🎙️ HIT PLAY. This is not the post — this is the preview. This episode features Ashley Williams, a kid from Wales who didn’t dream about rugby or football like every other boy on his street. He dreamed about becoming a world class grappler. That dream took him from the Draig team roots that built him, through ADCC gold-standard competition, into founding his own house, The Grappling Academy. We talk about how his coaching evolved from the old Socratic style of drilling questions into students, into a CLA and ecological approach that trusts the body to find answers the mind hasn’t caught up to yet. We go deep on whether a BJJ coach has any business teaching ethics at all, and Ashley’s take on that is nothing like mine — this gets real. And then there’s the twist nobody sees coming: this man has a degree in astrophysics. He studied the stars before he studied guard passes. This is not your average grappler. This is not your average podcast. This is Bishop Chronicles!!!
To every listener still here, still sharing, still pulling up a chair week after week — thank you. Free or paid, new or day one, more is always on the way. Epictetus said it best: it is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows — and Ashley Williams has spent his whole life proving that the moment you think you’ve arrived is the moment you stop growing.
Follow Ashley:
IG: @awilliamsbjj
Website: thegrapplingacademy.co.uk
Hit play. You need to hear this one.
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