After a few weeks away, the FightWorks Podcast returns like a keg of dynamite! We come to you with three interviews that will each hit you like a flying armbar from the Incredible Hulk!

First off we speak with Robert Drysdale! Because he won the absolute division of the 2007 ADCC Championship by beating Marcelo Garcia, Drysdale was scheduled to take on Roger Gracie later this month in the 2009 ADCC superfight. However last week it was announced that Roger was injured and unable to compete! So we called Drysdale on Wednesday and got his thoughts on losing his opponent. That interview starts our show.

Next we continue the ADCC theme by presenting you Saulo Ribeiro, who, along with his brother, Xande Ribeiro, leads the UNIJJ. Between the two Ribeiro brothers, there are several ADCC gold medals and Saulo will update us on how the UNIJJ prepares its commando squad of elite grapplers (Saulo, Xande, Rani Yahya, Kron Gracie, Rafael Lovato Jr., Justin Rader…) for something like the biannual ADCCs that will take place in Barcelona this month.

Our feature interview this week is one I have had scheduled for some time and am really excited to present: a conversation with Victor Cesar Bota, the director of the soon-to-be-released movie The Gracies. Bota is a childhood friend of Renzo Gracie and he has put together a documentary that focuses on the history of the Gracie family. While the Gracie family is deservedly famous in our community for developing our addiction called jiu-jitsu, it is not free of the disagreements all of our families share. Appropriately, the Gracie movie’s focus is not jiu-jitsu but the family which developed jiu-jitsu. BJJ historians, in the famous words of our good friend Breno Sivak: prepare yourselves! You can learn more about the film on Facebook, YouTube, and its official website.

http://www.thefightworkspodcast.com/podcasts/fightworkspodcastepisode179.mp3