Golden State Warriors center-forward Kevon Looney worked out at a jiujitsu studio as part of his offseason regimen!
He’s not the first basketball to do bjj either – bjj is practiced by the likes of Kendal Gill, Shaquille O’neal, Serbia’s Igor Rakocevic, Gabriel Muoneke & Drew Sullivan.
San Francisco Chronicle reports:
“Doing the same workouts can get boring, so I found jiujitsu and got pretty addicted to it,” Looney said Thursday. “Without it, I don’t think I’d be feeling as good as I am right now. I feel great.”
Though Jones has started at center, Looney was Golden State’s most reliable option throughout training camp. In Tuesday night’s season-opening win over Oklahoma City, Looney had 10 points, 10 rebounds, two blocks and two steals in 18 minutes.
Interestingly Looney struggled in his first two seasons due to hip injuries! Looney’s gruelling workout regimen looked like this:
Looney lifted weights for about 90 minutes each morning before slogging through an hour of basketball drills and another 90 minutes of scrimmages against such All-Stars as Harden, Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook and Paul George. To round out his afternoon, Looney switched daily between a running track and heading to Beverly Hills Jiu Jitsu Club, where he worked on the fundamentals of the Brazilian variation of the Japanese martial art.
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