Jimmy Pedro: Judo and the Forging of Champions | Lex Fridman Podcast
Jimmy Pedro is a judo competitor and coach, world champion, 3x world medalist, 2x Olympic medalist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
0:43 - The most beautiful throw
25:12 - Russian approach to randori
38:43 - Judo gripping
50:12 - IOC
1:00:37 - Toughest match
1:05:44 - Jimmy Pedro Sr
1:24:59 - Travis Stevens
1:44:29 - Kayla Harrison
2:02:47 - Putin and judo
2:06:59 - Getting started in judo
2:11:45 - BJJ
2:15:11 - Advice for young people
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Here are the timestamps. Please check out our sponsors to support this podcast. 0:00 - Introduction & sponsor mentions: - ROKA: roka.com/ and use code LEX to get 20% off your first order - Athletic Greens: athleticgreens.com/lex and use code LEX to get 1 month of fish oil - Ladder: ladderlife.com/lex - Linode: linode.com/lex to get $100 free credit - MasterClass: masterclass.com/lex to get 15% off 0:43 - The most beautiful throw 25:12 - Russian approach to randori 38:43 - Judo gripping 50:12 - IOC 1:00:37 - Toughest match 1:05:44 - Jimmy Pedro Sr 1:24:59 - Travis Stevens 1:44:29 - Kayla Harrison 2:02:47 - Putin and judo 2:06:59 - Getting started in judo 2:11:45 - BJJ 2:15:11 - Advice for young people
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My son is 4 years old and is a huge fan of Jimmy Pedro, or sensei Pedro as he calls Jimmy. He's too young to understand how great of a judo competitor Jimmy was, and how great of a judo coach he is. All he knows is that Jimmy is an important person because he's in a couple of big posters around the dojo. But the reason he's such a fan is that every time he sees Jimmy in the dojo and goes say hello, Jimmy stops what he's doing to talk to him. Jimmy is a very good coach, great sensei, and an awesome person.
Thats beautiful
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Please can we get some footage of you doing Judo with Travis Stevens and Jimmy Pedro.
Since you're at it, join some Jujitsu footage with them both and create a new martial art: Jud-it-so.
Sensei Pedro is such an inspiration
Jimmy Pedro sponsored my ADCC Kuwait Open tournament. We have never met before but I told him I had the Fuji Mats & he has been backing me ever since. Absolute Gem of a Human being that Man
Jimmy is the biggest reason why my school (St. John's Prep) has a wrestling program. We've only had 2 coaches, Jimmy's dad and Manny Costa, a fellow judoka.
Jimmy Pedro I absolute love the way he keeps things simple and effective the best way to coach
Amazing conversation. Bring on more Judokas and wrestlers!
I love the interview with Travis and Jimmy..... I would love to hear more interviews with other Judoka!
I'd love to hear from Kayla Harrison
I love every episode of this podcast. it's fucking insane
Thank you for doing this. It is great to hear about high level judo in English.
Thank you Lex your podcasts are on another level 🔥
I wrestled in high school, and when I went to college I took a BJJ class and there was a Judo black belt from Georgia (the country), and he was tough as hell. One of my favorite guys to roll with in class. Judo throws hit cleaner than wrestling.
Georgia produces world class wrestlers and judokas
this is a very good man, he is more what the world needs, God bless
Second time watching this all the way through. Such a great interview about Judo.
More judo focused podcasts, Lex!
Agreed
Every kid should try judo I did Judo from 8-15 I'm now 43 and I use the things I learnt in my every day life from the mentality to the work ethic discipline and respect
Great interview. I love the anecdote about Sensei Pedro encouraging you at the end!
Wonderful interview and wonderful person to speak at
Excellent interview . Inspirational. Domo arigato 🙏
Thanks Jimmy & Lex this interview is very much helpful
This was a great listen all the way through
Love your martial arts episodes
Lex ..this is legendary...
It’s tough my main school only has judo three times a week and the rest I’m having to drive over to other dojo’s we have a relationship with in tampa I’ve even had to start driving across the state 1-2 times a month over to sensei sasaki’s in Orlando it’s hard to find competitive judo in the US
That’s cuz your in the wrong spot lol I grew up with lots of Japanese here in Los Angeles. I guess I’m lucky enough to have many dojo’s here. The best this side of the Mississippi for sure.
Lex is the absolute best 1v1 interviewer in the world. So many endearing qualities in him. He still seems to remain very humble. I could go on and on. He’s my favorite human that I’ve never met directly. He will do great things for humanity in his lifetime. ❤️
I loved this epispde
Excellent
I was there for that seminar in 2012 with the russians, those guys were unreal
lex is the man
Lex please get Yuval Harari on your show.
@@AntoAparicio Sure it’d be really fascinating. Probably Yuval now a little bit unreachable and busy, because recently he’s published his Sapience graphic book.
Hey Lex. Never been so early
a chat with craig jones would be awesome
The Cohen Brothers (Irwin and Steve) were 2 of the best. Irwins 2 sons followed in their footsteps!! I'm am very proud and lucky to train under all of them.........
From a European perspective it's so weird to think of a successful school having only 200 members.
Many parents here in the states will push their kids in other sports once they reach their teens in hopes of getting a college scholarship through the NCAA, this is one reason why a lot of teens may not do judo or Brazilian jiu jitsu. There’s a plethora of others, but here in America it’s not uncommon for kids to play baseball all year round once they’re in their early teens.
Judo isn't popular in America
@24:40 I played rugby for 13 years, and about year 6 my body would retain muscle and start bulking a month before season started. It was crazy
I’m a Jimmy Takamori Shodan. 45 years old. I’m and out of Judo for 30 years. Made it Blackbelt and life got in the way. I’m a huge fan of Coach Pedro. However I’m confused about his statement around 1:30 in the video about he was the first USA medalist? US Olympic Judo Teams 1964 to present 1964 Jim Bregman, Bronze, -80 kg. 1976 Allen Coage, Bronze, +93 kg. 1984 Eddie Liddie, Bronze, -60 kg. 1984 Bobby Berland, Silver, -86 kg. 1988 Kevin Asano, Silver, -60kg. 1988 Lynn Roethke, Silver, -61kg. 1988 Mike Swain, Bronze, -71kg. 1988 Margaret Castro, Bronze, +72kg.
I think he meant at that games specifically.
RIP Takemori Sensei
Beautiful
Sign of a champion is how easy they make their skill and so motivated
#LOVE
Strangely enough, in my experience uchi-mata is one of the easiest throws to do on someone who has absolutely no training lol. Don’t do it though.
yeah its weird, I hated uchi starting out, but then something clicked in my head and it became my best throw.
'picture yourself rollin' =)
FANTASTIC JUDO talk !
Bob Berland 84! Epic
The close up video shows Hane goshi not Uschi mata
Hey lex. You should have tony okada on he is a legend here in anaheim ca for judo or even dr. Teshima... Danny Mejia...
you related to Justin Mejia?
You should have Valentina Shevchenko on the podcast
Uncle Chael says Judo doesn’t work. Performance Quest Baby!
it's obviously way worse without the gi... that's why wrestling exists
@@armedjoy3045 🙌
Its funny that he said teens. I left judo as a teen and ran track and played football.
HI Lex, I think you need to have TONI KUKA on podcast, the 3 time Olympic Gold Medalist coach , The only one to beat Japanese in Tokyo for Golden Medals ...for more details you can PM me
John Carmack PLEASE
12:05 I hope you get to. interview Teddy one day soon.
To me, Uchi Mata is 4th most beautiful throw after Harai maki Komi, osoto guruma, and harai tsurikomi ashi. To me! LOL Maybe itsuri goshi!
The former king of Spain was also a great judoka
Unlike most sports one tiny mistake and your fight is over if you make a mistake on the tennis court or basketball court you have the rest of the game to catch up but one mistake can end a judo match
What was the first reason, Lex, you editing demon?
Is it ever too late to start competing in judo?
On an international level for sure, but locally no dude
Olympic matches are available on KZhead in Ireland. For example, i watched Travis' match in london 2012 just a few moments ago.... It must be a US rights issue to view the games.
They are available here in eastern europe too
if I move to Massachusetts can I also get training from the goat XD? Would it help if I said I beat his students in the state championship when I was 12 when I lived there? XD
The rotational forces of that move discussed at the start of this interview very much remind me of throwing the shot put. A decades long PED enhanced world record in the shot put was finally broken in 2021 by 2x Olympic and world champion Ryan Crouser. Think of the physics behind throwing a 7.26 kilo ball 23.37 m (76 ft 8+1⁄4 in). I’ll bet that that is a discussion many of your viewers would also enjoy. I know I would.
you actually are not visualizing - the intensity of the moment causes a retro-causality type event that places that in your past
1:38:50 & 1:42:30
21:05 I really wonder how this went with Lex.
What belt is Lex?
Black belt
@lex get Jordan Burroughs on plz. Good time to do it since he just won gold at the world championships-just sayin ;)
In randori, if you aren't getting a hard round from your adversary, your adversary is likely getting a hard round from you.
I can’t be the only one who that it was rda for a second.
I want to start a martial art together with my daughter so she can defend herself well but I'm still undecided. What would you recommend? Aikido or Judo or BJJ?
JUDO for you and BJJ for your daughter. Aikido is more in line with yoga. it is beautiful and spiritual but not designed for selfdefence. It was designed for samurai who carried swords. You need to be carrying a weapon to make Aikido work. For a male, judo is good because it allows you to dictate where the fight goes. If you are good in judo, you take the top position which is a huge advantage in everything-goes kind of fight. You can ground and pound and also submit. Add to Judo no-clothing wrestling and some boxing and you are good to go in any kind of situation. BJJ for your daughter because guard position is a natural position a girl is put by a male in case of an attack. in such a case, a sudden choke is the way to go.
@@senerzen I really appreciate your response! Thanks!
@@NikWeber. I acctually say Judo and not bjj like Senser proposed. I don't know about the age of your daughter but Judo develops a higher athletisicm, both are good though but I say Judo first !
@@Armanijesus Thanks Andrés! That's a good insight 👍🏻
@@NikWeber. Oh and just one more point , I myself am not a judoka , I want to start because it intrigues me. I boxed at a high level for many years so I have that in my backpack BUT my wife was a top level judoka and she has unfortunately been in a few altercations (there are creeps everywhere) and the times that has happened, her Judo has saved her. She flipped a man almost twice her size when she was about 19 right on his head, that is how powerful judo is. My wife wieghs around 60 kg but she is a powerhouse, judo is amazing.
Lex Fridman reminds me of the radiospeaker from the Resevoir Dogs album. The suit does the rest! I'm I the only one? Take a listen: kzhead.info/sun/YNOzkaWuiIt9kps/bejne.html Great Podcasts - keep it up Lex👍
It's a balance throw ☝️ without listening Let's hear it....
khabib is a black belt and international master of sport in judo.
Lex and a dentist judoka XD
J'ai cru que c'était Raphael Dos Anjos...
Judo needs to have various leagues or federations working independently to build the brand of individual judoka. It's all an official federation for a country which is part of the IJF. Capitalism needs to help judo progress. You need better infrastructure. Dedicated buildings everywhere as well as presence in all highschools blending the disciples of physical education with Kano inspired humanities. Judo should be sold as a lifestyle. You can market within that and ethically too. For example incorporate the shoes Sambo players use. Associate with high quality products that build your brand. Another example would be the 02 trainer by Bas Rutten. Things like this are game changers and something everyone should try. Judo bands are another great product doing solo uchikomi at home. You could also encourage competitors to wear mouth guards as this teaches people to nose breathe. You could also have local authorities championing ethical meat sources and eating healthy with a meat producer in that country. Wholefoods. Watson Training Equipment. Charles Poliquin strength training principles. Just associate with the best of the best and keep building your brand of judo as a bigger picture.
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Shaun. Its not the 4000%, 4000% is nothing and doesnt exist. What they mean is that the average guy in his head is 40 times as good at fighting as he actually is. That is the 4000% divided by 100% (which is the max)
Is this what the stuntman that beat Bruce lee's ass used
Such small amount of views on this one. Wonder why
One thing that makes Khabib and Islam so dominate is their JUDO. Master of Sports in JUDO for both. And for those wondering, it's not childhood YMCA Judo, it's the Judo that trains you to disable your opponent. The type of JUDO CIA, KGB, trained assasins utilize. Islam has the best leg trips the ufc has ever seen.
Yes and it pisses me off that no one ever credits this but real ones know ;)
only 52K views? weak sauce. where's Lex Fridman on 3rd parties in the US, & the future of the US government?
1:08:50
I’m pretty sure I’m buying ZAM tokens. I’ve been following the project for some time now and the growth and utility are insane.
Koga not as accomplished?
No, please stop talking
Worlds, Gold (1989, 1991, 1995) Olympic Games, Gold (1992)@@Loquacious_Jackson
get more bjj guys please
Innoue
Please bring Eric or Bret Weinstein again! thank you!
pretty harsh karma on the long term outcome for coaching girls to eliminate or manipulate what girls get every month. Coach doesn’t care though, gotta win no matter what. 🤑
what the fuck are you talking about?
Please can we get some footage of you doing Judo with Travis Stevens and Jimmy Pedro.