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Published by Andrew McGahon
A series of Podcasts by Andrew McGahon largely linked to the sport of Brazilian JiuJitsu, with the scope of expanding off into something else in the future. For those in the world who have slightly higher aspirations than normal, but seemingly lack the cutting-edge attributes of the high performers, Consistently Above Average is tongue in cheek for those currently happy in the 51-70% range. Wondering what life might be like in the higher bracket.
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I had to break ranks, to Jiu-Jitsu listeners from abroad. I'm sorry, but last night I witnessed one of the greatest sporting moments to ever happen in Ireland. The confusing thing is, it wasn't the sporting moment aka the main event, that made it the greatest sporting moment. Dig into that idea with me a little, because this was a rousing appreciation and goodbye to Katie Taylor from the sport of professional boxing. She had to make her name in the sport, mostly in places that weren't Ireland, and even though she got her good showings in the 3Arena, something being pulled off like what we saw in Croke Park deserves further reflection.
It's kind of like being stuck at a crossroads, but you know that if you do take the right exit or junction at the crossroads then it'll be the single best decision you've ever made in your life? What is the best way, what is a useful way, what could be a helpful way. What is the right way to try do something, what is the wrong way to do something. Are there diminishing returns, are you chasing low ROIs. All of these concepts loosely talked about in some capacity by a rambling man who is really looking forward to interviewing a couple of unique guests over the next few weeks. Until then, please enjoy 42 minutes of a borderline rant.
Recorded in the middle of the night in a room terrified of waking people up above and beside me. This is episode 54 of Consistently Above Average. Following the public shame, humiliation, embarassment, betrayal and possible hyperbole. I have fled to France after losing on Polaris nearly 2 weeks ago. Perhaps, not the audio conditions you are usually all treated to, but have been enjoying the downtime and some reflection so what a better way than to finish off the holiday than by staying up all night before a flight recording an episode. Small appreciation of the overall UFC White House shout at the end, brace yourselves for a unwanted MMA podcast in the next couple of days as well.
Hey, thanks for waiting. Jetlag drove me to planning this episode, maybe I should consider not sleeping more often during regular weeks and we could get some more podcasts out. I went to California and wanted to give you the low down or experience of my first IBJJF Gi World Championships. It was really good, we also got to train with Dan Lukehart at Brea JiuJitsu who you may remember from older episodes of this Podcast. Polaris this weekend as well, which means we're at least due another episode next week. Lovely. Good to be back.
I don't know if it's because i overcame potentially the most lethal dose of flu ever recorded in the history of mankind this week but I might have turned into a bit of a hater this episode. Alternative episode title could have been an A-D-SEE-SEE esque title because well and truely I have to be honest with you. Even though this tournament will crown one of the best grapplers in Europe, it attracts a host of people who might not be vying for that title of number 1. A throw away remark from Chael Sonnen inspired this episode title, when someone said it's good to see you, he reminded them it's good to be seen. This is the over arching influence of the majority of compeittors competing this weekend at ADCC European Trials. I have zero basis for this hypothesis, but have a listen and see what you think regardless.
Honestly guys, the title speaks for itself. One topic this week, we deep dive it, A podcaster shouldn't tell you they are lost for words but my word...
Honestly it's been that long since I released an episode I think it would be disengenious to try and come up with an episode title that would make you think...oh what. a lovely nuanced thought out discussion and podcast episode. It's back, 2026 is the year it works or goes bust. I'm hoping for the former instead of the latter but we haven't spoken since Las Vegas, then we had Christmas, Lisbon, London and ultimately where it always ends up being ... Dundalk. So I recapped you in on the last couple of weeks and we kick start 2026.
Unfortunately, the show was delayed due to some legal complications that we address very early in the show. Lessons have been learned, and I promise all of the listeners that it won't happen again. It's the week before heading off to Las Vegas, but just after that is Christmas, where training is going to slow down a little bit, and you (yes, you) need to take a long hard look at yourself. The shops that you give your money to have made a decision for what and why stuff gets put in the shop window, and what you see online is the shop window. You want to be the thing in there, not the pan de-greaser. What you’re doing, who you’re doing it with, and if your week is really a reflection of the person who is trying to get to the place they want to get to.
HYDROX Dublin 2025 is here, one of the biggest events on the sporting calendar. Over 15,000 hybrid rockstar athletes are taking to the turf in the hollowed halls of the RDS Arena in Ballsbridge DUBLIN 4. Finishers patches, event t-shirts, medals and podium photos all up for grabs this weekend, either in the singles, doubles, mixed doubles and elite divisions. Huge early controversy is brewing online from a number of Hydrox athletes who think there are too many slow pace runners, hogging the fast lane at the RDS Arena...but all eyes point to this weekend so we can find out, who's going to be HOGGING the top spot at the end of the day. There's also a rounding up, closing discussion about the news of another cringe worthy niche sport, Brazilian JiuJitsu closing in on receiving government recognition as a sport through IMAC (Irish Martial Arts Council) so we take a quick look at who they are, and what this might mean for the sport. Thank you for tuning in, you rockstars!
This is such a terrible time to be writing a podcast bio when your alarm is going off in 5 hours to drive to Dublin for the IBJJF Dublin Open but here I am. I'm not even going to ask ChatGPT to correct the spelling and grammar on this one either. It's a debrief episode on my experience competing in the NoGi Europeans last week, as well as the announcement you've all been waiting for...when are Andrew and Jean hosting another cross training session... The Answer is actually a lot sooner than we expected, Sunday the 16th November and we hope to see as many listeners there as possible too. More information in the episode!
A lot of my training partners competed very well during the week and Team Torres has a new European Champion. We had put a lot of good work leading up to this tournament. I just felt like it was important, for me in some capacity to record and release this episode before I competed today. I turn 33 today, quite a lot of the positive things that have formed in my adult life have formed from being involved in JiuJitsu. Competing is a very freeing experience that one day I will not be able to do. I just felt like i said that it was important to think and put that out into the planet, on this day of all days. I don't think there's a description that's gonna make someone listen or not either way, but this was my stream of thoughts the night before this years NoGi European Championships. How I hope that releasing this will help me with something else in the longer term. See you on the other side.
So, Episode 44 of the Consistently Above Average podcast is here. There's a big No-Gi Europeans next week that everybody is very excited for, I think, just under 3,000 people competing in Ostia in Rome next week and weekend. I believe across all divisions this is going to be a breakout tournament for people, and there are a few sleepers that are going to win divisions. We will talk about that more, hopefully before I fly over there. The meat and bones of the topic on this episode, though, is returning to jiu-jitsu after a short or extended hiatus. We had a great one last week, so let's discuss some common fears or irrationalities you might have coming back and why we are always delighted to see you, as well as a quick guide on how to and how not to make your grand return. For those interested at the very end, there’s also some great info on the origin of a chicken goujon!
Last week I closed off the podcast letting you know that I reached out to the Ireland BJJ organisation with some questions, both about the Emerald Cup and their evening event, the Irish BJJ Invitational. We discuss the response, we go through the email I received, and we talk about the evening event — both in the promotion, the day itself, and the reaction people had. I also think transparency is important. A friend of the podcast asked me recently why I had an issue with one athlete competing with a failed drug test, when previously I had no issue. So we chat about that too. There's a huge desire in the world at the minute to be aggravated and annoyed at stuff, where sometimes it can be much easier to just admit maybe you were in the wrong. That's something I will always be happy to put my name to.
I promise, I genuinely thought it was called the Emerald Cup for the first six minutes. Sorry about that. I'm holding myself to a public declaration of weekly episodes again. If I miss one, everyone who likes and reshares this podcast will win $100.* This week’s episode is a single-topic deep dive into the Shamrock Cup, with a little side diversion about how obvious ChatGPT-generated social media posts have become, along with an announcement about the elephant in the room. We're still waiting on a comment, and we’ll follow up in next week's episode. *may not be true
It's been 43 days since I wrote a podcast bio description after recording an episode and I do admit I missed it a little bit more than I thought I would. Quick catch up and chat about what's been going on the last little while and why there's not been an episode, hard to act like everythings going great for your training when you're not able to do it the way you would like to. That's probably a sign to have the back up plans ready in terms of the longer form guest interviews from the last little while but we will see how the next few months goes now after that. We couple of thoughts on CJI as well within the debate of making it a spectator sport vs the competitors trying to win no matter what because the prize money is very lucrative. As well as why it seems like there are two (maybe more) versions of Craig Jones we should be aware of and how this could lead to what CJI 3 could (or could not) look like.
Chris Leddy is a Brazilian JiuJitsu Black Belt, He runs https://martialartsbray.ie/ alongside his brother Adam, He's also an instructor with David Gray Interactive https://www.davidgreyrehab.com/courses/Interactive Chris has been training JiuJitsu since the late 2000s after befriending Darragh O'Conaill in a local weight lifting gym. Since then he has traveled, trained and competed all around the world. We discussed Chris having not just one but two microdiscectomy operations, the most recent being earlier on this year. I'm not sure if this was a good title for the video, we discussed a lot more than what's there I had a loose idea where I wanted to go through his back operations, a famous boards.ie discussion around him competing as a white belt at the world championships in 2011 and then his journey and opening his gym up until this point. But like most good conversations with Chris i've had it drew off into different paths and directions but we got there in the end. I will get around to the timestamps in the next day or two and they'll be posted in the comments.
It's a shorter episode this week but the whole world is now aware of some random CEO from an American company and the alleged HR worker who may or may not have been having an affair. At a wider look, it's insane to think something that's happening every day, with little to no consequences at all can just be amplified to life altering effects with just one thing being recorded and going viral. On the JiuJitsu discussion we have a small follow up from last weeks tournaments changing dates, a local tournament coming to a place with no effort of interacting with the local customers base, a very exciting weekend ahead of packing all your t-shirts and the deliberation of maybe, after giving off about them so much, that I should run a tournament next year myself. We also have a voice note from a listener requesting a correction from last weeks episode and announce the next guest on the podcast which should be the very next (if not the one after) episode of the podcast.
Episode 38 is here! boards.ie was once the old stomping ground of the Irish Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu community—people posting under usernames, some knowing who was who, others just faceless trolls. The internet hasn't changed much in that regard, and neither has the tendency for people to complain about competitions. In this episode, we take a stroll down memory lane to revisit discussions around tournaments held in Ireland during 2010, 2011, and 2012, and the opinions that came with them. This all came about because a listener sent in a question: on one weekend in September, there are five different tournaments happening across two days in Ireland—plus one invitational in the evening. This is going to stretch coaches, parents, athletes, and staff very thin, raising questions about who will go where. We chat about the viability of running five events on the same weekend, and whether there's anything that could be done in the future to avoid such scheduling clashes.
Audio-only return of Consistently Above Average – Episode 37. In this episode, I talk about the recent absence, where real life basically jumped right in front of the car that is this podcast and forced a little break. This is one of two episodes dropping this week, so keep an ear out for Friday's release as well. Today, I ramble on about the concept of sonder , why I’ve always wanted to be a conduit for interviewing, the overwhelming urge I had to take a photo of a wall in an Airbnb in Poland a few years ago, and a couple of other things. T-shirt orders close this evening – or at the latest, tomorrow morning. You can order for collection or delivery using the link below: 👉 http://linktree.com/consistentlyaboveaverage
This is part two of a two-part conversation. The full, uncut version (around 3 hours) is up on YouTube. Dan Lukehart is a third-degree BJJ black belt under Beneil Dariush, owner of Brea Jiu-Jitsu in California, and co-owner of IBJJFRankings.com . He’s known for his deep understanding of IBJJF rules, his old-school training logs, and his detailed athlete breakdowns. Dan also coaches Nolan Stuart, who—in his first year as a black belt—won the IBJJF Pan Ams and placed second at both the Brazilian Nationals and the Worlds, losing only to Erich Munis, the current #1 pound-for-pound black belt. Part two dives more into athlete development and building competitive teams. There’s a slight echo on my voice in this episode due to a speaker issue—it won’t happen again. Thanks for listening!
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