2 Olympic Judo Medalist Doing 1 Live Q&A - Ask Travis Stevens & Kayla Harrison Anything!

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[@richardowens4889]

Hi Travis, the last two live chats have been awesome. I really like your "style" and openness during these live chats. It's fun and refreshing. Also, it's super interesting hearing your perspective. Thanks!

[@TravisStevensgrappling]

Thank Richard! That means a lot. I’m going to try to do at least one a week!

[@adrianarroyo937]

Kayla looked very serious and intense, but after listening her here, I think she is pretty funny, and kind of silly (in the good sense) haha It was a nice chat, I enjoyed it. Oh, and Travis, you definitely should do that 5 grappling styles event! I would watch it for sure!

[@bizquisite]

Great interview! Thanks for getting Kayla to share her mantra.

[@TravisStevensgrappling]

I’m glad you enjoyed it. I hope it helps!!!

[@emmanuelolowe5496]

Big fan of Kayla. Really interesting conversation!

[@remigiuszposzanski5458]

WOW!!! Dzięki za ten wywiad, Kayla jest świetną osobą, dziękuję, że mogłem się o tym przekonać. / Thanks for this interview. Kayla is great a person, thanks I could find out about it.

[@letsgojake.4078]

Watching this after seeing the Lex interview. Lets go.

[@joseluna9655]

Thank you to you !

[@TravisStevensgrappling]

Your welcome!

[@nidgeontour257]

Great live chats with Travis! My question is do you think doing weights prior to a comp is a good idea or a bad idea? Normally I'd leave the weight out 3 weeks prior to a comp as it breaks down the muscles and makes you less effective. Also I never understood why athletes sit in a sauna prior to a match just to make the weight as this really impairs performance. Thanks!

[@TravisStevensgrappling]

Everyone is different and I don't think there is a right or wrong way as long as it's what the athlete believes is best!

[@luisquintino7308]

very cool interview, you 2 have a very good rapport. When will you podcast?

[@TravisStevensgrappling]

Not really sure if I want to. I think I'm going to stick to youtube for now but will see what the future brings I'm not opposed to it. I just have no idea how to do it. Right now I'm just flying by the seat of my pants! LOL

[@luisquintino7308]

@@TravisStevensgrappling Fair enough, you do seem to be quite busy. ATB

[@Yupppi]

I'd really, really want to see senseis in judo having S&C education. Like sometimes the basic training is so backwards to sports and exercise science because that's how they learned to do it, that's what others did. Let alone the top athletes. But like it's not uncommon that the warmup with some senseis is a fitness test, hypertrophy and endurance test before even touching technical stuff or something that's supposed to demand power. It's sometimes more like trying to break the students more than build them up. Starting from the freaking warm up. Your talk about how hard you've trained and how you've gotten injured just from repetition made me think about it. Of course the top athletes need to push themselves, but injuries and excess fatigue isn't necessarily the optimal way to push someone. Same for if you keep classes to young people or young athletes, you gotta build them up and not try to drive them down before you even teach them. Judo itself is already pretty heavy if your day is full of newaza for a beginner, you don't need to pre-fatigue them. Like what's the point if there's separate randori practice sessions too, and the students need to skip just the basic classes because they're so beat down they can't recover. Then you miss all the technical work practice that's critical to get better. I'm so fueled up by this because we even had a fresh world champ in our class being exhausted by the warm up, and there were all kind of people from different parts of life in the class. What's the point. Would be happy to hear Kayla again some day, seems like you guys have war stories for days, and also so much experience to dig out and share. And for the first couple of minutes of the finals I thought Kayla was a leftie, half of the match looked so odd.

[@andrevanmeerkerk]

Travis, keep up the good work. Love your videos. Just a questions from the Netherlands. What is the tool you use to switch om out computer when your LIVE?

[@TravisStevensgrappling]

To switch what out when I’m live I only use one computer?

[@andrevanmeerkerk]

@@TravisStevensgrappling which program?

[@noturnleftunstoned72]

great Q & A. Kayla is a beast! Shoulders for days. Travis, how would you rate her technique? :)

[@TravisStevensgrappling]

She’s a 2x Olympic Champ that says enough!!!

[@noturnleftunstoned72]

@@TravisStevensgrappling 😁 hell yeah. Not too many flaws there lol. Monster!!

[@nickireland7948]

Can you do video of your weightlifting programme leading up to Rio games

[@TravisStevensgrappling]

Yeah I can do that!

[@nickireland7948]

Travis Stevens thanks could you add the sprints sessions that you did with too

[@rashidmartialarts9513]

Great video ! Subscribed to you

[@TravisStevensgrappling]

Thank you so much and welcome to the community!!

[@sueetennant4038]

Can you guys sit in seiza since knee surgery? It has been 2 years since acl surgery from a Hiza guruma and I still can't seiza.

[@TravisStevensgrappling]

Yes we both can and without any issues. You might want to find a new PT to help you. That shouldn't happen with a simple ACL Surgery.

[@hugoviegas1292]

Five different contests great ideia

[@TravisStevensgrappling]

Right I think it would make things interesting.

[@Christopher_Boyd]

I would definitely tune in. I'm a huge combat sports fan and that would be just great.

[@Christopher_Boyd]

English Bulldog won. The Husky was a close second though.

[@TravisStevensgrappling]

English Bulldog for the WIN!!!!

[@rebeccagross6845]

Will this coronavirus affect people who have seizures

[@TravisStevensgrappling]

I’m not even sure how to respond to that!

[@matiasg713]

I actually won a judo match with that same newaza combination bow and arrow attempt to juji wtf (local level noob)

[@TravisStevensgrappling]

Nice!!!!