Episode 316: Steve Austin - a podcast by Ryan Ford: Grappling Enthusiast, Entrepreneur, Podcast Host

Steve Austin has over 20 years of experience training, competing and teaching martial arts. He talks about overcoming a childhood disease, dealing with bullying as a kid and why it’s important to reach kids who are bullies as well as their victims. Click “read more” for show notes! SHOW NOTES:



* Origins

* Overcoming a childhood hip disease

* How bullying led him to martial arts

* Theory-based martial arts

* His process of accepting new youth students

* Explaining Jiu-Jitsu to parents

* Life lessons from bullying

* Taking bullies in as students

* Verbal Jiu-Jitsu

* Jiu-Jitsu as therapy

* Self defense Jiu-Jitsu

* His MMA experience

* The Pummel

* The birth and growth of his school

* How not having an affiliation has affected his school and his own journey

* Future goals



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