever wanted a quantitative break down of how your jiu-jitsu is going? Well, Abe's the guy the help. As of this episode the idea is still early stages but he's putting his data analytics skills to work to analyze your comp matches and give you a prettier picture of what you're doing and not doing. IG: @sub_stats If...

Thank you for listening to and supporting The Porrada Podcast. This one is about jiu-jitsu, of course, but also the impact both Tom and Seth are having on our local Minnesota community through police training with the St. Paul Police Department and Tom's company, Storm Training Group. https://stormtraininggroup.com/ If you'd like to support the show, consider joining the Patreon: www.patre...

Thanks again for supporting The Porrada Podcast. This is another great conversation about Jiu-Jitsu and life with a guy who has nearly two decades of experience in jiu-jitsu as a practitioner, competitor and as a coach. If you'd like to support the show, consider joining the Patreon: www.patreon.com/theporradapodcast Follow the show on social media: @theporradapodcast And check out my Jiu-Jits...

Thank you for listening to and supporting The Porrada Podcast. We talking again with Santos Verdinez, with some much needed help from his coaches Ben and Kaitlin... fresh off a pro MMA win in the LFA.   If you'd like to support the show, consider joining the Patreon: www.patreon.com/theporradapodcast Follow the show on social media: @theporradapodcast And check out my Jiu-Jitsu Etc. photograph...

Thank you for listening to and supporting The Porrada Podcast. Benny is a great teacher, great coach and an interesting storyline in jiu-jitsu... multiple schools, head instructors, and an open mind to new styles and ideas. He trains and coaches out of Hamel Jiu-Jitsu and The Academy Plymouth, here in Minnesota. If you'd like to support the show, consider joining the Patreon: www.patreon.com/t...

Thank you for listening to and supporting The Porrada Podcast. This was a great conversation that's been brewing in the DMs and after rolls between Morgan and Sam; what is a fight? What's with all these rule sets? How do they use Ecological training so far? Etc. etc., we were having a good time so it's a little frenetic, but do stick with it and ejoy the pearls of wisdom and the... uh,...

Thank you for listening to and supporting The Porrada Podcast. This time I talked with Eric Swenson, the long-time head coach of the wrestling program at Wayzata High School in Plymouth, MN. We covered his come-up with wrestling, a starkly different era, his coaching and program philosophy, his take on the growth of girl's and women's wrestling, and he makes a flawless pitch for why you an...

Thank you for listening to and supporting The Porrada Podcast. I love highlighting a new gym because it's another option for all of us to roll and brings more new people into this sport that we all love. If you're anywhere near Rogers, MN, make sure to check this place out.   If you'd like to support the show, consider joining the Patreon: www.patreon.com/theporradapodcast Follow the s...

Thank you for listening to and supporting The Porrada Podcast. This time I sit down Jess and CJ Hays a couple weeks after they each lost a fight... and I ask them directly about how that feels. Right off the bat. Awkward? Probably. Insightful? Definitely. Shout out to Coach Ben Locken for helping me harness their power. If you'd like to support the show, consider joining the Patreon: www.patre...

In this, the 100th episode of the The Porrada Podcast, I sit down and talk origin story and violence and cancer and training and coaching with Greg Nelson, founder of The Academy. From retail loss prevention fights, to training with weapons for self defense, to UFC fighters... he's had the reps. If you'd like to support the show, consider joining the Patreon: www.patreon.com/theporradapodc...

Thank you for listening to and supporting The Porrada Podcast. This is a fun one as it's two local Muy Thai fighters who started together with similar goals, train together at The Striking Institute and live together.   Support the show here: www.patreon.com/theporradapodcast @theporradapodcast @porradaphotography

Thank you for listening to and supporting The Porrada Podcast. This episode is an important one as it's a married couple who came up to black belt together and who has raised their kids in jiu-jitsu.   www.patreon.com/theporradapodcast @theporradapodcast @porradaphotography

Thank you for listening to and supporting The Porrada Podcast. This episode is QUITE the tale! Dan Kiser, one of the owners of Ignite fights is 10 years out from dying the ring. Obviously, he made it, but it's quite the story and a load of lessons learned.  www.patreon.com/theporradapodcast @theporradapodcast @porradaphotography @divebarblackbelts @chrisgotdrunk @ignitefights @dankiser13

Thank you for supporting The Porrada Podcast. This time around the conversation with with Ben and Katie Locken of The Cellar in St. Paul, MNWe talk about their journey to owning The Cellar and the plans for the gym going foward as well as some recent travels for high level fights.  www.patreon.com/theporradapodcast @theporradapodcast @porradaphotography @thecellargym @locken33 @katielocken

Thank you for supporting The Porrada Podcast. This time around the conversation with with Andy Grahn , of The Academy Minnesota. He's a Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt, a Judo Black Belt, an accomplished muy thai practicioner and a very experienced coach. We talk about all of that as well as world travel, TBI, coaching methods including the "ecological approach" and a lot more.  www.patreon.com/t...

I sat on the mats at Southside BJJ in Minneapolis to talk with Enrique and Nik, his newest black belt, about their gym, the culture, training and coaching philosophy and becoming a black belt in brazilian jiu-jitsu. Show socials: @theporradapodcast @porradaphotography

Today we get a feel for some of the inner workings of the fight game. Being a genuine fight fan and being able to work inside the arena... and even inside the cage offers a lot of perspective on your Saturday night entertainment. His socials: @divebarblackbelts @chrisgotdrunk Show Socials: @theporradapodcast @porradaphotography https://theporradapodcast.creator-spring.com/ https://www.patreon.com/...

Brandon Bergeron is a Jiu-Jitsu black belt and owner of the St. Paul Academy of Martial arts. From his start in MMA, to focusing on BJJ... coaching and gym ownership. We cover it all. His socials: @brandon.bergeron.bjj @st.paul.bjj.academy Show socials: @theporradapodcast @porradaphotography https://theporradapodcast.creator-spring.com/ https://www.patreon.com/ThePorradaPodcast

John Castaneda and Josh Fridgen tell me about the newest Academy of martial arts in Minnesota a well as their come-up stories in fighting. John is in the UFC, Josh's legend was born of military smoker fights. Their Socials: @academyplymouth @johncastaneda_ @josh.fridgen @academymn Show Socials: @theporradapodcast @porradaphotography www.patreon.com/ThePorradaPodcast https://theporradapodcast.c...