24: The Value of Strong Mindset, Coaching Others, BJJ Training for Cops w/ Gabriel Austin Daffron

Blue Grit Radio: the Police Performance Podcast: Mindset, Wellness, Leadership · May 18, 2023 · 46m

I knew this episode was going to be fantastic as soon as Austin agreed to come on the show.Gabriel "Austin" AKA Daffy the Duck Daffron is a BBJ event promoter, BJJ and wrestling coach, and more recently a professional MMA fighter. I met Austin through finding events and venues to do police recruiting and community engagement, which led me to meet him and much of his BJJ team in South Seattle.Austin talks us through his start in wrestling, rise in BJJ and how he came to be a role player or "suit actor" for the WA State police academy to help cops train their defensive and arrest tactics. We…