Judoka Profile : Travis Stevens (Judo Silencer)

[@Divdive]

Thanks Chadi , easily the best channel for Judo

[@Chadi]

I truly appreciate it

[@Brisingr2207]

If you make one on Travis Stevens you've got to make one on Jimmy Pedro, his coach, and their gripping/kumikata system ! Keep it up ! I'm really digging your work !

[@Brisingr2207]

I got so excited I commented before the end of the vid ! You are very thorough ;)

[@inglesdavimartins]

Hahaha I have his instructional. It should be mandatory for any Jiu-Jitsuka or Judoka.

[@counterkidnapping1737]

I like his grip fighting

[@Chadi]

Thank you so much Minh

[@jojonels]

speaking of their gripping system, you should check where they got it from, neil adams, legend and legacy to the world

[@henrikg1388]

Travis Stevens is really badass. I cannot think of a more complete grappler. His personality is extremely focused and competition oriented. I call him "the most dangerous man alive" and I don't care who used to be called by that name.

[@Chadi]

Agreed

[@jorgerp7506]

Ohh yeees!!! Travis Stevens, my favourite judoka. I love his fighting style!!

[@Chadi]

Elite Judoka

[@counterkidnapping1737]

This is the where I learned from and Jimmy Pedro

[@rangelo8908]

Travis and Ole had the greatest stare down of all time

[@Chadi]

Indeed

[@papita_vTuberFan]

I love his channel very informative that even a non judo practicioner like me can understand

[@Chadi]

He's a great teacher

[@ktkt1825]

Well done! Travis Stevens is one, if not the most talented and capable Judoka standing and on the mat.

[@CalebAdams]

I love this series man!! Keep them coming, you're great at these. Really super insightful

[@Chadi]

Thank you Caleb

[@maitrekano]

very good i m a fan of Travis , and he deserves his roku dan .

[@Chadi]

Big fan as well

[@smb264]

I love this judoka & also how he cross trains in bjj and excels in both! Thanks for this Chadi!

[@Chadi]

He's one of the best for sure

[@her0her0]

Everytime I don’t feel like training I just watch/listen to something Travis Stevens related. He truly is an inspiration and one of my favorite martial artists of all time, I can’t wait to go train with him some day.

[@Colin-rr7uy]

Thank you Chadi !

[@Chadi]

🙇🏻‍♂️

[@BlueyFromMelbShuffle]

You released this pretty much at the same time I bought his BJJ basics set off the Fanatics sale. Order of the heavens or what? I’m happy your channel is growing - it inspired me to finally start jiujitsu and I’ve been going for 2 months now.

[@Chadi]

That's awesome Joel! Thank you, let's call it a happy coincidence

[@hasanc1526]

He could've submitted 90% of BJJ black belts before he ever even did BJJ.

[@Chadi]

Exactly! He's a monster

[@thebeast9606]

90% of the black belts of his caliber (meaning competitive such as Garcia, Galvao, Roger Gracie, etc...) or just “regular” black belts? Just curious because I remember Dan and Dave Camarillo saying the top BJJ black belt when they started training toyed with them...

[@hasanc1526]

@@thebeast9606 90% of all black belts. Also Camarillo is nowhere near the level that Travis stevens ever was lol and he was probably toyed with under BJJ specific rules. Also many top bjj players said that Flavio Canto could beat most elite bjj players. This isn't just the exception, most Judo guys at that level would beat most bjj guys

[@thebeast9606]

@@hasanc1526 Yes, Flavio is exceptionally good on the ground, but I have a hard time believing Travis or Flavio beat Roger, Jacare, Maia, Xande, Marcelo, etc..in PURE groundwork. I get it that he’d beat a lot (thus your 90%), but the upper echelon I’d say would win far more often than not.

[@hasanc1526]

@@thebeast9606 yes but I'm not talking about the worlds best black belts. I'm talking about 90% of black belts

[@LêHiếuTô]

this man's video improved my judo 10 folds.

[@ashemleibakngambamoirangch5416]

Great video he's another humble Master he even answered my question in his live video as well as comments.

[@Chadi]

Agreed! Thank you

[@josephfaught1993]

Thanks for the awesome content! Would love to maybe see one of these for Jimmy Pedro as well.

[@Chadi]

I'll add him to the list

[@Fabyfakid]

Chadi he had some epic matches against Flavio Canto with awesome newaza on display. I hope you do a profile on Canto too!!! Edit: JUST noticed there was one lol 😂

[@Chadi]

Sure

[@OmegaSupremeWCheese]

Love the video man, just found your channel glad I did, huge fan of Stevens work!

[@Chadi]

Thank you very much 🙇🏻‍♂️

[@agrainofsalt4889]

Awesome work again chadi. 🙏

[@Chadi]

Thank you

[@karlievbayram811]

Good judoka. I remember I read somewhere that there was not strong sparring partners in USA for him and he trained with young amateur high school boys.

[@Chadi]

I think he's the greatest male American Judoka in History, and Harrison the greatest American female judoka

[@karlievbayram811]

@@Chadi For me greatest judoka from USA is Jimmy Pedro. Travis Stevens goes second. For female judokas, it is Kayla Harrison for 100%.

[@pelejahosoba5280]

@@karlievbayram811 u don't know what u are saying, trust me,u don't, when it comes to teaching Travis is better and advanced, even Jimmy Pedro's judo highlight was wacky and slow,very boring and sloppy, but Travis is a monster

[@karlievbayram811]

@@pelejahosoba5280 It is very simple: for you is Travis Stevens, and for me is Jimmy Pedro.

[@kevionrogers2605]

Yes it's true. Travis and I are a year apart in age and back in the 2000 to 2005 era I got a chance to do summer session with him at that time I lived in Johns Creek Georgia literally diagonally opposite side of the USA. I competed mainly in Wrestling in highschool both USA Wrestling and AAU. Judo is virtually none existent when I was in highschool there was only one other teenage male around my age in the entire state of Georgia. The expense of traveling to compete in the gi grappling such as Judo, Jiu-Jitsu, and Sambo is the main reason I stopped after highschool. Even now in Alabama there is only two places that train Judo and they are four hours apart and do it as adjunct to Jiu-Jitsu rather than as a separate system.

[@rh45sth62]

Travis is such a balanced fighter; a very exciting player to watch.

[@Chadi]

Indeed

[@spencerantoniomarlen-starr3069]

I'm surprised Travis hasn't commented on this video yet! He seems fairly active and fairly accessible on KZbin.

[@johnlopez9014]

Travis vs Canto is hands down one of the best demonstration of how amazing judo is. N how bjj should be

[@Chadi]

I'll cover it

[@joewwright92]

I love this series! More please :)

[@Chadi]

You got it

[@andresmendoza7940]

Nice to see you review a man whis not only a very accomplished judoka but also a recognizable figure in the jits world, especially having a Black belt from danaher before most of the "death squad" no?

[@Chadi]

Thank you Andres

[@vaughanmacegan4012]

I saw that fight live when he got that silver and all I can say was that he was flopping on his back and he got pinged for it. He might have good tachi-waza as you say, but, I never saw it. When you get tired you resort to the thing you are most comfortable - your brain goes on automatic - and he resorted to BJJ, his training was the thing that lost him that gold medal.

[@tuukkahyttinen6815]

No offense, but that is a ridiculous statement. He wasn't trying to flop or pull guard in the Olympic finals. Sutemi-waza is a thing, and many elite level players go for sacrifice throws. Khalmurzaev was a beast in tachi-waza, and maybe Travis felt his best chance to win deep in to the fight was to go for a sacrifice throw and try to transition in to groundwork. Stevens was actually a high level judoka before he ever seriously trained BJJ, he only trained jiu-jitsu for fun and worked extremely hard at Jimmy Pedro's in the training room so his training background was definitely solid. He has in fact said many times that he never really used his jiu-jitsu in judo competitions, because his actual judo ne-waza was much more effective and focused to the IJF ruleset.

[@Chadi]

Sutemi waza is a big thing in Judo

[@vaughanmacegan4012]

@@tuukkahyttinen6815 Well, I can only call it as I saw it, and it looked like he was flopping on to his back to me. As I recall he was pretending to do a tomoe nage (flop) when there was no chance of it actually working. Took me a while, but, I am getting more in tune with the referees as to when a person is flopping or not. Pretending to do a throw to transition to newaza is a shido. Training for two different sports with different rulesets at the same time is going to leave you at a disavantage in both.

[@vancityband6577]

Didn't Stevens do a video on his channel where he explains what he was doing in the match (assuming you are talking about the semi against Tchrikishvili that got him into the gold medal match)? If I recall correctly, his "flopping on his back" was actually a move that he practiced to exploit a specific weakness in that opponent's judo and take advantage of his superior ne-waza.

[@NickKano11]

Would be great to get him on your podcast :)

[@joesphruggiero3707]

Man i admire this guy so good

[@rodrigomichalzechen]

Flavio Canto deserves one video profile.

[@Chadi]

Soon

[@rustyshackleford735]

He's got an almost predictive power considering his opponents next move.

[@Chadi]

He's strong

[@nihilistlemon1995]

Travis Stevens is my spirit animal

[@marceloisoni9158]

I love Travis Stevens. I was so happy when he went do finals

[@Chadi]

Same

[@tommybrewer6377]

Great vid bro!!! I had the honor to grab gi with Travis....Yeah...No couldn't budge him at all Lol. Ridiculous 🥋

[@Chadi]

You're very fortunate

[@devriestown]

Can you do dan the beast Severn he has a judo black belt.

[@Chadi]

I'll look him up

[@JMHCLash]

This was great.

[@Chadi]

Thank you

[@berniekatzroy]

Nice content as always, you should add Kayla Harrison to the list.

[@Chadi]

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[@berniekatzroy]

@@Chadi woah I need go through the list again.

[@georgyy.121]

Please make one on ilias iliadis

[@Laneknkgh5364]

Iam 33 years can I start judo seriously and be world champion?

[@Chadi]

You can start training, accomplish little goals little by little, and there's veteran competitions for people over 35

[@sleekostrich4367]

Bro be honest with yourself, world champion in judo is a extremely ambitious even if you start at 18. You can certainly be very good, but number one in the world at that age as a beginner is near impossible unless you already have an incredible amount of experience grappling and even then it’s highly unlikely

[@zepolcin2412]

An chang rim profile ?

[@hercules9987]

Best motivator and my favorite Have 2 type judokas 1 type like ono with muscle 2 type like Travis with heart

[@Chadi]

Ono got his head wrapped up against orujov and continued too

[@raymondr2821]

Black belt both arts Judo/Bjj

[@jks36352]

Can you do flavio canto

[@Chadi]

Sure

[@jks36352]

And the Georgian shota khabareli

[@larryzach7880]

The Bischof decision was wrong, the Refs were prejudiced.

[@ReisterJP]

I really don't think travis is that good. He's just special because the United states is just so far behind the world in judo.

[@channi58]

There's better judo guys than him and on the ground also, maybe not in usa though.

[@Chadi]

In the middleweight and up ne waza tends to reduce