Playtime to Go Time: Flipping the Competition Switch (Episode 68)

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matter and check it out there guys so scott i have been taking a little bit

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of free time between competitions and now i'm uh,

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having to make the gear shift, right? The gear shift back from civilian life,

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I guess you could call it. Playtime.

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To, yeah, playtime might be a better word for it. To competition mode.

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So playtime to go time. Ooh, maybe we make that the name of the episode.

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So, you know, there's a couple things with that, right?

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Playing around on the mats, a little bit of lighter.

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You know, the workouts tend to be a little bit lighter, or a little more?

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Yeah, do you feel like you have to have, I mean, I've felt this lots of times.

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I guess I'm kind of still in a playtime phase because I'm not competing for,

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I don't know, maybe another month or two. We'll see.

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But I do feel like there's sometimes like post-competition when you have like

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a down period between events.

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And obviously you're still training.

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You're still on the mat. You're doing your strength and conditioning.

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You're doing all that homework.

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But there's a little bit of a, at least

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for myself sometimes i have a little bit of like uh i

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guess a lighter attitude towards training still working

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on skills and stuff like that but then i guess there's

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questions for you because you're kind of in it but do you

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feel like you have to like mentally decide like all right i gotta

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turn it back on now because in four weeks five

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weeks or whatever i've got an actual tournament coming

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up yeah i like set the i like have

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i'm like looking at my calendar and i'm like all right what day do

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i need to start like trying again right like

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i gotta try like all right like well i had and

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this goes for like all of it like you look at you're like

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well i have time i have time um so like for me i definitely set a day like this

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is the day that i'm like gonna start shift going for it again right like i need

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to be i need to focus on x y and z things starting on day whatever, right?

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Well, because there's like at least, I mean, we've talked about this shit so

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many times, but there's at least like a couple different like.

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We'll say at least two different.

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Mental rigors discipline wise you have to like damn

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dude that's really loud it's just it's just my it's just

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your head whatever fine yeah it's fine um there's like at least two areas

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that you have to like get honed in on one is in my opinion

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i would like to hear your feedback on this or your reaction to it if

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there's others i'm missing or maybe i got it

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but there's like the the rigorous training

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really like all right i gotta like push it in a little bit more in training i

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gotta like implement a different game plan and actually like put that to

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task and see it well executed so like you step

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up the call it intensity maybe it's focus with

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how you train performance wise when you're on the mat

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um and then like thankfully thankfully for us

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seem does all the programming so it's like some you'll notice

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when that gets increased too but at least you just do that yeah

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that just happens right like that just kind of happens that that's

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at least that makes it pretty easy because I mean similarly to

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me like you have you kind of have to control your

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own training schedule right like so it's not like I have somebody specifically

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being like all right on this day we're gonna do this on this like I mean I sent

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it to you I wrote out an eight-week program like but um but you program it yourself

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yeah it's like self-programmed unlike like you're saying with

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a scene where he's just he it just pops up and it tells you what to do right

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yeah it's magic so you're being a little more like so you have to like you said

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like you have to force yourself to be a little bit more deliberate with your mat time and then.

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Adhere a tad bit more to the structure and the

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focus that that's perfect yeah um with

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with how you execute each training session right maybe it's

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like adding a couple more sessions maybe it's not maybe it's just like enhancing

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the the folk i'm gonna say the word focus a lot like the

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focus and execution in the training sessions you already like stick to

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program wise um so that was i mean feel

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free to react to that but i guess the second other thing is really then it's like food and

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diet yeah you get a little more leeway on yeah

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when you're always in pretty good shape and your weight's not

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crazy you can like still order some doordash here

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and there but like i can never order doordash we

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don't have it because you don't have it it doesn't doesn't

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doesn't serve you have that area that non-chemical clean mountain

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water but you don't got doordash no so we get

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it's a trade chemical food like it's like yeah true it's true you don't get

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the creature comforts of uh civilization i'll order doordash dude when i just

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don't want to leave my house obviously when i don't even have to like to places

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that are like so walkable oh dude it was shameful i i i used to do that all

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the time it's fucking sweet though when i still lived.

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It's such a lived here i dangerous temptation dude

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it's such a dangerous temptation but oh it'd be like oh like i could

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even if there's it's right there it's like i could like walk over

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there i could hop in the car i could drive over and pick

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something up or you know i have food in the freezer you cook something or or

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i could i can sit on my ass touch this

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screen three times and then food appears in

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20 minutes it's the perfect way to be just like a little piggy dude

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it's it's pretty fun oh yeah but anyways the point does get in the way of weight

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of uh of weight of your weight management system because like that at least

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for me dude is like like you someone who's always pretty close to where we need

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to be weight wise like i can get away with doing that for a little while so

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i just say this like in terms of like the two little like.

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Threads of discipline you got to like start to kick back in because then

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i guess the root of this us bringing this up is like i actually

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have to i truly have to make a choice i have to make a choice like

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you said to be like this is the day let's let's get rocking here

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luckily again for us like we're we're always

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training so we're never like out of it but i'll

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be training a lot of times where i'm not like locked in on

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like i gotta train a little bit more

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with a little more intensity for my tournament i'll kind

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of go with the flow and when i train off i mean i still

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have like there's like i still work in my my competitive

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edge even in like a downshifted time

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personally but i do need to make a choice at a certain point to say this is

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training comes training that is now going to be elevated in

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its focus and and it's the the the deliberate nature

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with which i i choose to behave usually i

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can still cascade the food like another week or two or three

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depending on the deadline and depending on my weight quite

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frankly but that's how i usually manage it yeah i

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mean i for the training portion of

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it it just i have to start me it just has to become it's become specific and

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intentional that's like the the way i think of it like all right we're not just

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we're not just exploring positions and we're not gonna be we're not gonna willingly.

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Accept sweep here and there oh god I have to take that big deal I'll take my

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time here like the snap yeah like the snap the uh.

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The urgency like you have to turn the urgency back

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on like this week was all about turning the urgency back on

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all right good you're in the zone and so like you have

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to like all right we're trying to start

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a start a car right like you're cranking it you're cranking it like you're

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sitting there trying to get the you're trying to get it running again

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um and then like getting those

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situations rather than all

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right we're gonna we're gonna work on

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just being in this position and

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accepting it or whatever instead it's

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like all right like we're gonna do weird positional shit

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that you really only see you know because

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it's stuff that happens randomly in live

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scenarios right like oh we're gonna do these funky

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transitional positions and play them out

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because that way we

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get to have like these weird scrambles that only

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occur if you start in something weird um versus you

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know all right we're gonna just start on the back you have

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the back which we do as well but you know hey we're gonna just have the back

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and you're gonna just work the things that we've worked on on the back and we're

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gonna do that for the next for the rest you know for the next class or whatever

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instead it's we set very specific goals um so do you have a.

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Do you have in your weekly program um enough dedicated time or do you have to add in more.

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For training sessions where you can make it about you performing and maybe a

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little less on you having to coach people um you understand what i'm saying

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yeah so i'm coaching this class I can't make it entirely about me beating the shit out of my guys.

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Yeah, so like, versus... Luckily right now... Me and you are like,

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let's do this competitively.

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Yeah, so right now, I mean, some of it is...

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Because of just the amount of

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competition some of it is like hey i'm gonna force this you're

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gonna do these things that's cool but it's not because it's not

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necessarily because the things that i need to work on it's

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because hey like this is relevant these are relevant

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you guys are gonna benefit too yeah that's different yeah but um

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but like so i do one session each day is

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more focused on hey we're gonna work you guys

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yep and i mean i still work in

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sure so you're getting some benefit there but it's about the guys as it

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should be that's more about the guys and then i have a second session

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each day which is you which is more about me there you go good

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good good good good good and so like because that

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can be a challenge when you're when you're on the mat a lot and your primary

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obligation is actually coaching other people um this is a common struggle for

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like instructors which is finding hey now um which is when if you teach multiple

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classes a day, for example, um.

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So budgeting that extra, like, let's say even like 45 minutes to an hour or

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so, like, you can do your training to up to spec on what you need for what you have coming up.

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Juxtaposed with, again, like, sometimes it can be a pretty heavy burden for

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an instructor to say, man, I got to, like, I'm teaching like three classes tonight.

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Like, shit, man, I don't know if I can get an hour for myself.

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It puts pressure on a coach sometimes to have to finagle into their classes

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some training for themselves, which, by the way, historically is what everyone always does.

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I say that to say there's a precedent that kind of works for people,

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so it can be a challenge. But one-on-one for you, manageable.

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It's really good. I'm lucky enough, too, that the guys that I train,

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one, are all currently training for a competition.

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So it fits really well. relatively close to

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when mine is too that's good um that means you're

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teaching the right class with the right people yeah so i mean the thing they're they're

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it just happens that the cycles are lining lined up

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that they're one they're willing to do it but when we're not when there isn't

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a linked up cycle it's like hey like i have to get that separate thing in and

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it might be hey half the class we're going to do something that's for them but

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that i can participate in you know So like, hey, 30 minutes of this class,

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100% about you guys.

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But I'm going to work in with the group after a certain point.

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And then the second 30 minutes, like, all right, we're going to do situational

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stuff. We're going to practice this position.

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I'm going to work in. Really, that's just going to help you guys anyways because

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I talked to you. You're going to work with me.

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It can be a complicated thing to do, but I think if you put thought into it

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like you clearly have, it's doable, right? No, I just asked this question.

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And this is kind of a, I mean, it's relevant to me too because it's a challenge

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that I've had to like figure out a way around too in my career as a coach, owner, and coach.

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One of the busiest competitors in the rooms that I've been in is finding that

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balance of doing those things.

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And I just say it like this, like there's, I tried to put myself in a position

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and I've managed my calendar for so many years, so I kind of know how to do it.

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But one of my like.

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Uh, challenges to myself was like to try to put myself in a position to the best of my ability.

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Now, like owning an academy certainly helps, right? Like kind of like curing,

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um, schedule definitely helps when you have that, the ability to oversee and

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kind of move things around.

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So maybe it's a little bit easy for me to say this, but try to put myself in

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a position where it's like to the most amount of my focus can,

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when I'm coaching can go towards coaching.

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Um, and again, like I said, there's nothing wrong with like structuring time for you to join in.

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Cause like, i know my guys when i'm coaching class and people ask me to

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train with them like i'm like sometimes i'll tell them no but i'm just

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coaching today because like that's just trying to focus on

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that skill perhaps like let me just do a good job of being a coach this one

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day then other days i'm sure i'll jump in let's do it man

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so like it's again it's done it's doable um i

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prefer what you had talked about prefer now sometimes you want two training

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sessions you can also plan on that where you're like all right i got this one

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block that's like that's going to be a meat grinder proper comp session that's

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like 100 for me and my training partners like it's just for us to work and then

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you're like i'll get like a little extra work with the guys but it's not as intense

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and there's like a little bit of and you tell me if your reaction to this too

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there's probably also a little bit of an alleviation of pressure when you're

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doing that with the guys where you know that you're like well i've already done

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my hard training comp style practice for today but i wouldn't mind doing a couple

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extra rounds with john with so-and-so with with um whoever and um.

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You know maybe like i'll let him take my back once tries because he's gonna

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compete too and like i'll i'll still find a skill maybe i'll

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let him take my back but you can't let him tap me

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out so you can like still pinpoint something of value for you but

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like it's okay it's you're giving them value too you can almost so

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like the way that i have each day structured um for for like the the program

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that we're running is the warm-up is either um some sort of like designated

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winner drilling situation or some problems.

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You know designate winner position takedowns flow

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like we'll do like flow wrestling or flow rolling followed by

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a positional focus followed by

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a transitional focus followed by um like

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specific situation you know something like you have

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you're in guard you have to

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score however many points yeah right

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so um you know so we

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get into like very so they start tuning their mind to

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oh i gotta win this yeah like there's a urgency and like oh like i need to do

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this thing rather than hey like if you spend 55 seconds of that minute hunting

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for a submission and then you score no points and you don't get the submission

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you lost you lost so like you're putting them in that like

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that that very focused challenged prioritization structured the time well to

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like make that like you optimize the value of that block of time but so like

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if and days it like I'm trying to push them on those things and I know I have...

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You know if it's tuesday i'm going to be training with kamal in

00:16:10.974 --> 00:16:13.954
a couple hours i can just say hey you know what i'll actually

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just do the inverse so i'll i'll just

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focus on being that other guy so you can focus on

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being there you go the doing that they need you

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to do you gotta execute this thing i'll just be a pain in your ass yeah so

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um i can almost just be more focused

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on the other side so that they can

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focus on the actual drills i have set forth um as

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one option right uh yeah it's just think it's

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any time i mean i'm just fine this like this is something that i've

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had to like navigate for over a decade you know trying

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to compete and also like you know having the

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primary focus of like putting my hat on of like i got a coach too so i

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just know it's something like

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where you're like you look at your time you look at your physical output

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um and like stuff comes up schedules

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change like you know there's gonna be like

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a pivoting moment and sometimes you gotta like make a call but um it's

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a uh it is something that like i know i've

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had to grapple with to uh yeah to

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to kind of help put myself in a position to like

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do all of my jobs well like if if you just competed this would be a lot easier

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but you compete and you coach so it's like you gotta and they're different things

00:17:21.154 --> 00:17:25.714
they're different jobs yeah there's there's more like you you have to you have

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to pick a time to be selfish and not selfish correct like you can't,

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one job requires you to be less selfish than the other.

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So, you know, on the coaching side, all right, I need to do the things that

00:17:38.274 --> 00:17:41.714
are going to help these people, not necessarily me.

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If I do, if I am able to benefit from them, great. But like, if it's an odd number.

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Yeah i'm stepping out right like that's that's they're

00:17:52.682 --> 00:17:55.362
paying to be here i'm gonna you know so if you're

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clever and you and you think really well like you can do both

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i i i structure some of

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the drills some of the drills are built to be done

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regardless of the number of people so like

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similar to what we did in the because i mean it is it is structured as a

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comp class for the next eight weeks um but

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so rather than but some of them

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i have it set up as like you do top for three minutes

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you do bottom for three minutes and so if you have an odd number that

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doesn't really work right um which sometimes if

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the size disparities create an odd

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number as well you have to figure out alternatives but you

00:18:32.942 --> 00:18:35.862
know that's you put people in small groups if some

00:18:35.862 --> 00:18:38.502
of these guys are getting ready to compete too maybe there's some food for thought there where it's

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like all right small groups keep it relatively close to

00:18:41.342 --> 00:18:44.342
weight classes guys and um like

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go hard don't if you're if there's a weight discrepancy like

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don't bust up the little dude if you're like

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i had to talk with some people today like hey

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guys i appreciate the intensity they're competing too like

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so like don't crush this dude i appreciate the intensity but like do be considerate

00:19:01.682 --> 00:19:05.722
when you're significantly larger well you also have a lot of like huge guys

00:19:05.722 --> 00:19:10.102
yeah so like do you just cordone those guys off like you huge fuckers just hurt

00:19:10.102 --> 00:19:13.902
each other um keep it to each other and like So when we're doing like the,

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when we're doing the situationals.

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I let, well, for now, I'm letting everybody make sense. I'm sure it depends

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on the situation too. It depends on what we're doing.

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Like, there's some where it might

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be like, you know, it just doesn't make sense to put you all together.

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Like, I'm not going to do takedowns with everybody.

00:19:31.542 --> 00:19:36.082
Yeah. That's just not. It doesn't make sense. It's not productive for everyone.

00:19:36.262 --> 00:19:38.742
There's certain things where it's not productive for both people.

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You do like a good absolute division though, bro. I like it.

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But white belts can't do it anyway, so it doesn't really help them,

00:19:46.022 --> 00:19:49.402
right? True. Some people, it's not an option to do absolutes,

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so we're just not going to do it.

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But yeah, I mean, getting...

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Getting the but i find that helps get the gears turning

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right like having having this

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one just structure like i wrote out everything we're doing every day for eight

00:20:05.749 --> 00:20:09.809
weeks yeah just so that like i don't have to yeah it's already thought out you

00:20:09.809 --> 00:20:13.449
have to think about it just do it you just gotta execute i show up i have it

00:20:13.449 --> 00:20:15.949
right there in front of me and say all right guys we're doing this today this

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is what we're doing i don't have to you know i don't have to change it's already planned.

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Um you have to negotiate with yourself a daily like what am

00:20:23.509 --> 00:20:26.249
i gonna do now like yeah it's already done you've planned it out

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and i don't have to i don't there's no worry about like

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oh like this thing popped up well i kind of

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feel like doing this today or i'm tired today so like maybe i

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don't feel like showing that you know it just removes

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any of that because i know that there's gonna be days where

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i'm a little more tired and at least now because i

00:20:43.529 --> 00:20:46.349
don't have someone to tell me to do it right like

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you're gonna force yourself to do it i've already told myself to do this

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this is already written down this is what we're doing um so

00:20:52.229 --> 00:20:54.989
basically it ends up being like when a seam does

00:20:54.989 --> 00:20:58.189
the workouts yeah it's all it's like you have your own you don't have an app

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but you have that you have it's written yeah this is the plan for today you

00:21:02.029 --> 00:21:08.449
have to do this um it also that any sort of the structure helps just generally

00:21:08.449 --> 00:21:14.849
structure helps like i like having the same I know I'm working out at these times on these days.

00:21:15.229 --> 00:21:20.189
Um, like I started a new privates client, right.

00:21:20.329 --> 00:21:25.869
And I moved some things around and the first luckily was the timing of it.

00:21:26.029 --> 00:21:27.709
It wasn't that big a deal, but like that first week is like,

00:21:27.729 --> 00:21:33.489
all right, what do I, I now need to shuffle these things so that I meet the things I need to do.

00:21:33.609 --> 00:21:37.189
Not a huge deal, but you know, it just having

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that regiment is important it's like uh we talked about the other day with hey

00:21:41.469 --> 00:21:45.809
it seems not in town but i'm still gonna go work out there because that's what

00:21:45.809 --> 00:21:50.629
we do on this day that's right um you know so just having the structure of the

00:21:50.629 --> 00:21:56.909
regiment especially to get into that competition gear super crucial um.

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And then there's food. And then there's food. Which is... And then there's food.

00:22:03.216 --> 00:22:06.136
Food is my craziest part.

00:22:06.296 --> 00:22:10.396
Can I ask you, oh, so like what I would do, like I said, alluding back to like

00:22:10.396 --> 00:22:12.316
the fact that I'll just like, I mean,

00:22:13.796 --> 00:22:20.116
I'm making it sound like I, there are times where I'm door dashing quite a bit,

00:22:20.256 --> 00:22:23.616
but for the most part, it's pretty like, I'll cook a good amount.

00:22:23.836 --> 00:22:25.196
When I cook, I can control food.

00:22:26.652 --> 00:22:29.572
What what if i cook usually it

00:22:29.572 --> 00:22:32.192
ends up being clean meals i'm not like like if i'm

00:22:32.192 --> 00:22:34.892
gonna eat sloppy i'm just gonna get someone else do it i'll just order it

00:22:34.892 --> 00:22:38.132
from someone else i don't need to like cook myself sloppy food so that's just so

00:22:38.132 --> 00:22:41.112
anyways what my way of saying like just if i put myself in a position to

00:22:41.112 --> 00:22:43.812
cook i'll be on track for like

00:22:43.812 --> 00:22:47.552
a solid weight cut already just by sticking to

00:22:47.552 --> 00:22:50.212
that but there may be that phase where i'm like all right gonna have

00:22:50.212 --> 00:22:53.212
to cook a little bit more and then i have to make an intentional choice

00:22:53.212 --> 00:22:56.672
to say i'm gonna do it because it's so easy to hit door dash buttons yeah i

00:22:56.672 --> 00:22:59.652
mean when we when we cook every meal

00:22:59.652 --> 00:23:02.852
it's super easy to make the

00:23:02.852 --> 00:23:06.192
cut like not a problem um i

00:23:06.192 --> 00:23:09.192
actually run with the problem we run into though is that either

00:23:09.192 --> 00:23:16.032
we run out of leftovers or like like this morning we last night i didn't even

00:23:16.032 --> 00:23:21.372
notice but or whatever yesterday ate the last three eggs and i was like oh shit

00:23:21.372 --> 00:23:28.252
like now i have no breakfast for friday dude what I have to prep the food for the next day.

00:23:28.472 --> 00:23:31.452
Like, so I have my, I bring my breakfast to go.

00:23:31.752 --> 00:23:35.072
You need strategic egg reserves, bro. I do need strategic. I have minimum.

00:23:35.252 --> 00:23:39.672
I normally keep at least 36 eggs on hand.

00:23:39.712 --> 00:23:42.932
That's what I do too. Yeah. That's exactly what I do. Sometimes more.

00:23:43.432 --> 00:23:46.032
Yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. There are times I'll have like 54 eggs in my kitchen.

00:23:46.072 --> 00:23:51.032
I need at least three dozen on hand because I will go through, I mean, I go through.

00:23:51.052 --> 00:23:52.892
You'd rather have them and not need them than need them and not have them.

00:23:52.892 --> 00:23:55.012
I go through at least 24 a week. Believe that.

00:23:55.792 --> 00:23:59.012
You've got four people in the house, man. Yeah. You've got to munch some eggs.

00:23:59.152 --> 00:24:03.572
I'm one of the old, my wife sometimes eats them, but I eat most of them. The kids?

00:24:05.152 --> 00:24:08.552
They will sometimes. They're not at the age yet where, they're probably at the

00:24:08.552 --> 00:24:11.692
age where they still kind of have a little like, I don't like that, dad.

00:24:11.952 --> 00:24:14.332
You're like, all right, whatever. You get one more year of that before.

00:24:14.332 --> 00:24:15.852
My daughter will eat eggs.

00:24:18.112 --> 00:24:22.452
Henry won't. Sometimes. Is he oatmeal? Do you like oatmeal? No,

00:24:22.512 --> 00:24:25.192
he likes waffles, though. Of course he likes waffles and pancakes.

00:24:25.932 --> 00:24:30.912
I assumed he wanted some waffles. They both go through cycles where like...

00:24:32.053 --> 00:24:34.893
They'll want different things. What about bacon?

00:24:36.493 --> 00:24:40.233
We don't do a lot of bacon. Really? Yeah. I feel like it's salty.

00:24:40.253 --> 00:24:45.833
I do have a very strategic bacon reserve, though. Nice. I have a case.

00:24:46.573 --> 00:24:51.593
Because I get a pound of bacon every month. Yeah? Oh, you have a pork plug,

00:24:51.673 --> 00:24:54.473
don't you? Yeah, but we don't cook the bacon.

00:24:55.353 --> 00:24:58.813
You freeze it. I just freeze it. Strategic reserves. I just have,

00:24:58.913 --> 00:25:02.133
I mean, it is, I have pounds on pounds.

00:25:02.833 --> 00:25:05.673
If you need to get rid of some bacon, I'm your guy, dude. I'm probably,

00:25:05.673 --> 00:25:08.413
I mean, I'm probably nearing about 24 pounds of bacon right now.

00:25:08.493 --> 00:25:11.313
Get the fuck out of here, dude. Yeah, so, I mean, I'm set up on bacon,

00:25:11.313 --> 00:25:11.873
bro. You have too much bacon, dude.

00:25:13.613 --> 00:25:16.733
It's good to know. We also have egg people, so eggs just show up at our house,

00:25:16.793 --> 00:25:20.373
which is nice now. Yeah, but you guys are crushing eggs. Dude, I'm crushing eggs.

00:25:20.813 --> 00:25:27.653
But so this morning, I had to go, like, buy some eggs. I had to go get a breakfast

00:25:27.653 --> 00:25:32.353
sandwich in between training sessions. And...

00:25:33.476 --> 00:25:37.696
You can't get like, there's not. It's hard to get clean food.

00:25:37.856 --> 00:25:42.516
No one makes easy, like a simple thing, right? Like no one's making a simple

00:25:42.516 --> 00:25:44.916
breakfast. You're not getting two eggs and like a piece of toast anywhere, yeah.

00:25:45.076 --> 00:25:50.016
Yeah, like I normally do three eggs, two slices of toast, sandwich,

00:25:50.336 --> 00:25:51.876
eat it, done. Easy peasy.

00:25:52.516 --> 00:25:56.656
Nowhere does this. You're either getting not enough eggs or you're getting too

00:25:56.656 --> 00:25:57.556
much extra shit on there.

00:25:57.596 --> 00:26:01.016
See, the problem, the other problem, I bet you that diner that we went to could

00:26:01.016 --> 00:26:03.816
probably accommodate that. Yeah, but I'm in a different- You're far away from that.

00:26:04.076 --> 00:26:07.516
I'm 30 minutes from there. That's your problem. Yeah. That's your problem is

00:26:07.516 --> 00:26:08.816
that you're in the country.

00:26:08.996 --> 00:26:12.076
Again, blessing and curse, man. I'll be in the country. You got to stay adequately supplied.

00:26:12.516 --> 00:26:15.376
Because I was going to say, I'll tell you you can do that. It's fucking Waffle

00:26:15.376 --> 00:26:18.556
House will do that, dude. Well, yeah. By the gym, there's places,

00:26:18.596 --> 00:26:20.256
but they don't open until eight.

00:26:20.756 --> 00:26:23.736
Yeah, it's tough. I need it before that. I get it. And that's the problem.

00:26:23.756 --> 00:26:24.636
You don't have as many options.

00:26:24.736 --> 00:26:29.216
I did go to- We have a Call Your Mothers, though. I went there. Oh, how was that?

00:26:29.616 --> 00:26:32.616
It's good, but it's way too- They're opening one, like, dude right across the

00:26:32.616 --> 00:26:36.316
street from me. Yeah, so they just opened this one over there. It's too complex.

00:26:36.616 --> 00:26:40.696
What do you mean? It's good, but it's— You can't just get bagel and cream cheese.

00:26:40.776 --> 00:26:45.736
I mean, I know you want bagel plus eggs, but— So I bet you could ask,

00:26:45.816 --> 00:26:48.696
but, you know, it's basically like a set menu place. Yeah, you're looking at

00:26:48.696 --> 00:26:51.296
the menu, like, I guess I'll pick this. You pick something off the menu. What'd you get?

00:26:51.556 --> 00:27:00.876
I mean, I got—it's called the Sun City, and it's everything bagel, cheese.

00:27:01.076 --> 00:27:10.056
Cheese yeah egg hot honey good and then a meat sounds awesome which was good but it was just like.

00:27:11.186 --> 00:27:14.906
So much stuff. It's tough, man. I mean, you, you and I have ordered so many

00:27:14.906 --> 00:27:18.686
breakfasts. It is complex. It was more, it was more complex than like.

00:27:18.986 --> 00:27:22.106
It needed to be. What I needed at the time. Cause I'm like, I'm,

00:27:22.226 --> 00:27:27.046
I have like 15 minutes to eat this and then I need to go to the next thing.

00:27:27.166 --> 00:27:29.986
And you're probably thinking, you're like, this is one, this is two eggs fewer

00:27:29.986 --> 00:27:33.366
than what I'm used to. Like I'm in an egg deficit now. I'm a little upset.

00:27:33.606 --> 00:27:38.626
That is part of it too. Cause you, I don't know what my, like everything is planned.

00:27:38.826 --> 00:27:41.526
Cause I know like when I'm in the weight management phase like i need to

00:27:41.526 --> 00:27:44.326
know what my you don't gotta tell me i don't know what it is

00:27:44.326 --> 00:27:48.866
that i don't know how much i just ate you know like it's tough man i don't know

00:27:48.866 --> 00:27:53.226
what so how thick this cheese that's right like that's right back to the regiment

00:27:53.226 --> 00:27:58.486
thing right i get it it's tough so you gotta stock up on the eggs like the same

00:27:58.486 --> 00:28:04.066
stuff you know like there's a very like just because i know what it is and then i.

00:28:05.353 --> 00:28:10.013
So the disclosure on that is, like, I cut, like, 9 to 10 pounds, roughly, right?

00:28:10.193 --> 00:28:14.313
So, like, that's my total through the camp, like, down to weigh-in time.

00:28:14.833 --> 00:28:21.093
So, you know, it's not insane. But you need consistent decreases in size.

00:28:21.373 --> 00:28:24.033
So otherwise you're going to be fucked up last week. I can't have,

00:28:24.133 --> 00:28:25.653
like— Some crazy up-down, up-down.

00:28:25.653 --> 00:28:30.673
Up-down, up-down, up-down, where, yeah, like, I just need— If I just do what

00:28:30.673 --> 00:28:32.453
I normally do, everything is fine.

00:28:32.453 --> 00:28:35.633
You know so just having that level of

00:28:35.633 --> 00:28:38.673
control so like like you were saying if i cook every if i

00:28:38.673 --> 00:28:41.773
cook every meal easy like i normally do it's

00:28:41.773 --> 00:28:44.673
the same like we we basically we eat

00:28:44.673 --> 00:28:48.733
clean at home we eat basically the same thing when we cook but you know if we

00:28:48.733 --> 00:28:52.133
pick up something for dinner or whatever like question mark you just kind of

00:28:52.133 --> 00:28:57.813
lose that control of you don't know what the inputs are so you don't know what

00:28:57.813 --> 00:29:02.333
the well you know it's just tricky this is a really good tangent but it's

00:29:02.453 --> 00:29:05.213
all the roads point back to what we were saying about like, at a certain point

00:29:05.213 --> 00:29:06.393
you have to make that conscious decision.

00:29:06.473 --> 00:29:08.993
You're like, we got to try to cook. Yeah. I'm getting closer now.

00:29:09.193 --> 00:29:11.973
And like, to me, usually it's a personal thing.

00:29:12.113 --> 00:29:18.433
Like I have like, I, again, if my macro diet and training plan is dialed in,

00:29:18.533 --> 00:29:20.793
which just, it has been for years and I intend to keep it that way.

00:29:21.173 --> 00:29:25.053
I'm never going to be so crazy out of like, I'm not going to be in a whole nother

00:29:25.053 --> 00:29:27.253
universe. And I'm like, Oh, I need a serious weight cut.

00:29:27.833 --> 00:29:33.733
So for me, I, If I lock in for about two weeks before my event, I'll be good.

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Yeah, I mean, it's, I'm just saying, like, for any person, you just,

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like, you just know your body and know what that time frame,

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I mean, I've been 21 years into this, I'm competing for 12 years, like, I'm 39,

00:30:19.843 --> 00:30:22.383
like, I know my body, so I know how I can manage these things,

00:30:22.443 --> 00:30:25.163
is what I'm saying, and, like, you know your body, you know what you're doing,

00:30:25.463 --> 00:30:28.503
you know what your discrepancy is, like, you said nine pounds or whatever it

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is, you know, like, alright, bet, like, I need to lose, that means I need to

00:30:31.483 --> 00:30:34.463
lose this many actual pounds, a couple pounds will be water,

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I know it all fluctuate, I don't know how to do that day of with them.

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Biological habits of weight loss that i have um

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so therefore i'm cutting six pounds

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or whatever you get what i'm saying but like you know for yourself doesn't two

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weeks can be you can be whatever it is but like if anyone's listening

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um you want to get to that like level of awareness

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that's just i'm just using myself an example there i'm like all right give me two weeks

00:30:57.790 --> 00:31:00.590
i'll be good i can't pig for two weeks but like if i don't pig

00:31:00.590 --> 00:31:03.590
for two weeks weight's coming off no problem yeah and it ends up

00:31:03.590 --> 00:31:07.110
it ends up being just a matter of and for

00:31:07.110 --> 00:31:10.150
those who don't cut weight it's not like we're actually losing this

00:31:10.150 --> 00:31:13.210
weight it's temporary weight loss yeah

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we haven't even gotten to the biomechanics of like when you're eating

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a shit ton of carbs or dirty carbs

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as i'll call it like dirty food like your body will just retain more

00:31:22.110 --> 00:31:27.550
moisture there's the water retention and then there's also like the food that

00:31:27.550 --> 00:31:32.990
as it sits within the system right on the way out so like you have like the

00:31:32.990 --> 00:31:38.210
the waste process and so certain food processes faster some food slows down

00:31:38.210 --> 00:31:40.650
the process Some food causes the bulking in the intestines.

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And so it's just manipulation of this stuff.

00:31:44.210 --> 00:31:47.910
We're really just, we're not losing weight. We're manipulating the amount of

00:31:47.910 --> 00:31:51.270
additional weight that's held on the body. It's like 80% that.

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And then like maybe 20%, an actual little bit of weight loss.

00:31:55.030 --> 00:31:59.050
You might lose like one or two pounds of actual body weight,

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like actual fat or whatever.

00:32:00.710 --> 00:32:03.950
So back to the concept of like eating clean, like at least for what it's worth,

00:32:04.090 --> 00:32:06.790
like I'll even like, just speaking for myself, like...

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What I will tell myself in those two weeks too, because like two,

00:32:11.405 --> 00:32:14.725
let's say two, three weeks, two and a half weeks, I'll also still be training

00:32:14.725 --> 00:32:16.285
a lot and usually pretty hard.

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And sometimes I think that might be valley of despair or whatever you want to

00:32:19.585 --> 00:32:21.325
call that, like the term for like your suffering.

00:32:22.385 --> 00:32:26.865
I will tell myself like I can eat if I'm cooking, I can eat as much as I want

00:32:26.865 --> 00:32:33.585
to recover, to like psychologically feel good and then to train to continue

00:32:33.585 --> 00:32:35.105
to get through that period.

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Because like that is also a critical period if you're getting going really

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hard you might be more sore you might be slightly injury prone if

00:32:40.785 --> 00:32:43.465
you're not careful so you got to eat you got to you have to

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keep your energy to like perform well to train well so for

00:32:46.945 --> 00:32:49.725
me if i'm doing that and i'm still cooking pretty clean i can actually

00:32:49.725 --> 00:32:52.405
eat a lot um and because it's

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clean like my body will just like shed the bullshit like i'll lean out i'll

00:32:55.545 --> 00:32:58.205
look good um and i'll kind

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of like i'll like this was what we did for for chicago it

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worked pretty well um but i

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had just timed myself to where i was like all right i just gotta put myself in a position

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where like i can keep eating as much as

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i need to to train just clean food but like if i need two plates of it i'll

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eat two plates of it just to feel satisfied and i'll listen to my body sometimes

00:33:16.785 --> 00:33:21.565
i eat that one plate i'm like i'm i'm fine actually um but i need to like consistently

00:33:21.565 --> 00:33:25.965
lose like half a pound and then three quarters of a pound with the weight fluctuation

00:33:25.965 --> 00:33:27.905
stuff like you talked about just like biomechanics of like,

00:33:28.625 --> 00:33:33.005
releasing unnecessary like it's like in Star Wars before you go into hyperspeed drop the cargo.

00:33:33.385 --> 00:33:36.205
Yeah. Like my body just will start releasing unnecessary weight and like next

00:33:36.205 --> 00:33:39.305
thing you know I'll be like to your point like I didn't really lose mass.

00:33:40.778 --> 00:33:43.458
Nothing i didn't lose any for the sake of

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conversation any muscle mass that will be used athletically i

00:33:46.618 --> 00:33:49.938
just got rid of unnecessary like parts of

00:33:49.938 --> 00:33:53.458
me yeah i i don't really even start like

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you're saying like i don't start restriction until the

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taper and that's kind of the point right like i can

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i'm reducing output so i

00:34:02.858 --> 00:34:05.798
can reduce input and so then

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because i'm not really reducing output that much

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i can if i do you do that but when do you do that it's

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like 12 days okay yeah i know

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it's kind of messed around with some of that for us he's doing

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10 to 12 for this one which is good i i

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like that i historically i've always been like it's like one week

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for me sometimes like a couple days and i'm not saying that's a

00:34:25.958 --> 00:34:28.598
best practice but i know exactly what you mean where i'm

00:34:28.598 --> 00:34:31.018
like i don't have to eat as much now because like it seems kind of giving me

00:34:31.018 --> 00:34:34.498
a break now yeah so you might just become less hungry too so it might just work

00:34:34.498 --> 00:34:40.318
itself out but 12 days yeah he did 12 days for me for um for worlds yeah so

00:34:40.318 --> 00:34:46.578
like the the maybe he did it for me for uh chicago whatever he did 10 for chicago

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i think you're right both of us i think you're right um.

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But yeah i mean uh when i hit when he has me in the valley of despair i can't

00:34:54.978 --> 00:34:59.538
eat enough food anyways so just like physically i can't physically put enough

00:34:59.538 --> 00:35:04.238
in there uh it just just gonna suffer yeah so it kind of works out anyways i

00:35:04.238 --> 00:35:08.378
don't have the time it's an expected suffering so kind of It self-regulates.

00:35:08.738 --> 00:35:12.118
There's two days a week where I'm literally at home for maybe an hour.

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So it works out. It self-regulates at a certain point. Heard that. So...

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But yeah, I mean, the food, it's all about just setting that for both the food

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and the training like that.

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You just have to pick a day that you flip the switch because otherwise you will

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keep kicking your feet, man.

00:35:34.068 --> 00:35:37.768
You'll keep kicking it right down the road if if you don't just decide like,

00:35:37.968 --> 00:35:39.848
all right, it starts on this day.

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I paid the registration fee. I'm doing that. I'm not going to fuck myself over in the in the process.

00:35:45.868 --> 00:35:49.708
Us but so yeah so like i

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started the flip switch for training was

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i mean it was a little before but call it this week okay

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um like recently yeah so like you know within the

00:36:00.448 --> 00:36:03.168
last within the last week boom okay turn it up

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which it's always i probably started a little

00:36:05.928 --> 00:36:08.808
bit before that but you know it's always i know what you mean it can be like you you

00:36:08.808 --> 00:36:11.688
five to six i think is usually what i do now i

00:36:11.688 --> 00:36:14.648
i used to do need longer but like five to six is fine

00:36:14.648 --> 00:36:17.588
i can just start ramping it um and then

00:36:17.588 --> 00:36:22.328
you'll put attention intentional peak when you're about two weeks three weeks

00:36:22.328 --> 00:36:27.648
out like really crushing it and then this week next week for you yeah and then

00:36:27.648 --> 00:36:32.748
for the food it's you know just set the day like all right i have this much

00:36:32.748 --> 00:36:35.168
to lose this is when i need to do it or you know.

00:36:40.661 --> 00:36:44.321
Yeah. If you don't know, like, talk to somebody. Talk to a coach.

00:36:44.461 --> 00:36:46.881
Talk to... We may have just talked a bunch of people out of competing.

00:36:47.201 --> 00:36:50.561
Yeah. I mean, maybe... Look, here's the other thing. The last thing on competing,

00:36:50.741 --> 00:36:52.301
like I said, there's competing and there's competing.

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And for people who are, like, just wanting to kind of do a couple tournaments

00:36:56.181 --> 00:36:58.161
here and there, I actually tell most of my new guys, I'm like,

00:36:58.221 --> 00:37:01.681
dude, don't, like, if, like, your first couple tournaments ever,

00:37:01.721 --> 00:37:02.881
I usually tell them don't even worry about weight cutting.

00:37:02.941 --> 00:37:05.341
If you've never cut weight before... Don't even worry about it.

00:37:05.361 --> 00:37:07.181
Don't worry about it until you need to worry about it.

00:37:07.181 --> 00:37:08.601
Yeah, and if you're like a new competitor, you just want to,

00:37:08.641 --> 00:37:10.141
like, learn the environment, like just like

00:37:10.141 --> 00:37:13.161
don't worry about the weight cut like i don't want you to like miss weight

00:37:13.161 --> 00:37:16.061
but like don't put yourself in a stressful situation for a new

00:37:16.061 --> 00:37:18.741
thing like these are the habits of people been doing this for

00:37:18.741 --> 00:37:21.801
a while like take it rather seriously so like obviously we spent

00:37:21.801 --> 00:37:25.881
45 minutes talking about it so like we think

00:37:25.881 --> 00:37:29.181
about it and we know the value we've talked about

00:37:29.181 --> 00:37:32.181
these subjects so many times like the value of like paying attention to these details

00:37:32.181 --> 00:37:35.461
it's worth it to us but it does require a degree

00:37:35.461 --> 00:37:38.941
of mental focus that like for some people might be like no man fuck that

00:37:38.941 --> 00:37:41.961
bro i'm going to happy hour and then i still want to compete again

00:37:41.961 --> 00:37:44.781
and that's fine if that's what you want to do you can you can you

00:37:44.781 --> 00:37:48.481
can do that you can compete with different having to do all this shit totally

00:37:48.481 --> 00:37:53.841
fine this is just like a different perspective how we do it and i mean definitely

00:37:53.841 --> 00:37:57.821
i because i think everyone should do the competition side of things at least

00:37:57.821 --> 00:38:04.181
once no i agree with you i just think and to your yeah go ahead man well and if that means that.

00:38:05.210 --> 00:38:08.150
If you don't want to do like if you don't want to cut weight that's fine like i

00:38:08.150 --> 00:38:10.990
just think you should go roll you

00:38:10.990 --> 00:38:14.010
know can fight another human being that doesn't want

00:38:14.010 --> 00:38:17.130
you to beat them or is actually concerned

00:38:17.130 --> 00:38:20.070
with beating you one time do that

00:38:20.070 --> 00:38:22.810
one time in your life at least you know

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if you do it once you've checked you can check the box

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and if you don't like it after that that's fine i'm with

00:38:28.610 --> 00:38:31.350
you man don't worry about cutting weight if it's your first time like you

00:38:31.350 --> 00:38:34.390
said if you've there's some people that if you've

00:38:34.390 --> 00:38:37.090
wrestled in the past that's different you go ahead and cut

00:38:37.090 --> 00:38:39.750
weight that's way different um yeah that's not

00:38:39.750 --> 00:38:42.990
a brand new competitor yeah if you started

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doing jujitsu like a year ago six

00:38:46.110 --> 00:38:49.970
months whatever three kids you're like we're in an office and you're just kind

00:38:49.970 --> 00:38:53.950
of getting your life together athletically yeah it's a lot different you do

00:38:53.950 --> 00:38:57.850
the thing that you do the thing that still gets you out there and if that means

00:38:57.850 --> 00:39:00.970
that you compete a weight class it's five pounds heavier than you because the

00:39:00.970 --> 00:39:03.970
next one's another six pounds down. Now, I will say... That's fine.

00:39:04.110 --> 00:39:07.670
I've had experience with, like, people kind of going through that type of competition

00:39:07.670 --> 00:39:10.450
experience in the past, and, um...

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I think it's kind of like an expectation. It's anything with the person,

00:39:14.682 --> 00:39:16.402
too, where you, like, kind of talk to them about how, like, hey,

00:39:16.462 --> 00:39:18.102
look, like, sort of, like, choose your adventure.

00:39:18.182 --> 00:39:20.362
Like, if you want to be really serious about this, we could have a conversation

00:39:20.362 --> 00:39:24.622
like what me and you've been having for the last, you know, 30 minutes or so. However, you're new.

00:39:25.502 --> 00:39:27.762
Competitions can be kind of, like, tricky and maybe, like, a little intimidating

00:39:27.762 --> 00:39:29.622
to begin with. So it's like, why don't we pick and choose the,

00:39:29.662 --> 00:39:33.342
like, emotional stress, mental stress you want to stomach at one time?

00:39:33.962 --> 00:39:35.582
Why don't we make it a little bit easier? Let's just kind of,

00:39:35.682 --> 00:39:40.082
like, pick a manageable, easier weight class, maybe ideally one that requires no cutting.

00:39:41.562 --> 00:39:44.362
Now that said we get to the tournament sometimes those guys they do well they

00:39:44.362 --> 00:39:47.402
do okay they don't do so well I'm like there's afterwards sometimes people like

00:39:47.822 --> 00:39:49.942
get a little fire in their belly if like they got,

00:39:50.582 --> 00:39:53.202
beat by a guy who did cut weight and do

00:39:53.202 --> 00:39:56.462
all this stuff because that can happen at like local tournaments again that's expectation setting

00:39:56.462 --> 00:39:59.262
when you go to the person you say alright well let's take a step back let's think

00:39:59.262 --> 00:40:02.662
about this let's look at the person you competed against like alright well like maybe

00:40:02.662 --> 00:40:05.562
you're the 43 year old dad who probably can stand to lose 20

00:40:05.562 --> 00:40:08.702
pounds or so but like you're doing good you're on the right path big picture

00:40:08.702 --> 00:40:11.422
and this competition is kind of part of your learning experience so

00:40:11.422 --> 00:40:14.082
like take it easy on yourself no one expected you to

00:40:14.082 --> 00:40:16.762
be like a world beater in your first tournament but the guy you ran you ended

00:40:16.762 --> 00:40:20.682
up pulling a 24 year old guy who wrestled in college who let's say you're both

00:40:20.682 --> 00:40:25.342
175 pounds but you're 175 and you could lose 10 or 15 pounds like comfortably

00:40:25.342 --> 00:40:30.222
that guy's not he's lean he's mean he cut six pounds because he knows how to

00:40:30.222 --> 00:40:32.162
do it like you drew a tough competitor like again take,

00:40:32.842 --> 00:40:36.262
expectation setting where it's like we want to tell people like we came in with

00:40:36.262 --> 00:40:38.942
a little bit of more of a casual lens and you're challenging yourself it's okay

00:40:38.942 --> 00:40:43.022
but like don't beat yourself up it could be a good use case to say well look

00:40:43.022 --> 00:40:46.222
there are guys who are going to come to these tournaments and do what we're talking about and.

00:40:47.494 --> 00:40:52.214
They might beat you. It's just an expectation setting thing for people listening to think.

00:40:52.474 --> 00:40:56.614
Maybe it's like both a challenge, a call to action, say you can maybe take it

00:40:56.614 --> 00:40:59.934
a little more seriously if you want, but if you don't, give yourself a break.

00:41:00.254 --> 00:41:06.334
Well, yeah, there's some people too that like, especially if you're new to the

00:41:06.334 --> 00:41:10.134
competition thing or maybe you're getting back into it where maybe,

00:41:10.434 --> 00:41:15.994
hey, my thing right now is I need to overcome just the getting out there.

00:41:16.474 --> 00:41:20.294
And it doesn't necessarily make sense to go through the whole preparation for them.

00:41:20.414 --> 00:41:22.834
Like they're still training, they're still doing all of that,

00:41:22.994 --> 00:41:28.654
but the like hyper fixation and the focus on through the training process and

00:41:28.654 --> 00:41:32.314
like the regiment and all of that isn't, they're not ready for that portion of it, right?

00:41:32.414 --> 00:41:38.234
Like they say, hey, my, the battle right now is just showing up to it and doing it. That's right.

00:41:38.334 --> 00:41:41.594
And learning how to do that part of it because that's a whole,

00:41:41.834 --> 00:41:46.194
that is the skill of competing is a whole nother thing.

00:41:46.594 --> 00:41:49.774
And sometimes- It's like a step forward on the journey. Yeah.

00:41:50.074 --> 00:41:52.194
And sometimes the mental, like just being-

00:41:52.770 --> 00:41:55.950
Mentally prepared just to do that part is that's

00:41:55.950 --> 00:41:58.910
kind of what they need to do yeah yeah i'm with it man um which

00:41:58.910 --> 00:42:01.590
is great yeah which is great right and like you said like what

00:42:01.590 --> 00:42:04.290
we're talking about is probably too much yeah that's all at one time like

00:42:04.290 --> 00:42:07.870
i said we might have just talked a bunch of people out of it so now we're trying to we're bringing

00:42:07.870 --> 00:42:11.270
it back to like don't give up guys you don't come back

00:42:11.270 --> 00:42:13.930
to come back to the competition please please that's right

00:42:13.930 --> 00:42:16.970
uh but it's true it's valid like what we're talking about and this

00:42:16.970 --> 00:42:19.610
you know it's just kind of kind of part of the like i

00:42:19.610 --> 00:42:22.570
said the expectation setting and like i guess good guidance and mentorship

00:42:22.570 --> 00:42:26.230
as like a coach to like help people with that now oh

00:42:26.230 --> 00:42:29.170
kind of a little aside on it oh with because i

00:42:29.170 --> 00:42:32.770
know we just said if it is your first one don't cut

00:42:32.770 --> 00:42:35.830
weight but it can also be like

00:42:35.830 --> 00:42:39.550
a good way because i've i've had some people that looked

00:42:39.550 --> 00:42:43.490
at it this way of a way to lose

00:42:43.490 --> 00:42:46.270
weight i know exactly what you're gonna again like this is good

00:42:46.270 --> 00:42:49.410
yes they used it as a motivator for

00:42:49.410 --> 00:42:52.070
them to reach a goal that they already had like because there's a lot of

00:42:52.070 --> 00:42:58.550
people that do jiu-jitsu for for the their exercise exercise yeah um and so

00:42:58.550 --> 00:43:03.050
that is their like fitness that is their fitness regimen that's how they that's

00:43:03.050 --> 00:43:04.890
how they are improving their their

00:43:04.890 --> 00:43:10.530
fitness levels or getting in shape or whatever other goal they have see.

00:43:11.390 --> 00:43:13.870
What's Your Why, right? The What's Your Why episode.

00:43:14.310 --> 00:43:18.330
And so... Hyperlink What's Your Why. Boom. Plug that episode.

00:43:18.590 --> 00:43:20.410
Two ago. One ago? Two ago.

00:43:20.750 --> 00:43:23.850
Okay. But so we have...

00:43:25.592 --> 00:43:28.832
You have a re there's people that have their reason is to get in shape,

00:43:29.052 --> 00:43:30.732
have a better fitness level.

00:43:30.892 --> 00:43:34.132
And sometimes, and I've seen this, I've had guys that I've coached that,

00:43:34.352 --> 00:43:38.992
Hey, I want to get in better shape. And I think doing this competition will

00:43:38.992 --> 00:43:42.972
help me help motivate me to do those things.

00:43:43.812 --> 00:43:49.552
And in those cases, yeah, like let's, let's pick a weight class that's attainable that like,

00:43:49.672 --> 00:43:52.772
let's, we're not going to pick one where you're doing a last minute cut that

00:43:52.772 --> 00:43:57.332
we're going to pick one where hey like let's let's

00:43:57.332 --> 00:44:00.892
pick something where hey oh how many pounds do you want to lose all

00:44:00.892 --> 00:44:04.232
right let's pick something this close to that if it's five

00:44:04.232 --> 00:44:07.312
three pounds and there's a weight class it's at five hey like let's

00:44:07.312 --> 00:44:12.412
target five that's not a big deal you said it you said it man like what uh when

00:44:12.412 --> 00:44:16.332
i've had i've had this conversation dozens if not hundreds of times with like

00:44:16.332 --> 00:44:19.332
like newer folks and usually one of the first questions i ask them like hey

00:44:19.332 --> 00:44:23.432
i mentioned doing a tournament but i don't know what weight class to do is like

00:44:23.432 --> 00:44:25.012
the first thing they'll tell you,

00:44:25.852 --> 00:44:30.712
and my you i mean you nailed it like because like similarly like what i usually kind of like,

00:44:31.212 --> 00:44:34.832
ask them a handful of questions about that i say all right i try to get dialed

00:44:34.832 --> 00:44:37.632
into what you just said like you can eyeball it a little bit too something like

00:44:37.632 --> 00:44:40.472
you can see a person say all right this dude could definitely easily lose five

00:44:40.472 --> 00:44:46.212
to seven pounds like just i can see that um and that can be remedied. Again, you eyeball it.

00:44:47.252 --> 00:44:51.952
If I can eyeball it, it usually means I can, there's a, the diet's probably not on point.

00:44:52.572 --> 00:44:56.572
So, but nonetheless, like if it's, I'm not like immediately eyeballing you like

00:44:56.572 --> 00:44:58.672
a carny and like measuring your weight and like looking at you,

00:44:58.972 --> 00:45:00.132
I'll ask a few questions like that.

00:45:00.192 --> 00:45:02.652
I'm like, well, let's talk about like when you want to, I always start with

00:45:02.652 --> 00:45:03.932
like, well, okay, well, I don't want to set a target.

00:45:04.072 --> 00:45:06.152
When would you like to compete? What makes sense for you in your life?

00:45:06.212 --> 00:45:07.932
Oh yeah, maybe like September.

00:45:08.172 --> 00:45:09.832
All right, cool. I've got a couple months. It's perfect.

00:45:11.172 --> 00:45:12.172
I usually, I'm,

00:45:12.827 --> 00:45:16.527
And then my next part of the conversation around that is I advise them on how

00:45:16.527 --> 00:45:20.327
to leverage their schedule at the gym they're at to put themselves in the right

00:45:20.327 --> 00:45:23.387
classes, juxtaposed with their usual training cadence.

00:45:23.527 --> 00:45:25.827
I'm like, all right, how many days can you get into the gym with your work and your life?

00:45:26.287 --> 00:45:28.127
You hear like three to four times, I'm like, all right, we can,

00:45:28.247 --> 00:45:30.387
for a new competitor, I can manage that, it's not so bad.

00:45:31.167 --> 00:45:34.327
I'd like more if possible, but if you can't do more, no big deal.

00:45:34.387 --> 00:45:37.467
But let's make sure you're coming to the right classes with the right coach, with the right theme.

00:45:37.787 --> 00:45:41.547
That's going to give you that, like the physical training aspect that puts you

00:45:41.547 --> 00:45:44.687
in a position to prepare for that. and then balanced with all that I ask them,

00:45:45.347 --> 00:45:47.827
tell me about like how many days a week you go out and have beers and just like,

00:45:47.947 --> 00:45:48.907
how many days are you cooking?

00:45:49.087 --> 00:45:51.467
Like, let's talk about your diet because that's the easiest part.

00:45:51.647 --> 00:45:54.707
Like you said, and I love that for the purpose that you just described of like

00:45:54.707 --> 00:45:58.347
going to someone and being like, look, man, I promise you, like,

00:45:58.647 --> 00:46:00.387
and I usually do that. I'm like, like, what do you weigh?

00:46:00.507 --> 00:46:04.967
Just naturally, like just so I can at least get a range for weight classes. I'm like, I'm 185.

00:46:05.147 --> 00:46:07.827
I'm like, all right, well, this guy, I'm looking at him, he can make 177 pretty easily.

00:46:09.187 --> 00:46:12.007
Well, brother, let's now talk about the days that you go out and go

00:46:12.007 --> 00:46:15.727
how many days are we going to happy hour and crushing beers be honest yeah

00:46:15.727 --> 00:46:18.407
usually thursday through sunday i'm like okay all right well

00:46:18.407 --> 00:46:21.587
that's we can work with that like let's we're gonna downshift that i'm

00:46:21.587 --> 00:46:24.607
not telling you not to do it to live your life like i mean you can completely

00:46:24.607 --> 00:46:28.447
cut that out if you want i'm not saying you need to because you want to live

00:46:28.447 --> 00:46:32.567
a balanced life you can give them that date like hey like let's look at it this

00:46:32.567 --> 00:46:36.687
way for this many weeks that's right it's all just for that's right five weeks

00:46:36.687 --> 00:46:38.767
that's Five weeks, try to do that maybe once. Yeah.

00:46:39.027 --> 00:46:41.767
We do that once a week. I'm not saying don't live your life and have some fun,

00:46:41.807 --> 00:46:47.447
but like I'm telling you, like for five weeks, if you're doing three or four, like,

00:46:48.134 --> 00:46:51.174
two to four beer nights chicken wings and a cheeseburger and

00:46:51.174 --> 00:46:54.094
a hella french fries you cut that

00:46:54.094 --> 00:46:56.874
down like you're there's your weight class like you you might be going

00:46:56.874 --> 00:47:00.094
down further than you think i don't usually push that in the

00:47:00.094 --> 00:47:02.954
example you gave that eight pounds thousands especially you

00:47:02.954 --> 00:47:05.854
can lose that eight pounds probably in two weeks yeah with someone doing

00:47:05.854 --> 00:47:09.174
that um but so i usually kind of put them in that but i

00:47:09.174 --> 00:47:12.634
caveat all that with like what i usually tell them is like let's set a date i

00:47:12.634 --> 00:47:16.454
try for the first competition conversation with somebody who doesn't know this

00:47:16.454 --> 00:47:20.814
answer to i always recommend two to three months out because what i want to

00:47:20.814 --> 00:47:24.814
usually tell them is i start to encourage them to start to downshift that activity

00:47:24.814 --> 00:47:28.414
now and just keep training regularly and i just want to get a pulse check of

00:47:28.414 --> 00:47:31.394
where their weight is naturally at eating to train.

00:47:32.254 --> 00:47:36.014
About let's say if it's a three-month gap between the day i have this conversation

00:47:36.014 --> 00:47:39.574
like the date they book account like the schedule uh pardon me the the event

00:47:39.574 --> 00:47:43.994
competition six weeks right in the middle of it i'm gonna go like let's just

00:47:43.994 --> 00:47:45.474
check in in six weeks don't put

00:47:45.474 --> 00:47:47.614
too much pressure yourself but like try to clean up the diet a little bit.

00:47:48.094 --> 00:47:52.034
Scale down the happy hours. Let's just see where you land just training as is.

00:47:52.174 --> 00:47:53.994
Maybe increasing it a little bit. Let's just see where you're at.

00:47:54.754 --> 00:47:58.334
Eat good food to train. So cook, try to cook clean.

00:47:58.514 --> 00:48:02.194
A little bit more than you are right now. But I bet you we'll know what you're gonna look at.

00:48:02.274 --> 00:48:05.694
We'll know what weight class you're looking at in six weeks because that's when

00:48:05.694 --> 00:48:08.654
we get into some of those conversations we've had for the bulk of this conversation.

00:48:08.994 --> 00:48:12.074
Like that's when we can make a call on whether or not it would make sense to

00:48:12.074 --> 00:48:15.914
nibble at a weight class for a brand new person or just say, no, you're good.

00:48:16.514 --> 00:48:20.234
Or like fuck it you actually gained weight stay here yeah you know what I mean

00:48:20.234 --> 00:48:23.734
just stay here maybe you gained some muscle maybe you got more jacked but like

00:48:23.734 --> 00:48:26.114
that's kind of how I play around that conversation because you're right like

00:48:26.114 --> 00:48:27.994
most people when you talk to them about this like.

00:48:29.283 --> 00:48:31.883
Kind of challenge them with like a healthy, fun little mini,

00:48:32.023 --> 00:48:33.703
call it a weight cut. If that gets them excited, like, yeah,

00:48:33.783 --> 00:48:34.803
I'm cutting weight for a fight.

00:48:34.963 --> 00:48:36.823
But really, we're just cleaning up their diet as a human being.

00:48:36.943 --> 00:48:39.443
Yeah, you just say, hey, if you want to make it to, if you want to be in this

00:48:39.443 --> 00:48:41.603
weight class, then you need to be at this weight by this time.

00:48:42.063 --> 00:48:45.723
You basically put them in preseason camp, right? You give them like a preseason

00:48:45.723 --> 00:48:49.183
where, hey, we're not going to go too crazy, too serious, but like. We're going to train.

00:48:49.363 --> 00:48:54.103
We need to be, we need to be around here at this time to do that weight class.

00:48:54.103 --> 00:48:58.783
Or you know at in six weeks six weeks out then then we decide what your weight

00:48:58.783 --> 00:49:03.023
class is not a big deal but we need to get to that point let's put ourself in

00:49:03.023 --> 00:49:05.783
a position to make that call yeah because if you and if the other thing too

00:49:05.783 --> 00:49:08.363
is like you'll also know like to what degree this person,

00:49:08.963 --> 00:49:12.003
um this doesn't mean they can't compete it just means that like you'll you'll

00:49:12.003 --> 00:49:15.343
get a sense for like how how about that life they are if they're like yeah bro

00:49:15.343 --> 00:49:18.743
like six weeks i'm like i didn't i just i stuck with the three to four happy

00:49:18.743 --> 00:49:21.703
hours okay we're doing this for fun we're gonna do this for fun, that's cool.

00:49:21.883 --> 00:49:24.343
Or you just don't care that much about weight cutting, which again,

00:49:24.403 --> 00:49:28.063
I've known some dudes who've been in rough-looking shape who are like freak

00:49:28.063 --> 00:49:31.403
performers who still beat some ass, so like, don't let me tell you you can't

00:49:31.403 --> 00:49:32.643
do it. I'm just like, got it, bet.

00:49:32.723 --> 00:49:35.483
You're not about the cutting part, no big deal, but you better be about smashing

00:49:35.483 --> 00:49:38.123
some ass part. Yeah. Which, looks like you are.

00:49:38.603 --> 00:49:43.983
Okay, we're not gonna change the food. I guess we're gonna increase the intensity

00:49:43.983 --> 00:49:45.343
there. Yeah, that's right, that's right, that's right.

00:49:45.443 --> 00:49:49.023
We're gonna really leverage skill and ability here, which is fine. Yeah.

00:49:49.443 --> 00:49:52.203
Just kind of know the person you're dealing with because again like these people

00:49:52.203 --> 00:49:54.443
have lives like not everyone wants to do what we're talking about.

00:49:55.443 --> 00:49:58.323
But I almost guarantee if you're listening to this and you're like yeah dude

00:49:58.323 --> 00:50:02.523
like maybe I'll compete and I'm doing a little bit of that DoorDash thing that

00:50:02.523 --> 00:50:06.543
Scott's talking about a couple days a week and like yeah I'm happy I earn it

00:50:06.543 --> 00:50:09.743
I'm having some beers I am and like if it's,

00:50:10.244 --> 00:50:13.424
It's not too much of an ask to downshift that a little bit. Like,

00:50:13.504 --> 00:50:15.724
number one, you might just become a healthier person in general.

00:50:15.804 --> 00:50:17.804
You might think a little more clearly if you're crushing less alcohol.

00:50:18.984 --> 00:50:22.164
But I'm not telling you – I mean, like, if you could do zero for,

00:50:22.244 --> 00:50:24.604
like, four weeks, I would tell them to do zero for four weeks. Yeah.

00:50:24.824 --> 00:50:27.124
Because that's just, like – I know that's going to optimize your performance.

00:50:27.204 --> 00:50:28.184
It's going to help your performance.

00:50:28.184 --> 00:50:33.384
Like, even if you don't lose any – Even if you increase food intake and don't

00:50:33.384 --> 00:50:37.604
lose any weight, if you do drop the – if you do drop alcohol intake,

00:50:37.604 --> 00:50:40.564
you will have better performance on the mat.

00:50:40.664 --> 00:50:42.924
It's just every metric of life. But yes.

00:50:43.204 --> 00:50:47.984
If we really just pull up, your jujitsu will be more enjoyable because you're

00:50:47.984 --> 00:50:50.824
not going to be as dehydrated, your muscles are going to feel, just everything.

00:50:51.484 --> 00:50:55.604
It will help you with your athletic performance. But like work-life,

00:50:55.844 --> 00:50:59.684
discipline, life balance, like if you need that one, can we keep it to one?

00:50:59.804 --> 00:51:03.484
But like 1.5 to two days a week throughout the month, you're like,

00:51:03.584 --> 00:51:06.364
nah, man, I got to let loose a little bit. Like, all right. Like who am I to

00:51:06.364 --> 00:51:07.264
tell you how to live your life?

00:51:07.704 --> 00:51:11.404
You asked about a competitive athletic thing, which I have a bit of an authoritative

00:51:11.404 --> 00:51:13.444
voice on that I can tell you about. Here's what I suggest.

00:51:13.564 --> 00:51:16.124
But also, bro, live your life.

00:51:16.944 --> 00:51:21.064
If I could talk someone from doing three days of happy hour down to two days,

00:51:21.124 --> 00:51:24.524
that's a 33% decrease. And that's progress for a person.

00:51:24.904 --> 00:51:27.804
If that's been their life for maybe a handful of years, and they're like,

00:51:27.884 --> 00:51:29.104
eh, man, you kind of got me.

00:51:29.384 --> 00:51:32.204
I'm not saying it's a complete 180, but that's still improvement.

00:51:32.384 --> 00:51:34.064
That's something someone should be kind of fired up about.

00:51:34.284 --> 00:51:37.664
Well, and they're an adult. They can make these decisions. A thousand percent.

00:51:38.124 --> 00:51:43.304
But if they want to, if they came, like we're saying, they're asking a question,

00:51:43.304 --> 00:51:45.644
like, here's my take on it, dude.

00:51:45.904 --> 00:51:48.944
If pick which one you want more, that's really all. That's true.

00:51:49.084 --> 00:51:50.544
Pick which thing you, you want more.

00:51:50.764 --> 00:51:55.244
If, if that time hanging out, cause it's, it's not really, well.

00:51:57.033 --> 00:52:02.793
I'm not going to talk about it. But if that time of the happy hours is more

00:52:02.793 --> 00:52:11.533
beneficial to you than being in that lower weight class, cool, dude, that's fine.

00:52:11.813 --> 00:52:17.953
That's perfectly fine. I've talked to peak athletes with tons of potential who

00:52:17.953 --> 00:52:23.133
just don't want to bother with most of the rigor of what's required to be a competitor.

00:52:23.253 --> 00:52:24.593
And they're just like, nah, I just don't want to. I mean, heck,

00:52:24.713 --> 00:52:25.893
that happens. that's what a lot

00:52:25.893 --> 00:52:28.733
of professional athlete washout is totally fine they

00:52:28.733 --> 00:52:31.693
don't want to give up you know i don't

00:52:31.693 --> 00:52:34.413
think about my food yeah there's a lot of guys that they

00:52:34.413 --> 00:52:37.533
were so good in college and they were able to get away with partying

00:52:37.533 --> 00:52:40.633
and still competing at

00:52:40.633 --> 00:52:43.353
the high level higher level that everyone else that

00:52:43.353 --> 00:52:46.653
they're competing against and then you go

00:52:46.653 --> 00:52:49.653
to professionals and it's a whole different thing

00:52:49.653 --> 00:52:52.633
right like these are also elite level athletes you're

00:52:52.633 --> 00:52:55.713
not you're not like what one of

00:52:55.713 --> 00:52:58.573
the five on dude for one of the five out there and

00:52:58.573 --> 00:53:01.413
so you know it's some maybe some

00:53:01.413 --> 00:53:04.173
are enough of a freak athlete that

00:53:04.173 --> 00:53:07.473
they can do get away with it at the highest level but you

00:53:07.473 --> 00:53:11.613
know and there's gonna be guys even at the local level that you compete against

00:53:11.613 --> 00:53:17.453
that are giving up those things are like so you know it's it starts to stand

00:53:17.453 --> 00:53:22.593
out yeah yeah um but you know teach his own man like it's like again like do

00:53:22.593 --> 00:53:24.233
what makes you happy at the end of the Yeah,

00:53:24.453 --> 00:53:26.973
sure, do what makes you feel fulfilled, but like you said, like there's like

00:53:26.973 --> 00:53:29.273
a, just choose what do you really want.

00:53:29.413 --> 00:53:32.113
And if you're like, no man, I don't want to even think about my food, like no problem.

00:53:32.473 --> 00:53:35.013
Yeah. Nah, it's fine. Don't worry about it. It's just different at it.

00:53:35.073 --> 00:53:37.073
It's like your perspective, yours is just a little bit different.

00:53:37.293 --> 00:53:40.453
It's just not as, I would say it's not as serious. That's okay. Yeah.

00:53:41.493 --> 00:53:45.813
Being serious is like a bank account that only people have so much seriousness that they can draw.

00:53:46.133 --> 00:53:48.033
Yeah, you have to pick. Some people have more than others. You have to pick

00:53:48.033 --> 00:53:50.453
which things to put that into. Yeah, nothing wrong with that.

00:53:50.833 --> 00:53:53.593
You know, if, if, hey, I just want to compete because...

00:53:54.742 --> 00:53:59.462
You can still be good at it and do it for fun. Don't get us wrong on that.

00:53:59.602 --> 00:54:03.062
There's plenty of hobbyists, people that do this as just a fun hobby for them

00:54:03.062 --> 00:54:06.962
and not as a serious sport outlet. Serious endeavor, yeah.

00:54:08.382 --> 00:54:11.002
They still go out there and beat dudes who do take this seriously.

00:54:11.402 --> 00:54:13.262
It's still a quest for that person, like you said.

00:54:13.342 --> 00:54:15.162
It's still a quest and accomplishment for that person to say,

00:54:15.282 --> 00:54:18.862
hey, that one time I did it, still a challenge for that person, which is great.

00:54:20.622 --> 00:54:22.462
Ultimately, it sounds like people are just playing different games,

00:54:22.562 --> 00:54:26.942
which is fine. Yeah, and, you know, again, it all comes back to why you do it

00:54:26.942 --> 00:54:29.742
and what the goal is, and that's fine.

00:54:31.082 --> 00:54:34.522
Do achieve those things. Yeah. That's the important part. I guess know yourself.

00:54:34.742 --> 00:54:39.042
Yeah, know yourself. Know yourself. And know what you want. Just be honest with yourself.

00:54:39.722 --> 00:54:43.142
And just a quick summary. So, like, quick summary on that, right? Yeah.

00:54:44.382 --> 00:54:51.262
If you're going to go the serious route, let's, you know, we're going to, one, one,

00:54:51.844 --> 00:54:54.784
We're always kind of already, we're always training.

00:54:55.004 --> 00:54:59.104
We're always staying on the path, right? We're, we're eating,

00:54:59.264 --> 00:55:00.904
we're eating mostly right.

00:55:01.144 --> 00:55:05.244
Let's call it 90, 90%, 80%. I'd say 80, 20 is probably more realistic,

00:55:05.284 --> 00:55:07.324
but, but you're always, it's pretty good.

00:55:07.624 --> 00:55:10.444
Remember David talked about that. You stay within striking. He's 90, 10. Yeah.

00:55:10.844 --> 00:55:13.564
He, to give that guy credit, he is 90, 10. I'd say I'm more like,

00:55:13.784 --> 00:55:19.324
if I'm on top of my shit, 80, 20, maybe 75, 25, but like directionally closer

00:55:19.324 --> 00:55:24.844
to 80, 20 than 90, 10. 90-10 is usually when I get locked. We remain within striking distance.

00:55:25.184 --> 00:55:27.704
For sure. We're always training. Big time, big time.

00:55:28.224 --> 00:55:32.744
And then, you know, that way, all you have to do is just make that, it's a small shift.

00:55:34.084 --> 00:55:36.404
Because we talked about, you know, getting the gears turning.

00:55:38.284 --> 00:55:42.824
The shorter that distance is to move them, the easier it is going to be to move

00:55:42.824 --> 00:55:43.484
them, right? So important.

00:55:43.704 --> 00:55:47.704
Like, the further away, like, if you have a three, four-month offseason.

00:55:48.024 --> 00:55:50.124
And you're going 50-50 on the road.

00:55:50.804 --> 00:55:54.724
You start bulking and you kind of, you start, you know, having some drinks,

00:55:54.924 --> 00:55:56.304
a little more drinks than normal.

00:55:56.444 --> 00:56:00.864
You're living it. All of a sudden it's like, oh, you know, that, that six weeks.

00:56:01.184 --> 00:56:05.584
Nah, I'm not doing that. Maybe I'll just do it. Maybe I'll do it for like two. It does get harder.

00:56:05.924 --> 00:56:11.044
Like you said, the more you kind of like let the foot off the gas on that for sure. Yeah.

00:56:11.184 --> 00:56:14.044
So, you know, we're, we're, we're pushing a boulder uphill, I guess.

00:56:14.624 --> 00:56:19.784
Um, so you, you gotta, the, the closer you stay to where you need to be,

00:56:20.004 --> 00:56:23.344
the, the easier it's gonna, it's gonna be to get there.

00:56:23.524 --> 00:56:29.404
So if you maintain roughly the same cadence of training, even if you are doing

00:56:29.404 --> 00:56:37.124
it at a lower intensity, if you keep going to the same number of training sessions or whatever, um,

00:56:38.043 --> 00:56:40.543
It's going to be easier to flip that switch and be like, all right,

00:56:40.623 --> 00:56:44.143
I'm just going to do this at a higher intensity level, or I'm just going to,

00:56:44.303 --> 00:56:49.783
you know, it just becomes easier to make those shifts so that you can have that.

00:56:49.863 --> 00:56:52.543
You can also have those shorter, shorter bursts.

00:56:52.823 --> 00:56:58.363
So you're not doing eight, 12 to eight, 10, 12 week camps to be able to get yourself ready again.

00:56:59.523 --> 00:57:03.863
You're able to just flip a switch and do it in six because it's like,

00:57:03.963 --> 00:57:07.163
all right, I'm going to, I'm already training.

00:57:07.163 --> 00:57:11.023
All i have to do is just redirect it

00:57:11.023 --> 00:57:14.063
make it more a little more specific have a

00:57:14.063 --> 00:57:16.843
little more intention to what i'm doing and then i'm

00:57:16.843 --> 00:57:21.063
i'm in i'm in session just increase it just we're gonna we're gonna move the

00:57:21.063 --> 00:57:24.983
lens in front of it and we're gonna just go increase the intensity and go and

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then for the food all right three weeks out boom flip that switch easy peasy

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get done that afterwards you just you pig out after your tournament enjoy some

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food you had to enjoy food and take a couple

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maybe a couple weeks if that's your path and recover too chill out if you need

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to if you break from the training but get the weight back on,

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unless you have something coming

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up soon after in which case don't do that have the one maybe two meals,

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if you're traveling for it enjoy your meals while you're there when you get

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home it's back on the back on the grind so because I,

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It can get you in trouble. It can. If you have them too close together and you pick too much.

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Yeah. And I have our segment for today.

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So we have another combat confession. Combat confessions.

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This is going to be a surprise for both of us because all I did was read the title.

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And I was like, this is the one we have to do. And I wanted to keep it as a

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surprise for both of us. The reveal. We both get it revealed.

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A raw hot take, guys. A real hot take. This is hot. Hot off the presses.

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So today's combat confession comes from a purple belt on Reddit.

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It is, and the title is, that was the most dispiriting role of my entire life. Okay.

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Ooh. So he's a 50-year-old.

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This is how he has it written down. I'm a 50-year-old, bald,

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slightly chubby, 5'11", 240, dude.

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And the rash guard does me no favors.

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Think an overstuffed sausage getting ready to burst. Whoa.

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But under that surface layer of fat is a little more fat. But under that fat

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is a solid base of muscle thanks to a decade of powerlifting.

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And after training four to five days a week for the past five years,

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I mostly don't suck at jujitsu.

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But all people see when I walk up is a bald, fat, slightly dorky dad,

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which leads us into my story.

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Do you want to take a guess on what happens? I kind of feel like we need to talk about that.

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Do you want to take a guess on what the outcome's going to be?

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He gets fucking crushed, I guess. I think he's going to crush somebody. Let's find out, though.

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So you think he's getting crushed?

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I think he's going to crush somebody. Well, he's got a very,

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like, defeatist, like, self-loathing. Or self-deprecating humor.

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Yeah. So let's find out. All right. All right, continue. Let's see.

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This week, I've been traveling for work, and so I stopped off at one of the

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local gyms. I see this tall jacked kid 6'1", 200 pounds, early 20s and so I

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wander over and ask him if he lifts.

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He tells me he's a powerlifter with a 315 pound bench, so not too bad.

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He's also been training for a couple of years so he's kind of got the hang of this jujitsu thing.

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I ask him if he's up for a roll with a tired old man and he agrees.

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The buzzer goes off, we slap and bump and six minutes later he hits me with

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that was the most dispiriting role of my entire life.

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I can tell you're way stronger than me, but you also used precisely zero of

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that strength to destroy me.

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Oh, wow. I'm beginning to wonder what I'm doing here on the mat.

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He crushed this kid's soul. Okay, continue.

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I don't think I've ever received a better compliment and I told the kid as much.

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So what's the best compliment you received on the mat and what led to it?

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And actually, I do want you guys to tell us what the best compliment you've

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received on the mat and what led to it. Um...

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Okay. So he dished out a beating and he was super, he's hyping himself up. Yeah.

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So he was setting the stage of like, dude, I am a sloppy 50 year old and who

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used to be a power lifter.

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He's like, I'm fat. He says he's fat. I am now a fat version of myself.

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This kid is very in shape and I smashed him into the ground.

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And apparently the kid was considering quitting I mean he obviously but like he told the guy like,

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I'm wondering why I'm here well that's that's your answer your answer is like

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you need to keep going to class until you don't get beat up by fat bald guys but,

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Okay, what's your reaction? I was not expecting that.

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I wasn't when I read the first part, and then... You kind of had a hunch?

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I kind of, as he got to the end of it, I was like, I think he's setting us up for him smashing.

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So I didn't know it was going to be like this jacked kid.

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But I didn't know it was going to be a cross-training story,

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which is also... He showed up to a gym and beat up some young kids.

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Dropped in and beat up a 20-year-old, a kid half his age. I mean, props to this dude.

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How jack do you think this kid actually was, though? Do you think he's embellishing it?

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I mean, he sounds like a storyteller, so it sounds like he's...

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It might be a little... Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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I mean, he said he's been doing it a couple years. This guy's been doing it a couple months.

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Let's shave. His way of doing that was talking about how long...

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He kind of puts himself in a shitty... 15, 20 pounds off. I suspect about our

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storyteller's authenticity is all I'm saying.

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But it is Reddit, so it's kind of just a fucking cave of craziness.

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A little like... He's beating himself down, but then he ends the story and starts

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kind of hyping himself up. So there's that.

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He's either torturing himself off or the ugly. I'm questioning how good the guy is.

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It sounds to me... Or maybe he's like, he started off, like he's making himself

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sound kind of crappy. Allegedly.

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Contrast that with him his way of doing that he's kind of like writing a story

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yeah there's like a layer of fat so that tells you something about like alright well

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it's too and so now I'm questioning like well how

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tough was that guy a lot of self-deprecating like how shitty you're saying he's

01:03:10.178 --> 01:03:12.858
beating himself down but then he ends the story with kind of hyping himself

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up the whole thing it's obviously very performative for Reddit it's good it's

01:03:15.638 --> 01:03:18.658
good story I'm glad you picked it it's funny portraying himself authentically

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I hear it it's kind of funny it's kind of funny it's funny maybe he's like aggrandizing

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even tuning your own story How many comments make himself sound kind of crappy?

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We have 134 comments. Wow, that's way more than he should have done.

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Well, it's a lot of people giving their reactions.

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Best comments are also some like, how tough was that guy? The cliche backhanded

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ones. How shitty you're saying you are. The first two, the top one.

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The top comment is, I've been told, you're really strong, which is great because

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they never thought I was strong.

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It's funny. And that was a real, that was really a joke. That wasn't really a joke.

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It was a crank. Also, I don't even have to do a move right and people tap. Good times.

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I'm thinking of asking Coach about how that's way more than I've ever gotten.

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So that's the top comment.

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It's a lot of people. It's a lot of that. It's a lot of the comments.

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And a lot of them are comments on that comment.

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When he started off a conversation for him, that's just what you're doing right now.

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The top comment is, I've been told, you're really strong, which is great because

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I never thought I was strong. This other comment is that I like how these things

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are always written like fan fiction erotica. That's what I feel like it is too.

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Maybe not the erotica part, but it just sounds like fan fiction to me.

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He's kind of, he's the, he'd be making up where he's like grossly embellishing

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his side. It's like based on a true story.

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Again, it's Reddit. I like that someone actually went and embellished the embellishment.

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I mean, obviously, there is embellishment. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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We know that, like, we just want to get like, yeah. I imagine,

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you know. What amount of it is bullshit, we don't know.

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I believe that this is, this dude went, smashed this kid at a drop-in,

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and he's just embellishing slight, you know, he's embellishing the surrounding details, right?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's made it seem prettier than it is. He's lurking on the internet.

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He's telling us internet friends. But someone went and embellished what the

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20-year-old said. I think this is funny.

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I mean, obviously. He's like, I was also there.

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It's just on like, this is a response to the fan fiction erotica comment.

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It's, then the jacked 20-year-old with spots on his face said,

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that was without question the most soul-withering role of my entire martial

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existence. So I can perceive with humiliating clarity that you possess strength

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vastly superior to my own.

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And yet you deployed not even a whisper of it to utterly vanquish the,

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uh... It is as though I had been defeated, not by Sussman, but by the unbearable poetry of y'all.

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I now find myself gazing into the abyss of this map, wondering what tragic summons

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ever brought me here in the first place.

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And I was all like, hey, dude, don't sweat it.

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So, yeah, I mean, so that was our combat confession for today.

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If you guys have any of your own or, I mean, if you have any of your own,

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hop on the website, send us www.fdcpodcast.com.

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Hop on there, go to the comments page or contact us.

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You can actually comment on this episode as well on there. But yeah,

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contact us, drop it in there, leave us a voicemail, give us your combat confession.

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So that was our combat confession for today.

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If you leave a voicemail, I will figure out how to put the voicemail in the

01:06:46.579 --> 01:06:47.799
show and people can hear you.

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So if you do a voicemail and you don't want me to play it on the show or you

01:06:52.879 --> 01:06:54.419
don't want your name on it, We need to know.

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Hop on there. Make sure you go to the comments. You tell us,

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because I will put it on the show if I'm not told on this episode as well.

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If you want us just to listen to it and then react, or if you want me to listen

01:07:05.939 --> 01:07:10.319
to it and then write it out, and then just tell the story on the show, I can do that as well.

01:07:12.059 --> 01:07:17.539
So that was our combat confessions, and that was fighters drinking coffee, guys.

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Thank you for listening to the show as always, and thank you for your support.

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Don't want me to play it on the show or you don't want your name on it we need

01:07:26.359 --> 01:07:31.679
to know love you make sure you buy you tell us because i i will put it on the

01:07:31.679 --> 01:07:36.179
show if i'm not told not to uh if you want us just to listen to it and then

01:07:36.179 --> 01:07:39.759
react and or if you want me to listen to it and then write it out

01:07:40.139 --> 01:07:43.439
and then just tell the story on the show i can do that as well um,

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So that was our combat confessions and that was fighters drinking coffee guys.

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Thank you for listening to the show as always. And thank you for your support.

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Yeah. We love you. We love you. Bye. Bye.