Battle Buddies: How Gym Rivalries Make You Better at Jiu-Jitsu plus, a House Party Rumble (Episode 71)

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Welcome back to Fighters Drinking Coffee. We are your hosts,

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Scott Dance and Michael Sutherland. And with a combined 40 years of grappling

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experience, we are here to help you with your jiu-jitsu training.

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We did shit the hard way and hopefully you don't have to. um so Scott,

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there's uh sometimes in jiu-jitsu gyms you have those guys that like,

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they're like rivals you know in like a fun way right you have those guys that

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like they started around the same time they're kind of like battle buddies but

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they're always they're the ones that push each other a little bit more than,

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than other people just in terms of like you know maybe they're roughly the same size and,

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they're always like neck and neck and like kind of vying for position and i

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don't know maybe other people bet on who's getting promoted first or you know

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who's gonna win you have your little gambling pools on the side right um.

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And so, I don't know, I have a couple guys like this that I coach.

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And I'm like, you know, like, we should talk about that, like,

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the benefit and, like, the importance of the internal, like,

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internal competition within a gym, right?

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Like, we talk about competing and all of that. But there's also,

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you know, you can compete with other people that you train with in a productive manner, right?

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Um and yeah a lot of the time it's it's guys that you're,

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right around the same rank with um they're not always the same size as you sometimes

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it works out that way where you guys are,

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you know roughly you're within range um you know like kind of back in the day

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like at nova right just it's like an example like it was always like me,

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stan and nick like we were all kind of around the same belt levels at the same

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time it's like we were always kind of like battling it out right um,

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and so like you know you're always like oh well let me get this one over on

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this guy and oh shit he got one over i mean now i need to get him back and you

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know so like you get this little bit of yeah or you're like you feel like nervous

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because you miss class like dude i bet those guys aren't missing i kind of go

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oh he's got he did three classes a week i only did two i need to do another

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one yeah i'm gonna do double this day you know that's right a little bit of

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that um and we'll we'll frame some other,

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other forms of like internal competition, but I think that's a good place to start. Um.

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Because, you know, those are your battle buddies, right? Like,

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that's the guy that you probably started with. And, you know,

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you guys, you're going to carry each other through this whole thing.

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Hopefully, if you guys are lucky, maybe you get your black belts together.

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That would be cool as shit.

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And, you know, that's the guy that keeps you accountable, keeps you showing

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up. So, yeah, let's get into it.

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Dude, I'll never forget, man. Shout out to my man, Kelly, back in Kentucky.

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I don't know if he's still doing it. man he like i think he moved or something

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but i had this exact um as a white belt exact bro training partner who like

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he and i started like i think within a week of one another.

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And we went to a lot of the same classes together so we were just like constantly

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training with each other and like i remember like early on like when we're like

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really just learning this stuff like we would kind of like,

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he'd sub me a couple times here i'd sub him a couple times there but like pretty

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quickly we got to where we're like very like neck and neck um and um.

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Then we would go through like months where like nothing, no one would score,

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no one would submit each other like for months because we were like our main,

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each other, we were each other's main training partner.

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Yeah, you guys got each other figured out. Yeah, yeah. They're just like,

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oh, no, oh shit, I need to learn something new.

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But like awesome, but like, you know, like great training, good dude, always on great terms.

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Homies, like I said, I hope he's still trained because shout out to Kelly.

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Dude, you're out there somewhere. I hope you're still doing it.

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Hopefully, I don't know if you're on Instagram, you're in the world of podcasts.

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I hope this finds you, but he'll remember me um man we go way back damn that's

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hilarious uh but dude it was awesome it was awesome having that like and like

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what i was saying earlier about like,

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you know it's like dude like there's like an accountability to it that i like

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where it's like yo man like me and kelly are always going to class like you

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know if he wouldn't go to class i might be like yeah dog where were you

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like you know whatever i learned this sick new move i'm gonna hit it on you

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next yeah yeah fun stuff like that um but yeah dude it's it's a really good

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thing i think especially early on when you're like,

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um when,

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when like you first start off in jiu-jitsu and maybe like when you're like kind

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of like mid-tenure and you're,

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um you need to stay motivated i think it's cool to have that like it's it's

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good to have these little extra little bonuses to keep you on the mat and keep

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you consistently training um.

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I think of it as accountability because it's like now we're talking about like,

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A little bit of comparison, a little bit like other bros, like on the mat, like all good stuff.

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But yeah, it's in like, we definitely were competitive. We would beat the crap

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out of each other. It's like shitty white belts, but like, sure,

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we felt like we were awesome at the time.

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We weren't, but. Well, there's actually something with that too, right?

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Like having that person who's also like at the equal level of suck as you.

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Because you guys do make each other feel. It's a real peer. You can feel so

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much better because like, oh, like we're beaten. Dude, we're so good.

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Like it yeah you have that real like true peer that's like actually.

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You know it does make you feel good about your jiu-jitsu because like oh shit

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dude i'm hitting jiu-jitsu right now this is so cool yeah well and like i mean

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like i said like for us like we would get to a point where probably like

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10 to 12 months into training it's still white belts but like we're like learning

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stuff like we can actually do jiu-jitsu on the guys who are newer than us,

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um but we would get through like where like i said it would be like a lot of

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stalemates like as as you as you said it's very neck and neck and like we would go like,

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weeks or months where like no one would like submit one another occasionally

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we'd get someone here like i'd get him there then he'd come back and get me

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a couple weeks later but like or a day later or whatever be same class but like

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very competitive um but yeah like you said like this the whole thing,

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is inherently kind of a little bit competitive because it's like you know when

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you practice like you're practicing against the other dude and like you're trying

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to pull off a move which means someone pulls off the move someone doesn't,

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um so it's just inherently competitive um so to have someone like at your exact

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level early on and also this was at a time where we we didn't where i was in

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kentucky there wasn't like a lot of competition so like that was the fun part

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about it that was like yo did we get to compete every class and

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me and kelly are gonna go i'm like dude i want to see let's see how it goes and then like,

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he and i would like feast on the newer white belts like yeah dude hell yeah

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like but we and we got our blue belts together um and then we i want to say

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we trained together consistently up until he may have moved around like purple

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belt level i moved a little bit after I got a purple belt, but.

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Yeah, because you were purple when you were up in, when you showed up.

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Well, I definitely, yeah, that was like around the time that I moved.

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So I definitely moved around them. And I want to say he may have moved a little

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bit before that, whatever, just kind of like my own personal history here.

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But it was awesome. It was like cool. Like we did get our belts together.

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We were like, fuck yeah. And there was a couple of bros, like I call it like

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your starting class or like your freshman class or whatever,

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however you want to think about it.

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There were other bros, but he's just like the main guy that I had.

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Yeah, because there's always like, there's always a group of people that tends

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to show up around the same, right?

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Like you have like that and it's almost like every year there's just a time

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when people sign up for jujitsu it's not always like new years or whatever but

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like there's always that like time of year where it's like,

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a bunch of people individually are like i think i'm gonna try jujitsu

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yeah um yeah so yeah and you end up with that guy that's like like you said

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like kelly yeah dude well you know it's funny it's like now that you mentioned

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that it's sort of like if you had like a start class it's like watching the

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wonder years or like the sandlot when like

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you have the picture of like the eight guys who all started at the same time

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and then like the picture fades because like these guys moved or they stopped and there's like

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there's eight of us and it's under five

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and it's under like three and then there's there's two of us who kept going

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you know what i mean it's like like i said wonder years or,

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was that sandlot whatever it's probably both but like people would like fade

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out of the picture yeah they would fade out of the picture is uh,

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yeah no that was sandlot like as they like moved away and stuff or went to college

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and yeah and they were talking about like benny the jet rodriguez went to the

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to the bigs but you get the idea yeah but like it's the same idea where it's

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like all right man we all kind of stuck it out and like these are that,

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you you want that like i like that like,

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hey man he's still doing it i'm still doing it let's keep let's keep doing it

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let's let's let's ride this wave i hope they're still training.

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You know let's let's all believe that they're still telling me yeah i hope so

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he's a cool dude um yeah like shout out to kelly i had let's see i had oh i

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also and also aries so aries and I actually both took our first jiu-jitsu class together.

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No kidding. Yeah. So Aries, myself, um,

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rest in peace to uh shit i'm i'm rest in peace so i forget but we had another

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guy who trained with us he ended up dying in a hiking accident oh no um another dude josh moved to,

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the philip moved back to the philippines,

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um and another guy just didn't train him didn't fall we didn't go to the same

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gyms the whole time um he's,

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he's somewhere he's trained somewhere in alexandria this is your wonder years yeah

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yeah basically yeah this is my sandler still trains aries guys black belt uh

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and then you know like nick nick and i spoke he started at nova around the same time as me,

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um and so like you know it's part of that yeah and so yeah like they're all

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it's ah shit nick just got his black belt shout out to him shout out to nick

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and uh actually on that post aries like now I was just, Mike's the only one left.

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There's just one left. I'm coming for you guys.

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I was like, oh, I'll be there. Don't worry. I got some shit to do. I'm coming.

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So, yeah, I mean, like, we had that same thing. It was like we would,

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you know, and everybody kind of like had their little, you know,

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Aries had his bouts with just doing Muay Thai for a while. And,

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you know, like everybody.

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But at the end of the day, like, those are the dudes that you, they're on the mat.

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Hey man i gotta beat you like,

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these aren't gonna be fun rounds they'll be your most competitive rounds yeah

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yeah um yeah we're so i mean that helps a lot i have a bunch of dudes that it's

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like that and actually there's a whole chat of where that is the entire chat like the chat is,

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all the accountability buddies because it's uh it's the thick boy chat it's

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all the big guys um because there was a time and i know you've trained you've

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been to the sessions where like

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it's a lot of big dudes at our gym but it used to only be two you guys bring them big down here man

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i don't know i don't know where they come you keep them they come they you you're

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like a beacon for these dudes at 5 30 in the morning i've got we have a patch

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now it's the thick boy center of excellence is what we're calling it uh and

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as long as you're willing to roll with the thick boys you're eligible it seems to be uh

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and but so they're didn't use there's like two three of these dudes and so they

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started a group chat to you.

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Know keep each other accountable and showing up so they had like a training

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partner because it used to be mostly like small dudes guys under 180 and so they got forced out yeah,

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they yeah they i i do think that part of it's that now there's like 10 to 12

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big dudes that are there and they're just like dude fuck this i don't want to be here,

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um but you know like those guys like they're the ones i get to see them like,

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pushing each other every day, like,

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trying trying to figure out what the other person does beat that person's thing

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like all their questions are centered around like what what dude does right like oh well uh.

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We just because you guys have had john we've had john on the show so we i talk

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about him a lot because you know who he is he's now a recurring character on

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the show yeah we're bringing it back but,

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uh but so like well john does this thing to me how do i how do i stop that you

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know like well that wouldn't be fair to john if i just but i will coach but

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i will show you i will answer your question he should be here because he's gonna ask him that i'm gonna

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tell him how to coach against you so this will be fun for me yeah so i get to

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i get to play a little devil's advocate in it but like you know like,

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they you have that person not only are you guys like learning together and like

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vying but you're they're also the one exposing all the like exposing your weak

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points right like oh shit like.

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Well i mean john's gonna take you down that's maybe not a weak point john's

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i don't think that's a weak point if you're getting taken down by john it's,

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that's that's a feature not a really it's a strength if you stop him that's

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just like dude i'm on i'm unstoppable i can't take me down um but,

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you know like you know like ah shit john keeps putting me in this position,

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and he's able to just peel that you know he's able to peel my arm out or like,

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i always end up here and you have that person that's able to show you like,

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that weakness that deficiency in your game it's a good thing it's a good thing um,

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sometimes though sometimes though these people aren't in the same classes as

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you sometimes you have those people that are like.

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They just happen to be around the same skill level and path and maybe they go

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to a different class and they're the one you're compared to or they're the one that like,

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that's who the head coach is going to put you with for like anything or like we had an internal,

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we're like an in-house competition and uh a few of us have like it's like john

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has somebody that they always stick him with perry has somebody they always

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stick him with uh and i always get stuck with one of the other coaches but like,

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you know you have these guys that like oh these are your counterparts in the

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gym and you guys are you guys are going to fight.

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Um but it's good it's those are good because,

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you get to practice you get to almost practice like competing scrimmage when

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you do yeah it's a scrimmage and you get to practice like oh well i know what

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this person's game plan is,

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and it's almost better because these people know your game plan so well because

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you do train with them you've rolled with them enough times um the guy that

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i usually go with like Like we've,

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we'll do like training sessions.

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Yeah, you know each other's games. And so when I compete, he knows what I'm going to do.

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So now I have to actually, I have to do it flawlessly, right?

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And so like there's also, that's the other benefit of competing with someone

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else in your gym, you know, in a fun manner.

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Is like, oh, like I have to be crisp and flawless at this.

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Um because the other guy like one of the exciting things for an actual competition

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is like that fear of the unknown and like you're going out and you you can know

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some things but like at the end of the day like

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you only know the tidbits you've seen when they've competed against somebody

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else like that's that's really all you can know,

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but when you've rolled with somebody dozens of times you know what they do you know um.

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So there's something fun there's additional fun to be had with that because

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you either have to bring a surprise or uh,

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Or you just kind of do your thing perfectly. Yeah, bro.

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Those are fun rounds. Well, this is like any good training environment,

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like you said. And you can call it a comp class or whatever,

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like with your closest bros, your closest training partners,

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and everyone knows each other's games.

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And you fall into like, that's a little different if it's like a morning versus,

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an evening group, which is fun.

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And maybe you guys, you know each other's games, but you're not like perhaps

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as intimately aware as like you would be if it was like the morning guys know

00:16:10.852 --> 00:16:14.982
each other's games probably better yeah you're not rolling with these guys daily,

00:16:15.702 --> 00:16:17.428
I just said that to say like,

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to your point a moment ago and you could like and so there's enough there's

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gonna be some differentiation because of that that,

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might make it maybe a little more like a competition because there's some just

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enough of a gap that like alright I know this guy pretty well but,

00:16:35.900 --> 00:16:38.726
I'm not in there with them every morning, so to speak,

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or in this, this example, but, um,

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either way, if it's, let's say it was just like an internal AM competition.

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Everyone has each other's moves. So well, we get into like these like little

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patterns too. We try with people all the time. We're like, let's say it's John

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and you're like, yo, you know what? Like.

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I'm not wrestling John. I'm just not going to.

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Or maybe I will for a minute, but like eventually, like if I want to be like,

00:17:02.718 --> 00:17:06.316
make it a competitive round and play it like it's a sport, I'd be Jeff rules

00:17:06.316 --> 00:17:08.806
or whatever. Like I'll probably pull guard on John. Yeah, there's this amount

00:17:08.806 --> 00:17:12.376
of damage control. Well, yeah, well, and I would argue that's like good strategy.

00:17:12.736 --> 00:17:18.333
Like you'd be like, okay, fight where he's strong or fight where he's on paper weak.

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And I think I'll go with the latter.

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Fight where he's strong, where he's stronger. So like, I just have to say,

00:17:24.466 --> 00:17:26.426
like we get into like patterns with people we know really well,

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but kind of like, because you know how they operate, you know how you operate.

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So like you do, like you said, you either execute flawlessly or what I like

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to do in situations like that every once in a while with guys who just know me so damn well.

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So I just change the variables up. It's like I start to operate a little bit differently.

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Even if I'm going to try to do the thing that they know I want to do,

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I'll just do it slightly differently with like different timing,

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different range or whatever.

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And that's just, and I think it's fun. Like it's a fun challenge to like learn

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how to adjust your tactics against people who just know you backwards and forwards

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in enough of a way like that's a different type of challenge um.

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To have to try to overcome that like objective of like man me and eric or me

00:18:07.596 --> 00:18:12.625
and whoever me and mike he's already aware so like excuse me,

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i want to pull this off or pull off something different ideally something i'm

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gonna have to alter a variable because like you get to like you put in so many

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hours with these bros and it's like if you keep including the same ingredients,

00:18:24.016 --> 00:18:26.615
like, you're going to end up with, like, similar outcomes. And nothing wrong with that.

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But, like, in, like, this scrimmage environment that I'm talking about where

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you're like, all right, me and Eric are going to do a competitive round now.

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Like, someone's going to win. Someone's going to lose. Like, crap.

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He knows everything. He doesn't know everything I do. He can do everything I

00:18:39.176 --> 00:18:42.159
can do just as well. Some things probably better. So, yeah.

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Time to mix it up a little bit, you know, like time to like,

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good thing I've been, good thing I've been secretly practicing this one move.

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Yeah. Or just like, sometimes it's just like altering the way you execute a move.

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And I think there's a skill to learning how to like assess the adjustments and

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make the adjustment to like, just, just mix up the ingredients a little bit.

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When it's actually, and you talked about the patterns, right?

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Like if you roll with the same people, you'll,

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you'll find that like you basically, it's almost like running through a script sometimes right like,

00:19:13.873 --> 00:19:18.421
all right well said they are gonna sit down there they pull guard because that's

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where they're they're you know that's where they're gonna be the best all right

00:19:21.211 --> 00:19:22.882
well i'm going to knee cut to the right

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then i'm after i knee cut to the right i end up in side control after i end

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up in side control i'm gonna look for i'm gonna look for dorsal that doesn't

00:19:30.351 --> 00:19:33.522
work i take the back and then you know like you there's almost like.

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Sometimes can feel you said script script is perfect script is perfect um and

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they know that you're going to do all that and they know you're going to do it so like sometimes,

00:19:43.918 --> 00:19:48.278
you know sometimes that's you know it's hard to do the script but that's just

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you know that's your if that's your game plan right like that's your game you

00:19:51.648 --> 00:19:55.446
literally get to play your game against someone who knows it and is resisting it.

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But sometimes it forces you because they'll get good enough at stopping it,

00:20:01.738 --> 00:20:06.948
it forces you to be to try something different well now i have uh he keeps he's

00:20:06.948 --> 00:20:10.128
stopping my knee cut to the to the right maybe i'll knee cut to the left this

00:20:10.128 --> 00:20:12.658
time there you go they don't know they don't expect me to do that

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they don't know what to do when i lead with my right leg you know like little

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things like that and like it almost like,

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forces you to do the different thing,

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like you said like do it a little bit different and then all of a sudden the

00:20:26.598 --> 00:20:31.938
entire roll is different because you don't know how to hit that other move from that side, right?

00:20:31.938 --> 00:20:35.978
Like, oh shit, like I really only know how to get to, I really,

00:20:36.538 --> 00:20:40.765
I use that one back take from when I go to the right, but like I just,

00:20:40.939 --> 00:20:44.288
my dumb brain doesn't work when I do it to the left.

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That, yeah, I think it's like, if the, or their defensive paradigm for you is

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based upon you behaving a certain way and you're like, no, I'm not doing that,

00:20:51.138 --> 00:20:55.010
I'm doing this this time, that might discombobulate them and they'll be like, ah, crap, you got me.

00:20:55.202 --> 00:20:56.988
Yeah, and- I thought you were gonna go left, you went right.

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Crap dude cool good job and it changes it'll change the sequence of events because

00:21:01.732 --> 00:21:06.457
their defenses will be different like you said like the defensive paradigm changes like,

00:21:07.021 --> 00:21:10.318
the things the way they react when you go one way is me different the way you

00:21:10.318 --> 00:21:14.388
react when they react when you do a new thing now all of a sudden you're having

00:21:14.388 --> 00:21:19.321
to go through a whole new chain of events um and there's something to this which is that.

00:21:20.209 --> 00:21:24.348
People listen there's a skill and and and taking the initiative It's maintaining

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the initiative of action enough such that you can lead your training partner

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in this case, call them opponent,

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for the day, for the moment, for the five-minute round or whatever.

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Like, lead your opponent with unexpected...

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Data rather than what they are prepared to face and like if you can that's a skill,

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the better you get at that the less thinking you have to apply when you do it

00:21:53.321 --> 00:21:56.581
because this game doesn't reward slow thinking especially when you're going

00:21:56.581 --> 00:21:59.090
with a guy who knows you really well they'll come after you.

00:22:00.921 --> 00:22:03.791
They're used to what you do so they also have their offense and defense prepared

00:22:03.791 --> 00:22:10.468
for you so yeah if you can dial in on that skill of being agile mentally,

00:22:10.926 --> 00:22:15.669
physically ideally too, but agile mentally to pivot, do something different.

00:22:16.461 --> 00:22:19.851
And then you got to execute it. But if you can pull that off,

00:22:19.851 --> 00:22:21.480
like that's a pretty sophisticated skill.

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That's why, like you said, like these internal comps could be like some of the toughest things.

00:22:25.741 --> 00:22:30.031
If you do this stuff frequently enough, and I like that you guys are doing that.

00:22:30.031 --> 00:22:32.624
I recommend a lot of people to do that. Like if you get good at that,

00:22:32.932 --> 00:22:36.041
that'll make you so prepared for when you go into a competition competition

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where someone, like you may still be able to pull off.

00:22:37.801 --> 00:22:41.551
Like you do this enough times and like a fun competitive training with really

00:22:41.551 --> 00:22:44.252
good training partners your a game is going to feel like,

00:22:44.937 --> 00:22:49.161
a knife through butter in a tournament well and one of the hardest things like

00:22:49.161 --> 00:22:53.836
practicing your skill your techniques right like your moves,

00:22:54.544 --> 00:22:56.959
is easier than like.

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Getting to practice those things that like simulated rounds all that right that

00:23:02.371 --> 00:23:07.872
you get with practicing tactics and those those like funnels,

00:23:08.493 --> 00:23:12.922
because the you don't there's no way to just you can't you can't just drill,

00:23:13.375 --> 00:23:19.685
tactics you can't just drill funnels and like even even in the ccla realm like,

00:23:20.330 --> 00:23:24.491
that's not really you're not really drilling tactics you're i mean you sort

00:23:24.491 --> 00:23:29.081
of but not really because like the games you're figuring out how to exist within

00:23:29.081 --> 00:23:33.201
exchanges you're practicing exchanges that's what you're doing in CLA despite

00:23:33.201 --> 00:23:34.719
the what they you know whatever.

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Continue I'm with it I'm tracking you know like you're but when you have these.

00:23:41.940 --> 00:23:47.125
I think the the the encounters between you and someone who knows what you're

00:23:47.125 --> 00:23:50.828
going to do rather than you're not really,

00:23:51.739 --> 00:23:56.995
in a way you are practicing the technique, but more so you're practicing the

00:23:56.995 --> 00:24:01.335
skills and tactics around it that allow you to execute the technique.

00:24:01.335 --> 00:24:05.565
It's more of like, all right, well, you're getting more into your setups and

00:24:05.565 --> 00:24:08.825
all of that because they know what you're going to do. I'm going to use a knee

00:24:08.825 --> 00:24:13.295
cut as an example, just because it's an easy one, but like they know you're

00:24:13.295 --> 00:24:15.801
going to knee cut. That's how you always pass their guard.

00:24:16.306 --> 00:24:19.415
You know, you're going to knee cut because that's the way that their guard gets passed.

00:24:19.415 --> 00:24:24.215
Like that's, that is the opening you create, but because they know that that's

00:24:24.215 --> 00:24:27.835
going to happen, they can almost camp and wait for that knee cut, right?

00:24:27.835 --> 00:24:30.785
Like they can just have, they steer you towards it. Yeah.

00:24:30.785 --> 00:24:35.185
They'll put you in position to do it because they know how they know you're

00:24:35.185 --> 00:24:38.468
going to do it. And they know, you know, I'll just, I can frame on this and,

00:24:38.967 --> 00:24:43.295
I'll just regard after, you know, like whatever their, whatever their tactic,

00:24:43.295 --> 00:24:44.401
their move is going to be.

00:24:44.726 --> 00:24:48.365
So you have to actually be tactical in how you have to actually practice the

00:24:48.365 --> 00:24:51.808
way that you're going to approach the knee cut.

00:24:52.632 --> 00:24:57.329
You have to hide the knee cut in this case because they know it's coming every single time.

00:24:57.950 --> 00:25:02.585
So you're getting to practice a skill instead of a technique here.

00:25:02.585 --> 00:25:07.627
Like you said you were talking about the skill like skill development and rather than.

00:25:08.625 --> 00:25:12.448
Oh i'm just gonna blast this knee cut now that they know it's coming all right

00:25:12.448 --> 00:25:17.418
well they know i'm gonna do this i'm going to have to approach set up one thing

00:25:17.418 --> 00:25:20.628
i have to change this like this battle is,

00:25:21.228 --> 00:25:26.219
the battle for that underhook or for that inside control is a better term for it or,

00:25:26.805 --> 00:25:31.318
whatever like now you're getting you're gonna actually probably also develop

00:25:31.318 --> 00:25:37.567
additional technique around it but those funnels to your go-to techniques are going to get,

00:25:38.293 --> 00:25:41.248
even better because you have someone who knows you're going to do them,

00:25:42.068 --> 00:25:46.928
which you know like kind of a little long wordy version of saying it but you

00:25:46.928 --> 00:25:50.954
know because someone knows what you're going to do you're going to get,

00:25:52.004 --> 00:25:55.838
i mean those reps can be worth similar in competition those reps can be worth

00:25:55.838 --> 00:25:58.512
a hell of a lot more just because,

00:25:59.208 --> 00:26:02.168
that person knows you're going to do it versus the you work hard where somebody

00:26:02.168 --> 00:26:06.408
wants that person absolutely doesn't want you to do it in competition this person

00:26:06.408 --> 00:26:07.597
knows you're going to do it and,

00:26:08.206 --> 00:26:11.288
they know how you're going to do it they're going to know when it's strong when

00:26:11.288 --> 00:26:15.068
it's weak yeah yeah and you know there there's,

00:26:15.967 --> 00:26:20.078
value in this there's value that person's gonna that person's gonna keep you

00:26:20.078 --> 00:26:23.338
honest on it a lot more than you want than someone who doesn't know you betcha

00:26:23.338 --> 00:26:29.787
as well so you know so we love that we love the the competitive training environment. Um.

00:26:31.208 --> 00:26:34.364
All in good fun, people push each other. Make it competitive,

00:26:34.364 --> 00:26:37.814
smile afterwards, knuckle each other, be happy when the other dude does something well.

00:26:38.540 --> 00:26:41.154
But be competitive. Yeah. Tell him you're going to get him next time.

00:26:41.474 --> 00:26:44.254
Tell him you're going to get him, yeah. And then do. High five and knuckles, and then do.

00:26:44.914 --> 00:26:48.874
High five and knuckles him, do it again. Do it again. Over and over and over

00:26:48.874 --> 00:26:52.894
again. And then, you know, it's also fun to come up with the secret moves.

00:26:53.374 --> 00:26:56.344
Yeah, I still think you have to do that. You have to come up with that thing

00:26:56.344 --> 00:26:59.374
that you practice when they're not around. When you coach everyone,

00:26:59.374 --> 00:27:02.884
too, man, like, everyone figures your shit out, and you know they're gunning

00:27:02.884 --> 00:27:04.256
for your ass. Like, they're gunning.

00:27:04.552 --> 00:27:06.784
So you always have to stay a step ahead of them. You always have to have,

00:27:06.784 --> 00:27:08.164
like, a new—it could be secret.

00:27:08.164 --> 00:27:11.174
It could be, like, all right, well, we've all—I've showed you all every move

00:27:11.174 --> 00:27:14.194
that I have, but, like, what's the next thing that I can ambush you with so

00:27:14.194 --> 00:27:17.854
that I can keep you all— Or you save the counter for, like, three classes later

00:27:17.854 --> 00:27:22.034
so that, you know—well, you guys know the move, but I know the move that stops the move.

00:27:22.954 --> 00:27:26.654
Just so they can keep them on their toes. Yeah. And then eventually they just get better than you.

00:27:27.094 --> 00:27:30.470
It's an eternal game of cat and mouse yeah i mean exactly they will because

00:27:30.824 --> 00:27:33.924
that's the thing like i mean what i yeah like you'll teach them and they'll

00:27:33.924 --> 00:27:36.514
get better at it than you and you're like that's good and you're like fuck yeah

00:27:36.514 --> 00:27:39.274
all right well i guess i've done my job but this is part of my job is to,

00:27:39.874 --> 00:27:42.644
keep yeah god damn it man i can't do any of my shit anymore because i showed

00:27:42.644 --> 00:27:46.364
you all and you guys are good at it fuck all right what's the next thing i can do to like you,

00:27:47.101 --> 00:27:51.525
know for what it's worth like the your ability to do that and like

00:27:51.856 --> 00:27:54.414
make other people as good or better than you at it like that's a really good

00:27:54.414 --> 00:27:57.334
skill so like you could probably do that with a new move too yeah and then keep

00:27:57.334 --> 00:28:00.534
them chasing you then they'll be like then they'll have to spend weeks or a

00:28:00.594 --> 00:28:03.425
month or more or maybe last if they're pretty competent and,

00:28:03.895 --> 00:28:08.084
keep them chasing that next thing keep leading the witness keep keep keep maintaining

00:28:08.084 --> 00:28:11.144
the initiative keep change the game be like no we don't do knee cuts anymore

00:28:11.144 --> 00:28:15.034
now i do sit back i'm gonna angle he'll hook you yeah i only do leg stuff now

00:28:15.354 --> 00:28:17.884
and then you can go back to the knee cut after you've kind of tricked them into

00:28:17.884 --> 00:28:20.174
thinking like well i only do heel hooks now yeah i'm a

00:28:20.514 --> 00:28:24.174
we're pulling guard now we're guard pullers yeah and they'd all start taking them

00:28:24.534 --> 00:28:26.794
down and lure them into not wrestling for a while.

00:28:26.794 --> 00:28:29.691
Yeah, yeah. Keep them on a loop.

00:28:29.842 --> 00:28:31.894
I had a guy, this is slightly different,

00:28:31.894 --> 00:28:34.718
but similar to what you were just saying there. I had a guy that,

00:28:35.468 --> 00:28:40.753
He started around the same time I went to like went to battlefield for the first time.

00:28:40.753 --> 00:28:45.783
So like his beginning at battlefield and my like his beginning jujitsu in my

00:28:45.783 --> 00:28:49.093
beginning of battlefield kind of started at the same time. He's roughly my size.

00:28:50.422 --> 00:28:53.533
Which was hard. It's hard to find a battlefield. They're all so big.

00:28:53.553 --> 00:28:58.813
Uh heavyweights if you want to want training partners i have them yeah i have

00:28:58.813 --> 00:29:03.113
them for you yeah um but so they uh,

00:29:03.820 --> 00:29:10.008
so he just by default ends up being like one of my training partners because he's my size and

00:29:10.345 --> 00:29:14.643
uh so now he like knows everything i do because that's what he learned and like

00:29:14.643 --> 00:29:19.473
his that's all like his exposure to jitsu is just like my weird funky

00:29:19.913 --> 00:29:22.993
yeah jujitsu right so like he's like he just knows what i'm gonna do now.

00:29:23.921 --> 00:29:27.433
It's like shit i'm this like blue blue,

00:29:28.133 --> 00:29:32.573
this blue belt who like just knows my game it's good sounds like a good training

00:29:32.573 --> 00:29:35.589
partner it's good but it's just like shit dude um,

00:29:36.176 --> 00:29:40.013
switch it up yeah so and i'll joke now you pull guard mike now you pull guard

00:29:40.413 --> 00:29:44.103
yeah i joke with the guys like i only know like a couple things everything else

00:29:44.103 --> 00:29:47.263
i just make up and that might piss them off a little bit they're like yeah i

00:29:47.263 --> 00:29:50.893
don't know i just do like three moves and everything else i just kind of i don't

00:29:50.893 --> 00:29:53.533
know i make it up when i'm rolling like shit he's not even trying god

00:29:53.973 --> 00:29:56.833
damn it yeah i think that's why they they got a little i said that at breakfast

00:29:56.833 --> 00:29:59.448
yesterday and they were like they're like yeah whatever,

00:30:00.173 --> 00:30:04.533
that's awesome sorry dude like i don't know i just kind of do shit i know ideally

00:30:04.533 --> 00:30:08.183
what how i know how shit moves i know how to choke people i just kind of do

00:30:08.183 --> 00:30:11.580
shit that seems like it's going to do it and it works um,

00:30:12.263 --> 00:30:14.575
But so I'll joke with it. They're like, oh, you know all the moves.

00:30:14.575 --> 00:30:15.575
I'm like, no, dude, like, I

00:30:15.575 --> 00:30:18.985
just have to come up with new shit to show you because I run out too fast.

00:30:19.780 --> 00:30:23.225
I showed you, did a month on the Kimura and now I'm out of shit to do.

00:30:23.585 --> 00:30:25.425
Necessity is the mother of invention.

00:30:25.945 --> 00:30:28.565
I'm like, I got to come up with new moves now. I got to go on,

00:30:28.565 --> 00:30:30.725
I got to go see Sensei YouTube. That's it.

00:30:31.365 --> 00:30:35.454
Come find something that works off of there. Check in with Master YouTube. Yeah.

00:30:35.912 --> 00:30:38.795
Or, you know, it's advanced class today. We're going to do this weird,

00:30:38.795 --> 00:30:40.556
we're going to do Barambolos.

00:30:41.032 --> 00:30:42.860
Um you know shit like that so.

00:30:44.098 --> 00:30:48.125
Uh yeah dude combat confessions combat confessions we so this is a shorter,

00:30:48.921 --> 00:30:53.085
uh a shorter concept today uh so you know just quick summary on it before we

00:30:53.085 --> 00:30:58.744
get into the combat confessions for today this is a good one um but quick summary

00:30:58.941 --> 00:31:03.567
it was a quicker episode we have longer combat confession today it's a fun story um,

00:31:04.119 --> 00:31:09.915
but the summary for today stick with their battle buddies that competition in

00:31:09.915 --> 00:31:14.055
internal competition it's going to really pay dividends in the long run these

00:31:14.055 --> 00:31:16.000
are the guys are going to keep you training,

00:31:16.481 --> 00:31:21.114
you're going to keep keep them training and like having these guys that,

00:31:21.787 --> 00:31:26.225
you're you know day in and day out battling it out with bleeding on the mat

00:31:26.225 --> 00:31:29.005
sweating on the mat i mean hopefully you clean up after you do those things

00:31:29.005 --> 00:31:31.865
but you know whatever um but these are the guys that like,

00:31:32.683 --> 00:31:36.355
at the end of the day when you're both getting your black belts and you guys

00:31:36.355 --> 00:31:41.750
have been really hitting it hard for 10 plus years however long it takes you to get there,

00:31:43.155 --> 00:31:45.955
these are these are your guys right these are the guys that made you better

00:31:45.955 --> 00:31:53.308
the who built you like that's your dude that's your battle buddy um so you need one of those.

00:31:55.404 --> 00:32:03.931
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That's the concept for the day. Now for our combat confession. I'm so ready, bro.

00:32:31.553 --> 00:32:35.133
I've been building this up to Scott. You have, man. I don't know what he's going to talk about, guys.

00:32:35.453 --> 00:32:37.713
So this. This is the way we like it.

00:32:39.553 --> 00:32:45.163
This comes via the group chat. And I normally. Good. Keep things in the group

00:32:45.163 --> 00:32:47.155
chat. But this one was too good to.

00:32:48.600 --> 00:32:52.553
This one. This one I got permission. I was going to say, you got expressed written permission.

00:32:52.553 --> 00:32:55.683
I got expressed written permission. And I believe you even mentioned the dude's name.

00:32:55.683 --> 00:32:59.293
I could be wrong. uh he said he go for it he said he doesn't care if i say his

00:32:59.293 --> 00:33:03.893
name so this is from our good friend aj,

00:33:04.744 --> 00:33:11.483
uh he's asked questions on the show before um and this was at night just 9 30

00:33:11.483 --> 00:33:14.141
p.m last night we get this text message,

00:33:15.378 --> 00:33:20.413
story time i had a couple of drinks at a house party and,

00:33:21.322 --> 00:33:28.236
i'm quoting here uh and a brown douche by the way aj is pakistani so he's just

00:33:28.567 --> 00:33:30.812
you know whatever for whatever that's worth uh,

00:33:31.293 --> 00:33:37.280
and a brown douche heard i do bjj and started talking shit and saying he could take me,

00:33:38.412 --> 00:33:44.873
uh aj's a white belt just to to also add more context here a couple of minutes

00:33:44.873 --> 00:33:47.177
of shit talking. We start rolling.

00:33:48.129 --> 00:33:53.725
Rear naked choke. He started tapping and I go, nah, this is street rules.

00:33:53.923 --> 00:33:56.831
And the motherfucker passed out. And then my wife yelled at me.

00:33:57.753 --> 00:34:01.693
That's probably good. And now there's additional on this. Oh,

00:34:01.693 --> 00:34:08.039
uh, he, a little more breakdown of the, of the events.

00:34:09.345 --> 00:34:14.988
He says, and I quote, I shot a shitty double, took him down with zero effort,

00:34:15.336 --> 00:34:22.291
mount, gift wrap, just kind of held it there and looked at him like, come on, do something.

00:34:22.767 --> 00:34:27.159
Then I took his back and I choked him out, sunk in the rear naked.

00:34:27.159 --> 00:34:33.233
I'm going to correct his spell, his word, his grammar here, but and sunk in a rear naked choke. Uh.

00:34:34.846 --> 00:34:38.439
So yeah, I mean. This was at his house? This was, no, this was at someone's,

00:34:38.630 --> 00:34:40.523
by the way, housewarming party.

00:34:40.773 --> 00:34:45.772
He's at someone else's housewarming party and gets in a fight with some dude.

00:34:46.172 --> 00:34:49.585
Just gets in a jujitsu match with some random dude.

00:34:52.452 --> 00:34:57.954
Why don't you go first? Because you know him. Yeah, so like I jokingly said,

00:34:59.772 --> 00:35:04.312
to him afterwards, I was like, bro, there's cops in this chat.

00:35:04.312 --> 00:35:11.961
You can't be talking about assaulting somebody uh but um few extra little things on here uh,

00:35:12.947 --> 00:35:17.632
he is blaming all of us for being bad influences on him because i don't know

00:35:17.922 --> 00:35:23.066
choking people and stuff i guess uh apparently the dude,

00:35:23.989 --> 00:35:28.772
left immediately and then he stuck around aj stuck around and had three more drinks afterwards.

00:35:31.674 --> 00:35:37.132
And he also says that he was so annoyed because he made him pass him out in

00:35:37.132 --> 00:35:39.523
front of his girlfriend the other guy's girlfriend,

00:35:40.155 --> 00:35:44.382
so dude was there with his girlfriend yo aj punked this guy dude aj punked this

00:35:44.382 --> 00:35:49.152
dude so like ruthless pretty pretty badass it was pretty cool uh,

00:35:50.268 --> 00:35:52.363
but uh i my,

00:35:53.774 --> 00:35:57.932
yeah like you for that guy like yeah you're not you can't stick around after

00:35:57.932 --> 00:36:00.922
getting getting fucking choked out in front of everybody you choked him out

00:36:00.922 --> 00:36:07.192
in front of his girlfriend that's tough and everybody at this housewarming party that's tough.

00:36:08.935 --> 00:36:11.780
So hold on time off for a second,

00:36:13.272 --> 00:36:18.754
aj's version of the story what was aj's comment on the setup the guy was talking

00:36:18.754 --> 00:36:21.034
shit yeah so he said the dude was,

00:36:21.764 --> 00:36:26.514
uh the dude was basically i guess like i don't know i assume aj was talking

00:36:26.514 --> 00:36:31.644
to someone about doing jiu-jitsu like that would be the pre like the pre-events

00:36:31.644 --> 00:36:34.553
right and then this dude hold up uh.

00:36:35.824 --> 00:36:39.504
There's drinks involved also by the way guys people are drinking everyone's

00:36:39.534 --> 00:36:42.554
judgment including aj's i know you're here to listen to this dude this is my

00:36:42.554 --> 00:36:47.434
perspective your judgment's also suspect yeah i'm just gonna say it continue yeah like,

00:36:47.916 --> 00:36:51.844
probably we're talking drinks here brother it's uh yeah he's like i had three

00:36:51.844 --> 00:36:56.154
more afterwards i mean i'm so not judging so the other dude the drinks are flowing

00:36:56.154 --> 00:37:00.657
in aj's words the brown douche uh as aj said um,

00:37:01.254 --> 00:37:06.525
i don't know why he had to bring skin color into this aj but you know you did it deal it was you um,

00:37:07.214 --> 00:37:09.494
Um, but so the dude, uh,

00:37:10.345 --> 00:37:15.024
heard he did BJJ and then came up and started talking shit to AJ allegedly,

00:37:15.024 --> 00:37:16.510
which I guess means as...

00:37:17.236 --> 00:37:21.874
The probably like the cliche, right? Like your jujitsu won't work on me.

00:37:22.054 --> 00:37:24.004
I'm a street fighter. Right.

00:37:24.804 --> 00:37:29.774
I assume that's the something like that. You know, I was hoping he would have

00:37:29.774 --> 00:37:32.484
been there this morning, but, you know, enough drinks were had.

00:37:33.324 --> 00:37:35.304
This was last night. This was last night, dude.

00:37:36.344 --> 00:37:39.694
Breaking news. This is breaking news. I was hoping he would have been there.

00:37:39.694 --> 00:37:43.393
Jujitsu wins again. Yeah. Jujitsu wins again. It does work.

00:37:43.915 --> 00:37:46.737
But so, yeah, the guy, I guess, heard he did jujitsu.

00:37:47.416 --> 00:37:51.444
Somehow i i'm guessing they they all have mutual friends at this housewarming

00:37:51.444 --> 00:37:56.285
party right like i would assume so you have mutual friends if you're at housewarming party assumedly um.

00:37:57.784 --> 00:38:01.764
Maybe not you know if it's in the neighborhood maybe just walk in dude uh but you know,

00:38:02.554 --> 00:38:07.774
so somebody that this other dude talked to must have told him oh yeah like the

00:38:07.774 --> 00:38:10.714
aj guy he does jujitsu do you think the other guy was like no he was like hey

00:38:10.714 --> 00:38:13.694
this guy'll talk some shit let's be fun yeah hey man that guy does jiu-jitsu

00:38:13.694 --> 00:38:17.124
you should go totally pick a fight yeah you should go fight aj,

00:38:17.879 --> 00:38:21.624
yeah i hear he's new he was saying his jiu-jitsu would definitely work specifically

00:38:21.624 --> 00:38:25.275
on you yeah he said he said that he could kick your ass,

00:38:26.024 --> 00:38:30.514
uh he called you a brown guy yeah he said it in a really derogatory fashion

00:38:30.514 --> 00:38:34.084
whatever yeah it was really weird he was like it's kind of racist,

00:38:35.544 --> 00:38:42.184
yeah uh but uh but yeah so that's why I guess okay dude you know the dude basically

00:38:42.184 --> 00:38:46.204
challenged the guy said the guy he goes your jiu-jitsu won't work on me is that

00:38:46.204 --> 00:38:49.180
what he said yeah so the dude said well he said that.

00:38:51.734 --> 00:38:56.574
Saying he could take him he said I could take you so he's he was saying he could

00:38:56.574 --> 00:39:00.974
beat up AJ got it yeah that's which AJ strong as shit by the way so he weighs

00:39:00.974 --> 00:39:04.353
like now he's on a cut he's weighing about 200 pounds,

00:39:04.834 --> 00:39:09.222
but he uh he's like fucking strong um,

00:39:10.250 --> 00:39:14.220
because he lifts he's like he's one of those dudes like lifts all the time so he's strong uh,

00:39:15.354 --> 00:39:21.565
He, I guess his highest deadlift was like 600 for three or something like that.

00:39:21.861 --> 00:39:22.943
Pretty strong dude. Strong.

00:39:23.523 --> 00:39:26.653
I don't know what he, I assume he benches a lot because it seems like he does

00:39:26.653 --> 00:39:29.443
a lot of upper body. Wink, wink, AJ.

00:39:30.998 --> 00:39:32.563
But, but yeah, I mean.

00:39:34.569 --> 00:39:40.273
Yeah. So he's also strong as shit. So like, it's not like he's like some.

00:39:40.273 --> 00:39:44.901
Blast double. White belt nerd. Let's walk through the fight. So blast double. Okay.

00:39:45.494 --> 00:39:50.153
Straight to mount okay then it was a shitty double he says it was a terrible

00:39:50.153 --> 00:39:51.542
double leg according to aj uh,

00:39:52.732 --> 00:39:56.633
to mount then he gift wraps him takes it back rear naked choke damn he wouldn't

00:39:56.633 --> 00:40:00.843
and he held him and he held him in the gift wrap for a while then yeah didn't

00:40:00.843 --> 00:40:06.692
respect the tap he was the guy was tapping he said nah street rules and housewarming rules bro,

00:40:07.248 --> 00:40:09.743
yeah it was a how do you think the homeowner was thinking do you think they're

00:40:09.743 --> 00:40:14.203
like who invited this guys they're like fuck dude this is their pie just like,

00:40:14.696 --> 00:40:18.563
man I got all this new shit I just bought all of this,

00:40:19.803 --> 00:40:25.377
or do you think they were like this is what the basement was for maybe basement fights so.

00:40:26.997 --> 00:40:32.433
I'll show you his like clip it's not the actual video no it's not dude he doesn't

00:40:32.433 --> 00:40:37.823
have and I wish someone had a video I would show you that but while I I'll show

00:40:37.823 --> 00:40:40.511
you the clip of this nice house,

00:40:41.939 --> 00:40:47.927
But so while this is, this is the, it's a nice place. Like this isn't a person's

00:40:47.927 --> 00:40:51.407
brand new, like in the backyard, nice house. Maybe they were in the backyard.

00:40:51.407 --> 00:40:54.500
Maybe they were in that little like kiddie pool there in the background.

00:40:54.842 --> 00:40:59.208
There's like a little, maybe, oh, did AJ Jello, AJ, you were Jello wrestling, bro.

00:40:59.562 --> 00:41:05.027
I'm onto you. Um, but, but I, I, he sent this video after I,

00:41:05.427 --> 00:41:08.821
I was like, dude, but he lives in a nice like neighborhood.

00:41:09.111 --> 00:41:14.214
Like these people, like these are nice houses and so i was like dude i'm imagining you're like

00:41:14.649 --> 00:41:17.467
you were brought along to like a wine and cheese party for like your wife's

00:41:17.467 --> 00:41:21.417
book club or something and like all of a sudden you and this dude are just like

00:41:21.417 --> 00:41:25.407
fighting and he sends me this video i'm like yeah like i feel kind of validated about what i said,

00:41:26.445 --> 00:41:30.267
um but yeah dude like kind of cool though,

00:41:31.913 --> 00:41:35.177
a bunch of uh a bunch of the other guys in the chat what did i say what was

00:41:35.177 --> 00:41:42.310
the chat uh one dude says your wife may be mad but deep down she liked it okay uh,

00:41:44.510 --> 00:41:52.113
Perhaps. Another dude says, AJ fucking up some family's housewarming party. Yep.

00:41:54.708 --> 00:41:59.096
Yeah. My Ohio boys were asking if anyone there was also from Ohio. Awesome.

00:42:00.861 --> 00:42:05.483
They also asked to be introduced to this guy's now probably ex-girlfriend. A thousand percent.

00:42:06.483 --> 00:42:09.653
We're going to get to that in a second. A thousand percent. The dude's wife

00:42:09.653 --> 00:42:13.220
will never look at him the same. AJ says, good, fuck that guy.

00:42:16.291 --> 00:42:20.313
Big John says that AJ emasculated some dude in front of his wife and he is proud

00:42:20.313 --> 00:42:27.583
because, as you know, John wants to beat people up in front of their families and loved ones.

00:42:27.943 --> 00:42:31.744
So John absolutely stamps the approval on there.

00:42:33.741 --> 00:42:37.753
One person says AJ showed us why he's not signed up for the Virginia Open,

00:42:37.753 --> 00:42:42.053
to which he says, dude, if I can show up and drink some booze before walking

00:42:42.053 --> 00:42:47.365
on the mat, it's a go, and I said, dude, you can absolutely rip shots. I don't care.

00:42:47.556 --> 00:42:50.083
If it gets you to go out there. Maybe he should do the Virginia Open.

00:42:50.083 --> 00:42:52.559
Yeah, he should do the Virginia Open. Maybe he should do the Virginia Open.

00:42:53.180 --> 00:42:57.110
Rip some shots and do it, bro. Shots or not, he should do the Virginia Open.

00:42:58.776 --> 00:42:59.995
And yeah, like...

00:43:01.723 --> 00:43:04.273
I mean, that's the events from the chat. So the squad was fired up.

00:43:04.273 --> 00:43:07.977
The squad was pretty fired up about it. It was, you know, it was 9.30 p.m.

00:43:10.403 --> 00:43:13.073
AJ did talk some shit on somebody else this morning. He was like,

00:43:13.073 --> 00:43:14.281
you've just gotten soft.

00:43:14.804 --> 00:43:19.129
And so, you know. They're like, dude, you're feeling yourself because of last night, aren't you?

00:43:22.107 --> 00:43:28.092
But yeah, it was, I mean, I'm happy for AJ. I think he needed that.

00:43:28.843 --> 00:43:36.843
Uh because you know he jesus christ i think he needed that my my boom just exploded

00:43:36.843 --> 00:43:39.963
for some boom and my boom went boom um,

00:43:40.549 --> 00:43:45.523
yeah i mean i don't know he he's he's above the uh he's in the thick boy weight

00:43:45.523 --> 00:43:48.837
limit he's above that 200 pounds so like he has to,

00:43:49.482 --> 00:43:53.703
sometimes he's cornered off to go with the guys who are like 250 pounds,

00:43:54.383 --> 00:43:58.143
something you probably felt pretty good about hopping in there, but you got some takes.

00:43:58.143 --> 00:44:00.783
I know you do. I do believe he feels good about it.

00:44:01.585 --> 00:44:06.473
Yeah. I do believe he feels good about it. I mean, I can see that I've got receipts here. Yes. Yes.

00:44:07.065 --> 00:44:10.820
First of all, man, that, yeah. I mean, so the other guy just stormed off. He left the party.

00:44:10.931 --> 00:44:13.533
He left the party. I mean, he had to. I mean, you, you, you can't,

00:44:13.533 --> 00:44:17.283
you, you can't call somebody out and then stick around the party, right? Like, no, no.

00:44:17.743 --> 00:44:22.433
Yeah, for sure. For sure. Especially after allegedly instigating this after

00:44:22.433 --> 00:44:24.798
allegedly instigating this. Yeah.

00:44:26.633 --> 00:44:33.753
Brutal uh yeah i've got too much to say i want to hear it what do you have to

00:44:33.753 --> 00:44:36.234
what word what words do you have for aj aj.

00:44:39.453 --> 00:44:43.664
You should go compete in the virginia open yeah yeah how often is aj training,

00:44:44.473 --> 00:44:48.823
uh aj trains two to three times a week that's pretty good yeah it's it's enough

00:44:48.823 --> 00:44:52.293
that's pretty good yeah you should compete yeah he should compete i think you

00:44:52.293 --> 00:44:55.192
should go compete AJ. Is this going to come out in time?

00:44:56.273 --> 00:45:00.033
Maybe I'll preview this episode too. Yeah, you tell him.

00:45:01.773 --> 00:45:05.093
He should go compete. I'll text him after this. I'll text him right after this

00:45:05.093 --> 00:45:07.353
that he should compete because this is probably going to come out.

00:45:07.353 --> 00:45:09.553
Actually, this will probably come out the week of the Virginia game.

00:45:10.033 --> 00:45:12.933
Yeah. When I'm doing my math in my head. Yeah, yeah.

00:45:13.453 --> 00:45:16.333
It'll come out. I think it might come out after the deadline to sign up.

00:45:16.333 --> 00:45:17.773
So I'll make sure to let him know.

00:45:19.718 --> 00:45:24.823
Yeah, dude. I guess he has a you just need to get a couple sake's in him that

00:45:24.823 --> 00:45:28.683
is his drink of choice we need to get him a couple sake's in him and then uh

00:45:28.683 --> 00:45:32.273
take his shirt off take his shirt off just fight bro go,

00:45:32.773 --> 00:45:35.386
out there in just your gi,

00:45:36.013 --> 00:45:41.763
and fight this dude yeah it'll be fun he should do ADCC so he can take his shirt

00:45:41.763 --> 00:45:44.623
off that'd be pretty badass they would probably like it that he had a couple

00:45:44.623 --> 00:45:48.313
drinks before too that's like on brand they're out they'd be like dude you're a little,

00:45:48.773 --> 00:45:52.173
you're a little drunk fuck yeah get out here and let's battle yeah,

00:45:52.733 --> 00:45:55.153
dude make sure you go into the crowd a lot don't be afraid to roll into the

00:45:55.153 --> 00:46:01.397
crowd smash a couple tables while you're at it we have a guy we have a table guy so you know,

00:46:03.237 --> 00:46:07.027
AJ you're a wild card yeah you are a wild card,

00:46:08.037 --> 00:46:10.835
I'll leave it at that. Oh, he was talking shit to John, too.

00:46:10.835 --> 00:46:15.044
What? I'm, like, scrolling through the group chat. I missed a few messages here.

00:46:15.905 --> 00:46:21.081
Oh, dude, someone was saying that AJ should have ripped a dude's knee apart. That's a little much.

00:46:21.627 --> 00:46:25.818
AJ, I think you honestly choking someone out as long as they don't die.

00:46:26.358 --> 00:46:29.785
But the choke is usually the better option because, like, if you break someone's

00:46:29.785 --> 00:46:31.960
arm, you will be liable for some damages.

00:46:34.765 --> 00:46:36.165
AJ, you're not invited to my house, woman.

00:46:38.485 --> 00:46:42.825
Scott doesn't want that doesn't want that no yeah you might maybe you might

00:46:43.265 --> 00:46:45.995
if you hurt that if that dude's actually hurt you might have triggered some

00:46:45.995 --> 00:46:49.925
homeowners insurance for these new people they might have to use that liability

00:46:49.925 --> 00:46:53.295
I think it'll work out it sounds like that other guy probably doesn't want to

00:46:53.295 --> 00:46:55.509
relive this scenario if I had to guess,

00:46:55.968 --> 00:47:00.583
I mean that relationship's over right oh dude the girlfriend oh he's totally single now,

00:47:01.134 --> 00:47:06.425
I mean I almost insinuated that like she might be AJ's girlfriend now She has

00:47:06.425 --> 00:47:08.089
to work that out with his wife. She does.

00:47:08.205 --> 00:47:12.125
She does. But, you know, like, I think technically... Right by might.

00:47:12.825 --> 00:47:16.795
He has some form of custody. Not that, like, women aren't objects we don't think,

00:47:16.795 --> 00:47:19.865
but, like, he now has the option.

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How about this? He now has the option to pursue her should he desire,

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which I don't recommend. AJ, stay with your wife, please. A thousand percent.

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But, you know. Yeah, yeah. My right of conquest. Yeah.

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Yeah, you know, it's the way it goes.

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Okay. Hell yeah. So yeah, that was coming.

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That was a nice juicy one for you guys. AJ, go compete in the Virginia Open, please, dude.

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We'll get AJ to compete in the Virginia Open. So if you see a buff Pakistani

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dude ripping shots in the parking lot, leave him alone. That's it.

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He's got business to attend to. He's going to get you.

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But yeah, guys, this has been Fire Screen Coffee. That was the Combat Confessions.

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That's a good one. You were right. That was a good one. It was a good one.

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If any more information comes up on this I will provide updates by the way I'm sure I will get more but,

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And, yeah, if I get more updates, we will provide them on the show because this

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is fun. If a lawsuit ensues, I'll make sure you guys know about it. Okay.

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If all of a sudden this guy's girlfriend starts living in AJ's basement,

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you know. You'll be the first to know. You'll be the first ones to know here

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on Fighters Drinking Coffee. Yeah.

00:48:32.901 --> 00:48:36.068
And, yeah, guys, that was Combat Confessions. That was Fighters Drinking Coffee.

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That was a quick blast of, you know, internal competition and then almost equally

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as much time on our Combat Confession today.

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You know, if you guys get into fights at parties.

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I want to know about it. So hit me up if you guys get into any fights at a party.

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And to do that, go to www.fdcpodcast.com. Contact us page.

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Click on that microphone if you want to leave us a voicemail.

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That would actually be even more fun.

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So if you do that, that would be cool.

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I'll play it on the show. we'll uh you know everybody will hear your wonderful

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voice and your wonderful stories um and yeah guys that's Fire Drinks Coffee we love you bye.