How To Overcome The Gag Reflex As A Competitive Eater

How do competitive eaters overcome the 'gag reflex'?

There's a couple of eaters that are very good at the gag relfex but we're not going to get into that. As to taming the gag reflex, I don't know. That's something that once you do get comfortable with taking bigger bites and whatever you're used to eating, you'll progressively get better in. You'll pass your threshhold, for what you are, what the norm is, and then that's what starts getting you into competitive eating. You go out of just eating a spoonful of something. Then you start thinking could I get maybe two bites on that spoon and you learn to swallow that way. It just increases.