Sep 4, 2026 · 47 min · 11 segments
**In this episode of the Degenerate Jiu-Jitsu Podcast, Irish Mike sits down with Shane Gleeson head coach and owner of The Limerick Slide by. Mike chats with Shane about how he came to learn about…
Shane GleesonGuest
Irish MikeHost
So for me, okay, I think the biggest, even before I found Daisy Fresh, PSF, Heath, all these people, let's, yeah, we can go to the next step on the ladder, isn't it? Well, it ties into the first step even before i knew about all them i thought the biggest gap in jujitsu was the lack of team
in american football it is the ultimate team sport i could talk for a full podcast on why that is such an important why team in american football is so much more important than any other sport i've ever come across
and then by being an american football team you become just put it this way right it's like every position on your american football team right are completely different skills.
It's like you've got your judo players, you've got your wrestlers, and you've got your jiu-jitsu guys.
So what'll happen is you might have one quarterback who is a terrible person and like a terrible teammate but he's amazing
you have to end up corrupting your own values doing team philosophy the team culture just to appease this diva or you have to kick that person off the team but sometimes you just have to appease people and that's the worst part of american football being a team sport And the best part of American football being a team sport is you need to help everybody along the way because you need help in every single position.
When you do that over here, it's just a superpower because people don't really know how to use jiu-jitsu as a team.
So because we all think of it as, okay, we're all on a team, but we are individual when we compete.
Whereas I can see how you go, you are all very... uh team orientated the way you work together not saying that other teams don't work like that but i can see what you try and build you can see it when you've been here and you can see how you talk to people and you know how you deal with them it's it's not your typical class and i mean that as a compliment not as a it's not a dig or anything like that no no not at all but um so how did how so from vietnam then how did you land up leaving or sorry thailand did you end up leaving there and getting involved with all the pss so leaving vietnam and we made it through the end of
covid there was a short period of brutal lockdown and then we came up the other side of that and we're like it but we just go home like it's gonna take us a while to get back on our feet here we only came down here for an easy life and now we're gonna have to build our life down here so it's just like we just moved back to ireland i was like look i said to cal my missus i go look if we're going back to ireland I am going to go over to HQ, to Daisy
So for me, okay, I think the biggest, even before I found Daisy Fresh, PSF, Heath, all these people, let's, yeah, we can go to the next step on the ladder, isn't it? Well, it ties into the first step even before i knew about all them i thought the biggest gap in jujitsu was the lack of team
in american football it is the ultimate team sport i could talk for a full podcast on why that is such an important why team in american football is so much more important than any other sport i've ever come across
and then by being an american football team you become just put it this way right it's like every position on your american football team right are completely different skills.
It's like you've got your judo players, you've got your wrestlers, and you've got your jiu-jitsu guys.
So what'll happen is you might have one quarterback who is a terrible person and like a terrible teammate but he's amazing
you have to end up corrupting your own values doing team philosophy the team culture just to appease this diva or you have to kick that person off the team but sometimes you just have to appease people and that's the worst part of american football being a team sport And the best part of American football being a team sport is you need to help everybody along the way because you need help in every single position.
When you do that over here, it's just a superpower because people don't really know how to use jiu-jitsu as a team.
So because we all think of it as, okay, we're all on a team, but we are individual when we compete.
Whereas I can see how you go, you are all very... uh team orientated the way you work together not saying that other teams don't work like that but i can see what you try and build you can see it when you've been here and you can see how you talk to people and you know how you deal with them it's it's not your typical class and i mean that as a compliment not as a it's not a dig or anything like that no no not at all but um so how did how so from vietnam then how did you land up leaving or sorry thailand did you end up leaving there and getting involved with all the pss so leaving vietnam and we made it through the end of
covid there was a short period of brutal lockdown and then we came up the other side of that and we're like it but we just go home like it's gonna take us a while to get back on our feet here we only came down here for an easy life and now we're gonna have to build our life down here so it's just like we just moved back to ireland i was like look i said to cal my missus i go look if we're going back to ireland I am going to go over to HQ, to Daisy
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