Tarsis Humphreys is back! Just coming off of a great performances at Five Grappling Super League where he beat Leandro Lo, he was a guest on the best BJJ podcast Grappling central podcast where he talked about various interesting topics: conditioning, Yoga, his new affiliation and the Lasso Guard.
Tarsis is a BJJ Black Belt under Fabio Gurgel, the co-founder of the Alliance Jiu Jitsu Team.
Humphreys is one of Alliance’s heavy hitter Brazilian jiu-jitsu competitors. From 1998 to 2009 he won a medal in whichever Black Belt adult division he entered. He is the 2010 Medium Heavyweight Jiu-Jitsu World Champion and the champion of the inaugural World Professional Jiu-Jitsu Cup, at his weight and at the open division defeating Gracie Barra’s Braulio Estima.
Humphreys is a veteran at ADCC. In 2007 he was third place losing at the semi-final in a very tight fight against the UFC and ADCC star Demian Maia (who after that became champion overcoming Flavio “Cachorrao” Almeida).
Here is what they covered on the show:
- Confusion in Orlando
- Five Grappling / Defeating Leandro Lo
- His conditioning regimen
- Body awareness
- Changing your game with age
- Yoga and breathing
- The balance of being calm, but ready for battle in competition
- Jiu-Jitsu: The art of minimizing mistakes
- How to humanize your opponent, even if he is a legend
- The reality that you could end up competing against your heroes in BJJ
- The decision to relocate to San Diego instead of Vancouver
- Preparing for 2017 Worlds
- His plans to open an academy in San Diego
- Tarsis gives Ryan advice for living in Sao Paulo
- Ryan’s crazy taxi ride in Sao Paulo
- The Keenan Cornelius match at the IBJJF LA Pro
- His recent appearance in Jiu-Jitsu Magazine
- His interest for MMA in the future
- His new position teaching elite MMA fighters at Alliance MMA
- Working with UFC Flyweight Wilson Reis
- His new Lasso Guard DVD
- Acquiring sponsors in Jiu-Jitsu
- His new affiliation
- His goals for 2017
- Working with Lucas Lepri
