Jimmy Fortunato's guest appearances

Jimmy Fortunato

The BJJ Fanatics Podcast

BjjBrick Podcast- BJJ, no-gi and good times!

Dirty White Belt Radio

The BJJ Power Hour 

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Robert Drysdale

Carlos Machado

Bernardo Faria

Seph Smith

Dave Camarillo

Ricardo Tubbs

Nicky Ryan

Kurt Osiander

Jess Munter

Joe Solecki

Travis Stevens

Roy Marsh

Eliot Marshall

Gustavo Dantas

OwlTail

Jimmy is the founder of The Good Fight Tournament, a Jiu Jitsu black belt, and someone who has a passion for the purity of Jiu-Jitsu and martial arts in general.  The Good Fight Tournament will be coming to Spartanburg, South Carolina on July 31. Link is listed below.  https://www.goodfighttournament.com--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thebjjpowerhour/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thebjjpowerhour/support

Jimmy is the founder of The Good Fight Tournament, a Jiu Jitsu black belt, and someone who has a passion for the purity of Jiu-Jitsu and martial arts in general.  The Good Fight Tournament will be coming to Spartanburg, South Carolina on July 31. Link is listed below.  <a href="//The Good Fight Tournament" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.goodfighttournament.com</a>--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thebjjpowerhour/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thebjjpowerhour/message</a> Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thebjjpowerhour/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thebjjpowerhour/support</a>

Episode 94- Jimmy Fortunato Founder of The Good Fight Tournament

This week we bring you an interview with Jimmy Fortunato. Jimmy started a tournament company called "The Good Fight" in 2008. Jimmy started training jiu-jitsu in 1997, and his experiences competing ultimately lead him to make some improvements to BJJ tournaments. A couple of years ago The Good Fight switched from a point based tournament to a submission only tournament.   We talk about:  Why he started The Good Fight A little bit of history behind The Good Fight Making the change to sub only The basic rules The goals of the tournament Jiu-Jitsu Theatre Advice for kids doing a tournament Advice for parents Some of the most popular submission in competition  Links:  The Good Fight Jiu-Jitsu Theatre  Quote of the week: This quote was presented by Ken Blackburn "Don't pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one." Bruce Lee Article of the week:  5 Reasons You Should Say “Hello” to the New Student in Your BJJ Class From Jerry Tsui    Please check out this video if you are interested in supporting The BjjBrick Podcast. If you are interested in supporting The BjjBrick Podcast find out how here We are now looking to start a new segment called "Mat Tales" and we need your help. If you have a BJJ story good, bad, or just amazing. Please share it with us and we will try to get this new segment rolling. Gary shares the concept of his audio book "5 Min Into My Cardo- My First Roll" Catch us next week for another episode of The BjjBrick Podcast The BjjBrick Podcast is in iTunes, Stitcher radio, and Google play store for Andriod

This week we bring you an interview with Jimmy Fortunato. Jimmy started a tournament company called "The Good Fight" in 2008. Jimmy started training jiu-jitsu in 1997, and his experiences competing ultimately lead him to make some improvements to BJJ tournaments. A couple of years ago The Good Fight switched from a point based tournament to a submission only tournament. <a href="http://bjjbrick.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/The-good-fight-BJJ-1.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a> We talk about: <ul> <li>Why he started The Good Fight</li> <li>A little bit of history behind The Good Fight</li> <li>Making the change to sub only</li> <li>The basic rules</li> <li>The goals of the tournament</li> <li>Jiu-Jitsu Theatre</li> <li>Advice for kids doing a tournament</li> <li>Advice for parents</li> <li>Some of the most popular submission in competition</li> </ul> Links: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.goodfighttournament.com/index.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Good Fight</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.jiujitsutheatre.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jiu-Jitsu Theatre</a></li> </ul> Quote of the week: This quote was presented by <a href="http://bjjbrick.com/epi-138-bjj-kettlebells-with-ken-blackburn/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ken Blackburn</a> "Don't pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one." Bruce Lee Article of the week: <a href="https://www.jiujitsutimes.com/5-reasons-you-should-say-hello-to-the-new-student-in-your-bjj-class/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> 5 Reasons You Should Say “Hello” to the New Student in Your BJJ Class From Jerry Tsui</a> <a href="https://sellfy.com/p/fj29/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVe8HvIGf9U" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://sellfy.com/p/fj29/" rel="attachment wp-att-3002 nofollow" target="_blank">Please check out this video if you are interested in supporting The BjjBrick Podcast.</a> <a href="https://www.patreon.com/BjjBrick?ty=h" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">If you are interested in supporting The BjjBrick Podcast find out how here</a> We are now looking to start a new segment called "Mat Tales" and we need your help. If you have a BJJ story good, bad, or just amazing. Please share it with us and we will try to get this new segment rolling. Gary shares the concept of his audio book "5 Min Into My Cardo- My First Roll" Catch us next week for another episode of The BjjBrick Podcast <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bjjbrick-podcast-bjj-jiu-jitsu/id730540186?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The BjjBrick Podcast is in iTunes</a>, <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/bjjbrick-radio" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stitcher radio</a>, and <a href="https://player.fm/series/bjjbrick-podcast-bjj-jiu-jitsu-mma-martial-arts-no-gi-and-good-times" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Google play store for Andriod</a>

Epi 139 Jimmy Fortunato and The Good Fight

Tim Hufford

Vernon Kirk

Tim Hufford from Chapel Hill Gracie Jiujitsu tells stories about a fighter's mom taking a swing at him at his teammates' fights in Vermont last night (among other craziness). We recap the CHGJJ fights with time. Then Vernon Kirk &amp; The Good Fight's Jimmy Fortunato join us to preview their July 9 Jiujitsu Theater event.

Tim Hufford, Vernon Kirk & The Good Fight's Jimmy Fortunato