April 28, 2026

Chicago Open Recap: Medals, Grub & Deep-Dish Debriefs (Episode 60)

Chicago Open Recap: Medals, Grub & Deep-Dish Debriefs (Episode 60)
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Chicago Open Recap: Medals, Grub & Deep-Dish Debriefs (Episode 60)
Chicago Open Recap: Medals, Grub & Deep-Dish Debriefs (Episode 60)
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On this episode of Fighters Drinking Coffee, hosts and guests Kate, Andrea, Scott and Leo recap the Chicago Open weekend: match results, immediate rematches, and what went right (and what didn’t) on the mats.

We dig into match-by-match breakdowns and key takeaways — including tactical adjustments, live coaching captured with mic’d coaches for post-match film review, and lessons learned from running it back. Plus the food stories: our pre-fight steak-and-potatoes ritual, post-fight feasts, and deep-dish showdowns (Pequod’s vs. Lou Malnati’s) — and the pastry detours that made the trip memorable.

Expect practical training takeaways, candid competitor reflections, and plenty of travel-and-food banter — with results (Scott and Leo gold, Kate silver, Andrea and others earning podium finishes), coaching insights, and next-step homework for the team.

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00:20 - Support the Podcast

00:36 - Chicago Open Recap

03:29 - Post-Fight Meals

08:45 - Pre-Fight Rituals

17:55 - Individual Match Breakdown

22:10 - Learning from Defeat

30:57 - Embracing Improvement

42:57 - Immediate Rematches

45:39 - Competitive Insights

54:21 - Closing Thoughts

56:29 - Stay Connected

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On today's episode of Fighters Drinking Coffee, we cover the events of the Chicago Open,

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our matches, as well as our post-fight meals, and the pre-fight meals as well,

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the events of Chicago with Kate, Andrea, Scott, and myself.

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If you guys would like to support the podcast, check out our Patreon,

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patreon.com slash fighters drinking coffee podcast. Enjoy the show.

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Welcome back to Fighters Drinking Coffee. Yeah, lots of sports. Speaking of sports.

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So we're on the way back from Chicago. Everyone got hardler.

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We had everyone at good matches.

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Scott won gold. Kate won silver. Leo, who's not in the car, won gold.

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Andrea and I both double bronzed because we had to make up for single bronzed.

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But I mean overall it was a good weekend we had some sweet sweet chow afterwards

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too Kate really got to have she got to double chow which is pretty good for her,

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I guess before we get in the nitty gritty favorite things about the weekend

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who wants to start Andrea.

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I mean speaking of chow that was my first ever deep dish Chicago pizza and I

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don't know if it was just because I was in such a caloric deficit when I took

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that bite but man it was good I really liked it it was well done

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Maybe a little bit mean.

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But I really enjoyed being able to eat the food and pass it along so everyone

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could get a good look and a good smell before eating it while they were still

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on their last day of the way cut.

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Fair. So fair.

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Yeah, Pequons or Lumaonati's, guys?

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Pequons were both of us. I think it was Pequons. Whichever one had the slightly

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burped pepperonis, that was the one that I liked.

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That was Pequons. Pequots, they definitely win harder. I'm pequots as well. Scott, are you?

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I'm pequots. I mean, I'll eat both in extraordinary quantities,

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but I think pequots, pound for pound, is a little better. A little better?

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It's a little bit better. To be clear, there was no bad pizza. It was close patch-up.

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I think that pequots win by maybe an advantage or two.

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Hey, there you go. There you go. i like i like the the use of that oh that title

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that's right and we're still eating these pizzas in the car just to point this

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out yeah we have like one and a half pizzas,

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way too hard to pay on the slices but it was worth it i mean you still get to

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run the analysis guys you could do day second episode if we do it later we can

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do like what's the better day two, cold pizza.

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Give yourselves a second to decide all that. We'll get deep.

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We'll get deep into the food. We've only done one.

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We've done the systematically maintaining your weight cut on the way here.

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We should do systematically... Filling your gut. Yeah.

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Systematically undoing your weight cut.

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That'll be... We will do that next. You'll let yourself have a full eating class. Yeah.

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Systematically getting heartburn. Oh, yeah. I think...

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Well, in our defense, Reed, the excess pizza, we did order the pizza immediately as we left the venue.

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So we were in a very different state of mind.

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Ever insanity. Yeah. Like, Andrea and I just stepped off the mats.

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We're still, like, in our endorphin high from getting to, like, fight back.

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Adrenaline was still pumping.

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Yeah. Adrenaline was still pumping.

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I was, like, I had, like, the biggest endorphin rush. as we get in the car.

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So, I was, I mean, I would have... So, no regrets. No regrets. Zero regrets.

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Every time I do this, and, like, you all talk to my sister and my brother-in-law,

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they're like, we don't eat this stuff unless Scott's around, which is accurate.

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Well, I don't know what they do when I'm not around, but when I'm around,

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I often make them get this, and I'm generally like, I'll just take care of the pizza.

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Let me just supply it. Due to a temporary state of gluttonous lust,

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I get too much every single time because I'd rather have too much than not enough.

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And then the leftovers can be managed. You know what I mean?

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So it's better to have too much than not enough.

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I think that goes outside of just Chicago deep dish on travel.

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That's just how you order pizza. What are you saying?

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I'm saying that like. This is what you do. You do too much. You would be right.

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Too much pizza is better than not enough pizza.

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I 100% agree. Especially if you're like getting it from other people.

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It's one thing. It's yourself, right? Look, you guys, if your first time in

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Chicago, you're like, we want deep dish pizza I'm like you want deep dish pizza

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you're getting deep dish pizza you're gonna get it and in,

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to add a little color to this too there was a moment where I was like alright

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alright because we did by the way we didn't speak about this so we got au chaval,

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burgers afterwards as well and so on the way on the way on the way to the pizza yeah um,

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which was a necessary uh,

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flavor palette in general add in

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that it's like a chicago delicacy and

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so um at one point in time i was like look we probably only really need to pick

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one place to go for pizza um piquots or lumanati now kate was like i'm getting

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lumanatis i want to know what this is all about which i agree with and i had

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been brewing on this idea of like why don't we just get both beginning today side-by-side them.

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And there's just no way not to win here. And so then, as you...

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When she said that, I was like, well, it's done. We're getting both.

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So we ultimately got three different places.

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To pig on. True. Bakeries, yeah, you're right. Oh, well, five,

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if you include Margie's.

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And Margie's. Margie's was... You were like laying at all the food.

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Because actually, my favorite thing My favorite thing was waiting to leave for

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the venue and getting to live vicariously through Kate as she waited in that long-ass fucking line.

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She waited in this, like, crazy block-long line to get pastries for all of us,

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which was very nice of her. It was very nice of her. But, yeah, uh...

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It was a good way to kill some time for me because the bakery was right outside my window.

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I've been watching this lot all VT'd at this point.

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So now I had a personal investment. Okay, what was the, was it nice?

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Kind of like you're done by like midday Saturday and you're like,

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yo, man, I'm going to help my friends.

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But like I get to like breathe and exhale and like eat and munch and kind of

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like just keep an eye on us.

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All the stress is gone. Yeah. It was so nice. one

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being able to eat whatever i wanted to like

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a little bit of the decision making got pushed off of

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me that i regained on sunday uh what do you guys want to see me eat whatever

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uh the first meal post-comp since it was you know somewhere between noon and

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one needed a little afternoon pick me up so got a coffee and a donut and that

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was the ideal combo to come back to life afterwards

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But from there, I was like, I am at everyone else's disposal,

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I'll eat it. You tell me what you want to see.

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But the European style bakery, they had a lot in the window.

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So I was kind of leaning just towards what's going to hold the best over the course of the day.

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I'm eating a lot already. So let's save some for later.

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So we ended up with a sticky bun, which I did not know was going to be one of

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Mike's favorites, but ended up being one of Mike's favorites.

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He couldn't stop talking about it.

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Could not stop talking about it. A little bit of arugula and then extra donuts for me.

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Uh and i think this

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is a might have been a first for you

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guys because it is a new edition of the rules of the road but we did stick to

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the rules of the road and hit that steak and potatoes both nights right let's

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discuss pre-game steak and potatoes

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we actually went to the same place twice, because it did it right.

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We don't have, well, we will go into what we ate, but before that,

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I want to know y'all's take, and, because now, like, we've, Scott and I...

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What was going through your mind?

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Scott and I have established Steak and Potatoes as the pregame. Michael Jordan did it.

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Michael Jordan did it. We've established it as our pregame. It's our,

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you know, manage everything appropriately beforehand so you can do this.

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You feel satisfied by it. It sustains you.

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It's like, you know, it's not it's kind of indulgent, but not indulgent,

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really, because it's meat.

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I mean, it's very simple. I could derail this conversation talking about the

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merits of steak for a long time.

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I won't do it. We all know that he's sponsored. The physical and emotional and

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mental impacts of the steak and potatoes dinner the night before. Please tell us.

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It felt so risky i'm so used to eating like an acai bowl or a smoothie the night

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before a competition just because i'm like i know that this will go fast i

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Know i'll wake up light.

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In the morning but i was pretty far

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under um the night before figured

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it would probably be worth a try that i had a little bit

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of wiggle room and man it was fantastic but

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i woke up in the morning even lighter than expected so there's

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something to be said for that and going relatively early in the morning at the

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competition sometime around 11 or so means I was still riding the energy from

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the night before but I didn't need to have anything crazy in the morning I was

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already super full and super energetic

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Yeah, I can also draw upon previous experiences with IBJJF style,

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weight maintenance slash cutting.

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I habitually, when I first started competing on the IBJJF circuit,

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I was terrified of eating the night before.

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Like I would deliberately starve myself for dinner the night before.

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I'd have maybe like a protein bar early and then like go to bed as soon as I

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could and then wake up, have a little bit of breakfast, subsist on black coffee

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until I had to wait. It was miserable.

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And I was always hungry and cranky and completed through the entire day.

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And granted, part of that is because I used to cut to a lighter weight class.

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I used to be a featherweight.

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So I had to cut substantially more of my body weight to get there. Now I'm a lightweight.

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I have a little bit more clearance. But I still need to kind of,

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thanks to my strength and conditioning coach, Aseem, shout out,

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I packed on enough muscle on my frame now that I do kind of need to watch that

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food intake in the couple of days beforehand.

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So I still kind of have those old featherweight cutting habits where I'm like afraid of dinner.

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And this was my first time really having like real solid, satisfied dinner the

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night before was kind of a risk.

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But I was like, all right, weight feels kind of good. I think I have some clearance.

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I'll try out this steak and potatoes ritual.

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And man, the next day I woke up perfectly on weight.

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And it is like the best I've ever felt like replenishment and nourishment wise going into it.

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It was like the least depleted I've ever been. I was still able to have breakfast.

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I was able to have coffee.

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It was great. This is going to be my new pre-date ritual for every IBJJF cocktail.

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We're getting a beef sponsorship. These are just like perfect testimonials. Beef.

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Sponsor us. Steak. You can get Omaha steaks. You can go back to ButcherBox.

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I mean, it's a must. It's a no-brainer. I mean, we're really just pushing it.

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Man. Steaks. Yeah. I mean, honestly, it,

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I think it's cycled faster, like weight cycle, right? Like I think it's just easier to finish.

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Cows. There you go. There's a big stick right there. Yeah, whatever.

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But what was another thing that we also tried out?

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This is something that's, I know we talk about not trying new shit,

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but this doesn't really count because it's not physical or like not something

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that really affects performance.

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It's like a sideline thing. we also tested out isolating coach noise for the

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film review this is kind of like a back office thing but that was another thing that we,

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piloted something we piloted this time the only thing we piloted this time,

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that we all have tape with it now.

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I mean I think it was nice it was harder to

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tell on my video just because there was less people

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at that point um but i

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know kate has a pretty hers was pretty busy so

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she should be able to test this better but uh this could

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be something that helps you guys out we used our mobile mics we

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mic'd up the coach during the uh during the matches while filming them so we

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actually can look back at the we actually look back at the match what the coach

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is saying what the coach is seeing because like the film is from more or less

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the coach's perspective,

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so uh i mean i know i'm it helped a lot because now i can actually see one i

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can actually see the score stuff like that but uh ladies what do you think scott

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hasn't gotten a chance to review his yet because i just said it's all good but and he's driving.

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Yeah, I liked it, especially for hindsight, there's times on the map when you're

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not always going to be able to hear your coach or be able to in the moment tell what they're saying.

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So being able to watch it back and hear exactly what they're saying without

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the other people cheering, the other people screaming from the other nine mats

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that are going on at the same time, I think it's going to be really useful.

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Yeah, I agree with that for sure. like scott has been

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my primary jiu-jitsu coach for long enough that i

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think i've like i've i've like trained myself to

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listen specifically for his voice so i'm usually pretty good at picking up

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on it but sometimes it is just a loud venue and like

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if you're like in a weird position with your opponent or your

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ears smothered up against them sometimes you just can't hear as well as you

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want to so i do think that there is value add to being

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able to watch tape of your matches and hear it's like turning on like a commentary

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track essentially um and you you get a little bit more insight into what you

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not not only what was going on but also like what everybody was thinking at

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the time um when you're doing that analysis yeah

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Um i thought there was for me

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there was definitely benefit from like seeing seeing what they're seeing hearing

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what they're calling for uh because and it's like from the coaching angle to

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having leo be able to see what i was calling you can also like work out this slight uh,

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mishearing right you think you hear it one way then

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you can go back and listen to it watch it and see oh well no they actually said

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this and this is what that means yeah this is what that means like this is what

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they saw this is why they called it out so even from like a discussing with

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your coach standpoint so like outside of the like just watching yourself uh had.

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Two points way back you at

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Two points yeah definitely that i thought

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that it was he has two uh you

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but i don't know but um so yeah little

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things like that where you know it helps clarify what was going on and it also

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can remove like the if you go and watch this back like way later it'll also

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remove some of like the coach having to remember what they said if there's the

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background stuff like that so So I think it'll be a really useful tool.

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I think I would recommend it.

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I'm biased because I did. I think it's a good idea. I think it's going to work.

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I think this would be good moving forward. Be super helpful for optimizing our review post training.

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We can now get into some of the actual, like, training breakdown.

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Kevin inside. So, Kate went first. She went on Saturday. She picked up her first IBJJF win. Hell yeah.

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Always remember her first. Always remember the first. She executed on some stuff

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from adjustments from Dallas, which is good, too.

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Two pretty game opponents. They were hunting. They were trying to break her arms.

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Hopefully not successfully for that one. um

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when she she won the uh she

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won her first match and did a good little uh it's

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a sort of gary i believe it's called all right well so

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i'm learning she had a nice little set of gary put

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her down and was uh working from

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the top which was good executing the game plan um

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second match girl had done

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her homework on kate and you know

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just uh she she knew what she wanted to do but kate was out there she was composed

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she went out there which is the biggest thing too uh so you know she she got

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to the finals got silver so she good good day in the office um but kate let's

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get your your take from the inside yeah.

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I think i was pretty not anxious

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um getting on the mat which is improvement

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number one for dallas i felt really level-headed really ready the whole time

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through um get on the mats for the first main things i wanted to do after dallas

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was do a little bit better um with stand up have a little bit more of a plan try to attack

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Um not.

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My prettiest isodogari but i do think it landed and it worked um got my takedown

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points i think in the first minute or so um

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Didn't have the best finish on the Asotogari, so ended up in her close guard.

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But from there, knowing I was up on points, I knew, okay, we defend the lead

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and we attack, but we are going to attack smart.

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So big goals from there, what was just running through my mind was don't get swept.

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Stay upright, stay balanced. I tried a couple times to break it past the guard.

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I think the guard opened once or twice. but when

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I started looking like I was in danger for the arm

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bar or a sweep I'd settle right back down in

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um so did I think

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pick up a penalty for stalling which makes sense I was

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sitting in close guard for most of the time minus my little

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attempt at getting out of it but I did win that one on

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points um listening back to

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the coaches reporting um and

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watching the video I was leaving my arms hanging out there they

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were nice and open for the grabbing which i do

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believe uh my opponent for the finals probably

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saw and so when that match started

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it was over 20 seconds she got me with a really nice armbar from close guard

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she pulled guard right away probably saw that i was comfortable on the feet

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um so she pulled guard holding close guard through an armbar uh it landed on

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the arm that I'm already touchy on because I've been injured there before.

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This was right back to my very first competition in white belt.

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I got arm right twice on that arm from close guard.

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So it was like, oh, this is a familiar feeling. I will absolutely tap out to this one.

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So she was great. She did exactly what a competitor should do.

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And overall, I'm thrilled with how this weekend went.

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Picking up a win, love that. doing better than I did in Dallas.

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Love that. Did not get got with the same things I got got with in Dallas.

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Love that. So yeah, I can really ask for a whole lot more.

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Yeah, I think your match management was really good.

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I also think you handled being in the guard better this time versus in Dallas,

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just from watching both.

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So I thought that was good, especially, I mean, what, it's been a month?

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So, I mean, it's pretty good turnaround, good activity, and to be able to make those adjustments.

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And on the, I mean, it's not really, not exactly on the fly,

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but being able to make those adjustments in a five-week period is great.

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So, yeah, that's good.

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I know you're already looking at the next one too. So that's also good.

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So that was Saturday. We had her. I'll break down Leo's match,

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and then I think we'll go to Scott here.

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We'll do this in chronological order.

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So Leo, who goes to Battlefield with me, Leo had a good match, actually.

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I was proud and impressed by how he did.

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So I've been working with him for a while, and he basically executed on the

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lesson plan for the past eight weeks, which is really cool to watch, just as a coach.

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That was enjoyable, selfishly for me.

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But he also listened really well, which was good. He was doing a really good

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job of listening the entire time.

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So that was definitely beneficial. His opponent pulled guard.

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He executed good guard pass, good guard breaks.

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Did twice. Stole his opponent's soul with the knee on belly for a moment.

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And just all in all, I had very few notes for him that would be worthwhile at this point.

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So, you know, it was great to see. He won gold in his division.

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And yeah, that was a good match for him. You guys have really dialed in.

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Coach and athlete, he listened really well. That was.

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From the other side, kind of watching you two work together,

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I thought that was impressive.

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Yeah, I have the benefit of, for a lot of my guys being their main or only coach.

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So, you know, getting five days a week with a lot of competitors, it helps. So.

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Dan Carlin. But yes, I mean, that helps. I like hearing that too, so I appreciate that.

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But Scott also won gold in his division.

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He, three-man bracket, right? Yeah. Took out his first guy.

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Then the other guy pulled out of the finals.

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I'm not discrediting you here the guy was having his muscular issues,

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it happened it was his first tournament back,

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that's what he was talking about because we were talking to him over back in

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the bullpen in between the matches he came up to you, which was good,

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I'm glad he did that he actually told you rather just split and make you wait yeah,

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Or, it would have been a pretty cool match because he had a very similar style to you.

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Different build, but similar style. So, it would have been a fun match.

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Yep. Especially after you're warped up.

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I think we all do a little bit better after we're warped up.

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Scott, what do you got for us on yours? So, yeah.

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I'm glad. I'm happy with the win. Just trying to go up there and take the division.

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Um, I felt like I understood and was able to take control the match early,

00:25:06.227 --> 00:25:10.747
get a read on it, and, uh, figure out where to score and maintain.

00:25:11.127 --> 00:25:15.187
I felt like some of my, that's the good stuff, not the bad stuff.

00:25:15.307 --> 00:25:20.127
Some of my, I wasn't crisp in a lot of, with a lot of finishes that,

00:25:20.347 --> 00:25:22.487
um, was expecting me of myself.

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Just like a little bit I would say off just like a

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little rough around the edges on certain things that I'll

00:25:31.987 --> 00:25:38.367
easily remedy just some targeted specific drilling cause you know just to hold

00:25:38.367 --> 00:25:41.207
myself accountable I want to be able to I mean we're going to need to be able

00:25:41.207 --> 00:25:48.207
to really execute precisely for future competitions in this division and major tournaments,

00:25:49.087 --> 00:25:50.827
so on and so forth so,

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So, yeah, I mean, I'm happy. I'm happy that I got the W.

00:25:54.367 --> 00:25:58.347
It's good to... I've been competing since Worlds. And...

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It's good to go out and win, but yeah, I feel like I have some extra details

00:26:05.344 --> 00:26:10.344
to keep myself hungry and aggressive and disciplined when I train.

00:26:11.364 --> 00:26:15.444
So, I'll take it, man. A good weekend. I'm not hurt or anything.

00:26:15.584 --> 00:26:19.904
I have like one knee scraped up, which is kind of fun. A little bit of pain.

00:26:21.244 --> 00:26:23.744
I'm not paying that, but I feel great. I'll be training tomorrow.

00:26:24.104 --> 00:26:27.364
Yeah, a little bit of road rash is kind of nice. We talk about that.

00:26:27.364 --> 00:26:30.364
Like you almost want to have a little bit of something. You feel like it was

00:26:30.364 --> 00:26:31.864
a little bit of a fight? Yeah.

00:26:32.824 --> 00:26:37.824
Scott, how many Chicago Open medals do you have now? Because you do remain undefeated

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in the city of Chicago. I think it's

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Five golds now.

00:26:42.644 --> 00:26:46.724
Okay. Five times Chicago Open medals. You get different divisions too,

00:26:46.864 --> 00:26:48.404
right? Because you've done adult through Masters

00:26:48.404 --> 00:26:51.424
2 now at Black Belt. I've done adult Masters 1 and Masters 2.

00:26:51.604 --> 00:26:58.244
All right. Let's go. The back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back Chicago as a champion.

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There was one during the pandemic that I did, but I've done now,

00:27:03.424 --> 00:27:05.964
I would say, four in a row on top of that.

00:27:06.304 --> 00:27:08.244
So, I mean, yeah. Yeah.

00:27:10.604 --> 00:27:15.124
Chicago is Scott's bitch then. We're not not even. We're not not even.

00:27:16.844 --> 00:27:24.064
He is an honorary Chicagoan. They have to accept you at this point. for their pride alright.

00:27:26.264 --> 00:27:31.484
Yeah uh do you do you almost prefer having,

00:27:32.324 --> 00:27:36.704
would you prefer to have flawless execution this is a little bit higher level,

00:27:36.764 --> 00:27:40.704
flawless execution or do you prefer coming away with something to work on uh

00:27:40.704 --> 00:27:43.244
I think you'll come away with something to work on no matter what if you're

00:27:43.244 --> 00:27:48.884
trying to try to be professional and try to uh use you know this to me is,

00:27:50.112 --> 00:27:55.332
a mechanism for advancing just the overall picture of Jiu-Jitsu for myself and

00:27:55.332 --> 00:27:56.392
for the team, for that matter.

00:27:57.792 --> 00:28:04.212
Because it informs me of what... It informs me of so many things within the

00:28:04.212 --> 00:28:06.472
martial art, like what works, what doesn't work.

00:28:07.972 --> 00:28:12.832
And so, yeah, I mean, I guess, if I had to answer that question,

00:28:13.752 --> 00:28:16.512
use your words, like a flawless in quotes.

00:28:17.092 --> 00:28:19.172
I don't know if you're ever going to have a flawless victory,

00:28:19.272 --> 00:28:22.392
but I'll say if you're constantly trying to find some areas to improve,

00:28:22.532 --> 00:28:24.932
but I guess an easy easy, yeah.

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I mean, you know, I mean, I have no problem taking the win that I got,

00:28:29.932 --> 00:28:34.952
but, you know, stepping off the mat, like, it was not, I didn't win the way I want to win,

00:28:35.632 --> 00:28:38.392
but I still won, man, so, like, I'm not, like, mad or anything,

00:28:38.612 --> 00:28:41.292
but I'll take it. Like, if I were to.

00:28:44.272 --> 00:28:49.212
Go deeper on, like, the successes of it, like, I felt like I had a really comfortable

00:28:49.212 --> 00:28:52.892
grasp on this, like taking the initiative with a capital I, like the concept

00:28:52.892 --> 00:28:56.912
of like the initiative in combat sports or combat general.

00:28:57.392 --> 00:29:00.192
Taking that and then maintaining, like I felt pretty early on,

00:29:00.312 --> 00:29:03.152
I was like, this is my match, I'm going to win this, which is probably why I

00:29:03.152 --> 00:29:07.432
have this desire to want to improve upon that. I felt like I was like,

00:29:07.452 --> 00:29:08.352
alright, I've got that down.

00:29:09.052 --> 00:29:12.372
If I'm not a fool, I had to pay attention, my opponent was good.

00:29:13.712 --> 00:29:16.792
But once I started putting up points on the board, I was like,

00:29:16.872 --> 00:29:19.432
alright, this is mine, if I don't get lazy and kind of fuck off,

00:29:19.892 --> 00:29:24.852
Um, and also at the time I was still expecting to have another fight too, so, um,

00:29:25.492 --> 00:29:29.312
I think you just have to keep that mental, it's keep, the game keeps going until it's done,

00:29:29.992 --> 00:29:32.992
in my head, right, the first match is the first match, you get the second match

00:29:32.992 --> 00:29:37.772
coming, I wanted two matches, two submissions, I had one match, no submissions, um.

00:29:39.526 --> 00:29:44.006
So, so anyways, uh, yeah, dude, like to, if, if I had gotten two matches,

00:29:44.166 --> 00:29:45.606
two submissions, I probably would have been like, all right,

00:29:45.806 --> 00:29:47.886
I did exactly what I wanted to do. That's really great and all.

00:29:48.326 --> 00:29:53.386
Um, and if I'm still, this is not the last time I'm going to compete just to

00:29:53.386 --> 00:29:56.046
kind of grind out this thought process.

00:29:56.206 --> 00:30:00.886
So had I done that, I still would be looking at like that, that is like a step

00:30:00.886 --> 00:30:03.466
of progress that I'm trying to make, like whole thing is about making progress

00:30:03.466 --> 00:30:05.486
consistently over time and continue to do that.

00:30:05.706 --> 00:30:09.146
This progress doesn't end. Uh, you know, this is like a life sentence.

00:30:10.546 --> 00:30:15.766
I can't do it anymore but knowing that there will be more events,

00:30:15.966 --> 00:30:18.886
more tournaments more jujitsu matches,

00:30:19.986 --> 00:30:23.606
I would like to think that had I gotten my two matches my two submissions,

00:30:23.906 --> 00:30:28.506
I'd still be thinking great, those are really good what's the next thing you

00:30:28.506 --> 00:30:32.826
just can't get stacked you have to always have the next thing,

00:30:33.606 --> 00:30:37.126
what makes you successful is the desire to always want to improve,

00:30:38.386 --> 00:30:42.186
which you don't just turn off just because you've had some success in my opinion.

00:30:45.026 --> 00:30:48.866
I aspire towards the quote unquote flaw. Let's say executing the plan exactly

00:30:48.866 --> 00:30:52.286
how I want to do it, rather than calling it a flawless victory.

00:30:52.446 --> 00:30:53.206
I know what you're saying.

00:30:54.286 --> 00:30:58.246
Even if I do that, I try to hold myself accountable to say, all right,

00:30:58.326 --> 00:30:59.566
you can just pick one or two things.

00:30:59.926 --> 00:31:03.206
You may not have as many, you know, a few things. I mean, I'm hardly going to

00:31:03.206 --> 00:31:06.826
play because now I can say, all right, man, I still got a shitload of work to do.

00:31:08.166 --> 00:31:13.706
I have a good Dude, I have a good foundation to build upon, but it keeps me hungry.

00:31:13.886 --> 00:31:16.426
It keeps me thinking about the next thing, if that makes sense.

00:31:16.706 --> 00:31:19.426
Yeah, I mean, I guess we do always give ourselves the homework,

00:31:19.646 --> 00:31:21.566
right? Yeah, I've got the homework. I've got the homework.

00:31:22.106 --> 00:31:25.186
Picking the three things. You've got to make that list of three.

00:31:25.506 --> 00:31:27.726
Come up with a path where you can improve.

00:31:29.146 --> 00:31:31.346
Like you said, it's definitely easier when,

00:31:32.144 --> 00:31:37.064
things didn't go according to plan than it is when things go according to plan, right?

00:31:37.304 --> 00:31:42.884
Because it's almost easier to do the homework afterwards when it's a harder day in the office. Sure.

00:31:43.144 --> 00:31:47.744
And it's the opposite, right? Like an easier day in the office means a harder time with the homework.

00:31:48.204 --> 00:31:51.244
Yeah. You're going to like going into matches. Like you have like,

00:31:51.344 --> 00:31:54.824
so I like sent my one-pagers to you guys.

00:31:54.964 --> 00:31:59.684
So it's like concepts all right. you go with like a hypothesis of like how you

00:31:59.684 --> 00:32:06.064
intend to implement your plan, how you take action to force a game onto someone,

00:32:06.224 --> 00:32:09.784
because that's ultimately like a root of like any competition that's like we're doing,

00:32:10.264 --> 00:32:15.164
any like competitive sport, whatever it's forcing action on your opposition,

00:32:15.424 --> 00:32:20.404
so you try to go in saying I'm going to steer this in the direction that I want it to go,

00:32:21.684 --> 00:32:25.104
but as I also say the other dude always gets a vote, the opposition always gets

00:32:25.104 --> 00:32:29.504
a vote, so You'll have to, you have a hypothesis, but it gets tested.

00:32:29.644 --> 00:32:32.544
So there's always like this quest to like get some answers on like how well

00:32:32.544 --> 00:32:35.884
an idea can be applied, delivered or on.

00:32:38.044 --> 00:32:41.644
So there's always feedback. So you just kind of constantly look for the feedback

00:32:41.644 --> 00:32:47.344
and say, cool, just win, lose, whenever you'll get information that you can act upon.

00:32:47.504 --> 00:32:50.164
And like I said, that's the act upon thing. It just never ends.

00:32:50.464 --> 00:32:53.924
Yeah. It's part of what we do. So speaking of reacting to feedback,

00:32:55.744 --> 00:33:00.644
Andrea had two matches, three matches, two divisions, two divisions,

00:33:00.924 --> 00:33:05.884
three matches, and she actually got to run back two matches.

00:33:06.464 --> 00:33:10.784
So two of her matches were against former opponents.

00:33:11.644 --> 00:33:16.964
So she got to run it back against her division opponent, and she got to run

00:33:16.964 --> 00:33:20.064
it back against her opponent from Worlds back in December.

00:33:21.324 --> 00:33:22.644
So...

00:33:24.952 --> 00:33:29.872
Andrea, tell us about your day at the Chicago Spring Open.

00:33:31.332 --> 00:33:38.112
Oh, man, what a day. So opening match, my weight class match, did not open well for me.

00:33:38.872 --> 00:33:42.632
I don't really have any excuses for myself. I was just kind of asleep at the

00:33:42.632 --> 00:33:44.192
wheel, got off to a rough start.

00:33:44.752 --> 00:33:49.012
I've been implementing a new game plan that I haven't really played since Blue,

00:33:49.252 --> 00:33:51.452
like in any kind of deliberate fashion.

00:33:51.452 --> 00:33:54.112
I've run it a lot in the training room. but again this is

00:33:54.112 --> 00:33:57.452
my second ever brown belt tournament second ever time I

00:33:57.452 --> 00:34:00.492
think in IBJJF running it so it's

00:34:00.492 --> 00:34:04.392
still a little bit rusty I'm still getting used to it um and that might have

00:34:04.392 --> 00:34:07.752
contributed and it might have also just been like any number of other things

00:34:07.752 --> 00:34:13.572
but in any case regardless of the reasoning um I was just kind of checked out

00:34:13.572 --> 00:34:17.572
for like the first 30 seconds of the match and And my opponent, credit to her,

00:34:17.932 --> 00:34:23.552
capitalized immediately, which I think is also something that taught me a little

00:34:23.552 --> 00:34:29.012
bit about like the transition between divisions here, because it's the kind

00:34:29.012 --> 00:34:32.692
of mistake that I made more often than I should have back when I was a purple belt.

00:34:32.792 --> 00:34:35.192
But I could kind of get away with it a little bit more there here.

00:34:35.272 --> 00:34:36.552
I'm discovering the hard way.

00:34:36.672 --> 00:34:39.432
You can't really do it at this level, at least in my division.

00:34:40.152 --> 00:34:44.172
Mike and I were chatting about that as well That mistakes that felt relatively

00:34:44.172 --> 00:34:49.092
Small and recoverable at Purple Suddenly feel like huge at Browbell Just because

00:34:49.092 --> 00:34:52.052
your opponents are so much sharper And more experienced Yeah

00:34:52.706 --> 00:34:56.406
And so, yeah, so I got off to a rough start and just, like, gave up a bunch

00:34:56.406 --> 00:34:58.046
of points that I normally wouldn't have.

00:34:58.646 --> 00:35:02.726
Because she, like, once she was up, she was really, really good at keeping momentum going.

00:35:03.606 --> 00:35:07.366
I, like, panic-turtled way too early. She got to my back, got to Mount.

00:35:08.206 --> 00:35:12.686
I was able to ride it out, and I was able to go the distance with her.

00:35:12.786 --> 00:35:17.646
But she had just such an early lead on the scoreboard so early that,

00:35:17.646 --> 00:35:20.566
like, it wasn't really something that I could realistically come back from.

00:35:20.566 --> 00:35:24.466
I wound up like reversing the position and eventually Getting to like a decent

00:35:24.466 --> 00:35:28.006
attacking position By the end but by then it was like too little Too late so

00:35:28.006 --> 00:35:32.206
I was not happy with myself I was very much in this mode of like Ah I've brought

00:35:32.206 --> 00:35:34.386
dishonor upon Myself and my

00:35:35.066 --> 00:35:37.986
Family name I need to seek out Redemption now

00:35:39.286 --> 00:35:43.406
And so I like I think the First thing I said to Scott when I got off That he

00:35:43.406 --> 00:35:46.226
was like how do you feel I was like I need to sign up for the Absolute right now

00:35:48.026 --> 00:35:51.046
It's like it is the only it

00:35:51.046 --> 00:35:53.806
is the only thing that this default bronze is good for

00:35:53.806 --> 00:35:56.606
and he was like okay calm down like we can get we can do that like

00:35:56.606 --> 00:35:59.386
cool off for a second like make sure that's what you really want

00:35:59.386 --> 00:36:02.026
to do um so i took a like i took a

00:36:02.026 --> 00:36:04.866
breath but i was like no it's still something i want to do i really want to get the bank for

00:36:04.866 --> 00:36:08.706
my buck i like we came all the way out here scott drove us 10 hours i want to

00:36:08.706 --> 00:36:12.986
get my reps in like part of why i'm hopping into this is because i'm a new brown

00:36:12.986 --> 00:36:17.266
belt and i want to and i want to get those reps in and like get those matches

00:36:17.266 --> 00:36:22.726
gets good opponents and where those opportunities exist, you want to take them, you want to hop on them.

00:36:24.655 --> 00:36:25.695
As it turns out.

00:36:25.875 --> 00:36:32.115
The IBJJF gods smiled upon me, and they favored me with an immediate rematch

00:36:32.115 --> 00:36:35.915
against the girl who had just beaten me in our weight class division.

00:36:36.315 --> 00:36:39.255
And so this time, Scott gave me a little pep talk beforehand,

00:36:39.255 --> 00:36:42.255
and he was like, look, you know your game plan, you know you're good,

00:36:42.275 --> 00:36:46.295
you just have to be mean and aggressive right out the gate. You've got to get connected quickly.

00:36:46.435 --> 00:36:50.035
You can't be reactive. You can't be slow to pull the trigger.

00:36:50.215 --> 00:36:52.135
You immediately have to put her on defense.

00:36:52.395 --> 00:36:52.935
So I was like.

00:36:52.995 --> 00:36:58.495
All right. So I went in much better mindset, like was way more alert, way more savvy going in,

00:36:59.015 --> 00:37:03.055
like got to got to the grips that I wanted immediately, was able to suck her

00:37:03.055 --> 00:37:09.195
to like the guard pole that I wanted and was able to score early where I made my mistakes.

00:37:09.195 --> 00:37:11.875
So this was kind of the reverse of the first match I had with her.

00:37:12.015 --> 00:37:14.015
So I was up on the scoreboard. I was winning.

00:37:14.455 --> 00:37:16.775
I think she had maybe one advantage for something.

00:37:17.415 --> 00:37:21.195
But then it was literally like the last minute, last 30 seconds of the match

00:37:21.195 --> 00:37:24.095
where I was like, I like started cruising a little bit too early.

00:37:24.155 --> 00:37:25.995
I was like, OK, I've got the win now.

00:37:26.735 --> 00:37:32.715
Took my like let up just a little bit on that gas pedal. And she took that opportunity to sweep me back.

00:37:33.255 --> 00:37:36.735
And because she had that advantage, she wound up winning that match.

00:37:36.835 --> 00:37:41.055
So it was much closer than before. We tied up on points, but because she did

00:37:41.055 --> 00:37:47.295
have that advantage, I think, for a sub-attempt, she wound up taking a second victory.

00:37:47.395 --> 00:37:50.095
But I did feel a lot better, a lot more competitive in that second round.

00:37:50.235 --> 00:37:53.655
I was really happy that I had that immediate chance to run it back and force

00:37:53.655 --> 00:37:56.715
correct the mistakes that I made in the first match against the same opponent.

00:37:57.279 --> 00:38:00.679
Um and then because it was one of those weird ivjjf

00:38:00.679 --> 00:38:03.599
three person brackets i got another match uh and this

00:38:03.599 --> 00:38:06.359
time i matched up with my opponent from

00:38:06.359 --> 00:38:10.079
my brown belt debut which was at worlds um with

00:38:10.079 --> 00:38:12.919
her uh i again i

00:38:12.919 --> 00:38:15.579
was i was feeling good i got to the i got to the game that

00:38:15.579 --> 00:38:18.419
i wanted to play pretty quickly um tied up

00:38:18.419 --> 00:38:21.419
the score again again she scored an advantage so you

00:38:21.419 --> 00:38:24.379
know she won on advantages but didn't but yeah

00:38:24.379 --> 00:38:27.119
again the score was even i didn't give up any

00:38:27.119 --> 00:38:30.519
points um so that felt pretty good um

00:38:30.519 --> 00:38:33.299
obviously i do think that the fact

00:38:33.299 --> 00:38:36.479
that i lost on a single advantage in two back-to-back matches

00:38:36.479 --> 00:38:40.179
means that i do need to work on just being

00:38:40.179 --> 00:38:43.699
a little bit sharper on my attacks um i

00:38:43.699 --> 00:38:46.939
think after that first match i tightened up my defenses considerably

00:38:46.939 --> 00:38:49.679
um but i do think that i do

00:38:49.679 --> 00:38:52.439
just need to be more aggressive about putting points on the board getting to

00:38:52.439 --> 00:38:56.259
good submission positions and really forcing more action um

00:38:56.259 --> 00:38:59.739
but in general i think it was a really unique learning

00:38:59.739 --> 00:39:04.099
opportunity that i just happened to be able to get immediate rematches with

00:39:04.099 --> 00:39:07.459
people that i had lost to and like when i was doing my homework on my division

00:39:07.459 --> 00:39:10.899
ahead of time i i knew they weren't giving me slouches like these are girls

00:39:10.899 --> 00:39:15.499
who have both been at brown belt for a long time uh they just came up from the

00:39:15.499 --> 00:39:18.799
adult division so they're used to scrapping with like young hungry girls

00:39:19.479 --> 00:39:22.619
Um they both i believe they both won multiple

00:39:22.619 --> 00:39:25.639
majors as well so like these are very seasoned very

00:39:25.639 --> 00:39:28.699
experienced competitors so i think like as a newer brown

00:39:28.699 --> 00:39:32.239
belt who's still kind of getting my bearings in the division it is like a privilege

00:39:32.239 --> 00:39:36.499
to be able to go against opponents of that caliber um because it just it really

00:39:36.499 --> 00:39:40.059
sets the expectation for how you have to perform if you want to continue to

00:39:40.059 --> 00:39:45.239
hang so uh yeah like obviously not my best performance but really happy with

00:39:45.239 --> 00:39:48.039
the takeaways that I got from those matches we

00:39:48.039 --> 00:39:54.659
Just on that too like after your after the weight class you basically did your

00:39:54.659 --> 00:39:55.999
weight class twice which is awesome,

00:39:56.793 --> 00:40:02.633
you know, in the open division, but after that, we talked, I gave you one action,

00:40:02.753 --> 00:40:05.193
I'm like, you focus on this one thing, and you get it done,

00:40:05.493 --> 00:40:11.993
which was initiating your guard attacks with a ferocity that just forces these

00:40:11.993 --> 00:40:13.553
girls to have to contend with it,

00:40:13.953 --> 00:40:18.033
rather than like attempt it, then kind of wait, which by the way you did in both matches.

00:40:18.453 --> 00:40:21.293
And that was like the one thing, I was like, you do this, like you have done

00:40:21.293 --> 00:40:22.193
your job for the weekend.

00:40:22.513 --> 00:40:26.713
And just like you said, it was a really good opportunity. you kind of had a

00:40:26.713 --> 00:40:30.933
similar we're going to implement the adjustment right now while it's top of

00:40:30.933 --> 00:40:34.653
mind which you guys both got that really good opportunity to do that and yes,

00:40:35.133 --> 00:40:36.473
both your divisions were like,

00:40:37.033 --> 00:40:40.993
guys and gals who are serious competitors in your division, these are the type

00:40:40.993 --> 00:40:44.053
of competitors you'll see in like hands and worlds in the top four.

00:40:45.933 --> 00:40:50.593
Because well I'd say the good thing about that is number one the exposure to

00:40:50.593 --> 00:40:54.833
like hey this is what real competition feels like in Bravo, like you're not getting any

00:40:55.053 --> 00:40:58.153
brand new ground belts doing their first turn right like

00:40:58.153 --> 00:41:01.313
they're these are serious ground belts serious competitors

00:41:01.313 --> 00:41:04.093
so it's a good look at like this is what it's going to take

00:41:04.093 --> 00:41:06.973
to the highest level you just happen to jerk these guys

00:41:06.973 --> 00:41:10.193
at a regional you've you've drawn this competitor one

00:41:10.193 --> 00:41:13.493
of the competitors andrea world's in our regional so it's good it's

00:41:13.493 --> 00:41:17.173
good and in your matches you made the adjustment yes there's more fine-tuned

00:41:17.173 --> 00:41:22.593
details that you'll you'll implement to improve upon this but in the open class

00:41:22.593 --> 00:41:27.073
you had matches that you were the tiniest bit away from winning clothes so like

00:41:27.073 --> 00:41:30.793
shows you won you start to adjust you're in a winning position,

00:41:31.353 --> 00:41:35.413
so you got to see that immediately like yo i can win these matches yes i have

00:41:35.413 --> 00:41:39.353
to be dialed in and focus the entire time that's just what this this level requires

00:41:39.353 --> 00:41:43.933
if you just solve that for yourself you also have to see like hey i'm like the

00:41:43.933 --> 00:41:49.493
tiniest of adjustments are the tiniest of implementing of little adjustments, taking these.

00:41:50.573 --> 00:41:54.913
Really competitive matches, making a client, winning them. And by the way,

00:41:55.273 --> 00:41:58.953
procedurally, you got to see that when you, you can execute these adjustments

00:41:58.953 --> 00:42:02.513
too and actually fill the results.

00:42:02.813 --> 00:42:04.453
So that should show you that. It should say like, all right,

00:42:04.553 --> 00:42:05.673
well, just give me the next adjustment.

00:42:05.993 --> 00:42:10.193
I focus on that. And then next time I see these girls, next time I see these

00:42:10.193 --> 00:42:13.573
guys or whatever, I'm going to do the adjustments because I can prove to myself

00:42:13.573 --> 00:42:14.433
that I can actually do that.

00:42:15.213 --> 00:42:18.933
Well, yeah, I mean, pretty much for both of us.

00:42:19.333 --> 00:42:22.413
And quickly, by the way. Like this is over the course of like less than an hour.

00:42:22.553 --> 00:42:24.833
Both were like, oh shit, okay, I need to do this.

00:42:24.933 --> 00:42:25.753
Still have the adrenaline.

00:42:26.033 --> 00:42:29.813
Yeah. But like what's like, I mean like you said, it's a unique opportunity

00:42:29.813 --> 00:42:31.753
to say fucking run it back, man, right now.

00:42:31.933 --> 00:42:35.493
Because we could do this at home over the course of a couple months.

00:42:35.553 --> 00:42:37.273
Or we could do it in the next 30 minutes.

00:42:37.413 --> 00:42:40.613
Like you'll still do the couple months, but you've got to do it in the 30 minutes.

00:42:40.813 --> 00:42:44.633
That'll teach you so much more quickly, so much more tactfully than us coming

00:42:44.633 --> 00:42:47.273
home, you know, coming back and going into a class.

00:42:47.273 --> 00:42:50.913
Saying, all right, let's do what's on class agenda today, which is also beneficial,

00:42:50.913 --> 00:42:55.353
but that immediate requirement of, like, all right, all right,

00:42:55.353 --> 00:42:58.093
all right, I've got to get my mind down and make an adjustment happen right

00:42:58.093 --> 00:43:00.713
now, because I've got to imagine another chance to do this right now.

00:43:01.073 --> 00:43:04.733
And then to go, yo, which you both did, it's, yeah, I mean, like,

00:43:04.813 --> 00:43:08.333
you guys, you got your money's worth, for sure, and it's going to pay dividends

00:43:08.333 --> 00:43:09.333
throughout the rest of the year.

00:43:09.473 --> 00:43:12.693
Yeah, that, uh, no amount of,

00:43:13.813 --> 00:43:16.853
gym membership dollars can make make for

00:43:16.853 --> 00:43:20.293
that like experience of the immediate the

00:43:20.293 --> 00:43:27.413
immediate adjustment uh the i watched your first fight back and i think this

00:43:27.413 --> 00:43:32.873
also rings true for me is like it's literally one offensive action from our

00:43:32.873 --> 00:43:37.253
opponent away from winning yeah right like that triangle attempt that she had

00:43:37.253 --> 00:43:39.233
on you was what won her the match.

00:43:39.393 --> 00:43:47.953
It's that one offensive action that changes the tide. And.

00:43:49.232 --> 00:43:54.312
Yeah, I mean, it makes a huge difference. And having had a similar thing,

00:43:54.492 --> 00:43:56.212
I also got to run it back with my opponent.

00:43:57.932 --> 00:44:01.632
I actually signed up for Absolute because I saw him sign up for the Absolute.

00:44:03.172 --> 00:44:06.452
I was like, yeah, I was kind of like, maybe I won't. And then he was signing

00:44:06.452 --> 00:44:11.152
up. I was like, well, I need to do this now. I was like, I will go against him.

00:44:13.132 --> 00:44:17.952
But they decided to do double rematches for the quarterfinals for that one.

00:44:19.472 --> 00:44:23.852
And the other side was heavyweights and then the featherweights were on,

00:44:24.372 --> 00:44:25.572
you know, that was my division.

00:44:26.452 --> 00:44:29.032
We got to fight it back, too, so that was kind of cool.

00:44:30.392 --> 00:44:33.752
Yeah, first match, so my division was, you know, there were some killers that

00:44:33.752 --> 00:44:36.392
were willing to wrestle, which is not something I get a lot,

00:44:36.432 --> 00:44:40.892
so I was actually kind of excited when I got to watch them, watch my division

00:44:40.892 --> 00:44:43.172
start, watch them wrestle it out.

00:44:44.172 --> 00:44:49.372
And so I was, like, super excited. I had a little bit of intel on the guy I

00:44:49.372 --> 00:44:53.752
ended up getting for my division because I'd watched him the day before.

00:44:54.012 --> 00:44:56.492
So I knew what his shot was. I knew what he looked for.

00:44:56.852 --> 00:45:03.052
He looked specifically like wants a single with his obvious lead leg. Yeah.

00:45:04.509 --> 00:45:07.909
So I kind of had an idea of what to watch out for there.

00:45:10.149 --> 00:45:13.869
But similar to Andrea, I was used to being able to get away with a little bit

00:45:13.869 --> 00:45:19.689
of like complacency in the purple belt division, a little bit of laziness in my wrestling,

00:45:20.329 --> 00:45:24.129
not having to quite be as crisp because I don't normally go against wrestlers,

00:45:24.149 --> 00:45:26.609
even though once you do decide to stand with me.

00:45:28.249 --> 00:45:29.489
You know, they're just not, you

00:45:29.489 --> 00:45:33.849
don't always run into good wrestlers in jiu-jitsu, especially in IBJJF.

00:45:34.369 --> 00:45:39.709
Um, so first match I was doing really well in the ant fight.

00:45:39.829 --> 00:45:42.549
I was winning the hand fight. The guy actually specifically told me afterwards,

00:45:42.729 --> 00:45:44.629
like, dude, your hand fighting is really good.

00:45:44.809 --> 00:45:49.829
So that felt nice. Uh, but he did choke the shit out of me. So, uh, he won that one.

00:45:50.069 --> 00:45:54.829
Um, I had a pretty, it was a decent, it was a good setup, but a really poor

00:45:54.829 --> 00:45:59.369
executed shot that ended up with me underneath him in a 10 figure guillotine.

00:45:59.429 --> 00:46:03.709
And, um, I was not, I was not happy with how it happened.

00:46:03.709 --> 00:46:07.609
Like sometimes you you know sometimes you get submitted and you're like you

00:46:07.609 --> 00:46:13.649
know what like the dude earned that one uh but i felt like that was you know

00:46:13.649 --> 00:46:18.269
not a acceptable way for that match to go um considering how i felt leading

00:46:18.269 --> 00:46:23.489
into it so uh went into the absolute division,

00:46:24.189 --> 00:46:29.809
drew him first round and i was like yes uh and i had what i think might be my

00:46:29.809 --> 00:46:34.729
favorite like match I've had in my career like even though it was a loss this

00:46:34.729 --> 00:46:38.889
one like I think that was the most fun I've had on that,

00:46:40.129 --> 00:46:45.329
and like probably one of I mean it's definitely like one of those like.

00:46:46.829 --> 00:46:50.929
It's a loss. Like, you know, you're actually proud of the performance. I felt good about it.

00:46:51.969 --> 00:46:56.369
A loss I didn't mind taking because of, I mean, you know, putting it all out

00:46:56.369 --> 00:46:59.629
there, leaving it all out there. We battled it out for the full six minutes.

00:47:00.769 --> 00:47:05.409
Super back and forth. And, like, this guy, like, super legit wrestler for Iowa.

00:47:05.669 --> 00:47:12.049
He wrestled in college. He had, like, some really good pedigrees,

00:47:12.129 --> 00:47:16.649
good wrestles, like, on the national circuit and stuff like that.

00:47:16.649 --> 00:47:19.569
To an academy he does this like he's a serious jujitsu guy

00:47:19.569 --> 00:47:22.849
yeah like this is like a legit dude we were both also sponsored

00:47:22.849 --> 00:47:26.969
both have the same barrel sponsors with cruise combat so that was kind of cool

00:47:26.969 --> 00:47:32.909
too we uh we were bonding um after our first match uh he was just a cool dude

00:47:32.909 --> 00:47:40.369
too like we we hit it off pretty well uh yeah so he was um he also yeah he's

00:47:40.369 --> 00:47:41.709
also sponsored by at Cruise Combat.

00:47:42.009 --> 00:47:44.709
Ryan did his kit for the tournament, too.

00:47:46.289 --> 00:47:49.729
So that was a cool little thing that came out of that as well.

00:47:49.909 --> 00:47:54.529
But second match, second match, Scott had told me, he was like,

00:47:54.609 --> 00:47:57.109
dude, just hand fight, clear the hands, like,

00:47:58.298 --> 00:48:01.218
Do your thing. You're doing it right. Let's just be more conscious of getting

00:48:01.218 --> 00:48:05.378
underneath. Start doing the snap downs, looking to do to him what he did to you.

00:48:06.238 --> 00:48:10.138
So right off the bat, I mean, that was what it did. I was just hand fighting,

00:48:10.278 --> 00:48:13.378
doing my game there, tossing him around on the feet, honestly,

00:48:14.618 --> 00:48:18.658
getting him really off balance, wearing him out there, really executing the

00:48:18.658 --> 00:48:21.758
game I should do when I'm on my feet anyways, which is slow,

00:48:21.998 --> 00:48:27.618
patient, pace control, heavy on the head, heavy on the inside ties.

00:48:29.518 --> 00:48:35.238
Active, but like kind of similar to what Jason didn't move. He talked about with Dallas, right?

00:48:35.398 --> 00:48:41.658
Like a patient committal, when you need to be a constant threats,

00:48:41.658 --> 00:48:44.138
explode, explode through when it's time.

00:48:45.418 --> 00:48:49.158
And like really just working the feints, knee tapping, keeping him on,

00:48:49.218 --> 00:48:52.978
on his toes. It was forcing some mistakes for him, tossing him around.

00:48:53.858 --> 00:48:56.398
I didn't know it, but I did go up two points.

00:48:57.638 --> 00:49:02.778
For most of the match. I thought it was flipped. I thought they gave him the

00:49:02.778 --> 00:49:05.198
two on it, but I forced a fleeing call.

00:49:06.378 --> 00:49:10.218
So he shot in. I threw the guillotine on.

00:49:10.698 --> 00:49:14.418
As we went out of bounds, they gave him... They gave me two,

00:49:14.598 --> 00:49:18.058
but I thought they gave him two and reset it because of the submission.

00:49:19.538 --> 00:49:24.238
So I just misunderstood. So that was just a, you know, me thing.

00:49:24.698 --> 00:49:27.618
Also being blind, I might not be able to read the scoreboard when I looked at

00:49:27.618 --> 00:49:30.438
it. I thought I was on the bottom of the scoreboard.

00:49:32.058 --> 00:49:39.978
But we got back on the feet. We were going at a couple close foot sweeps.

00:49:40.118 --> 00:49:42.098
So I might have to start adding more of those into the game.

00:49:42.318 --> 00:49:46.318
That was something I just decided to try out because I had him tired and standing up straight.

00:49:47.838 --> 00:49:53.238
I could feel him getting tired. He scored two. I got out of it pretty quickly.

00:49:54.638 --> 00:50:01.178
And I had near I almost had two after that and.

00:50:03.213 --> 00:50:06.813
Which he got an advantage on because he grabbed that guillotine.

00:50:07.133 --> 00:50:11.233
He tried the guillotine, but this time you actually, you said, no, sir.

00:50:11.553 --> 00:50:13.873
He tried the same guillotine, broke it.

00:50:15.493 --> 00:50:18.133
This is another, like, you made an adjustment from the first match.

00:50:18.193 --> 00:50:21.073
Actually, you made several adjustments, but that's the one that,

00:50:21.553 --> 00:50:25.453
and we had talked about it where it was like, basically your division was three

00:50:25.453 --> 00:50:26.713
Michael Sutherlands. Yeah.

00:50:27.153 --> 00:50:30.813
So it was going to be like, all right, everyone wants to fight the same way.

00:50:31.773 --> 00:50:34.473
Everyone's going to be like forward and aggressive with their attacks so like

00:50:34.473 --> 00:50:38.093
if you're going to do this to them what they want to do to you your forward

00:50:38.093 --> 00:50:40.753
aggressive attacks your hand fighting has to be cursed because these guys are

00:50:40.753 --> 00:50:42.453
going to try to counter games you know this now

00:50:42.873 --> 00:50:46.913
and so they're going to do to you what you want to do to them so you just have to do it,

00:50:47.513 --> 00:50:52.333
better and more correctly which then means patience and precision execution which you did,

00:50:53.833 --> 00:50:58.753
or leverage their like be so patient that they get frustrated and they try to

00:50:58.753 --> 00:51:01.933
make something happen do to them what they want to do. He fucking grabbed their head and scored.

00:51:02.373 --> 00:51:05.713
Counter-guillotine those guys. You did both. I mean, you guys did go back and

00:51:05.713 --> 00:51:08.393
forth with the same attacks. He tried to counter-guillotine you.

00:51:08.453 --> 00:51:10.133
You got out of this one. You broke it.

00:51:11.153 --> 00:51:12.533
So you immediately took...

00:51:13.350 --> 00:51:16.010
It's a threat that he used the first time and that you implement,

00:51:16.170 --> 00:51:17.770
you adjust on that, it denied it.

00:51:19.190 --> 00:51:21.530
And you did that to him. You scored off the guillotine.

00:51:23.070 --> 00:51:27.350
Per our discussions, you knew that would be an opportunity to leverage it for success.

00:51:27.770 --> 00:51:30.390
And had you known that you were winning, you might have played the last minute.

00:51:30.670 --> 00:51:33.350
Yeah, I might have done it a little bit different, which is fine, though.

00:51:33.650 --> 00:51:39.810
But like Andrew, what you see there is like, okay, I'm like a tiny adjustment.

00:51:39.950 --> 00:51:40.870
This is a winnable match.

00:51:41.510 --> 00:51:44.730
Yeah, and what's had him tired too i had him like he

00:51:44.730 --> 00:51:47.770
was leaning in he was laying like basically leaning on

00:51:47.770 --> 00:51:50.630
me and started where i started working those nasa hounds yeah

00:51:50.630 --> 00:51:54.190
i mean i had him pretty wore out which was uh good

00:51:54.190 --> 00:51:56.850
i felt great again thanks to a

00:51:56.850 --> 00:52:00.870
seam shout out a seam uh discount code

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i love coffee that's it um but yeah

00:52:03.810 --> 00:52:06.690
uh that was that was

00:52:06.690 --> 00:52:10.130
a good match again one of my favorite matches i've had probably i

00:52:10.130 --> 00:52:13.770
mean might be the number one um just

00:52:13.770 --> 00:52:17.030
like getting to just really just bang

00:52:17.030 --> 00:52:19.770
it out on the feet right like really shoot it out have a nice like

00:52:19.770 --> 00:52:24.190
standing shootout looking for the same things um have

00:52:24.190 --> 00:52:27.150
a few little like nice little like mat burn and

00:52:27.150 --> 00:52:30.770
scrapes and like uh feeling something

00:52:30.770 --> 00:52:33.610
after the match it's like we were talking about right like it's one of the ways

00:52:33.610 --> 00:52:36.370
you feel something yeah after you do this enough

00:52:36.370 --> 00:52:39.250
times like a good match is the only way you

00:52:39.250 --> 00:52:43.930
like have that feeling of like i don't know it's like the that adrenaline right

00:52:43.930 --> 00:52:49.290
like i get why people jump out of planes because i do this i guess i don't know

00:52:49.290 --> 00:52:54.270
um i imagine that you have to jump out of higher and higher planes the more

00:52:54.270 --> 00:52:58.710
that uh you do it or something like the crazier, crazier jumps.

00:52:59.870 --> 00:53:06.010
Thirst for danger. So, yeah, I mean, like, overall, that was,

00:53:06.110 --> 00:53:08.130
you know, another third place finish, but,

00:53:08.966 --> 00:53:13.306
I was super happy with that one. You know, win, lose. Like, that's the one.

00:53:13.446 --> 00:53:14.586
It's like, dude, win, lose, or draw.

00:53:14.746 --> 00:53:17.606
Like, that's match. That's the match, right?

00:53:18.506 --> 00:53:21.746
You guys got everything out of that tournament. So, I mean, it was good.

00:53:21.886 --> 00:53:23.906
Lots of data, things to work on.

00:53:25.086 --> 00:53:30.926
I know that I'm going to subject everyone tomorrow to some wrestling stuff. That's the way to do it.

00:53:31.626 --> 00:53:36.506
That's what they get. I go collect the data, and I force them to work on things I want to work on.

00:53:37.826 --> 00:53:40.546
Uh we will have already done that by the time you

00:53:40.546 --> 00:53:43.326
hear this too which is good they'll be like shit tell them they'll know

00:53:43.326 --> 00:53:46.066
what he do uh they'll so they'll

00:53:46.066 --> 00:53:49.326
get the insights uh yeah i mean like overall great

00:53:49.326 --> 00:53:54.526
uh great weekend for all of us immediately after that we hopped in the car and

00:53:54.526 --> 00:53:59.686
all or that's when we then to bring it full circle started ordering lumanati's

00:53:59.686 --> 00:54:03.686
the big was which we double dashed by the way i just want to point a successful

00:54:03.686 --> 00:54:08.026
double dash a successful double dash of like Pequod's and Lou Valnati's.

00:54:08.106 --> 00:54:10.506
It was like, you want Lou Valnati's too, right? It would have been a disaster

00:54:10.506 --> 00:54:14.686
if they're dropping off the wrong place and then I'm like arguing with DoorDash customer support.

00:54:15.106 --> 00:54:18.826
So I was glad to see that that was executed well. Yeah, that was good too that

00:54:18.826 --> 00:54:24.786
your sister also brought in pizza and some of the feed on the sidewalk. I tried to.

00:54:24.786 --> 00:54:30.986
Convince us to have salad with it as well. And I think only successfully convinced Kate to do so.

00:54:32.906 --> 00:54:36.246
I did almost uh excommunicate

00:54:36.246 --> 00:54:39.466
leo from the morning class because i thought he ordered a salad at

00:54:39.466 --> 00:54:42.226
osha ball he smashed uh but he got a burger

00:54:42.226 --> 00:54:45.426
but i thought he said when he came over i thought he said that he ordered a

00:54:45.426 --> 00:54:51.086
side salad i was like dude huh no what scott was starting to leave him chicago

00:54:51.086 --> 00:55:01.266
he did leave leo in chicago disgrace chicago honors uh yeah he had been disgracefully left in Chicago.

00:55:02.326 --> 00:55:06.866
He's honorably left in Chicago. Yeah, he stays with honors. He does.

00:55:07.686 --> 00:55:11.586
Yeah, I mean, great weekend. I don't know if you guys have any other takeaways,

00:55:12.891 --> 00:55:16.911
Anyone? Any other takeaways? I'm happy. You're happy. I'm happy as well. Yeah.

00:55:17.091 --> 00:55:18.351
It was basically exactly

00:55:18.351 --> 00:55:18.911
What we came.

00:55:18.911 --> 00:55:19.191
For.

00:55:19.951 --> 00:55:25.391
Everyone was happy. So, you know, that's Chicago Open, guys.

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