(Ep 21)Finding Community and Strength through Jiu-Jitsu with Alex Garipay

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Welcome to Fighters Drinking Coffee. Today, we are sitting down with Alex Garapay,

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a standard jiu-jitsu brown belt and head instructor at Odin Jiu-Jitsu.

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She's also going to be one of the commentators for the NGA Superfights and Females

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Trio upcoming on July 26th.

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We'll get a little more information for you guys on that as the show goes on.

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But Alex, welcome on. Yeah, thank you. Thank you guys for having me.

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So yeah, let's start out with what kind of got you into Jiu-Jitsu,

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a little bit of background on you. We'll go from there.

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So I'll give you like two versions. What got me into Jiu-Jitsu was as soon as

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I graduated college, I started working in patient psych.

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And when I did that I kind of had the thought like if anything were to happen

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I'd want to know how to get out of it and most fights go to the ground what

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I thought and most people are the least prepared to deal with things on the

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ground so I walked into Ryoma Academy in Brunswick,

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Maryland started training in 2013 there and uh just really loved it and I think

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like Like, once I walked in the door there and started doing it,

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jujitsu has just always been something that's, like, lived in me.

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I just didn't know what it was.

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Like, I have two brothers. We spent a lot of time, like, being monkey and wrestling each other.

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And that didn't, like, stop as I became an adult human female and, like, went to college.

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Like, I still liked roughhousing with my friends and doing, like,

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all this kind of thing. I just didn't know that jujitsu was an option.

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Uh and i was playing other conventional sports

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but once i found it i was like this is this

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is it this is the stuff so awesome

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um so did you

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did you do any other sports while you're in college do you

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have any other like grappling sports background or any

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other i don't know contact sports or anything like

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that prior to jiu-jitsu so i've played so many different sports but the ones

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that I was like most involved in prior to the two were I was a big time snowboarder

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I feel like there's overlap in like kind of extreme sports or sports where you're like basically.

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It's you versus the task and you have to like sit in it and perform until you're

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able to accomplish the thing like skateboarding, longboarding,

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snowboarding, all of those things where like you're just gonna eat shit repeatedly and snowboarding.

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Get it right. Yeah. You, until you understand it or you don't,

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but then I was also a volleyball player.

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So just very conventional sport. I played volleyball in college for a couple of years.

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And then, uh, after that, but I did basketball, lacrosse, swimming, tons of sports.

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And really like another reason to bring me to jujitsu was like,

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once I graduated from college, it's not like people were getting together to practice sport,

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but all of my coping skills like that I had as a human person were through getting

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to decompress at the end of the day and play and being engaged in the sport.

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So to not have that outlet felt like crazy to me.

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And then as soon as I found like martial arts, I was like, oh,

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this makes so much sense because really like if you sign up for a rec league

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for volleyball, I'm like playing on the weekends like once a week.

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And it's like that to me, I'm like, I want to improve at a sport.

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I want to be coached. I want to like get better i like don't want

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to just like do the play i want

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to like actually improve myself so do you think

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that the competitiveness of sport too is um even

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though if even if you're not competing but if you're in the gym there's kind

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of that natural competitiveness when you're playing when you're doing jujitsu

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do you think that that's something too that that you need outside of just like

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rec like that's why that's not like those rec sports aren't necessarily you're gravitating towards?

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Yeah, I think it's like, I need, I need the growth.

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I need the objectives. I need the like scalable thing to try to work towards, to accomplish.

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Um, and it's hard like in a, uh, team sport to like be in control of that thing completely, you know?

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So like when it's individualized, like it's all on me, my performance when I'm training.

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So, uh, all those choices are my choices and

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like everything that's happening is going to be up so all of

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that drives like it feeds into the thing that i was

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like looking for and your story

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actually mike's is a little bit different you speak for

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yourself buddy but he was a wrestler yeah played football so he was like bashing

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in dudes for years i actually was a swimmer too you can hear me right yeah oh

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hell yeah okay uh but like similarly i also i graduated high school and i was

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like i need a thing yeah You know, like, I need a thing to do.

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I didn't know I would end up with, like, a community of people.

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That was, like, a big bonus for me.

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Sounds like you kind of went and went and went and you were like,

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yo, I want to have, like, a group of people I'm around.

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But to me, it was kind of also like, I just need to learn how to fight.

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I just wanted people, like, well, I wanted to be in a room where people were driving forward.

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Like, I wanted to be in a room where it wasn't, like.

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We're showing up and it's free play and people are popping beers afterwards. And it was like that.

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Like, I wanted to be in a space where, like, I'm, like, trying to whatever it

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was going to be, I'm, like, working to improve in that space.

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So there's I don't know.

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There's, like, a lot of opportunity that exists like that. League play isn't

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set up in that way when you're an adult.

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Like, you're coached all through high school and college. And then all of a

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sudden, like, you don't have a coach.

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It's like you guys giving each other feedback a little bit. But it's like you're

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not in a room where somebody is being intentional with your time anymore. It's up to you.

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So I was like, I want somebody to have that task and like to drive our room

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and to like be in that space.

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That feels good. Yeah, yeah. No, it makes a lot of sense. I mean,

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it's like you're preaching the choir.

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Yeah, yeah. We get it. No, but you're right because there's not really a lot

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of – like where else do adults do that?

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Like I – literally you just got me thinking about it right now.

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Like where else can adults do that?

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Bit I think a lot of people fall into like that because you're like you show

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up and you're coaching and you're kind of like driving towards the same thing and

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obviously like you're improving and your weights and you're training and stuff

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like that but I think like I think there are

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areas but it's like they're not they're not in

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like the conventional sports typically or not that I'm aware of

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I mean I work in recreation but it's like I don't think that

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it exists you can take on creative outlets and

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I feel like you could get like painting and you can

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do things like and people are going to tell you what to do and it's

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like guided but no as you become an adult it kind of like falls off in terms

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of our physical athletic suit of our hobbies unless you're performing at such

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like a high level you're a pro in something yeah exactly but like that's not

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that's not most of us you know you really seek out like those specific like if.

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People want to go and pick up like oh i want to go

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do this would be right after college like go

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do like u23 whatever sport

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and try to succeed at like high level or

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whatever it's the only really the only way that you're going

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to get into sport and have like a coach yeah you really

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want to get into like in that environment actual league sports outside

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of like recreation like rugby has it yeah like

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you can go and do get into some international like

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highly competitive you know they're recreational but

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it's a different thing you have when you're

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practicing totally i mean like uh guys they

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go play basketball in europe or like people will play uh football at like um

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like a smaller league or even baseball like it does exist but like you still

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even to be there you have to be performing so well to get to that point so no

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it's interesting like i feel like.

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Again like this is just maybe my you got me thinking about it right now

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i don't really feel like america we do that that much like europeans have

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like a club recreational soccer thing like bros will

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yes they drink they get a little hammer but they have

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like a soccer club like they hang out and they don't need to be

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pro athletes but they'll be a part of like a club they have a

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system yeah they have a system that's like that allows

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them to be athletes yeah like they're traveling for games and

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stuff for that too like these guys are it's it's it's like organized yeah it's

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like a little more elevated we have offerings around social sports i think but

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it's like not again it's just not as elevated it's not as involved and i was

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looking for that level of involvement because that's like how i can shut my

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brain down finally and just like.

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Be a little bit outside of that headspace that

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i get trapped and you get

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to learn how to break people's legs yeah so you know that's a

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lot of very enjoyable things yeah so we'll

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we can all bond over that yeah so where uh where did you end up after that first

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foray into jiu-jitsu like what uh how did where did your jiu-jitsu journey take

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you after that yeah everywhere in like the stayed to Maryland, like everywhere.

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So I was in, like I said, I started at Ryoma and Frostburg.

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We moved to Annapolis from Frostburg. And then I was at Randori while I was in Annapolis.

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Then the head instructor from that school left. And when he left,

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I went to that school, which was in ground control in Columbia, Maryland.

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And then he ended up leaving altogether

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there um and then i bounced around between schools for a while and then landed

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back i guess at ground control i might even be messing this up now but i was

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at ground control for a while and then after that they won't know any different

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yeah none of us know nobody's looking into it you know in,

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barcelona we wouldn't know but there were a couple of gyms like in between soldier fit.

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Had a program going over there and i knew some of the guys because they used

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to be an affiliate with Ryoma,

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and then any kind of training that I could find, but it was like,

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that was like the primary.

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So it was Ryoma, Randori, ground control, and then from ground control to standard.

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And that happened in like 2017, I started training with Greg.

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And you've been a part of that team ever since.

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Yeah, I've been there ever since. I love it there. Like, as soon as I walked

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in the door, dude, that place has such, like, a pure vibe.

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It's changed trifold, like, since I've been there. But when I walked in the

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door in that space, people were in there talking shit and grappling.

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And I was just like, and that's all they were doing.

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And I was just like, this is it. Like I've walked into so many gyms where it's

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like they have all this other stuff going on.

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They have all this like different equipment going on. They have different classes

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going on. They have all this stuff.

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I walked into that space and it was just it was all about jujitsu. That's all it was about.

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And people working hard and doing that. And I was just like,

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this is it. It was a little grungy. It was a little garagey.

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It was just like it was hot as fuck.

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Like I was just like, this is a space for me. Like I love it because it was very pure.

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And I could feel that like even then and then Greg after that

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first class he like sat there and answered my questions

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for like ever and I was just like what is this like

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this man is just gonna tell me everything and I

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was like we we just hit off very quickly so I've

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been there ever since he's been wonderful what's kind of crazy

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about like rooms that style too like I

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think a lot of people don't think they want that until they

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experience it like that like shut up

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and grapple like a lot of guys think that a lot

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of people just think they want to go in just like learn jujitsu and then

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they get like that hard nose hard

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working room like oh actually i'm really into this like really into this like

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working at jujitsu versus like learning techniques and like i think it's kind

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of crazy like a lot of people have that just kind of like built in they don't

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know it yet yeah until they experience it and then like all right this is the

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room i want this is the kind of jujitsu I want to be doing.

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I, like, headed there with goals. So coming out of the other gym,

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they had kind of, like, adjusted their schedule and catered things more towards,

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like, the fundamental classes and beginners.

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And then as a result of that, like, it didn't give me as much access to,

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like, bowling and training that I knew that I needed to compete.

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I was actively competing at the time.

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And I knew I was, like, in the pursuit of worlds, a GEE IBJJF worlds.

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Like, that's what I wanted to do.

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I knew that. and so i was

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unsuccessful there and leaving that

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space because it just wasn't it wasn't

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the space anymore for me um and going to greg's it was like um walking into

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that felt so refreshing because i was like i'm gonna have all the tools i need

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in this space to be serious to do the things that i need to do in order to get

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the goals accomplished like he's giving me everything,

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so by the way it's pretty cool the second we just started talking about standard

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your face like lit up you got fired up which is awesome it's like cool to see

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you like really you know like you love it there which is great and you had spoken

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to something there I was gonna ask about you may have just answered it but,

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going into it you said you had goals and.

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Even just that statement. Some people don't have goals. A lot of people don't have goals.

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Sometimes people come into the academy, they don't know. They just want to see

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if this is a thing for them. But you obviously, you've been doing it.

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You knew enough about the sport, the martial arts, to say, all right,

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I want to get the following things out of it.

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And you walk in right away. Because you're an educated consumer,

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you're like, this is what I'm looking for.

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Yeah. These guys will do it. And it's helpful. I mean, it was helpful that I'd

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been on other gyms. And even, I mean, I got to give it a lot of credit to like

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my coaches within those spaces, all of those spaces.

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Nobody ever told me like I didn't have permission while I was in those spaces

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to go train at other spaces.

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Like even my coach JP, while I was at Ground Control Columbia,

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took me to Lucas Lepre's.

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He took me to Cabrinha's. Like he took me places where he was like,

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this is what this is what the high level looks like.

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He was like, put yourself in these rooms. Don't be afraid of it.

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Like get into these spaces. and or like

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even as something as simple as like he knew good guys that

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were over at like Baltimore Martial Arts and we'd go over there and like

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he's like we have good guys coming in like you should come do this like

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feel what that feels like and so nobody was ever

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telling me that I shouldn't go pursue that

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space that felt like it was tough like

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it was elevated like it was like because it's like he was

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like you're gonna benefit from being in that room I was

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able to recognize when his room was no longer that room

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and so going over to

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Greg's and yeah I had goals like I was there was

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like a chunk of time in my life where I was like really pursuing this jujitsu

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thing and and and that just whatever kind of like things I had going on in my

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life I needed to funnel into this space and so that's what I was doing and it

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felt really good and I knew I felt like.

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I said I had been around to enough places where I knew I could put myself in

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that in that standard and get there yeah.

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Cool. I like it. No, it's just like, it's a cool story, right?

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Like, you're looking for something.

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Yeah. Find it. And like, clearly, like, you're still excited about it. It's awesome to see.

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What do you think? Like, what do they do that's interesting,

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that's unique or different?

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Oh, so many wonderful things. Like, they invite the fight.

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I've been in a lot of places where I've been told to, like, pump the brakes

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on things or, like, I'm a bigger woman.

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You know like when I go against other people oftentimes like

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that that's something that I would do to myself but there was nobody

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in that space that like even Nikki I walked in Nikki's like

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125 pounds this woman she she

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flabbergasted me because literally I could

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give her everything I got and she's coming up fighting like

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it doesn't matter and there's even a significant

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size discrepancy there so I had full permission to

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like try to the best of my ability to accomplish

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each of the tasks within that space to kick some ass

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but but but like that is something for and

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i especially women like sometimes that doesn't and

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people and other women don't show up in that way people

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can be in this sport for whatever reason they want to

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i was in the sport as an athlete like i know that about

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myself um and i knew i had

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goals so they all gave me permission to

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like put me in bad situations and then like fully pursue

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the outcomes and and that's like wonderful and then

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like all the training was intentional you know it started on

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time it ended on time it was all based around like these these skill sets that

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we needed to develop or i needed to develop specifically if if i asked for the

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extra work you know so there were so many things that were done well there i i just love like.

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If I'm coming to you and I'm an athlete and I'm telling you what I want and

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I'm showing up for you, a coach that also respects my time with giving me the

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stuff that I need. I mean, you can't beat that exchange.

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That's exactly what that looks like. And so I gave that everything I had.

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And it looked like me not successfully taking Nikki's back and crying out of

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frustration for like two months. That's what it looked like.

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But we did. I mean, so I was successful that year. 2017, I think it was.

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I think it was 2018 going into Worlds. I won silver.

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The only person I lost to was Yara Soares. Yara?

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She's a monster. So it's like... Yeah, you had a hell of a run. Oh, it was awesome.

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So I felt really prepared. I felt like it worked out.

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Yeah. Sounds like it's like, so what you're saying is like the training's intentional.

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Oh, yeah. It's very organized. It's thought through. There's no wasted time.

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It's, we're going to get in. We're going to do our job. Yeah, totally.

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Yeah. All the rounds are kind of timed out. the format it

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is timed out and like you you

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go in there and you get all the stuff that you need you're gonna have to

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look at like I mean basically like

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all the classes are set up so you're gonna be looking at standing you're gonna

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be looking at guard passing you're gonna be looking at pinning positions and you're

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gonna be looking at attacking you're gonna get all the stuff that you need and

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you're gonna have to get real looks at it because you know Greg Greg doesn't

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deny you the true environment in which the tasks are gonna

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be accomplished so you actually have to fight through all that stuff i mean

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just conditioning alone from going from like a traditional gym drilling and

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technique to playing these games all the time even at that point it was like

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holy crap hard work yeah yeah like it's hard work yeah.

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Hell yeah. And so, okay, so tell us, you're still part of the team,

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but now you're coaching at Odin. Mm-hmm.

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How does that happen? Yeah. How does that happen? You know, I had a baby.

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A baby. I had a baby. And I was pregnant in 2020, and I had my kid in 2021.

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Not a complicated time to have a kid at all. No, yeah, it was great.

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My sister had a kid around the same time, too. There wasn't a lot going on.

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But life must go on. Yeah. And, you know, jujitsu is a forgiving sport to come back to.

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But obviously being sarcastic. That's correct.

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Yeah. So those of you who can't see us. Yeah.

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Yeah. It was brutal. So I did take a lot of time off in that from 2019,

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I did like a Toro cup or something.

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After that, I like just completely dropped off. Really?

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I bought a house. I got pregnant and like I got dogs. Like I was doing like

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life stuff, which is cool.

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Yeah, man. No, that's actually, it's really cool. Yeah, just accelerator.

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So like, but up until that point, I was like really hard into the jujitsu space.

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So I was like, okay, you know what?

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Like I felt really good about what I had accomplished. And then I was like in

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a new space to like be an adult and like do some things that I wanted to do

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likewise. So I was doing that.

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And then I had to find myself back on the mats, which is like.

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That was hard to do. Honestly, coming back from like pregnancy,

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having my kid, figuring out how to be a parent and navigate like who's going to watch the kid.

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Like every single time I stepped on the mat, my kid would scream.

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It wasn't like this, this situation where I had him there in a bouncer because

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we were coming out fresh from COVID.

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And so that felt sketchy. And it was like, so just navigating all the new mom

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stuff and then like getting back into my body and feeling like strong enough

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to like really go in there and do it. It was all like a challenge.

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And so in that space. I was looking for a way to interact with jujitsu.

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And coaching was like where I landed. I was given a suggestion through one of

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my really good friends, Anne, to meet up with this girl, Jules,

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this woman, Jules. She's amazing.

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She's like over six feet tall. And she was like a rower in college.

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And she's like, she's so solid and like was a purple belt when I met her.

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And we started working together. I kind of started introducing her to games and what Greg was up to.

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And it wasn't at Standard. It was in Frederick. She was coming from Pennsylvania to meet up with me.

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So that experience is what has eventually grown into Odin.

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And I bought Greg's like old mats when he replaced them. And we were putting

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them down in a classroom in a rec center.

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And that's like, that's where it all started was just me working with this one

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individual. And it It was her learning this new thing, which was the games,

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but me learning how to interact with jujitsu again.

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So it was like this really beautiful thing happened, and...

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From there, it like took off. I ended up like finding this parks building that

00:22:07.648 --> 00:22:12.428
was empty and only used for costume storage. And I had those mats permanently

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installed in there and the space cleaned out.

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And then more people started coming and more people wanted to learn about games.

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And so then I was able to like finally get strong enough that I could go attend

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regular classes a couple of times a week.

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And then also now I'm attacking it from like I'm trying to develop an understanding

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of CLA. And I'm trying to understand, like, okay, like, what is the framework

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that these games are built around?

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Like, what is all the intention behind this? And, and so then I got to start

00:22:43.748 --> 00:22:46.948
picking it apart mentally. And I spent a lot of time in that space, too.

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So it was like, it was just like a new way that gave me more freedom to interact with jujitsu.

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And it continues to so it was like, it just made sense at that point.

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And now I'm like getting to be in that space, giving other women and people

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permission to just like absolutely maul each other. And I love it.

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It's so wonderful. Like I had six or seven women in just this past week that

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all showed up and it's super hot.

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We have like a little ac unit in there and they

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just absolutely work hard and

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destroy each other and stay on task and i love that like

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i love that that's the environment that uh we

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have it's it's amazing so cool i

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feel like i'm like no no that's so chatty you guys

00:23:34.528 --> 00:23:38.628
asked for it this is this is about you yeah yeah that's literally

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what we're here to do um well so

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okay so tell us i'm curious like like athlete

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to coach and you've been you've worked with greg

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for a long time so you have like you understand like his

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version of instruction what's what's maybe your

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your twist what's your style is you referencing the games in cla is that the

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direction you take things with your team yeah so everybody that shows up when

00:24:00.368 --> 00:24:05.428
we go in there i so it's an intimate space so i have the benefit of that i'm

00:24:05.428 --> 00:24:09.328
not leading a room i'm like catering to people so they come in and they tell

00:24:09.328 --> 00:24:11.368
me what they're working on or where they're having their problems.

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And then I try to give them situations that are directly related to the problems they're having.

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So then oftentimes people come in and they're having problems with a certain

00:24:20.808 --> 00:24:25.288
situation, open guard, because they just haven't gotten the chance to spend

00:24:25.288 --> 00:24:28.928
a lot of time in open guard. You've been shown all these techniques in open guard.

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And then the amount of time that you get to play it when you're actually doing

00:24:33.808 --> 00:24:38.548
it live is like 30 seconds because you're not good at your guard retention or whatever. So,

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When people come in the door, I talk to them and we just have a conversation.

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What are you working on? What stood out to you? Like, what was a problem for you this week?

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And then we, like, take those things and we try to tie them together into maybe

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a concept that makes sense.

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Like, a piece of the greater framework that makes sense. And then we play games around that.

00:25:00.606 --> 00:25:05.126
And it's just, like, I love it because that every week's a new puzzle.

00:25:06.426 --> 00:25:11.166
And then it's really catered to people's needs. And then if people show up regularly

00:25:11.166 --> 00:25:15.286
for me, I take them kind of on a journey based on what I'm seeing.

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Because then I have enough information to be able to do that.

00:25:17.986 --> 00:25:21.186
You can create like a roadmap for them. Exactly. But otherwise, like.

00:25:21.426 --> 00:25:25.126
One-offs are probably kind of tough. It's more challenging. I have to go off

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of what they're telling me, right? Because I can't just be like.

00:25:28.326 --> 00:25:32.446
And are they like training in other places and coming to see you like a couple times a week? Yeah.

00:25:32.846 --> 00:25:38.286
Is this facility open? No. So it's not a stand. And yeah, it's not like on a

00:25:38.286 --> 00:25:39.726
set schedule or anything like that.

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I do have like a group of dudes that meet at like 1030 and my husband comes

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in and he coaches them and he works with them.

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Only because like I can't I can't like keep doing my full time job and all of this.

00:25:54.066 --> 00:25:58.986
And it's like, yeah, like schedules are a real thing. So I looped it. I looped him in.

00:25:59.706 --> 00:26:04.226
Where does he train? No, he's at Standard 2. OK, OK. Yeah, but he's like,

00:26:04.386 --> 00:26:10.146
so his background is like, he's been in like MMA, kickboxing, and then jujitsu.

00:26:10.346 --> 00:26:14.706
So he's like, he's like a longtime purple belt guy, but his jujitsu is good.

00:26:14.866 --> 00:26:20.786
Like, I wouldn't respect him if it wasn't. So I get it. Yeah.

00:26:22.266 --> 00:26:26.846
It's very good. Like he's he's good. And I actually it's this this era of like

00:26:26.846 --> 00:26:28.246
what's going on right now is newer.

00:26:28.786 --> 00:26:33.486
He's been in there like doing some of the coaching for maybe a couple of months now, which is awesome.

00:26:33.486 --> 00:26:36.246
He was like hired by my work and then he

00:26:36.246 --> 00:26:39.366
works through one of the other supervisors to schedule his training

00:26:39.366 --> 00:26:42.526
which is like I love it it's so funny but the

00:26:42.526 --> 00:26:45.466
thing that's beautiful that gets to happen there is now

00:26:45.466 --> 00:26:48.286
him and I have all these deep conversations about oh we're

00:26:48.286 --> 00:26:50.966
planning games for this person what do you think they need to

00:26:50.966 --> 00:26:53.806
do what are you seeing like how how can we

00:26:53.806 --> 00:26:56.826
get them to work towards developing that skill that

00:26:56.826 --> 00:27:00.606
they're lacking like and him and I get to have those conversations all the time

00:27:00.606 --> 00:27:04.446
which is like oh i love it because obviously i love jujitsu i love the sport

00:27:04.446 --> 00:27:07.686
i love having those conversations but then to have it with him and us be in

00:27:07.686 --> 00:27:14.026
the same room kind of like moving that and then he's like wonderful in the way that like i'm a woman,

00:27:14.506 --> 00:27:19.606
in leading a room and initially it was like the dude showing up that he like

00:27:19.606 --> 00:27:23.806
comes in and like reinforces what i'm saying and doesn't detract from me in

00:27:23.806 --> 00:27:27.746
any way like we complement each other nicely it's like I can't do anything but

00:27:27.746 --> 00:27:30.966
appreciate the that dynamic that relationship like.

00:27:31.784 --> 00:27:35.424
It's awesome so um yeah

00:27:35.424 --> 00:27:38.624
so there's no regular schedule at odin i check

00:27:38.624 --> 00:27:41.444
in with the people the cast of players that reach out

00:27:41.444 --> 00:27:44.264
to me but they all train at other gyms they come here

00:27:44.264 --> 00:27:47.084
to like either get a different look because their gym

00:27:47.084 --> 00:27:50.784
doesn't train this way they they're not task based or and

00:27:50.784 --> 00:27:54.404
they don't get to do any of the game kind of stuff uh or

00:27:54.404 --> 00:27:57.424
because like now i have kind of

00:27:57.424 --> 00:28:00.684
like a whole of different people so I can pair up

00:28:00.684 --> 00:28:03.624
two people that make a lot of sense training together

00:28:03.624 --> 00:28:06.524
and are going to give each other such good looks that otherwise wouldn't

00:28:06.524 --> 00:28:10.004
be in the same room so it's like that happens a lot and

00:28:10.004 --> 00:28:12.904
um like just this past week is

00:28:12.904 --> 00:28:15.644
like I had two women that were interested in

00:28:15.644 --> 00:28:18.844
learning more about entanglements and I had Nikki come through and just

00:28:18.844 --> 00:28:21.544
put them in them and then they had to work on like trying to

00:28:21.544 --> 00:28:24.664
break those connections and it's like that's so meaningful because they

00:28:24.664 --> 00:28:27.704
don't have another woman in their room that's really proficient so i

00:28:27.704 --> 00:28:30.524
can give you somebody that's really good at this thing that you're trying to

00:28:30.524 --> 00:28:33.264
develop the skill set around and then you get

00:28:33.264 --> 00:28:36.364
to like look at it and interact with it for like a whole 20 30

00:28:36.364 --> 00:28:40.164
minutes where otherwise like you're never getting that that's

00:28:40.164 --> 00:28:43.384
like you're like a jiu-jitsu consultant yeah yeah

00:28:43.384 --> 00:28:46.024
you mean like seriously like as i'm here i'm like you get to be.

00:28:46.024 --> 00:28:48.864
Like hey all right like legit i like have

00:28:48.864 --> 00:28:51.624
like a kind of like running track of like all these

00:28:51.624 --> 00:28:54.784
different people what their weights like where

00:28:54.784 --> 00:28:58.204
are they performing like what are the ranks and then like like who

00:28:58.204 --> 00:29:01.044
do they make sense with and i try to put those people together it's

00:29:01.044 --> 00:29:03.864
like the most as a person who's like

00:29:03.864 --> 00:29:08.844
a bigger female that had to like go out and find so many training partners because

00:29:08.844 --> 00:29:12.764
i couldn't find that person in my gym i didn't find a lot of people that look

00:29:12.764 --> 00:29:17.864
like me in my spaces like if i can facilitate that for other people i feel like

00:29:17.864 --> 00:29:21.724
that's a gift yeah so i mean you've like so like i mean you're saying you you've

00:29:21.724 --> 00:29:23.444
had to you understand the value of.

00:29:24.546 --> 00:29:30.346
A really well set up training session. Right person doing the right things for the right reasons.

00:29:30.786 --> 00:29:35.006
With like a simple but really impactful objective. Oh, 100.

00:29:35.366 --> 00:29:37.746
You know, matched with all the other stuff they're doing, their background.

00:29:37.926 --> 00:29:40.386
It's like, you get it. So like, Jiu-Jitsu consultant.

00:29:40.666 --> 00:29:44.126
That's me. You are. Just like, yeah, just trying. That's awesome.

00:29:44.306 --> 00:29:48.366
It's almost like a supplementary or like workshop space too,

00:29:48.446 --> 00:29:49.666
it sounds like. Totally.

00:29:49.966 --> 00:29:52.886
You come in, you have the things that you need to work on. You have someone

00:29:52.886 --> 00:29:54.126
who's going to work on them with you.

00:29:54.126 --> 00:29:57.086
Like that's that's super productive like it's

00:29:57.086 --> 00:30:00.066
a very productive like we we actually started adding those in

00:30:00.066 --> 00:30:02.966
at our gym like it makes a world of difference for people

00:30:02.966 --> 00:30:05.926
that you know because otherwise you're in there working on whatever

00:30:05.926 --> 00:30:09.006
the pathway is that everyone needs

00:30:09.006 --> 00:30:11.686
to be they want everyone to be working on or if you have

00:30:11.686 --> 00:30:14.906
a curriculum-based system or like

00:30:14.906 --> 00:30:18.046
hey we're all working these positions but

00:30:18.046 --> 00:30:20.966
you don't need to work those positions exactly so yeah

00:30:20.966 --> 00:30:23.706
like people waiting around for like that technique to come back around

00:30:23.706 --> 00:30:26.966
in their curriculum or whatever like it's like you bypass that i'm

00:30:26.966 --> 00:30:30.046
not ever looking to be a full-time school

00:30:30.046 --> 00:30:33.066
i just don't have the capacity like in terms of my life like

00:30:33.066 --> 00:30:38.786
it just doesn't add up to that but but i think like i'm just trying to like

00:30:38.786 --> 00:30:44.246
elevate the little pieces of that community that i can have access to or are

00:30:44.246 --> 00:30:50.226
interested you know it's like you have to kind of take it upon yourself to go find that thing if

00:30:50.486 --> 00:30:54.646
you're not finding it within your space and if you're a person that recognizes that and you.

00:30:55.506 --> 00:31:00.526
Have the ability to go find it and if I can be a part of that I feel like nothing

00:31:00.526 --> 00:31:05.006
but gratitude for all of those things I think it's positive do you have a specific

00:31:05.006 --> 00:31:10.166
place you want like Bowdoin Jiu Jitsu to end up at like is there like an like

00:31:10.166 --> 00:31:13.126
not like an end goal but like a specific.

00:31:14.026 --> 00:31:16.946
Space in which you want to be living like you

00:31:16.946 --> 00:31:20.206
want to have this be a thing even if

00:31:20.206 --> 00:31:23.006
it's not like a full-time school but like a program that people

00:31:23.006 --> 00:31:28.186
can attend all the time or like you want to expand it beyond what it currently

00:31:28.186 --> 00:31:33.086
is or you know what what do you what do you see for that it's a good question

00:31:33.086 --> 00:31:37.306
i mean it has been growing organically it's grown to the point where like i've

00:31:37.306 --> 00:31:41.366
had to recruit my husband to be involved in it we've had to get more mats in

00:31:41.366 --> 00:31:42.766
there We had to get wall mats up.

00:31:43.566 --> 00:31:52.586
We've had lots of people pass through. I just think that I really like this

00:31:52.586 --> 00:31:55.726
way of interacting with it. And I don't want to change it.

00:31:56.206 --> 00:31:59.306
I don't want it to become like a regular class schedule.

00:31:59.306 --> 00:32:02.506
I don't want it to become like this team. i think

00:32:02.506 --> 00:32:08.786
like the major benefit of it is that this is a parks and rec program um all

00:32:08.786 --> 00:32:11.726
the funds that are collected go back to the parks and recreation department

00:32:11.726 --> 00:32:16.166
the only thing that i get is like comp time for leaving the office or taking

00:32:16.166 --> 00:32:21.566
on extra work um and i think that i like that it doesn't.

00:32:22.377 --> 00:32:27.317
Directly compete with the schools that are around that offering regular classes.

00:32:27.617 --> 00:32:32.837
And also, it's a small space. Like, it can't compete in that way.

00:32:32.997 --> 00:32:38.317
Like, we are limited by the size itself. And so I think it's kind of like a

00:32:38.317 --> 00:32:43.717
niche and an outlet, but it's not like, I don't see it becoming an actual school.

00:32:44.197 --> 00:32:47.517
I've been offered these

00:32:47.517 --> 00:32:50.677
opportunities that look like teaching at actual schools

00:32:50.677 --> 00:32:54.157
and i just don't i've worked the desk at

00:32:54.157 --> 00:32:58.357
a school before and i've uh participated

00:32:58.357 --> 00:33:01.317
as a kids coach and i've been like the women's coach

00:33:01.317 --> 00:33:04.737
at schools and i i've done these roles this is

00:33:04.737 --> 00:33:08.957
so different and specific and meaningful

00:33:08.957 --> 00:33:12.197
i don't want to move away from whatever this is

00:33:12.197 --> 00:33:14.997
i'm gonna keep whatever this is going found your

00:33:14.997 --> 00:33:18.697
niche yeah and the limitation is what brings like it's

00:33:18.697 --> 00:33:21.717
rewarding for you and it's valuable for the

00:33:21.717 --> 00:33:24.677
students that you get to work with yeah and honestly it

00:33:24.677 --> 00:33:28.057
sounds like you've created the like recreational club

00:33:28.057 --> 00:33:30.957
program yeah yeah of my dreams like the

00:33:30.957 --> 00:33:33.837
thing that we're we were kind of talking about that doesn't exist at

00:33:33.837 --> 00:33:36.677
the beginning right like those sports that

00:33:36.677 --> 00:33:39.897
you can't like have a recreational program to go like you created

00:33:39.897 --> 00:33:42.837
it like this rec program that you can go in

00:33:42.837 --> 00:33:45.697
and just learn how to get better at a sport it's like the joke at

00:33:45.697 --> 00:33:48.917
my work that we just all program for ourselves like like

00:33:48.917 --> 00:33:51.897
my supervisor likes fly fishing he started

00:33:51.897 --> 00:33:56.337
fly fishing as a program like uh one of the other supervisors she likes like

00:33:56.337 --> 00:34:00.397
agricultural stuff and her her daughter's like heavily involved in the agricultural

00:34:00.397 --> 00:34:04.317
stuff in the state of maryland and so all of her programs are like agricultural

00:34:04.317 --> 00:34:08.237
based and like like farm the table based and different information in that space

00:34:08.237 --> 00:34:10.837
and it's just like it's so funny like we all.

00:34:11.297 --> 00:34:15.397
Obviously you don't need to find passion when it's like your own hobby.

00:34:15.597 --> 00:34:19.597
Like we all have our little like things that we love and so we're like,

00:34:19.757 --> 00:34:22.437
you know what I think the public would really like?

00:34:22.617 --> 00:34:26.257
But it's like, it's all for us. Yeah, yeah. What I love.

00:34:26.577 --> 00:34:29.157
It is, but that's kind of the interesting thing about these passion projects

00:34:29.157 --> 00:34:31.877
is that like, it's like you're setting out a tractor beam

00:34:32.235 --> 00:34:34.955
For other people who are like, I like that shit, too. Yeah, yeah,

00:34:35.015 --> 00:34:39.315
yeah. They don't know. But it's because it's like low cost or maybe free in some cases.

00:34:39.475 --> 00:34:42.775
And they're like, you're a barrier to entry. So they don't want it. They don't have to.

00:34:43.095 --> 00:34:46.515
Right. But if they do, they got it. Yeah, exactly. And that's like our whole,

00:34:46.695 --> 00:34:48.335
I mean, that's what I'm trying to do as a whole.

00:34:48.495 --> 00:34:53.255
I'm like trying to bring what jujitsu is to me, to everybody. But like not jujitsu.

00:34:53.475 --> 00:34:57.515
All the stuff. Like anything that you could possibly want to do as a hobby.

00:34:57.695 --> 00:34:59.575
Because people need hobbies.

00:34:59.815 --> 00:35:01.935
They need to get out there and play something.

00:35:02.675 --> 00:35:04.415
Because people are not happy.

00:35:05.175 --> 00:35:10.735
Yeah. They need purpose or fulfillment or something challenging in front of them.

00:35:10.895 --> 00:35:14.515
Yeah, like no people get to the end of their run at life and they're like,

00:35:14.615 --> 00:35:18.115
oh, I wish I didn't spend more time doing those things I was so passionate about.

00:35:18.275 --> 00:35:20.975
You know, it's like, that's what we need to focus on is like,

00:35:21.195 --> 00:35:25.875
because it makes us better humans to be engaged in these like pursuits.

00:35:26.095 --> 00:35:29.095
They don't say, man, I really wish I spent more time at my desk job.

00:35:29.175 --> 00:35:35.275
Yeah, no, that's not a thing. So it's like, so I have the fun job of like trying

00:35:35.275 --> 00:35:38.135
to facilitate that for the communities, like just finding stuff.

00:35:38.655 --> 00:35:41.175
And obviously I was like, oh, my stuff should be over.

00:35:42.775 --> 00:35:46.355
I also want to. I'm trying to do this. I'm a member of the public.

00:35:46.495 --> 00:35:51.155
And as a member of the public, I think we should be supplying the public with jujitsu.

00:35:51.335 --> 00:35:53.395
Yeah, that's what I think. It's a good one.

00:35:53.615 --> 00:35:58.315
We're doing task based games because I like task based games and you're doing it.

00:35:58.715 --> 00:36:01.755
That's right. Thanking you. That's right. I do throw, I will say,

00:36:01.935 --> 00:36:06.995
like, I came from, I mean, JP, my instructor that I had over at Ground Control,

00:36:07.155 --> 00:36:08.935
and I followed him from Randori.

00:36:10.155 --> 00:36:15.855
He's an Alliance black belt. So I had all the traditional technique in the world

00:36:15.855 --> 00:36:19.255
you could possibly have going into my purple belt.

00:36:19.415 --> 00:36:21.835
I mean, I was, like, eating that stuff up. I loved it. Like,

00:36:21.935 --> 00:36:28.035
I loved it. And I think more so if I thought about it more deeply,

00:36:28.035 --> 00:36:32.735
I loved being stubborn about finding it within the game.

00:36:33.595 --> 00:36:38.275
Like, that is where I feel like, and that's why, like, when I came to Greg and

00:36:38.275 --> 00:36:41.015
I saw games, it, like, really resonated with me because it was like,

00:36:41.135 --> 00:36:44.355
oh, okay, you're going to put me directly in the situation that I need to try

00:36:44.355 --> 00:36:45.775
to accomplish, oh, my God, this makes me so hard.

00:36:46.719 --> 00:36:51.439
But when I was learning technique, I was eating that stuff up. I loved it.

00:36:52.019 --> 00:36:55.119
And so I'll throw people a bone every once in a while.

00:36:56.419 --> 00:37:02.259
And what I mean when I say that is, I'll show them a technique. I'm not a purist.

00:37:02.679 --> 00:37:08.059
You're not so hardcore into the CLA. Greg can, you know, I'm not afraid of him.

00:37:10.059 --> 00:37:12.619
He can stand on his own two feet. He's prepared to do it.

00:37:12.659 --> 00:37:15.819
Yeah, no. he can he can he can like shoot me

00:37:15.819 --> 00:37:18.899
up and spit me out if he wants to for saying that but i but i don't also

00:37:18.899 --> 00:37:22.099
care like it's fine like we have a good relationship yeah

00:37:22.099 --> 00:37:25.419
yeah so it's not gonna so you think um it's

00:37:25.419 --> 00:37:28.339
like some people do obviously people learn differently

00:37:28.339 --> 00:37:31.319
so would you agree that there's some people

00:37:31.319 --> 00:37:34.619
that thrive more in cla format

00:37:34.619 --> 00:37:38.199
or thrive more in that like strict

00:37:38.199 --> 00:37:42.119
the traditional format or like do

00:37:42.119 --> 00:37:46.039
you think that those those two uh there's

00:37:46.039 --> 00:37:49.159
two like schools of thought like have

00:37:49.159 --> 00:37:52.079
like a place yeah like for certain for certain people and

00:37:52.079 --> 00:37:55.099
certain like learning process like

00:37:55.099 --> 00:37:59.559
there's people that learn better one way versus the other and like there isn't

00:37:59.559 --> 00:38:03.659
the be all end all like you have to do this one or this one i will say that

00:38:03.659 --> 00:38:10.059
like me personally if i'm consuming for myself and I'm like for myself I think

00:38:10.059 --> 00:38:12.919
it's CLA I think that's it like I think,

00:38:13.599 --> 00:38:17.959
I think that technique tricks you into thinking that you have the pieces but you don't,

00:38:18.599 --> 00:38:22.619
because you're not doing them within the context which you need to be executing

00:38:22.619 --> 00:38:27.759
them you're doing them outside of the environment which is just somebody basically

00:38:27.759 --> 00:38:31.979
laying there and letting you drill or whatever that looks like so until you

00:38:31.979 --> 00:38:35.379
can execute them within the environment which is going to look really different

00:38:35.379 --> 00:38:37.999
for you than the way that you did it while you were drilling.

00:38:39.159 --> 00:38:43.319
Then you are not actually doing the thing.

00:38:43.519 --> 00:38:49.319
And I think it's, um, so it's tough with jujitsu because there's so much information

00:38:49.319 --> 00:38:52.899
and there's so many different things and so many variations and things that can happen.

00:38:53.259 --> 00:38:58.659
So it's hard because that's so much to wrap your head around as a newcomer.

00:38:59.260 --> 00:39:02.360
But if you have a good coach like Greg that can break it down to really simple

00:39:02.360 --> 00:39:06.120
tasks, then you get to actually interact with the real environment immediately

00:39:06.120 --> 00:39:08.500
as you're starting. I think that's so helpful.

00:39:08.680 --> 00:39:13.160
I think what a lot of people experience is they're given these chunks of information

00:39:13.160 --> 00:39:16.340
and then they're left to find it within the environment themselves.

00:39:16.340 --> 00:39:22.060
And that process is super hard. And then I also think that if I tell you one

00:39:22.060 --> 00:39:24.140
solution to fix one problem,

00:39:24.420 --> 00:39:30.680
you might get hyperfixated on trying to find that one solution to fix that one

00:39:30.680 --> 00:39:34.420
problem when maybe your build is completely different than mine.

00:39:34.420 --> 00:39:39.900
And you have a solution that might be more affected or you're more attracted

00:39:39.900 --> 00:39:43.380
to that's quicker than what I showed you.

00:39:43.620 --> 00:39:49.720
So instead of you spending time trying to implement the thing that I found works for my body,

00:39:50.140 --> 00:39:56.740
then you can break it down into smaller tasks where you can actually interact

00:39:56.740 --> 00:39:59.000
with it and make it work for your own body.

00:39:59.120 --> 00:40:04.240
So I am kind of like, I definitely lean towards CLA.

00:40:04.480 --> 00:40:07.520
I think that that is the future. I think that is much more effective.

00:40:07.740 --> 00:40:11.580
To me, learning technique is like learning to bump set and spike and then somebody

00:40:11.580 --> 00:40:13.120
telling you to go play volleyball.

00:40:13.420 --> 00:40:18.440
It's like you're left to try to put all those other pieces together.

00:40:18.440 --> 00:40:22.320
And it's like, that isn't really effective.

00:40:22.600 --> 00:40:26.060
There's a reason why people scrimmage. Like, that's real.

00:40:26.560 --> 00:40:30.320
So nobody's going to do that without doing the other thing.

00:40:30.780 --> 00:40:35.820
With us, techniques are just one problem for or one solution for one problem.

00:40:36.300 --> 00:40:41.140
And I think it puts the blinders on to all the opportunity that exists in the

00:40:41.140 --> 00:40:46.240
same spaces. But if you can acknowledge both things, and I can say that to you,

00:40:46.320 --> 00:40:48.640
I can say, here's a guard pass.

00:40:49.400 --> 00:40:55.120
Maybe let's try it this way this time. But understand, it's going to look this way for me.

00:40:55.260 --> 00:40:58.720
It's going to be completely different for you. And as long as you can make it

00:40:58.720 --> 00:41:00.600
effective, then that's what matters.

00:41:00.980 --> 00:41:06.760
Then there's so much open space there that that's okay. I think what's problematic

00:41:06.760 --> 00:41:10.800
is like people that say that this is the end all be all and there has to be

00:41:10.800 --> 00:41:13.620
a perfect technique and you have to do it this way.

00:41:13.780 --> 00:41:18.180
This is the only way to do the move or the way to accomplish everything about that.

00:41:18.240 --> 00:41:22.580
It makes me absolutely like curious. And I think it's because it's like.

00:41:23.476 --> 00:41:26.396
Especially as like a woman in this sport, this is so like relatable.

00:41:26.396 --> 00:41:31.036
And I feel like that's why all these girls like are so open to this thing specifically.

00:41:31.936 --> 00:41:35.696
Uh, like I looked at like a six foot tall dude. That's like telling me that

00:41:35.696 --> 00:41:37.196
it's going to work this way.

00:41:37.336 --> 00:41:40.516
And I'm like, dude, like you aren't me. Like we aren't the same.

00:41:40.696 --> 00:41:45.076
And like that 125 pound girl is not the same as you. Like it's not going to work the same.

00:41:45.636 --> 00:41:48.416
This isn't the end all be all. It's going to look different for all of

00:41:48.416 --> 00:41:51.356
us and it does every single time you watch a match like

00:41:51.356 --> 00:41:55.196
the way people make their technique work is

00:41:55.196 --> 00:41:58.476
adjusted to get that specific environment like

00:41:58.476 --> 00:42:02.076
so so like let's

00:42:02.076 --> 00:42:04.956
not say that or subscribe to that

00:42:04.956 --> 00:42:07.856
idea because it doesn't exist it's not real and it

00:42:07.856 --> 00:42:10.556
gives like a really top-down power dynamic that i'm just

00:42:10.556 --> 00:42:13.496
like getting out of the sport it doesn't belong

00:42:13.496 --> 00:42:16.436
here it's like yeah all of that stuff so

00:42:16.436 --> 00:42:19.676
i do like a hybrid format when i'm teaching because i

00:42:19.676 --> 00:42:22.456
mean i don't know all the answers for one like i don't know all of

00:42:22.456 --> 00:42:25.676
it but i mean yeah like you're saying so many different people

00:42:25.676 --> 00:42:28.976
out there and different ways to do things that like you

00:42:28.976 --> 00:42:31.696
can show them one thing but it's like hey like this is just an

00:42:31.696 --> 00:42:34.856
example for you yeah this is how i do it but doesn't

00:42:34.856 --> 00:42:37.736
mean this is what's going to show up for you in the moment and people want

00:42:37.736 --> 00:42:40.576
that like people do like i get

00:42:40.576 --> 00:42:43.396
asked about that all the time and then so the first

00:42:43.396 --> 00:42:46.216
thing i do is acknowledge that like the information i'm about to

00:42:46.216 --> 00:42:49.096
give you is an example of one movement pattern that's

00:42:49.096 --> 00:42:55.036
going to work to solve the problem you're asking me about beyond that this is

00:42:55.036 --> 00:42:58.416
really what you're interacting with you know like this is really what you're

00:42:58.416 --> 00:43:03.136
trying to do from these positions like or this is why you're effective or ineffective

00:43:03.136 --> 00:43:07.736
but speaking of ladies in jiu-jitsu should we talk about the trio absolutely.

00:43:08.916 --> 00:43:14.956
I'm sure we could keep talking about this for probably two or three business days consecutively but,

00:43:15.976 --> 00:43:19.116
honestly we got NGA July 26

00:43:19.116 --> 00:43:22.136
the main event smash this

00:43:22.136 --> 00:43:28.996
thing the main event I guess is the women's trio bracket of eight there's two

00:43:28.996 --> 00:43:34.376
major things for the week for the weekend we have the females trio they're competing

00:43:34.376 --> 00:43:39.516
for a $1,500 first prize. That's a pretty big deal. There's seven teams.

00:43:40.016 --> 00:43:44.636
That's the main thing that Alex is commentating for. Love to see it.

00:43:44.996 --> 00:43:51.216
The secondary thing for the day is the men's.

00:43:51.879 --> 00:43:55.419
King of the pit so it's like a 200 pound plus uh

00:43:55.419 --> 00:43:58.279
bracket and i believe they have eight people for that or at least that was

00:43:58.279 --> 00:44:01.079
the latest number that might change leading up to

00:44:01.079 --> 00:44:03.959
it um but that one

00:44:03.959 --> 00:44:07.839
is also competing for that

00:44:07.839 --> 00:44:12.019
one is 350 cash prize um so

00:44:12.019 --> 00:44:14.759
i mean it's gonna be pretty cool there's some there's some money

00:44:14.759 --> 00:44:17.759
on the line so that's gonna be fun i'm so

00:44:17.759 --> 00:44:20.699
excited to watch people fight in the pit i'm so excited

00:44:20.699 --> 00:44:23.399
have you been to a live pit i haven't it's it's pretty

00:44:23.399 --> 00:44:26.379
cool i haven't and i i imagine it is i love

00:44:26.379 --> 00:44:32.019
i love it i love the introduce the introduction of the pit to jiu-jitsu i love

00:44:32.019 --> 00:44:37.699
the lack of fleeing i love the the momentum of the match isn't affected i love

00:44:37.699 --> 00:44:42.199
the novelty of the jiu-jitsu that can happen at the angles that are created

00:44:42.199 --> 00:44:45.899
it's like all super interesting i I can't wait to see what happens there.

00:44:46.119 --> 00:44:51.799
You're going to be front row seats on the mic screaming, what is going on? I can't wait.

00:44:51.979 --> 00:44:56.319
And I know, and I know, I will say this. I know a lot of the women that are

00:44:56.319 --> 00:44:58.619
entered, just like organically.

00:44:59.219 --> 00:45:02.719
Honestly, people reaching out to me for suggestions for teammates have been

00:45:02.719 --> 00:45:05.279
part of it. So it's like, oh, who's on your team?

00:45:05.999 --> 00:45:10.119
So it's been really fun because I cannot wait to see what they do.

00:45:10.239 --> 00:45:12.419
And I know some of these girls and I know how they fight.

00:45:12.559 --> 00:45:15.699
And I'm so excited to watch them. Any specifics you want to call?

00:45:15.799 --> 00:45:17.999
They'll be interesting. Like maybe some matchups. Oh, man.

00:45:19.019 --> 00:45:23.579
Anything come to mind naturally? At the risk of... No, I want to keep it.

00:45:24.279 --> 00:45:27.879
She's a commentator. No, no, no. Oh, I mean, so that's the thing.

00:45:27.979 --> 00:45:30.439
I mean, I'm working in this space and I work with all these different people

00:45:30.439 --> 00:45:33.259
from all these different schools. So I just want to see good jiu-jitsu.

00:45:33.459 --> 00:45:37.439
That's it. Like I'm not worried about... And I don't think they're worried about their feelings either.

00:45:37.579 --> 00:45:40.559
I mean, the girls that show up to do this type of stuff are not like really...

00:45:40.559 --> 00:45:41.459
They're competitors, man. Yeah, dude.

00:45:41.639 --> 00:45:44.479
They're not... Yeah, it's like you show up and you perform

00:45:44.479 --> 00:45:47.559
you're putting you're fighting you're there to show off

00:45:47.559 --> 00:45:50.719
the things that you've learned to do and how effective they are like there's

00:45:50.719 --> 00:45:56.299
no there's no hate in that so i mean there's a bunch of people that i'm excited

00:45:56.299 --> 00:46:00.419
to watch fight so and the girl that looped me into this whole situation i obviously

00:46:00.419 --> 00:46:04.799
i'm excited to see her that's jules and so jules ha ha ha,

00:46:07.859 --> 00:46:14.539
is that her name no oh it's like whoa is it jules ha ha ha i'm like laughing

00:46:14.539 --> 00:46:20.979
no no julia perkins and i'm she's looped me into this entire situation i think

00:46:20.979 --> 00:46:26.899
you said tricked earlier yeah looped is uh i like that she lassoed you yeah yeah.

00:46:30.067 --> 00:46:35.187
But it'll be super fun to watch her go out there and do her thing in Nogi.

00:46:35.547 --> 00:46:39.187
I've seen her. She a teammate at Standard? She's not.

00:46:39.567 --> 00:46:42.727
She's actually, so she's this woman that I was referring to that I got started

00:46:42.727 --> 00:46:45.027
on with the mats that came to me like several years ago.

00:46:45.167 --> 00:46:49.667
We started working games and she started getting me back into jiu-jitsu after having my kid.

00:46:50.287 --> 00:46:52.967
And she's just like. You guys are old buddies, like good friends.

00:46:53.307 --> 00:46:54.807
At this point, yeah, absolutely.

00:46:55.707 --> 00:47:02.547
Good. Yeah. so but like no biases guys are there any specific like potential

00:47:02.547 --> 00:47:07.287
matchups like you said you know a few of the teams like who's on some of them

00:47:07.287 --> 00:47:12.327
are there any potential matchups that like you would be super excited for it,

00:47:13.067 --> 00:47:18.927
there are but I don't I'm like you know I want to make sure that we have like

00:47:18.927 --> 00:47:20.167
confirmed lists and stuff,

00:47:21.047 --> 00:47:23.867
it's a locking down matchup is there anyone you

00:47:23.867 --> 00:47:28.347
would like to see there i mean man we got two weeks we could still we could

00:47:28.347 --> 00:47:33.847
we could uh get them out we can edit people out no i won't but it's fine we

00:47:33.847 --> 00:47:39.087
can still get them out of the woodworks maybe i will tell you that i like the

00:47:39.087 --> 00:47:43.767
women that i have found out that are going i'm really excited to see um,

00:47:44.887 --> 00:47:49.467
and i told them all that i'm gonna just like make shit up about them as we're getting this.

00:47:51.007 --> 00:47:55.627
Okay, so I will speak to this because at the last one, which...

00:47:56.155 --> 00:47:59.595
The last NGA was really entertaining. It was cool. It was at High Noon.

00:47:59.795 --> 00:48:02.675
They're hosting it at High Noon again. Yeah, they're hosting it at High Noon. I like that.

00:48:03.475 --> 00:48:07.755
You're going. I know you now. Asim, our buddy, he's the sponsor.

00:48:10.635 --> 00:48:14.995
He invited me to go to this thing last time. The most exciting,

00:48:15.115 --> 00:48:18.235
I've talked about this five times in the podcast, but the most exciting matchup

00:48:18.235 --> 00:48:22.095
of the entire day was the tag team match between the gals.

00:48:23.235 --> 00:48:28.175
And it was Gina and Becca I think were the two did you see it Mike?

00:48:28.575 --> 00:48:33.535
I watched it after and they're from different teams versus the enlisted nine

00:48:33.535 --> 00:48:37.715
girls and it was an awesome matchup and the enlisted nine girls are like exciting

00:48:37.715 --> 00:48:40.455
they're gritty they fight,

00:48:41.575 --> 00:48:45.435
because you see some jiu jitsu styles maybe a little more like the finesse martial

00:48:45.435 --> 00:48:49.055
artsy side of things and then you have like there's like a spectrum of that

00:48:49.055 --> 00:48:53.095
there's like the really finesse martial arts and then they're like gritty, like, this is a fight.

00:48:53.235 --> 00:48:56.335
Yeah, like, let's throw muscles around. And there's a ton of people who are,

00:48:56.415 --> 00:48:58.255
like, on both, you know, like, in between or whatever.

00:49:00.235 --> 00:49:03.415
Anyways, but they have, like, a ton of grit. I mean, they have good jujitsu as well.

00:49:03.915 --> 00:49:07.115
And so, anyways, it made that matchup crazy exciting.

00:49:07.315 --> 00:49:13.055
I don't know what the teams look like in the trio just yet. I just haven't seen any names.

00:49:13.875 --> 00:49:18.615
I haven't seen any of them announced yet. I mean, I hope they're invited because

00:49:18.615 --> 00:49:24.935
they brought so much energy and like it was, dude, it was cool to see, I forgot their names.

00:49:25.095 --> 00:49:28.335
And I, so they have to say under 450 pounds.

00:49:28.595 --> 00:49:33.595
So I'm interested to see what that looks like because I know like if it's like

00:49:33.595 --> 00:49:38.155
a balanced distribution or you have somebody that's like, yeah, I'm interested to see.

00:49:38.155 --> 00:49:41.695
Right, well you can do three girls at 150 or you can do like,

00:49:41.715 --> 00:49:45.995
like you said, there's like a, like I guess light middle and like heavyweight

00:49:45.995 --> 00:49:47.335
for all intents and purposes. Yep.

00:49:48.255 --> 00:49:51.195
But yeah, so the strategy comes into play a lot. Exactly.

00:49:51.415 --> 00:49:56.495
Here's a question. Yeah. If you were building a team, what would be like the

00:49:56.495 --> 00:49:59.975
strategy you would put together for like the people or like,

00:50:00.355 --> 00:50:02.655
you know, because there's a bunch of different ways to do it, right?

00:50:02.695 --> 00:50:05.115
You could have a bunch of people that are all around the same way.

00:50:05.235 --> 00:50:07.455
You could have one person who's bigger that you're like, right,

00:50:07.675 --> 00:50:12.095
I want this person to hopefully clear out all the teams and I'll have like my

00:50:12.095 --> 00:50:15.735
number one person and a couple of small people just to make sure that I can

00:50:15.735 --> 00:50:19.175
have my bigger person or whatever. Am I coaching the team or am I on the team?

00:50:19.855 --> 00:50:24.975
You're the executive director of the team. I'm coaching? You could be the captain or the coach.

00:50:25.115 --> 00:50:28.035
I'm not too worried about that. You can decide that for yourself.

00:50:28.475 --> 00:50:33.015
Or if I'm on it. Because if I'm on it, then if I'm on it, I have to consider my own weight.

00:50:33.055 --> 00:50:36.715
Because I'm a bigger person. So I'm like 165 normally.

00:50:38.015 --> 00:50:42.355
That means 290. Yeah. A lightweight or whatever. Yeah. What would you do?

00:50:42.895 --> 00:50:45.135
For the sake of conversation, so we give you some more direction.

00:50:45.295 --> 00:50:48.695
Let's say you are. Yeah. So then I'm looking for somebody like Nikki,

00:50:49.055 --> 00:50:50.735
super proficient at legs that's smaller.

00:50:51.933 --> 00:50:55.933
She's also a great size because even though she doesn't weigh as much,

00:50:56.133 --> 00:50:59.733
because she's around 125, she has really good length to her.

00:50:59.853 --> 00:51:02.573
So she's super good at stabilizing and getting in on people's legs.

00:51:02.713 --> 00:51:05.453
So I would be absolutely looking for her because I think that could take out

00:51:05.453 --> 00:51:07.593
even bigger people that she's up against.

00:51:08.153 --> 00:51:10.853
Her style is threatening against almost all types of people.

00:51:10.953 --> 00:51:12.113
So she's wonderful at that.

00:51:12.253 --> 00:51:18.353
And then I'd be looking for a solid 140-pound rustle-y type fruit.

00:51:19.533 --> 00:51:23.193
That is what I'd be looking for. That's interesting. um somebody

00:51:23.193 --> 00:51:26.353
that because i actually sometimes can

00:51:26.353 --> 00:51:29.273
struggle with that body type exactly uh because they

00:51:29.273 --> 00:51:32.973
fit into like all the space that i can't take away well so i

00:51:32.973 --> 00:51:35.753
would want somebody that i felt like was pretty solid at

00:51:35.753 --> 00:51:39.513
coming up against that exact thing um and

00:51:39.513 --> 00:51:42.933
usually those two bear well against each other but

00:51:42.933 --> 00:51:45.913
when they get against a lighter person they're too strong they out muscle them

00:51:45.913 --> 00:51:48.753
and they're also small enough that they have like a hard

00:51:48.753 --> 00:51:52.033
time you know creating space with somebody like that uh and

00:51:52.033 --> 00:51:54.913
then they get against a bigger person like i said that's the struggle for

00:51:54.913 --> 00:51:57.733
me is that they fit into all the small space so when they're like guard

00:51:57.733 --> 00:52:00.653
passing and stuff it's hard for me to put stuff back in front of somebody that

00:52:00.653 --> 00:52:03.733
is able to fit into those little faces and

00:52:03.733 --> 00:52:06.413
is strong and stable so that's what i'd.

00:52:06.413 --> 00:52:09.153
Be looking for i guess we probably should admit you you knew

00:52:09.153 --> 00:52:11.913
it because we talked about it before but the rule set for this for those

00:52:11.913 --> 00:52:15.273
of you who aren't aware is submission only uh there

00:52:15.273 --> 00:52:18.593
is referees decision this is uh trio so

00:52:18.593 --> 00:52:21.773
it's going to be more similar of people watch quintet so like they have

00:52:21.773 --> 00:52:24.873
three people they're all they're on one team and one

00:52:24.873 --> 00:52:28.273
person can run through a whole team if they want to or you

00:52:28.273 --> 00:52:31.313
know they'll if you're basically looking to eliminate all

00:52:31.313 --> 00:52:34.133
three people within your match from the other

00:52:34.133 --> 00:52:37.413
team like that's the ultimate goal and so you have three matches

00:52:37.413 --> 00:52:40.353
essentially sometimes more like it can be up to six

00:52:40.353 --> 00:52:43.893
technically right is that math is that math out oh no

00:52:43.893 --> 00:52:46.593
it can be three people have to be

00:52:46.593 --> 00:52:49.633
eliminated yeah like one person can be the eliminator

00:52:49.633 --> 00:52:52.353
of all three and then the other side of the bracket with the other

00:52:52.353 --> 00:52:55.133
team so they'll get a break yeah and then

00:52:55.133 --> 00:52:58.093
i guess they could elect to come back in

00:52:58.093 --> 00:53:02.733
against whatever next up yeah well that's what i mean i'm wondering like can

00:53:02.733 --> 00:53:08.073
that that one person goes they eliminate all three then they win but like if

00:53:08.073 --> 00:53:11.653
they go and they eliminate two then they get eliminated that person goes to

00:53:11.653 --> 00:53:13.293
the other two and that team wins that's

00:53:13.293 --> 00:53:16.853
what i mean like i think you could potentially have six within a match.

00:53:16.913 --> 00:53:20.193
I'll attempt to do this logically in as few words as possible.

00:53:20.273 --> 00:53:21.313
We need the math teacher here.

00:53:21.413 --> 00:53:23.773
I'm going to try. I'm not the math teacher.

00:53:24.133 --> 00:53:27.293
You need a whiteboard. I like math. I do have a whiteboard. Okay.

00:53:27.393 --> 00:53:33.973
But if Team A and Team B face one another, say Team A, the first guy,

00:53:34.253 --> 00:53:36.633
takes out the first two on Team B.

00:53:37.273 --> 00:53:39.413
So there's one dude left on B.

00:53:41.239 --> 00:53:44.159
Right we're here we're at match three now yes yeah

00:53:44.159 --> 00:53:46.819
yes same guy so there's three

00:53:46.819 --> 00:53:49.759
left on the other turn so if now i guess technically mike

00:53:49.759 --> 00:53:52.959
let's do this right if the last dude then was capable

00:53:52.959 --> 00:53:55.799
of taking out the first two the other team

00:53:55.799 --> 00:53:58.959
i guess that is five matches yeah yeah

00:53:58.959 --> 00:54:02.019
so there's a well then the third one being and then like one

00:54:02.019 --> 00:54:05.159
of those guys is going to take out the other one yeah what i

00:54:05.159 --> 00:54:07.979
was getting at is there's there's a potential for a lot of

00:54:07.979 --> 00:54:10.999
jiu-jitsu so it's really cool yeah that's mainly

00:54:10.999 --> 00:54:13.779
what i was trying to get to leave it at that before i keep before the listeners

00:54:13.779 --> 00:54:18.039
have to be like there's gonna be a lot of jiu-jitsu there and it's

00:54:18.039 --> 00:54:21.039
gonna be in a pit if you're listening there's gonna be a lot of jiu-jitsu a

00:54:21.039 --> 00:54:24.519
lot of jiu-jitsu karen there's a pit there's gonna

00:54:24.519 --> 00:54:27.939
be mad alice is running the mic she's gonna be talking mad shit

00:54:27.939 --> 00:54:30.759
i'm excited i'll study up i'll study up before we get there

00:54:30.759 --> 00:54:33.399
and i know that there's the king of the pit which is gonna

00:54:33.399 --> 00:54:36.839
be pretty cool too which you're gonna be rotating in for commentary on

00:54:36.839 --> 00:54:39.759
as well um which is all 200

00:54:39.759 --> 00:54:42.639
plus you get to watch all these big boys i love that

00:54:42.639 --> 00:54:46.339
like oh it's trying to it's all big boys 200

00:54:46.339 --> 00:54:53.259
and up so how many guys uh that one shoving each other yeah i'm actually kind

00:54:53.259 --> 00:54:59.099
of excited for it uh they have is it so stable it's not like it's stable yes

00:54:59.099 --> 00:55:02.939
they have like plywood are we gonna feel it like when they're shoving each other

00:55:02.939 --> 00:55:04.419
around maybe leaning on the mat.

00:55:04.979 --> 00:55:07.459
I leaned on the mat. I was leaning hard.

00:55:08.179 --> 00:55:13.459
Seven people for King of the Pit. And it is eight teams right now for trios.

00:55:14.379 --> 00:55:17.579
That's such good numbers. I love that. Yeah, so that's going to be pretty cool.

00:55:18.239 --> 00:55:22.159
They might even have some other stuff. I know they're talking about spreading

00:55:22.159 --> 00:55:25.399
in some other ones. Get some kids in there. They will.

00:55:25.959 --> 00:55:28.879
They'll have some kiddo matches. They'll have some teenagers or something like

00:55:28.879 --> 00:55:31.479
that. Children are wild to watch. Children are wild to watch.

00:55:32.381 --> 00:55:39.141
So dexterous. Anyone we know on the KOTP? Nice. Yeah, thanks.

00:55:41.221 --> 00:55:48.101
I only know of one person who's in it right now, which is Will Bullock, a.k.a. The Hype.

00:55:49.521 --> 00:55:53.781
So he's in there. That's the only one I know of. Does he go by The Hype? Yeah.

00:55:55.841 --> 00:55:58.641
So that's the only person I know of. You can get a nickname,

00:55:58.801 --> 00:56:00.121
dude. I should get one, right?

00:56:00.381 --> 00:56:03.321
What should it be? Well, it used to be Top Gun, but I don't think I can rock

00:56:03.321 --> 00:56:04.221
that one anymore. Why not?

00:56:04.601 --> 00:56:07.941
I don't know. I don't feel like coming out to Danger Zone anymore.

00:56:09.881 --> 00:56:12.821
It's kind of weird now. It's a good pilot thing. You don't want to steal that

00:56:12.821 --> 00:56:17.861
one from those brugs. Yeah, it was cool. The one walkout was pretty dope. It was kind of nice.

00:56:19.741 --> 00:56:22.721
But yeah, so we know of one person.

00:56:23.361 --> 00:56:26.921
But other than that, it's going to be kind of cool. We'll have a nice little surprise. I'm

00:56:26.921 --> 00:56:29.601
sure it'll start releasing actually probably by the

00:56:29.601 --> 00:56:32.901
time this podcast is out so this will be releasing the

00:56:32.901 --> 00:56:35.701
Tuesday prior so by the time this is out we'll probably

00:56:35.701 --> 00:56:39.181
start having the actual names releasing so

00:56:39.181 --> 00:56:41.861
we'll start getting some of those posters yeah I don't know what the

00:56:41.861 --> 00:56:44.901
rules are about talking about people ahead of that I

00:56:44.901 --> 00:56:49.201
don't think it's like laid back I think they want to run a good event you can

00:56:49.201 --> 00:56:54.681
show up you're spoiling matchups I mean if we had the information we would give

00:56:54.681 --> 00:56:58.561
you a couple athlete profiles for sure this is a small local business these

00:56:58.561 --> 00:57:02.721
yeah i mean if we help them make some money i'm sure they'd be like just say whatever you,

00:57:03.481 --> 00:57:07.301
know what i mean this is what the third show i think third or fourth show uh

00:57:07.301 --> 00:57:10.901
good question i know i mean i've been to one i know for sure there was one i

00:57:10.901 --> 00:57:14.841
think you might be right this is the second one at high noon i know that for

00:57:14.841 --> 00:57:19.181
sure um i know they have a couple more that they're working on for up here in

00:57:19.181 --> 00:57:23.181
the virginia and northern virginia area um the,

00:57:23.865 --> 00:57:28.965
greater DC metro or whatever you want to call it. So I know that they're looking

00:57:28.965 --> 00:57:31.645
to make a pretty good slithold here. That's going to be pretty cool.

00:57:32.585 --> 00:57:35.905
I mean, I'm excited to go. Yeah, dude. The last one was awesome.

00:57:36.105 --> 00:57:39.445
So I'm pulling for these guys. I want them to do more. It'll be fun.

00:57:39.625 --> 00:57:43.405
We need more events like this. If you guys are looking to go...

00:57:43.405 --> 00:57:48.705
The way that you can find the live stream, I'll put all of this in the show notes as well.

00:57:48.805 --> 00:57:54.885
So you guys will be able to click on links and copy, paste and see this in real

00:57:54.885 --> 00:57:56.645
time rather than just from my voice.

00:57:57.385 --> 00:58:03.885
You can get the live stream on millions.co.nga That link will be in the description.

00:58:04.745 --> 00:58:11.725
They will have a food truck on site. This will be at High Noon which was a pretty cool venue too.

00:58:11.965 --> 00:58:15.025
It was a good place to watch the event.

00:58:15.745 --> 00:58:20.245
If you buy the tickets or go and buy the tickets on the website they're $30

00:58:20.245 --> 00:58:23.425
for adults $15 for kids but

00:58:23.645 --> 00:58:31.465
If you use the code NGA, that's N-G-A-5 off, you'll get $5 discount on your tickets.

00:58:32.645 --> 00:58:36.005
But you can also get tickets at the door.

00:58:36.185 --> 00:58:40.005
So if you've got some other stuff coming up or whatever, you can get there last

00:58:40.005 --> 00:58:42.585
minute and get your tickets on site as well.

00:58:43.845 --> 00:58:46.485
It'll be cool. People fighting for some money, they'll have fight of the night

00:58:46.485 --> 00:58:50.365
or match of the night and submission of the night.

00:58:50.365 --> 00:58:55.545
So there's going to be some good you know some money getting thrown around for people,

00:58:56.365 --> 00:59:01.385
are going to be going for it because they want to win something love when they

00:59:01.385 --> 00:59:05.625
throw money at you money works people like getting some money.

00:59:06.945 --> 00:59:10.725
So that's the details on that but

00:59:10.725 --> 00:59:13.445
before we sign off Alex do you have anything else anything you

00:59:13.445 --> 00:59:16.165
want to plug anything else any thoughts you want

00:59:16.165 --> 00:59:19.025
to get off your chest or whatever you just want to talk

00:59:19.025 --> 00:59:24.845
uh no i mean thank you guys for having me um thanks for inviting me to train

00:59:24.845 --> 00:59:30.085
earlier today that was super fun uh great time showing up by the way she was

00:59:30.085 --> 00:59:34.365
showing up in winning matches she's currently pregnant and whooping up on people

00:59:34.365 --> 00:59:36.845
so that was pretty cool she will not be denied,

00:59:37.545 --> 00:59:44.685
yeah man just got into my third trimester oh yeah like hell yeah hardcore good

00:59:44.685 --> 00:59:46.765
judgment I feel like you're like, nah, not this.

00:59:46.885 --> 00:59:51.105
No takedowns, no takedowns. It was safe. It was a safe environment.

00:59:51.505 --> 00:59:54.905
People were wonderful. People were wonderful. It's been a cool experience.

00:59:56.732 --> 01:00:00.172
But yeah, thank you so much for having me. Thanks for inviting me to come train.

01:00:00.432 --> 01:00:04.852
I love this stuff. So anytime I can be in a new situation, new room,

01:00:04.992 --> 01:00:07.352
new people to talk to about it, happy to.

01:00:07.672 --> 01:00:10.252
So thank you, guys. Hell yeah. Hell yeah? Awesome.

01:00:10.672 --> 01:00:13.852
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