(Ep 44) New Year, New Game: Jiu-Jitsu Resolutions & Competition Plans

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Happy new year and welcome back to fighters drinking coffee this is our first

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episode of the year and so it's only fitting that we begin by sending some new year's resolutions,

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um so scott lead

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us off i'm gonna put you on the spot first

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that's fine that's fine happy new year's michael happy

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new year's yeah so we're talking we're talking specifically jujitsu

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resolutions works for me uh we don't

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need to you know get too much too much into like other shit

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i don't know uh we can also later but

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let's start with our resolutions for our jiu-jitsu and then

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yeah for jiu-jitsu let's start with our resolutions for our jiu-jitsu we'll

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also talk about some jiu-jitsu our podcast resolutions as well so um but yeah

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i mean go ahead and what is your resolution i mean you have plenty of things

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for which to that's right,

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i'm going to resolve things resolve resolute many things will be resolved that

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is my commitment uh yeah dude let's see okay so jiu-jitsu resolutions i can i can take this in a.

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Let me start higher level. Let me get like tactical. Okay. So higher level.

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When you were asking me about this, you're like, do one. I'm like,

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I'll do two or three, Mike.

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That's fine. But I always like to go higher level and then kind of like work my way down.

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But with that said, for me, I think the word is professionalism.

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I want to step that up. I've tried to do that every year. A little more,

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a little bit more, a little bit more for a while now.

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And um then i can pull that in

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that will apply to many tiers within

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my life too which is why i want to start with it that's why i

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say that because you know maybe it trickles into other realms we'll keep

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this oriented around jiu-jitsu of course but um

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yeah professionalism only helps in other

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things that i'm doing so um with that said

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um as it relates to jiu-jitsu and

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the practice of jiu-jitsu and teaching people jiu-jitsu and competing in

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jiu-jitsu um i'll start i

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guess as a coach i want to be i want to be become even

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more professional in that realm do a better job think more about

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um what like we've

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talked about on the show like what can i provide for my students

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my paying customers um that

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helps them improve and resonate with the

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practice of jiu-jitsu more and more so they they find

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that excitement and commitment

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to training like we have and

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like you know a lot of other people we work with have more quickly and more

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resolutely and so with that said I guess to be a little specific there it's

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like we've talked about like what can I provide for my guys that helps them

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learn and or accomplish things faster than I did that I learned or accomplish things.

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So I'll continue to, um, to.

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Ponder on that and improve it when i do and and uh provide a better product and service for my guys,

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professionalism as it relates to the practicing of jiu-jitsu too like

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what can i be doing more and differently i have some specifics there um

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which i can get into or we can just kind of in the interest of time i'll just

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i'll allude to it but um competing in training how can i step up my professionalism

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in both realms as i guess that's my practice of jiu-jitsu like how do i I take

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what I do the time I'm on the mat and make it a little more purposeful,

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a little bit more high value. Whoa.

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And like I said, my goal, my aim for that word professionalism is to make that

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something that I can apply to everything that I do.

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So it's just you're going to have to let it rest.

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I'd like to put an impromptu resolution to have booms that stay up. Boom.

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Yeah, my boomer is hanging real low. Yeah, this is frustrating.

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Your boom hangs low. That's whatever. Your boom hangs good. Mine's hanging low.

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But yeah, dude, so continue with that professionalism thread.

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I want to be a more professional coach. I want to be a more professional coach.

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Student, you know, I want to, I want to make learning more of a practice.

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You know, when you coach all the time, learning sometimes that doesn't help

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you. It doesn't, you know, from that, whatever, man.

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But, um, it's just going to have to be here. It's down there.

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It's fine. I mean, the mind's down there. Yeah.

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I don't know if anyone can hear me. You can hear me. That's what matters, but we can hear you.

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I might just pick mine up when I go to talk. Yeah. Do that. Whatever. Yeah. Boom.

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We're going to get more professional booms we're gonna professionalize the

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booms um yeah so and then

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finally as i as i compete and i'm going to compete we can

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talk about that in a minute or now or whatever too um as

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i continue to step up and try to get

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better outcomes in the competition scene i want to do that more professionally

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as well so um a lot of work has already gone into that so i'll continue doing

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what has been working try to get rid of what's not working and uh adding a few

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new things that fingers crossed will work too,

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and push me to a higher level like I said in everything so professionalism is a word for that.

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Tactically,

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Tactically, I want to, there's two major things.

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Without giving away to the enemies listening, there's a few new weapons that

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I am going to work in earnest on in 2026 to add into my arsenal.

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So you're just a noisy guy, dude. Sorry. That's okay.

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That I want to add in to diversify my offense and just become more threatening

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when I'm on the mat so that my offense is a little bit more,

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let me literally diversify, but also with that said, I'll be able to be a bit

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more unpredictable to my opponents.

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Tap them from other positions, right?

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Which can only provide more value insofar as what I do.

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Talked about this with the seam too. There's some additional explosivity and

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power and finishing mechanics I'm going to add in.

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In like longer tournaments, I think I talked about this in our last episode

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a little bit, but, you know, reflecting on worlds and, you know,

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that was a bigger bracket, like in those longer, um.

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More, I don't know, endurance is that the way in, in like the where endurance

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and, um, longer campaigns for a gold medal are, are presented towards me.

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I want to be able to keep that dangerous finishing mechanics the entire time.

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But i know we talked about it after you were

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done competing about like how that last match like you felt drained and so like

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that i i understand what you're saying like just i'm translating from what our

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discussion was versus i you know how much they might have gleaned from it in the last episode but um,

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last episode, maybe the episode before. But yeah, like I remember you were talking

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about how you were feeling more, feeling a little drained in the last match

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and like didn't quite have the same almost mental sharpness that you were feeling

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in the matches prior to that too.

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So, especially when you had five or was it five or six for gold? It was five for gold.

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Five to get, five to get to finals, right? Or five with the finals.

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So I mean like it's, it's a long day.

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It's a long day and the fourth one the finishing mechanics were just a little

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bit off. Yeah. So yeah, that's it. That's what I'm doing. Yeah. Um.

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What will you be doing? I have a, it's similar.

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Um, I mean, from, uh, I'll, I'll break it up similarly. You've set a set of standard here.

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Um, so I, I, from a, from a professional and, um, like coaching standpoint, I want to,

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it kind of falls under professionalism, but it just to be more specific with

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it for what I'm trying to get across.

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Um, I want to get better at, cause one, I coaching at five 30 in the morning.

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Sometimes I'm a little foggy. Um, so I want to get better at articulating at

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five 30 specifically, you know, like that's early.

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Um, but we get better at like articulating when trying to get across.

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Cause sometimes I have trouble when I'm explaining techniques,

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like explaining in a way that makes sense broadly versus

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what makes sense to me because those are that's just

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a different thing right like still waking up at 5 30 is what you're saying no no

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not completely but like some you know sometimes like

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brain's not always fully clocked i think it's reasonable i

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think anyone listening would be like yeah duh um so that

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makes sense but i i want to get better at being you know i guess there's kind

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of like a thoroughness to it or like maybe there's a level of preparedness for

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what I'm going to teach that I could probably do better with to where I already

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know how I'm going to explain it the first time, right, versus like.

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Being, so being more proactive with how I'm instructing versus reacting to the

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problems people are having.

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Does that, does that kind of come across?

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Um, so it falls under the same vein of like being more professional with it.

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But, um, you know, like I, I have a good understanding of what I'm going to teach,

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but sometimes I just don't explain

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in a way that makes sense to most people because the way

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that i learned was a

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lot of through feel and just kind of doing things i

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mean you know both of us were in the same situation we kind of had to figure a lot

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of stuff out as we were going because we were kind of running the show for a

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bit there um so a lot of my initial like discovery of jiu-jitsu was literally

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discovery so uh it's hard for me to explain to people that learn more through

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like seeing it and everything.

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Cause that's not how I learned. So I have to figure out how to explain a lot

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of different moves versus, Oh, well, you just kind of do this, right?

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Like, and sometimes it works cause I I'm able to break it down slowly with my

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movements and like show what I'm doing, but sometimes it's not as good, like the verbalization.

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Because I'm trying to teach it the way that I learn, which is a

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lot more hands-on and kind of doing it so

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um doing feeling all of that so

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i want to get better at articulating to more a broader group of people in learning

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styles so that i'm just being a better coach and a better instructor better

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teacher for the people that i am teaching um so that is mine from the coaching

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aspect from the competition aspect um.

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I want to perform better as in up to the standard that I perform not in competition.

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Uh, cause I've found, and we talked about this earlier today when we were training.

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Um, but I found that like, I tend to run into underperforming at competition win or lose.

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Honestly, sometimes like sometimes I've won and like, like I probably could have competed better.

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Right. Like, um, Um, but performing the way that I practice essentially,

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like the level of like how in control I feel when I'm practicing and all of

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that is way higher than I feel the night the,

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some matches like those matches. I definitely like, oh, I'm in control.

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Um, but I definitely, I'd like to leave less of it or leave all more of it on the mat.

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Like that's it makes sense that might be the way to

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verbalize is like you know actually perform to

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the standard and the capability that i have um because i definitely have especially

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like the big ones right that was a the big the majors and everything like i

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definitely didn't perform to the ability that i do have and i'd you know i'd

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like to rectify that i think that makes a huge difference.

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You don't feel as bad about losses and you actually, you feel better about your wins.

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So like everything kind of, I think that also will help from a,

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uh that will also make a difference with

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just overall just how i go about

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all of it like just show up and do the thing um makes

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all of them easier just but it just comes

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with time too it's the first year back but that's right i want

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to i want to perform to my the best of

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my ability every single time not just

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sometimes um and i've

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kind of thought of a few different ways of doing it i think one is just being

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uh getting like the mental standpoint

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the mental aspect of it reined in and

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figuring out what like what mindset makes

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the most sense going into it like do i

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need to is there anything that i need to

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hey maybe i need to look at less

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i mean not look less at tape but maybe there's

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things i need to be less like reliant on it like hey don't expect them to do

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what they did on tape because i mean that was a thing at worlds i thought the

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guy was in pool guard he doesn't pull guard he changes everything right so um

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yeah there's there's a lot of tactical stuff to probably adjust and figure out

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what is the best case scenario moving forward for.

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Just to create that blanket right like we're going

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to do this every single time um but yeah

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i mean i think i think that's probably a big

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part of it i think removing expectation helps um so yeah i mean that's that's

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the big one it's just like perform to the ability that i have rather than not

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doing what i can do right like i think that's that's my big one so basically

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increasing my competition performance by just,

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going through the mental, mental roads, going through, um, and just,

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you know, getting rid of whatever those roadblocks are that are keeping me from

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performing the way that I know that I can.

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So, um, so yeah, I mean, it's very similar to what you're saying.

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I'm just trying to say it in a different way. So yeah.

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Yeah. Do you, do you think, um, well, I think,

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but maybe we can do this like how will

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we do these things so i would think with what you just talked about um continuing

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just to stay very active competitively will help with that um it's just more

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exposure more comfort in that environment um once it starts to normalize.

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Then you just feel normal then you just perform like normal like you said i

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think what i'm hearing is you're like I want to be as comfortable and effective

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as I am on the mat and training where you're like

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yeah I feel good I'm confident like this is I know how good I am

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um and then bringing that to the to the stage

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so to speak um which obviously

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is different environment um I think

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just making that stage normal making that a

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normal experience to you which you did a lot you've normalized

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a lot in a year um and

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it will only continue to happen as you do it more and more and more so

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i you know we've already talked about this but uh

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off the air maybe or maybe on the air too i don't know but um

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probably a little bit of both probably a little bit of both when's that next tournament

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right like are we doing that march yeah we're doing dallas hey perfect let's

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go out and let's set the next uh set the next date because it's funny like i've

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ran into a a couple buddies i was training with knack uh the last couple days

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and um and several of his guys who know me and like and i ran into a friend

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at the gym today and everyone is asking me like all right So when's the next tournament?

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And I'm like, all right, I like you guys. I think you got it.

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There's always another one, right?

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Um, so I think that's a good practice. I think it's like we,

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um, let's, let's not be idle.

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Um, not that we are, but let's set that next milestone. Let's just keep,

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keep the show running, man.

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Yeah. I mean, I definitely, I already, uh, I'll show you after the show,

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but I already have a, I have a whole thing set up for this. I like that. Um, yeah.

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Because we're talking goals, people. We're talking goals. We're talking resolutions,

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but resolutions, goals are always right there with the resolutions.

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So one of the things I've done to help with this is I've actually built,

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like, I'll actually share it with you because you might be able to use it because

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I have, it's partially for a scene, but it's also for me.

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So I have built, like, a calendar that has each month broken up into weeks.

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There we go. And then...

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On those weeks so i have it like the weeks

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part is a little weird because it's not exactly

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how i'd like to but i didn't feel like going and putting every single day because

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it was just going to take way too long to build 365 yeah it

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would have been a lot of cells to fill this is

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good yeah so i said i said this week so we have basically there's

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roughly five included you know either full

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or partial weeks included there's basically five sections

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to each each month each one is broken down so that.

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I have a i have the ability to

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basically put like a competition so it's i think

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i have it going monday to sunday each week so that you can

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set each week to a tournament right because they're

00:17:14.135 --> 00:17:17.295
usually saturday sunday um so i

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have it running monday to sunday for each week so that

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i can have a i can set which tournaments

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are where when i'm going to be doing them i also

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have a section for what uh training cycles

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will be so i can have all of that worked out and basically can

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map everything towards and towards these

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specific ones with the concept of at

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the end of the year and i actually have places to put results all

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of that so i can look at the end of the year go back and

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look what worked right like all right well we did these this was

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the training cycle with a seam this was the training cycle i did

00:17:49.995 --> 00:17:55.355
with um how i prepared for the competition here was the result i can have you

00:17:55.355 --> 00:17:58.855
know i have notes i have places to put all kinds of different information um

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so like if i have days off or you know like planned days off like i'm going

00:18:03.675 --> 00:18:08.215
on i have a wedding this day or i have you know whatever yeah whatever that might be yes.

00:18:08.935 --> 00:18:11.815
Shit happens. Fill it in. Shit happens. Or, you know, like you get injured.

00:18:12.255 --> 00:18:14.975
Shit happens. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, like whatever. I have places I can

00:18:14.975 --> 00:18:18.895
put all of that in so that at the end of the year, I have a way to look back at it and set goals.

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But at the same time, I can also use it as a way to like track what I have coming

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up and set the goals of like, well, obviously the goal is win or podium at each

00:18:28.635 --> 00:18:31.035
one of these things. Bring back hardware. That's right.

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But so basically it'll let me build everything around because there's a little haphazard this year.

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It was just picking up whatever i could um but

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for this or for next year this year

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they were listening to this um tomorrow uh but

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so the uh the it is set up so that i can actually plan towards the majors because

00:18:54.655 --> 00:18:58.495
we know roughly when they're going to be so everything's be building towards

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specific times to come to like have to peak and have like the best performance

00:19:04.755 --> 00:19:06.635
so everything is kind of building towards those.

00:19:07.575 --> 00:19:11.055
So, yeah, you know, that's... Just planning. What you're hearing people,

00:19:11.275 --> 00:19:13.635
it's called laying plans in the art of war.

00:19:13.915 --> 00:19:17.895
Yeah, so... Scheming and he's laying his plans. That's... That's fucking thing.

00:19:18.495 --> 00:19:22.555
But so... Oh, okay. I'm gonna go handheld because this is bugging me.

00:19:23.675 --> 00:19:25.375
But so, I'm...

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I've built like a whole way for me to track it and just so that at the end of

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the year, it's easier to keep track is I mean,

00:19:31.689 --> 00:19:36.369
with how busy I was this year in terms of competition schedule,

00:19:36.369 --> 00:19:41.329
it was a little tough when we did that year in review, which actually off the

00:19:41.329 --> 00:19:43.949
top of our heads, we actually did a pretty dang good job.

00:19:44.149 --> 00:19:47.729
We were like, almost dead on with all the metrics, which is kind of cool.

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But so you know, just gives a way to like, it'll make that easier so that this

00:19:53.609 --> 00:19:55.769
goal setting thing becomes easier every year.

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Right and then just makes it easier to get uh to collect

00:19:59.589 --> 00:20:03.389
the data and just get keep getting better yeah the nice

00:20:03.389 --> 00:20:06.289
thing about that too is there's so much thinking involved in

00:20:06.289 --> 00:20:11.529
what we do there's so much thinking involved in what we do it it when you do

00:20:11.529 --> 00:20:16.869
the analysis like we did in the last episode or whatever recently and then you

00:20:16.869 --> 00:20:20.129
take that and you write all your out and you look ahead like you've actually

00:20:20.129 --> 00:20:24.989
taken probably two-thirds of the thinking and planning out of the equation,

00:20:25.469 --> 00:20:29.329
because we're going to think we're going to plan no matter what um so

00:20:29.329 --> 00:20:32.849
then you're freeing your mind up to think less about shit that takes

00:20:32.849 --> 00:20:36.709
up your mind or took up your mind last year that's already thought through now

00:20:36.709 --> 00:20:40.069
and you wrote it down and so then when we move into the next thing like you'll

00:20:40.069 --> 00:20:43.889
be able to devote that mental whatever amount of mental space you have that's

00:20:43.889 --> 00:20:49.209
cleared now to the next to an area of improvement something new that you want

00:20:49.209 --> 00:20:50.889
to bring to the mat to do what you

00:20:50.989 --> 00:20:53.829
said a minute ago about like your goal for, um,

00:20:54.649 --> 00:20:57.989
call comfort on the mat, comp mat or whatever, whatever, friend,

00:20:58.089 --> 00:21:00.149
exactly. You said it, but you know what I'm saying? Um,

00:21:01.085 --> 00:21:04.545
this is valuable for our listeners, it's valuable for you, it's valuable for

00:21:04.545 --> 00:21:07.925
me, that it's like you just did some homework.

00:21:08.105 --> 00:21:10.525
You just did a little bit of homework, you spent some time on it because it matters.

00:21:12.005 --> 00:21:18.625
And going into 2026 with a plan that's already done, yeah, man,

00:21:18.725 --> 00:21:22.025
you've given yourself more capacity to do other things better now.

00:21:22.405 --> 00:21:26.985
Well, and it's kind of like what you were talking about with increasing professionalism, right?

00:21:27.105 --> 00:21:31.485
Like if I take this and look at it more, you know if I'm looking at this from

00:21:31.485 --> 00:21:34.865
the aspect of like this is my job this is a career right like,

00:21:36.505 --> 00:21:40.825
most people don't just show up to work and they shouldn't figure out what they're

00:21:40.825 --> 00:21:45.305
going to do that day right like you usually have like some amount of,

00:21:46.905 --> 00:21:50.225
you know like obviously stuff comes up but like for the most part like even,

00:21:50.705 --> 00:21:53.525
part of what when I was building this and I was thinking about like I literally

00:21:53.525 --> 00:21:57.985
used to have one of these for my job as a brewer like I had the entire year,

00:21:58.625 --> 00:22:01.645
mapped out at least up to three months

00:22:01.645 --> 00:22:04.285
in advance like i had general ideas of what

00:22:04.285 --> 00:22:07.085
the rest of it was i could fill in like these things

00:22:07.085 --> 00:22:10.405
absolutely happen at roughly this time um

00:22:10.405 --> 00:22:13.305
and obviously you fill things in like there's stuff that

00:22:13.305 --> 00:22:18.585
you know just there's things that will ebb and flow and you have to adjust accordingly

00:22:18.585 --> 00:22:22.985
but you know like you have a couple things that there's things that happen at

00:22:22.985 --> 00:22:28.145
this specific time of year they have you know pans is usually pans euros and

00:22:28.145 --> 00:22:31.525
brazzleros are all around this three-month period.

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And you know that, you know, Worlds is this day, like Worlds is already scheduled, so that's easy.

00:22:37.245 --> 00:22:40.045
But like, you know roughly when these things are going to be or at least where

00:22:40.045 --> 00:22:41.045
one of them is going to be.

00:22:41.541 --> 00:22:44.681
Um, you know, they flip flop PAMs and euros last year, right?

00:22:44.761 --> 00:22:48.541
Like, or this year, whatever, 2025, they flip flopped them from the year before,

00:22:48.701 --> 00:22:52.561
but like you roughly know that one of those things is happening at whatever time.

00:22:52.781 --> 00:22:58.661
So, um, you know, you're able to build at least a rough schedule at the end

00:22:58.661 --> 00:23:03.361
of every single year and use that towards, you know, the following year.

00:23:03.521 --> 00:23:06.861
So, um, you know, so it just, it just comes out of breath.

00:23:06.941 --> 00:23:10.101
And I was just something that, I mean, this year was, I kind of had

00:23:10.101 --> 00:23:12.881
to take it as it came because I first year it

00:23:12.881 --> 00:23:16.101
was first year also like came out of the gates hot kind of

00:23:16.101 --> 00:23:18.901
decided to do it you know in at the end of

00:23:18.901 --> 00:23:22.361
the year so like you know there was only so much planning that

00:23:22.361 --> 00:23:27.361
could occur because it was a little spur of the moment and um you know so like

00:23:27.361 --> 00:23:32.701
I had to just figure out how to make it work in I mean it started when I left

00:23:32.701 --> 00:23:36.281
in in season September I basically went full-time in September right so like

00:23:36.281 --> 00:23:40.301
I had to figure out how to make it work in the middle of the season and just get the ball rolling.

00:23:40.541 --> 00:23:45.841
So, um, so, you know, I think part of accomplishing my goal for the year is

00:23:45.841 --> 00:23:48.701
definitely going to be one, I've already got, I've got the miles.

00:23:48.741 --> 00:23:52.421
Like we went, we, we did the, we did the miles last year. We got the work.

00:23:52.681 --> 00:23:58.281
Um, we're blooded now. We're able to, and now it's just taking that and applying,

00:23:58.541 --> 00:23:59.781
applying that experience.

00:24:00.021 --> 00:24:07.061
Um, you know, and it's kind of it, like taking it and actually internalizing

00:24:07.061 --> 00:24:10.981
it, getting the mentality right and being able to execute and you know that's.

00:24:11.781 --> 00:24:14.561
We just build the tools around that that's what we're all about that's what

00:24:14.561 --> 00:24:17.441
we're all about execute that's right no I'm into it.

00:24:18.561 --> 00:24:27.201
Yeah I mean I already said it planning thinking it's the easiest thing you can do to you,

00:24:27.660 --> 00:24:30.540
Prevent the stuff you did last year that you don't want to do again and then

00:24:30.540 --> 00:24:33.340
put yourself in a position to do the new stuff that you want to do more of or

00:24:33.340 --> 00:24:38.320
better or different into the calendar and then implement it right away.

00:24:38.520 --> 00:24:40.760
Like you said, it's execution. Now you're ready to execute.

00:24:41.260 --> 00:24:43.760
Yeah, exactly. And it's kind of interesting.

00:24:44.780 --> 00:24:49.160
Um both of us had for our professional well

00:24:49.160 --> 00:24:53.580
they're both whatever but for like competition and or you know technical goal

00:24:53.580 --> 00:24:59.060
and our um like we both kind of had a coaching goal and a you know competition

00:24:59.060 --> 00:25:03.300
goal that both of them are solved by roughly the same thing like each of our

00:25:03.300 --> 00:25:06.320
goals like you can solve both of them with kind of just doing the same thing

00:25:06.320 --> 00:25:07.180
just in different avenues.

00:25:08.260 --> 00:25:12.100
Um which is efficient um but

00:25:12.100 --> 00:25:15.340
like you know it's we it's good

00:25:15.340 --> 00:25:18.400
like obviously we're like-minded people because we

00:25:18.400 --> 00:25:21.220
think through this stuff similarly like this is how it's

00:25:21.220 --> 00:25:24.260
going to end up working out a lot but like it's pretty

00:25:24.260 --> 00:25:26.980
applicable to a lot of different things like

00:25:26.980 --> 00:25:30.020
usually when you set a resolution like when

00:25:30.020 --> 00:25:33.200
you're setting these goals for a year a lot of the time the answers kind

00:25:33.200 --> 00:25:36.140
of stack up like they just did for us right like

00:25:36.140 --> 00:25:39.020
you have no matter what like

00:25:39.020 --> 00:25:44.940
you know what are the the cliche ones are like lose x amount of weights you

00:25:44.940 --> 00:25:50.660
know stop drinking don't have fast food you know like all these things and then

00:25:50.660 --> 00:25:56.220
you look at it's like oh these are all really the same overarching goal right like how do I just.

00:25:57.179 --> 00:26:00.839
Yeah. I mean, like they're all, a lot of the time when people create these resolutions,

00:26:01.059 --> 00:26:06.619
you end up having one major, like one major point that really all of those fall underneath.

00:26:07.079 --> 00:26:11.159
And you're just figuring out how to do that yourself, right?

00:26:11.279 --> 00:26:16.059
Like that you, maybe when you didn't analyze it and think about it all last

00:26:16.059 --> 00:26:19.659
year, when maybe you still wanted those things, but you just never really put

00:26:19.659 --> 00:26:22.899
pen to paper and thought about like, how do I accomplish losing weight?

00:26:23.079 --> 00:26:25.959
You know, you might just, I really should lose weight. And then

00:26:25.959 --> 00:26:28.759
and the year comes around you're like well i also want to do these

00:26:28.759 --> 00:26:31.679
things or i just want to be healthier well i

00:26:31.679 --> 00:26:35.359
should do the here's things i can do as well and like it's just it's just goals

00:26:35.359 --> 00:26:39.859
general goal setting like we've talked about in the past but um i don't know

00:26:39.859 --> 00:26:42.519
that was just a thing that popped yeah just now i think it makes sense like

00:26:42.519 --> 00:26:45.699
you said you're saying there's like there's like an umbrella label that the

00:26:45.699 --> 00:26:49.259
the sub goals kind of fall underneath that it does make sense Yeah.

00:26:49.519 --> 00:26:55.099
And like, yeah, you kind of know about the umbrella label all the whole year before.

00:26:55.579 --> 00:27:00.039
But then when you go to do your resolutions, that's not the one that you're

00:27:00.039 --> 00:27:02.479
talking about, right? You're talking about all the things that lead to it.

00:27:02.859 --> 00:27:05.859
I don't know. That was just, just the thought.

00:27:05.859 --> 00:27:08.699
An observation we were talking about goals

00:27:08.699 --> 00:27:11.939
that we have for the podcast right that's right um and like

00:27:11.939 --> 00:27:14.699
the first thing we talk about is oh we'd like to

00:27:14.699 --> 00:27:18.039
expand the number of people we're reaching like that's that's

00:27:18.039 --> 00:27:21.859
the major goal and then we're like oh well here what things how will we do that

00:27:21.859 --> 00:27:25.839
yeah and like so you know that's just the thought process it's how i don't know

00:27:25.839 --> 00:27:29.779
this that's this thought process for goal setting resolutions but like you know

00:27:29.779 --> 00:27:33.839
you kind of let off that way it's formula in a sense right like it's like anything

00:27:33.839 --> 00:27:36.339
else so you have a goal you're like, all right, this is the goal.

00:27:37.338 --> 00:27:40.258
All right, then you're like, what are the actions or things I'm going to do

00:27:40.258 --> 00:27:41.778
to actually achieve this goal?

00:27:42.318 --> 00:27:46.418
Yeah. You know, like, one goal is, like, a lot, you know.

00:27:47.378 --> 00:27:48.498
You know, within, you know, if

00:27:48.498 --> 00:27:50.938
you have different lanes, we have multiple goals. You get what I'm saying?

00:27:51.078 --> 00:27:56.218
Yeah. But, like, for, and metrics and data are super helpful.

00:27:56.618 --> 00:28:01.378
So, and we, with the podcast, luckily for us, we, that's why,

00:28:01.458 --> 00:28:03.498
like, a lot of what we did with the jiu-jitsu thing was trying to,

00:28:03.658 --> 00:28:04.818
like, like, let's actually look at this.

00:28:05.118 --> 00:28:08.178
It's, I don't think that many people do this. I mean, some people do it,

00:28:08.258 --> 00:28:09.838
but we're not the only ones who do it.

00:28:09.898 --> 00:28:15.838
But I don't think enough people, like, try to find data out of their jiu-jitsu experience.

00:28:17.018 --> 00:28:20.998
Because maybe there isn't some, like, visually available mechanism.

00:28:21.258 --> 00:28:24.918
Smooth Comp has stuff. You've talked about that BGJ something or other that

00:28:24.918 --> 00:28:28.358
does stuff that calculates things. But, like, okay.

00:28:28.718 --> 00:28:32.658
Like, numbers are, like, the numbers don't lie. Yeah. That's why I like data.

00:28:33.178 --> 00:28:36.918
Um, and so anyways, for the podcast, like we have, we have platforms that show

00:28:36.918 --> 00:28:40.098
us our regions. So we're like, all right, that's a pretty solid indicator of

00:28:40.098 --> 00:28:41.158
like how good of a job we're doing.

00:28:41.718 --> 00:28:46.458
Um, let's do it better. And so then you're like, okay, like, how do we do that?

00:28:46.558 --> 00:28:49.698
Well, we want to introduce X, Y, and Z different changes into this,

00:28:49.918 --> 00:28:52.838
into our workflow. Cause that's not actually how we're going to do it.

00:28:53.650 --> 00:28:56.270
And then we got to hold ourselves accountable to doing it. Accountability,

00:28:56.430 --> 00:28:57.430
everyone. Accountability.

00:28:58.010 --> 00:28:59.410
And like a big part of it too. You're going to do it or not,

00:28:59.410 --> 00:29:05.170
bitch. A big part of what we looked at too is like what you guys like to listen to.

00:29:05.310 --> 00:29:09.190
You, the existing listeners, right? Because obviously we're figuring out who you.

00:29:09.430 --> 00:29:12.630
Coffee gang? The coffee gang. We're going to come with a good name for you.

00:29:12.710 --> 00:29:15.310
Right now we're going to call you the coffee gang, I guess. Coffee gang.

00:29:16.030 --> 00:29:17.650
Coffee gang. I don't know. I want to think of something else.

00:29:18.910 --> 00:29:21.330
It's close. It's close. We're getting there, guys. We're going to workshop.

00:29:21.330 --> 00:29:22.970
We're going to workshop a name for you.

00:29:23.690 --> 00:29:26.530
Um yeah like uh you know figuring out we've

00:29:26.530 --> 00:29:29.450
we've kind of done the the r&d phase

00:29:29.450 --> 00:29:33.430
over this last year and figuring out kind of what what you

00:29:33.430 --> 00:29:39.130
the listeners enjoy like really like we can see when you guys how many not you

00:29:39.130 --> 00:29:46.110
specifically that'd be cool we could but you know we can tell what topics drive

00:29:46.110 --> 00:29:51.870
more listenership and um you know so it gives us an idea of like okay well one,

00:29:52.110 --> 00:29:53.290
what are we good at talking about?

00:29:53.490 --> 00:29:55.990
What do people, what do people find interesting?

00:29:56.330 --> 00:30:00.770
Or, um, you know, what, what are we good at conveying to you,

00:30:00.870 --> 00:30:03.330
the listener? What, you know, what piques your interest?

00:30:03.830 --> 00:30:07.670
Um, and it gives us an idea of like, okay, well, this is the kind of stuff we

00:30:07.670 --> 00:30:08.730
should be talking about.

00:30:08.990 --> 00:30:12.990
So, um, you know, you guys through listening have spoken.

00:30:13.310 --> 00:30:16.590
And so like, we have an idea of what to do next year and we can kind of curate

00:30:16.590 --> 00:30:21.850
the entire next year of the shows according to what people like.

00:30:22.250 --> 00:30:26.470
And so, you know, getting in the guests that you guys find interesting.

00:30:27.170 --> 00:30:29.090
Doing topics that, you know,

00:30:29.785 --> 00:30:33.945
Are useful? Yeah, useful, productive, and helpful to the listeners.

00:30:34.005 --> 00:30:35.825
I mean, that's really what most of this is.

00:30:35.965 --> 00:30:39.465
Like, obviously, we like hanging out and bullshitting to each other.

00:30:39.745 --> 00:30:40.885
But, you know, at the same time.

00:30:41.245 --> 00:30:44.485
We can always do that. Yeah, we will continue to do that in some capacity.

00:30:44.785 --> 00:30:48.025
But, you know, we want to make sure that that is directed in a way that's productive

00:30:48.025 --> 00:30:50.505
for you guys. So that you guys are getting something out of this.

00:30:50.585 --> 00:30:54.045
Because, I mean, that's the whole point, right? Like, this is a way for us to

00:30:54.045 --> 00:30:57.685
express our love for jiu-jitsu.

00:30:57.685 --> 00:31:00.325
And are in like the things that we're interested in and we get to

00:31:00.325 --> 00:31:03.365
nerd out over it um and you

00:31:03.365 --> 00:31:06.165
know at the end of the day someone gets to gain value from that

00:31:06.165 --> 00:31:09.645
i mean that's the goal um and so partially

00:31:09.645 --> 00:31:12.705
that also finding ways to engage with

00:31:12.705 --> 00:31:15.345
you guys like we're looking at different things i know

00:31:15.345 --> 00:31:18.745
we've touched on it a lot uh we've alluded to a

00:31:18.745 --> 00:31:21.645
potential patreon um so like that's something

00:31:21.645 --> 00:31:24.725
like finding ways to add more value for

00:31:24.725 --> 00:31:27.625
you guys um so that you know get you

00:31:27.625 --> 00:31:31.345
guys involved we have the discord join it um no

00:31:31.345 --> 00:31:34.045
you all aren't because i know how many of you listen and i know how many

00:31:34.045 --> 00:31:39.225
people are in the discord um and another thing is we're gonna try to get better

00:31:39.225 --> 00:31:43.025
at engaging with you guys not just ask you to engage with us we're gonna get

00:31:43.025 --> 00:31:47.505
better engaging with you guys you know through social media um providing more

00:31:47.505 --> 00:31:51.665
ways for you to consume fighters drinking coffee content like stuff like that.

00:31:51.825 --> 00:31:54.805
So we're saying it now so that you guys can hold us to it.

00:31:55.565 --> 00:31:57.325
Drink the coffee. Drink the coffee.

00:32:00.085 --> 00:32:02.205
I guess we'll come up with... We'll do some of that. We'll do some of that.

00:32:02.405 --> 00:32:07.705
We'll come up with good phrases and names and inside jokes for you guys too, I guess.

00:32:09.245 --> 00:32:10.925
Yeah, you know, like we're just going to try to get,

00:32:11.592 --> 00:32:16.292
we're going to increase our professionalism as well. Uh, we'll get booms that stay up.

00:32:16.652 --> 00:32:20.992
Uh, you know, we will, they don't need Cialis. Uh, you know,

00:32:21.072 --> 00:32:23.132
well, we'll get them, we'll give them Cialis.

00:32:23.352 --> 00:32:26.232
Um, and then, you know, this, we didn't talk about this before,

00:32:26.232 --> 00:32:31.212
but I think it'd be cool to also start giving you guys some of the original

00:32:31.212 --> 00:32:35.652
that popped up on my, um, on some of my, uh, timelines with some of the original

00:32:35.652 --> 00:32:37.032
fighters drinking coffee episodes.

00:32:37.252 --> 00:32:41.572
So, oh man, we should figure out a way to introduce you guys to archived episodes.

00:32:41.592 --> 00:32:46.992
The archive there's some wild shit I don't know if we have as many of the wild

00:32:46.992 --> 00:32:50.992
ones damn we probably do we'd have to dig through your laptop.

00:32:53.212 --> 00:32:56.352
The old Hunter Biden laptop yeah we'll

00:32:56.352 --> 00:32:59.412
dig through the fighters drinking coffee yeah the fighters drinking coffee files

00:32:59.412 --> 00:33:02.152
we'll release the files I've got a couple of them we might not

00:33:02.152 --> 00:33:05.152
release the files don't get mad I have a couple

00:33:05.152 --> 00:33:08.212
that would be cool we just need to talk to the people who's because

00:33:08.212 --> 00:33:10.952
it's some of the guests yeah so we just need to I need

00:33:10.952 --> 00:33:14.052
to go through and like cut out like old ads

00:33:14.052 --> 00:33:16.852
and shit but that's not that big a deal that's pretty

00:33:16.852 --> 00:33:19.832
easy to do however those are some of the best parts i

00:33:19.832 --> 00:33:22.932
should actually just go and cut all those and make a file

00:33:22.932 --> 00:33:25.792
we could like dude this is perfect it's gonna be like it's gonna

00:33:25.792 --> 00:33:28.712
be like blacked out we're gonna like we're gonna retract certain certain things from

00:33:28.712 --> 00:33:31.592
it oh no like i should just make an episode i should cut

00:33:31.592 --> 00:33:34.212
all of them out and put them into one episode okay so you

00:33:34.212 --> 00:33:37.152
can hear just like it's we are we were

00:33:37.152 --> 00:33:40.032
wild men all right you think we're if you think we're wild now

00:33:40.032 --> 00:33:44.052
you have no fucking clue we were i don't know we was all over the place we were

00:33:44.052 --> 00:33:49.992
having fun it was a lot of fun it worked it worked maybe we'll get inspired

00:33:49.992 --> 00:33:53.592
by listening to it again but i think we should probably take a look at those

00:33:53.592 --> 00:33:58.112
we had to wipe the original one from the internet because it was getting uh,

00:33:58.980 --> 00:34:01.480
Well, I had to go and like delete the feed because it was all over.

00:34:01.640 --> 00:34:05.140
I mean, it was, it was crazy. Like it's on like weird Russian streaming sites.

00:34:05.380 --> 00:34:08.380
Hell yeah, dude. Yeah, we got, we were, it's so wild. Cool.

00:34:08.740 --> 00:34:11.140
When I was like trying to find all of it, like I had to go in,

00:34:11.300 --> 00:34:14.340
when I was taking the feed, the old feeds down and going, I don't know,

00:34:14.420 --> 00:34:16.340
it's everywhere. It's insanity.

00:34:17.280 --> 00:34:21.040
The luckily is the feed's dead. So like you can't, it might pop up,

00:34:21.120 --> 00:34:22.200
but you can't actually play any of them.

00:34:22.400 --> 00:34:26.500
I challenge you to find the old feed. But if you can find some of the old feeds. Enjoy. It's wild.

00:34:26.900 --> 00:34:29.560
It's a fun time. but i will we i think we should try to

00:34:29.560 --> 00:34:32.980
bring some of them back that'll be fun so you might uh on weeks that we're not

00:34:32.980 --> 00:34:36.340
able to get recordings i might have one of them yeah i might have some greatest

00:34:36.340 --> 00:34:43.320
hits or at least uh you know oldies um yeah you know like i just want to make

00:34:43.320 --> 00:34:47.740
this fun for you guys keep it fun for us and get you guys involved um,

00:34:48.502 --> 00:34:51.722
I don't know. What else you got on? Do you have anything else on the podcast?

00:34:51.882 --> 00:34:53.182
No, I got to get the hell out of here. Good to go.

00:34:53.722 --> 00:34:56.382
Scott has to get the hell out of here. I got to get the hell out of here.

00:34:56.722 --> 00:34:58.442
Yeah, I dragged him out to the booties.

00:35:00.522 --> 00:35:04.582
But yeah. Those are the Blue Ridge Mountains? Those are a lot of Derren Mountains. Okay.

00:35:05.362 --> 00:35:08.662
Yeah, you might be seeing. They look blue.

00:35:08.942 --> 00:35:12.602
You might see West Virginia. They are blue. That's why I called them the Blue Ridge.

00:35:12.782 --> 00:35:16.562
And before I sign us off, one fun fact about the Blue Ridge Mountains.

00:35:16.562 --> 00:35:21.062
It's actually the light hitting the off-gassing of the evergreen trees of the

00:35:21.062 --> 00:35:22.782
mountains. So that's why they're blue.

00:35:23.262 --> 00:35:27.262
Yeah, yeah. So. Of course. There's your fire, drinking, coffee fun fact. I do like that stuff.

00:35:27.762 --> 00:35:34.742
But yeah, guys, so, you know, that's just a quick little New Year's episode.

00:35:34.742 --> 00:35:38.502
That's our resolutions, some resolutions, some promises to you guys.

00:35:39.802 --> 00:35:43.362
Keep us to it. Keep listening. and

00:35:43.362 --> 00:35:47.902
as always reviews commenting apparently

00:35:47.902 --> 00:35:51.042
is a big one that i learned about subscribe to

00:35:51.042 --> 00:35:56.102
the show that way it immediately just downloads to your listening device uh

00:35:56.102 --> 00:35:59.642
probably your phone i don't know some people might listen on the computer but

00:35:59.642 --> 00:36:04.242
you know that way it's primed and ready for you on tuesdays every tuesday 5

00:36:04.242 --> 00:36:08.622
a.m when the episodes release if they aren't coming out if If we don't have an episode,

00:36:08.642 --> 00:36:12.922
we will tell you guys if like something came up, like, you know, Christmas week,

00:36:13.182 --> 00:36:15.822
the week of Christmas, we didn't have one, just did, made sense.

00:36:16.042 --> 00:36:17.782
It was Christmas. You guys didn't want to listen to us anyways.

00:36:17.942 --> 00:36:19.182
Talk to your families, not us.

00:36:19.702 --> 00:36:21.682
Um, but, uh.

00:36:22.575 --> 00:36:26.455
I shouldn't ostracize our listenership the first day of the year.

00:36:27.315 --> 00:36:33.175
Ostracize away. But yeah, you know, like let's hit those, just move us up the

00:36:33.175 --> 00:36:34.955
algorithm. It helps get more people involved.

00:36:35.135 --> 00:36:37.115
So, you know, that helps us with our New Year's resolutions.

00:36:37.875 --> 00:36:40.635
But, you know, it also, the more people that are involved in this,

00:36:40.735 --> 00:36:45.495
the more people that are hearing the show, then we're able to do more things.

00:36:45.695 --> 00:36:48.555
We're able to engage with more of you and it gives us a better idea of,

00:36:48.555 --> 00:36:53.495
you know, curating content to more of you. So, um, keep it coming.

00:36:53.715 --> 00:36:55.315
You guys are doing great. We love you guys.

00:36:55.675 --> 00:37:01.455
Uh, stay on the mat, stay on the mats new year, especially those of you got

00:37:01.455 --> 00:37:04.895
your blue belts, keep them, keep showing up.

00:37:04.995 --> 00:37:07.295
Don't quit. Don't quit. Like blue belts do.

00:37:07.635 --> 00:37:10.515
Um, but yeah, guys, that was fires drinking coffee.

00:37:10.955 --> 00:37:15.715
Welcome to 2026. This is gonna be a big year for all of us. You guys included.

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So love you. Bye. Bye.