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Jared “Megalo” Dopp is a Brown belt under Rafael Lovato Jr. He is a Blue, Purple, and Brown Belt No-Gi World Champion. Blue, Purple, and Brown Belt Pan Champion. Blue Belt Gi World Champion, and two time Purple Belt World Gi Silver medalist. In 2013 as a Purple belt he took 4th place at ADCC.
We talk about:
- His accomplishments with only 4 years of serious training
- His push the pace style
- How he is able to force his opponents to make mistakes
- How he views Gi and No-gi differently
- Ways to get around an opponent that is stalling
- Passing the guard to the right side
- He is in school for chemical engineering
- Balancing school and BJJ
- His training schedule
- Off the mat training including rugby
- His research in growing nano tubes
- His thoughts on competing in 2015 ADCC
- His hopes of doing submission only matchs
- Strategy for a submission only match
- Advice for a student doing a first tournament
- His advice for cutting weight to compete
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Quote of the week: “It never gets easy, but always gets better” presented by Vic Torres
Article of the week: “The 5 Ways Resilient People Get Over Failure”
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