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Hi and welcome to a long overdue new season of Grace Under Pressure.
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I'm your host Sarah Willis and this season we're going to be doing things a little bit differently.
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And by we I mean I'm going to be doing a little bit more of solo episodes where I'm reflecting on different topics that either
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people send in or just things in general that I'm noticing just in training.
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And some stuff that I would love to have heard discussed on some podcasts.
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And so yeah we're just going to be taking it a little bit differently this season.
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And so I wanted to start off this season by kind of going over some stuff that I have noticed I guess recently.
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And cross training and just in general with the jujitsu landscape.
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And that's kind of fundamentals versus new school jujitsu.
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So with the rise of CJI if you watch that amazing show great production.
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And just wonderful display of jujitsu techniques albeit a lot more new school.
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I've been watching CJI, ADCC, won championships and just it's very exciting to watch new school jujitsu.
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And that is kind of what brings people in the doors for some gyms.
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And it's great stuff to learn wonderful stuff to learn.
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However it seems that some gyms are prioritizing those kinds of techniques like inversion, lapel guard if it's a gi class.
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You know the kei guard, baron bolos, leg locks almost too quickly.
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And unfortunately it seems like in some gyms and I don't know if this is in every gym but I've just noticed this on my end.
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That newer folks are not getting taught the fundamentals and positional movements that are more foundational.
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In favor of those newer flashier techniques it's kind of almost like I don't know you get somebody who's a big UFC fan comes into the door of jujitsu schools.
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And they're like yeah man I'm going to be doing MMA and I'm going to be you know the next big thing.
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And I mean and that's great I mean I love UFC for example I love CJI I love ADCC you know all these big you know tournaments that just garner a lot of attention.
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And frankly a great exposure for the sport.
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I think there's so much to be said as far as opportunities now available for jujitsu practitioners that you know yeah maybe making a living off of jujitsu now is more feasible.
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And I think that's about time right.
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But you know are we losing something in the process.
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And I guess this is me just looking back on my career too.
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I was drawn into leg locks you know the more new school stuff in that regard.
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I mean because it worked you know I've got long legs and if I get the leverage on your ankle you know it's a strong technique.
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You know and you know if I'm on the end of a big guy's foot or you know a wrist if I want to go that dirty route.
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You know it's I can keep someone's pressure off me you know but however you know sometimes when you do those leg locks you do those other positions that are a lot of fun.
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And are flashy and are highlight real stuff you know you're leaving yourself up to being passed or being in a worse position you know.
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And that happened to me a good deal in competition especially when I was getting onto the purple belt scene and competing.
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I was just noticing just how the leg lock game and those more flashy techniques they were great but they were only taking me so far.
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Now you could argue that's because you know I'm not training them effectively enough you could argue a lot of different things.
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But I will say when I simplified my game when I went back to the more bread and butter you know meat and potatoes fundamental jujitsu.
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Yeah the tides turned and so I don't know if this is just me seeing maybe a hole that was in my training.
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It wasn't a hole when I was coming up I'll say it that way when I it doesn't seem like it's been that long ago but nearly eight years ago.
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I didn't you know I wasn't being taught OK we're doing all this flashy stuff you know the lapel guards and stuff you know first month that I'm there.
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You know it was really the bread and butter the meat and potatoes as I said earlier.
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And you know I was one of the few girls in the gym and I was fighting for my life every single role.
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Not because the guys were bad it's just they were much bigger than me.
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And if I didn't have fundamentals under my belt I would have been in a really bad spot.
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And then after I got you know you never overcome the fundamentals right you always have to go back to them.
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But once I felt like I had a grasp on it we'll say it that way then I was able to all right what is this ankle lock stuff.
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Oh man that's too complicated I'm never going to be able to learn it.
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Well you know eventually you do.
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And you know I was able to have success with that.
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But I wouldn't have had that kind of success if I didn't have the fundamentals and that's a huge if you know you have to talk.
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You know it's not a chicken and egg situation it really is you've got to lay your foundation.
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You've got to have those cornerstone pieces in your game before you can really level up.
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And I don't know if that is just gems are responding to what's getting thrown their way.
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Because it is a business you know at the end of the day you know yeah excuse me English is hard.
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Jiu-Jitsu schools are a business at the end of the day.
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And you want to teach techniques that your paying members are wanting to learn right.
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What's driving them to come.
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Is it you know driven by what they're seeing on CJI, UFC, ABCC if they're watching that stuff on Float Grappling.
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You know is that what is that's what is driving people to come through the doors.
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And if it is I mean you do have to talk about it right.
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You do have to introduce it.
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But I think there's something to be said about old school warm ups drills fundamental movements.
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Really being prioritized and I don't know it's just something that I have seen.
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And I've just talked around with a couple of different people.
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And I've just noticed there has been you know a neglect in that area.
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And that's to people's detriment and I think that's going to hold people back on certain areas.
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Now of course you've got some freak specimens out there.
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I'm just going to be honest.
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You know you've got Jesus and Hasee.
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But you know when you have just I would say your normal hobbyist coming through the door.
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And if they are chasing you know that white rabbit of these fancy cool looking techniques.
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You know but they are neglecting those the shrimping fundamentals.
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The you know the position before submission concepts.
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The weight distribution concepts.
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You know just the simple arm bar from clothes guard.
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The the the camora from clothes guard.
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Those sorts of just like yeah okay Sarah we get it.
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We know those positions.
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We know those submissions.
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But until you drill it in your head ad nauseam you know do you.
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You know that's a good question to ask.
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And so I don't know that's just something I've noticed.
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And I'd love to hear from you know y'all listening to this.
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Have you seen this in your gym.
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Have you seen it where people have been chasing those highlight reel you know tapes.
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Tape moves you know has it been you know we're trying to master.
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The sprint and the hurdles before we've really learned to crawl right.
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And I guess that's something that I just am especially attentive to just with the background and teaching right.
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You know I'm not going to expect my students you know in English.
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To be able to do a really complex like literature analysis on the Bhagavad Gita or.
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The you know the original old English text of Beowulf if they don't understand their ABCs right.
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I mean I'm not going to go into a room although knowing me and my inability to connect with small children.
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You know I may walk into you know if that be like me walking into a preschool.
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And saying all right we are going to now start writing paragraphs.
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Talking about you know the end of humanity and AI or something.
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Yeah I'm going to get a lot of what what you know can you heat this up for me Miss Willis.
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You know that kind of you know there's a disconnect right.
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You know if they try you know it's not that they're stupid or something.
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It's because I'm asking them to do something that is way outside of their skill set right.
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If I ask them something that is appropriate within their skill set within their developmental range.
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Well then yeah I'm going to get you know a more reasonable result.
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And my level of success is going to be you know actually attainable.
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You know and of course when we think about Jujitsu sometimes we don't think of it as.
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Something like a formal teaching you know atmosphere.
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But the ideas that are behind any kind of teaching pedagogy you know.
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You're going to need to apply them within a class within the classroom of Jujitsu the you know the school.
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And so I don't know I guess that's just something that's really stuck out to me is that.
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You know it's kind of a mismatch a mismatch if you will.
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Of trying to say teach a college level technique to great schoolers right.
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And so I think you know when you have your new students coming in.
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And of course they're going to want to try stuff they've seen on YouTube or.
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You know which is great which means that they are engaged in the community.
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But at the same time you need to give people actually things they can handle because often.
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Again going back I'm going to my context guys I'm going to my background.
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And current reality of teaching which is if you give a student or you give somebody something so vast so large.
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I don't want to sound negative and say that they're not going to rise to the occasion.
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But if the gap between your skills and what is required is so vast that it cannot be bridged.
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There's going to be a sense of failure there's going to be a sense of I cannot attain.
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And human you know inclination is going to lead to quitting and not returning.
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This might lead to in the classroom a student totally shutting down and not engaging in the material.
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For Jiu Jitsu you've got people quitting right.
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You've got you know it's not exactly the blue belt blues but it's this is too hard for me.
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I can't do this Jiu Jitsu isn't for me.
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And then they leave after what a month trial or something like that.
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And you just aren't getting that progression.
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So I really do think there is something to be said about you know I don't know having.
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If your gym can support it if you're in that kind of atmosphere.
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Of really supporting a beginner's class like white belt only or really bad blue belt included.
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I'm not going to you know say that you know all blue belts are fantastic.
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But you know point being there's a lot of phenomenal white belts.
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But when you are focusing on a Jiu Jitsu beginner class it is a fundamentals class.
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And I think you know honestly if you set it up as Jiu Jitsu fundamentals everyone can benefit from that.
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Almost you know this is just me as again context as a teacher.
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I hate having you know PD meetings because we're kind of rehashing things that we already know.
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You know if you've been serving your nickel in the classroom you know the different things.
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The different classroom management techniques yada yada yada.
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Okay we get it.
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Yay you know just check off the box.
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I'm just here because I don't want to get fired kind of you know energy there.
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But if you were to require you know a purple belt a brown belt a black belt.
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You know different from the actual instructor you know the owner of the class.
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You know if you were to require them to come in like at least once a month twice a month.
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You know just to go through the class.
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That would help kind of keep those skills sharp and fresh.
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Because I think the tendency especially you know if you've been in Jiu Jitsu for six ten plus years.
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Right there's the assumption man I already know this blah blah blah.
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And you don't have the buy-in.
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You don't have that continual refinement of those really basic skills.
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But if you don't have those really basic skills you can't really build upon that.
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Right it's kind of in to give another analogy.
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If you're doing weight training right or strength training.
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If you don't have the foundation of sleep recovery proper diet.
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It doesn't really matter what you do in the weight room.
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You're not going to be getting the absolute best return on investment there.
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Because you have to have your body rested and recovered to be able to go.
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And do everything you're requiring of it in the weight room or even on the mats right.
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So it's just those really basic things.
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Those really big big important things.
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We all know the importance of nutrition.
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We all know the importance of sleep.
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How many of us you know for example are getting those eight hours.
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Are you someone who needs 10 hours.
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You know are you one of those really really rare people that five hours I'm fine.
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I'd love to talk to you and find out what's up with your brain because that is not me.
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But you know if we are continually checking off those boxes.
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We know what we're supposed to do but I can get away with it.
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I've done this long enough.
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I know what works for me.
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And you're kind of taking the shortcuts eventually going to be cutting your legs out from under you.
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And so I don't know I feel like just with the rise of popularity and more people are talking about.
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And I think that's because you got people like Elon Musk Mark Zuckerberg you know talking about
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doing Jiu Jitsu on the podcast and they're kind of vocal about that.
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You have Kristen Stewart and her daughter you know her daughters at least doing Jiu Jitsu
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or have talked about it.
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You've got you know Joe Rogan of course talking on his podcast.
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And then you've got things like CJI that are available for free on YouTube.
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I mean you've got a lot of momentum going.
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I think it's very wise for Jiu Jitsu schools academies to be riding that wave.
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But in the process of riding that wave you don't want to over cater to that wave.
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And neglect the baseline fundamental stuff because if they don't have that you know they're not going to keep coming back.
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You know and if they're just chasing that that hype video you know I think any coach would tell you in an athletic context.
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You know to some extent you can't get that hype without having a strong foundation.
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You know you have to have the buy-in day in day out to do the things that aren't really pretty.
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That aren't really hype worthy in order to have the hype to be able to do those crazy things.
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And you know Jiu Jitsu is for everybody.
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It's just maybe not every technique is for everybody.
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There's things that I love in Jiu Jitsu.
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I love watching it but I can't do them.
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You know for one reason or another maybe it's you know I've had two knee surgeries.
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So there's certain things I can't do.
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Or maybe it's a size situation that you know even though I may have great technique it's just you know my size my build my proportions.
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It's not going to be the best technique but I at least need to have awareness of it of course.
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But you know sometimes you know if people are wanting to duplicate something they see on YouTube.
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You know realistically you know if they put in those 10,000 hours you know yeah they could probably get that technique.
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But what if there's a better technique out there that's maybe not you know a hype video worthy technique I would suppose is a way of putting it.
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But then they're murdering at competition or more importantly they're keeping themselves safe right.
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I don't know that's just something that I've seen.
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It's a little bit of a ramble on that but that's just something I've noticed.
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Because I think you know like new school Jiu Jitsu practitioners you think Craig Jones Gordon Ryan.
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You know Mikey Musumechi but then you don't want to forget about the the Gracies right.
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The ones who put Jiu Jitsu on the map in the UFC.
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It wasn't the crazy crazy stuff right.
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It was really basic fundamental Jiu Jitsu and it works.
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And you know you can obviously I think that the goal and I think anyone will tell you.
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A combination of the two is what you want ultimately right.
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You don't want to be relying on the crazy flashy stuff that you don't have a strong fundamental base to fall back to.
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Teacher and me is going to a an illusion with Ray Bradbury and talking with Professor Faber saying you know.
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This is the Sarah Willis paraphrase of society got so busy you know thinking they could sustain themselves on fireworks and dandelions.
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That they've neglected the real stuff the the soil you know that feeds the dandelions.
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And so and I think that's kind of you know apt for us is that we don't need to stray too far from our roots.
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Of what makes Jiu Jitsu successful and effective.
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Which is not the crazy stuff that if I'm getting jumped on the street.
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I'm not going to be doing some of the crazy stuff right.
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I'm going to be doing you know I'm going to be doing mount back you know basic takedowns.
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As much as I love pulling guard I'm not pulling guard on the street right.
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You know I'm going to find a way to take them down or if they take me down.
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I'm clothes guarding choking the heck out of them right.
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And so it's just reminding yourself that at the end of the day yes Jiu Jitsu is a sport.
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But it's also for self defense right.
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And you don't want to you know just totally go after those fireworks and dandelions and forget the soil.
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And the earth that sustains that right.
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You want to have your roots.
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And so yeah so that was just something I was noticing.
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Kind of a little bit of a rant there.
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Sort of kind of rant.
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But yeah just I guess going off of that recently I have been competing in things that I've noticed.
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You know fundamentals man I mean they're great.
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I was kind of starting to finally find my groove in Jiu Jitsu.
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Where you know I used to do all the flashy stuff try to do live and die by the leg locks.
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I'm still very submission hungry.
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Just you know that that's me.
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I don't know just firecracker energy I suppose.
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Honey badger energy you know for my millennials out there honey badger takes what it wants.
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So that's kind of still my Jiu Jitsu style.
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But it's very very fundamental now.
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I've transitioned into I love me some close guard.
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You know I've been playing you know just going from close guard to dominant positions like back and mount.
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Particularly back and if you had told me that as a white belt that I would like you know attacking from the back.
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I would have said you're crazy because I hated back.
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I preferred mount just because I could do try my my triangle and all that kind of fun stuff from there.
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But I really am you know finding the back is better for me.
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It's just the fundamental position right of you know it's a lot more safe.
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You know if I had you know which I don't think this would ever happen.
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But you know let's just say if I had a student going crazy and trying to attack me.
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You know it's harder for them to attack me when I'm a backpack.
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But but yeah so I've really fallen in love with fundamentals recently.
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And just really watching weight distribution not you know weight cutting or something.
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But you know being very cognizant of where my weight is my opponent's weight is.
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And you know playing off of that and trying to make myself as heavy with you know leverage as possible.
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You know using physics to my advantage and to their disadvantage.
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And on that too I've you know when I've worked with some people I've stressed the importance of breathing.
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Which seems very you've got to breathe.
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But how many of you have been like me and you're in a really intense moment and you're not breathing.
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You're like oh right breathe in breathe out.
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You know and so being cognizant of my breath and just breathing in general and not.
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Letting my breathing get too erratic especially if I am you know pinned and you know mount or impending.
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And side control smash situation which happens a lot.
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You know then again I'm one of the lighter ones in the room.
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And you know that's you know gravity sucks guys gravity sucks.
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But you're not panicking.
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And so just noticing you know how my breathing and noticing how my opponent is breathing.
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And so if I'm rolling with the newer person just remind them just breathe breathe.
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You know you're tying yourself out by over breathing you know like just kind of like.
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You know like and it's not you know leading to any kind of substantial you know movement or.
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You know it's just fatiguing yourself right.
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You're unnecessarily you know overworking yourself.
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And I don't know I've just been noticing those little things and how.
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Just the small things just just really the small little details in a roll or in a drill.
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It's mainly in a roll right when we're over you know working or overthinking right.
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We get in that panic mode.
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And yeah I mean when you're panicking you're trying to out think in a way your opponent.
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And if you're overthinking something if you're thinking about a technique.
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I find that you're already a step behind right.
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And that's why we have drilling and that's why we have those that technique development time.
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So that when you are in a awful position you're not panicking you know you've been in a situation.
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You're not panicking you know you've you've drilled something so much that it kind of becomes automatic.
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Which that that's the goal right the idea that talent is overrated you know.
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It's hard work you know hard work will outpace talent that doesn't do anything.
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And it's that idea of you know 10,000 hours to become an expert or a master at something right.
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And so you know as much as sometimes it's boring and you know.
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You hate it you want to get to the roles.
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That's something else I've noticed I've had a conversation or two with somebody and you know they're.
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I won't comment on the quality of their jujitsu but.
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They say yeah man I never really get to go to a class I just go to all these open mats and roll.
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It's like well I mean that's great.
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Are you learning any new techniques and putting them into your repertoire.
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Well I'll answer that for you probably not right.
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I you know I just I can't overstate the value of drilling a technique.
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There's a time and a place for rolling absolutely I think.
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I think everyone should roll to their level that they can right you know of course you know.
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I'm thinking you know if you're really sick well first off you shouldn't be on the mats.
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If you're really sick that's a whole other thing for another time.
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But you know if you are you know pregnant.
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Or you've got some kind of a knee injury where you can't roll as hard as you want to.
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Or feel like you should. Hey you can at least flow roll right.
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You can at least get some kind of a realistic feedback.
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You know it may not be 100 percent you know but at least you're getting something anyway.
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That aside drilling is where you get that technique ingrained into your muscle ingrained.
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To where it becomes automatic right.
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You know how many of y'all have been driving.
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And you know I got to go to the Walmart I got to go to Kroger I got to go to the store and get something.
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But you're not consciously thinking about it.
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And then all of a sudden you're driving you're in your carport or you're in your driveway.
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Like wait what what happened.
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You've done it so much I mean that's the idea it's just automatic you're on autopilot right.
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And so how do we get jujitsu to be on autopilot.
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Well it's by drilling a technique to where you know it's there and you grab it.
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It's kind of like I've seen this 10,000 times.
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I know the next step I don't have to think about it right.
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It's whatever your favorite technique is chances are you've done that so much.
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That it just is becoming automatic to you right.
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It could be I don't know could be a kimura.
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It could be a leg lock it could be whatever it is right.
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But if you have drilled it 10,000 times and done it so many times.
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But you know before a roll or even while flow rolling even.
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You know it's getting ingrained in you.
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And I think that's something that is that's huge.
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And again that goes I guess that goes back to my earlier kind of rant about.
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You know the importance of the fundamentals.
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You know you want it to be so ingrained in you to where it's just.
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You don't have to think about it right.
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I don't have to think about where to distribute my weight if I am maintaining a high mount right.
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Or I don't have to worry about not crossing my feet if I have back.
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Or so on so forth or you know what to do not to overextend my arm.
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If I'm going for a rear naked choke and end up getting an arm bar.
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You know because I'm being stupid you know it's those sorts of things where.
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Yeah it's if someone asks you to show them that technique you have to step back.
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And remember like oh wait what what did I do oh okay.
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Yes I did this technique because it's so ingrained.
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I guess it's a little rambly but it's true.
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Where drilling is where you make killers.
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I've heard that expression you know drillers make killers.
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It's very true right.
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You play your musical scales to be you know.
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And you are a master pianist or guitarist whatever it may be.
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And it's because you put in all the hours going through this you know skills and scales.
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And all these different things I don't know what musical people do.
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I am not musical whatsoever.
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But you know that's whatever you're doing whatever your possession not possession.
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Pro wow good y'all I do English for a living.
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And I still have trouble with the words.
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English is hard stay in school folks.
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Whatever your profession is you know there's certain things that you do that are just so
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automatic because you've done of them you know so many times that you don't have to think about.
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Right.
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And I think that's where drilling for jujitsu folks it's the same thing.
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You know weightlifting it be the form like on a deadlift you know where do you put your feet.
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Where do you do the grips you know.
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So all that kind of stuff it's just I'm prying I guess in this whole thing.
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Making the case to bring fundamentals back to jujitsu.
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And as much as I you know I'm not a huge fan of the game I prefer no key.
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But I mean you need to be good at both.
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Right.
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And I think the same is true with fundamentals and the new agey stuff.
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You've got to be good at both.
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And I think if you if you're a jujitsu owner a studio owner or instructor you're doing your
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students a disservice if you're not having dedicated fundamental time.
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Especially if they are going to be competing.
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I know jujitsu on the competition scene is so rapidly evolving that you know it seems
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like we need to be really prioritizing those crazy new agey flashy techniques and stuff.
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But fundamental jujitsu stays fundamental for a reason.
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It is still relevant.
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Physics don't change.
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You know the human body has not changed since jujitsu was first you know in jiu jitsu.
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Was first you know invented.
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And so a lot of the techniques are still highly relevant.
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And it keeps people safe.
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And I think you know granted this is a podcast that really does focus on the female aspect
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of jujitsu.
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And I think those fundamental techniques keep smaller people smaller weaker people safe.
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As opposed to the crazy flashy stuff because sometimes you have to be a little bit faster a
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little bit stronger than your opponent or sometimes you know being faster stronger and
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bigger than your opponent is always a good thing.
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But some of those techniques you kind of need to have that advantage.
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And if I'm getting attacked by a man who is wanting to do some nefarious things to me.
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I'm just going fundamental because I know if I'm using the fundamental aspects of jujitsu I'm
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going to be using the most strength I possibly have to keep my attacker at bay or to keep my
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opponent subdued before you say the cops arrive.
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Right.
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I mean there's just that's it's fundamental for a reason.
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Right.
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I mean all these positions that are stuff that you can go back and look at.
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You know they're they stuck around for a reason.
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And I'm very much when I look at the history of sport and how sports evolve over time.
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Right.
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The chaff or the fat is going to get cut.
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Right.
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I mean you can just look at football like there was used to not have a forward pass.
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Right.
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There used to be other rules and they got cut over time.
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Right.
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They got cut because the sport was progressing and you know what you know those rules got
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cut not because you know.
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Let me let me think of the way to say this.
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The rules evolved to reflect the larger reality of the sport.
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Right.
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What was going to be most effective for what was going to be consistently time and time
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again what was going to be fundamental to the sport.
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Right.
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What was going to be something that stuck around.
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Right.
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And so if there are techniques that are sticking around for these different generations and
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iterations of jujitsu.
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Right.
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That's probably because they work.
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Right.
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That's probably because in numerous settings there's an application for it.
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Right.
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I'm not going to say the camora is always the right answer.
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Right.
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But it's a solid technique that you can probably find in a lot of really good spots.
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I'm not going to say you know clothes guard is the best position but it's a good one if
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you are trying to mitigate certain things.
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You know if I'm getting you know slammed in the backseat of a car or something like that.
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Okay.
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Well I might not be able to do certain things but you know this position is a good one or
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this is better you know it's all this to say the fundamental positions of jujitsu the fundamental
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submissions they work.
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They may not work in every and all circumstances.
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But if you have that if you have a you know I can't see my hands but if you have a card
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deck you got 52 cards you know not every single one of them is going to give you the winning
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hand you know on its own but like you know the king may beat the nine.
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Right.
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The king's going to beat the nine in a game of war.
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Right.
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And so the nine's not going to be the king but that nine is going to beat a two.
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Right.
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And so it's just it's knowing what you have in your deck and how to use it.
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Right.
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Maybe I'm over complicating the metaphor here but I mean that's just something I've noticed.
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Especially in you know thinking about jujitsu and the female community and getting it more
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popular it's just you know getting more you know just trying to get more women through
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the door.
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You know the flashy stuff is great and that's I think that's the thing.
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I think that's going to draw in a lot of not to be sexist but a lot of younger males wanting
435
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to be like on the next Mighty Males or on the next Mikey Musumechi or Gordon Ryan yada
436
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yada yada you know.
437
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Okay.
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All right.
439
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But you know that's probably not going to be what draws the woman in right.
440
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The woman is probably going to be wanting to come in and have some kind of self-defense
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have something that is going to work so that she can it works long enough for her to go
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00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:05,280
get help works long enough for her to you know pull out her gun if she's licensed to carry.
443
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:05,520
Right.
444
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:10,720
It's a little bit more practical I've noticed at least when I've talked to ladies in jujitsu
445
00:34:10,720 --> 00:34:16,240
it's usually more practical or it's more I'm doing it to stay healthy to stay active that
446
00:34:16,240 --> 00:34:19,760
kind of a thing as opposed to yeah man I want to be a killer I want to go out there and make
447
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right.
448
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:26,160
You know it's just it seems that's not a lot of the wiring for women they're not going to
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go down that path.
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00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:27,760
Now some do.
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Right.
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And that's awesome that's great and those women are amazing but you know when I talk to Sally
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you know she's you know it's so that she feels less intimidated you know in the supermarket
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or you know she knows you know maybe it's just to give her a little bit of a extra time
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to grab her her side arm you know.
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Right.
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So I just think that if you have that aspect that caters to the fundamentals you know you may be
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able to draw on more women and get more women to stick around on the sport.
459
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:07,760
I don't know that's just kind of my thought on it.
460
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:15,840
Man I wish I had a co-host it's kind of weird talking to myself but oh well.
461
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Let's see I had some other things I wanted to talk about.
462
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Yeah so yeah let's see.
463
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Yeah I know I'm going to be starting up kind of going through some different things on
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competition prep.
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I'll be starting that series pretty soon because I've had a couple of people ask me what do I do
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in preparation for competition.
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00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:49,520
In preparation for competition you know be it diet strength training mental prep
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which that has been a big thing for me recently was the mental prep and shout out to Erin Hurley.
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I mean amazing sports psychologist I mean I'm telling I'll link her in the bio not bio show
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notes she's amazing but yeah just things I do to get ready for competition and after competition
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as well I'm still working on that aspect but there are some things that I will do that that
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is very very helpful.
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Just I guess in preparation to talk about that in that series starting I guess I'll
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probably start that next week or next at least next episode.
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The after footage the watching of your tape so to speak that's very helpful even when I win
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in or you know sometimes we think about going over game footage or film you know if you lose
477
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but no you go over film if you win to see okay what did you do what went right and how can we
478
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keep making sure that goes right because sometimes I'll work with people you know one on one
479
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:03,920
and they're wanting to improve a different technique and if they talk about something
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that happened in a tournament I'm like okay all right well can you show me what happened
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and if they don't you know sometimes they don't have the film and it's kind of hard for us to
482
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:18,480
recreate exactly what happened and so if I have that film I can say oh okay I see what happened
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here actually no you thought it was this went wrong but actually this went wrong so let's
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diagnose it properly right and so that's a big advantage of having film I hate watching myself
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back on film I really I hate it also hate listening to myself I don't think I'm alone
486
00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:42,080
and hating to watch ourselves or listen to ourselves right but it's very helpful it's kind of like
487
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:50,400
another metaphor man I'm I am betraying not betraying but it's make I'm making it very
488
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:54,960
obvious I'm an English teacher I am using metaphors left and right I apologize guys if you don't like
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that I'm sorry I can't change you know what I'm not I'm not sorry I am not apologizing for who I
490
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:09,200
am I am being authentic but yeah it it's like trying to go to the doctor and get diagnosed but
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you're not letting them touch you or do any like examination on your body right how are they
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supposed to treat you accurately if they can't even properly examine you right and so that's why
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I think film's really great now here's the caveat to that I don't like putting my you know I
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personally do not like putting my film out there now of course if it is being videoed by IBJJF
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or whatever the competition is it's already out there it is what it is right but I'm not going
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to go out and put it up there right and I guess that's that's just strategy to me where I don't
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want to put more out there for my opponents to study I want to have something held back
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but I mean y'all do what you want to do if you want to put it out there or not I just find it's
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a little bit yeah that's just the strategy on my part I like to keep things back but yeah I when
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I have gone back and watched film that you know a friend of mine is is videoed for me or my my coach
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it's helped me to diagnose and for my coach to diagnose what went right what went wrong
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what went right what went wrong and how can I improve and a lot of it sometimes you know I'll
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misremember the match right I mean because I'm having it from first person perspective right I
504
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:32,720
only see what I can see right I mean that's kind of like well no no crap Sherlock you can only see
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00:39:32,720 --> 00:39:38,960
what you can see but sometimes when at least when I try to remember something I go like weird third
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person watching but I never saw any of it right and so I'll think I did something that I didn't do
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right or that they did that they didn't do or they did something that I didn't think they did
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00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:59,440
right and so that's why having a film or a cameraman or camera woman to film for you is
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very helpful and I don't think it's a uh some people may be very hesitant to because they don't
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want to seem like they're self-absorbed which I understand I get it who wants to be one of those
511
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people who's videoing themselves all the time in the gym and like yeah oh look at me
512
00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:19,840
ba ba ba ba ba ba you know right but in this case it's it's really not that right it's not
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00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:27,520
uh an egotistical thing it's a okay I am watching back you know film you know the Monday after the
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00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:33,760
Sunday night football game right it's the team meeting film right and so you need to be able
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to do that I think you know of course if you can't it's not a break you know make a break
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00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:45,760
situation I just think there's a lot to be said for really diagnosing the problem uh it's kind
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of like having when you're writing a paper and you have a rough draft and you get feedback on it
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00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:56,000
right you know I mean we all need feedback right if you don't take feedback from people if you
519
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don't and it gets you know self-feedback too right you know if you don't do feedback if you don't
520
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:06,720
take feedback if you don't take criticism you're not going to improve right you're going to be
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00:41:06,720 --> 00:41:12,800
stuck in a rut stuck in a cycle and you're not going to get better and so you know and sometimes
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00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:19,040
if you are in a position where you can't get feedback from someone that video will help you
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at least diagnose the problem yourself um which I I don't know the situation where you couldn't get
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00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:32,160
feedback from someone else but hypothetically if there was one where you just couldn't or I don't
525
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:39,040
know maybe somebody isn't available to immediately give you feedback that helps you um the big thing
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I would suggest just kind of before you know getting too far into the weeds on that one um
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00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:54,880
I would wait until the next day before you watch that footage um because if you're on uh this is
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just this is a me suggestion this isn't something I've looked up uh but I know from my own experience
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00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:08,880
win or lose my headspace is not stable um after a competition to accurately diagnose
530
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:15,680
you know diagnose the situation uh if I lose and this is something I'm working on full
531
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full transparency and this is you know mental health you know awareness month here in September
532
00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:29,840
um I will talk some crap to myself and I you know it's you know and I recognize what it is it's just
533
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:36,560
you know it's my mental health and I've got to have more self-compassion um but for me at least
534
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:42,000
I wait until the next day when my emotions have settled when the you know all the hormones and
535
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:47,680
the craziness you know kind of subsided I can then go back and be a little bit more objective
536
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:55,600
a little bit more level-headed and see where it went wrong and see where it went right yeah
537
00:42:56,160 --> 00:43:02,400
and and that'll be a big part that I talk about you know when we get to it with the
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the competition prep of the mental aspect of it I think that is something that you know I've talked
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about it on the previous season of this podcast just how important your mentality is throughout
540
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:22,080
jujitsu it's got to be you know you've got to be compassionate to yourself you've got to give
541
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:28,720
yourself grace I know I'm not the only one out there who is super self-critical who is perfectionist
542
00:43:28,720 --> 00:43:34,800
to a fault when it comes to jujitsu um or anything that I set my mind to right I want to be the best
543
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:44,080
I want to have xyz goal and it doesn't even have to be pressure coming from the outside it's internal
544
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:50,640
stuff where you know you talk to yourself and you say man you know you suck you you know blankety
545
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:59,760
blank blank xyz if something doesn't go your way in jujitsu um you know that that can be the biggest
546
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:08,080
hindrance uh for your progress in jujitsu it's just yourself your mentality and I know um there
547
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:14,720
are we've had great episodes in the previous season about why getting your you know taking care of
548
00:44:14,720 --> 00:44:21,200
your mental health is just as important if not more important than your physical health because
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00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:28,800
you know you are with you your entire life right and so taking care of how you see yourself how
550
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:35,520
you view yourself and in the world you know not comparing yourself you know but loving yourself
551
00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:42,400
for who you are and what you bring to the table you know and having just value for being you and
552
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:48,000
not because of an accomplishment or you know something you offer you know yeah I mean that
553
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:52,240
that's hard you know it sounds like yeah no duh you need to care about yourself and love yourself
554
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:57,600
but I know I'm not the only one who can you know raise an eyebrow and say yeah have you tried
555
00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:05,920
to yeah it's not that easy you know so you know uh we'll talk about that and we'll you know you
556
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:10,960
know I'll glance over you know you know go over a few key issues and that I've noticed and things
557
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:16,640
that you know have worked for me in the mental prep space but then of course I'll you know shout
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00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:22,240
out people who are much better at this than me and direct y'all to where you need to go to get
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00:45:22,240 --> 00:45:28,080
you know that one-on-one stuff that one-on-one help and then sports psychology you know and how
560
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:32,480
that's helped me and how I think it could help you if that's a hindrance to you it may not be
561
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:40,800
maybe the mental game is you're good and man I am jealous but you know so it's just hopefully this
562
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:46,000
series that I'm going to be doing kind of going around you know we're going to go in the order
563
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:53,440
kind of like external to you know like day of matchmaking it'll go from uh hold on like strength
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00:45:53,440 --> 00:46:01,520
physical conditioning and so that goes you know from you know three months to just lifestyle you
565
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:05,760
know three months out to a lifestyle out you know we'll talk about strength training cardio
566
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:10,880
conditioning flexibility mobility you know then we'll go the next is diet nutrition we'll talk
567
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:16,160
about you know weight management long-term planning that kind of stuff we'll talk about why I hate
568
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:23,840
weight cutting when we think about the actual like you got to lose 10 pounds in one week like no no
569
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:29,680
no no like crazy weight weight cutting stuff like I hate it I don't think it's good we'll talk about
570
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:34,960
hydration and you know competition day of depending on the kind of competition you've got right
571
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:40,160
um technical training so talking about game planning talking about positional drilling talking about
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00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:46,800
rolling uh then we'll talk about uh mental prep talking about you know visualization maybe
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00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:53,200
self-talking you know like self-compassion that's a big thing for me uh breathing techniques uh
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00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:59,600
confidence you know just all that kind of stuff and then we'll talk about how uh important it is
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00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:06,320
it is for you know tampering your training when you get closer to comp day you know like you get
576
00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:11,200
to your peak and you've done what you need to do now how do we actively rest and make sure we are
577
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:18,240
you know as loose and limber and as strong as we can be and not overworked and then we'll talk about
578
00:47:18,240 --> 00:47:26,080
actual tournament day or competition day prep you know talk about um you know just warm-up routine
579
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:33,200
having you know just mentally being in a comfortable place or being able to be primed you know and then
580
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:39,520
of course you know post-comp you know rest recovery analyzing the footage analyzing your performance
581
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:44,720
that kind of stuff and uh you know maybe you know give you some checklists some things that I've done
582
00:47:44,720 --> 00:47:50,880
give you some quote-unquote protocols I know that's a buzzword but just things to kind of get you
583
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:57,600
you know what works for me uh what may you know it may work for you may not work for you you may say
584
00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:03,600
gosh darn it Sarah you're an idiot which is very possible yes you know but yeah and this is stuff
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00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:09,600
that you know diet nutrition even if you don't want to compete shoot diet nutrition you know
586
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:13,280
it's great for everybody strength training is great for everybody I will encourage that every
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00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:18,640
single time you know you may not do competitions but you know maybe you do some videoing of your
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00:48:18,640 --> 00:48:23,120
roles in class that way you can see what's working what's not working you know so it's stuff that you
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00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:29,840
can take and work on even if you know you aren't going to be competing anytime soon and uh I'll
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00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:35,600
kind of walk through that each topic hopefully do an episode on it and uh hopefully it's not too
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boring and hopefully you did not hate this episode and it would be a uh you know a good change of
592
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pace just doing a little something different and uh yeah if you like the episode be sure to give
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it a like uh thumbs up uh hit subscribe or follow uh and I'll see y'all again next time so peace out
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and see you again
