#109 Know thy self with Rosi Sexton

In today's episode of the mind set game podcast, I sat down with Rosi Sexton aka The Surgeon. 

She is the UK's first female UFC fighter. But, Five years ago, she retired from MMA competition. Her last fight was on Cage Warriors against now UFC champion Joanna Jędrzejczyk.

She had been involved in martial arts since she was at school. She already held dan grades in jujutsu and Taekwondo. In 2000, after 10 years' experience in martial arts, she decided to train in Mixed Martial Arts and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, as a way of proving to herself that what she had learned was applicable to real life. A clue to the reason for this career change may be found in her comment "The other things I did, the music, the maths, just weren't quite hard enough"

At the same time, she trained in osteopathy, receiving a degree in that subject from Oxford Brookes University in 2010. She currently practices as an Osteopath, with a particular interest in sports injuries and evidence-based practice. She has written about the problem of performance-enhancing drugs (doping) in combat sports and is a supporter of the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association, VADA. She is a spokesperson for SafeMMA, an organisation dedicated to ensuring the safety of competitors, and she runs a combat sports injury clinic.

For more information about Rosie can be found on her website rosisexton.com, also you can connect with her on Twitter.

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