(Ep 22) Navigating Success in Competitions and Weight Cuts

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Welcome to Fighters Drinking Coffee. Today we're recording from the office here at Nova Barbell Club.

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And speaking of Nova Barbell Club, I actually just did my first comp since signing up with them.

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And man, it went well. Mike got double gold. Double gold.

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For those who... Third place in open weight for Nogi.

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Um probably the easiest cut

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i've had in over a decade which was huge um

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how much did you have to cut i was i only

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needed to cut six but i was walking around

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at 155 on the sunday before and when i weighed in for nogi on sunday i was 145.7

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and i'm i was already back up yesterday so tuesday following um this will be

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coming out a week later but the tuesday following that way And I was back up to 155. Okay.

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So easy cut.

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Didn't even feel it. Was feeling big for the division too. I was feeling nice

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and heavy, nice and strong.

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And yeah, I mean, that made a world of difference.

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Confidence level, not having to be hungry or thirsty day of,

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at least, well, more than I needed to be.

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But yeah, I mean, that made a huge difference. strength cardio

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was a huge factor i mean

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i was able to breathe in and out of my nose the whole time like

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not huffing and puffing uh even well

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except for when i went open weight for key went against that behemoth uh that

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made me a little tired uh being caught underneath the ultra heavy but uh overall

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like from a from the physicality standpoint it was miles you know worlds apart

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from how I had felt in March.

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So that was a big deal. Yeah, so guys, Mike did gi on Saturday,

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weight class and open division, and then no gi Sunday, weight class and open division.

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So walk us through the geave, Mike. Start with Saturday.

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So Saturday I had just the one match for my division.

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And going into, honestly, I was a little jittery. So I actually went against

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a friend of the show, RJ Nealon, who we had on a couple times.

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And I was a little jittery because having rolled with him, I kind of knew what his game was.

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And knowing that he's a good guard player, solid inversions,

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leg entanglements, and that he was probably going to pull a guard,

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like that's, you know, immediately that's points off the board, right?

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So going into it, that was on Saturday, I was a little more nervous.

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Like I had to warm up, get my jitters out.

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But once I got out there and we started moving, I mean, I felt I was ready to go.

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You know, I was just locked in and just started racking up points.

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So one on points Saturday um did he pull guard or did he wrestle you he pulled

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guard on Saturday we on Sunday we he uh he stayed on the feet which you know

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take a different approach why not sure um,

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And then, so got gold there. I believe it was 15. It was 15 or 17 to zero for points.

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So Masters 1 match, it was sort of six minutes.

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And then went, did open division.

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And because that was the only, that's the first Gi match that I've ever won. Okay.

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Because I've only competed in Gi three times. We never used to do that before.

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Uh, so going in at the bottom seed for Gi in the, in the open weight.

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So I draw the number one, I guess.

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Uh, so I drew the ultra heavy and, uh, being a featherweight weighing in at

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the ripe big old weight of one 40. I think it was about one.

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Oh, well, I weighed in about one 53 or the Gi on the Gi on.

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Um and so going up

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against that that was tough but it was actually um it was

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fun like i felt i felt strong i actually felt like i was probably a little bit

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technically better but not to the point where it was overcoming the weight difference

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um i actually came in and i told myself going into it you're not you don't want

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to be on bottom so i'm not pulling guard also i just don't do that but it wouldn't

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work out well for me. I'm aware.

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So I decided to wrestle. So I shot in for a single leg, and he just leaned on me. So I didn't get in.

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So it was about five minutes. Did you say he had double lapel grips on you too

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when you shot? Yeah, he reached, he went like double over.

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Okay. And grabbed both, it was like grabbing lapels. For those listening,

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that's like basically having your head confined without having your head confined.

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Yeah, like so every time I tried to. How much taller was he than you?

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He wasn't much taller. Okay, just a unit. He was just, he was just,

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you know, it was thick. Um.

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Yeah, he had a couple inches on me. Big fucking deal. We can put a,

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we'll put a picture when we do the post.

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Yeah, yeah. It looks, it doesn't look quite as, he doesn't look much bigger

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in the picture because in terms of

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like shoulder width, there's not a huge difference, but he definitely was,

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definitely was larger in the legs and abdomen.

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Dude was beefed out. Yeah, he was pretty big. Um, but yeah, I mean,

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he, so he had, he had double, he went double over and was just leaning on me,

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putting his weight, you know, putting his weight on me, um, mainly over my hips.

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So it wasn't too terrible. You know, it was carrying a lot with my legs.

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So I was able to move my head. I was, I was looking for duck outs,

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but him having that kind of like straight jacket hold on my lapels kept me from

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being able to really duck out.

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Um, which led to, which eventually after roughly like four and a half,

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five minutes, I think it was he ends up just like i went for one uh i went to

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try to like sit through to the single and he just it just i had to sit down

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yeah i couldn't i couldn't hold it like you had to make something happen yeah

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i was you know i was trying i'll a for effort um but yeah so ended up he kind.

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To, like, half guard. I tried playing some guard trying to get back up,

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and then eventually he just ended up in side control. But it ended up being 5-0.

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He got stalled out. They gave him some stalling warnings from when he was in

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side control. He couldn't really work anything. He was just kind of laying on me. He was tired.

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But the good news is the body wasn't banged up. I wasn't banged up. I was a little sore.

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Or was it March? I keep on saying last year. In March.

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It feels like another lifetime ago. Yeah, compared to March,

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where I came out with a real messed up elbow from the first day to where it

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really detracted from the second day. Yeah.

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The pain wasn't enough, guys, for him to stop for the second day. But whatever.

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He made it to the July Open, so he's good. I showed up for the second day.

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I checked in and got tapped out. Did your thing?

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Went out like a man. Just enough to get the points. Went out on the shield.

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But the good news is you won your division. Won my division.

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Banged it out with the big boy had a little deal i couldn't even

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finish the match five points no big deal mike's fresh

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held him to five i felt pretty good i was a

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little tired and hungry at the end of the day but not a big

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deal went home either way smashed a little bit of uh chicken and rice did you

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have to wait you did have to weigh in on sunday yeah um so smashed a little

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chicken and rice went to bed woke up next morning you know on weight or did

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you have to do any like i was on weight i mean yeah you had to do like any like

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last minute like No, I mean, I was pretty solid.

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Just the eating down worked. Like I was pretty solid in terms of what I was,

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I knew what I could sleep off.

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So it helped a lot. And then just being up coaching all the way.

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So, I mean, my matches were around 5 p.m.

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Saturday. Saturday and Sunday. So both days, it was like the end of the day.

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So I'm like running around coaching everybody all day. And then...

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I can't eat while i'm at mad i can't like while i'm trying to

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lock it i just don't eat so staying staying light's not that

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difficult no it wasn't hard because i i

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just my brain isn't thinking about

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food while i'm there that's plus i also feel like when i get into like when

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i get into this i want to know if this is the same for you i

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think this might be a lightweight kind of like little little dude

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thing too which is that uh when you're like

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in weight cutting mode and

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i'm doing air quotes for those of you which is i guess all of

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you can't see since we're only doing audio but when you're

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in weight cutting mode in in quotes um i

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feel like the body gets used to like releasing fluid and

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like it's it gets used to being light lean so

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like that neck that same night the next day you're

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like this will happen to me like when i go to like when i travel for tournaments like

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this happened to me so many times in vegas where like i'll compete

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on a saturday or sunday or whatever it may be and then i'll

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like i'll be done i'll hydrate a bunch i'll eat a bunch but then like my body

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the next day i'll step on the scale and i'm like i haven't really gained much

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weight because my body's just releasing everything it's just used to like staying

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lean take it'll take me like two to three days before my body like hulks back

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up well yeah and keeping like that um.

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Keeping like the water requirements in your gut down helps too, right?

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Like, so just all, everything just kind of flows through you and you're not

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sitting there holding any weight. So, I mean, it's perfect for a two day tournament for y'all.

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Yeah. It helped a lot. And then, you know, get back on the normal grind.

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So Sunday you wake up well rested.

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I felt, yeah, I actually felt really good Sunday.

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Um, I slept hard. Kids slept, slept hard. The kids slept too.

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So that helped. So like there was no, um, distractions.

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Yeah. Like nobody was getting woken up early or anything

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so that that was helpful and then woke up

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had my breakfast so you had to eat breakfast yeah i

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got to stick with my god stick with my my bagels and eggs you're competing around

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five bagels and eggs yeah i got to have my two two bagels and eggs we're gonna

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get to the preparation because this is impressive yeah um i mean and that was

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pretty much with the exception of like rice cakes and honey that was pretty

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much all i ate all day so I kind of knew like, all right, well, I can eat this.

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And then by the time I take a dump and then piss for the next,

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you know, nine hours, I'll be, I'll be on.

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Yeah. So it all kind of self-corrects as you're throughout the day.

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So, um, so yeah, I mean, so I got to eat, I felt, so I was able to like refuel and feel good.

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I had protein shake in the bag, uh, rice cakes and honey for the day.

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So i was ready to go that was kind of what i had both

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days just with me on site and a

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little bit of sour patch kids for for in

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between weight and between my

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weight division and open class so i had

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that for like just quick some quick energy um and how long is the drive from

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your place to the to to war or to fredericksburg it was about an hour and a

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half okay yeah and um pretty simple

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drive it's like local highway so so getting out there's a great shot.

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Yeah um i don't have to get i'm only on 95 for one

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exit so that's nice to just stay on there stay

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on the right lane the whole way 95 is fuck like uh

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easily 50 to 60 percent of the time so oh dude uh

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some people got on like one exit before where i

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did and they were in traffic for a while yeah

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so it was pretty uh it's pretty rough right there um

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yeah second day get there

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coach coach white belts they all did great i

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mean every single person from the gym all uh

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from battlefield to be specific they all

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every single one of them won one medals so hardware

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taken home we had uh two of us golded

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both days because only two of us competed gi and nogi

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um actually our ultra heavy who's

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also a client at uh nova barbell club

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he did quad gold just like smoked his

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way through everyone so that was great blue

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belt so this is john he's a

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competitive division too yeah so he's an ultra heavy blue belt um it's masters

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four for gi masters three for no gi um and he's actually gonna be competing

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at masters worlds so he was he was looking to get his points and um so it's

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he got him he's gonna be dude he's he's gonna be a problem there just points so uh so you know it.

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Was a super great showing by everyone um which was

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which was good um we had

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a couple new competitors a couple guys who was their first ibjjf or

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their first time ever competing and for them to

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go out there and put on actually go

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out win win take home some hardware was was awesome to see um so that was kind

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of how the day started with the white belts it's always cool like that gets

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you all hyped up and then uh that was like my warm-up for the day because i

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i just sat like I didn't feel like I need to warm up for day two,

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especially Nogi. I'm a lot more...

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Zoned in like that's that's my sport versus gi so

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a little less nervous about no gi um and so

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got to sit there and just kind

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of chilling john and i he also doesn't warm up for anything so i was actually

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texted to see him afterwards like yeah like i had to warm up the first day but

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then i just sat there psycho mode the second day and just waited yeah yeah um but so day two was.

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The i think it's since shoot

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since we were doing this back in

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the day that was definitely like the best

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i felt on the mats like best performance i felt

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like i did back when we were competing and you

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know we're really tearing things up back in the day tell us

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how you felt energy movement energy level was

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great mentally that was one of the biggest things i think at the beginning of

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the year um i mean having one coming off a hiatus a hiatus going into a super

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fight injured losing the super fight to just doing stupid shit um slams putting

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well not being allowed to slam,

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should have slammed but i'm with you yeah i

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get it you know like just kind of breaking my

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own kind of mentally was just not there at the beginning of the year and going

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into it like kind of competing scared because being injured losing going in

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competing and just like just not I just wasn't mentally where I needed to be

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and kind of getting the missing I was.

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Saying this to a seam, like, I think the strength conditioning,

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easy weight cut, like that was all really the, the piece of the puzzle that was missing.

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So, you know, physically feeling great. Cardio is on point already know this

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physically good feeling energy level is great.

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And, um, I got to watch, I was lucky enough cause I was first seed.

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So I got to watch both of my opponents go

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um one was rj from the day before so

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kind of had an idea of what the game was like but you

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know it's always when you have an unknown it's always

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a little bit you it's good once you

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find out it helps ease a little bit or you can get a little research but

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we had an opponent we couldn't find any information on uh we

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tried but uh but we

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couldn't find anything and so so rj competed against that

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dude yeah matthew something or other matthew yeah from

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from beta right um and you know we we had some

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we know a little bit of what they train at beta you know and uh

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do you know what that match you saw the match how was

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that uh because it was just you and rj in the finals is what i saw

00:16:00.513 --> 00:16:04.033
yeah so rj and matthew went

00:16:04.033 --> 00:16:06.873
and um they double

00:16:06.873 --> 00:16:10.073
guard pulled to start and i was like okay but

00:16:10.073 --> 00:16:12.793
uh double guard pulled to start then they kind of

00:16:12.793 --> 00:16:15.673
worked their way back up they're playing around on their feet then

00:16:15.673 --> 00:16:18.433
i think rj pulled back uh no matthew pulled back in

00:16:18.433 --> 00:16:22.293
or rj pulled back in one of them um and it

00:16:22.293 --> 00:16:26.633
all it ended up matthew is going for leg entanglements ends up reaping and getting

00:16:26.633 --> 00:16:33.853
dq lost um popped rj's knee bad he felt fine afterwards but like the ref later

00:16:33.853 --> 00:16:39.993
in the day the ref heard the pop and stopped it um but so i was like all right

00:16:39.993 --> 00:16:41.953
He's going to go for leg entanglements.

00:16:42.193 --> 00:16:46.993
It's like he might pull guard, but he seems scrappy enough to be willing to

00:16:46.993 --> 00:16:50.453
stand because he did play around a little bit on the feet.

00:16:51.133 --> 00:16:55.313
RJ came back. He's like, dude, he's scrappy, so just be ready for that. And I was like, cool.

00:16:56.953 --> 00:17:03.453
But they bring me out. We go for our match, and immediately he's ready to hand fight.

00:17:04.113 --> 00:17:07.113
Matthew is. You ended up facing both. Yeah, so I had to face both of them.

00:17:07.253 --> 00:17:11.093
Yeah, three-man bracket. So they have double elimination and then I have single

00:17:11.093 --> 00:17:15.993
elimination. So that's how they do for number one seed goes out. And if they have, um,

00:17:16.803 --> 00:17:21.763
the other people have a second chance to fight back if they beat the number one seed.

00:17:21.983 --> 00:17:27.763
Number one seed is eliminated, and the number two goes back to the final.

00:17:30.023 --> 00:17:33.683
So he comes out, he wants to wrestle, and I'm like, yes.

00:17:34.543 --> 00:17:38.143
Which is also weird, because I haven't had anyone try to really wrestle.

00:17:38.363 --> 00:17:40.783
You've had a lot of jiu-jitsu guard pullers. Lots of guard pullers.

00:17:41.043 --> 00:17:46.063
You've come back, yeah. Even before, I think I had maybe one guy actually try to wrestle me.

00:17:46.803 --> 00:17:50.443
Back in the day, like, of most recent matches back then.

00:17:51.243 --> 00:17:53.883
Yeah, not a lot of people want to wrestle in jiu-jitsu.

00:17:55.043 --> 00:17:58.763
It's coming back, but I know what you mean. But especially, like,

00:17:58.903 --> 00:18:01.143
at the smaller weight classes, there's not as much of it.

00:18:01.463 --> 00:18:06.163
But so we get to wrestling, you know, a lot of hand fighting,

00:18:06.443 --> 00:18:07.523
kind of playing around with that.

00:18:07.763 --> 00:18:12.563
And the ref was resetting us a lot and pretty prematurely.

00:18:13.183 --> 00:18:18.043
Were you off the edge of the mat? We would get within like a foot of the edge,

00:18:18.083 --> 00:18:20.003
and she would reset us in the center.

00:18:20.183 --> 00:18:24.203
So there wasn't a lot of play. There were even times where I was intentionally

00:18:24.203 --> 00:18:31.683
pushing him towards the edge, and then I would shoot and turn him back in, and she would reset us.

00:18:31.783 --> 00:18:35.103
So she would stop time, move us back to the middle.

00:18:36.043 --> 00:18:40.243
So that was a little frustrating for a bit, but I got...

00:18:40.875 --> 00:18:44.035
First takedown, we were going, he drops to K guard.

00:18:46.035 --> 00:18:49.675
Then I'm working out of that, kick out of that. He comes back up.

00:18:49.795 --> 00:18:51.395
I'm like, all right, cool. We'll just go again.

00:18:51.775 --> 00:18:59.135
Shoot him for the second takedown. Both takedowns I scored on him were single legs, so low single.

00:18:59.675 --> 00:19:03.475
One was low single. The other was just kind of blasting in and snatching it up.

00:19:05.055 --> 00:19:09.455
But then the second takedown, I didn't realize it at first,

00:19:09.455 --> 00:19:12.255
but i was told afterwards that she didn't score it she scored

00:19:12.255 --> 00:19:15.015
it as a guard pull so she no points but then

00:19:15.015 --> 00:19:17.995
she ends up like part way through awarding me

00:19:17.995 --> 00:19:21.115
my points i guess um yeah so

00:19:21.115 --> 00:19:23.995
you know it was a little tough because like we kept getting stopped kept getting

00:19:23.995 --> 00:19:26.735
brought to the center i kept having to like he kept trying

00:19:26.735 --> 00:19:29.335
to go a little bit off center i was like dude just go all right

00:19:29.335 --> 00:19:32.215
so i kept trying to redirect him back to the actual center so

00:19:32.215 --> 00:19:35.055
that it's like all right let's start in the center so that we don't keep moving off

00:19:35.055 --> 00:19:37.675
the mat so she doesn't keep resetting us so i can

00:19:37.675 --> 00:19:40.775
actually work um rather than you know beginning a

00:19:40.775 --> 00:19:43.835
guard pass and then getting stopped brought back to middle beginning

00:19:43.835 --> 00:19:46.695
a guard pass getting stopped brought back to middle because that was kind of how it started

00:19:46.695 --> 00:19:50.055
going um but then he

00:19:50.055 --> 00:19:52.815
goes for we end up finally getting back into a groove

00:19:52.815 --> 00:19:55.715
where we're not getting stopped he drops to do another

00:19:55.715 --> 00:19:59.015
k guard entry um kick out

00:19:59.015 --> 00:20:02.195
spin out of that and end up getting

00:20:02.195 --> 00:20:05.235
my guard pass get chest to chest and

00:20:05.235 --> 00:20:08.475
just got my got my grip on the arm pulling

00:20:08.475 --> 00:20:11.855
up to dorsal and just right into

00:20:11.855 --> 00:20:17.655
the kimura so nice old school dorsal kimura um he didn't tap it first i will

00:20:17.655 --> 00:20:22.835
like i got it like pretty far and i stopped because i was like okay no make

00:20:22.835 --> 00:20:25.495
and i thought i thought he was gonna make me break it you almost went fatality

00:20:25.495 --> 00:20:30.115
mode i thought i don't know i was didn't want to I was like bro you have work tomorrow right.

00:20:31.275 --> 00:20:35.595
But so he ended up tapping him with the Kimura and,

00:20:36.374 --> 00:20:40.354
So that was good, especially getting back into submission mode.

00:20:40.594 --> 00:20:43.554
Getting some sub wins, too, is nice. It's a good win.

00:20:44.834 --> 00:20:48.954
So hand gets raised there. They bring us back to the bullpen. I'm not tired.

00:20:49.114 --> 00:20:53.494
Feeling great. I'm ready to go again. So I'm sitting there waiting by the TV.

00:20:53.494 --> 00:20:54.894
That was your actual warm-up. Yeah.

00:20:55.694 --> 00:20:59.494
Sitting there waiting by the TV. Like, all right, let's get us back out there.

00:20:59.514 --> 00:21:01.534
How much time was it between your first match and the finals?

00:21:02.354 --> 00:21:08.994
I think there was one match before. So I think they had a match before we went back out there.

00:21:09.334 --> 00:21:11.534
Yeah. Yeah, they usually guarantee you like the length of your,

00:21:12.414 --> 00:21:16.814
whatever the duration of your match time is for a break. They're supposed to

00:21:16.814 --> 00:21:18.454
give you, yeah, that time for a break.

00:21:19.454 --> 00:21:24.134
They had, we had one guy who didn't know to ask for that and had to go back

00:21:24.134 --> 00:21:26.014
and like went straight back out and was tired.

00:21:26.074 --> 00:21:29.214
I was like, dude, you could have asked for time off. Know your rights. Yeah.

00:21:31.714 --> 00:21:35.434
But went back out. Get right back out there. you know, the, whatever,

00:21:35.634 --> 00:21:37.634
the minimum amount of time I was ready to go.

00:21:37.834 --> 00:21:41.334
So we went back, uh, RJ and I went back out rematch this time.

00:21:41.634 --> 00:21:44.874
He decides to stand and wrestle. I'm like, sweet, more wrestling.

00:21:45.354 --> 00:21:48.614
Um, but so we get out there, we start wrestling.

00:21:49.034 --> 00:21:52.394
Um, it was actually really fun. He, he was scrambling.

00:21:52.534 --> 00:21:57.274
He was doing a good job with the hand fighting, but, uh, going out initially,

00:21:57.274 --> 00:22:00.354
I kind of expected him to want to pull guard.

00:22:00.714 --> 00:22:03.734
So like we had talked about before I went,

00:22:03.734 --> 00:22:06.614
i took two steps back and just immediately shot in a

00:22:06.614 --> 00:22:09.374
low single because i was like if i take two steps back it

00:22:09.374 --> 00:22:12.174
can't connect and then i can just shoot off of

00:22:12.174 --> 00:22:15.234
that um so shot in low single get

00:22:15.234 --> 00:22:20.294
the first two working uh he did a really good intake entry into an entanglement

00:22:20.294 --> 00:22:25.114
um had like the foot like he was he had a really good entry and i actually had

00:22:25.114 --> 00:22:32.614
to uh i had to just like straight up bail like I kick get the leg back and single leg acts he went,

00:22:33.514 --> 00:22:38.334
I have to actually look at it I was I was paying attention mainly to just not getting my leg broken.

00:22:40.814 --> 00:22:44.134
He went outside 50 50,

00:22:45.714 --> 00:22:51.514
inverted so he comes in here he drops K guard and then so he drops K guard and

00:22:51.514 --> 00:22:58.134
he goes into like a backside 50 50 slick RJ yeah he got the foot Got it pretty tied up.

00:22:59.234 --> 00:23:06.194
And, you know, I had to, like, spin, kick out off the back of the leg and just get back up. Cleared it.

00:23:06.974 --> 00:23:11.094
And then hand fighting again and shot back in low single.

00:23:11.574 --> 00:23:16.754
And went low single. He goes to sprawl, which I've started doing this intentionally

00:23:16.754 --> 00:23:22.434
now, overshooting low single, getting real deep because they think they can sprawl on it.

00:23:22.534 --> 00:23:27.534
It makes their legs light. and then you come up to what's called an Iranian dump.

00:23:27.694 --> 00:23:32.574
So you come up and spin back into them and flip them back over.

00:23:33.322 --> 00:23:36.722
Um to turn him back into guard in this case uh and

00:23:36.722 --> 00:23:40.882
then right off of that like went straight into passing um went

00:23:40.882 --> 00:23:43.542
into passing got a good hold on like the

00:23:43.542 --> 00:23:46.862
head kind of going into like a cradle pass um did

00:23:46.862 --> 00:23:50.502
some uh actually i did that

00:23:50.502 --> 00:23:53.602
i don't know what it's called but like where you go right hand

00:23:53.602 --> 00:23:58.802
across pin the foot and then go over to the head so passed like that and then

00:23:58.802 --> 00:24:03.182
he keeps turning we go back over i got a hold of the head went and finished

00:24:03.182 --> 00:24:07.062
with like the cradle pass but i had a really good bite on that head so just

00:24:07.062 --> 00:24:13.042
immediately stepped over into the guillotine um and went head,

00:24:13.622 --> 00:24:16.322
straight down to the mat heard jason calling from the

00:24:16.322 --> 00:24:19.342
side just like put your chest down put your chest down so

00:24:19.342 --> 00:24:22.082
i just turned the chest down and just got right

00:24:22.082 --> 00:24:25.122
into it and uh got got the finish with the guillotine which

00:24:25.122 --> 00:24:28.522
was the first one i've actually finished in competition which

00:24:28.522 --> 00:24:33.582
was cool don't usually get that love it um and so i mean it was it was good

00:24:33.582 --> 00:24:37.622
rj was rj was tough dude he's he's got beautiful jiu-jitsu especially for a

00:24:37.622 --> 00:24:42.682
guy who's got one side you know essentially weaker than the other game man he's

00:24:42.682 --> 00:24:47.122
all time he knows how to like he knows he knows how to.

00:24:47.922 --> 00:24:52.282
Make it his game yeah right which you had to counter of course yeah i mean he

00:24:52.282 --> 00:24:57.802
diving in trying to put you in a bad spot with legs you dealt with it he's inverting yeah i mean he's

00:24:58.002 --> 00:25:00.922
no joke man yeah it's uh actually getting

00:25:00.922 --> 00:25:04.342
to like roll with him on the competition match was really cool because um

00:25:04.342 --> 00:25:07.542
you know we we talked about it we trained with him before the episode and

00:25:07.542 --> 00:25:11.162
uh but his he's he's

00:25:11.162 --> 00:25:14.802
a competitor dude he was injured uh partially he

00:25:14.802 --> 00:25:17.482
said his knee felt fine yeah good uh after the guys

00:25:17.482 --> 00:25:20.082
he was still he's still in the same thing when i talked to him afterwards he was

00:25:20.082 --> 00:25:23.002
like man i'm noticing it now he's like i was good for every

00:25:23.002 --> 00:25:25.802
match he's like fuck and he's like in his awesome like philly

00:25:25.802 --> 00:25:28.962
accent or whatever dude it's like rj

00:25:28.962 --> 00:25:31.822
you're wild as fuck well he and he did absolute both

00:25:31.822 --> 00:25:34.562
days of course he did yeah he also did yeah he

00:25:34.562 --> 00:25:37.402
also did let's talk about the absolute on the second day because you you medaled

00:25:37.402 --> 00:25:40.482
that division too uh yeah so i got um

00:25:40.482 --> 00:25:43.522
you got two goals now up to this two goals up to this point

00:25:43.522 --> 00:25:46.742
champion i'm feeling good which by the way this is a personal take i've like

00:25:46.742 --> 00:25:50.362
that's always like that's like the that's the job yeah you got to do your job

00:25:50.362 --> 00:25:54.002
and then like the bonuses are the oh absolute's just a bonus that's the fun

00:25:54.002 --> 00:26:01.402
part it's worth more points um but so i looked at who was in like i,

00:26:01.882 --> 00:26:07.002
couldn't see who was signed up yet but i was able to see until everyone yeah

00:26:07.002 --> 00:26:10.562
but i was able to see what divisions there were and i was like all right there's

00:26:10.562 --> 00:26:14.242
no ultra heavies this time like i know i'm not getting i know i'm not gonna

00:26:14.242 --> 00:26:16.882
draw an ultra heavy i was like the heaviest it goes is medium heavy.

00:26:17.632 --> 00:26:21.052
Not not too big of a deal that's only what like 40 pounds it's more than that

00:26:21.052 --> 00:26:25.912
something like that you know i don't know whatever uh 40 50 pounds like 60 it's

00:26:25.912 --> 00:26:31.032
less than 100 pounds yes okay yeah um yeah so i was like all right this will

00:26:31.032 --> 00:26:33.552
be fun and actually had a really fun match it was um,

00:26:34.192 --> 00:26:40.132
for the was that semi-finals uh dude was sick he actually ended up winning the

00:26:40.132 --> 00:26:44.572
division um he was really slick and he had a system that he was that he was

00:26:44.572 --> 00:26:48.152
definitely pulling off he did the same thing like started out did the same thing

00:26:48.152 --> 00:26:51.472
for both both matches so against me and in the final.

00:26:52.512 --> 00:26:56.372
Um dude was dude was solid and but

00:26:56.372 --> 00:26:59.792
we had a we had a fun little scramble like we tie up and i

00:26:59.792 --> 00:27:03.072
get inside ties he decides to sit the guard and i

00:27:03.072 --> 00:27:06.372
went for i was like all right cool cartwheel pass

00:27:06.372 --> 00:27:09.292
so i went for the cartwheel pass actually almost almost landed it

00:27:09.292 --> 00:27:11.972
um but he did a good job of getting his feet in

00:27:11.972 --> 00:27:14.892
at the last second so like as i was settling into north south

00:27:14.892 --> 00:27:17.892
he was able to his feet in and kind of keep my chest up

00:27:17.892 --> 00:27:21.072
so he was able to turn back um he's impressive

00:27:21.072 --> 00:27:23.952
for a big boy yeah he wasn't he was he was athletic

00:27:23.952 --> 00:27:26.812
dude he was just a little he was he was solid he was he

00:27:26.812 --> 00:27:30.012
was athletic he was uh he was pretty well built um he

00:27:30.012 --> 00:27:32.932
wasn't like uh he wasn't he wasn't soft he was he.

00:27:32.932 --> 00:27:35.972
Was a he was good um turns back

00:27:35.972 --> 00:27:39.612
in he goes like he's playing with the leg when

00:27:39.612 --> 00:27:42.712
we're back into guard um pull the

00:27:42.712 --> 00:27:45.892
leg back and he shoots up open omoplata so

00:27:45.892 --> 00:27:48.932
i'm defending the omoplata come back up start to pass there

00:27:48.932 --> 00:27:52.612
um he ends up rolling

00:27:52.612 --> 00:27:55.432
rolling me through as i'm

00:27:55.432 --> 00:27:58.152
going to pass like ends up making me have to like

00:27:58.152 --> 00:28:01.372
turn out of it so i get to the leg and

00:28:01.372 --> 00:28:04.652
pick up the leg we're wrestling now um

00:28:04.652 --> 00:28:07.792
i almost get him on the on the first takedown he

00:28:07.792 --> 00:28:10.452
blocks it i switch to the other side get get in

00:28:10.452 --> 00:28:14.132
on another single leg uh then he ends up grabbing uh

00:28:14.132 --> 00:28:17.352
standing kimura and rips it uh i

00:28:17.352 --> 00:28:20.272
flip out of that um but like

00:28:20.272 --> 00:28:23.592
on the way i flip out of it and as i'm

00:28:23.592 --> 00:28:26.472
like turning back to kind of come up he ends up catching on

00:28:26.472 --> 00:28:30.652
the yeah on the same side arm that he it was gripping through through the kimura

00:28:30.652 --> 00:28:35.372
on ends up coming through and catching arm triangle okay and so like the arm's

00:28:35.372 --> 00:28:40.092
already up because i'm trying to get it back to turn back in so the arm's already

00:28:40.092 --> 00:28:43.392
like perfectly in position for him he just scoops that thing up it was in on

00:28:43.392 --> 00:28:45.232
a really deep arm triangle um,

00:28:45.971 --> 00:28:48.911
But it was fun. I mean, it was like a quick, like, scrambling,

00:28:48.951 --> 00:28:53.611
like, little wrestling exchange, like, lots of just wrestling and counter-wrestling.

00:28:55.151 --> 00:28:58.891
And it was a fun match. It was actually pretty – it was a good matchup.

00:29:00.211 --> 00:29:02.351
But, you know, it was going to be one of those things where someone's going

00:29:02.351 --> 00:29:04.811
to get caught, right? It was good. It was exciting.

00:29:05.951 --> 00:29:10.131
I felt good about how I was in it.

00:29:10.251 --> 00:29:13.271
I would have liked to win, obviously. but uh the

00:29:13.271 --> 00:29:16.491
way that i i feel like the performance

00:29:16.491 --> 00:29:19.571
was not lacking like i didn't leave anything out there

00:29:19.571 --> 00:29:22.351
good performance is good it's the bonus too right if

00:29:22.351 --> 00:29:25.211
you're going against bigger people it's gonna be hard it's always gonna be hard

00:29:25.211 --> 00:29:30.871
so um no injuries body feels good no injuries three medals that's what i'm talking

00:29:30.871 --> 00:29:35.211
about you know can't can't complain there so um let's talk about the prep man

00:29:35.211 --> 00:29:39.251
i mean you said this is the best you've ever felt yeah uh yeah this is probably

00:29:39.251 --> 00:29:41.891
the best I felt in a long time.

00:29:42.431 --> 00:29:47.551
Uh, so, you know, just sticking with the program that has seen put out there,

00:29:47.551 --> 00:29:52.091
um, you know, just, I just pull up the app, see what he has me doing,

00:29:52.351 --> 00:29:55.011
just listening, you know, just following what the coach, the coach's orders.

00:29:55.691 --> 00:30:01.831
Um, and you know, he put me through a little mini taper in terms of my actual like training.

00:30:01.831 --> 00:30:04.851
I just trained all the way up until the wednesday before so

00:30:04.851 --> 00:30:07.971
i did all my jiu-jitsu like hard like

00:30:07.971 --> 00:30:10.671
working hard all the way until the tuesday before and then just

00:30:10.671 --> 00:30:15.071
flow rolls the last two days um and you

00:30:15.071 --> 00:30:21.031
know it was it was great like i lots of lots of positional work uh focused a

00:30:21.031 --> 00:30:26.511
lot on hand fighting and takedowns just trying to keep keep up with that and

00:30:26.511 --> 00:30:30.191
then just guard passing like that was that was the game like it It was just

00:30:30.191 --> 00:30:31.991
like, all right, we're going to work on our hand fighting.

00:30:32.331 --> 00:30:36.611
We're going to go, we're going to get the takedown, and we're just going to pass guard.

00:30:36.691 --> 00:30:39.191
Because after that, everything else is just whatever happens,

00:30:39.331 --> 00:30:40.631
for the most part. Like, I don't know.

00:30:41.308 --> 00:30:44.288
Whatever shows itself at that point because you're now up five points

00:30:44.288 --> 00:30:47.948
like now it's my game um but

00:30:47.948 --> 00:30:51.228
so yeah like standing guard breaks into pass was

00:30:51.228 --> 00:30:54.608
was like the big thing that we were working the whole time from a jiu-jitsu

00:30:54.608 --> 00:30:59.528
standpoint uh and then from a strength standpoint just like getting that strength

00:30:59.528 --> 00:31:08.388
up high like massive massive gains there um in the weight room got my muscle mass up a lot I mean,

00:31:08.488 --> 00:31:15.968
I went, so kind of in the process between March and July.

00:31:16.808 --> 00:31:22.748
Went down, lost down to 144 and then gained all the way back up to 155.

00:31:22.988 --> 00:31:27.288
So pretty big like weight, like lean mass.

00:31:27.488 --> 00:31:30.228
Fluctuation or whatever, yeah. So, um, so I mean, it was a pretty,

00:31:30.468 --> 00:31:34.448
pretty big weight fluctuation went lost a bunch of weight and then gained a

00:31:34.448 --> 00:31:40.168
bunch of good weight back, uh, strength wise, like massive gains in the weight room, cardio.

00:31:40.768 --> 00:31:46.768
Um, and we have, I was sending a seam data like every cardio day and like the,

00:31:46.768 --> 00:31:48.828
the data is pretty crazy to watch.

00:31:48.928 --> 00:31:54.208
Cause like recovery times were getting down to like, I, I could spike up to

00:31:54.208 --> 00:31:56.828
one 70 and within two minutes I'm back down to the low hundreds.

00:31:56.828 --> 00:32:00.348
So um like cardio recovery

00:32:00.348 --> 00:32:03.268
just the ability to live in those

00:32:03.268 --> 00:32:06.348
high ranges was was amazing resting

00:32:06.348 --> 00:32:10.008
heart rate down in like the in the 40s so um

00:32:10.008 --> 00:32:14.228
just from all the conditioning strength and conditioning stuff was really paying

00:32:14.228 --> 00:32:21.928
off and then from uh from a diet standpoint just following the diet like a seam

00:32:21.928 --> 00:32:26.488
had me on lots a lot more cards too that because yeah dude i mean you're saying

00:32:26.488 --> 00:32:28.668
the weight cut, it just so easy.

00:32:28.848 --> 00:32:32.668
Yeah. I mean, I cut no calories, so I didn't cut any calories. I didn't cut any water.

00:32:32.908 --> 00:32:37.868
Um, so which was the most crazy part to me. Cause like.

00:32:38.554 --> 00:32:41.934
I would think you would have, you know, you'd think you'd have to cut something

00:32:41.934 --> 00:32:44.174
like something would have to give right to have the weight come off.

00:32:44.714 --> 00:32:48.914
Um, but I didn't really change the diet all that much.

00:32:49.114 --> 00:32:52.674
The main thing I did was I just reduced sauce, but I guess does cut some calories,

00:32:52.914 --> 00:32:54.374
but reduced sauce, sauce.

00:32:54.534 --> 00:32:57.774
You know, so like I paid more attention to like the, the sodium,

00:32:58.094 --> 00:33:00.154
you know, like I made my food boring.

00:33:00.434 --> 00:33:02.494
That's really all I did. I just made my food boring.

00:33:03.194 --> 00:33:06.454
Everything was white. yeah um but but

00:33:06.454 --> 00:33:09.234
i mean i stuck with i mean pretty much what i've been eating every

00:33:09.234 --> 00:33:12.774
day is just two bagels eggs two

00:33:12.774 --> 00:33:16.294
bagels with three eggs in the morning protein shake meat and

00:33:16.294 --> 00:33:19.414
rice for lunch and dinner and then like another protein

00:33:19.414 --> 00:33:22.494
shake before bed some jerky in the middle to

00:33:22.494 --> 00:33:25.314
round out the protein numbers and just try to hit the numbers that

00:33:25.314 --> 00:33:28.974
he that he gives me um and i

00:33:28.974 --> 00:33:32.734
was able to keep that all the way up until uh match

00:33:32.734 --> 00:33:35.674
day the only thing i didn't do during the match or match day

00:33:35.674 --> 00:33:38.594
was have lunch um that's just because like i i

00:33:38.594 --> 00:33:41.494
just can't you have time well you don't have time but i just can't

00:33:41.494 --> 00:33:44.514
eat when i'm going to compete like i just don't want to my my

00:33:44.514 --> 00:33:47.474
i like to just keep the stomach empty and be a

00:33:47.474 --> 00:33:53.734
little hungry um but yeah i mean we just we just made the food bland and boring

00:33:53.734 --> 00:33:57.754
for the last week and like it was really just i'm still eating the same thing

00:33:57.754 --> 00:34:03.274
it's just simpler um i think he read no red meat was a big one i think that

00:34:03.274 --> 00:34:06.614
probably helped like kept the fatting meats out but uh,

00:34:07.451 --> 00:34:11.091
But yeah, I mean. So no ribeyes. No ribeyes. As much as I love them.

00:34:11.331 --> 00:34:15.211
But I'm right back on the, I've had nothing but red meat since Sunday.

00:34:16.071 --> 00:34:19.531
Actually, that was the first thing I did was I went to Five Guys right after.

00:34:19.731 --> 00:34:22.971
Shout out to the last episode. Shout out to burgers and patties,

00:34:23.051 --> 00:34:25.491
bro. Went out, got Five Guys burgers and fries.

00:34:26.771 --> 00:34:31.191
That'd be cool if they sponsored us. I'd be so happy. Okay. But yeah,

00:34:31.311 --> 00:34:32.211
that was. What was your order?

00:34:33.431 --> 00:34:36.291
Double cheeseburger. Bacon. And regular fries. Bacon.

00:34:36.291 --> 00:34:39.051
I didn't get the bacon because i was eating it in the car

00:34:39.051 --> 00:34:42.091
i was like

00:34:42.091 --> 00:34:44.931
i don't want to have that like accidental like whole bacon

00:34:44.931 --> 00:34:49.371
strip come out and then like i i get it uh but

00:34:49.371 --> 00:34:54.291
i i house that thing so like the way where the venue was for the tournament

00:34:54.291 --> 00:34:59.271
it's maybe like two miles from the exit so i got the five guys close to the

00:34:59.271 --> 00:35:02.591
venue it was right there that's right i saw on the way in i was like going there

00:35:02.591 --> 00:35:05.771
i was like scouting out I'm on the restaurants on the way in on Sunday. Yeah, you were.

00:35:06.251 --> 00:35:14.131
I had from the Five Guys to the, and by the time I got to 95, that burger was gone.

00:35:14.351 --> 00:35:16.611
Oh, yeah. Yeah. I was. So housed it.

00:35:16.971 --> 00:35:20.051
Oh, put that thing down real quick. I was just eating fries the whole way home.

00:35:20.051 --> 00:35:23.971
And then I had a big old slice of carrot cake waiting for me.

00:35:24.071 --> 00:35:26.891
And I housed that and then drank my protein shake and went right back to bed.

00:35:26.951 --> 00:35:28.731
That's how you get back to 155. Yeah.

00:35:29.771 --> 00:35:34.251
That's how you gain like seven pounds fast. Oh, yeah. needed it though oh no

00:35:34.251 --> 00:35:38.571
I needed it I felt a lot better I've been not starving the rest of the all week

00:35:38.571 --> 00:35:44.611
so that's what matters um but yeah I mean it was it was good dude and you know,

00:35:45.522 --> 00:35:49.062
Just not having to cut water was a big deal, especially with that big,

00:35:49.162 --> 00:35:52.482
like a pretty, pretty significant weight cut for day of way,

00:35:52.542 --> 00:35:54.222
like five minutes before weigh-ins, right?

00:35:54.542 --> 00:35:57.802
Actually, I had even shorter than five minutes because I, I got pulled right

00:35:57.802 --> 00:36:00.562
off the scale onto the mats each time, but that was on purpose.

00:36:01.342 --> 00:36:03.422
That's okay. That was what I was hoping for. You were ready for it.

00:36:03.522 --> 00:36:05.142
I don't like the bullpen. That shit only sucks, me too.

00:36:05.422 --> 00:36:06.902
That shit only sucks when you're

00:36:06.902 --> 00:36:11.902
like, when the weigh-in is like a taxing weight cut process for you.

00:36:11.902 --> 00:36:14.602
And then you're like fuck I need this time to like get my

00:36:14.602 --> 00:36:17.642
energy up and my a little bit of hydration or whatever but if

00:36:17.642 --> 00:36:20.562
that's not an issue then you're like fucking let's go yeah just step

00:36:20.562 --> 00:36:23.942
right off I'm ready to go yeah get going get it out of the way um

00:36:23.942 --> 00:36:27.182
for real yeah dude it was it was great weekend especially like

00:36:27.182 --> 00:36:30.542
shout out to all the guys from battlefield seeing them like all

00:36:30.542 --> 00:36:34.382
go out there and win was also awesome um and

00:36:34.382 --> 00:36:36.842
you know we had a lot of guys we actually had guys come and take their whole

00:36:36.842 --> 00:36:41.902
weekend just to watch which was really cool too um the team showed up yeah so

00:36:41.902 --> 00:36:45.362
like team showed up the whole unit got to talk to him for a minute it was cool

00:36:45.362 --> 00:36:49.642
man it was cool to see like the battlefield uh bros yeah and show up on mass

00:36:49.642 --> 00:36:51.622
oh dude it was great especially like.

00:36:52.342 --> 00:36:55.342
Knowing that everyone from the team could because actually

00:36:55.342 --> 00:36:58.122
big brothers won one team title won the

00:36:58.122 --> 00:37:01.282
team title um and so like having everyone like

00:37:01.282 --> 00:37:04.362
show up and actually like contribute to that and

00:37:04.362 --> 00:37:07.362
knowing that i contributed significantly that was good

00:37:07.362 --> 00:37:10.162
too you know like um that always feels

00:37:10.162 --> 00:37:13.442
good winning feels good yeah it does it

00:37:13.442 --> 00:37:18.362
does so it's the goodest feeling yeah it's the goodest feeling um but yeah man

00:37:18.362 --> 00:37:23.822
like it was it was an awesome weekend and uh you know and i know like andrea

00:37:23.822 --> 00:37:30.222
was andrea the only actually no you had a few people kate and prima prisma prisma's

00:37:30.222 --> 00:37:31.862
with uh Black Hat and 50-50.

00:37:32.442 --> 00:37:36.062
I just saw her walking around with... She's a friend of the squad.

00:37:37.022 --> 00:37:41.962
Now, I think she doubled golded too, dude. I think in Prisma's divisions.

00:37:42.202 --> 00:37:43.822
I know she got gold Nogi...

00:37:44.703 --> 00:37:48.903
Um, she may have gotten gold E as well. I wasn't there on Saturday,

00:37:48.903 --> 00:37:51.823
but I know she medaled. I don't, I don't remember. I think I saw it.

00:37:52.043 --> 00:37:58.163
She's also out of, these are, it's just all, she's also out of, uh, Nova barbell club.

00:37:58.623 --> 00:38:03.123
She, I think I saw that she had to, she, I'm pretty, I'm like 90% sure she got

00:38:03.123 --> 00:38:06.843
double gold. I know for a fact she golded, she, she got the gold medal on Sunday.

00:38:07.583 --> 00:38:11.303
Um, yeah. Andrea competed on the behalf of the district martial arts on Sunday,

00:38:12.063 --> 00:38:16.963
uh, went down to the adult division and um you know which like she's she generally

00:38:16.963 --> 00:38:21.163
competes in in her age group and masters and uh but like there was there was

00:38:21.163 --> 00:38:24.143
like one competitor and like a friend of hers who like they were like talking

00:38:24.143 --> 00:38:26.223
and for whatever reason like her friend had to like switch divisions,

00:38:26.723 --> 00:38:30.563
um so she didn't have anyone in her division so she's like it i'll just do adult

00:38:30.563 --> 00:38:35.683
she's done it before she did in march too she did yeah um goes out wins her

00:38:35.683 --> 00:38:42.343
first match it was a good tough match with a gal from Tony Passos, if I remember. Okay.

00:38:42.583 --> 00:38:45.123
Yeah, they had a bunch of people. Yeah, well, they have a good team, too.

00:38:45.943 --> 00:38:49.683
And so she had to be, like, very tactical. She gritted out a good win,

00:38:50.383 --> 00:38:53.403
followed a good game plan, got it done. It was, like, a nice confidence boost.

00:38:53.683 --> 00:38:57.643
Went to the finals, fought a gal who is a PANS champion, like a tough girl,

00:38:58.323 --> 00:38:59.643
experienced competitor.

00:38:59.743 --> 00:39:02.003
They had a good match back and forth. She ended up losing that match.

00:39:02.923 --> 00:39:05.323
But it was, like, cool. She was, like, I think it's her first time.

00:39:05.323 --> 00:39:10.103
She either gets like golds or bronzes, but she told me this is the first time

00:39:10.103 --> 00:39:12.023
she's got a silver. She's like, it's kind of, I kind of like it.

00:39:12.203 --> 00:39:15.163
You know, obviously she wants to win, but she was fired up to get that,

00:39:15.323 --> 00:39:17.763
to get that, um, go out there and like compete in a, you know,

00:39:17.843 --> 00:39:20.303
like the younger division, which is always a little bit more competitive too.

00:39:20.783 --> 00:39:21.903
Matches go a little bit longer.

00:39:23.543 --> 00:39:27.523
Um, and, uh, yeah. So to pop out there, basically have to like think on her

00:39:27.523 --> 00:39:30.063
feet a little bit. Like it's, that's not her normal division.

00:39:30.243 --> 00:39:33.883
So to like do that, call the audible, fight in a tougher division, have success.

00:39:33.883 --> 00:39:37.703
I know she's pretty hyped up about that but and like the funny thing I was saying

00:39:37.703 --> 00:39:42.643
was between you RJ, her everyone else who I knew primarily the ones I'm talking

00:39:42.643 --> 00:39:44.803
about are the ones who kind of got banged up in the first,

00:39:45.443 --> 00:39:49.363
Virginia Open we all had the same injury yeah you guys all had like an elbow

00:39:49.363 --> 00:39:53.423
thing it was all left elbow too funny all three of us injured our left elbow

00:39:53.423 --> 00:39:56.263
the last one so you guys all walked out no injuries I was like look guys everyone

00:39:56.263 --> 00:39:59.283
got medals and everyone got injured it's a fucking improvement from four months

00:39:59.283 --> 00:40:02.883
ago exactly it was a success it was a success.

00:40:03.723 --> 00:40:06.663
Um but yeah man i mean it was it was a good weekend

00:40:06.663 --> 00:40:10.123
all around for everyone that i know love it so what

00:40:10.123 --> 00:40:12.923
else can you ask for um cool man anything

00:40:12.923 --> 00:40:16.523
else to add or do you want that was great man awesome good weekend we'll have

00:40:16.523 --> 00:40:20.943
many more battle stories to tell you guys we will there's a lot coming up we

00:40:20.943 --> 00:40:25.463
both have uh i mean we will be able to have one of these almost every month

00:40:25.463 --> 00:40:31.583
at least we have a lot of stuff coming up we'll keep you guys posted too um as we have some cool,

00:40:32.063 --> 00:40:36.643
things coming so as those things become like official we'll be able to announce

00:40:36.643 --> 00:40:42.863
them but um but yeah so some cool competitions coming up we'll let you guys know and,

00:40:43.686 --> 00:40:46.786
One other thing I was about to say doesn't matter because this will be out after that.

00:40:46.926 --> 00:40:51.426
I'm going to say you can find us at NGA, but you won't. You may have already

00:40:51.426 --> 00:40:52.606
found us. You might have found us.

00:40:53.126 --> 00:40:57.926
So, you know, if we do see you at NGA, shout out to you guys that we meet there.

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