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Ep. 126 - Riding the Jiu Jitsu Boom with Dan Uyemura
My guest this week is everybody’s favorite white belt, Dan Uyemura, CEO and co-founder of PushPress. Dan opened a CrossFit gym in 2010, built his own software because the options sucked, and has spent the last 13 years building PushPress for the little guy. He started jiu jitsu at 50 and his only regret is waiting so long.
Dan has seen the CrossFit boom from the inside, and he thinks jiu jitsu is about six years into the same ten year arc. We get into what that means for your academy, why onboarding is the biggest miss in the industry, his “first friend” system for new white belts, and how…
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