(Ep 43) 2025 Year End Review: How to Analyze Your Jiu Jitsu Year and Track Success

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Welcome back to Fighters Drinking Coffee, guys.

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Today we're going to talk about analyzing data, but not like boring data.

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We're going to talk about, we're going to kind of do a little year in review

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thing, but we're also going to go over looking back at like at your competition season.

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You can do this for like multiple years, if over multiple years, if you like.

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Um, but we're going to be looking at 2025, the competition season that we've

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had taking that, all that data we've gathered in,

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you know, kind of seeing like, all right, where did we start at the beginning of the year?

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What did we accomplish throughout the year? where did

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we end up like look at like the little micro little

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micro goals macro goals um all the

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data gathered in there from like the small little details um down to like big

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big wins big losses not like in a not in competition but like what did we do

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well what did we accomplish yeah so like accomplishments,

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the big ones and, you know, or, and the small ones, like those little things,

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like things like we talked about on the last one, like, did you just stop losing a certain way?

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Did you start, you know, those little things, did you stop making X mistake?

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Did you start doing whatever?

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Um, but so we're going to kind of walk through what we look at,

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um, while also kind of doing our own year in review here.

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Uh, so, you know, we'll bring you guys along for the ride as we kind of break

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down everything that from our competition seasons and, um, might be a lot of

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mine cause I have a lot that I did.

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So I, I like, this is a project for you.

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I'll do it too, but I, I think you definitely should do this a lot.

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Um, especially like this is my first competition season back.

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In a long time. So, uh, there's, there's a lot to look at.

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Um, so, you know, I think this will be a fun exercise and, you know,

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you guys should be able to glean some ways to do that for yourselves.

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And for those of you that don't compete, you can do this just by looking at

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yourself back in January when you were at the beginning of the year,

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starting jujitsu class, even if you've been doing it for a while, but, you know,

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your first class of the year and kind of where you've, how

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you've come along you can still look back at

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like just how you're performing in class

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or at open mats and other

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gyms if you drop when you're cross training like we told

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you to on an episode this this exercise can be used for like literally anything

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and everything you want to do in life yeah that you care about um and i'm gonna

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make it about you man um but like we'll we'll make it interactive yeah but um but the yes so like

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uh, what the reason why I, I like doing this.

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Um, and this isn't like, you don't have to do it this a year now.

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Like now that you, again, if I'm using you as an example, now that like you

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finally, we've talked about this in the show, I've joked about this many episodes.

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People have listened consistently. We'll know like two, three, four weeks back.

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I'm like, Mike, you need, let's get you to the where like you're done with your

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campaign. I'm calling it a campaign.

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You've been at war and, uh, you get to like sit for a second,

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like really like, cause you were going, going, going, going, going.

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Um, I, what I was going to say was that you can do this exercise at any given

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time, and you always should, especially, like, after a tournament or after an

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event, you can always, like...

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You can always do this analysis at any given moment, but like now with like

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a year, you can kind of get like a complete set of data, so to speak,

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and then be like, all right, cool.

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Let's understand what actually took place. This is the first thing I wanted

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to say about this exercise is that like, if you're not trying to like self-assess

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and take a look at what you've done,

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what like, what data points we receive from, from competitions,

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which there are many things you can get into,

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um and all the prep going around that

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too this is something me and asim texted about with one

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another a lot this week after uh after worlds but um

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if you're not looking back at things you also don't really get the full picture

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like you'll you'll miss stuff you might think to yourself like man i had a really

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good busy year and like you'll you'll still like benefit from that like you're

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not like the work you did not going to bear zero fruit but you can get the most

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out of it by looking back and being like,

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all right, dude, well, let's, let's really study and understand what took place.

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How many times did I compete?

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How many times did I cut weight? Cause maybe you weren't cutting weight for

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some of those. And like, as you know, like that's critical intel,

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man. Like, cause how was my weight cut?

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How did that how did my training change along with like the

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reduction like i'm just giving you an example of the type of

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depth that analysis can provide for you um when

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i was cutting weight did i bang up my leg five days for

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a tournament and i started to kind of tough it out and go in

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and then how did i perform that weekend i'm just giving you an example like

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it's like you get to look at these things and be like all right well how did

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may go all right may i won gold at whatever okay and then in june i didn't make

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the podium i i got tapped out first run hey maybe may to june maybe you were

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overtrained maybe you competed maybe you hadn't gotten to where like.

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You're acclimated to that level of activity again these are just

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examples um but like this is just a type of shit like

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like literally just look back at everything write it out and like

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try to be as detail-oriented as possible um we have

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tools and things that we can look up like you have some of those nifty like internet

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things that you even told me about that like like what's that one called like

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the bjj like oh bjj metrics that's the one yeah that's hey shout out to bjj

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metrics we should talk to those guys but anyways another another time um but

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like something like that that actually kind of like helps compile some data

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but like so you can leverage a tool if the tool gives you some,

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directionality in the stuff but like you're while it's fresh

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while it's top of mind you still remember these things because like i could go

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back i have a decent memory for like all my tournaments and shit but like

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we go back years like you'll forget shit so do it now um but

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you get to go run through everything and try to like remember everything about

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the match did you win on points did you lose on points did you want a rough decision losing

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rough decision did you submit the guy did you get submitted how many matches

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did you have did you do three divisions plus absolute

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because you did that a couple times bro yeah so you'll

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have mad data dude um but like write it all out write it all out first and then

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go through each layer of detail and then let's try to get the picture of like

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when you were at your best when you felt like you weren't at your best but like

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you're still still competent like when you had to be really gritty when you

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felt like fresh and energetic um does that make sense yeah yeah,

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Okay, do it. Oh, do it right now. Oh, now. No, we can keep talking about it for sure.

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Because for what it's worth, what I'll say is that while I do this,

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I don't claim to have the best system for this.

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In another life, wouldn't it be nice to kind of like the way we have these apps

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for us to have like an app that like just kept track of all of our shit.

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That would be kind of nice.

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Whoop is asking me all these questions about what I'm doing the day before every time I wake up.

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Seriously, it has this like sleep journal thing. Oh. Yeah, it's rather cool.

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So you can kind of like figure out why. It'll ask you, did you,

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yeah, exactly. Like, cause it crunches out these metrics. It says like you were

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poorly recovered or you recovered at X percentage.

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You met whatever percentage of your sleep goal. And then it asks you questions.

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It was like, all right, well, what was the last time you, like,

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did you fly yesterday? Did you work really late yesterday?

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Did you do X, Y, and Z yesterday? Did you have nicotine? Did you have alcohol?

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Did you have blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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And it'll, it'll, it's obviously going to give us patterns on how these things

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impact all the different things. Yeah, it'll tell you. And then like,

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well, if you do scroll for 30 minutes before bed, then you, it seems like for

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you, you're not sleeping as well.

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Or if you eat because you ate every time you eat after 830, you don't sleep

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well or whatever. We should have this, we should have this for, uh.

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For combat athletes around their events. Yeah, well, I mean,

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we could just... Did you jack off 10 times yesterday?

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We should just make a list of questions, and then at the end of every tournament,

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we just ask ourselves those questions.

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So, you know, we have the warm-up we do every time, right?

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We should just come up with, like... Obviously, this won't be blanket,

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because... Are we making an app on this episode? I think we're developing an app.

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Hey, we've... If you're listening to this, don't steal our app. This is trademarked.

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Don't... Stop listening now. Pick up in a few seconds. if you build it better

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and faster than us just send it to us what we're saying is we're looking for

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someone who knows how to develop an app I know some nerds who could help us

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with that but yeah I mean like I think we could probably,

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I mean we'd just do that in a journal we'll figure it out,

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we're not going to give you guys too many ideas we're going to do the thing we're going to do,

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we're going to analyze the year not give you guys our app idea fuck off don't take my app.

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But yeah I mean like,

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Yeah. I mean, I, I tend to, I do this like at a super small scale after each

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tournament, but like, you know, you forget cause I haven't been writing it down. Cause I'm busy.

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It's not a behavior. You gotta move on to the next one. Yeah.

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Well, you know, this is why you got a couple of weeks between now and the end of the year.

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Like this is one more call out to why this is such a good time of the year to do it.

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Because like, um, you know, people start to travel for Christmas.

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People start to travel for new years.

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Like businesses start to slow down. Like people get days off. like in

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the jujitsu world classes start to slow down they're open mats

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and shit like people have a little more time on the counter to like sit around like

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dude wake up one of these days eat your bagel yeah

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two bagels gain the weight have a cup of coffee and then i'll fucking do it

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with you i actually kind of i i rather enjoy these exercises i actually really

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like it that's why like me and asim like to fucking work together because we

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both like this shit like this nerd not all stuff like that and like asking these

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questions it's really fun for me the discovery process. I like that a lot.

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Yeah, I'm actually sitting down with him probably tomorrow about our little recap.

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So this will be a practice. It's going to be forced upon you.

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But here's the last thing to pick on you, dude. This is like,

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again, this was your first big comp year in a minute.

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But you've probably competed more now as a grown-ass man than you ever did in one year before this.

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If I had to bet, dude, think back to maybe except for when you wrestled in high school.

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Outside of wrestling, yeah, I probably did more,

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now then so you're taking it seriously but you're more committed to it now right

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this is a cool thing so like do it now like do it this year like do it like

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this will inform you next year.

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On just how to do everything better it's it's cool

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like i mean i'm i'm gonna do it like i do this too but i'm not gonna i'm gonna

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do it with more rigor now that we're talking i type shit up i've given you papers

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and i type up yeah i'm gonna type up more shit man i've actually got like a

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whole list of things i'm gonna i'm typing up in the next like seven days for

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myself but i I also intend to distribute it to people who like students who

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I know will find value in it.

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Yeah. People that people that will appreciate it.

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But yeah, man, I mean like, so let's lay out some facts, bro. Let's just do it.

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So let's see. Want me to, you want me to guide you with questions? We can do a little bit.

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I'll set the stage on like kind of what the length of the year was in a couple like key areas.

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A couple, like, key time points. So, like, season started.

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Was Copa Elite February or March?

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Good question, bro. Let me take a look. I want to say. It started with Copa

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Elite, though. I want to say it was March. I think it was March.

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It was either end of February or beginning of March.

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It might have been, like, first weekend of March. Because. I'll tell you.

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You keep going. But whatever.

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If I searched through my pictures, I could find out. So it started with Copa

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Elite, which I was competing with an almost missing finger, by the way.

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That was fun. I forgot about that. This is a critical part of your story is

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like being mangled. So that is the beginning of the season.

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Then when that first Virginia spring opened.

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You cut your hand. Hold on. I'm not doing that yet. Did you cut it when like a.

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It almost got ripped off. My pinky almost got ripped off by a machine.

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That's right, dude. I don't like that.

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Yeah. um yeah I was I got my stitches out early and like it still wasn't closed

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and I competed um yeah and so maybe don't do that just from like a general let's

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start with that to the extent that you can keep your hands out of um it's not

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heavy machinery yeah well and like.

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Look, probably let it close up, but I was not pulling out. Copa was February

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8th, by the way. Oh, it was the beginning of February.

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It was early. So it started beginning of February. That's right.

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So we're 10 months. Yep. 10-month season this year.

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10 months. The longest break was Virginia to Virginia.

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Virginia to Virginia. So that was three months? That was like March,

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I think. The first one was March. It was March or April. March or June.

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Yeah, until July. for Virginia. So that was the longest time off.

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But in that time, that was when I started working with the seam.

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So that's kind of like the key time points.

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And then in right before, about a month ahead of pans, I think it was, is when I left my job.

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So those are like kind of the key. I think those are probably some like key,

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like, yeah, timeline, uh,

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like building kind of a framework there. So 10 month season starting in February,

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started working with a seam in April, right?

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Whatever. Right after we interviewed him.

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Um, and then left my job at the end of the summer, September ish.

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So about a month before pans, I believe.

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So that's kind of like the setting the stage there.

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Um, and so, yeah, yeah.

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That that sets the stage that sets the stage um i

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mean i you can either guide or i could you okay i can

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break down things i already know about setting the stage

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so all right so first tour first event

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um copa elite february um

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virginia open ipjjf was

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not too far off i mean it's like a month and a half i

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say it was i think it was march and then right around that time

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was when you started working with the seam bang that's a big data point

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right there you like we get a professional strength conditioning program going

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um about let's say eight to 12

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weeks we're not exactly sure what the exact date of virginia open.

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Was plus a seam you then

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moving into the next virginia open the summer one and which

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was july which was july not june okay so let's say it was

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about like 10 weeks um and then

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you really picked the activity heavily you're probably

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feeling very well prepared you've probably felt like you're like all right shit dude this is

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seam stuff is working man um and you're motivated and

00:15:01.852 --> 00:15:05.012
you kind of got the first couple events under your belt now you're like let's and some

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medals so you're like let's let's keep this shit going um

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was it between july and october when

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things really ramped up or was it september because like you i'd say q3 you

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hit it heavy dude september was the start of the ramp up but it was like october

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through november that you october through november yeah so like october i pretty

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much competed every weekend right just about um.

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August was maybe one thing. No, I don't even think I competed in August.

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August was like the only month in that span that I didn't compete at all.

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But like Virginia was the very end of July.

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But yeah, August was the only one I didn't compete at. I coached at a few,

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but I didn't compete in August.

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And then September I had just one or two.

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Then i competed a shit ton october

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november like i remember yeah every almost

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every weekend every other weekend uh starting in september essentially um and

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then so outside the longest layoff would have been new york open to worlds i

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think so after after yeah so like after,

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after Virginia Open, I think that was like the longest layoff.

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It was New York Open that was after Thanksgiving, right? No, it was before.

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So he had about two and a half-ish weeks. Oh, no, because I competed in NGA. It was about a month.

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I think I had about, not NGA, Movember. It was like a one-month layoff from

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Movember to Worlds. Okay.

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Right. So once things like you crescendoed towards the end of the year, quite a bit. Okay.

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Got it. Now, ordinarily, I would, we can do this together on the show here if

00:17:03.014 --> 00:17:06.394
we, if it doesn't take an arduous amount of time to do it, but I'd like to know

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like how all the matches, how many matches you had at each event,

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like how many matches in total? You can estimate.

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Uh, so one, two, three,

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How about this? Do you think it was more or less than 20 when you put it all together?

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It was probably a little less than 20. But let's just say, let's round up to 20. Yeah.

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Because you. That works. Just for the sake of conversation, because it was probably.

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I think it was like 17 or 18.

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Yeah, whatever. Let's just round up to 20. You competed about 20 times.

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Actually, it might have been.

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Because it was, I think it reads about, I think it showed about 18 just in IBJJF.

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So no, it would have been closer to like 20. 20 is a pretty good number. Let's go with 20.

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Yeah. um let's how about this um if we can approximate what your win percentage was.

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Um oh 60 probably about

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that okay i think that's about right okay six out

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of ten that sounds about right just from like me like communicating with you

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but again i'm not going i mean like you know do the best of your ability you

00:18:03.116 --> 00:18:05.596
can actually like write this shit out like yeah i would go through with a fine

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tooth comb it's worth it right like we're just kind of spitballing it but these

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are like good metrics to have here all right so within the let's go to the wins first within the wins,

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um how many of those were via submission how many of those were via points and

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then how many those were like other let's say like ref's decision being other

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uh so let's see which is still a points win but you know what i mean when i

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yeah like they're not there weren't points involved,

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um yeah so i had one two,

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Three or four, I think, were by sub. I'd have to actually look at it more, but I think it was three.

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Three or four were by sub of the wins.

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Most others were by points. Okay.

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Or decision. So, like, mostly, I'd say it's probably mostly decision or point wins.

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60% of 20 is about, what is that, 12 or 13?

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Something like that. Okay. And so out of the 12 or 13, let's see,

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is it three or four? Just pick a number for subs.

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Three. Three, okay. Three sounds right. Three out of 12. So 25% of your wins

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were by, if we're saying 12, 25% by sub, the other 75% by points.

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All right. So that's telling us something about like you're positionally comfortable,

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you're good at controlling and dominating there.

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Now, you might be able to answer this pretty quickly because I feel like this

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stuff like sticks in mind.

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Of the subs, what kind of submissions were you hitting? Um...

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Kimura and then guillotine okay so one was by guillotine the other two were kimuras,

00:19:36.628 --> 00:19:39.628
all right same exact kimura so but

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this is important to know because it's like that's telling us and we've talked about this

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too where it's like because i'll ask people this all the time like i ask brand

00:19:45.448 --> 00:19:47.528
new competitors and i know they don't have the answer for it because they're

00:19:47.528 --> 00:19:51.688
new but you're not new which is like what what are your weapons how do you win

00:19:51.688 --> 00:19:56.228
matches what are your subs for you you're like bam i fucking kimura guys yeah

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and you get to them right but like this This is starting to paint a picture for you, man.

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It's not that there's necessarily any sort of crazy takeaway from it other than

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like, hey, when I've won by submission, this was how I did it.

00:20:05.868 --> 00:20:08.668
Now, again, we'd have to do this right now, but it might be worth you asking,

00:20:08.848 --> 00:20:10.248
like, well, how did I get to those subs?

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What were those? Were they scrambles? Was it passing?

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Was it like, what do you remember about it?

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Was it like, hey, like, late in the tournament, like, this guy's tired.

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I'm not tired. He was weak. I fucking choked him.

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You know what I mean? Shit like that. Like, you could tell I could be like,

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how did this sub develop? So it's actually kind of cool because both of them come off the same.

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I mean, this is something that for the, specifically that Kimura setup,

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but also it feeds into that guillotine.

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It's the exact same. We've worked it for since the 20 teens.

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It's like the exact same thing.

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There's just like, it's not even something. It's just in, it's just in my brain.

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It's just part of second nature.

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Now this is your game. Yeah. That's what we're talking about.

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This is, like, you being, like, hey, like, this is the type of education that,

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dude, like, when you think about the last match you had at Worlds where you're

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like, all right, like, where do I want to be when I am in any given match?

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Do I want to be in a scramble that continues to just go and go and go,

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and I'm not really sure I want to close it out?

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Or do I want to be guiding guys down these channels where I have dual-threat

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opportunities, where I'm dominating motherfuckers, where I've gotten proven

00:21:17.908 --> 00:21:19.348
track records of finishing fights?

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Well, we've talked about, right, like, having the, like...

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Everyone can have like the their black belt move so

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and so like this is just the one i've practiced so many times that i

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just it's the one that this is my move

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that i am proficient at that's right um but

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that this is just now we're just getting takeaways yeah like that's

00:21:39.292 --> 00:21:41.992
just a thing i'd write that down yeah i'd be like yo this

00:21:41.992 --> 00:21:44.772
year i was very successful and by the way it's not a big

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surprise is it you're like i've been doing this for a decade yeah maybe

00:21:48.052 --> 00:21:51.392
longer so yeah you're good at it how

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can you replicate that 2026 how can

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we force more people into these

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choke points metaphorically but also literally in the

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in the fight to like put you in positions where like this is

00:22:02.252 --> 00:22:05.812
just how i own motherfuckers and like what then what

00:22:05.812 --> 00:22:08.492
our setups look like to do that what types of

00:22:08.492 --> 00:22:11.552
opponents are conducive to put themselves in situations where the

00:22:11.552 --> 00:22:14.432
where the opponents like maybe it's a guard puller who's like tough to

00:22:14.432 --> 00:22:17.852
get his arm and head near you just giving you examples yeah like who are the

00:22:17.852 --> 00:22:21.192
tougher guys for me to force them into that and i therefore need to either create

00:22:21.192 --> 00:22:24.392
a different avenue to guide them in that or when is it appropriate for me to

00:22:24.392 --> 00:22:29.572
say i need to use a different weapon and then by the way in tournament prep

00:22:29.572 --> 00:22:33.372
for next season you get to think about the training sessions that you have where

00:22:33.372 --> 00:22:34.252
you're like all right like,

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I, I actually now I've had the last three months to like think through new training

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drills, new training, new training partners that can benefit me to get better

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and better and better at these things.

00:22:46.368 --> 00:22:49.648
Hey, do I need to talk to a seam about like finishing mechanic strength?

00:22:50.488 --> 00:22:53.648
Like if you're like, I mean, what I'm hearing with guillotines and like kimuras

00:22:53.648 --> 00:22:54.768
is like upper body strength.

00:22:55.408 --> 00:22:59.688
Now, so many things require upper body strength. It's just not a big surprise, but like, yo man, like,

00:23:00.348 --> 00:23:03.208
all right, like you tell that to a seam, I guarantee you a seam will be like,

00:23:03.208 --> 00:23:06.408
i can think of five things that we can integrate on a weekly basis

00:23:06.408 --> 00:23:09.128
that's going to make your like your gate teams a little bit tighter maybe he's

00:23:09.128 --> 00:23:11.748
going to give you more hammer curls he has me do hammer curls all the time and i

00:23:11.748 --> 00:23:14.468
like that shit i'm just giving you an example like this is like this stuff

00:23:14.468 --> 00:23:18.128
is is very useful to think through um i

00:23:18.128 --> 00:23:20.788
could keep going on the submissions for a while i think that's a

00:23:20.788 --> 00:23:24.888
pretty good like example there points um let's

00:23:24.888 --> 00:23:27.708
let's actually this is like an exercise let's switch over to the losses now

00:23:27.708 --> 00:23:33.508
okay of the losses every single one was uh submission loss now that's this is

00:23:33.508 --> 00:23:36.908
important to know um what does that potentially tell us it tells us that you

00:23:36.908 --> 00:23:41.368
if you're gonna you if you're gonna lose they're gonna have to kill you yeah

00:23:41.368 --> 00:23:45.348
that's kind of cool that's that's pretty cool that's good to know um do you

00:23:45.348 --> 00:23:47.628
recall the different submissions um,

00:23:49.149 --> 00:23:53.169
Yes, you can. Yeah. So I was, I was. You're compiling the data? Yeah.

00:23:54.849 --> 00:23:58.529
So triangle choke. Okay. You dealt with that one fast. You haven't been.

00:23:58.609 --> 00:24:00.749
Yeah, we, we've, we have solved that. Good.

00:24:01.129 --> 00:24:03.369
But so triangle choke was the first one.

00:24:04.949 --> 00:24:11.549
Elbow exploding. Well, we might be able to put that as a. Elbow exploding hole.

00:24:12.169 --> 00:24:16.949
The. Was it Kimura or Americana? It was like a mirror lock.

00:24:17.369 --> 00:24:22.209
Got it. Yeah. But okay. But it was like an elbow thing. Elbow exploded. So dramatic.

00:24:23.149 --> 00:24:30.089
My elbow exploded. And then like a bunch of, one darts and a bunch of guillotines.

00:24:31.429 --> 00:24:35.909
Lots of guillotines. Okay. And then like two leg locks.

00:24:36.289 --> 00:24:37.929
It's kind of a mixed bag. I mean,

00:24:37.989 --> 00:24:41.429
you don't sound like you're particularly susceptible to any one thing.

00:24:41.569 --> 00:24:44.569
What I would argue. Was super susceptible to the guillotine.

00:24:44.649 --> 00:24:48.689
I think I might have worked that one out. If I may, I have something that I'll

00:24:48.689 --> 00:24:51.569
ask you because, I mean, because of the way you fight.

00:24:51.709 --> 00:24:54.209
And these are, like, again, this is good stuff to, like, share with,

00:24:54.209 --> 00:24:55.789
like, you share with Jason, you share with Asim.

00:24:57.469 --> 00:24:59.209
But it's just starting to, like, paint a picture, which is, like,

00:24:59.289 --> 00:25:02.669
you go after it when you fight, right? So, like, again, it's your first year

00:25:02.669 --> 00:25:05.129
getting back into competition.

00:25:05.189 --> 00:25:08.049
I would say, like, this year is a lot of, like, experimentation,

00:25:08.269 --> 00:25:11.169
exploration for you. And this is what it's, like, this is what I'm seeing, too.

00:25:11.649 --> 00:25:13.449
Sort of, like, again, like, you get to, like, figure out, like,

00:25:13.449 --> 00:25:14.589
hey, where are my strengths, where are my weaknesses?

00:25:14.749 --> 00:25:17.529
Where am I kind of vulnerable? in this case you're not vulnerable

00:25:17.529 --> 00:25:20.689
to one thing but you're like constantly putting yourself in positions which

00:25:20.689 --> 00:25:23.569
is going to be good um now to

00:25:23.569 --> 00:25:26.369
the extent that you can kind of run through what we just did and like ride it

00:25:26.369 --> 00:25:29.789
all i'm not gonna ask you to do that right now um for the interest of our listeners

00:25:29.789 --> 00:25:32.189
but like you should write all that shit down like it was like this many heel

00:25:32.189 --> 00:25:35.609
hooks this many whatever whatever so you can because maybe there's more to it

00:25:35.609 --> 00:25:39.769
um than than what i'm getting at here but like i what i'm hearing is that like

00:25:39.769 --> 00:25:44.929
there's no one thing but you're just you're going you competed so much and you're like you're,

00:25:45.719 --> 00:25:49.699
You're not losing on points. You're just getting tapped out.

00:25:50.079 --> 00:25:52.199
And you're putting yourself in risky positions, which is like,

00:25:52.259 --> 00:25:55.679
these are like, those are the recipes for like, that's how you get better.

00:25:56.019 --> 00:25:59.559
I mean, my only issue with you in some of these situations is the exploding limbs.

00:25:59.859 --> 00:26:03.099
I just don't want you to, I want you to, no, you're fine. It was only once.

00:26:03.239 --> 00:26:06.799
And you've recovered from it, but like. It's fine. But if I may,

00:26:07.259 --> 00:26:10.459
and I think Jason and Asim would agree with me, like, that's cool.

00:26:10.539 --> 00:26:15.099
We might need to keep you protected from yourself. You're too tough for your own body, bro.

00:26:16.159 --> 00:26:22.359
Um, uh, you're fine, but also like, let's just try to mitigate some of the potential

00:26:22.359 --> 00:26:24.439
bodily harm, especially when you compete.

00:26:24.579 --> 00:26:29.819
That one specifically, that was a submission where there was no like pain thing

00:26:29.819 --> 00:26:32.539
that occurred. Did the, did the pain occur later, Michael?

00:26:32.919 --> 00:26:35.779
It occurred later, but there was no pain in the moment.

00:26:36.039 --> 00:26:39.999
Got it. I didn't feel a submission occurring. Got it. It just sort of happened.

00:26:40.019 --> 00:26:42.379
It just exploded. But you know what submissions look like.

00:26:42.479 --> 00:26:44.799
I'm not going to let you off the hook. That's funny.

00:26:45.679 --> 00:26:50.159
But yeah dude like ultimately good stuff there it's just I think for that.

00:26:51.239 --> 00:26:57.839
I think for that that's more that's actually a good thing this is a good thing

00:26:57.839 --> 00:27:00.079
like the way you like I said you have to get beat they,

00:27:00.999 --> 00:27:05.379
you lose a single time on points man not a single time that's interesting I

00:27:05.379 --> 00:27:10.759
don't lose I'm impressed by that one loss on points two it was two it was the,

00:27:11.539 --> 00:27:15.639
but they were both bigger guys oh the Movember ones Superfights?

00:27:15.819 --> 00:27:18.039
No, the one was the...

00:27:19.144 --> 00:27:22.124
Was open weight they were both open weight fights

00:27:22.124 --> 00:27:24.984
okay um those don't concern me a

00:27:24.984 --> 00:27:27.944
ton no like the open weight fights are like they're great

00:27:27.944 --> 00:27:30.604
don't get me wrong but like if a big dude has to lay on me to

00:27:30.604 --> 00:27:33.344
beat me that's fine well the reason if i

00:27:33.344 --> 00:27:36.144
know totally and like if i may dude like if we're looking at

00:27:36.144 --> 00:27:39.464
this like you're we just did worlds like if you want to put yourself in like

00:27:39.464 --> 00:27:43.924
you want to win major titles next year which you do um you're going to do it

00:27:43.924 --> 00:27:48.604
in your weight class that's ultimately your competition pool yes like you'll

00:27:48.604 --> 00:27:51.604
do these you'll do these absolutes do some like stuff where you kind of go out

00:27:51.604 --> 00:27:54.184
of like your typical competition environment but like,

00:27:54.856 --> 00:27:57.836
You should start thinking like, yo, man, next year, I want to try to make a

00:27:57.836 --> 00:28:00.296
run at whatever. I'm just giving you an example. Give me whatever your goals

00:28:00.296 --> 00:28:01.176
are. Your goals are your goals.

00:28:01.416 --> 00:28:05.936
But if you're like, I want to win one major tournament next year or whatever. I want to win them all.

00:28:06.456 --> 00:28:09.876
Like however you slice and dice it, you're going to ultimately get into like,

00:28:10.036 --> 00:28:14.656
this is what my avenue of competition looks like. This is the build. This is the size.

00:28:14.876 --> 00:28:17.396
So those other ones are called just get an experience.

00:28:18.276 --> 00:28:21.216
That was you getting blooded again for the first time in years,

00:28:21.596 --> 00:28:23.036
which again, I applaud you for that.

00:28:23.036 --> 00:28:27.196
So like in your division like these generally those are the habits it's like

00:28:27.196 --> 00:28:30.136
those point losses were like those giant dudes laying yeah.

00:28:31.696 --> 00:28:33.556
So yeah you're willing to put yourself

00:28:33.556 --> 00:28:36.116
at risk that's a good thing to be that's a good thing as a fighter,

00:28:37.276 --> 00:28:41.456
and by the way you like we talked about with the submissions I think you just

00:28:41.456 --> 00:28:46.236
run the same the same scenario of analysis of like how did I get there what

00:28:46.236 --> 00:28:49.776
did it lead to did I put myself in that position did he put me in that position

00:28:49.776 --> 00:28:53.796
and in either scenario just kind of walk yourself through how you got there.

00:28:53.996 --> 00:28:57.696
And then you'll, in either case, it's all preventable.

00:28:57.856 --> 00:29:00.536
Like you can look at someone who pulled you into something and say,

00:29:00.636 --> 00:29:03.096
all right, well, this is where the trap developed and this is how he got it.

00:29:03.436 --> 00:29:05.936
Or you can look at that and say, well, he didn't even trap me.

00:29:06.016 --> 00:29:08.936
I just stepped into a thing being a goof and I got caught.

00:29:09.136 --> 00:29:12.316
And like, either way, you're going to have the prevention slash,

00:29:12.336 --> 00:29:16.596
um, neutralization exercise and training of that.

00:29:17.156 --> 00:29:19.236
And, um, that kind of goes back to where I was saying, like,

00:29:19.296 --> 00:29:23.236
if there perhaps is a pattern around that, because maybe the pattern as you

00:29:23.236 --> 00:29:29.816
put yourself in a lot of those situations yes is that the pattern yeah i mean um that was pretty much,

00:29:30.433 --> 00:29:36.673
So, all the guillotines was, I mean, you know, with partial credit to them,

00:29:36.973 --> 00:29:42.413
but all of them, like, was I initiate action, guillotine happened.

00:29:42.613 --> 00:29:44.553
Got it. So, all the guillotines, it was that way.

00:29:45.773 --> 00:29:49.013
Off of shots? One was off a shot, two were off a wrestle-ups.

00:29:49.593 --> 00:29:53.433
So, by the way, relatively similar engagements.

00:29:53.653 --> 00:29:57.533
Yeah. So that's a worthwhile nugget to say, all right, like we know we're going

00:29:57.533 --> 00:30:02.093
to go through these wrestling takedown or either a wrestle up or a wrestling takedown.

00:30:02.253 --> 00:30:06.573
It's going to come back and you're not going to stop doing it, nor should you.

00:30:07.413 --> 00:30:10.353
But, hey, Jason, let's look at this and say, all right, man,

00:30:10.433 --> 00:30:12.133
like we saw a pattern here.

00:30:13.373 --> 00:30:14.873
What's this? Because it all could

00:30:14.873 --> 00:30:19.333
take is this one little direction change with the way you prep a thing.

00:30:19.653 --> 00:30:22.033
And then all of a sudden that's gone. You don't have to worry about that shit

00:30:22.033 --> 00:30:25.193
anymore. and you're like, now when you wrestle up, now when you wrestle,

00:30:25.333 --> 00:30:27.273
it's like, those are just points. You're just taking people down.

00:30:28.073 --> 00:30:30.373
But that's a worthwhile one to be right there. Be like, yo, this happened a

00:30:30.373 --> 00:30:33.173
couple times. I'm not too concerned about it. I know there's a thing I can do different.

00:30:33.773 --> 00:30:36.273
Because we've talked about this too. Like when you're constantly in like prep

00:30:36.273 --> 00:30:38.573
for the next tournament, you don't always get to stop and do different.

00:30:38.693 --> 00:30:39.793
You kind of just have to do the same.

00:30:40.273 --> 00:30:43.013
Yeah. So now you get to do different. Now you get to be like,

00:30:43.553 --> 00:30:46.593
yo, all right, well, we analyze this one thing.

00:30:46.713 --> 00:30:50.533
I know this is a crazy trend, but it's a trend. It happened more than once.

00:30:50.773 --> 00:30:54.293
All right. Like, instead of the double with my head here, I'll do the double

00:30:54.293 --> 00:30:59.153
like this, or I'll go outside single, or I'll do, you name it, right?

00:30:59.213 --> 00:31:01.193
Like, you just make that adjustment, and you're like, all of a sudden,

00:31:01.193 --> 00:31:07.653
I don't get guillotined anymore off these fucking doubles, if that is exactly what happened.

00:31:08.342 --> 00:31:12.902
Yeah no that makes sense um actually after the third one the third time it happened

00:31:12.902 --> 00:31:17.962
i uh i did i was like all right we are this happen anymore i was like we are

00:31:17.962 --> 00:31:23.282
going to this so the two wrestle up ones were in the pit so there was um a little

00:31:23.282 --> 00:31:26.362
bit of like a a function of using the pit involved.

00:31:27.482 --> 00:31:31.082
Um but like we literally spent 30 minutes just

00:31:31.082 --> 00:31:34.022
so i got i there's two other

00:31:34.022 --> 00:31:36.862
featherweights that are in the area

00:31:36.862 --> 00:31:40.062
that I train that I'll train with that like compete frequently ish

00:31:40.062 --> 00:31:43.282
uh one of them frequently other one he compete

00:31:43.282 --> 00:31:46.502
he's uh he is also a competitor not

00:31:46.502 --> 00:31:50.482
as frequent but still competes decently um and

00:31:50.482 --> 00:31:53.162
so we literally just spent an hour in the

00:31:53.162 --> 00:31:55.962
pit just like escaping guillotines I remember the pit

00:31:55.962 --> 00:31:59.002
being one of the major factors in this too yeah it was worth considering

00:31:59.002 --> 00:32:02.882
the two yeah so like that was one of those things like all right well we need

00:32:02.882 --> 00:32:06.962
to just figure out how this works well and that's that's worth talking about

00:32:06.962 --> 00:32:11.262
too right because like the pit um this is the terrain thing we talk about yeah

00:32:11.262 --> 00:32:16.882
the battlefield right like um how much of your time should be spent figuring

00:32:16.882 --> 00:32:18.802
out how to optimize the pit.

00:32:19.532 --> 00:32:23.492
Yeah. You see what I'm saying? Yeah. There's not necessarily a right.

00:32:23.572 --> 00:32:27.312
There is a right or wrong answer depending on how frequently you're going to be in the pit.

00:32:27.492 --> 00:32:32.432
But if you do a pit tournament once a year, I don't think it should dominate how you prepare.

00:32:32.672 --> 00:32:36.392
Because that does impact what we talked about a little bit. But whatever.

00:32:36.572 --> 00:32:39.352
That's just kind of a sidebar comment. It's just shit for you to think about.

00:32:39.512 --> 00:32:42.092
Because I remember one of them was a wrestle up, if I recall, from the pit.

00:32:42.372 --> 00:32:45.492
Yeah. So both wrestle up ones. The dude elevated off the fucking pit.

00:32:45.492 --> 00:32:48.372
Both of them were very similar where it

00:32:48.372 --> 00:32:51.372
was like my back against uh like towards the

00:32:51.372 --> 00:32:54.192
pit wall wrestling up kind of concave and so

00:32:54.192 --> 00:32:56.992
like the way that it yep it changes the way

00:32:56.992 --> 00:33:00.012
you have to wrestle up yeah so that was like i think that was like a specific

00:33:00.012 --> 00:33:03.252
thing with that one the other one was just off a shot and i was like all right

00:33:03.252 --> 00:33:06.792
we just need to correct this shot it was also a shot i never do so maybe don't

00:33:06.792 --> 00:33:11.352
do shots you never do in tournaments yeah well hey but if you don't look back

00:33:11.352 --> 00:33:13.872
on the shit you don't get to like yeah because maybe it's not as big of a deal

00:33:13.872 --> 00:33:15.672
as we think, or maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but like just,

00:33:15.852 --> 00:33:19.572
this is the whole point is just doing this exercise. Um, anyways, man.

00:33:20.172 --> 00:33:25.472
Um, yeah. So like I, I, I'd run through all this type of, I would also do one on like.

00:33:26.257 --> 00:33:29.297
Energy stamina strength conditioning health of

00:33:29.297 --> 00:33:32.517
the body especially when we get into that like eight week

00:33:32.517 --> 00:33:35.397
nine ten week whatever rampage you went on

00:33:35.397 --> 00:33:38.177
yeah towards the end of the year where like you were cutting away all the

00:33:38.177 --> 00:33:41.277
time like let's just let's go through all that and then be like yo how

00:33:41.277 --> 00:33:46.817
that's physical did how physically prepared did i feel or or not prepared or

00:33:46.817 --> 00:33:51.117
overtrained or whatever that's one point of analysis is like i'm definitely

00:33:51.117 --> 00:33:57.617
not gonna like do that many all on top of each other again because like by the

00:33:57.617 --> 00:33:59.537
you pigged out oh dude dude,

00:33:59.997 --> 00:34:07.077
yeah you went to the jiu-jitsu fogo to chow yeah but you wouldn't leave by the end of the,

00:34:08.017 --> 00:34:12.717
kind of like that last stretch i

00:34:12.717 --> 00:34:15.477
was i mean i was like by the time i would

00:34:15.477 --> 00:34:18.737
luckily i was like recovered by the time we got to worlds but like

00:34:18.737 --> 00:34:22.017
dude it was were you mentally recovered it was rough um

00:34:22.017 --> 00:34:25.337
were you were you like fired up motivated or were you like yo i kind of need

00:34:25.337 --> 00:34:30.237
a minute i was probably i think i was probably edging on burnout a little bit

00:34:30.237 --> 00:34:35.237
um i mean like it was fine like i'm you managed it i'm able to manage it but

00:34:35.237 --> 00:34:39.257
like it was definitely i if i did like one or two more in that in that time

00:34:39.257 --> 00:34:41.317
span if i did like one or two more tournaments.

00:34:42.362 --> 00:34:47.482
Might've been a little, little rough. Um, and like a part of it too,

00:34:47.482 --> 00:34:50.122
is like, it was a lot all at once kind of at the beginning.

00:34:50.282 --> 00:34:54.142
Um, like I was talking about, maybe I'll stick to like once a month,

00:34:54.142 --> 00:34:56.602
this seat in this coming up season.

00:34:56.862 --> 00:35:03.142
Uh, but like, it was definitely like a lot, especially having to cut weight for all but one of them.

00:35:03.702 --> 00:35:07.282
Um, and so like, that was, that was definitely,

00:35:08.082 --> 00:35:11.342
that was definitely tough like I think probably that which,

00:35:12.222 --> 00:35:15.722
that New York in the New York Open definitely shouldn't have done that one that

00:35:15.722 --> 00:35:20.022
was probably like that was kind of like the I think that was like a moment a

00:35:20.022 --> 00:35:22.802
moment yeah like that 10 you know 10 hour,

00:35:23.562 --> 00:35:27.362
drive up and back and competing in like,

00:35:28.302 --> 00:35:32.202
cutting weight for that and like all that like that was definitely like that

00:35:32.202 --> 00:35:36.442
was the that was like a little bit of a an educational moment for you eye opening

00:35:36.442 --> 00:35:38.702
as it I was like all right, we don't need to do this.

00:35:39.522 --> 00:35:43.082
That was just because I was not going to no-show.

00:35:43.722 --> 00:35:46.462
No, no, I get it. Now, by the way, you said something on that last.

00:35:46.602 --> 00:35:48.242
This is important shit to think about.

00:35:50.202 --> 00:35:54.202
Also, the weight cutting. You're going to have to get into this with Asim and Jason.

00:35:54.322 --> 00:35:56.542
Like, yo, guys, how much longer am I going to be doing featherweight?

00:35:56.582 --> 00:35:59.422
Yeah, like, can I? When does it make sense for me to make that leap?

00:35:59.622 --> 00:36:03.322
I know my opinion on it. I know we've talked about it. But you got to engage

00:36:03.322 --> 00:36:05.542
with them and be like, yo, guys, let's make the right choice.

00:36:06.082 --> 00:36:09.502
But and this again just just i'm yeah asking

00:36:09.502 --> 00:36:12.262
you extra questions things we've talked about but for our listeners about a

00:36:12.262 --> 00:36:17.822
little bit is like maybe maybe we go up or at least go up for most of them is

00:36:17.822 --> 00:36:22.402
what we talked about and like i'm actually asim and i are talking tomorrow um

00:36:22.402 --> 00:36:27.022
ish well when this comes out it'll be in the past we have already we will have

00:36:27.022 --> 00:36:32.062
already have talked about it by the time this comes out but um but like you know.

00:36:32.829 --> 00:36:38.029
I'm leaning towards moving up a weight class because it's getting each cut and

00:36:38.029 --> 00:36:42.109
it, you know, it's whether it was a matter of volume of cuts or whatever,

00:36:42.309 --> 00:36:43.329
but it might be like, Hey, like,

00:36:43.909 --> 00:36:48.929
let's move up for half the season and then cut back down for majors or something like that.

00:36:48.989 --> 00:36:51.949
Cause like it is getting, I mean, it was tough.

00:36:52.089 --> 00:36:56.009
You did a shitload. We're also actively trying, you know, we're also actively

00:36:56.009 --> 00:36:59.269
trying to like build muscle muscle.

00:36:59.269 --> 00:37:02.329
So like it was also kind of like hard to

00:37:02.329 --> 00:37:05.349
to do all right we're we're building muscle when we're

00:37:05.349 --> 00:37:08.489
not cutting and then we're cutting and then we're building muscle like it

00:37:08.489 --> 00:37:11.549
wasn't really affecting the overall muscle building part

00:37:11.549 --> 00:37:15.509
like but like i was each one got harder because i was actually getting bigger

00:37:15.509 --> 00:37:20.549
in between each one yep um so like that was definitely tough and i'm probably

00:37:20.549 --> 00:37:25.849
i'm definitely reaching the very top end of it of the weight because i mean

00:37:25.849 --> 00:37:31.069
it took 10 i was it's at the beginning it was taking like five days.

00:37:31.956 --> 00:37:38.776
Of eating down and this last one for worlds even with the longer prep time took 10 days,

00:37:39.336 --> 00:37:42.316
so like your body's probably fighting back a little bit it's like hey motherfucker

00:37:42.316 --> 00:37:48.036
enough of this dude overall if i may like when i'd say this year was like this

00:37:48.036 --> 00:37:51.516
is this is why this is going to be such an important episode and a good exercise

00:37:51.516 --> 00:37:54.876
for anyone listening and definitely for you and i'm happy to keep talking about

00:37:54.876 --> 00:37:56.236
the shit because i like i said i like this stuff.

00:37:57.756 --> 00:38:00.556
Um dude this year again first year coming back

00:38:00.556 --> 00:38:03.216
this was definitely like let's get as much data as possible let's get you out

00:38:03.216 --> 00:38:06.836
let's get you active let's blitz the season like hey welcome back mike so now

00:38:06.836 --> 00:38:09.616
you're in a good position to ask all these questions these are all great questions

00:38:09.616 --> 00:38:12.176
but if you don't do all the things you did this year you also don't know what

00:38:12.176 --> 00:38:16.396
direction to take next year so you're gonna have so much information to analyze

00:38:16.396 --> 00:38:18.856
to make next year so much better,

00:38:19.416 --> 00:38:22.416
because you'll be able to ask like six or seven important questions

00:38:22.416 --> 00:38:25.556
and you'll have an answer to respond to that last one dude

00:38:25.556 --> 00:38:28.576
just to talk about i mentioned the last episode like kaiser the

00:38:28.576 --> 00:38:31.356
dude who i competed against in chicago at lightweight who was taller

00:38:31.356 --> 00:38:34.276
than me i thought he got weighed me by like six or seven pounds

00:38:34.276 --> 00:38:36.876
um i mean granted obviously we're in

00:38:36.876 --> 00:38:40.356
the same weight class and we felt like physically like pretty similar so he's

00:38:40.356 --> 00:38:44.476
just a taller dude than me um i ran into him you know at worlds last week he

00:38:44.476 --> 00:38:47.616
won at featherweight and i thought he was a big lightweight but like just giving

00:38:47.616 --> 00:38:51.856
you example of like athletes who do that who like he clearly did a a regional

00:38:51.856 --> 00:38:56.356
tournament at a higher weight didn't you know didn't have to cut anything but

00:38:56.356 --> 00:38:58.656
cut down for worlds. Motherfucker won worlds, man.

00:38:58.996 --> 00:39:03.216
So like people do that and that could be the move for you, dude.

00:39:03.936 --> 00:39:07.816
Um, this, this, this might be the most important thing for you to do this year.

00:39:07.896 --> 00:39:11.036
I mean, they're the, the, the prior conversation in this one, they're hand in hand.

00:39:11.556 --> 00:39:16.176
Um, but I think that's a big one. And that's also a good longevity question.

00:39:16.376 --> 00:39:18.336
Cause if you're talking about approaching burnout.

00:39:19.137 --> 00:39:25.457
I got to think that weight cuts 60, 70% of that mental burnout could be you're doing so much as well.

00:39:25.557 --> 00:39:27.657
And you cut it off right in time.

00:39:28.017 --> 00:39:30.457
You've seemed like very positive. Like you've been motivated.

00:39:30.537 --> 00:39:33.277
You've been gritty. You didn't stop working, but the burnout part's real, man.

00:39:33.417 --> 00:39:36.117
Like we got to like keep, we got to continue to enjoy what we're doing.

00:39:36.397 --> 00:39:39.257
Yeah. And like, I don't think it was a matter of not.

00:39:39.817 --> 00:39:42.757
I know I'm, I'm, I'm pressing that a little bit too much, but I think it's more

00:39:42.757 --> 00:39:44.437
for people listening than really for you.

00:39:44.557 --> 00:39:47.837
Oh, for sure. Like, I don't think it was a of like reaching lack

00:39:47.837 --> 00:39:51.817
of enjoyment on my end specifically um but

00:39:51.817 --> 00:39:54.717
it was definitely like reaching the point of like i just

00:39:54.717 --> 00:39:57.617
need a break you know what i mean like that was it was more of that

00:39:57.617 --> 00:40:01.017
like it was it was perfectly timed

00:40:01.017 --> 00:40:04.097
though like it it luckily it worked out it was perfectly timed

00:40:04.097 --> 00:40:07.637
it was just like that last day of like

00:40:07.637 --> 00:40:10.557
cutting weight i was like i'm so ready to not

00:40:10.557 --> 00:40:13.377
cut weight and so i mean that

00:40:13.377 --> 00:40:16.157
definitely played played a big part in

00:40:16.157 --> 00:40:19.477
it um you know and it was just like you

00:40:19.477 --> 00:40:23.257
kind of reach that point where like all right i'm you bounce back and forth

00:40:23.257 --> 00:40:26.217
between like all right i'm kind of ready for this season to be over but you're

00:40:26.217 --> 00:40:30.097
also like but we still have a job to do that's right but i'm kind of ready for

00:40:30.097 --> 00:40:34.197
this but i still have a job to do you know like so you got right on that edge

00:40:34.197 --> 00:40:37.217
right there that's also a good thing too for like that mental grit.

00:40:37.537 --> 00:40:38.477
You have to have that like.

00:40:39.437 --> 00:40:43.677
Again, war campaign thing. You have to endure a little bit. I like that shit,

00:40:43.677 --> 00:40:45.257
too. I like it, too. I know you do.

00:40:45.417 --> 00:40:48.377
But you did it. It has to be a little gritty.

00:40:48.617 --> 00:40:51.597
Suffering. You did that. You checked that box, man.

00:40:51.737 --> 00:40:57.377
You endured what I bet most of the guys in my division didn't compete as much as you did this year.

00:40:57.977 --> 00:41:01.677
Yeah. I mean, I know there's only one guy in my division who did.

00:41:01.677 --> 00:41:05.237
Well, you finished fourth in the fucking IBJF. So, like, you made top four,

00:41:05.397 --> 00:41:10.237
like, you outworked, I don't know, probably thousands of people in your division.

00:41:10.417 --> 00:41:12.517
Yeah, a lot of people. If you look at the numbers, yeah, dude.

00:41:13.137 --> 00:41:16.257
So, like, you worked hard. It's good.

00:41:16.477 --> 00:41:19.937
And you earned the result, like, you top five in your division for that.

00:41:19.997 --> 00:41:21.517
So that's the end of the year.

00:41:22.057 --> 00:41:25.497
Yeah. No, it was good. So it was worth it. It was a good season.

00:41:25.677 --> 00:41:28.857
Like, that was one of the, I mean, we taught right afterwards.

00:41:29.057 --> 00:41:32.137
It's like, you know, like, it was still a really good run.

00:41:32.297 --> 00:41:35.737
It was a very good run. It was a very, you know, like, got out there and did

00:41:35.737 --> 00:41:38.057
the damn thing all year. So, um...

00:41:38.708 --> 00:41:43.448
Yeah it was good and i'm i'm still excited i'm excited for the next year and like the next season.

00:41:44.068 --> 00:41:53.228
Um especially now that like ignore that we have all this uh all this data and so like we can.

00:41:53.748 --> 00:41:56.888
We can approach it more tact tactically next

00:41:56.888 --> 00:42:00.528
year and like we know like all right well what's too much what's

00:42:00.528 --> 00:42:03.548
not like what is what what what's

00:42:03.548 --> 00:42:06.348
not frequent enough and like i i should actually be

00:42:06.348 --> 00:42:10.088
to find a sweet spot going into next year and um

00:42:10.088 --> 00:42:13.308
have more clear-cut goals yep because

00:42:13.308 --> 00:42:16.148
like this year the goal is like just to do it you

00:42:16.148 --> 00:42:19.108
did that check yeah your goal the goal is just to was

00:42:19.108 --> 00:42:22.648
just to go out there and compete be out

00:42:22.648 --> 00:42:25.428
there go to worlds like go to

00:42:25.428 --> 00:42:28.648
pans like pans the goal is to win pans but that

00:42:28.648 --> 00:42:31.708
didn't happen and so like going into worlds like i'm just

00:42:31.708 --> 00:42:35.308
gonna go to worlds i'm going to compete and honestly

00:42:35.308 --> 00:42:38.528
it helped a hell of a lot mindset wise and so like even

00:42:38.528 --> 00:42:42.248
with we even learned things throughout the season that helped

00:42:42.248 --> 00:42:48.248
and um i mean heck like i mean i still compete like i said i probably shouldn't

00:42:48.248 --> 00:42:51.808
all the way back at the beginning of the year like with with copa elite like

00:42:51.808 --> 00:42:57.068
i was like maybe i should have cared a little bit less about putting on a show

00:42:57.068 --> 00:42:59.528
and maybe I would have won, but at the same time,

00:42:59.928 --> 00:43:02.048
I want it to be exciting.

00:43:02.288 --> 00:43:04.568
Look, it was your first event in so many years.

00:43:04.888 --> 00:43:08.228
Like you, you kind of said it earlier. You just wanted to go out and start doing

00:43:08.228 --> 00:43:10.608
shit, which you did. So you actually hit your goal. Yeah.

00:43:10.848 --> 00:43:13.928
If I could make a suggestion or at least give you something to think about,

00:43:13.988 --> 00:43:16.428
we've kind of spoken to this. I don't think it'll come as a major surprise.

00:43:17.228 --> 00:43:20.368
Probably you've already thought of this, but I think next year it's quality

00:43:20.368 --> 00:43:25.208
over quantity, but you can still kind of have that Cause quantity does have a quality. Yeah.

00:43:25.948 --> 00:43:29.848
Quantity has quality, but, um, yeah, I'd say like quantity over quality, man.

00:43:30.448 --> 00:43:33.688
Um, or quality over quantity. You know what I'm saying? And,

00:43:33.868 --> 00:43:37.248
um, you know, when you think about your year with, and you're talking to Jason,

00:43:37.308 --> 00:43:40.428
you're talking to a scene, we're talking, um, um.

00:43:41.085 --> 00:43:44.165
I'd i would have the goals maybe the goal is like bang out

00:43:44.165 --> 00:43:46.925
that first major or maybe it's like i want to

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stay top 10 or whatever

00:43:49.805 --> 00:43:52.705
in my ibgf division i want to get this many gold medals

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which means i'm gonna have to compare you know just write out a couple different things and you

00:43:55.365 --> 00:43:59.165
could probably even have it hierarchically be like the biggest goal is x pans

00:43:59.165 --> 00:44:02.325
and or worlds or whatever you know what i mean yeah um the second

00:44:02.325 --> 00:44:05.325
one is like you know with alongside that i

00:44:05.325 --> 00:44:08.285
i want to do i want to be top 10 or whatever

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and five ibgf golds

00:44:11.605 --> 00:44:14.305
example and then the third one will be fucking you

00:44:14.305 --> 00:44:17.785
name it right but know that so you can kind of build your year around and then

00:44:17.785 --> 00:44:21.005
when it comes to your calendar and shit man maybe you don't like maybe you don't

00:44:21.005 --> 00:44:25.005
need to do one a month because maybe that like if i just giving you another

00:44:25.005 --> 00:44:27.245
way to look at it because you could do one thing you can do whatever you want

00:44:27.245 --> 00:44:31.105
once a month is totally reasonable but maybe you instead of doing once a month

00:44:31.105 --> 00:44:34.225
maybe you like season like kind of do like many little period prioritizations where you're like,

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all right, I'll do like three between February and like March 15th.

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And then I'll do another three or whatever.

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Like you can kind of move it around. So it just averages out to that level of

00:44:45.425 --> 00:44:49.385
activity, but kind of gives you, cause you've learned now from the seasonality

00:44:49.385 --> 00:44:51.225
of things of like what you like and what you don't like.

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And this will overlap with some of the, the weight gain slash weight cutting

00:44:55.345 --> 00:44:58.025
conversations you're going to have too, which is like, all right,

00:44:58.105 --> 00:44:59.725
like big picture. I just talked to a scene.

00:44:59.825 --> 00:45:02.645
He thinks I can get to, he thinks for me to do a lot. I'm just giving an example.

00:45:02.985 --> 00:45:05.185
For lightweight, I really got to get my weight up to like 62.

00:45:06.768 --> 00:45:10.788
To be peak lightweight. So that may mean that 2026, you might not be a full lightweight.

00:45:11.308 --> 00:45:14.668
2027, you could be, but you could start to dip your toes into lightweight so

00:45:14.668 --> 00:45:17.228
that you're giving yourself a break on featherweight activity.

00:45:17.368 --> 00:45:20.028
So maybe the decision is like you do your feather weights for your majors,

00:45:20.148 --> 00:45:23.248
you do some regionals at lightweight and you'll be like 156,

00:45:23.508 --> 00:45:30.048
but fed and big and strong as you're still building up that base of size till you're like, yo, I'm,

00:45:30.508 --> 00:45:34.068
right where our team wants me to be for a full on lightweight athlete.

00:45:34.268 --> 00:45:37.168
Just give you an example. and with that that means

00:45:37.168 --> 00:45:40.028
i can do like maybe your your little mini

00:45:40.028 --> 00:45:43.368
camps mini campaigns i should say will be like two

00:45:43.368 --> 00:45:50.268
lightweight regionals chased by a featherweight um major followed by a slight

00:45:50.268 --> 00:45:53.788
amount of recovery period where you're still going to train get weight kind

00:45:53.788 --> 00:45:59.388
of goes back up another same thing short campaign slow it back down campaign

00:45:59.388 --> 00:46:01.388
campaign campaign we peak just i'm,

00:46:02.048 --> 00:46:06.368
just basing on our conversation, giving you a crude example of what you could do.

00:46:06.808 --> 00:46:10.108
Yeah. I mean, that's something to think about. Yeah. It'll make sense.

00:46:10.248 --> 00:46:13.408
And I think that's kind of, you'll want to run through this entire pod.

00:46:13.508 --> 00:46:15.708
It's a good thing you have the, all the raw data from the podcast.

00:46:15.848 --> 00:46:18.628
You can do this. Yeah. I mean, you'll probably come up with your own analysis.

00:46:18.888 --> 00:46:23.068
I could even, we can even assign listeners homework to analyze the entire,

00:46:24.128 --> 00:46:26.168
go back and listen to all the episodes.

00:46:26.248 --> 00:46:30.768
Recite back to us, your analysis based on actually I'm going to do that. It actually works.

00:46:31.848 --> 00:46:34.488
You don't actually have to listen to all of them. Yes, they do.

00:46:35.388 --> 00:46:37.968
We might not have to listen to all of them to do that.

00:46:38.648 --> 00:46:43.108
There might be a couple we can cut out, but for the sake of doing the homework

00:46:43.108 --> 00:46:44.968
on it. But yeah, listen to all of them.

00:46:45.368 --> 00:46:48.448
If you're already listening to this one, listen to every single one.

00:46:49.528 --> 00:46:54.908
That's right. But yeah, I mean, it's exciting. I mean, I'm excited,

00:46:54.928 --> 00:46:57.628
especially being able to,

00:46:58.603 --> 00:47:04.963
build a good actual schedule next year. I just wish they would release stuff sooner.

00:47:06.083 --> 00:47:10.123
Well, yeah. Like, I wish they would put some, like, have so that you can actually

00:47:10.123 --> 00:47:12.603
plan a little bit better. Here's what you can kind of plan on.

00:47:12.703 --> 00:47:13.483
You can plan on December.

00:47:13.883 --> 00:47:15.963
Same thing as last year. Well, that one's on there, luckily.

00:47:16.323 --> 00:47:19.323
Euros is going to be in, like, November or October.

00:47:19.823 --> 00:47:23.243
Pans will be November or October. Those will be very close together. They always are.

00:47:25.143 --> 00:47:28.863
What am I missing? Nationals will be, like, in June, July. Um.

00:47:29.683 --> 00:47:32.723
Fucking ass load of, uh, regionals between that.

00:47:33.003 --> 00:47:36.143
Regionals are kind of easy to plan around. It's just like, I know there's logistics

00:47:36.143 --> 00:47:39.003
and stuff. You want to like have an idea of where you're going to be and when

00:47:39.003 --> 00:47:39.843
you're going to do the thing.

00:47:40.443 --> 00:47:46.163
Um, those are just tough. Cause if like, sometimes those pop up before pans

00:47:46.163 --> 00:47:50.843
or before euros and see my, like, then, you know, booking something too close. I get it.

00:47:51.143 --> 00:47:54.823
Um, so that's why I think you plan around the majors cause you kind of know

00:47:54.823 --> 00:47:56.343
when and where they're going to be.

00:47:56.343 --> 00:47:59.763
And then what you do is you earmark weekends

00:47:59.763 --> 00:48:02.643
or like ideal like wiggle like two to three week

00:48:02.643 --> 00:48:05.543
range for like i want to find something that

00:48:05.543 --> 00:48:08.943
i can get a flight for less than 100 and 250 bucks

00:48:08.943 --> 00:48:11.803
to go compete a weekend or maybe i'll drive right you

00:48:11.803 --> 00:48:14.643
kind of like earmark you're like yo i'd like to get a couple regionals or i'll

00:48:14.643 --> 00:48:18.363
do some shit locally just to like just keep that bigger

00:48:18.363 --> 00:48:21.563
goal nice and well prepared for

00:48:21.563 --> 00:48:24.223
um and i can plan my time and your

00:48:24.223 --> 00:48:27.763
wife and your kids and shit around that um

00:48:27.763 --> 00:48:31.883
to the best of your ability and like there are certain cities in our era we

00:48:31.883 --> 00:48:37.923
know are going to have opens boston will have opens uh virginia our area we're

00:48:37.923 --> 00:48:43.403
gonna have opens charlotte north carolina has opens atlanta has opens miami

00:48:43.403 --> 00:48:46.803
will have an open new york will have an open you get what I'm saying. Nashville.

00:48:47.123 --> 00:48:50.463
Nashville will have an open, seriously. Yeah, yeah. And so then you can also kind of have fun with it.

00:48:50.543 --> 00:48:53.003
You can be like, yo, I don't know when it's going to be, but New Orleans has

00:48:53.003 --> 00:48:55.323
an open. I want to go to the New Orleans open. So I've been to New Orleans and like.

00:48:56.245 --> 00:48:59.685
Since I dated one girl like a million years ago. And I'd like to go by myself.

00:48:59.865 --> 00:49:04.045
And like, I think it'll be fun. It's in, it's too early for me this year.

00:49:04.425 --> 00:49:05.745
I think it's January or February.

00:49:07.045 --> 00:49:11.485
Bummer. I wanted to go to that one. That might not be too early for me. But. But anyways.

00:49:11.945 --> 00:49:15.005
Looking at March, this is before March. New Orleans. But like,

00:49:15.065 --> 00:49:17.405
I'm just telling you, like, there's certain, like, you can kind of have a little fun with it.

00:49:17.465 --> 00:49:20.165
Like, you can make, yo, like, I know this place is going to have an open.

00:49:20.385 --> 00:49:22.865
And you may not know exactly when it's going to be, but like,

00:49:22.965 --> 00:49:26.145
you know, like, you can make an educated guess. You can look at last year's schedule.

00:49:26.965 --> 00:49:29.825
Yeah yeah because they should end up roughly around the same

00:49:29.825 --> 00:49:32.705
time roughly yeah roughly so to the extent that

00:49:32.705 --> 00:49:36.025
you can map your entire life around this shit that is yeah you

00:49:36.025 --> 00:49:39.385
know so yeah man um cool

00:49:39.385 --> 00:49:42.265
so how's that for some analysis that's analysis right there

00:49:42.265 --> 00:49:44.965
we're just getting started but i love so much more we could

00:49:44.965 --> 00:49:47.605
do but we are coming up on time for the

00:49:47.605 --> 00:49:50.345
listeners um be a guy so like that's just

00:49:50.345 --> 00:49:53.485
a little bit of a a little hot taste a little

00:49:53.485 --> 00:49:56.685
bit of some hot takes you too can do this but

00:49:56.685 --> 00:50:00.265
so like that's just kind of an idea of you know what what

00:50:00.265 --> 00:50:03.005
we look at when we are going to be doing this i

00:50:03.005 --> 00:50:05.825
mean we're both going to be doing our own analysis and

00:50:05.825 --> 00:50:08.985
that's just kind of a brief introduction to it but

00:50:08.985 --> 00:50:12.145
you know we're looking at like you know just kind of summarize it

00:50:12.145 --> 00:50:15.945
we looked at how often we competed you

00:50:15.945 --> 00:50:18.925
know how how much like kind of how

00:50:18.925 --> 00:50:23.025
we win how we lose um where

00:50:23.025 --> 00:50:26.165
we're strong like within that you look at you know

00:50:26.165 --> 00:50:30.485
all right well if i'm getting submitted how am i getting how am i ending up

00:50:30.485 --> 00:50:35.005
there or if i'm um if i'm submitting people how am i getting there and like

00:50:35.005 --> 00:50:40.045
you can take all this all these scenarios that you're analyzing and turn them

00:50:40.045 --> 00:50:44.225
into action actionable items so you can look at like.

00:50:45.056 --> 00:50:47.916
You know all right well how do i drill how do i get

00:50:47.916 --> 00:50:51.016
better at this how do i create games or

00:50:51.016 --> 00:50:55.076
drills or like how do i utilize my training partners so that i can practice

00:50:55.076 --> 00:51:00.936
this specific thing whether it's you know funneling to your submission of choice

00:51:00.936 --> 00:51:06.416
or um you know create it just actually being able to create like a practice

00:51:06.416 --> 00:51:09.756
plan um so you should be able to actually take everything.

00:51:10.716 --> 00:51:13.936
Implement it by the time you're done analyzing it

00:51:13.936 --> 00:51:17.116
so that's right um this is all meant to give you like informed

00:51:17.116 --> 00:51:20.476
decisions on how you can change your day-to-day for the

00:51:20.476 --> 00:51:23.156
thing that you obviously care a lot about doing and you want to do

00:51:23.156 --> 00:51:26.156
better at it so this is meant to do exactly what

00:51:26.156 --> 00:51:29.796
you're talking about it's going to give you an action plan for like the handful of

00:51:29.796 --> 00:51:32.476
choices that you want to adjust end of

00:51:32.476 --> 00:51:35.356
the year everyone wants to make new year's resolutions like if you're spending if you've

00:51:35.356 --> 00:51:38.996
trained for years and years and years and years and years um

00:51:38.996 --> 00:51:42.276
it's a good thing to like implement and

00:51:42.276 --> 00:51:45.036
make adjustments yeah because if you ain't adapting you're dying

00:51:45.036 --> 00:51:47.856
baby yeah if you're doing this if you're if you're doing the same thing

00:51:47.856 --> 00:51:51.316
you're gonna get the exact same results right i'm right so some people i'd like

00:51:51.316 --> 00:51:58.056
to yeah yeah that's right that's right yeah um but yeah guys um you know so

00:51:58.056 --> 00:52:06.036
hopefully this gives you guys something to act on a way for you to go back and analyze your year.

00:52:07.656 --> 00:52:10.776
And I mean, this will actually kind of be perfect. It's going to be right before

00:52:10.776 --> 00:52:13.516
New Year's when this comes out. So this will be perfect.

00:52:13.676 --> 00:52:16.856
This will be perfect, guys, because this will be your way to,

00:52:17.653 --> 00:52:21.233
analyze and look at creating those new year's resolutions.

00:52:21.493 --> 00:52:24.633
Cause you'll be listening to this on the last Tuesday of the year,

00:52:24.953 --> 00:52:27.173
make 2026 your best year. Yeah.

00:52:27.433 --> 00:52:31.093
So we're gonna, we'll be there right there with you guys. We'll be hitting,

00:52:31.373 --> 00:52:35.133
hitting the ground running going into 2026. We'll be competing and,

00:52:35.313 --> 00:52:38.373
um, you know, we'll keep you guys in the loop on that too.

00:52:38.573 --> 00:52:42.313
Um, but with that, that was fires drinking coffee.

00:52:42.793 --> 00:52:45.433
Uh, everything's still in the show notes forgot out

00:52:45.433 --> 00:52:48.413
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00:52:54.553 --> 00:52:57.753
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00:52:57.753 --> 00:53:01.053
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00:53:01.053 --> 00:53:04.013
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00:53:04.013 --> 00:53:06.833
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