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Jared “Megalo” Dopp is a Brown belt under Rafael Lovato Jr. He is a Blue, Purple, and Brown Belt No-Gi World Champion. Blue, Purple, and Brown Belt Pan Champion. Blue Belt Gi World Champion, and two time Purple Belt World Gi Silver medalist. In 2013 as a Purple belt he took 4th place at ADCC.

We talk about:

His accomplishments with only 4 years of serious training

His push the pace style

How he is able to force his opponents to make mistakes

How he views Gi and No-gi differently

Ways to get around an opponent that is stalling

Passing the guard to the right side

He is in school for chemical engineering

Balancing school and BJJ

His training schedule

Off the mat training including rugby

His research in growing nano tubes

His thoughts on competing in 2015 ADCC

His hopes of doing submission only matchs

Strategy for a submission only match

Advice for a student doing a first tournament

His advice for cutting weight to compete

Links for Jared: Do or Die, True Nutrition, Jared’s Facebook, Instagram, Twitter.

Other links:

Quote of the week: “It never gets easy, but always gets better” presented by Vic Torres

Article of the week: “The 5 Ways Resilient People Get Over Failure”

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