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Have you ever failed to deliver your best when it counts? This week our friend and BJJ black belt Gustavo Dantas will help you do your best on and off the mat. Gustavo has been training BJJ for 25 years, he is a 4th degree black belt. He has a passion for teaching BJJ and helping coach people to reach their goals. His coaching website is TheBjjMentalCoach.com.

In this interview we talk about:

Doing BJJ as a kid in Rio

Listening to audio books

Why he recommends the book Psycho-Cybernetics

The BJJ Mental Coach blog

How he was able to overcome a bad start to competing

Overcoming mental blocks in competing

Moving to the United States from Brazil

Dealing with competition anxiety

A recent interview he did with Budo Videos

Dealing with a high pressure situation

How he runs competition students different from the students that don’t compete

Learning from failure

The three types of training partners that you need to be training with

How BJJ can benefit someone off the mat

Fixing mistakes after a tournament

Living up to your full potential

Dealing with fear

Focusing on only the things that you can control

His four Dvd set Inner Discovery for outer success

Contact Info for Gustavo Dantas- Email: info@thebjjmentalcoach.com, His Facebook Page, The Bjj Mental Coach website

Gustavo’s Sponsors Shoyoroll, Aggro Brand

Quote of the week: “Everybody want to be a champion but not many are willing to do what it takes to become one” Presented by Joe Solecki

Article of the week:”5 Tips for BJJ Over 35“

Want a better Guillotine Choke? Check out this seminar by our friend Roy Marsh!

This episode also has the first of our series of “The Most Interesting Grappler”