(Ep 31) Sitting down with Will Bullock of the Dreams Not Fame Podcast pt 1

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Welcome back to Fighters Drinking Coffee. Today we have Will Bullock,

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brown belt competitor out of Leo Dalla, but also the host of the Dreams Not

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Fame podcast. Will, welcome on.

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Thank you guys, man. It's a pleasure being here, man. It's a pleasure.

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All right, dude, I want to hear this hot take on the gas station.

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Was it the coffee or the food? We can do both. All right, so which one do you

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want to do first? Let's do food, then coffee. Let's do food, then coffee.

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All right, my hot take on the food for... All right, so. So Wawa is the superior food.

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I honestly highly recommend Wawa for anything in terms of coffee,

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in terms of food, because I actually went down to North Carolina.

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I was like, you know what? Let me go get a quesadilla. I've only done like that

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coffee. I got a quesadilla.

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My own daughter was eating that thing like it was nothing. So I'm like, I love Wawa hands down.

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But my official hot take is, for food, you have to find a specific 7-Eleven

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in your neighborhood that you know that you can trust and know that when they're

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on their stuff, it's going to be fire.

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I had many of drunk nights of 7-Eleven in the Haymarket area near One Life that

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I knew what time they put the fresh wings in.

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And if the wings weren't fresh, he would put fresh ones in for me.

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You have to have that relationship with your local gas station to get like that, man.

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You got to meet your local gas station. station people are

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the hot as like wings number one wings number one there what

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else um you gotta go with the taquitos i was gonna

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say the taquitos gotta be up there taquitos is number two and

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then i really don't get the dogs that much but

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if it's a fresh pizza i might actually do the fresh pizza all right the the

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dogs are always questionable that's the question mark that roller man that that

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i'm like i don't know that but the taquitos i've never had bad taquito especially

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when those dogs start getting like that that grease that grease we start to dry out on the roller.

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But you said you're from kentucky scott that's right and you guys don't have

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like the delicacy that we have on the east coast the delicacy that you have

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on the east coast for real like seriously i i we've this is probably the third

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or fourth time we talked about it on the show but dude,

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yes where i'm from like gas station food culture

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it's like you go in and you buy like chips or some beef jerky or whatever like

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maybe you'll get like a breakfast sandwich or something but there's not

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the delicacy of east coast we make

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some of them are like fresh to order like sheets i don't

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know if wawa does that too but like no you order your sandwich they make you

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the sandwich right there yeah we don't do that they i think

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sheets my wife is more of a sheets person um i never had a problem with sheets

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i think wawa has disappeared in terms of their sandwiches and everything else

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i've had chicken sandwich from there prior um the coffee's cheaper than the

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7-Eleven because and the only reason why I moved to Wawa in my tier is because

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I got tired of 7-Eleven coffee.

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That's the only reason. And I was like, all right, cool. We get two for one

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there. It's cheaper at, like, if you want to get quick snacks,

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of course, 7-Eleven's cheaper.

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But if you want some quick coffee for like 12, 16 ounce for $1,

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$279. I know that's bad. I know the number of the freaking coffee.

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You're an educated consumer.

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Educated consumer, but that's decent than the $3 or $4 you're going to pay at

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7-Eleven for their coffee.

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It is a culture thing. Royal Farms is another one we're talking about that is

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specifically Maryland.

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I haven't really seen it in Virginia. But yeah, Royal Farms is the same way.

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There are a couple. I think they're known for their fried chicken.

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It's their claim to fame is the fried chicken at Royal Farms.

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I have a friend who just started muckbanging. And I told him to do this.

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I was like, dude, you need to, like, do the gas station mukbang because this

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is, like, a weird little regional, like, battle that people have over,

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like, who has the best gas station food. And I'm just kind of an observer.

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I'll jump in eventually. Like, I think I'm due for it, especially because I've

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been talking about it. But I'm very curious to see.

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Dude, the one thing we're talking about, the Buc-ee's, right?

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I haven't heard of it, but I have a friend of mine that lives in Tennessee,

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which is the main thing down that way.

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And we just got one off at 81. I'm like, I have no reason to go to 81 yet. But it's like.

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Are you curious? I'm curious because I thought it was an actual restaurant.

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I didn't know it was a gas station. That's how much of a known thing of their

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food and their stuff it is.

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Well, so the Buc-ee's model is it actually, so they do super cheap gas so people stop.

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Their main thing is the food like you're supposed to go in

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and like spend money inside so they give they have cheaper

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gas than everyone else so people stop and shit go inside

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like buy everything shop at the like

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get shop at the restaurant get food get the barbecue apparently

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and like so their whole business models around like get people

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to stop because they're gonna go inside have that cute little mascot

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like they've got to figure it out they have it to see because

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that mascot thing i'm just like it's it's a weird i'm

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sorry guys you're good you're good nah we're good

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here sorry about that but nah this is like yeah i

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just never been i don't i if it gets closer to 234

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yeah but it's one of those things of like

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that mythical thing of like the gas stations i don't

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know what it's and it's regional like when i went to north carolina they

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were just celebrating their 100th wah-wah

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and they're like the 100 sheets so funny and

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it's like i'm in a flip universe where everything up

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here is like oh we got too many sheets we got too many wild wiles

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we got too many 7-elevens like it's it's a whole different

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universe yeah the buckies thing is interesting because i i i

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did a month in austin a couple years ago just trained out there

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and they're all over right like you said it's it's

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a thing it's like that's the thing it like it came over from from

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from what i saw i couldn't even i don't even know the original story but.

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What i've observed it seems like it came over from like the south kind

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of southeast whatever you want to call texas like straight dead center south

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and it's like moving its way east and now

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it's coming up into our territory so it's like

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all it's all over the south though and you're right people are like little like little

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nutty weirdos about like loving it but i guess it's

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kind of like it's such a fun it's so american sounding yeah

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for us to be like it you know what i think it is though i think it's like the

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convenience factor like americans love everything simple and easy all in one

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spot like decent value good quality yeah so it's all that shit i didn't know

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about the cheap gas yeah i like that oh yeah smart move i'm like all this is

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a good capitalism move too like you're gonna stop and you're you're traveling

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you're on a road trip you need to get a bite like eat here,

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100 percent what you were trying to say i was gonna say if you if you

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know like all of those places have cheaper gas than like

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the you know standard run in the middle yeah

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like they all they all have like similar things but apparently bucky's is

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like that on steroids oh wow man

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that's crazy but nah man that's how gas station

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food was like my introduction in the gas station thing

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and then coffee was just like once you have a kid man like you need caffeine

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it's one of those things i came here with coffee with no kid today just because

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like it's been one of those things but coffee after i had a kid switching and

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everything it came from starbucks to realizing starbucks is.

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Shitty coffee overpriced trash overpriced tries that you only get a five minute

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buzz from now i ain't gonna lie that little uh winery drinks there all that

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stuff yeah i'm all over it i'm not the pumpkin spice but there's this one that

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has all some type of concoction of milk it's amazing i'll Next time I'm on here,

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I will make sure I let y'all know which one it is. The shots? The little cans?

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It's like a cinnamon drink. I forget what it's called. Oh, man.

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You're going to make me remind me. I'm going to tell you. We'll do a,

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you know what we'll do? We'll have you come in. We'll train in the morning.

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We usually train around like 8. I've been doing 7 a.m., by the way. I know. I heard.

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I heard. I heard. It's a lot. But, like, dude, come in for all of it.

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Come in, train, and then there's a Starbucks right over there. Yeah.

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So we come up here, clean up, Starbucks, order some food, and then we'll do

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like a little side-by-side like Starbucks versus whatever.

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We'll do Starbucks versus the French press. We can do that. Yeah.

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We can do that. And then whatever food. Whatever we want. Our usual.

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Some. Our bogo. Bagels. Our try to. Yeah, dude. Scam the. We try to mash, dude.

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It's like, I mean, you wake up like, I woke up at 5.30 this morning.

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Dude. I know. Dude. On a Saturday. But you know what? Dude, I know.

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Here's my thing. I told the guys too. Like the ones, the you motherfuckers to show up at 7 a.m.

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Like which of your enemies is getting up at 7, five or whatever like they show

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up at 7am to train on a Saturday my buddy Eric who we train with.

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World champion brown belt like he's a beast he's dad he's

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got like three kids busy dude right like three kids

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he like doesn't sleep ever he's just a machine and he like

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sends he he wrestled he wrestled at penn state and he's like he's a beast right

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he sent me this uh clip i think it

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was john smith like a million time you know

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champion whatever gold medalist and this and that like from he's

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like you know he's retired or whatever he's coaching now or something he's like

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in his 50s or 60s he's talking about how when he was in his prime he would like

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get up at 3 a.m and run because he was like

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that's what the russians were doing he's like i know they're awake doing their shit he's

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like i'm getting up and i'm gonna fucking run right now i'm not gonna have them

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like outwork my ass and i was like he loved that i was like

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i like this too so anyways no like i

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100 understand early morning training because i'm a big

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proponent on weekends like my weekends are solely like i don't go out and it's

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kind of funny like when i with the rarity that i go out is when i'm not in comp

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mode i'm not anything like that so when i have that brief moment of chill like

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i was saying after this i'm actually seeing one of my my friends out in arlington

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later it's just like I have that one moment I have nothing to do.

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I'm good to go. I've done all that. But most of my weekends,

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man, I'm either I'm waking up early in the morning, seven in the morning,

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go get my lift in the morning like I just did today.

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I'm normally at a jujitsu gym by noon or something like that.

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Or I'm teaching when we started opening up our gym because we had the blue belt quintet at NGA.

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The blue belts wanted to come in early. I was like, all right,

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10 a.m. Because they didn't want to do the set.

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So that's we're gonna get in a

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second real quick but um because there's

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dedication which is a 7 a.m because i'm like if you're

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here at 7 a.m with me that means you're here for the shits

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you are here this makes you want to be here this is your priority this is your

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priority you want to be here and you're here between 7 or 7 15 because i understand

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or late people can be a little bit late whatever you know um but if you're in

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here in that time you want the shits you with the smoke right Like,

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so I have no problem with that whatsoever.

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Like, my mornings, my Monday through Friday, I would say I'm pretty sure I outwork all my people.

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I like it. I am in the gym by 7.30. I'm actually...

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Boom my job ain't listening to this i'm actually in

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meetings while i'm in the gym lifting like

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i don't give i'm getting my lift in while i'm listening to the meeting like

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i don't care um midday i'm taking a run because right now it's nice outside

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and during the winter time not that much i'm not in my rocky mode i'm good i'm

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good off that but in the evening i do jujitsu so it's like i have that balance

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so it's like two three workouts a day i know my competitors are only

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and two they're probably only still in that

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phase of oh i only need to do jujitsu it's not like that you

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need to do expansions of that so no when

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you have guys like the guys that because i heard you guys do at 7 a.m or 8 a.m

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i'm like i have a long day tomorrow i i knew i was like i was going to get my

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max day in yesterday i didn't get it yesterday i was like i have to do it today

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so i was like i'm not going to do jujitsu come back max day come back out to arlington go back home.

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They can back out to Arlington. You gotta map it all out. You gotta map it.

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My other thing too is like Saturdays, it's just like, we're done by nine. Yeah.

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You have your day. I have my day. I got my day. And I'll train tomorrow.

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I'll lift tomorrow. Seam's got me doing that. Yeah.

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But, you know, whatever. Like, I can do that whenever. Like,

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Sunday's pretty flexible for me. But like, Saturday it's just, I get it.

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It's more. In and out. In and out, man. In and out. In and out.

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And it's done. It's like 9 a.m. I'm like, alright, dude, like, shower.

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Have some food. Drink some coffee. If we're not recording, we're recording now.

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I'm like, dude, I'm like, I'm not used to this. I'm like, I actually have some flexibility.

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This is kind of nice. Yeah. What am I going to do the rest of the day? For real.

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I'll see you guys. I'll watch football. I'll watch football.

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I'll do stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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My Sundays are normally like that because my Sundays before Tim Dawson,

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the owner of High Noon, started doing this. Are you doing out there?

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Are you doing those days? Yes, I love those. I'm thinking about doing that too.

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So, yeah, my normal days now are morning jiu-jitsu on Sunday and then sometimes

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going to the High Noon comp training at 5 p.m.

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Now into that. Now, big shout-out to Tim Dawson. He is a good friend of mine.

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Me and Tim go, I wouldn't say go back, but he's been in my life with jiu-jitsu

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for pretty much my entire time in jiu-jitsu.

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Those comp training classes, I'm telling you right now that it's creating monsters.

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It is a monster high comp class. Like I really have been in teeters.

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Like if I have to choose one, if I'm doing a Sunday, I'm going to that class

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at 5 p.m. I can run in the morning.

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I can do something in the gym in the morning so I can be there for my kid.

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But those high level classes there, they don't care.

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It's now in jujitsu now. Now, I think the DMV area style kind of realized after

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years of everyone has borders for the most part.

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Now everyone's kind of being in a melting pot. I think Asim kind of did that

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one way with how everyone's being in different gyms and going to him for any

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type of lifting whatsoever. I think that's very, very effective.

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I think that contributed to everyone breaking down walls to what they're doing

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with these group comp classes now. because now when we go to tournaments or

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we go to IBJJF or go into Pans or go into Worlds now, it's not just your gym.

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You're representing the region now because now everything has become regional

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in jiu-jitsu where you have the DMV, then you have New York and New Jersey,

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then you have Texas and you have California, and then you have the Florida people.

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And then you got the Spotsville in between, whatever.

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But now it's kind of more units than there has been in years past,

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in my opinion, because I've been here for like 10 years from white to brown, seeing how it grows.

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Own i evolved i've seen the politics i've seen the the debates and everything

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like that but the one thing i kind of seen i've seen the borders kind of knocked

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down a little bit which is kind of cool to see it is cool to see well five to six thirty.

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For sundays 5 p.m 5 p.m 2 6 like around

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6 30 6 45 7 5 7 5 7

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i think yeah 5 7 and tim always lies there

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say we're gonna get some free rolling in but no it's the tired day of

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games it's just it's organized organized games we

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did two hours of straight stand-up one time okay straight stand-up

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and that was brutal brutal but it

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was one of those things where if you you it's one that he say can't

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quit i fully believe you can't you may get

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tired you can only get water when he says to get water i'm down

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with that that was one of those things like it's mind over matter

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you're pushing you're like you don't care because the guy in front of me it

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could be my boy nick it could be my one of my other guys cam i did a whole two-hour

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session with cam me him just going at which is an amazing experience and a shout

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out to cam who was a four-time adcc champion who is now just got ranked,

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finally after getting that

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bullshit off, I'm sorry, because that he should be top 10 by now.

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I'm sick and tired of that shit.

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He is now. Thank God. I think he was top 10. I thought he just got into the

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15. Is that what it was? I thought he just cracked 15. I might be wrong.

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I'm not trying to disrespect you,

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brother. Are you talking about the flow ranking? Yeah, the flow ranking.

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Because that was, he went three straight, and then by the time he got his fourth

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one, they finally put him in the flow ranking. And it probably had a lot to

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do with everyone being like, hey.

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Yeah, like, hey. because I think with those guys they like they look at their

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guys yeah I think they're a little like lazy dude I think they like they know

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the same names I think it's kind of like we don't,

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I think they need to set up their journalism game a little bit.

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We actually need to, like, pay attention to who's doing what here. Yeah.

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Let me get to Tim Dawson and let me finish. You can finish that one because

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there's a whole thing I feel like, and this goes to— I'll have the answer here in just a second.

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Mike's going to fact check us. Yeah. I'm just going to get the— No,

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keep— Throw Tim some love. He is number 15.

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He is number 15. All right, all right. But, yeah, it starts at 5 p.m. He does it game style.

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I remember I brought up some of the blue belts at my gym up there.

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I'm like, I thought that was open, man. And I was like, no, this is training.

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Like you're in that mindset now of open match where I get my time in.

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No, that open match when you play your game.

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This is where I'm doing stand-up for two hours. I'm not going to get tired going

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through a five, six-man rounds of hands and I'm standing up every single time

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or I'm wrestling every single time or I'm doing this, that, and the third.

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This is where you hone in on particular areas of your game. And that's why I

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love that training so much.

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And that's what kind of influenced some of the stuff when I teach jiu-jitsu about

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specific specific areas it's not about learning

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and he can do this in this room because he

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has high level people so you're not getting learned a new technique

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you're getting simple basic we're

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chopping down the tree each time and i love it man so

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i highly suggest uh just ping him reach out

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say hey i'm bringing some such and all that and everybody everybody's great

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with it more the merrier man more the fucking merrier but back to the other

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point that you were trying to point out man i think i saw this at cgi i made

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this point at vgi too when they're doing the interviews which is a nice uh thing

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we're going to talk about in a second too with me and michael but um.

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The game is getting at the higher up

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level secular and it's the same teams it's the same names it's the same names

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for i think five six years now in my opinion um i think that void happened once

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gordon left you know i'm not a big gordon fan but it's like that void left and

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you're just getting the same rotation people, right?

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I think finishers is one that's actually like a good feeder camp into the higher-ups.

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I think Toro Cup, even though I have my problems with Toro Cup between me and

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my team on that, they are feeder camp into those higher-ups.

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But I don't think specifically, they don't go for the individuals anymore. They go for camps.

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They go for the altos. They go for new wave. They go for all that in third, which is fine.

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They got some hitters. that's respectable but what about the new guys why don't

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you guys pull guys that are in pans and nogi world and get them a shot because

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they put the hard work in but they're using the same,

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method of I'm gonna just do all these super fights so I get my name big enough

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and I'm due here without getting.

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That much recognition in the visual game i bjgf now

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with being said i don't have that standard

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of goals on my name yet and i play

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that game but i'm understanding of where

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i play that because i'm not a world champ um

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most of these people in here are in that bracketing i'm

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not world champs um but they're

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going through that process like i'm just doing i'm in that

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process like i i need some go around my name to get out here

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and do all that but they're not doing that so it's just like oh this

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guy did cgi he has a 10k following let me get him

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here because he got the content he can get all that stuff and grand

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effect 10k is not nothing to laugh about i would love to have fucking 10k followers

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but it's like you're just doing it to just drive more eyes and little clout

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i think everything has clout but you got also understand when people had good

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jujitsu and so they know with fucking balls to wallets go, you will see that in their game.

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You will not see it in these higher-ups anymore because I will say this now.

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I said it at VGI 2 in the podcast.

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The men had to get more money to play more of a game because they were just being too shy, gun shy.

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Meanwhile, the women, even though we're not going to the pay disparity on that,

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even though the women would beat each other's heads off.

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To me, I think there's a stalemate at the top of things right now.

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They also do it once a year.

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So it's kind of like, ADCC's got the regionals, right? IBGF has a million tournaments a year.

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PGF is doing seasons, but PGF is also doing like a tryout thing.

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So that kind of helps with like, you win the tryouts, you're in PGF.

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Maybe they do like some invites if like you won a couple years or whatever.

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But like, obviously ADCC has trials where, you know, one or two guys,

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we just talked about this in the last one for the women, and only one of them,

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apparently, gets slot, only one of the trials winners.

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Yeah. They only get an invite after the second trial.

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So they don't do, the first trials for the women's bracket doesn't count.

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It doesn't matter. It doesn't make sense, right? Which, and,

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so like I saw... Jiu-Jitsu's weird all around, but yeah.

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It's a weird thing. They're like, well, it's because it's only,

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there's only half as many women in the world. And it's like,

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well, just do the full, whatever, do the full bracket.

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The women's combat sports is one of the few sports where like,

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I mean, this is probably going to end up getting some hate, but fuck it. We love it. Let it ride.

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It's one of the few sports that, like, the watchability factor of men's versus women's is very even.

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Yes. Like, compared to, like, you know, you have a bunch of other sports where

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it's just not as developed or, like, or the rule sets have been dumbed down

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or they've just dumbed the sport down.

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But, like, combat sports, women's MMA, women's boxing, and women's jiu-jitsu,

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wrestling, all great to watch. And so, like, why not make that a bigger bracket

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and then make that trials count?

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I've seen women's jujitsu grow within the last 10 years.

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Different facilitators within that, within the region. There are too many names

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to count for that. So I just want to say that right now.

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Within the region, there's so many female black jujitsu petitioners who have

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brought the game up for the women's side.

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And I will say this. As a commentator for NGA, women always are bangers.

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They always are bangers. You remember the tag team? The tag team is a banger.

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Shout out to Becca. Game changer, dude. Game changer. Game changer. You know what's funny?

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And Becca should go to Laura with somebody. As soon as the women did tag teams,

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or there was any sense of the tag teams, Arena Grappling started doing tag teams.

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I think Legacy, shout out to them. I love them too, but no, scratch that.

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Legacy, you guys did not, I don't think, I'm not trying to put in hate,

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but it's like I'm seeing tag teams left and right, different things.

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I'm like, yo, you should copyright that or something. But everyone's doing CGI

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rules and everything is a copycat in jiu-jitsu. Once you learn a leg lock and

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learn them all kind of things.

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So it's just like women's jiu-jitsu is a lot more watchable from just being

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a commentary standpoint because they will rip each other's heads off.

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I've been watching quintets, high-level quintet, and even like blue belt level quintet for NGA.

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It's a chess game of pieces and matchups.

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Is not really you might have a guy that in your team

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that might be going for the subs most of the time it's it's

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like what cgi was it was a draw or um

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stuff like that but women's i've seen maya

00:22:20.058 --> 00:22:22.938
from high noon rip off three ankles in

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a row to guarantee him a win like that's a

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different beast like that in itself i

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saw the women's blue belt bracket submissions left and

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right so it's like i think the guys play it safe because

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they don't want to get the hot everyone gets ig

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reels and instagram and everyone has jokes and

00:22:41.238 --> 00:22:45.018
everything has that but i'm like dude man if you if i can submit it and people

00:22:45.018 --> 00:22:48.318
got 10 000 reviews on it like dude i just got submitted don't mean none like

00:22:48.318 --> 00:22:53.798
look if i it was entertaining it was entertaining so it's like a lot of people

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have that weird of i want to protect myself and what you just do you can't really

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protect yourself Because if you play a safe game,

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you're going to not win the prizes that you want, in my opinion. But yeah.

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Words for life right there. Yeah. I think that's true, too.

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A lot of guys play for not to lose. Not to lose.

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Because, I don't know, maybe there's been a whole... It's an ego thing,

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maybe, like you said. Like, they want to protect their identity a little bit.

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And, yeah, I mean, I think you said it pretty well. I guess the dudes are,

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like, maybe they're a little too competitive, a little bit too protective because

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they play the safer game to get that, you know, minute advantage or whatever

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it is, get the W that way, just to make sure they win. Yeah.

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Whereas, like you said, if you throw the ladies in there, they're going after

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it right away. No, and it's that and the excuses of jiu-jitsu or of losing your match in jiu-jitsu.

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And a lot of people don't understand, like, if you go out there and you perform,

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win or lose, you did something nobody else your team did.

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That's number one. Number two is win, lose, or draw.

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I learned, well, back up a little bit.

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I've learned more from losing my matches than I've learned from winning,

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than I've learned from decisions.

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Well, a little bit more than learning from my decisions.

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And the reason why is is because i've learned

00:24:06.540 --> 00:24:09.440
not to get fucked up again in that position but when people

00:24:09.440 --> 00:24:12.460
are mad about man i should have won this no you

00:24:12.460 --> 00:24:15.300
shouldn't have the shit happened the way the shit happened you

00:24:15.300 --> 00:24:18.140
gotta go back and read the tape so that's why i get so sick

00:24:18.140 --> 00:24:21.080
of uh people always making excuses of

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why they lost or a was a pointless fight

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or if it was a because i've gotten that too from people of like a couple super

00:24:29.740 --> 00:24:33.960
fights ago about making an excuse because my opponent knee gave out 55 seconds

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and when i was on back to north carolina while i'm on my way into jiu-jitsu

00:24:38.760 --> 00:24:42.560
i got news that he said it was a pointless fight i'm like dude this is not pointless.

00:24:43.280 --> 00:24:46.920
Nothing in jiu-jitsu is pointless you wanted the smoke we get the smoke with

00:24:46.920 --> 00:24:51.420
stuff happens stuff happens you let it go you move on i'll give you for example

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i have a guy who's in pans which is why i'm really mad but me and him i'd show his name is con granada.

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And shout out to him because he's a really cool guy.

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Me and him chatted up after the Copa Elite 3, no, Copa Elite 4, I believe.

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And he's the first guy that beat me at Copa and he smashed me 15-0.

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But I'm not here making excuses like why I lost. I'm like, dude was solid.

00:25:15.154 --> 00:25:16.454
I'm going to get my lick back eventually.

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We have talked about getting my lick back and having a fight and stuff like that respectfully.

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But stuff never weighed out. He was supposed to be at the NGA for the 60-minute bracket for the pit.

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He ended up having a fight at Legacy.

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I was offered that fight at Legacy. I wanted him at NGA because I was like,

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I was gearing up for NGA. He was supposed to be in NGA. And then Legacy came

00:25:41.434 --> 00:25:42.714
along for us. Is Legacy up in Philly?

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I think it's Maryland. Is it Maryland?

00:25:46.194 --> 00:25:48.494
Easton? All right, so a little further. The last of the Maryland one.

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The Easton-Maryland one, I'm pretty sure.

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And guys, if y'all listen, no disrespect. I'm pretty sure it's that way. Okay, okay.

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But it was one of those things where I was like, I have an NGA already up.

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I wanted my second one to be there. Because if I go down 2-0,

00:26:03.834 --> 00:26:07.374
and the only thing I got left is NGA, might as well call it a sweet brother.

00:26:07.654 --> 00:26:12.714
Yeah, yeah. Like, I was like, I'm good. Do the, um, what's his name?

00:26:13.154 --> 00:26:16.034
Uh, just had something. He was like, you know what? I'm good.

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You went for it. I'm off to the sunset type of thing, man.

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But it just didn't end up like that. And he didn't end up at NGA.

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It's like, I'm gonna cross paths with him again.

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But it's not no disrespect of like, oh man, he won because my mind.

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No, I lost because my shit sucked that day.

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You have ownership about what you do.

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That's what's the first step about being better at what you're doing.

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If you have ownership. All right, man, my triangle sucks. All right,

00:26:39.574 --> 00:26:42.174
let's work on triangles for the next two weeks. Simple, right?

00:26:43.754 --> 00:26:47.794
I don't know how to work legs or entanglement of legs. Spend a month doing legs.

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Sit down, do legs, shoot legs. You're going to eat shit. You're going to eat crow.

00:26:52.114 --> 00:26:56.054
But at the end of that one month, right, you're going to learn how to work.

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How not to get your legs caught, what to do to get your legs uncaught.

00:27:01.792 --> 00:27:07.492
How to survive it, how to submit, how to keep rolling and still do the exchanges.

00:27:08.152 --> 00:27:12.592
Because your biggest learning advantage is when you lose. I swear to you is

00:27:12.592 --> 00:27:13.472
the biggest learning advantage.

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I swear to you. We were talking about this last week, about losing your loss,

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and especially in your actual gym,

00:27:22.512 --> 00:27:25.852
not always in a super fight or in a match,

00:27:25.852 --> 00:27:28.652
but like you learn that you

00:27:28.652 --> 00:27:31.612
will figure out what to do by losing yeah it's 100 correct

00:27:31.612 --> 00:27:34.732
yeah because like i would say this for example so you guys remember

00:27:34.732 --> 00:27:39.112
they used to call this kid um the

00:27:39.112 --> 00:27:42.052
black belt slayer um adult slayer or

00:27:42.052 --> 00:27:44.932
something like that that big kid from new york right from one

00:27:44.932 --> 00:27:47.812
of them guys so i was on their card

00:27:47.812 --> 00:27:50.852
i was facing a wrestler and then two weeks

00:27:50.852 --> 00:27:53.572
prior to that they gave me the adult slayer and i was like is

00:27:53.572 --> 00:27:56.292
this the guy that just the guy that was ripping all the hill hooks for a

00:27:56.292 --> 00:27:58.972
while right and i was like oh you can have

00:27:58.972 --> 00:28:01.832
the adult slayer i was like oh he a champ at enough i'm like oh fuck yeah

00:28:01.832 --> 00:28:04.652
let's ride it right so i spent two weeks getting out

00:28:04.652 --> 00:28:07.172
legs getting on everything right and i was like all right

00:28:07.172 --> 00:28:10.252
he's gonna sit down when when we stand up no

00:28:10.252 --> 00:28:13.432
he came at me standing up came at me standing up we banged

00:28:13.432 --> 00:28:16.972
standing up got in half guard everything got me like like popped

00:28:16.972 --> 00:28:19.872
my knee right got off the mat nicest guy

00:28:19.872 --> 00:28:25.472
ever chatted up afterwards i spent six months in a deep hole of learning all

00:28:25.472 --> 00:28:30.872
the leg entanglements from that because i noticed when i was a purple belt that

00:28:30.872 --> 00:28:34.652
that was the that was the one thing i didn't know that i couldn't do any exchanges

00:28:34.652 --> 00:28:36.972
i couldn't do anything so i spent six months going to.

00:28:37.612 --> 00:28:40.932
Vanguard going to high noon going to silverback

00:28:40.932 --> 00:28:43.852
of learning legs because it

00:28:43.852 --> 00:28:46.572
was like all right this is a game where i don't know how to deal with exchanges you

00:28:46.572 --> 00:28:49.992
can deal with exchanges on back you can do all that but specifically how

00:28:49.992 --> 00:28:52.692
to learn from one mistake made me so much better

00:28:52.692 --> 00:28:56.332
than legs because it was that much of a set obsession of oh

00:28:56.332 --> 00:28:58.972
i can just do the cockiness of everybody now i can just do

00:28:58.972 --> 00:29:01.612
two weeks of just getting out of it i'd be okay and then

00:29:01.612 --> 00:29:04.272
you get your knee popped and you you can't do nothing for two weeks and you're

00:29:04.272 --> 00:29:09.152
like i'm never doing this shit again like so you i spent that much time in my

00:29:09.152 --> 00:29:14.392
program about learning legs from one loss and i think that's the best way once

00:29:14.392 --> 00:29:20.312
you understand that i tell uh someone i'm coaching with right now um pam.

00:29:20.932 --> 00:29:24.072
Who's just not getting into stuff and she's a female competitor

00:29:24.072 --> 00:29:27.032
and and all that stuff but i was like look once

00:29:27.032 --> 00:29:30.872
you understand once you get your feet wet and once you understand how your body

00:29:30.872 --> 00:29:36.112
moves and rotates and how to use your body is your losses will become your wins

00:29:36.112 --> 00:29:40.812
it just it takes time it just and that's just for everybody so it's just like

00:29:40.812 --> 00:29:44.472
i just tell her that to all the blue belt's that and then but it's the learning

00:29:44.472 --> 00:29:46.272
process of that and people just can't take losses,

00:29:46.832 --> 00:29:51.092
but you gotta you have to learn the losses man you i cannot stress that enough,

00:29:51.616 --> 00:29:54.636
Yeah, I mean, I had two triangle losses at the beginning of this year.

00:29:54.796 --> 00:29:58.496
Yeah. And I just put myself, put me in a triangle.

00:29:58.756 --> 00:30:01.716
Triangle, triangle, diamond, diamond, diamond, diamond. We're escaping.

00:30:01.876 --> 00:30:04.496
We're escaping for two months until I'm sick and tired of this move.

00:30:04.776 --> 00:30:08.856
That's how Dallet breaks it down, man. And that's one of the things I credit him for.

00:30:09.636 --> 00:30:12.436
Always having that. When you find that hole, he is like, all right,

00:30:12.436 --> 00:30:15.196
we're going to be doing this for, like, months. Like, let's go.

00:30:15.316 --> 00:30:17.356
Let's get it. But, yeah, man.

00:30:18.696 --> 00:30:22.856
Doing all that got to this point here. just like understanding

00:30:22.856 --> 00:30:25.996
where uh stuff fail

00:30:25.996 --> 00:30:28.916
because there's so many times you fail in jiu-jitsu like victories to me

00:30:28.916 --> 00:30:32.456
don't feel they feel great but

00:30:32.456 --> 00:30:35.216
i don't learn nothing from there and i i don't really

00:30:35.216 --> 00:30:38.636
watch tape unless it's my losses

00:30:38.636 --> 00:30:41.836
i really don't i really don't i really don't watch jiu-jitsu to

00:30:41.836 --> 00:30:44.736
be honest with you um i really didn't watch cgi but when

00:30:44.736 --> 00:30:47.776
i saw the comments i was like oh there we go again the guys are stalling once

00:30:47.776 --> 00:30:50.616
again like i can tell and it's just like from that but yeah

00:30:50.616 --> 00:30:53.536
man yeah i like it so vgi is coming

00:30:53.536 --> 00:30:57.176
up boys vgi was it

00:30:57.176 --> 00:31:00.596
the vanguard vanguard gym vanguard gym two

00:31:00.596 --> 00:31:03.296
two two yeah and uh

00:31:03.296 --> 00:31:06.116
i think so philippe philippe won

00:31:06.116 --> 00:31:08.996
last one yeah okay yeah so he won

00:31:08.996 --> 00:31:12.156
the first one uh i don't

00:31:12.156 --> 00:31:15.816
think the whole roster has been released yet no no

00:31:15.816 --> 00:31:18.776
what are the divisions let's talk about the uh

00:31:18.776 --> 00:31:22.456
so i'm in the 150 division which

00:31:22.456 --> 00:31:25.196
i think right now is six people i don't know who all six of them are

00:31:25.196 --> 00:31:27.896
yet so i got 150 and then you're in

00:31:27.896 --> 00:31:33.816
the 200 plus correct yep yep yep i'm in 200 plus right now we have four um and

00:31:33.816 --> 00:31:39.316
when i did my interview the other day this week with uh vgi um i asked him actually

00:31:39.316 --> 00:31:43.016
i was like i know your guy was in there i was like who's the two other guys

00:31:43.016 --> 00:31:46.156
and they're like um we we can't give out names or anything and i was like I

00:31:46.156 --> 00:31:47.156
was like, all right, cool, cool.

00:31:48.096 --> 00:31:53.556
I'm an FBI. Well, I'm not FBI, but I'm like, I'm about to be an FBI direct investigator

00:31:53.556 --> 00:31:56.456
and do all this stuff, and I found the other two opponents real, real quick.

00:31:57.156 --> 00:32:01.936
True. Did some digging. I did some. It helps a little bit when you know technology,

00:32:01.936 --> 00:32:03.556
but I found the other two other guys.

00:32:04.876 --> 00:32:08.356
I think it's a good matchup, man. I think they're doing a nice little rollout.

00:32:09.236 --> 00:32:13.076
Rumor is we might be having a pit. All right. That's going to be interesting.

00:32:14.216 --> 00:32:18.076
It's potentially the same size as the NGA pit, which will be good,

00:32:18.096 --> 00:32:22.156
too, because we both have experience in that. Yeah, the NGA pit is very interesting.

00:32:22.876 --> 00:32:28.576
I think it's going to be a monster, man. I wonder how—well, first thing,

00:32:28.716 --> 00:32:31.996
let me ask you this, Michael. How do you think 150 is going to go for you?

00:32:32.236 --> 00:32:38.276
I think—I mean, I don't know who all is in there, but just knowing— You need

00:32:38.276 --> 00:32:40.916
him to fund your— Dude, trust me.

00:32:41.096 --> 00:32:44.316
Give me an hour. Give me an hour, two hours. I find out all six.

00:32:45.316 --> 00:32:47.476
But knowing kind of like,

00:32:48.258 --> 00:32:51.418
what a lot of the guys at my weight division do just

00:32:51.418 --> 00:32:54.698
like what games they play i mean i feel like i have a pretty pretty

00:32:54.698 --> 00:32:57.578
solid chance i mean i know there's some guys he wanted to

00:32:57.578 --> 00:33:01.418
get in i don't know if he got them that will be tough they'll be tough opponents

00:33:01.418 --> 00:33:06.078
but just game wise and especially like conditioning and everything three five

00:33:06.078 --> 00:33:11.418
minute rounds is plays in my favor like if i can stave off two rounds of submissions

00:33:11.418 --> 00:33:16.078
like round three is all me dude so so is it sub only format it's Sub only,

00:33:16.278 --> 00:33:20.538
I mean, it is CGI one rule set.

00:33:20.878 --> 00:33:26.278
So it's the three by five open scoring cut. So everything is the same, but it is sub only.

00:33:26.938 --> 00:33:30.138
But it's not really. It's a rough decision at the end. I understand.

00:33:30.898 --> 00:33:35.878
There's no points, essentially. So it's sub only, but. There's a decision at

00:33:35.878 --> 00:33:36.958
the end. There is a decision.

00:33:37.478 --> 00:33:42.538
I like that. I respect that, personally. I like it. I think that 150 is a very

00:33:42.538 --> 00:33:46.058
interesting division. I think as you play this game of weights,

00:33:46.238 --> 00:33:48.858
I think 150 is the most explosive in terms of speed.

00:33:49.238 --> 00:33:52.678
You guys are really, really fast there. 200 is a different monster in itself.

00:33:53.798 --> 00:33:58.038
200 is a bunch of big boys just playing slapstick. I'm really being honest with you.

00:33:59.378 --> 00:34:03.578
No, I'm really interested in this one. Like I said, Scott, with me and we were

00:34:03.578 --> 00:34:05.038
talking about earlier, one of your boys.

00:34:06.518 --> 00:34:12.658
Shane. Shane, there we go. I'm bad with names. I know he's going to remember my name after this.

00:34:13.278 --> 00:34:16.258
Um but no um i'm really excited for that one because

00:34:16.258 --> 00:34:19.178
uh like i said we were talking earlier i think he's the number one seed

00:34:19.178 --> 00:34:24.078
in mind um and that's not being just a punk move i respect champs that's that's

00:34:24.078 --> 00:34:27.198
my thing is if you're a champ in some way he's a champ in case of a he's a champ

00:34:27.198 --> 00:34:30.818
in maryland as well i respect champs if he's the top dog that's the top dog

00:34:30.818 --> 00:34:35.478
and i love top dogs in my division um uh i've seen him he was two matches before

00:34:35.478 --> 00:34:39.058
me at fight to win and the only reason why like i know the two other guys i want.

00:34:39.904 --> 00:34:42.944
Vgi to release their names and all that stuff i'm

00:34:42.944 --> 00:34:46.324
not worried i honestly after knowing the two other guys they're

00:34:46.324 --> 00:34:49.504
not really worried of my level right now i'm only

00:34:49.504 --> 00:34:53.144
guy on my radar is the number one dude um but

00:34:53.144 --> 00:34:56.284
nah man i respect all the energy he

00:34:56.284 --> 00:34:59.824
bring i saw the fight to win he was two matches before me um saw

00:34:59.824 --> 00:35:02.784
him getting warmed up next to me i was it was dude's big

00:35:02.784 --> 00:35:05.424
dude's nice i i can't wait for that one that one's gonna be a

00:35:05.424 --> 00:35:08.304
very interesting one and um but yeah

00:35:08.304 --> 00:35:11.144
if it's gonna be in the pit again uh it's gonna

00:35:11.144 --> 00:35:14.124
be it's gonna be interesting uh the last pit

00:35:14.124 --> 00:35:17.024
one did not go in my favor at all you did the 60 minute one

00:35:17.024 --> 00:35:20.024
the 60 minute uh yeah i want to

00:35:20.024 --> 00:35:22.684
hear about it so i watched it but i want to hear

00:35:22.684 --> 00:35:27.164
it because i we did a debrief on on the pit last week it's our last episode

00:35:27.164 --> 00:35:30.384
but i want to hear your take on it because it's new to me i've just i've only

00:35:30.384 --> 00:35:35.224
watched and coached it now gotcha so for my division so here's the thing that

00:35:35.224 --> 00:35:38.044
will happen with the the king of the pit right which what we're going to be

00:35:38.044 --> 00:35:42.444
doing for other divisions going down the line from the big heavyweights down.

00:35:42.844 --> 00:35:49.244
But for me, it was, it originally changed from a format of individual five-minute

00:35:49.244 --> 00:35:53.424
matches, like you get linked up bracket-wise to a 16-minute iron match.

00:35:53.884 --> 00:35:58.864
Now, my original pitch to Dave and the team was, hey, we do the 16-minute bracket, all this stuff.

00:35:59.564 --> 00:36:02.724
During that timeframe, I was more focused on training than with everything else

00:36:02.724 --> 00:36:05.964
going on, so him and Diallo changed it to a 16-minute format, right?

00:36:06.713 --> 00:36:11.533
I didn't really realize it was a 16-man format until even after the freaking rules meeting.

00:36:12.073 --> 00:36:16.053
So after I had my, I think Trey was his name, after I went with him one time

00:36:16.053 --> 00:36:19.173
or two times in a row, I'm like, all right, I think I just got double eliminated and I'm out.

00:36:19.473 --> 00:36:24.953
I'm looking at the clock and I'm seeing the rolling clock. I'm like, oh, I'm here all day.

00:36:26.193 --> 00:36:30.173
I'm here for six. So it was, that was my first one in a while.

00:36:30.393 --> 00:36:31.873
I had fun with it overall.

00:36:32.153 --> 00:36:35.073
It was mainly me, Trey, that was going back and forth.

00:36:35.833 --> 00:36:39.533
I did go against William Potter in one round.

00:36:40.153 --> 00:36:43.353
Dude's really nice. Dude's really skilled. We call him Kim Wonder,

00:36:43.513 --> 00:36:45.993
me and my boy, Mano, when we go on commentary. Dude's really nice.

00:36:46.113 --> 00:36:47.113
Really, really skilled kid.

00:36:47.733 --> 00:36:51.093
Got me in the knee bar, too. It was a clean, clean knee bar, too.

00:36:52.013 --> 00:36:56.813
Was that the guy that had the Gaidama shorts? The purple. He wore all purple.

00:36:57.253 --> 00:37:00.173
Yeah, I remember. The all purple set. I think that's his original fight gear

00:37:00.173 --> 00:37:02.193
that he wears. He played a lot of guard. Played a lot of guard.

00:37:02.373 --> 00:37:05.093
Sit down guard. Very, very smooth. very good on his

00:37:05.093 --> 00:37:08.873
feet um very that funky

00:37:08.873 --> 00:37:11.953
style but he had pressure with him so but he's been doing jiu-jitsu apparently

00:37:11.953 --> 00:37:14.713
since he was a kid so i was like oh okay this makes sense

00:37:14.713 --> 00:37:17.493
makes sense makes perfect sense uh but nah it was

00:37:17.493 --> 00:37:20.313
really good um there's certain parts of

00:37:20.313 --> 00:37:23.053
the pit you don't want to be in uh one of them is around the

00:37:23.053 --> 00:37:25.973
corners that's that's what mike was saying around the

00:37:25.973 --> 00:37:28.993
corners is a very dangerous spot to be in when you're in

00:37:28.993 --> 00:37:32.693
a very very bad position um people

00:37:32.693 --> 00:37:35.333
think that you against the wall and the

00:37:35.333 --> 00:37:39.113
pit is helpful yes it is if you use

00:37:39.113 --> 00:37:42.113
it to your advantage but for me i'm a guy where

00:37:42.113 --> 00:37:44.893
um i don't really care if i say this out loud

00:37:44.893 --> 00:37:48.853
either i'm gonna use the pit wall to get you down i'm one of those i know shane's

00:37:48.853 --> 00:37:51.673
probably gonna do the same way use the wall like the cage and try to drag him

00:37:51.673 --> 00:37:54.993
down we're gonna use the weight and use everything on there because there's

00:37:54.993 --> 00:38:00.113
one part of the wall where it's like when the walls connect that corner area

00:38:00.113 --> 00:38:03.373
right that's the worst part, in my opinion, of the pick.

00:38:04.040 --> 00:38:09.000
Because you can get stuck there from bottom and mount. You can't bridge.

00:38:09.020 --> 00:38:11.760
You can't do anything. You're going to bridge into a back take from there.

00:38:13.180 --> 00:38:16.520
I've seen a line flying triangles. Unfortunately, sorry, Mike.

00:38:16.600 --> 00:38:20.680
I've seen flying guillotine coming from that area. Yep. We've talked about that.

00:38:22.260 --> 00:38:27.840
I'm so sorry, man. My mouth dropped when I was on commentary when I saw that, dude. I was like, ugh.

00:38:28.920 --> 00:38:37.020
But it happens to the best of us. I had got chucked three feet in the air from Trey in the pit.

00:38:37.200 --> 00:38:39.400
So I'm like, dude, it happens. Trey, the biggest guy too?

00:38:39.620 --> 00:38:42.380
Yes, he was. I remember him. He won, didn't he? Yeah.

00:38:42.620 --> 00:38:46.860
And I was like, dude, what did you do before jiu-jitsu? He was like rugby. I was like, okay.

00:38:47.300 --> 00:38:49.400
Makes sense. Yeah. Makes perfect sense.

00:38:49.960 --> 00:38:54.380
Like there's certain things in jiu-jitsu or outside jiu-jitsu that you can cross

00:38:54.380 --> 00:38:57.460
and be fine. If you're a former powerlifter, this is for you.

00:38:57.560 --> 00:39:01.020
You just got to get technique. Like, rugby, wrestlers, football players,

00:39:01.200 --> 00:39:02.900
this is just without the padding.

00:39:03.380 --> 00:39:06.020
That's really what it is. But he was like, yeah, I'm a rugby player.

00:39:06.120 --> 00:39:10.300
I was like, yeah, because nobody that size is supposed to be able to do flips

00:39:10.300 --> 00:39:14.560
like you did, chuck me off like you did, and then just move around like you

00:39:14.560 --> 00:39:16.200
just had this unlimited gas tank.

00:39:16.360 --> 00:39:22.020
Like, what did you do? Like, the next thing I was going to ask him was if he was an MMA fighter.

00:39:22.180 --> 00:39:25.440
And he was like, no, I just do rugby. I'm like, that makes sense.

00:39:25.440 --> 00:39:30.060
All right, checks out. you make everybody got background man everyone does but

00:39:30.060 --> 00:39:32.660
yeah I think VGI 2 is gonna be very interesting uh,

00:39:33.414 --> 00:39:38.194
Christian asked me, I don't know when you guys, he asked me back in like September

00:39:38.194 --> 00:39:40.494
when it was all going down.

00:39:41.574 --> 00:39:45.094
And I was like, man, I don't know. And then like two weeks ago, he hit me back.

00:39:45.194 --> 00:39:50.934
I was like, he really, really wanted people in. And I was like, dude, I'm in. I'm in.

00:39:51.674 --> 00:39:56.094
The second time around, I just had to get clearance from the right people. And I'm all in, man.

00:39:56.354 --> 00:40:00.174
But dude, I'm really excited for it. I think it's going to be his best one.

00:40:00.514 --> 00:40:03.594
And if it's CGI 1 format, it's going to be the best one. it's uh

00:40:03.594 --> 00:40:06.294
are the divisions it's like it's all advanced or whatever so it's

00:40:06.294 --> 00:40:09.174
like basically i think every yeah it doesn't matter your

00:40:09.174 --> 00:40:12.034
belt i think it's either blue or above or something like

00:40:12.034 --> 00:40:14.954
that but i think however advanced is now

00:40:14.954 --> 00:40:17.654
um i think i think there's some

00:40:17.654 --> 00:40:20.554
like those high level

00:40:20.554 --> 00:40:23.454
blue belts but it's it's purple plus it's like

00:40:23.454 --> 00:40:26.994
that i got it we'll call it advanced but i

00:40:26.994 --> 00:40:29.894
think i do think that there's some advanced blue belts

00:40:29.894 --> 00:40:33.454
in there what we mean by that is basically you are

00:40:33.454 --> 00:40:36.454
in that realm of i'm about to be in

00:40:36.454 --> 00:40:39.594
competitive experience competitive experience enough you have

00:40:39.594 --> 00:40:42.354
enough background of like i've been all the local events like i

00:40:42.354 --> 00:40:45.074
want to just throw my hat in the race and it's like sometimes and that's all

00:40:45.074 --> 00:40:47.774
it takes sometimes you just need a shot and i'm all

00:40:47.774 --> 00:40:50.654
for that like if you're a competitor you're a heavy competitor and you're like

00:40:50.654 --> 00:40:54.334
look man this is advanced and i got the okays might as well throw it in man

00:40:54.334 --> 00:40:59.274
let's run it let's run it and that's what i like i think that uh we that's how

00:40:59.274 --> 00:41:05.474
you grow the sport because a lot of People think that certain companies or places are gatekeeping.

00:41:05.614 --> 00:41:07.694
It's like, no, you don't have enough tape yet. And that's all.

00:41:07.994 --> 00:41:12.794
Like, it took me, I think it's quicker to get on Super Fight cards now than it was back in the day.

00:41:13.794 --> 00:41:17.934
It took me a lot. Man, if I have to whistle, that's going to be a minute.

00:41:18.554 --> 00:41:22.234
It took me till right before...

00:41:23.863 --> 00:41:26.763
I like my last two months of blue belt

00:41:26.763 --> 00:41:29.803
before i got my first like super

00:41:29.803 --> 00:41:32.903
fight and that was

00:41:32.903 --> 00:41:36.983
and then after that yeah so it took me like four years

00:41:36.983 --> 00:41:39.723
four or five years to get on a card now everybody has a

00:41:39.723 --> 00:41:42.463
card and they're allowing a little bit of the white

00:41:42.463 --> 00:41:45.243
belt to get in there but it's mostly blue and above so it's been it's

00:41:45.243 --> 00:41:48.123
been good man i think it's been growing yeah no i

00:41:48.123 --> 00:41:51.663
mean it's all that stuff's been good like all those super fight cards

00:41:51.663 --> 00:41:54.663
there's so many more now too especially you like you

00:41:54.663 --> 00:41:57.643
can run the gambit up and down the east coast man yeah you

00:41:57.643 --> 00:42:00.323
can really like chalk it out like i was

00:42:00.323 --> 00:42:03.723
really thinking about like pans is what october

00:42:03.723 --> 00:42:06.763
6th 4th 5th and 6th or 3 4 5 next

00:42:06.763 --> 00:42:09.863
weekend next weekend the following weekend after that is jersey

00:42:09.863 --> 00:42:12.943
um then we have that break between

00:42:12.943 --> 00:42:15.983
then and then the following weekend after that not only vgi is

00:42:15.983 --> 00:42:18.863
going on uh pbjjf is happening their

00:42:18.863 --> 00:42:25.183
worlds that same weekend um there's a what's it called oh uh arena grappling

00:42:25.183 --> 00:42:28.783
has something out that weekend and then i think legacy has something out that

00:42:28.783 --> 00:42:33.443
weekend it's like i think is that international fight week on the 12 or 25th

00:42:33.443 --> 00:42:36.583
no man i think they did that in no that's september.

00:42:37.463 --> 00:42:40.503
August uh normally like it's

00:42:40.503 --> 00:42:43.283
weird with jujitsu because sometimes everyone lines up the weekend for

00:42:43.283 --> 00:42:46.483
fights it's like dude like it's an all-day thing well

00:42:46.483 --> 00:42:49.263
yeah like they're definitely all the big

00:42:49.263 --> 00:42:52.323
stuff tends to be on the same weekends yes that's that's for sure for

00:42:52.323 --> 00:42:55.503
sure yeah i think there's like three or four things the

00:42:55.503 --> 00:42:58.363
same day as v like that's what i said i think it's legacy

00:42:58.363 --> 00:43:01.763
i think it's arena i think it's vgi and pbjj

00:43:01.763 --> 00:43:04.763
i think there's also a cage zone that day too that night

00:43:04.763 --> 00:43:08.043
dude that's crazy yeah that is

00:43:08.043 --> 00:43:13.503
freaking crazy um it's too much it's good it's good spread it out a little bit

00:43:13.503 --> 00:43:18.943
yeah man i think i think that that dude i think we're in times now where we're

00:43:18.943 --> 00:43:25.303
we got too much like like like we said earlier i think like we all in the grains that um.

00:43:25.983 --> 00:43:29.263
It's expanded so much i think that like

00:43:29.263 --> 00:43:32.263
everyone has different pots man um let's say

00:43:32.263 --> 00:43:35.583
i actually want to ask all this because you guys have been just

00:43:35.583 --> 00:43:38.423
now indoctrined into uh a seams

00:43:38.423 --> 00:43:41.303
program i've been here for almost a year how y'all loving the program

00:43:41.303 --> 00:43:44.243
oh dude it's great like i i don't

00:43:44.243 --> 00:43:48.583
think i've felt like this in a minute yeah since i mean back when i was fighting

00:43:48.583 --> 00:43:55.663
mma and like i guess i always felt like fine but uh but like i i don't i wasn't

00:43:55.663 --> 00:44:01.063
like this i don't remember being this in shape in like the past decade uh getting

00:44:01.063 --> 00:44:03.123
all that back i mean luckily it came back pretty quick i I mean,

00:44:03.203 --> 00:44:06.643
I've been doing it for, I've been with him for six months now.

00:44:06.883 --> 00:44:08.863
Yeah. Five, five, six months.

00:44:09.383 --> 00:44:11.223
And yeah, I mean, it makes a huge difference.

00:44:12.151 --> 00:44:15.051
100% man it's uh i'd say like i've been

00:44:15.051 --> 00:44:18.551
lifting for uh 20

00:44:18.551 --> 00:44:21.791
years man yeah like for forever but um and

00:44:21.791 --> 00:44:24.751
like lifting pretty good i thought but he got

00:44:24.751 --> 00:44:28.011
in there my i i don't know if i told this story on the on the podcast

00:44:28.011 --> 00:44:30.651
but i texted like all my boys right after i went to have

00:44:30.651 --> 00:44:33.871
my first one-on-one session with him and um he

00:44:33.871 --> 00:44:37.451
like immediately i always thought i could deadlift pretty good yeah i

00:44:37.451 --> 00:44:40.371
like i could pull pretty good numbers but uh

00:44:40.371 --> 00:44:43.671
he has me come out there is do a deadlift squat bench

00:44:43.671 --> 00:44:46.491
right he said let's get let's get these numbers let's see where you're at and he

00:44:46.491 --> 00:44:49.971
immediately is like fixing my squat fixing i mean did the

00:44:49.971 --> 00:44:52.951
most to fix squat and bench those

00:44:52.951 --> 00:44:56.251
were the most fucked up in terms of like technique deadlift too

00:44:56.251 --> 00:44:59.311
but those were the most noticeable insofar as

00:44:59.311 --> 00:45:03.251
like immediately he had me throw i threw up like prs everything was a pr i like

00:45:03.251 --> 00:45:09.411
deadlifted 425 or something pretty good for me um and he just had me like fix

00:45:09.411 --> 00:45:12.891
my stance fix like what i was doing like right away bang but like i said i could

00:45:12.891 --> 00:45:15.551
always like deadlift pretty i was deadlifting like around that when i was doing

00:45:15.551 --> 00:45:17.091
maxes but like i hadn't i hadn't pulled,

00:45:17.831 --> 00:45:20.591
fucking four plates and or anything close to

00:45:20.591 --> 00:45:23.051
four plates in years at that point i just hadn't even been trying to do that

00:45:23.051 --> 00:45:26.591
yeah he had me do it the first day then he has me go and he fixes my squat he

00:45:26.591 --> 00:45:30.291
fixes my bench i hit a bench pr i didn't hit a squat pr but like i hit like

00:45:30.291 --> 00:45:33.971
a number on squat i hadn't hit in years and i hit it but i had a thousand pounds

00:45:33.971 --> 00:45:38.151
yeah yeah you hit the strong i'm at the strong af club my first session with

00:45:38.151 --> 00:45:40.111
him and i was like all right dude this is awesome.

00:45:41.011 --> 00:45:43.711
And so anyways like you know just so there's that there's like

00:45:43.711 --> 00:45:46.731
the the expertise and like obviously like that same like

00:45:46.731 --> 00:45:49.891
him looking at me for like 45 minutes doing

00:45:49.891 --> 00:45:52.831
two things i hit two prs and like hit the you know the thousand

00:45:52.831 --> 00:45:55.891
pound club or whatever and um like so

00:45:55.891 --> 00:45:58.891
like the the expertise that he has to do that that quick and

00:45:58.891 --> 00:46:02.331
then you apply that across the program for months and

00:46:02.331 --> 00:46:05.031
months and months and months and then like for you that's you've been on it

00:46:05.031 --> 00:46:07.751
for a year and Cameron he's Cameron's with him for a

00:46:07.751 --> 00:46:10.411
couple years like he's got guys who've been there for a minute like look at

00:46:10.411 --> 00:46:13.391
how successful they're being yeah so it's just like that what to

00:46:13.391 --> 00:46:16.391
simply put like for me like I said I've been lifting for a long time but

00:46:16.391 --> 00:46:19.471
now I got a coach yeah who's actually programming it

00:46:19.471 --> 00:46:22.271
and it's purposeful it's thought through

00:46:22.271 --> 00:46:24.911
he knows jiu-jitsu he's been training jiu-jitsu for a long time so

00:46:24.911 --> 00:46:28.771
he knows what we need to be good at yep and uh he

00:46:28.771 --> 00:46:31.431
has results yeah he's got fucking results man like i've

00:46:31.431 --> 00:46:35.091
had a good year yeah competitions man like i've gotten uh more

00:46:35.091 --> 00:46:37.891
gold medals you know that pretty and a pretty recent i've

00:46:37.891 --> 00:46:40.651
competed a little bit more but like more gold medals in a short period of time and a half spread

00:46:40.651 --> 00:46:46.591
out across uh years and um he's making me do a shit ton more conditioning yeah

00:46:46.591 --> 00:46:50.111
it's like a lot more conditioning that shit i don't want to do but it works

00:46:50.111 --> 00:46:54.031
man it works so i know i'm very happy with it and uh we were talking earlier

00:46:54.031 --> 00:46:58.071
about like uh and i i did an episode of his podcast a week ago and i did an

00:46:58.071 --> 00:46:58.071
episode of his podcast a week

00:46:58.415 --> 00:47:02.035
Um, and we spent a lot of, I shouted him out and I was stroking his hog on his own show.

00:47:02.455 --> 00:47:05.175
But I was telling him, I was like, you know, we, we, what we were talking about

00:47:05.175 --> 00:47:08.835
was, and I think this is kind of related to like the competition formats.

00:47:08.955 --> 00:47:12.275
We were just bringing someone on or kind of really poking holes in and shitting

00:47:12.275 --> 00:47:15.015
on a little bit, but also like there's so many people, it's all spread out.

00:47:15.075 --> 00:47:18.035
It's all these different companies kind of figuring out what they want to do. That makes sense.

00:47:18.155 --> 00:47:23.435
That's like compelling and shit and is improving both the product, the, the athletic pool.

00:47:24.115 --> 00:47:27.615
Um, and you know, it creates more opportunities for athletes.

00:47:27.615 --> 00:47:31.415
So they're doing good stuff just like people are kind of winging it is what I see.

00:47:32.595 --> 00:47:37.575
Because we don't have like a UFC we don't have we have the UFC kind of now doing

00:47:37.575 --> 00:47:41.575
it but we don't have like that big league we have several bigger leagues right like big

00:47:41.975 --> 00:47:45.355
body leagues you got your ADCCs you got CGI now but CGI's not really a league

00:47:45.355 --> 00:47:47.715
it's like a once a year thing I feel like I feel like,

00:47:48.435 --> 00:47:50.435
every road unfortunately,

00:47:51.375 --> 00:47:54.675
I would like to run it through ADCC I

00:47:54.675 --> 00:47:58.375
don't think that's going to happen every other year every other year they do

00:47:58.375 --> 00:48:02.415
that big one but i think that it unfortunately has to be ufc we have to have

00:48:02.415 --> 00:48:07.475
the the same program of the dana white friday contender series type of thing

00:48:07.475 --> 00:48:11.455
and those things i it has to be three main locations too because you just do

00:48:11.455 --> 00:48:13.895
so widespread has to be one west coast hub.

00:48:14.895 --> 00:48:17.875
Midwest texas east coast you can pick your poison

00:48:17.875 --> 00:48:20.855
right so you know what i think that then to me

00:48:20.855 --> 00:48:23.715
what that says and this is kind of where i've been at for a while and i until

00:48:23.715 --> 00:48:26.995
like and i think things are changing but like who does that leave i

00:48:26.995 --> 00:48:29.955
beat jf yeah they're the most consistent they're the

00:48:29.955 --> 00:48:33.175
most like they have like they have their four majors gi

00:48:33.175 --> 00:48:35.875
nogi like for what it's worth you got to give credit where credit's due like

00:48:35.875 --> 00:48:38.755
they've been the most consistent with the consistent rule set that we all know

00:48:38.755 --> 00:48:42.935
yeah we all know it yeah and like we all train for it yeah and that may not

00:48:42.935 --> 00:48:46.735
be your main goal it could be but there's a value to that like consistent like

00:48:46.735 --> 00:48:49.295
call it a season if you will you're in you're out there you're like all right

00:48:49.295 --> 00:48:50.815
like i know i'm gonna get good competitors,

00:48:51.675 --> 00:48:54.455
everyone's playing on a consistent rule set that we're all trying to at least

00:48:54.455 --> 00:48:57.255
like you know just go win a rule set yeah and go

00:48:57.255 --> 00:48:59.915
win a rule set consistently then you can migrate into other things and

00:48:59.915 --> 00:49:03.035
like show that you're the big dog at whatever weight class like it just it takes

00:49:03.035 --> 00:49:08.135
time like you said it takes time yeah um but this is part of the challenge of

00:49:08.135 --> 00:49:11.635
like the i don't know called the industry like the competitive industry that

00:49:11.635 --> 00:49:14.415
we're in you know what i mean like we don't really have like because even like

00:49:14.415 --> 00:49:18.955
because we could all probably spend two hours talking about what we don't like about IBGF2.

00:49:19.075 --> 00:49:21.735
I try to like generally not complain about it because I'm there a lot.

00:49:21.795 --> 00:49:24.155
I just don't think there's any value to complain something I'm going to do again.

00:49:24.535 --> 00:49:27.955
It's kind of like, it doesn't make sense for me, but I hate it,

00:49:28.035 --> 00:49:29.175
but you know, I'm still doing it.

00:49:29.195 --> 00:49:33.215
Yeah, it's like a weird thing to say. It's just a weird, you know, whatever, no big deal.

00:49:34.615 --> 00:49:37.935
So the rule sets are all over the map, but what I was kind of stroking his hog

00:49:37.935 --> 00:49:40.955
on last week was like, all right, man, like things are, things are moving upwards.

00:49:41.115 --> 00:49:43.855
Yeah. I'd say we're in like a, call it a growing pain situation,

00:49:43.855 --> 00:49:46.195
like for, for all the competitive players,

00:49:46.802 --> 00:49:52.022
um, inconsistencies, like it's, it's moving upwards, but there's no one unified

00:49:52.022 --> 00:49:55.242
system for it. So we're just kind of watching almost like, just like small businesses.

00:49:55.422 --> 00:49:58.162
These are all small businesses figure out what's going to be the best format

00:49:58.162 --> 00:50:00.522
in the long run. We're all kind of pioneering it together.

00:50:00.902 --> 00:50:04.722
So I told a scene on him, like what, what he's doing programmatically,

00:50:05.422 --> 00:50:09.082
he's taking like a call, like a pro athlete format.

00:50:09.182 --> 00:50:11.702
Like, you know, like football teams have this wrestling teams,

00:50:11.962 --> 00:50:14.502
have this baseball teams, have this basketball, you name it.

00:50:14.562 --> 00:50:18.402
Like pro sports have professional strength conditioning coaches who look at

00:50:18.402 --> 00:50:23.762
the systems athletically these dudes need to be peak at whatever they're doing.

00:50:25.042 --> 00:50:28.062
And they engineer a program. It's kind of like, you know, like I'm sure every

00:50:28.062 --> 00:50:30.062
team in every sport like has it done their way.

00:50:30.162 --> 00:50:32.442
So there's kind of like a little secret science to it too, but they're all doing

00:50:32.442 --> 00:50:34.582
something similar. They're all doing the same craft.

00:50:34.902 --> 00:50:37.622
So I'm like, you're the, like he's the first guy that I know of in our world

00:50:37.622 --> 00:50:40.102
who really does that. There are probably other guys kind of doing it,

00:50:40.222 --> 00:50:44.462
but he's the first dude who is specifically saying, I have a strength conditioning

00:50:44.462 --> 00:50:49.102
program for BJJ athletes because it's a passion play for him too. He loves BJJ.

00:50:49.222 --> 00:50:51.922
Like, you know, and he's in a good, it's a good business move for him too.

00:50:52.162 --> 00:50:55.122
So he's like, he can sink his teeth into that and it's working.

00:50:55.282 --> 00:50:56.942
It is working so much. It's working.

00:50:57.502 --> 00:51:02.262
Like, I will say this because I've been over there for you. I've been the longest one here.

00:51:02.542 --> 00:51:06.902
You got that PR today, man. You want to talk about that? That is not even close to my PR. Oh.

00:51:08.962 --> 00:51:13.562
So let's get to the PR today. So today I've learned, so one fucking thing about

00:51:13.562 --> 00:51:16.602
the apartment gym that I went to is that it was a floating bar.

00:51:17.702 --> 00:51:23.722
So floating bar means that I had to put an additional 45 on to track it from that. I see. Right?

00:51:24.042 --> 00:51:30.362
So in the picture, it shows 405, but it was actually 360, right?

00:51:30.942 --> 00:51:34.122
I was telling Asim in my text, I was like, I just pulled 360.

00:51:34.222 --> 00:51:37.842
I can't put any more weight on this bar because I don't have enough 45s,

00:51:38.242 --> 00:51:39.762
and this doesn't feel like my max.

00:51:39.922 --> 00:51:44.222
So I've been trying. I'm the unofficial 1000 because they have to see me in

00:51:44.222 --> 00:51:45.642
person for the strong I have.

00:51:45.962 --> 00:51:51.442
But I definitely feel like my PR, my legs is close to 400 now.

00:51:51.662 --> 00:51:53.642
I think my last- Squats. Squats, yeah.

00:51:54.702 --> 00:51:58.702
That was my last one was I think 385.

00:51:59.782 --> 00:52:03.502
And now I'm about, yeah. So I definitely think like that wasn't the closest.

00:52:04.221 --> 00:52:14.061
Um my chest today i crossed 300 today um first time i've had done that in 10 years 10 years no,

00:52:14.561 --> 00:52:18.101
before jiu-jitsu so before jiu-jitsu i started i was power lifting a lot so

00:52:18.101 --> 00:52:22.381
i was in these numbers when jiu-jitsu started you can't power lift and do jiu-jitsu

00:52:22.381 --> 00:52:26.181
at the same time it kills your whole body i've done it i had more injuries than

00:52:26.181 --> 00:52:31.881
anything else so i had to switch up my whole jiu-jitsu and workout and work with lighter weights.

00:52:32.201 --> 00:52:37.001
So I never really, when I first got back to, when I got to Seam after years

00:52:37.001 --> 00:52:40.741
of just doing the regular lifting and not really looking for maxes or anything

00:52:40.741 --> 00:52:43.121
like that, just having something on the schedule.

00:52:43.501 --> 00:52:49.781
And this is after I had my kid, it was my PRs, my numbers were like in the mid

00:52:49.781 --> 00:52:51.161
700s when I first met them.

00:52:51.961 --> 00:52:58.981
Then the second time I did the PRs, I was about 895, 900.

00:52:59.681 --> 00:53:02.981
And then I was like, all right, cool. I'm only like 100 pounds off.

00:53:03.061 --> 00:53:05.441
That means I need to just add 50 on my legs and 50 on this.

00:53:06.201 --> 00:53:11.881
And that's when I started hitting my PRs. I think I hurt my over 1,000 mark during the summer.

00:53:12.921 --> 00:53:16.001
And then this was my second max one after that.

00:53:16.141 --> 00:53:20.001
But I was in the same boat as you, man. I thought I had my stuff down in the

00:53:20.001 --> 00:53:23.701
gym and everything. And then he gives me the workout routine.

00:53:23.701 --> 00:53:28.861
And I think the biggest thing was the Bulgarian squads that I complained about.

00:53:29.141 --> 00:53:33.361
That was on my schedule for like the longest fucking time.

00:53:33.621 --> 00:53:36.461
He'll find the shit you don't want to do that you need to do and he'll make

00:53:36.461 --> 00:53:39.401
you do it. I fucking hate whoever made the Bulgarian squads.

00:53:39.421 --> 00:53:40.841
Someone in Bulgaria. I swear to fucking God.

00:53:41.221 --> 00:53:43.801
Someone in Bulgaria. Some motherfucker from Bulgaria.

00:53:44.461 --> 00:53:47.101
But it was, that was my biggest torture.

00:53:48.181 --> 00:53:51.301
Same thing with you. My forums was all off. so but

00:53:51.301 --> 00:53:54.161
i need to do an official hq uh pr day

00:53:54.161 --> 00:53:57.001
over there but it's sanctioned man and get it sanctioned but

00:53:57.001 --> 00:53:59.941
no like after i lost uh so i

00:53:59.941 --> 00:54:07.041
was in the program before the copa elite four and that was this past year i

00:54:07.041 --> 00:54:12.001
believe yeah so by the time i got to cope with that time i was just getting

00:54:12.001 --> 00:54:16.381
back into myself because i was out comp for a minute and this was the only thing

00:54:16.381 --> 00:54:17.821
i will say is i should have took a

00:54:17.901 --> 00:54:21.261
couple of local tournaments before I did the back, jump back into the big thing.

00:54:21.983 --> 00:54:25.023
Is what it is i took the loss right from there

00:54:25.023 --> 00:54:27.683
i think i have my my conversation with the scene was the

00:54:27.683 --> 00:54:30.743
next day i was like i was i review everything

00:54:30.743 --> 00:54:33.663
after a loss i review eating i review diet i

00:54:33.663 --> 00:54:37.883
review workout plan all this stuff so i was like coming in with questions and

00:54:37.883 --> 00:54:40.683
he took it respectfully and that's the one thing i would definitely say it seemed

00:54:40.683 --> 00:54:44.303
you can reach out about anything like look man it's something like up with me

00:54:44.303 --> 00:54:48.683
it's something me is in the program what is it right and he was like what's

00:54:48.683 --> 00:54:52.563
your diet look like and i was like my diet's this and we were going through my diet.

00:54:52.703 --> 00:54:54.503
He was like, all right, we need to cut out this in your morning.

00:54:54.503 --> 00:55:00.483
We need to cut out how you snack and then you're eating at night stuff.

00:55:00.603 --> 00:55:01.783
I was like, and my protein.

00:55:02.083 --> 00:55:07.003
Because I used to do, the one thing I used to do was I always did mass gainers

00:55:07.003 --> 00:55:10.723
for my protein because I didn't want to eat after I did jujitsu or anything

00:55:10.723 --> 00:55:14.563
because I was like, I want this to be after everything. I'm good to go. I'm good.

00:55:14.943 --> 00:55:20.063
But what I found out with my body specifically was that it was just add on pound.

00:55:20.063 --> 00:55:22.963
Look like my ass game is due you know add on pounds so

00:55:22.963 --> 00:55:25.863
even when i wasn't eating it was still like i wasn't losing the

00:55:25.863 --> 00:55:28.723
weight that was you losing and i had to do the wrestling cut

00:55:28.723 --> 00:55:31.363
like the week before everything so once we

00:55:31.363 --> 00:55:34.103
got that down now that's when everything's starting

00:55:34.103 --> 00:55:37.443
to kick like now i feel like okay now

00:55:37.443 --> 00:55:41.203
everything's at a strong point like now i'm like i'm the

00:55:41.203 --> 00:55:44.063
strongest i've been in a while um i am

00:55:44.063 --> 00:55:46.783
jujitsu yesterday was like we're

00:55:46.783 --> 00:55:49.783
not yesterday uh no yeah yesterday i was

00:55:49.783 --> 00:55:53.043
like picking up guys that were 200 pluses from

00:55:53.043 --> 00:55:56.383
uh closed guard like everything felt like

00:55:56.383 --> 00:56:00.983
strong so it's just like working with him working with the diet working with

00:56:00.983 --> 00:56:06.543
um implementing that in jiu-jitsu he's one of a kind and all that and not only

00:56:06.543 --> 00:56:10.863
that he has coaches around him if you're a powerlifter if you're a muay thai

00:56:10.863 --> 00:56:15.683
if you're a wrestler like those specific programs not just jiu-jitsu,

00:56:15.783 --> 00:56:18.663
but those specific programs. And now it's getting to the point where...

00:56:20.237 --> 00:56:22.757
Everyone's starting to face each other in terms of comps now.

00:56:23.197 --> 00:56:26.997
And that's the interesting part that I was kind of highlighting in the last podcast I was in.

00:56:27.177 --> 00:56:29.997
Because I'm pretty sure Shane's using him.

00:56:30.937 --> 00:56:34.577
I'm pretty sure one of the other guys I know is using him.

00:56:34.777 --> 00:56:40.357
I know one of the guys in your brackets is using him. So now everybody's starting

00:56:40.357 --> 00:56:43.237
to be in this little square box. And it's like, oh, this is getting interesting.

00:56:43.597 --> 00:56:47.337
Now the camp is getting a little bit. He has to step back.

00:56:47.497 --> 00:56:50.637
Step back like dad. I'd be like, I just want someone who gets hurt.

00:56:50.697 --> 00:56:54.457
I just want someone who's going to win for my team. Nah, I think that's a beautiful

00:56:54.457 --> 00:56:55.297
blessing to have, though.

00:56:55.657 --> 00:56:58.657
Like, you have these different people. We're all matching up now.

00:56:58.797 --> 00:57:02.297
It's all love. Of course it's all love. Because the same, I call him Switzerland.

00:57:02.817 --> 00:57:05.977
I call him Switzerland. He don't get no mix. He's like, I'm just here.

00:57:06.077 --> 00:57:08.577
I'm like, that's why you're Switzerland, baby. That's why you're Switzerland.

00:57:08.737 --> 00:57:10.277
He is Switzerland. Yeah. Right.

00:57:10.557 --> 00:57:14.557
He's complete Switzerland. He is. If you know, I'll step on it.

00:57:14.557 --> 00:57:17.817
If you know some of the stuff that gone that has gone on within

00:57:17.817 --> 00:57:21.277
the community you understand why we call him switzerland you understand

00:57:21.277 --> 00:57:24.137
that um but nah man i think that's

00:57:24.137 --> 00:57:27.237
a beautiful thing i think that because now you see different

00:57:27.237 --> 00:57:30.157
body types of who he's been working with and now you see how

00:57:30.157 --> 00:57:32.977
everyone's doing differently like he's working with

00:57:32.977 --> 00:57:35.637
tim tim doesn't live didn't lift weights before this and

00:57:35.637 --> 00:57:38.777
not to and tim's a freaking beast before this he's a

00:57:38.777 --> 00:57:42.137
unit now like it's that he has Felipe

00:57:42.137 --> 00:57:45.077
from standard standard working

00:57:45.077 --> 00:57:47.717
on him now cam been working on him

00:57:47.717 --> 00:57:50.557
for a minute cam's the reason why i jumped in because i saw how cam was and

00:57:50.557 --> 00:57:53.417
i saw how cam was after and i was like i gotta do that

00:57:53.417 --> 00:57:56.637
i gotta do what this guy's doing because he the results

00:57:56.637 --> 00:57:59.917
happened cam started went in cam started like it's it's

00:57:59.917 --> 00:58:02.757
really he is a unit so it's just

00:58:02.757 --> 00:58:05.737
like i can never whatever i do within

00:58:05.737 --> 00:58:08.757
jiu-jitsu you always have to think a seam and always like you

00:58:08.757 --> 00:58:13.277
say stroke it because it's just like to be honest bro like i

00:58:13.277 --> 00:58:16.157
really believe if you're not working with him if you're not working

00:58:16.157 --> 00:58:19.317
like with him in general in terms of your lifting you're you're

00:58:19.317 --> 00:58:23.177
not there you're not there you know there's there's there's i like what you

00:58:23.177 --> 00:58:26.557
said about how you do that audit after a loss like all right let's look at let's

00:58:26.557 --> 00:58:30.757
let's pull up look at everything man look at everything and he i mean he'll

00:58:30.757 --> 00:58:34.877
his job is doing that kind of like with you yeah right so he'll help you do

00:58:34.877 --> 00:58:36.857
that and this is a big thing, man.

00:58:36.977 --> 00:58:40.977
It's like, I mean, there, there, there are definitely some guys out there. So this is not the norm.

00:58:41.690 --> 00:58:44.190
I would argue kind of like what we're doing is the norm, and I'll get to that

00:58:44.190 --> 00:58:47.530
in a second. But there are dudes out there who can just kind of wing it.

00:58:47.790 --> 00:58:51.210
They can train, you know, once a day, five days a week, and they can still go

00:58:51.210 --> 00:58:52.730
out there and win. But that's never been me, man.

00:58:53.390 --> 00:58:56.010
I just never, unfortunately for me, like I just have to do extra shit.

00:58:56.150 --> 00:59:01.250
I was, for better or worse, but when the majority of like your high-level competitors

00:59:01.250 --> 00:59:02.570
are actually doing all that extra work.

00:59:02.690 --> 00:59:05.770
Because most people aren't going to do, aren't just going to show up and smoke

00:59:05.770 --> 00:59:07.190
everybody. They got to put in the work.

00:59:07.290 --> 00:59:10.090
And so like when you look at the competitive ecosystem we're in,

00:59:10.090 --> 00:59:13.250
you're like hey we got a guy right here who's turning

00:59:13.250 --> 00:59:16.590
out champions look how conditioned they are like

00:59:16.590 --> 00:59:19.510
look at how strong they are i would even argue just

00:59:19.510 --> 00:59:22.210
like the commitment to doing that to saying i'm gonna put some skin in the game

00:59:22.210 --> 00:59:24.430
i'm gonna i'm gonna take this shit seriously that just says something about

00:59:24.430 --> 00:59:28.490
how like seriously you take it yeah that's you get serious outcomes yeah like

00:59:28.490 --> 00:59:33.490
if you really look at like when i did that and it was just like a pure just

00:59:33.490 --> 00:59:36.910
like look man What is it where I'm missing something?

00:59:37.190 --> 00:59:41.810
And I do that all day with, anytime I take a loss, I do that with everything,

00:59:41.890 --> 00:59:45.090
which is why, like, in the beginning, like, you can come in and train with nothing.

00:59:45.170 --> 00:59:46.430
I'll be really honest with you.

00:59:46.770 --> 00:59:51.930
The reason why I got into jiu-jitsu was because, like, my favorite UFC fighter was Jon Jones.

00:59:52.790 --> 00:59:55.070
Great fighter, bad influencer.

00:59:56.630 --> 01:00:02.070
So I was like, I used to go and I'd go out Saturday night with my people and

01:00:02.070 --> 01:00:05.670
show up on Sunday morning and try to train and do all that type of shit.

01:00:05.910 --> 01:00:11.310
And I was winning, but I was like, eh, I'm making it, right?

01:00:11.950 --> 01:00:14.850
And then you get punched in that mouth, and that's why I was like,

01:00:14.890 --> 01:00:17.010
I kind of stopped everything else around me.

01:00:17.030 --> 01:00:22.010
When I realized, I'm like, I know this where if I'm in this mode,

01:00:22.010 --> 01:00:26.710
I can't be doing too many things at once, right? Because I was telling people this the other day.

01:00:26.850 --> 01:00:30.870
It's like, if you're going to be a competitor, a coach, um,

01:00:31.733 --> 01:00:37.713
a podcaster, you're working full-time and or a parent, something gonna have

01:00:37.713 --> 01:00:42.853
to give because your mind is so split on your what you want to do that you don't

01:00:42.853 --> 01:00:45.273
know how to focus on one thing.

01:00:45.433 --> 01:00:50.213
So when you're in the shit, when you're in jujitsu, you're thinking about when

01:00:50.213 --> 01:00:52.153
you're getting smashed. I don't know about anybody else. I think about me.

01:00:52.313 --> 01:00:55.353
It's like, man, I could have done a little bit more to be in a better position

01:00:55.353 --> 01:00:56.753
than where I'm at. That's just me.

01:00:58.053 --> 01:01:01.173
But that's why I got so narrow-minded at what my goal was.

01:01:01.733 --> 01:01:05.233
Um, in terms of like, I, if I'm coaching, I'm coaching for two months and this

01:01:05.233 --> 01:01:07.473
is a two month period where I am just coaching.

01:01:07.573 --> 01:01:12.613
Yes, I am training, but I'm not putting that level of, Hey, I'm going to be

01:01:12.613 --> 01:01:15.673
full on being the competitor and doing this.

01:01:15.813 --> 01:01:18.613
Now, if I'm doing the split job of being a coach and competitor,

01:01:18.853 --> 01:01:22.573
which I'm kind of doing right now, I tell the people that want that coaching.

01:01:22.673 --> 01:01:26.133
I'm like, look right now, it's the time to get better mode right now.

01:01:26.393 --> 01:01:29.993
If you want rock or you want that kind of style, just come to me to these gyms.

01:01:30.533 --> 01:01:33.733
I'm not going to coach you. we're going here we get the work we

01:01:33.733 --> 01:01:36.533
download after we're going to go after the same way and then we have

01:01:36.533 --> 01:01:39.453
our one-on-one time on sunday mornings and like i what did

01:01:39.453 --> 01:01:43.913
you learn what did you not learn because at that point you're if you want to

01:01:43.913 --> 01:01:49.273
see how the cheesiest fucking thing to say but the sasha's is made this is how

01:01:49.273 --> 01:01:52.833
the fuck to do it it's not getting coaching every day you have to own up to

01:01:52.833 --> 01:01:59.333
your schedule you have to own up to uh your free time free time uh your

01:01:59.413 --> 01:02:04.313
availability and you work in jujitsu and real shit in jujitsu.

01:02:04.473 --> 01:02:05.753
You got to own up being worried jujitsu.

01:02:06.133 --> 01:02:09.993
When I tell people, Hey man, I'm open up on seven or seven, nine AM come through.

01:02:10.193 --> 01:02:13.393
You need the training come through and you don't show up. You get at least two times for me.

01:02:13.953 --> 01:02:19.673
First time I understand that shit happens. I understand that second time you're out.

01:02:19.713 --> 01:02:22.353
You out. It's pure simple. Cause now you're wasting my time.

01:02:22.493 --> 01:02:25.693
Now it's a more of like, you wanted to work.

01:02:25.813 --> 01:02:31.373
You were afraid of the work and, or got too stupid the night before. I understand that too.

01:02:32.607 --> 01:02:36.687
And you didn't want to show up. And that, for me, is like, you're not taking this seriously.

01:02:36.907 --> 01:02:41.927
So I'm putting you in a box. And, guys, I'm not saying this is just me.

01:02:41.987 --> 01:02:43.427
I know a lot of guys that do this.

01:02:44.087 --> 01:02:47.067
I'm going to put you in a box where you don't know where you want to be at right

01:02:47.067 --> 01:02:48.527
now. And we're going to come back to you.

01:02:49.087 --> 01:02:52.087
After I'm done with what I'm doing, I'm going to be back. So it's just like,

01:02:52.187 --> 01:02:56.087
with all that stuff as a competitor and as you get higher up,

01:02:56.167 --> 01:02:57.427
because you're a BlackBoss guy,

01:02:57.907 --> 01:03:01.787
Michael, this is the levels of brown and black of,

01:03:01.967 --> 01:03:04.967
like, and you probably get in now too because you're doing the 5 30 a.m

01:03:04.967 --> 01:03:08.407
classes right you're halfway coaching now yeah so

01:03:08.407 --> 01:03:11.387
it's like all right where's my time going to be right

01:03:11.387 --> 01:03:14.407
and that's where you're that's

01:03:14.407 --> 01:03:17.447
this is the fold of all right where is

01:03:17.447 --> 01:03:21.207
the breakdown now where where am i at well like you said like you're you're

01:03:21.207 --> 01:03:24.267
you're basically saying to yourself and then you're conveying it to people around

01:03:24.267 --> 01:03:27.127
you that you're like hey i'm really i'm ready to make this commitment yeah i'm

01:03:27.127 --> 01:03:30.467
gonna do this work this is the stuff i'm choosing not to do yeah when i'm on

01:03:30.467 --> 01:03:35.627
the mat because this is what I want to be here and like present, awake,

01:03:36.187 --> 01:03:37.567
serious about what I'm doing.

01:03:37.567 --> 01:03:41.347
And like, I'm going to do all of this extra shit for not, yes,

01:03:41.507 --> 01:03:44.147
for me, but it's also I'm offering it for you guys as well. Mm hmm.

01:03:44.751 --> 01:03:47.431
You're going to show up just show up just all they got to

01:03:47.431 --> 01:03:50.351
do is show up and listen yeah so they don't show up and listen that's

01:03:50.351 --> 01:03:53.211
like you i i get it where you're like all right man strike one strike

01:03:53.211 --> 01:03:56.091
two you're out you're out and then you have to earn your

01:03:56.091 --> 01:03:59.431
way back to get outside the box and then we go through the process again because

01:03:59.431 --> 01:04:02.531
that's the way and that's i've been in that position where

01:04:02.531 --> 01:04:05.631
i flaked on guys i gotten talked to

01:04:05.631 --> 01:04:08.971
about that and that happens because you're like you're not you think

01:04:08.971 --> 01:04:13.251
you're taking it serious until someone comes at you and say bro you're not taking

01:04:13.251 --> 01:04:16.211
that serious you're not serious you're not serious and then you feel offended

01:04:16.211 --> 01:04:20.311
because nah man i'm i'm i'm in here four or five days a week yeah but you weren't

01:04:20.311 --> 01:04:25.471
here when i asked you to be here that kills everything that you're doing or

01:04:25.471 --> 01:04:28.051
if you show up my biggest pet peeve.

01:04:29.331 --> 01:04:32.091
We can talk about coaching is i don't mind if

01:04:32.091 --> 01:04:35.051
you're late right i mind if

01:04:35.051 --> 01:04:39.211
you're late and you coming in joking that's me

01:04:39.211 --> 01:04:42.691
because i i'm not a role

01:04:42.691 --> 01:04:46.091
model in this whatsoever because i used to come in late i still

01:04:46.091 --> 01:04:49.691
do come in late but i come in quiet

01:04:49.691 --> 01:04:53.191
sit down change pay attention look dap

01:04:53.191 --> 01:04:56.111
up everybody let it be then i start joking

01:04:56.111 --> 01:05:01.011
around once i get past that but if i'm showing up 10 15 minutes late right i

01:05:01.011 --> 01:05:05.171
might bark at you it's like hey sunshine nice for you joining us today and you

01:05:05.171 --> 01:05:07.931
say something back i'm like that's you weren't this wasn't the time before you

01:05:07.931 --> 01:05:13.551
say something back this is was hey get your ass here on time respectfully and

01:05:13.551 --> 01:05:15.071
we keep moving but it's just like,

01:05:15.611 --> 01:05:19.491
it's those little things if you want to be a good student you want to be a good

01:05:19.491 --> 01:05:23.811
competitor it's about understanding what everybody's time is and yeah like even

01:05:23.811 --> 01:05:26.211
with the guy that comes in 15 minutes like because i have a buddy that does

01:05:26.211 --> 01:05:30.531
that all the time i give him creep grief for it but i pull to the side and we talk,

01:05:31.151 --> 01:05:37.211
jujitsu cause it's dude I have to I have to because I've been late when Dala

01:05:37.211 --> 01:05:42.911
is teaching I don't say a lick when Dala's teaching because I'm like.

01:05:43.734 --> 01:05:47.254
If he jokes at me, now I'm at that point where I can joke on back and everything

01:05:47.254 --> 01:05:50.314
because I know him long enough. Like, I can poke fun a little bit.

01:05:50.714 --> 01:05:55.234
But other than that, like, if he offers the joke, right?

01:05:55.414 --> 01:05:58.254
And I let that slide a little bit with some of the bluebells and stuff like

01:05:58.254 --> 01:06:02.074
that. If I offer the joke up and you say something back, that's, it's a level of.

01:06:02.194 --> 01:06:04.594
The rapport. The rapport. You've established it, yeah. You know?

01:06:04.814 --> 01:06:08.554
But if I know your schedule, I know you could have been here at a certain time

01:06:08.554 --> 01:06:10.794
and you lollygag because me and you are cool.

01:06:10.954 --> 01:06:14.734
I'm like, dude, this is not the time. But I also understand family comes first.

01:06:15.034 --> 01:06:18.914
I'm always 10, 15 minutes late if I'm not teaching because I try to spend as

01:06:18.914 --> 01:06:21.994
much time with my daughter before she goes to bed. That's how I get out of class at nine.

01:06:22.194 --> 01:06:24.514
That girl's going to sleep. I ain't going to sleep the next day.

01:06:25.554 --> 01:06:29.294
But yeah, that's that level of coaching, man. So I know you are getting the

01:06:29.294 --> 01:06:33.434
530 right now, which is honestly, I've been, I was a purple belt.

01:06:33.914 --> 01:06:37.074
The purple belt always gets the crap class.

01:06:38.154 --> 01:06:41.934
Well, I'm a early riser. So that 530 is not a problem for me.

01:06:41.934 --> 01:06:46.014
But I mean, I, I, I totally get what you're saying there about like when people,

01:06:46.234 --> 01:06:49.714
there's a lot of guys in that five 30, they like to, they like to show up.

01:06:49.734 --> 01:06:52.934
Well, part of it, they like to show up after, I think it's, they like to skip warmups.

01:06:53.794 --> 01:06:57.754
But the rule that I have for that, the rule that I have for the guys skipping

01:06:57.754 --> 01:07:01.794
warmups is that means you just don't get to warm up. You don't get to go sit

01:07:01.794 --> 01:07:03.014
in the corner and stretch.

01:07:04.174 --> 01:07:07.794
You are entering in, you're entering into whatever we're doing.

01:07:08.034 --> 01:07:11.674
You're hopping right in the drill. You don't get to sit and watch everybody else. No.

01:07:11.934 --> 01:07:14.674
Practice no you are practicing you just

01:07:14.674 --> 01:07:17.514
have to do it cold this is why you want to

01:07:17.514 --> 01:07:20.454
show up to warm-ups you want to be warm i think everyone has different warm-ups for

01:07:20.454 --> 01:07:23.474
me like maybe because my class for

01:07:23.474 --> 01:07:26.774
no geese right after the beginners class so most

01:07:26.774 --> 01:07:29.454
of the people already warm up i don't go through the whole warm-up thing i

01:07:29.454 --> 01:07:32.574
go right into games or right into something that i tell

01:07:32.574 --> 01:07:35.254
them the level that we do and they're pretty warmed up

01:07:35.254 --> 01:07:37.974
to that point but it's like when we're about to there's a

01:07:37.974 --> 01:07:41.134
certain point in my class where i go over a move and that's when people walk

01:07:41.134 --> 01:07:47.534
in that's where i'm like i look we already you you missed the hard part now

01:07:47.534 --> 01:07:50.994
we're doing the student part so it's just like it's stuff like that man but

01:07:50.994 --> 01:07:56.314
when you get into this like that realm of split like right now you're just coaching the 5 30.

01:07:56.454 --> 01:08:00.834
It's coaching the 5 30 and then there's coaching on comps and you have your

01:08:00.834 --> 01:08:06.274
comp two weeks after that like that's the the gradual level that you're gonna

01:08:06.274 --> 01:08:09.974
be at next yeah it's gonna be interesting well yeah we have um.

01:08:10.759 --> 01:08:14.079
Pretty much the 530 is split between like

01:08:14.079 --> 01:08:17.639
half of that group is our competitors and

01:08:17.639 --> 01:08:20.499
the other half is just is guys who just might

01:08:20.499 --> 01:08:23.359
end up being competitors because they're we pretty much just do

01:08:23.359 --> 01:08:26.419
most of those classes we're doing like comp style stuff

01:08:26.419 --> 01:08:29.379
mainly because i'm i'm also competing so

01:08:29.379 --> 01:08:32.679
like i it's like all right no that's that's what i do too this portion like

01:08:32.679 --> 01:08:35.579
we'll have this little bit of instruction portion but like i'm gonna

01:08:35.579 --> 01:08:38.279
work in this comp style stuff so i can also get a little

01:08:38.279 --> 01:08:41.299
bit of work in with you guys and i got in trouble i got

01:08:41.299 --> 01:08:46.099
in trouble once so we normally do a dollar's been getting on me about a little

01:08:46.099 --> 01:08:50.779
bit but i did we have like an hour jiu-jitsu then we have the advanced uh gi

01:08:50.779 --> 01:08:55.439
class after and then there was one time where he was out this happened recently

01:08:55.439 --> 01:08:59.879
and i got a little bit stuff from black belts i did a whole two hours of no gi.

01:09:02.139 --> 01:09:06.619
I did 44 i was in cop mode so i was i did four or five minutes of the games

01:09:06.619 --> 01:09:10.399
and then And the Bluebells, they were talking messes like, we just want open mat.

01:09:10.499 --> 01:09:12.959
We want open mat. I was like, all right, we do open mat for the next hour.

01:09:13.259 --> 01:09:16.979
And then they were like, bye, 30 minutes. They were like, we're tired.

01:09:17.279 --> 01:09:22.199
And I'm like, nah, we got our open mat. We keep, we, you want an hour.

01:09:22.319 --> 01:09:23.419
We're going to keep on doing an hour.

01:09:23.559 --> 01:09:26.239
But they didn't snitch on me, but it was just like, I got a text.

01:09:26.319 --> 01:09:27.899
I heard you did two hours of no-gi.

01:09:28.592 --> 01:09:31.312
And I was like, uh, sir. Professor, what you have to understand?

01:09:31.472 --> 01:09:34.672
See, I had to teach them a lesson. I had to teach them a lesson. So we're talking back.

01:09:34.952 --> 01:09:37.112
And, you know, I had to give them what they wanted. I had to give them what

01:09:37.112 --> 01:09:39.632
they want. They were going full on mutiny on me, coach.

01:09:39.852 --> 01:09:44.752
This is a lesson that transcends gi, no gi, man. It's whatever. It's work.

01:09:44.932 --> 01:09:48.152
I had to work on it. Yeah, but it was one of those things where it's just like, nah.

01:09:48.852 --> 01:09:52.232
I'm a fun coach of being around. I'm all for it. But, yeah, like,

01:09:52.352 --> 01:09:53.752
I run my ship the same way.

01:09:53.812 --> 01:09:57.192
If I'm in comp mode, sorry, guys. You're in comp mode with me for the day.

01:09:57.572 --> 01:10:00.312
It just happens. like that man i love it because we have a couple

01:10:00.312 --> 01:10:03.332
white belts that have seen nothing but comp training

01:10:03.332 --> 01:10:06.312
so like they don't know any different now so

01:10:06.312 --> 01:10:09.652
like it's just what they expect it's so good yeah it's

01:10:09.652 --> 01:10:12.772
so good because it's like all right this is just regular practice

01:10:12.772 --> 01:10:15.812
this is just a regular class to them

01:10:15.812 --> 01:10:18.572
no that same thing happened uh the white ball

01:10:18.572 --> 01:10:21.212
brought into pentagon yesterday i was

01:10:21.212 --> 01:10:24.152
like we're doing no gi for like hour and a half two hours and with

01:10:24.152 --> 01:10:27.132
pentagon they turn off they don't have the ac flowing in

01:10:27.132 --> 01:10:30.812
certain rooms they turn it off so it was hot musty sweaty

01:10:30.812 --> 01:10:34.792
everything and she's like why like she's haven't seen the mat that wet in a

01:10:34.792 --> 01:10:38.692
while she's like what is this i was like this is comp class welcome to comp

01:10:38.692 --> 01:10:43.512
class like when people are slipping you're trying to do shots on a wet floor

01:10:43.512 --> 01:10:48.672
like yeah this is comp class that's right this is comp class man but nah man that's,

01:10:49.892 --> 01:10:53.352
i mean it's not talking about jiu-jitsu for like an hour man now i'm itching.

01:10:54.952 --> 01:10:57.732
Uh but i got two i got two train things next

01:10:57.732 --> 01:11:02.152
uh tomorrow man so it's gonna be fun yeah there we go yeah i'm sneaking one

01:11:02.152 --> 01:11:06.532
in tomorrow i like it where you going tomorrow uh i might just go to i might

01:11:06.532 --> 01:11:09.812
just stick to battlefield tomorrow all right i thought about coming down seeing

01:11:09.812 --> 01:11:15.652
y'all but i was like it's a long drive dude try try to do high noon man,

01:11:16.331 --> 01:11:21.451
At 5 p.m.? Yeah. Well, so I'm tapering down right now. Ooh. So I'm just trying to get something in.

01:11:21.771 --> 01:11:25.011
Yeah. So I got the last week, so I'm just trying to get something just to move.

01:11:25.331 --> 01:11:28.331
So I'm like, well, if I'm just going to look to move, I'm just going to do a short drive.

01:11:28.551 --> 01:11:31.511
Are you one of the types that, I actually have a question about this,

01:11:31.571 --> 01:11:33.391
because people are very different about this.

01:11:33.671 --> 01:11:35.571
When is your last day of doing jujitsu?

01:11:37.131 --> 01:11:40.491
Probably the day before. I just lighten everything up.

01:11:40.611 --> 01:11:45.351
So I'll just go to like one or two max a day.

01:11:46.751 --> 01:11:52.491
Same thing for you because I've seen people done no week the week of no jujitsu

01:11:52.491 --> 01:11:54.931
I talked about this with the scene last week because he was telling me that

01:11:54.931 --> 01:11:57.611
like his he was saying he's kind of like studying what the wrestlers have been

01:11:57.611 --> 01:12:02.131
doing for years he says they do like up to 10 to 14 days off or at least lighten

01:12:02.131 --> 01:12:03.891
the load a lot maybe because

01:12:04.291 --> 01:12:07.731
of the weight cuts it just stops rolling like so I just switched to just like

01:12:07.731 --> 01:12:12.111
either flow or just doing games I mean it depends on the weight cuts it depends

01:12:12.111 --> 01:12:13.431
on if there's a weight cut or not for me,

01:12:13.931 --> 01:12:16.651
usually what I will do is like if let's say your

01:12:16.651 --> 01:12:19.991
normal competition's on a saturday right yeah my last

01:12:19.991 --> 01:12:22.871
training session usually is and it's not a hard training

01:12:22.871 --> 01:12:26.371
session it's but it's a training session nonetheless i'm going to go through the full you

01:12:26.371 --> 01:12:29.631
know full hour we'll be wrestling on a thursday typically

01:12:29.631 --> 01:12:32.991
but it's like just move move move no coach will come over and like hit me or

01:12:32.991 --> 01:12:35.611
a couple guys i know in trust we'll go through the motions and i'll be i'll

01:12:35.611 --> 01:12:39.651
sweat right i'll be it'll probably be more of a cardio session than anything

01:12:39.651 --> 01:12:46.471
um but i usually week of i start to go light but like i'd say i i I have historically done, like,

01:12:47.131 --> 01:12:49.191
pretty hard jiu-jitsu sessions by Tuesday.

01:12:49.891 --> 01:12:53.191
Wednesdays are usually, like, whatever a seam has me do or, like,

01:12:53.231 --> 01:12:56.471
maybe just some drilling. And then Thursdays, I just come in and wrestle.

01:12:56.991 --> 01:13:01.551
Man, I have— Friday off, Saturday game day. Friday is definitely off for me.

01:13:02.871 --> 01:13:05.971
I've heard people do the whole week off. I'm like, I can't do that.

01:13:06.071 --> 01:13:09.631
I can't do anything. I can't not. It would drive me insane.

01:13:10.491 --> 01:13:14.891
But for me I have always so I used to do the wrestler cut too that week but

01:13:14.891 --> 01:13:19.971
I've realized if I'm doing a tournament I make sure my weight's on par the week

01:13:19.971 --> 01:13:24.331
before so I don't have to go through that much so Sunday's probably my last hardest day,

01:13:25.064 --> 01:13:29.764
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. I know where it seems lifting,

01:13:29.764 --> 01:13:32.184
he changes up the schedule of that, so that's good.

01:13:33.324 --> 01:13:38.124
But most likely my last heart, I wouldn't, see, I can't flow roll.

01:13:38.364 --> 01:13:40.784
I mean, I can flow roll, but I just choose not to.

01:13:42.824 --> 01:13:46.304
Because I like, I'm always trying to be active, man, or play games.

01:13:46.384 --> 01:13:50.384
I think my last day is probably like Wednesday, Thursday. okay um friday

01:13:50.384 --> 01:13:53.384
at most i'll run in the

01:13:53.384 --> 01:13:56.404
morning and i do an ice bath at night okay or i go

01:13:56.404 --> 01:14:03.404
to uh one life or uh a therapy play like i think there's like rx therapy in

01:14:03.404 --> 01:14:06.864
their haymarket or something like that some type of place like that yeah and

01:14:06.864 --> 01:14:11.144
have like compression uh recovery session recovery session uh what's it called

01:14:11.144 --> 01:14:14.984
um ice chamber all that stuff all that shit yeah i

01:14:15.364 --> 01:14:18.744
So my last tournament was Chicago, and it was on a Sunday.

01:14:18.924 --> 01:14:21.824
Okay. So I had a Friday, Saturday, just nothing.

01:14:22.564 --> 01:14:25.704
Two days. You were probably itching. I felt good. Okay. Well,

01:14:25.704 --> 01:14:27.624
just because I was like, I mean, I haven't done anything. Yeah.

01:14:27.684 --> 01:14:28.904
And it feels like forever.

01:14:29.104 --> 01:14:34.004
And he'd basically given me, I want to say maybe that three or four days off on our schedule.

01:14:34.024 --> 01:14:39.204
Yeah, because I think his last cut day is Tuesday for that schedule,

01:14:39.264 --> 01:14:41.304
if I remember correctly. It's probably the same schedule. Yeah.

01:14:41.344 --> 01:14:42.064
It's the same weekend schedule.

01:14:42.244 --> 01:14:46.524
He does that for everybody. So I'm like, I'm pretty sure the last day is that Tuesday or Wednesday.

01:14:46.784 --> 01:14:51.584
Yeah, I think it's Tuesday. Yeah. I think last one, so I think for IBJJF,

01:14:51.704 --> 01:14:54.044
he had it go on Wednesday.

01:14:54.264 --> 01:14:56.944
Yeah. For NGA, he cut me on Tuesday, I believe. Yeah.

01:14:57.264 --> 01:15:00.364
Yeah. I think it's usually his cardio. Yeah. It's mostly cardio.

01:15:01.204 --> 01:15:04.004
He wants the body to get that like inflammation reduction or whatever.

01:15:04.284 --> 01:15:06.404
But I just sat there and just checked out on weight.

01:15:06.724 --> 01:15:11.004
I was just like, all right. Like, how am I doing on weight? Weight was good. So it worked well.

01:15:11.777 --> 01:15:15.637
Like, if I was at Pans now, I'm four pounds. If I made it to Pans,

01:15:15.797 --> 01:15:19.557
I'm already four pounds on the way from Pans, from my division. Under? Under, yeah.

01:15:19.897 --> 01:15:26.737
I was already good. I was good since beginning of September.

01:15:26.897 --> 01:15:30.517
So you're doing Worlds, you said? I thought about doing Worlds.

01:15:31.817 --> 01:15:37.797
So let me give VGI another shout out here. So if I win VGI, that's my travel money. Okay.

01:15:37.997 --> 01:15:44.197
My travel money is for any local superfighter or future superfighter or anything.

01:15:44.497 --> 01:15:45.477
Jiu-jitsu budget, right?

01:15:46.057 --> 01:15:49.397
My jiu-jitsu budget. If it gets up to 10 people, please, please,

01:15:49.517 --> 01:15:52.197
please get up to 10 people. Paper, let's go. That's $1,000.

01:15:52.437 --> 01:15:55.897
At least get me to the Vegas for Nogi Worlds, and I can do everything else.

01:15:56.017 --> 01:15:58.617
It'll pay for—that can pay for your flight and your hotel.

01:15:58.757 --> 01:16:02.717
For Vegas. It's going to be the Westgate, but it'll pay for it.

01:16:02.777 --> 01:16:06.397
Hey, look, you don't have to be flashy in Vegas. You can be in the crap hole

01:16:06.397 --> 01:16:08.637
for three days. You're going to find some shit to do in Vegas.

01:16:09.937 --> 01:16:13.657
I've been on the good side and the bad side of Vegas. You're going to find it.

01:16:13.777 --> 01:16:19.577
But nah, like I've thought about it. The only way I get to Vegas is if it gets

01:16:19.577 --> 01:16:20.657
up to 10, then I win this out.

01:16:20.797 --> 01:16:23.497
That's the only way I get to Vegas in my eyes right now.

01:16:24.317 --> 01:16:29.497
But that's my main. So my main goal, if I do win, is this is my travel money.

01:16:29.857 --> 01:16:34.597
I think anytime when I get invited to these type of things for cash prizes,

01:16:34.777 --> 01:16:36.137
I put, it's basically gambling.

01:16:36.137 --> 01:16:41.517
And it's like look it's like I'm betting on myself I'm being honest so it's

01:16:41.517 --> 01:16:46.097
like we got 10 people in that's a thousand I'm putting that money into travel,

01:16:46.877 --> 01:16:48.557
that's essential it's like.

01:16:49.604 --> 01:16:52.344
You get you put in and you get out what you

01:16:52.344 --> 01:16:54.984
put in and it's just like all right let me feed what i have to do

01:16:54.984 --> 01:16:57.724
so i don't want that i can schedule i can properly schedule my

01:16:57.724 --> 01:17:02.424
whole all right next thing i up is nogi worlds cool that's gonna be about 500

01:17:02.424 --> 01:17:08.544
out of my pocket right there and then everything else is either philly uh maryland

01:17:08.544 --> 01:17:12.424
or that so it's just like all right cool or i just signed up for ibjjfs throughout

01:17:12.424 --> 01:17:17.444
the year so yeah okay you're doing worlds i'm doing worlds okay I already booked it.

01:17:17.704 --> 01:17:20.484
I haven't booked the flight and everything yet, but I'm doing it. I'm going.

01:17:21.124 --> 01:17:25.924
Registered. Registered. Nice, man. Well, I figure I'm pretty sure I only have,

01:17:25.964 --> 01:17:28.044
like, this season left at Purple Belt, so.

01:17:28.984 --> 01:17:32.884
I got to maximize. Man, you got to do it, man. You got to do it. Get it now. Yeah.

01:17:33.324 --> 01:17:36.764
Dude, because Worlds Now is in Vegas. It used to be in California.

01:17:37.084 --> 01:17:40.644
Was Nogi Worlds always in Vegas or was always in California when they did Worlds? Nope.

01:17:41.444 --> 01:17:44.284
Good question, man. I mean, I feel like after the pandemic, it all changed.

01:17:44.444 --> 01:17:45.504
Everything went over there in Texas.

01:17:45.504 --> 01:17:52.444
Because what's it called now master worlds and jiu-jitsu con are now both in vegas the same week.

01:17:53.444 --> 01:17:57.644
Um world is in worlds gi worlds

01:17:57.644 --> 01:18:00.344
is still in the long beach in the long beach in the

01:18:00.344 --> 01:18:03.024
diamond period i think they're always going to keep it there because it's a

01:18:03.024 --> 01:18:05.824
period um but the

01:18:05.824 --> 01:18:09.524
only thing that changed was pans pans

01:18:09.524 --> 01:18:13.184
used to be california then they went to florida and

01:18:13.184 --> 01:18:15.844
then they moved it to new york but they were in texas for a

01:18:15.844 --> 01:18:18.604
little while too they were in texas in texas and florida and now new york like

01:18:18.604 --> 01:18:21.384
you said we covered that was probably covered it all

01:18:21.384 --> 01:18:25.544
up for them and i you know they had these like uh i don't know i guess they

01:18:25.544 --> 01:18:28.304
had these habits or whatever it was in the same location it's like predictable

01:18:28.304 --> 01:18:36.464
makes sense i like vegas i love vegas um i like it for worlds yeah it's it's

01:18:36.464 --> 01:18:40.284
a win-win situation because here's the thing because if you lose worlds right,

01:18:41.035 --> 01:18:44.855
there's a dispensary like 10 minutes down the way. There's a few dispensaries.

01:18:45.015 --> 01:18:48.035
It's like, if you lose worlds, like, oh, okay.

01:18:48.395 --> 01:18:50.555
If you lose worlds, you go to the dispensary. You win worlds,

01:18:50.655 --> 01:18:53.115
you go to the dispensaries. You win-win. You win-win.

01:18:53.295 --> 01:18:57.515
No matter what. And then you're gonna see your guy at Fremont Street drunk.

01:18:58.195 --> 01:19:03.155
Well, and 90% of the people in Vegas are also like there for fights.

01:19:03.815 --> 01:19:08.095
They're more super bummed anyways, because they just, a lot of people have lost shit in Vegas. Yeah.

01:19:08.595 --> 01:19:12.315
You're at least, you're amongst company. Dude, I swear to you,

01:19:12.435 --> 01:19:16.295
Vegas during Worlds is probably one of the funnest times because you run into everybody.

01:19:17.375 --> 01:19:18.655
Dalla especially, he runs all

01:19:18.655 --> 01:19:21.855
his old friends, and I'm like a freaking security guard when he does that.

01:19:22.015 --> 01:19:25.975
That's funny. But I've been to, Dalla's a big poker player.

01:19:26.235 --> 01:19:31.195
So I've done the team meeting, team dinner in Vegas with all the team members,

01:19:31.235 --> 01:19:32.935
and then Dalla look at me and is like, you ready?

01:19:33.095 --> 01:19:38.035
I spent a whole night on the tables with Dalla playing poker.

01:19:38.035 --> 01:19:41.155
And I thought this man, this man got stamina.

01:19:41.275 --> 01:19:43.535
That man was, we were on the table until at least one in the morning.

01:19:44.455 --> 01:19:47.695
The longest I've been on the table was with my boys when I did my bachelor party.

01:19:47.815 --> 01:19:49.915
That was Blackjack and that was on Fremont Street.

01:19:51.175 --> 01:19:56.835
Reason why I mention that is because you want to do Blackjack and you want to

01:19:56.835 --> 01:19:59.615
do Blackjack on Fremont on the old strip. Lower minimums?

01:19:59.935 --> 01:20:02.275
Lower minimums and hand deals. Okay.

01:20:03.295 --> 01:20:07.835
Everything on the strip is electronic except for poker and poker's hand deals.

01:20:08.975 --> 01:20:11.695
But or hand shuffling hand that and same thing

01:20:11.695 --> 01:20:15.355
with the blackjack is hand shuffling for at fremont so

01:20:15.355 --> 01:20:18.595
we were on there till three four in the morning we got

01:20:18.595 --> 01:20:22.275
there at nine no 10 o'clock $10

01:20:22.275 --> 01:20:26.115
minimums raised it to 25 50 by

01:20:26.115 --> 01:20:28.935
12 1 a.m we were there so long we

01:20:28.935 --> 01:20:33.655
got grandfathered into the minimums and we knew both of the freaking dealers

01:20:33.655 --> 01:20:37.315
that were coming back and forth so if one of us got up real quick and we didn't

01:20:37.315 --> 01:20:40.375
have money or anything we came back and sat down they were just dealers in for

01:20:40.375 --> 01:20:45.195
the 10 bucks because we were there the entire night so it was so funny that

01:20:45.195 --> 01:20:48.315
was the longest they want to keep you there they don't want to give you a reason to walk,

01:20:48.875 --> 01:20:52.015
no because i lost one money one money lost

01:20:52.015 --> 01:20:54.875
money one money lost money won my money back lost it

01:20:54.875 --> 01:20:57.715
won it all back it was like it was a hell of a night but nah like

01:20:57.715 --> 01:21:02.255
yeah if i tell anybody to gamble go to fremont go for my hand deals or hand

01:21:02.255 --> 01:21:06.975
shuffling for the blackjack um which is the only way they do that on the strip

01:21:06.975 --> 01:21:11.655
and then well off the strip is old strip sorry about that and then if you're

01:21:11.655 --> 01:21:15.055
doing poker poker in any room they do the hand shuffling so you're straight

01:21:15.055 --> 01:21:16.735
with that there you go all right,

01:21:17.260 --> 01:21:22.200
All right, man. I like it. I think that's. That's that. That is that.

01:21:22.380 --> 01:21:24.820
That is fighters drinking coffee.

01:21:25.300 --> 01:21:29.140
So, Will, where, before we get into our stuff, where can they find you?

01:21:29.260 --> 01:21:31.400
And I'll get this from you, too, so we'll put in the show notes.

01:21:31.580 --> 01:21:34.800
Gotcha. So you guys can find me on Instagram, under the hype,

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01:21:37.720 --> 01:21:42.320
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01:21:42.360 --> 01:21:48.500
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01:21:48.500 --> 01:21:51.840
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01:21:52.640 --> 01:21:58.020
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01:22:02.300 --> 01:22:05.900
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01:22:07.240 --> 01:22:11.000
But yeah, man, so this was Fighters Drinking Coffee. Thank you guys as always for listening.

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