#16 Jess Fraser

Fight Like a Girl

Today I have had the great pleasure of sitting down with the wonderful Jess Fraser! Jess is a female Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (usually) training out of Melbourne, Australia at Vanguard. In this episode, I try to cover off as much of Jess’s career as humanly possible, we talk about everything from finding the sport, to training and competing, injuries (CONTENT WARNING: There is a discussion about her bicep tear, it may cause emotional distress), coaching, and everything else that I could think of. A quick note, the audio is a bit all over the place due to 1. This being a telephone interview, and 2. Our mic’s levels being out of sync. So I recommend listening on a lower volume to start, especially if you’re using headphones or earphones, and increase as necessary. Due to the lockdown preventing me from travelling the UK for interviews with the women I want to interview here, I am taking the opportunity to speak to people that I wouldn’t normally be able to. At the outset of this venture, I was wholly against telephone interviews, but I’m thus far happy with how they’ve turned out. If there’s someone you think I should reach out to, or if there’s any issues you’re experiencing with this revised format, please don’t hesitate to get in contact with me. And as always, much love to you all! x ❤️ x