(Ep 34) London Calling: Redemption after Dissapointment

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Welcome back to Fighters Drinking Coffee.

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Today we're going to go over what we've been up to the past couple weeks.

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We've been busy, busy, busy.

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Scott and I were both just up at PANS. I was competing. He was coaching.

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This was two weeks ago. I made a quick turnaround to London, competed there.

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And then we'll go over kind of what we have coming up the rest of the year.

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Set the stage let you guys know

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what we have coming up for you um so kind of

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go over you'll get some highs and lows of competition here this will be a this

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should be a fun fun little fun little talk story of stories of triumph triumph

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stories of uh the lowest the lowest lows the highest highs dramatic but yes

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kind of yes well you know i gotta hook them in man sure Sure.

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Um, but yeah, so we'll start off with pans. Um, I think, so we both got up there,

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pretty early cause I mean, you have to, you don't know what day you're going

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to go. They don't tell you. Yeah. That shit is a pain in the ass.

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Uh, it was just because it was in New York this year that made it a little bit easier for us. Yeah.

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But it was basically like, you didn't know, you know, the event was Thursday,

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possibly going through Sunday.

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So how many days you're going to be in, you can be one day.

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So fill in the blank with travel. Unless you're competing at Black Belt, right?

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Like the Black Belt adult, I think it's- For those two days, yeah.

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They get two, but for the most part, yeah, you're competing one day and like

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the pre-schedule says it could be like, it could be Friday through Sunday that

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Purple Belt's competing, which, you know, all of the whole crew was all Purple Belts.

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That's what it was. And they put us on Sunday.

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All you guys were on Sunday. You got to make those reservations well ahead.

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And, you know, so you just pick whatever date it might be.

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And then they tell you like the day that you're traveling up there,

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what, uh, what day you're competing.

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So, um, so, you know, that's, that's always fun.

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The, uh, day before schedule release. Um, but I mean, it was good.

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Um, from like, uh, from, from my standpoint, it was nice, like not having to,

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we didn't get to do a lot of stuff in New York.

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I missed out on my food tour of New York there was limited New York stuff because

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like you said there was pretty much one half of one day where you were like

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alright I'll live you can be free the rest of it was like behave with constraints

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that's your typical travel for jiu jitsu story yeah,

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you don't know when you're going to compete unless you book a shit ton of time

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on the back end when you know the event's going to be over think Monday,

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Tuesday after but you get up there like Friday and you're like how am I really

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going to spend four or five days in New York I mean, I got shit to do.

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Yeah, exactly. I was hoping for a...

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I was hoping to compete Saturday, so I'd have like Sunday or Saturday night,

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like Sunday morning. That would have been nice. That would have been nice.

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I think that's what we all wanted. We all wanted a Saturday division.

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Get it done 2, 3 p.m. Cool. Get out of there. Clean up. Enjoy New York.

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Relax. Maybe have some beers or a drink or whatever. And like go do some New

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York stuff. And then come back Sunday whenever, like sleep in a little bit.

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That would have been perfect.

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Yeah. Leave early on Sunday. Leave early on Sunday. Get home.

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Or whatever. It's not like it's a far drive. But not get home at 11.

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Yeah, exactly. Which is probably what happened. Yep. Pretty much.

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I recall correctly, but whatever.

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But, I mean, it was a super easy trip. I mean, getting up there was easy.

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Getting back was easy. Did you have any bullshit traffic?

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You came back from the same place we came back from on the way back.

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There was a little bit of traffic. It was a little, but it wasn't too bad.

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I mean, like. What do you define too bad? I don't know.

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It was moving sort of. It sucked, but like. Yes.

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It's kind of what I expected for New York. I also expected it,

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but it took us about, I'd say about an hour and a half just to get out of Long

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Island. Yeah, it took, but I guess it took just as long to get there as it did to get back, right?

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Like, for us, it was about five hours both ways.

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So, like, it was, like, total travel time was consistent.

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Yeah, we didn't get crushed on the way in. Google Maps said it was green the

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whole way. It was expected, I guess.

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What was green for you? It was very much not green on the way out.

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It gave us the, well, we left on the same.

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We had to go back and try to acquire some left-behind goodies.

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Yeah. a package, and then that didn't work.

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We came back. I don't, that was maybe 20 minutes, 20, 30 minutes max out of

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the way. So I don't think it changed the traffic patterns too much.

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Yeah, I don't know. But I mean, it wasn't spectacular. It took us a minute to

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get out of Long Island, but whatever.

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We spent a good portion of the time getting off of Long Island.

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I'm not, but I'm just saying, apparently that was normal according to Google

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Maps. I believe it was normal too. Yeah.

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For whatever that's worth, I would hate for that to be normal for my driving every day.

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I think that was normal, man. But that was apparently normal.

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On your way back, did you see like the queue of people trying to get back into the city? Yeah.

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Pretty crazy. That was the, the other way was way worse than the way we were going. I would agree.

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Yeah, that was pretty brutal. Which is interesting because we were leaving New

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York City on a weekend, the end of a weekend. I would think it would have been

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the other way around. Like more like.

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Yeah, you'd think more people were. You would think people were like,

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all right, we were in the city for the weekend. Let's get out.

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But everyone was trying to get back into the city. I don't know. Who knows? Yeah.

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Maybe it was a weird travel thing. Who knows? I don't try to understand it.

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Problem yeah true that's some northernership for me um but

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uh i mean i i had

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i had disappointment i went in as the number one seed um

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i mean pans this is pans um shane

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shane crushed it he got gold shane got gold he smashed his division which was

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awesome um got to coach his gold medal match that was fun yes he did he listens

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very well Shane was like I've been telling everyone like jokingly that like Shane was like,

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the Hulk at the end of the first Avengers movie when he's just throwing Loki left and right.

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Shane was just hucking dudes through the air, passing guards, grabbing necks.

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Yeah, Shane was on fire. He was, yeah, he looked really good out there.

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Shout out to Shane. Yeah, he was the...

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Was he our first guest on this go-round? I think he was. First guest to Fighters

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for a Coffee. I think we just, we have the golden touch, dude.

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All right, I like that. We'll take the credit. I mean, I guess we kind of have

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to. He's your student, so. Well, all right. You take some credit.

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Okay, okay. He did well. He did really well.

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You were taking pictures of Andrea for the podium.

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He was getting the open weight division lady was flirting with him. I remember.

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Trying to coax him into doing open weight or just flirting with him.

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I liked it. There's probably a little bit of both.

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Yeah, yeah. She's like, come on, come get an open weight ticket.

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Hitting a... That's a nice... Metal looks very heavy. Would you like another?

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He was, uh... To the victor go the spoils. Yeah.

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Um... Andrea had a great showing. She did. Um... She got silver.

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She did. She made it to the finals. And she was competing with two injuries.

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Oof. So she came into the event with two injuries. One of which...

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I'm not gonna spoil... I'm not gonna... I'm not gonna let the haters know what,

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uh... Mm-hmm. What she's dealing with.

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But she was, like, banged up going into this. And she was like,

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I'm doing it no matter what. Which is awesome.

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And... One of the injuries, like, impacts her game plan quite a bit.

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But she and I had talked about, like, contingencies, some things she wants to

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do. Some things she was like, I'm going to give X, Y, and Z a shot.

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Still going to run with the main game plan. If for whatever reason it's not

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working, I'm going to toggle over to...

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Option b if you will and um if

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i need to i'll escape from there and so she had like it all mapped out she knew

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what she wanted to do with respect to the fact that she was just self-aware

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of like what she could and could not do going going into a you know the one

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of the most competitive tournaments on a yearly basis without full physical

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capacity and so in her first match,

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she goes out and she's scrapping on her feet she's doing well

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her opponent was really gritty really tough uh i think

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an irish gal who um competes a lot is

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you know we talked to her afterwards she's going to be she's going

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to the european champion she's pretty active and she's tough and so

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they're banging it out and andrea uh goes into option b like what i was alluding

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to a second ago like game plan b and which by the way like i personally i've

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never been a big fan of like having to like gear shift i mean granted it's you

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got to do what you got to do when you're not operating at full physical capacity.

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But still functional enough that you're dangerous.

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So it's an impressive skill to be able to say, I'm going to pivot over to this,

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something different, in the middle of a match, by the way.

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And then continue to execute and win, which is what she did against a gal who

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was fighting her with a lot of grit until the last second. This other lady was not giving up.

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So she had to tough it out until the buzzer went off.

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And she won definitively. She won by a lot of points and, um, controlled the match.

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But, um, yeah, it was a good showing, man. Good showing. Her finals opponent

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was really tough as well.

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Um, other girl just struck first, put her on defense.

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And Andrew was just, you know, fighting a defensive battle the entire time.

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Yeah, because that was, uh, was that too, was that was a really,

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there weren't a lot of points on the board for that one, right?

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Um, you mean for the finals? Yeah.

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Don't remember the points. the other girl got the back mount and basically like

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stayed there the entire time yeah just attacking and attacking and Andrew was

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playing really smart defense she was like shouting out to everyone at DMA who.

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There's a bunch of people who are just red limp and we like all have to endure.

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We, we train ourselves in like that shit back mount position nonstop.

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We just went this morning.

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Correct. Yeah. Yeah. It's not, it's not going anywhere. We're all going to continue to do that.

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Cause by the way, she was like, yo, like the amount of times that like you and

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other dudes have like tried to like rip my face off from back mount.

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She's like, I felt pretty damn calm when I was back there. So I was like,

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all right, well that's good.

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Um, and so she just, she played, she had to play a smart defensive battle there

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to just do the best she could with the, with the circumstances.

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And um yeah and so the other girl won from that position

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uh indra just basically she had two

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hard-fought battles there so i mean

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shout out to her making the podium with two injuries not not just

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making the podium make it to the finals make it competitive so yeah

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she did really good yeah no um it was impressive showing

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all around um i had a little

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less success dude well you redemption story

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right we talked about two stories of triumph we got a redemption story

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we'll go through the redemption story here now like you

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said the lowest of lows the lowest of highs uh

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it's not quite that bad but i know it's dramatic uh

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dramatic is all hell yeah you gotta gotta hook them

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i gotta get them and get them i like getting invested uh well then make it sound

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worse than it was yeah exactly oh i mean i kid i guess i mean i don't know uh

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have fun but so i entered into pans as the number one seed um i was ranked fifth

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i've still climbed my ranking so it's fine.

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But I entered in as the number one seed.

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So I got the bye. I got quarterfinals.

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I mean, I had a big bracket. I had like 12 guys in the division.

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So, I mean, it was a big bracket.

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It was pretty well stacked.

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And I got to watch my opponent beforehand. I watched him. They had like a pretty...

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Uneventful match i mean he won by two on

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a takedown i was just kind of watching and i was like all right like stand

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up looks like it's gonna he's gonna want to wrestle um he's

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a fighter yeah he had fought yeah he did he had fought mma um

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back in like 2017 i think he fought for lfa okay

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um so yeah he's like a legit he

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was legit um but you

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know i was like all right like looks like this should be you

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know obviously he's going to be game you know

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that's something you always know about if you're running to MMA fighters

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on the jiu-jitsu mat like they're they're down they're gonna they're gonna play

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the game with you um but so we came out uh and I by the way I had a beautiful

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weight cut beautiful way I had to cut the last 1.6 pounds at the venue no you're

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You're being sarcastic.

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No, it was good. Okay, okay, okay. But like that last, I mean,

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I was on weight the day before. Um...

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And just the morning of, I was like 150.6. I have to make 149.

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And so I got there early.

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I was like, no big deal. We'll go and we'll check 150. I think it was 150 when I left on my scale.

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So I was like, all right, we'll go check there. Maybe there's a differential

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before I go through anything.

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But we got there early enough. I think we got there at like 11 o'clock or something.

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I don't think I was on until later that day.

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And so that I would have time if I needed to cut. But I just threw the bags

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on. Luckily, it was a warm day. The sun was shining.

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It was. It was hotter than I expected. Yeah, it was. I thought it was going to be colder.

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But so I threw my sauna jacket on, my sweatshirt, just kind of did a couple little jogging laps.

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And once I got my body temperature up, I just kind of laid out in the sun and

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let the cook happen, and put a rash guard over my face to help me sweat.

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And I would just do that. I would get my, I basically did my warmup super early.

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Got some hand fighting in with a buddy, Dustin, who came up with me and went and checked weight.

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I think it took me about 30 minutes. So it was super easy.

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Still felt good. I was just a little overwatered. So no big deal. No big deal.

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Nothing a little sweat won't help. No, exactly.

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So weighed in at 148.8. Um,

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Got in the bullpen. I went in right when my name came on the board just so I

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could get a little, get watered up.

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I think I was probably about 153 when I stepped on the mat.

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I like that. So it was good. I was big. I was coming in bigger than I have in

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the past. So also shout out to a seam there.

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Got my Sour Patch Kids in. I was sugared up, ready to go.

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I saw the Sour Patch Kids. I was like, what the fuck is he doing?

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But I guess that's an old school wrestling thing. Yeah, that's my jam, dude.

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Throw down some sugar, dude. you gotta get that little bit in it wakes you up save shane

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too sour patch kids are the shit dude shout out sour patch kids shout them out

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sponsor me uh sponsor me uh but so i uh get on the mat you know i'm feeling

00:14:29.400 --> 00:14:35.160
good like i don't know what it is gi nervous as hell no gi,

00:14:35.960 --> 00:14:39.220
tournaments not worried about it um like,

00:14:40.073 --> 00:14:43.373
you can do like psycho mode on to worry about warm-ups

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quite the same like nervous systems not firing like

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it normally is okay uh or like you know you would like i like it was with gi

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i think it's just i'm more comfortable and no gi so uh i mean i've only competed

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in gi 12 three times okay so there's that too um so maybe it's like a fewer

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fucks to give kind of thing yeah probably,

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i'm less i'm less concerned i have i have enough uh enough mileage without the gi on got it um.

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But uh get out there i'm feeling the guy

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out and you know we're hand fighting and like

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i just knew i had i just had it

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like the guy was the i the hand

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fight was mine there was no losing it i mean i i had

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double wrist uh which funny point on that

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the guy's coach was saying good wrist control to

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them and i'm like standing there like rot working i'm like a puppet

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with both wrists i'm like okay feedback um but

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uh i just i felt openings there

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and um i got a little eager

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with it that's like i've watched i've the tape so i've watched it back a few

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times and like i just i had a great arm drag into a good uh entry but like just

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one not a takedown i normally do so that was kind of dumb but like.

00:16:04.812 --> 00:16:08.332
Just, I got so eager with it that I felt the opening. I just,

00:16:08.452 --> 00:16:10.292
you know, blood in the water, went straight for it.

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And, um, you know, just didn't seal off everything. It was just like too eager to get in there.

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Um, you know, I left the head hanging guy grabs a guillotine,

00:16:19.852 --> 00:16:22.312
um, you know, which props to him.

00:16:22.632 --> 00:16:27.112
Great reaction time. Um, good defense gets a guillotine in.

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It was uh it was tight the way

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we landed we got it put him right on

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this choking side so like it was just

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basically as i brought him down i tried

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to jump over the legs ended up in guard you know

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because i didn't feel like i had the rotation to the other

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side and you're not really supposed to go towards the

00:16:47.752 --> 00:16:50.392
choking side um but so you know just kind of

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the way we landed we pinned right into it it was already

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tight um i also had my head wrapped from the

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oh yeah the eye cut and so there's a little i think there's

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a little extra grip and friction there so like it was harder to

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like i didn't have the slip there um and

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so you know just everything kind of landed right

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into it had to tap out i was getting

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the the room was getting smaller yeah yeah it was a feeling you

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know uh it wasn't quite loud yet though so at

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least there was that uh but you know it's just one of

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those things it perfect storm um you know

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props to him being able to snatch that up uh you know and got to i i took a

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second kind of soaked it in for you know you take that moment you soak in the

00:17:32.732 --> 00:17:41.232
room like fuck it's just like fuck dude yeah i know the feeling um but you know uh so that was that.

00:17:42.045 --> 00:17:45.405
We shake it off. We shake it off. We went and grabbed some pizza.

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We eat slices. With the champ. That's right. Dude, that pizza was good though.

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Dario's. Shout out to Dario's. In Hempstead. Check it out.

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Highly recommend if you're ever up there.

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You know, I don't know why, but if you are, check it out. If you live there.

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People are there. You know, awesome.

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Good pizza. Might hit it up when I go back. You should.

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Is it in Long Island again? Yeah, it's in the same spot. Oh,

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shit. I like that venue. Okay, yeah. It was at Hofstra.

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So, Pants was at Hofstra. Like, you had a cool, like, it was,

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you know, it was an arena. It was good.

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But on the redemption side, so get home at, like, 11. Wait, before we do that,

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how are you feeling at this moment, Michael?

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Oh, pissed. You're pissed. Mainly just, like, pissed. I wasn't really,

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like. Are you soul-searching?

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Kind of. I don't know. Not really. Like, I kind of had a – I have the unwavering

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confidence that you have to have to compete full-time, I guess.

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You know, like – And you knew you had more action lined up.

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I had the next thing lined up, so – It's always the best way to overcome it.

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You just shut off the – On to the next one.

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Yeah, you just say, all right. So I tell people I give –,

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I tell people when they're competing, but also myself, like you get like five

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minutes to like really be mad and like, you can still, you know,

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obviously you can talk about it.

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You can reflect on it, all of that, but you get like five minutes,

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like truly be like pissed and bummed and all of that.

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But then you got to like move on, move on to the next thing. Right.

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Um, and like, obviously you're going to reflect on it.

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You're going to think about it. You're going to talk about it to like work through

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how to adjust. Like that's a thing you're going to do.

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Um but like yeah I was bummed I was

00:19:33.544 --> 00:19:39.604
frustrated with myself pissed off uh but I got you know sent the video out to

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coaches I was like hey like what did I do wrong on this shot so that we had

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it all you know so that I would have all that feedback ready to go because I had I got home at 11 PM.

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I had, well, I had three training days, but, um, I was only home for two days

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and then I had to get on a plane and go to London.

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So I had like two days, two and a half days to course, correct,

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adjust for what went wrong there and bring out the next thing.

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My opponent for London was silver medalist at euros last year.

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So I'm like, all right, I have a guy who's legit.

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I mean, there was another guy who was unknown. He ended up not showing up,

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as people do sometimes. Happens.

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You know, either, for whatever reasons. There are their reasons,

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so I'm not going to make assumptions.

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He showed up the battle. He didn't show up the battle. Yeah,

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exactly. That's his problem.

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But, so I knew I had a game opponent. I needed to course correct,

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be ready to go for that, because, you know, dude's legit. He's winning silver medal at Euros.

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And you're hungry now. You're like, I'm fucking winning, dude.

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I also, yeah, my whole goal is like, I'm getting a medal.

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I'm winning. I'm getting gold. I'm going to be on top.

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I needed to make up for that. I also, you know, I got my, I went down from number five to number six.

00:21:00.922 --> 00:21:04.202
I need to get that back. Yeah, you want that back. I need to get back up to the top.

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So, um, so went out to London, hungry with a mission.

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Um, you know, three day turnaround from like getting back from New York to traveling

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to London, um, overnight flight, red eye.

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Dulles? Out of Dulles. All right.

00:21:21.002 --> 00:21:26.282
So, you know, got that, got that sweet Dulles flight. took the red eye did the creatine the,

00:21:26.922 --> 00:21:33.462
20 grams when I arrived dude fucking beautiful really yeah so I did like the

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20 grams of creatine in the in electrolytes okay did that in like a water bottle that's a recipe.

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Chugged that down like breakfast Thursday after we got there so I got there

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checked in we're eating breakfast I chugged that down,

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and then just kept myself awake until the night no

00:21:53.542 --> 00:21:56.482
jet lag i felt great good uh it also

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helped that everyone else was jet lag because they slept till like 10 so

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i got to sleep so late so we

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got we got good sleep in we're good uh everybody got back on schedule we kind

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of explored london um and then sunday london open i took the train in from the

00:22:15.402 --> 00:22:22.462
hotel took it out to the crystal palace national sports center um and crystal Palace.

00:22:22.642 --> 00:22:26.082
That's quite an upgrade from the, what was the name of the place we went to?

00:22:26.182 --> 00:22:28.682
Like the something Mac Arena or whatever? The David Mac.

00:22:29.022 --> 00:22:32.122
Whatever. David Mac Arena. You gotta give him credit for that. That's a sweet name.

00:22:32.762 --> 00:22:36.242
Dude, the Crystal Palace was sweet. So it's like an all glass, like...

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Sports or sports center like it's uh it's basically like

00:22:39.790 --> 00:22:43.850
a giant community center like giant like um it's

00:22:43.850 --> 00:22:49.270
a sportsplex but like nicer than the ones here um it's got like the full gym

00:22:49.270 --> 00:22:54.510
it's got squash courts but like the where the jujitsu mats are is in like a

00:22:54.510 --> 00:23:00.070
lower floor arena like lower it's basically in an arena um so you had the bleachers

00:23:00.070 --> 00:23:01.330
you had an upper deck that you

00:23:01.510 --> 00:23:05.190
stand on and watch they had warm-up mats which is an

00:23:05.190 --> 00:23:09.350
upgrade from some of the opens here um the

00:23:09.350 --> 00:23:13.350
mats were a little weird they were like sandpaper rough

00:23:13.350 --> 00:23:17.850
but also had a terrible grip

00:23:17.850 --> 00:23:20.770
at the same time which was interesting i don't understand how

00:23:20.770 --> 00:23:23.750
that worked so they have this nice named arena but they have goofy ass mats

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um the mats also weren't blue and yellow they were red and gray which was also

00:23:28.290 --> 00:23:33.650
weird England get your shit um but the arena was really nice okay it was it's

00:23:33.650 --> 00:23:39.590
all glass so like it's like a full like atrium um so you have like natural sunlight

00:23:39.590 --> 00:23:42.950
and like it was it was very nice um.

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But so got there, everything was good. Weight was great for this one.

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I mean, I guess cutting weight for two straight weeks helps.

00:23:52.079 --> 00:23:54.879
You know, being like already coming off and being on weight.

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You're in weight cut mode.

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Living off chicken tikka. Mm-hmm. So up until then.

00:24:01.939 --> 00:24:06.239
But get there, have, get in the bullpen.

00:24:07.279 --> 00:24:12.079
I'm on weight eating. Their Sour Patch Kids are better than the ones here.

00:24:12.699 --> 00:24:15.619
They have no artificial colors or flavors. Oh, no.

00:24:16.159 --> 00:24:19.059
So the, yeah, you don't have- You need those for your first batch.

00:24:19.059 --> 00:24:23.259
It's the red dye. It really gets you going. Interesting. It's basically meth.

00:24:23.539 --> 00:24:25.699
Interesting. But no, like, they taste better.

00:24:26.779 --> 00:24:29.579
Okay. So they use, like, glucose syrup instead of corn syrup.

00:24:29.659 --> 00:24:33.319
So it's just, like, regular sugar. They don't have as many fat people as we do in America?

00:24:33.719 --> 00:24:38.979
I have, uh, they're less fat, I guess. Interesting. They're still fat people, but- I'm just curious.

00:24:39.279 --> 00:24:44.559
They're not, there's, I guess, I don't know. So we got to be down five people. I got a minimal view.

00:24:44.659 --> 00:24:47.039
I was, I mean, I was around jiu-jitsu people, so like- Most of the weekend,

00:24:47.179 --> 00:24:48.139
right. Yeah, it was a little bit different.

00:24:48.659 --> 00:24:51.319
But I mean, they still have obese people. London's like a fit,

00:24:51.419 --> 00:24:54.959
healthy city. Lots of people walking around. Yeah, it's a lot of walking. Like, no one has a car.

00:24:55.239 --> 00:24:59.019
Like, there's a lot of cars, but like, even people who don't live in the city

00:24:59.019 --> 00:25:00.259
don't necessarily own cars.

00:25:01.259 --> 00:25:04.319
So, like, there's a lot of walking. Public transit's pretty big,

00:25:04.459 --> 00:25:07.479
so- And their candy is pure.

00:25:07.679 --> 00:25:11.279
And their candy is pure. Dude, they love sweets. I mean, they should be obese.

00:25:11.399 --> 00:25:14.119
If they didn't walk, they would all be obese. Well, they're not eating the red dye.

00:25:14.519 --> 00:25:19.499
Maybe. Maybe that's what it is. Maybe the dye is the trick. The dye and the artificial flavors.

00:25:20.679 --> 00:25:25.159
All right, whatever. Moving on from their candy and sweets. Got it. But –.

00:25:26.994 --> 00:25:30.894
Get out there, make weight. We're waiting for myself and my opponent,

00:25:30.954 --> 00:25:35.274
both in, in there waiting for, you know, the guy, the other guy to show up in

00:25:35.274 --> 00:25:39.754
our division, you know, shows, uh, but you know, you have to wait like the,

00:25:39.934 --> 00:25:41.594
an extra 15, 20 minutes or some bullshit.

00:25:41.754 --> 00:25:44.054
Or, you know, the undefined amount of time.

00:25:44.274 --> 00:25:47.854
That's not clear. Cause like sometimes they'll like, I coached a guy a couple

00:25:47.854 --> 00:25:49.994
of years ago in the DC open who like had to wait.

00:25:50.574 --> 00:25:55.014
I'm not kidding. Like an hour. Yeah. Like, you know, contrast that to the story

00:25:55.014 --> 00:25:58.154
I talked about earlier where I, where I was like, give me an hour.

00:25:58.894 --> 00:26:01.314
I'm cutting all this weight. I mean, I don't do that anymore,

00:26:01.314 --> 00:26:03.394
but it does not make any goddamn sense.

00:26:03.534 --> 00:26:07.454
Yeah, I don't understand. Like, the number of last calls that people I heard,

00:26:07.494 --> 00:26:11.274
I'm like, just DQ the dude. Just DQ him. But...

00:26:12.456 --> 00:26:21.636
They end up DQing the other guy and they move myself and my new opponent for the finals into it.

00:26:21.716 --> 00:26:25.016
So this is the guy who won silver at Euros last year.

00:26:26.176 --> 00:26:33.236
I had intel from our friend RJ who had competed against him in Dublin that this

00:26:33.236 --> 00:26:36.796
guy likes to pull guard and it was very incorrect.

00:26:37.776 --> 00:26:41.576
From what I saw, it couldn't have been more incorrect. But like the dude...

00:26:42.456 --> 00:26:46.096
The dude trains with like some pretty high level wrestlers.

00:26:46.316 --> 00:26:52.096
So like I, I got to, I knew that, but also, you know, I went with the Intel

00:26:52.096 --> 00:26:54.116
that someone competed against. I do too.

00:26:54.376 --> 00:26:58.016
I always have. Yeah. Um, you know, like I've, and I've competed against,

00:26:58.196 --> 00:27:02.096
you know, or I've trained with Olympic level wrestlers, D one wrestlers.

00:27:02.256 --> 00:27:03.636
Like that's not a problem.

00:27:04.036 --> 00:27:11.156
Um, my defense is great, but expecting one thing, you know, like it was,

00:27:11.156 --> 00:27:13.216
it was a little bit of a shock, but whatever.

00:27:13.396 --> 00:27:19.616
I, I know how to handle it. Um, but also coming off one of the things that was

00:27:19.616 --> 00:27:22.716
important and like, actually, uh,

00:27:23.336 --> 00:27:26.516
professor Jason had sent me, like, I messaged him before I was like,

00:27:26.796 --> 00:27:30.776
Hey, just like any parting words before I go.

00:27:30.916 --> 00:27:37.116
Um, and he sent me like exactly what I needed to hear, which was great.

00:27:39.156 --> 00:27:44.176
And it was just, you know, don't force opportunities. It's just another tournament, you know,

00:27:45.305 --> 00:27:48.505
don't cheat yourself out of the opportunity to show yourself the growth you've

00:27:48.505 --> 00:27:53.385
made grapple for position singularly focused on achieving the position at every point of the match.

00:27:53.665 --> 00:27:56.385
Take advantage of what he gives you in reaction to your control.

00:27:56.785 --> 00:27:59.585
And like, I was just like, dude, that's excellent. Thank you.

00:27:59.985 --> 00:28:01.405
Act exactly what I needed to hear.

00:28:02.105 --> 00:28:07.065
And, um, so like I went out there knowing like, we're not taking the first thing

00:28:07.065 --> 00:28:08.905
we're taking the right thing.

00:28:09.405 --> 00:28:13.925
Um, you don't have to, you just have to not get scored on first, right?

00:28:14.065 --> 00:28:18.465
Like, I know that I have damn near endless cardio.

00:28:18.885 --> 00:28:23.765
I have the metrics that I send to Asim about this every cardio day.

00:28:24.725 --> 00:28:30.445
Like, I'm not going to get tired. I can play the game. I can just fight it,

00:28:30.885 --> 00:28:32.885
defend as long as I need to.

00:28:33.005 --> 00:28:35.245
And when I feel the opening, just go for it.

00:28:36.345 --> 00:28:40.665
So, like, he was taking it to me. He was shooting a lot. He shot a lot from

00:28:40.665 --> 00:28:42.725
what I saw. He did a lot of shooting.

00:28:42.965 --> 00:28:46.365
Not a guard puller. Not this time. Not that day. He shot a lot of single legs.

00:28:46.825 --> 00:28:51.405
I mean, I was doing, I wasn't too worried. I defend single legs all day,

00:28:51.525 --> 00:28:52.945
every day. It's not a big deal.

00:28:53.505 --> 00:28:57.925
But, like, I mean, he was coming with them hot. He was driving through them.

00:28:58.005 --> 00:29:00.965
He was, you know, he was bringing some forward momentum.

00:29:02.885 --> 00:29:06.045
But, like, I was keeping him on his heels as well. And so, like,

00:29:06.045 --> 00:29:07.805
it was a good, like, back and forth.

00:29:07.825 --> 00:29:10.865
His hand fighting was good. um but like

00:29:10.865 --> 00:29:13.945
once i started to feel him waning i

00:29:13.945 --> 00:29:18.185
started bringing the offense back to him started working some throw throw attempts

00:29:18.185 --> 00:29:23.925
um went for some like hip tosses and all of that um he had good hips he was

00:29:23.925 --> 00:29:30.825
keeping up and uh at one point like i felt like you can start to feel when like

00:29:30.825 --> 00:29:32.985
they're getting tired and like they start to like,

00:29:33.809 --> 00:29:38.949
they start to give you those snap downs. They start to like over react to things.

00:29:39.069 --> 00:29:43.229
Like you do the thing and like they're slower to get up or like they go down

00:29:43.229 --> 00:29:47.949
further or they go down slower and then it takes them longer to get up.

00:29:48.129 --> 00:29:52.949
And so I hit a, I hit a wrist snap into a blast double, got my two points.

00:29:53.189 --> 00:29:57.809
And like, once you get that too, and like I ended up cutting and letting him up.

00:29:58.809 --> 00:30:01.969
And he did a good job of following that into the single leg.

00:30:01.969 --> 00:30:05.109
But like once i just felt that

00:30:05.109 --> 00:30:07.949
that like he was getting tired he

00:30:07.949 --> 00:30:10.849
broke him i was just like all right this is the time we're gonna

00:30:10.849 --> 00:30:16.429
take that opportunity big wrist snap got both he went down to his like basically

00:30:16.429 --> 00:30:21.309
on all fours and i just level changed and just waited until his head came up

00:30:21.309 --> 00:30:27.029
and just boom blast double right through got the two um i i kind of landed not

00:30:27.029 --> 00:30:29.749
like the best I was starting to work like a peg leg pass,

00:30:29.949 --> 00:30:32.549
but like stuff was kind of in a weird configuration.

00:30:32.649 --> 00:30:35.569
So I was like, I'm just going to reset. I've got my two.

00:30:36.229 --> 00:30:41.189
I'm up now. Like I'm winning. Now we just play. Now it's just game time. Play the game.

00:30:41.709 --> 00:30:45.509
But he did a good job of collecting the leg on the way up. So I,

00:30:45.509 --> 00:30:50.509
I got it, got a good bite on the head and just brought my hips in and,

00:30:51.103 --> 00:30:55.643
he lifted and I was like, perfect dude, lift me up, jump, jump the guillotine.

00:30:56.343 --> 00:31:02.483
Uh, the good team comes back to save you. Yeah. Again, uh, only my second guillotine

00:31:02.483 --> 00:31:04.103
I've ever pulled in the competition.

00:31:04.583 --> 00:31:09.783
I don't know why. Apparently they, they come out. Um, and he was fighting it hard.

00:31:09.783 --> 00:31:13.403
And like, you just, you, if there was like a health meter above them,

00:31:13.603 --> 00:31:16.343
it's just going down, down down down

00:31:16.343 --> 00:31:19.303
down to and like he was basically just

00:31:19.303 --> 00:31:22.343
I just did a little little sweep got my four

00:31:22.343 --> 00:31:25.263
well got my two got my four for him out

00:31:25.263 --> 00:31:28.183
then took the back seven seconds left

00:31:28.183 --> 00:31:31.783
just rode it out ended up winning 12 12 nothing um

00:31:31.783 --> 00:31:34.563
and so I was like all right that's the

00:31:34.563 --> 00:31:37.383
game right like I can just wear just wear them

00:31:37.383 --> 00:31:40.543
out let them wear themselves out if you have to weather the storm then

00:31:40.543 --> 00:31:43.303
i mean i have enough offensive game just play it there

00:31:43.303 --> 00:31:46.063
um and so that was i

00:31:46.063 --> 00:31:48.683
mean that was my weight division i ended up doing i'm a glutton for punishment

00:31:48.683 --> 00:31:53.163
so i do open weights too uh there weren't too many big guys it was middleweight

00:31:53.163 --> 00:32:01.983
and medium heavy um they gave my opponent for open weight like uh like 40 minutes

00:32:01.983 --> 00:32:06.003
to show up which was fucking ridiculous um.

00:32:07.028 --> 00:32:10.608
He even got there and then was, like, arguing with them to, like,

00:32:10.668 --> 00:32:15.528
give him more time. I'm like, dude, like, are you, what?

00:32:16.288 --> 00:32:22.388
I'm also sour because he was stalling like crazy the entire match. So, you know, whatever.

00:32:23.288 --> 00:32:27.008
He was a middleweight? Yeah, he was a middleweight. So what's that?

00:32:28.388 --> 00:32:32.108
Two, is that two divisions above me? Where's middleweight?

00:32:32.268 --> 00:32:35.248
Is that after light? Middleweight is after light, yes. That's two divisions up.

00:32:35.288 --> 00:32:38.828
So he's two weight classes up. I think that's like 30 pounds yeah

00:32:38.828 --> 00:32:42.388
so um but I mean he wasn't hella

00:32:42.388 --> 00:32:45.088
strong he's just bigger um really wasn't that

00:32:45.088 --> 00:32:49.408
much bigger than me either so that was fine um yeah

00:32:49.408 --> 00:32:52.488
I mean he was just like stalling head down just not

00:32:52.488 --> 00:32:56.128
playing the game you know head down hips away not really

00:32:56.128 --> 00:32:58.968
there's nothing there keeping everything in

00:32:58.968 --> 00:33:02.408
tight just kind of shelling up um and like

00:33:02.408 --> 00:33:05.388
looking back I probably should have just there was a questionable two.

00:33:05.388 --> 00:33:08.128
That they gave him um because like

00:33:08.128 --> 00:33:10.908
i just kind of he got the leg we go down i

00:33:10.908 --> 00:33:14.568
pop right back up it wasn't like control established um but

00:33:14.568 --> 00:33:17.428
you know that two got put in was on the board

00:33:17.428 --> 00:33:20.248
and then at that point like now i'm

00:33:20.248 --> 00:33:23.328
playing from behind so stuff starts to change there

00:33:23.328 --> 00:33:26.908
uh but looking back that was probably one of the times one

00:33:26.908 --> 00:33:30.388
of the few times that like i probably should have just pulled guard and

00:33:30.388 --> 00:33:33.568
just forced him to stall on top and just he would

00:33:33.568 --> 00:33:36.388
just gotten dq'd he was doing nothing from the top like he

00:33:36.388 --> 00:33:39.268
was literally just throwing in a turk and putting his head like

00:33:39.268 --> 00:33:42.168
in my hip or on top of my knee and just sitting there

00:33:42.168 --> 00:33:44.988
i mean i was cross-facing the shit out of him he wasn't

00:33:44.988 --> 00:33:48.088
reacting like i mean i was i was being mean i

00:33:48.088 --> 00:33:51.428
was to the point where i was like basically doing forearm strikes

00:33:51.428 --> 00:33:58.208
like just trying to elicit reaction or action from this person um and like i

00:33:58.208 --> 00:34:01.688
mean there was a point where i was just I just put cross-faced him and just

00:34:01.688 --> 00:34:04.968
sat there and just shook his head and looked at the ref just to be like this

00:34:04.968 --> 00:34:10.608
dude's not moving like what like at some point you know there's a point of like.

00:34:11.403 --> 00:34:15.063
There's a point where like you're on top and controlling and on top and just

00:34:15.063 --> 00:34:18.343
sitting there and like the line of stalling for that.

00:34:18.503 --> 00:34:20.823
It's like, where is that line?

00:34:20.983 --> 00:34:24.423
Right? Like if he's not doing anything, he's not playing the game.

00:34:24.963 --> 00:34:30.803
I don't know. Like there should be a point, like at least pretend to do jujitsu. I don't know.

00:34:31.203 --> 00:34:35.743
Um, but so I lost that. That was the, that was the semifinals for open weight.

00:34:35.903 --> 00:34:41.063
So two zero, no, it ended up being six zero just from like, I just kept getting up.

00:34:41.403 --> 00:34:44.583
And they kept giving him two? Yeah. Interesting.

00:34:45.303 --> 00:34:48.123
All right, whatever. But, like, there probably should have been,

00:34:48.163 --> 00:34:53.223
so we both had two stalling calls, which I also disagree with, but whatever.

00:34:54.943 --> 00:34:58.483
We had two stalling calls, so, like, if he got one more stalling,

00:34:58.543 --> 00:35:00.703
it would have been DQ'd, or they would have removed his points.

00:35:00.903 --> 00:35:04.603
So that's what I'm saying. I probably should have just stayed down when he got

00:35:04.603 --> 00:35:07.583
the points and just, like, forced the stalling calls. I see.

00:35:08.303 --> 00:35:11.823
But, because then it would have just been zero, it would have been zero zero

00:35:11.823 --> 00:35:15.843
and i would have had advantage up on him and i could just chill um,

00:35:17.263 --> 00:35:23.863
but uh that was that met some cool people um met this guy adam forrester um

00:35:23.863 --> 00:35:27.983
the name sounded familiar after he told me it i don't know some he's a purple

00:35:27.983 --> 00:35:34.303
belt out of 40 licks over there um cool dude uh he actually before that match

00:35:34.303 --> 00:35:35.783
told me the dude was gonna stall.

00:35:37.323 --> 00:35:43.683
And i did not expect it was going to be to that like extent like so shout to

00:35:43.683 --> 00:35:47.523
him for trying you know give me a little bit of solid some really solid intel

00:35:47.523 --> 00:35:52.723
uh i just didn't quite expect it to be that intense um,

00:35:53.678 --> 00:36:01.018
But, you know, it was overall great. Got my post-meal. I got to the train and my phone died.

00:36:01.178 --> 00:36:06.338
I had to find the pub via the old school way of just looking for signs.

00:36:07.818 --> 00:36:14.858
But got my post-fight meal of a traditional British Sunday roast. Okay.

00:36:15.158 --> 00:36:22.138
And some pints of hand-pulled British beers. How were the beers? They were British.

00:36:22.838 --> 00:36:28.398
Okay. It was what I expected. Okay. It was funny because we were there with

00:36:28.398 --> 00:36:30.598
my sister and brother-in-law. Mike is a beer master for those listening.

00:36:30.838 --> 00:36:34.298
I drink the cheapest of beers, though. Okay. Because they're the most consistent.

00:36:35.838 --> 00:36:42.198
But I was there with my sister-in-law and brother-in-law were with my wife and

00:36:42.198 --> 00:36:46.378
kids. And so they all came to dinner.

00:36:46.518 --> 00:36:50.538
We all met up for dinner afterwards because they were out doing London stuff while I was competing.

00:36:51.618 --> 00:36:54.638
Um and they were like trying to get me like try all these british craft

00:36:54.638 --> 00:36:57.978
beers i'm like no i want the most working man

00:36:57.978 --> 00:37:01.038
like mass-produced british beer

00:37:01.038 --> 00:37:03.898
you have what was it london pride uh no this was

00:37:03.898 --> 00:37:06.798
just some like i don't know it was just said amber ale i

00:37:06.798 --> 00:37:09.838
think it was called uh doom pint or something like

00:37:09.838 --> 00:37:13.418
that it was pretty good okay this was it was

00:37:13.418 --> 00:37:16.198
british and that was what i wanted

00:37:16.198 --> 00:37:19.618
i wanted to experience london there you go um but yeah

00:37:19.618 --> 00:37:22.938
it was good got to crush some food some nice salty

00:37:22.938 --> 00:37:27.138
uh gravy covered beef with

00:37:27.138 --> 00:37:33.218
yorkshire pudding and potatoes hell yeah um well my kids ate fries and ice cream

00:37:33.218 --> 00:37:39.118
it's great uh yeah i mean so i mean it was cool got to experience more of london

00:37:39.118 --> 00:37:44.178
after that um and then flew on back and now we're here i got back uh uh,

00:37:44.718 --> 00:37:47.018
Thursday. So I've been home for two days.

00:37:47.890 --> 00:37:52.210
Welcome to America. So now I'm back in America, the champion of London.

00:37:52.370 --> 00:37:54.310
That's right. So nice redemption.

00:37:55.010 --> 00:37:59.310
We corrected in less than three days.

00:37:59.650 --> 00:38:04.110
Course corrected, got back on track, and now we're eyes on the future.

00:38:04.290 --> 00:38:07.070
Number four now in the world. I like that. So you climbed back up.

00:38:07.910 --> 00:38:10.510
I'm better than I was before. That's right.

00:38:11.490 --> 00:38:18.590
So, but yeah, I mean, I think also needed that win too. So you need that win

00:38:18.590 --> 00:38:20.670
every once in a while. Savor it, man. I know what you mean.

00:38:21.310 --> 00:38:26.070
And now we've got the next thing on the docket. So we'll look at the future.

00:38:26.470 --> 00:38:32.010
VGI, yes. And VGI is next weekend. So when this comes out, it will be on Saturday.

00:38:32.010 --> 00:38:32.710
A couple days later, yeah.

00:38:32.990 --> 00:38:39.170
So when you guys are hearing this, on Saturday I will be at VGI at Vanguard

00:38:39.170 --> 00:38:42.750
in Manassas 25th. I believe the event starts at 2 p.m.

00:38:42.810 --> 00:38:46.890
And it's CJI rules in the pit. it's a giant pit too,

00:38:47.683 --> 00:38:53.023
That pit's crazy. Damn. They did end up making a bigger pit.

00:38:53.463 --> 00:39:00.743
Yeah. All right, I like that. It's a lower slope than NGA's, so it's less steep.

00:39:01.203 --> 00:39:06.263
So it's also taller because to make it less steep, they had to make the walls longer. I see.

00:39:06.503 --> 00:39:12.883
So it's a big wall, and it's not as steep, so you can kind of walk up it more.

00:39:13.963 --> 00:39:16.623
It's probably a little dangerous because like you

00:39:16.623 --> 00:39:19.643
could like throw someone you can stand on it to like you

00:39:19.643 --> 00:39:23.203
could throw somebody off of it interesting so it's a little so like

00:39:23.203 --> 00:39:27.003
stay off the walls okay um tell

00:39:27.003 --> 00:39:29.943
that to shane he likes throwing people but like

00:39:29.943 --> 00:39:32.683
you don't want to be on top i got it of the wall like you

00:39:32.683 --> 00:39:35.483
don't want the person underneath you like

00:39:35.483 --> 00:39:38.443
you don't want your back on the wall obviously um but if

00:39:38.443 --> 00:39:41.143
someone's underneath you they can get under you they can get under

00:39:41.143 --> 00:39:44.483
you really easily um and it

00:39:44.483 --> 00:39:47.363
is a little more area than ngas it's not

00:39:47.363 --> 00:39:50.283
like crazy big but it is a little more room uh so

00:39:50.283 --> 00:39:53.283
it's going to be more like a ibjjf mat but instead

00:39:53.283 --> 00:39:56.363
of out of bounds you have like giant sloped walls which probably

00:39:56.363 --> 00:39:59.383
make up about the same amount of areas the inner mat

00:39:59.383 --> 00:40:02.143
okay so um so that'll

00:40:02.143 --> 00:40:05.963
be exciting come check it out guys it's three by five rounds sub

00:40:05.963 --> 00:40:11.363
only they have bounties for the subs too so there should be some good uh it

00:40:11.363 --> 00:40:14.743
should be pretty active i like so it'll be fun a lot of big names on it i'm

00:40:14.743 --> 00:40:16.483
pretty excited um who do they got

00:40:16.483 --> 00:40:23.863
uh i know they have jack suddiff for my division um so they have jack uh,

00:40:25.024 --> 00:40:28.724
Angel, I think is his name. Or is that in the other one?

00:40:30.924 --> 00:40:36.524
Anthony Salgado. John Michael from Kaizen.

00:40:38.304 --> 00:40:42.864
Renee from Kaizen. Devon Jackson from MMA Institute.

00:40:44.604 --> 00:40:48.544
Casey Arbogast from Noel Smith. Jack Sutteth from Lineage.

00:40:49.224 --> 00:40:53.224
So that's for the 150. The 200-plus is pretty good, too.

00:40:53.224 --> 00:41:00.344
You have Angel Jimenez, you have Gator from 10th Planet, Garson Gross from Vanguard,

00:41:00.964 --> 00:41:03.424
Will Bullock, who we just had on the show,

00:41:04.184 --> 00:41:10.304
Wyatt Carroll, another, he's from Culpepper, BJJ, Vanguard, Culpepper,

00:41:10.884 --> 00:41:12.464
another super active competitor.

00:41:12.464 --> 00:41:19.604
And then your boy Shane, champion, champion in two MMA divisions or two MMA promotions.

00:41:20.024 --> 00:41:23.684
So, I mean, it's some pretty well-stacked divisions.

00:41:24.864 --> 00:41:28.784
So, I mean, it'll be a fun show for you guys coming out. We'll be there.

00:41:30.544 --> 00:41:34.784
So, yeah, that'll be cool. It's going to be fun. It starts at two. And it starts at two.

00:41:36.007 --> 00:41:41.607
Competitor's there at 12, though. Okay. Oops. But so, yeah, that'll be good.

00:41:42.327 --> 00:41:45.627
There's a lot of stuff going on. But it's also nice because I know Calduna has

00:41:45.627 --> 00:41:48.367
a fight. That evening. Right down the road. He's the main event, so he'll be later.

00:41:48.587 --> 00:41:50.907
Yeah. Oh, it's right down the road. All right. Yeah, because it's Salisbury

00:41:50.907 --> 00:41:53.227
Center, so it's not far. All right, good. Yeah.

00:41:54.087 --> 00:41:57.467
They're very close to each other. Good. Because I'm going to be driving around a lot. Yeah.

00:41:58.867 --> 00:42:00.027
So, yeah, you don't have to, like,

00:42:00.267 --> 00:42:04.827
go county to county all over northern Virginia to see all these things.

00:42:06.227 --> 00:42:09.387
And then you, the following weekend, right? I got Euros the week after.

00:42:09.387 --> 00:42:11.987
You got Euros. In Rome. In Rome.

00:42:12.687 --> 00:42:16.267
You go take it to some Europeans also. That's my intention. Yeah.

00:42:16.267 --> 00:42:19.007
I have every intention. And then you can also, you can have real pizza.

00:42:19.527 --> 00:42:22.407
Yeah. The most real pizza. That's right. That's right. Pasta.

00:42:22.567 --> 00:42:26.507
They're known for that. Rome has four signature city pastas.

00:42:26.887 --> 00:42:28.307
Ooh. Cacio e Pepe.

00:42:31.647 --> 00:42:35.447
Oh, fuck. I'm trying to do the other three off in my memory.

00:42:36.187 --> 00:42:45.047
Cacio e Pepe, Carbonara, the other one that's like a Cacio e Pepe. It's very similar.

00:42:45.887 --> 00:42:50.687
I'm going to Google it. But I'll eat all of them. I mean, I might eat all of them at the same time.

00:42:51.617 --> 00:42:56.117
Yeah. Oh, get the all four. They have a name for that, don't they?

00:42:56.537 --> 00:42:59.357
I don't know, but they should. Cacio e Pepe.

00:43:00.137 --> 00:43:04.177
Carbonara, Grisia. And the Amatriciana. Amatriciana. Yeah.

00:43:04.717 --> 00:43:09.917
Some Italian words. Yeah, so those are like the four Roman signature pastas.

00:43:10.017 --> 00:43:11.637
They have a bunch of other ones I'm sure you can get too.

00:43:11.977 --> 00:43:15.217
But I'll mash those. Yeah, dude. That's it. That's the plan.

00:43:15.677 --> 00:43:17.917
Yeah. Get out to Italy on Thursday.

00:43:18.837 --> 00:43:22.677
God willing, do my thing on Friday. Which is Halloween, by the way.

00:43:22.857 --> 00:43:24.257
It is. That's why I can't go.

00:43:24.817 --> 00:43:30.057
And then I'll go trick-or-treating. Because I was trying to convince them to, I wanted to go.

00:43:30.357 --> 00:43:34.357
But it was a big like, no, no, we're doing Halloween. I'm like, all right, that's fair.

00:43:34.657 --> 00:43:37.797
That's reasonable. There you go. My kids are going to be, we're going to be

00:43:37.797 --> 00:43:39.777
smashing candy. What's their costumes?

00:43:41.697 --> 00:43:46.517
Skeletons. Nice. Well, my son's a skeleton. My daughter might also be a skeleton,

00:43:46.537 --> 00:43:48.477
but she might also be Minnie Mouse.

00:43:48.677 --> 00:43:51.177
Okay, some spooky skeletons. Yeah, it's all up in the air.

00:43:52.137 --> 00:43:54.917
It's, you know, they have two options. What's their favorite candy?

00:43:56.877 --> 00:44:00.837
Uh, chocolates. Anything with chocolate, okay. Chocolate, gummies. Love it.

00:44:01.217 --> 00:44:04.477
Apparently Kinder Eggs right now. Oh, okay, okay, okay. They're big on Kinder

00:44:04.477 --> 00:44:06.077
Eggs. I think it's because of the toy, though. They eat, like,

00:44:06.177 --> 00:44:08.577
half the egg, and then they just move on to the toy, so. Fair enough.

00:44:11.637 --> 00:44:18.757
But, yeah. But then, so then the following week, I'm probably going back to

00:44:18.757 --> 00:44:20.717
New York for some New York Redemption.

00:44:20.957 --> 00:44:24.957
Mm-hmm. I think my division's gonna be... It's close enough to Worlds that,

00:44:24.957 --> 00:44:27.717
like, it should be relatively light. Okay.

00:44:28.077 --> 00:44:32.077
So, uh... It just kind of depends because I don't want to, like,

00:44:32.177 --> 00:44:35.637
have too big of a division a month out. Mm-hmm. So, um...

00:44:36.665 --> 00:44:39.985
I'm planning, I'm leaning towards it, doing like a quick day trip.

00:44:40.785 --> 00:44:44.945
Drive up there like that morning. Do the damn thing. Do it and just drive home.

00:44:45.105 --> 00:44:49.745
There you go. So we have another guy who's doing the white belt division.

00:44:49.945 --> 00:44:53.245
Okay. So I might just have him be like, I'll coach you. We got to drive me.

00:44:53.245 --> 00:44:55.485
Yeah, road dog it. You got to drive me up, bro.

00:44:56.865 --> 00:44:59.605
And then you got to wait for my division to be done and then drive us home.

00:45:00.945 --> 00:45:05.545
So I think I'm leaning towards doing that because I'm one gold medal away from first place.

00:45:05.885 --> 00:45:08.865
Get it, baby. I want that. Get it, baby. I want that. Take that title.

00:45:09.085 --> 00:45:14.925
So that'll be my last IBJJF before Worlds, Nogi Worlds.

00:45:15.725 --> 00:45:20.465
And then on the 22nd, which you guys will hear about on the next episode,

00:45:20.465 --> 00:45:27.085
I'm going to be doing the Movember Team Trios over at Capital and Man Lorton. So that'll be fun.

00:45:28.105 --> 00:45:32.685
I've got a cool team together. We'll probably be the underdogs just from Beltrink.

00:45:32.885 --> 00:45:36.025
Okay. But I think we'll have a pretty good shot at my...

00:45:36.719 --> 00:45:40.959
My teammates are tough. You're bringing the big heavies. I got my heavies.

00:45:41.279 --> 00:45:43.759
The bodyguards. Got my heavies. The muscle.

00:45:44.219 --> 00:45:47.419
You know, I'm overly confident, so. I like that.

00:45:47.779 --> 00:45:51.079
Yeah, dude. I'm counting on them to tire everyone out or just knock them all

00:45:51.079 --> 00:45:52.319
out. So we'll see what happens.

00:45:52.579 --> 00:45:55.259
Ton of activity in the local scene, too. I mean, that's another day,

00:45:55.339 --> 00:46:01.219
because like you said, next weekend, which, you know, everyone will hear this before that weekend.

00:46:01.739 --> 00:46:04.379
October 25th weekend has mad events.

00:46:05.179 --> 00:46:10.099
Beta's doing the grapple-a-thon. which is like a big open house kind of thing. People come out there.

00:46:10.939 --> 00:46:13.899
I want to say they do something like some kind of charity as well.

00:46:14.679 --> 00:46:19.259
But nonetheless, it's going to be like an all-day thing, followed by VGI.

00:46:20.339 --> 00:46:23.819
And I want to say there's like a PBJF that day too.

00:46:24.019 --> 00:46:26.779
I'm not going to be able to go to that, but I believe there's a PBJF.

00:46:26.879 --> 00:46:29.079
And then Cagezilla's fighting that night.

00:46:29.279 --> 00:46:33.739
That PBJJF got moved. Okay, good. So there was going to be, but I think it got

00:46:33.739 --> 00:46:37.239
moved in November. Yeah, that was smart because there was just too much shit going on.

00:46:38.359 --> 00:46:42.079
And then this weekend that you're talking about, the November 22nd day,

00:46:42.239 --> 00:46:46.379
you have the Movember Super Fight. So we talked about with BJ and Alex earlier.

00:46:46.919 --> 00:46:49.379
People will hear this before that date comes out.

00:46:50.919 --> 00:46:54.099
Our listeners will hear about it before that date comes around or whatever.

00:46:54.559 --> 00:46:59.479
And that same day is Copa. Yes. Copa Virginia, last event of the year for Copa.

00:46:59.559 --> 00:47:00.659
They're going to give out team awards.

00:47:00.919 --> 00:47:03.379
And that's going to be at George Mason. It's going to be at George Mason.

00:47:03.379 --> 00:47:09.359
So those are not no they're kind of close okay they're not too far away I think they're like uh,

00:47:10.239 --> 00:47:14.599
20 minutes down the road see if I can't try to get to both again as well cause

00:47:14.599 --> 00:47:19.399
the one um you just hop on Fairfax County Parkway and you can just kind of like

00:47:19.399 --> 00:47:23.999
here there hop down to Lorton got it cause where theirs is is right off Fairfax

00:47:23.999 --> 00:47:28.239
County Parkway got it so it's not too bad of a it's a quick jaunt,

00:47:28.819 --> 00:47:31.639
quick jaunt quick jaunt down um,

00:47:32.623 --> 00:47:37.263
Yeah, I mean, it's a busy, it's not usually this busy in the local scene.

00:47:37.363 --> 00:47:41.083
No, it's picked up a lot. Yeah, the local scene's getting crazy. A ton of things going on.

00:47:41.503 --> 00:47:43.483
Everyone's, like, adding additional events.

00:47:44.123 --> 00:47:46.843
It's cool. It's good. It's good for the local scene, man. Yeah.

00:47:47.063 --> 00:47:49.963
I mean, almost to the point where, like, I mean, we were just talking about

00:47:49.963 --> 00:47:53.383
another one that just canceled an event. We're like, it's fine.

00:47:53.563 --> 00:47:54.703
There's been enough. Yeah.

00:47:55.023 --> 00:47:57.163
You got everyone. Spread it out. Everyone's been busy. It's fine.

00:47:57.163 --> 00:47:58.883
Spread it out a little bit. Yeah, yeah. It's okay.

00:47:59.823 --> 00:48:04.943
There's too much to choose from. I guess that's a good problem to have but dude

00:48:04.943 --> 00:48:10.683
yeah it's a very busy fall there's a lot of events there's not as many dead weekends,

00:48:11.343 --> 00:48:17.963
and like usually it's not like that you know usually there's like one thing every couple weeks.

00:48:19.423 --> 00:48:24.203
Locally at least it's cool to see man it's a good sign yeah it's good especially

00:48:24.203 --> 00:48:30.363
like this area has really good jujitsu like it has a really good like there's

00:48:30.363 --> 00:48:32.303
a lot of it It's grown a lot.

00:48:32.483 --> 00:48:37.263
I mean, we've been in the scene here for a while and it has grown a lot since then.

00:48:37.763 --> 00:48:41.203
I mean, there's probably something every weekend at this point.

00:48:41.323 --> 00:48:46.403
And sometimes there's multiple things to the point where people are like,

00:48:46.563 --> 00:48:50.963
do I want to stack weekends and go to one this weekend and another?

00:48:51.163 --> 00:48:53.543
Do I want to do back-to-back competitions?

00:48:54.503 --> 00:48:58.803
I mean, it's getting tough for people to decide. By the time November 22nd comes

00:48:58.803 --> 00:49:06.583
around, you will have done five events between, let's say, from PANS to London to VGI to Movember.

00:49:07.463 --> 00:49:10.803
Potentially New York. Plus potentially New York. Yeah, so, yeah. You're getting it in.

00:49:11.003 --> 00:49:15.803
Getting it in. You're getting it in. I mean, I basically have from...

00:49:17.275 --> 00:49:23.055
With the exception of August, I've had something at least every other weekend. Yeah.

00:49:24.495 --> 00:49:31.755
So if you cut out August, I had July. I had Virginia Open. Then I had NGA in September.

00:49:33.975 --> 00:49:38.335
Then PANS, London Open. I'm going to have VGI. Yeah, so I mean,

00:49:38.395 --> 00:49:40.935
it's been a busy second half of the year for me. Yeah.

00:49:41.735 --> 00:49:46.475
Just take care of the body, bro. Just at this point, it's like, it's fine.

00:49:46.475 --> 00:49:49.195
Everything's broken okay i was actually just talking with a

00:49:49.195 --> 00:49:52.215
seam yesterday about like what's the winter arc

00:49:52.215 --> 00:49:55.135
look like right like he's like we're just we're gonna

00:49:55.135 --> 00:49:58.535
fix you over the over like december january

00:49:58.535 --> 00:50:01.315
and then you're gonna get bigger i like it

00:50:01.315 --> 00:50:04.215
so he's like we're gonna we're you're gonna take the first half

00:50:04.215 --> 00:50:06.975
of the year which like uh if some

00:50:06.975 --> 00:50:10.175
of you like aren't don't aren't like super attuned

00:50:10.175 --> 00:50:16.235
with like competitive jiu-jitsu like how it works like there's kind of two seasons

00:50:16.235 --> 00:50:21.355
you have like a gi season and a no gi season depending on the organizations

00:50:21.355 --> 00:50:27.375
but like we're both more active in ibjjf right now um like in ibjjf that's kind

00:50:27.375 --> 00:50:29.395
of how it works and so like,

00:50:29.975 --> 00:50:35.375
it gets super busy and this you're you're more busy in the second half of the

00:50:35.375 --> 00:50:39.255
year because you're trying to accrue points for worlds you might not be as busy

00:50:39.255 --> 00:50:42.355
in the first half of the year because you're trying to recover from worlds um

00:50:42.355 --> 00:50:45.035
so like it won't be as active so it's like all right let's,

00:50:45.495 --> 00:50:49.055
let's go ahead and bulk up for Nogi season and we'll see.

00:50:49.335 --> 00:50:53.955
I'm probably going to be in a new division. So get bigger, get stronger.

00:50:54.375 --> 00:50:58.715
I like that. So it'll be fun. I'm looking forward to it. Yeah.

00:50:59.515 --> 00:51:02.415
Give the body a break, but harvest some mass. Yeah.

00:51:02.655 --> 00:51:05.975
Start to. It's harvesting season. We're going to cultivate mass.

00:51:06.195 --> 00:51:08.715
Cultivating mass. Start harvesting it, bro. Yeah.

00:51:10.735 --> 00:51:15.495
We're big fans of sunny. Oh, yeah. So. Oh, yeah. but yeah man uh,

00:51:16.500 --> 00:51:21.020
And we're both going to be at Worlds. We just talked to some awesome ladies

00:51:21.020 --> 00:51:23.680
who are also going to be at Worlds. So you guys get to hear that in a couple weeks.

00:51:24.400 --> 00:51:30.240
So, I mean, there's a lot of cool stuff coming up, too, in the world realm. Mad activity.

00:51:31.000 --> 00:51:33.400
So there's going to be a lot of cool stuff for people to look out for.

00:51:33.540 --> 00:51:35.260
People out there in the game. Yeah.

00:51:36.440 --> 00:51:40.520
Do you have any other remarks? No, bro. Look at this redemption arc, dude.

00:51:41.020 --> 00:51:44.680
Redemption. That comes back from just one loss, no big fucking deal,

00:51:44.680 --> 00:51:47.440
and then just jumps even further ahead than he was the week before.

00:51:47.640 --> 00:51:49.240
That's the way to go. That's the way to go. That's what you do,

00:51:49.320 --> 00:51:50.960
guys. Stay hungry. Lessons in life. Stay hungry.

00:51:51.440 --> 00:51:54.240
There's always another fight. Always. Yeah, that's the other thing.

00:51:54.340 --> 00:51:57.180
You got to keep those things on the calendar so that you don't care when you

00:51:57.180 --> 00:51:59.500
lose because you're too worried about winning. You got more to do.

00:51:59.760 --> 00:52:02.760
And you got more to do. I got more work to do. I got more wins.

00:52:02.900 --> 00:52:09.140
It's been a good conversion into the full-time jiu-jitsu world. That's right.

00:52:09.300 --> 00:52:12.500
And, like, wins come, losses come.

00:52:12.640 --> 00:52:15.420
Like, it's all part of the game. I mean, we both probably have,

00:52:15.580 --> 00:52:20.420
we both between us have lost plenty of matches and you just have to keep coming back from it.

00:52:20.800 --> 00:52:25.100
So, um, you know, this is how it works, guys. It's the name of the game.

00:52:25.200 --> 00:52:26.860
It's the name of the game. It's the name of the game, baby.

00:52:27.100 --> 00:52:31.260
And this has been Fires Drinking Coffee before we rambled too long.

00:52:31.320 --> 00:52:34.960
It was. Uh, it was a shorter episode, but, um...

00:52:35.658 --> 00:52:39.778
We don't want to drag you guys through our drag outs. We still might do that later.

00:52:40.018 --> 00:52:43.138
We might do it later. But not today. Not today. We'll drag you guys through

00:52:43.138 --> 00:52:44.958
some more conversations later. We'll drag you through some shit.

00:52:45.438 --> 00:52:49.998
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00:53:49.038 --> 00:53:51.658
know uh we keep putting this in there but we

00:53:51.658 --> 00:53:55.018
have some cool stuff coming we want to keep reminding you of it um from

00:53:55.018 --> 00:53:57.978
cruise combat so we're going to be having some cool nogi

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