Meet Jiu Jitsu, MMA Coach & Author Adam Mazin from Jocko Publishing

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The ABC's of Jiu Jitsu with Coach Adam Mazin by Jocko Publishing
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Coach Adam Mazin
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Victory MMA San Diego, CA
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Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu has a rich history as one of the most effective and popular martial arts for self-defense and self-growth in the world. But it can seem challenging to the newcomer. In fact it can be challenging to even the most experienced martial artist! Not only does jiu-jitsu push you physically, it pushes you mentally—and spiritually! But to know it… is to love it.

The ABC’s of Jiu-Jitsu breaks it all down in a fun, engaging way for kids 8 and up. Built on author Adam Mazin’s decades of experience and featuring Chris Ahler’s dynamic illustrations, this book will take you on an epic journey that lays out the essential positions, techniques, and lessons that’ll set you up for success on the jiu-jitsu mats! But it doesn’t stop there. The ABC’s of Jiu-Jitsu goes beyond the academy walls. It will guide you on how to incorporate the jiu-jitsu mindset into your daily life. Discipline, structure, humility, self-control, and more… Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned pro, The ABC’s of Jiu-Jitsu will not only show you how to become a better martial artist—it’ll inspire you to become a better human being—from A to Z!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Adam directs the Victory Children’s Program, as the development of Kid’s Jiu Jitsu skills has always been his passion.  He also instructs beginner and advanced adult classes at the highest levels, and coaches kids and adults at tournament-level competitions.  Adam began training at the age of 10 and presently holds a black belt in Brazilian jiujitsu under Master Fernando Yamasaki. He also holds a second-degree black belt in tae kwon do kickboxing and is an AAAI certified personal trainer.

ABOUT ADELITA MONTERO

Adelita is a 4x jiu-jitsu world champion, executive coach, clinical mental health counselor, certified clinical hypnotherapist, and neurofeedback clinician. 

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Transcript

Intro

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hey everyone welcome here to psychology podcast one two three and with Coach

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Adam Mason coach had amazing he began uh training

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martial arts at the age of 10 in his uh black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu of all

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things under master Fernando yamazaki he also holds a black belt in Taekwondo

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kickboxing I'm reading straight up from his book guys very excited about this

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uh kickboxing under master Malcolm Perkins yeah he has competed in numerous

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amateur professional Jiu Jitsu competitions for the past 10 years coach

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Adam has been the director of the children's Jiu Jitsu program at Joko

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willing kiss and Dean listers of Victory MMA gym in San Diego California welcome

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coach Adam yeah so

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we have a lot in common and I was just very impressed about the quality and um

About the book

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the great work you guys put into you know creating this project right can you

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tell us a little bit about straight up to the core of the uh conversation which

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is you know the creation of this book and what this book represents uh well uh we came up with the idea

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during covet when we were locked down we were locked down for a long time our gym

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was closed for a long time and uh we weren't even sure if we were going to reopen

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and I was like okay what what else can I do that involves Jiu-Jitsu because I

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love jiu jitsu and I taught kids for a long time I've

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taught beginners for a long time and I didn't really see any kind of guide for

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people who have no idea about Jujutsu just looking to maybe like a stepping

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stone like no idea about anything no positions or what it's about or or even

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there's people who don't know okay what if I get hurt and I want to stop people don't know what Tap Out means so I

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wanted them right I wanted to make something that just gave the uh people looking to get involved just a

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stepping stone just to be able to get into Jiu Jitsu and I wanted to make it for both kids and adults because

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I've taught kids for a long time um but also I know there's a lot of adults out there who have similar

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questions just basic okay what do I do when I just on my first day if I want to get started in this

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exactly you know and sometimes I find it funny that people not only with jiu-jitsu but just get in

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shape in general that people sometimes they feel I don't

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know like self-conscious and they may not want to

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you know join right away they want to get in shape before they enjoy the gym they want to get in shape and

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yeah it's it's that's the place you go to get in shape right yeah you show up

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nobody's really judging you know we we are more self-conscious that people don't really

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pay attention as much as we think they are right no nobody cares in more

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nowadays everybody has their phones and their in their earpieces and in the gym

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and everybody's kind of like in their own zone so if you have the desire to

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start Jujitsu don't let you know you know a few pounds to to to stop you or

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worrying about the opinion of others I think that is what kills a lot of people from doing anything from starting a

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business from starting a martial arts for um you know um joining a health club or

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or whatever it's or or a course right so true you have to uh it takes courage

Youre there for yourself

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takes courage for you to to try something different and then um

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yeah there's a price and just just to remember that like you're you're there for yourself like everyone's gonna have

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different goals and especially in Jiu Jitsu there's there's gonna be 20 year

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olds who are looking to be World Champs and 60 year olds looking to lose 10 pounds

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and compare I said compare yourself to yourself you know you're there to help

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yourself don't compare yourself to other people exactly I think comparison is really the

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other thing that really kills a lot of people uh motivation right really

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stops you from from you know achieving your goals and and getting out there

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so yeah it's important to have courage and not really care so much about the opinion of others and to like take the

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initiative and not do not compare do not compare yourself with anybody and Jiu-Jitsu is such a a wonderful art to

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that you know we we train we train you know

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for so many years and uh we get Tapped Out by lower belts and one day you're

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the best in the next so it's very humbling art so it is a

Transformative martial arts

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very transformative martial arts right like how has Jiu Jitsu transformed your

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life uh um I'm one of those Jiu Jitsu saved my life people

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uh well like I started at a young age and I was just lucky enough to have just

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a great teacher who is not only involved in my life inside the gym but outside you know and just kept concert on me

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when all of my when I had friends I grew up in like not the best part of New Jersey

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um where a lot of people I knew I grew up with just aren't in the best place right now and I was so fortunate to have martial

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arts in my life and such positive influences at the gym the the adults and

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the guides that I had at the gym growing up or are just

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I wouldn't replace my upbringing for anything in the world just the guidance

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that I had and the people who I saw I was surrounded with and I wouldn't have been surrounded by this

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people if I never started Jujitsu if I never started training so I'm very

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fortunate I'm very lucky for just the people that I had and I was able to grow up with and I tried to provide that

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kind of environment for the kids and adults that I teach not just like okay the hour's up get out

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of here it's like I'm concerned with what's going on in their lives how they're doing how's

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their mental health the kids how's their grades you know it just it's just Jiu Jitsu

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encompasses so many things and I was fortunate to get into it

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yes I think it's fascinating what Jiu Jitsu can do for you in a new kind of summarized like all the philosophy and

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the learnings um right the the techniques so this is definitely

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um kind of like a reference book I appreciate it yes thank you Facebook so

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um how um how do you do you see people like even

Jiu Jitsu 101 for dummies

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different schools like using this in their in their programs right how can

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you use this in in your gym uh I actually teach I teach a six week

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introduction course and other gyms are doing it too I see I think we have

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Legion around once that does one I think there's a few weeks but it's things that you need to know like we'd all agree

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that you need to know an armbar the just beginning you need to know a triangle you need to know what guard is and what

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are you doing from those positions what's your what's your goal because people come in kind of blind they have

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no idea like okay I'm on top of this person what do I do now and just kind of like an introduction to

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okay you just started Jujitsu this is what you should know and that's what I wanted

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to put in the book is just Jiu Jitsu 101 for dummies kind

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of thing you know just what you need to know what you need to know for you to get

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started and to get started and that's Universal with all schools I mean no I don't think anyone could come to me and

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be and say you don't need to know Mal you don't need to know what a triangle is like it's pretty agreed upon the

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things that are in the book and the lessons too you know like nobody wants anybody come into the gym being a jerk

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you know just like the attitude you should have and the respect and the things that

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I think martial arts should be yeah and you publish this

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um you know through Joko publishing and um you know vict Victory MMA it's like

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Ding listers and Joker willing gem so what is it like are you

Jocko Mazin

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is Joko like sometimes come to to train or yeah

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he's so busy but I see him probably three times a week when he's around yeah

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I've known Jocko for 12 years now and what's funny is I moved here from New Jersey and I was I

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just got my black belt probably I think six months after I moved to San Diego I got my

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black belt and victory hired me to help with the kids program

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uh because the teacher left and uh the the head instructor was Jocko because

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his son yeah his son was uh still in the program and I saw him Thor was like nine

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years old and he wanted to make sure he was learning Jiu Jitsu from his dad so I was Jocko's assistant for the first year

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so the first year I didn't say a word I just listened to Jocko so I'm pretty fortunate I got to kind of

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be next to Jocko for an entire year and I still see him and talk to him all the time and that is somebody he's this the

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guy who who practices what he preaches every day he's the same person online

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as he is in real life you know it's he's not a different person he's just he is a

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disciplined disciplined person yeah he definitely took the concept of extreme ownership to

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the next level yes yes what is it like to be a seal and uh how to succeed in

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that very very intense environment and like you know what is it

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like to be a warrior right yeah I understand that you also created them

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Warrior kid program right I uh he wrote The Warrior kid books okay those are

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Jaco's books but um lucky me he he put a jiu jitsu teacher

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in the book and his name is coach Adam I see so I'm coach Adam in the way of the

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warrior kid books that Jocko wrote oh wow so it was an honor for me I see so

Warrior Kid Program

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he wrote those books and there's also a program that's like a kind in development I'd say like online we call

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kids we call our kids program The Warrior kid program because that's

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Jocko's books and then it's not just like who's ever the best fighter is the best it's like

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that's not what those books are about it's like it's a whole lifestyle of discipline and and you know helping

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others and making yourself a better person and I stole a lot of his stuff to put in the ABCs of Jiu Jitsu book

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because I think they're important lessons yes yes direct quotes and some of them

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from Jocko yeah I like this one says discipline equals Freedom yeah totally yeah it's

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true you know you wake up early you you have the discipline to get your other stuff

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to aren't done throughout the day all right um I don't know it's

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and it's way more than just everything's my fault that's not what he's trying to say it's it's way deeper than that

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it's a it's a good just lifestyle to like to live by what he

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teaches yeah and he lives it right he lives there he shows it I think that's what's really important for us parenting goals

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is that sometimes you can tell your kid all kinds of things and you know if you're not doing it it doesn't really

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translate people you know kids really do what they see like whatever company

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on a day-to-day so like you're not gonna if a kid doesn't want

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to be something like you know you're not gonna force them to be that thing everybody's gonna have their own path

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but just teaching a kid that okay like whatever you're gonna do you need to

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have discipline or there's going to be consequences if you don't do what you need to get done

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to accomplish what you're trying to do there's going to be consequences

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you know and I think that's just the whole philosophy yeah yeah and the book there's also it

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talks about goals having goals right like if you don't have a goal then you know

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you just kind of uh uh your attention doesn't have like a

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real Direction so you can get into all kinds of you know negative

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thinking or negative patterns of behavior and you know who knows what

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like so no having this values and having goals and having the discipline so it's

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really fascinating to see how not only you guys are promoting that through the book but how Jiu Jitsu it's such a great

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Avenue for that for people for you know kids for adults for women this is nice

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to see a lot of women practicing Jiu Jitsu as well and in competitions or they're just

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growing like we're just having right now the Jiu Jitsu Master worlds and Jujitsu

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right now in Las Vegas and I keep seeing on my feet like there's like 10 000.

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competitors right the brackets are huge would you like you know I have friends

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that are blue belts and old students and you know coaching clients of mine competing their brackets are like 30

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something people huge yes for women you know a hundred it's amazing 30 for

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women it's a hundred for us I'm so glad so many people are into it that's so amazing yeah and

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why do you think Jiu Jitsu is so cool right now like why is digit so popular

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like what's going on like everybody's doing Jujitsu like uh Elon Musk yeah I

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know Mark Zuckerberg it's because he read the ABCs of jujitsu

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oh

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nice on here try to show you uh my screen okay see what happens here

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oh look at it yeah right so that's where you can find

Illustrations

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it like the ABCs of Jiu Jitsu by coach Adam 19 and uh the illustrations are

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amazing like it's also a jiu jitsu guy like Chris Chris ehlers yes

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yeah she's an amazing amazing artist tattoo artist right tattoo artist than

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just a regular artist like he throws in paintings and anything art he's he can do it he's just

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really good and I wanted to use him and I had to back him but he he eventually he caved and he did the art

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oh that's awesome it took us a year all over I think over a year to complete

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everything and it's only 86 87 pages but there we put a lot of

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work into it a lot a year to do it and it's nice like you know you guys were

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able to use the time of covid lockdowns

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that was kind of a bummer it's kind of a lame ass time yeah for most people and

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turn that into a positive you know yeah so I know a lot of people I could say

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myself included that uh was able to actually take advantage

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of that time of that pause of that um strange time to to grow to do

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something to that time instead of you know just floating right yes yeah a lot

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of people there's two routes you could have gone it was either just I mean it

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was a depressing time but it was that philosophy it's like okay what can you do use it and figure something out

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I find it as Jiu Jitsu Community it's really cool because I was really proud of the Jiu Jitsu Community for sort of

The Warrior Spirit

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like a lot of them fought back a little bit like yeah you know what we're gonna continue to train

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there's a little default there you know it's like maybe the warrior Spirit a lot of them exactly what kind of find

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themselves and stay and stick with jiu jitsu's a different kind of people you know what I mean it's not your regular

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folk out there just follow and do whatever they say exactly yeah exactly

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and I don't think any of them were like you have to come to Jujitsu with this it was like if you don't want to come you

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don't feel safe don't come please don't yeah right but but I mean some of them

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drew a line in the sand and they were like no we need to open people for me at

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least this Jujitsu is therapy for a month I'm like

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I'm a different person you know yeah I'm sure a lot of people are the same way

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yeah you know there's a lot of studies that have been done uh in a field of

The Bible of Trauma

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like psychological trauma [Music]

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you know there's all kinds of different psychological traumas people can have right like violence

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um you know medical things or disasters or views and you name it like you know even

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they say like you know poverty or things like that you know just just being not having enough money and the struggle

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Zone could be all traumatic growing up right neglect like and things like that so in the in the in the field of trauma

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the Studies have shown that you know martial arts you know it's a way to

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to get the trauma out of your body right so they say that the trauma lives in the

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body there's a book called The by vessel Brenda crow called the body keeps the

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score it's pretty much the Bible of trauma oh great yeah and uh really

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awesome how you know trauma in the brain and things like that and this how like you know one of one of the ways is not

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just to you know go ahead and try medication like how you know they even

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basil Vander Coke used to be in the early experiments with when the medication came out Zoloft and things

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like that but what he found out is that over time that those things are not

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working just conventional Psychotherapy and meds alone is not cutting the

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mustard for those people that have complex trauma talk about PTSD and things like that so they find you Jitsu

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yes and this is like the way like I just did a book signing with uh it's a

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non-profit called we defy oh yeah they specialize for military veterans who

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come back with trauma and they pay for their Jiu Jitsu memberships and like then

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just kind of advocate for them to start training Jiu Jitsu especially not just martial arts but they they've tried to

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gravitate towards Jiu Jitsu and they'll find an academy and pay their membership and I mean I'm a huge advocate

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but I'm biased I love Jiu Jitsu yeah with the five Foundation check it out if

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you can support or if you want to be supported by them right with the five Foundation definitely I know a couple at

The Five Foundation

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least a couple if not more uh teammates that are sponsored and supported by them

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complete and they're killing they're killing in the tournaments you know because just of a little support they've

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been in in in the military or in some kind of you know and and they have some

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you know type of training but once they find Jiu Jitsu they take it to the next level it's just everything just comes

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out and they really find their their calling in a way it's amazing yeah

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and you can see their lives transform right you must have seen Adam the lives of many kids sometimes troubles right

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they they're maybe bully or being bullied or whatever like drugs alcohol

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you know things that are not serving them sometimes they you know find somehow their way to Jiu Jitsu gym and

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then you can kind of see them kind of develop I remember when it was a white belt yeah you know uh

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I I I have to apologize that I used to roll with when I was the

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white Bell because I was a different person yes no much more unconscious much

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more clueless in in how to you know how to be how to you know what really

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matters or I just learned so much so much more humility so much more um

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what it really means you know to to be a jiu jitsu practitioner and to like help

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others you know and not always trying to win and that kind of crazy attitude that

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you're always like trying to beat everybody and something to prove but like how can we grow together or

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something like that that everybody's going through something so I didn't have that awareness because my own trauma was

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so greater than you know I could handle that I could only deal with my own stuff and then you know first you know over

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time I started to realize wow like this is transforming my life you know and I

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can really now now I become the coach you know it's like the hero's journey at

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some point you come in you're the white belt but before you know you're teaching the kids you're helping with you know

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lead the class or something you're just like helping coaching you're helping something and then before you know

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there's more meaning that it's just all about you it's not just all about you now it's about the a community so I

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think that's part of what it means to be a warrior something Beyond yourself right yeah that's why I've taught the

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kids for so long it's just like I love seeing that transformation and every kid is different I've had I

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have kids that are like even some kids come in with bully Tendencies there's opposite it's kids who are being bullied

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kids that are like kind of being bullied everybody kind of has their own path

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that Jiu Jitsu I try to find balance for all those kids but I've had kids come in

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who wouldn't even make eye contact with me so shy and a lot of kids

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um that come in just on the Spectrum too and now these kids are winning gold

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medals and tournaments and you see you see just their

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everything in their life just improves and then keeping that in check okay now

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don't get cocky don't don't get so ego filled remember to keep everything in check and like you said like now it's

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your turn to help people you know just I love seeing that

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transformation in the kids in adults is great but you feel with the kids it's

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like okay they have this for their whole lives and

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um all I can hope is I help make that difference you know for my own little ego I like I

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like being natural guide for the kids to help them improve themselves and try to

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help others yeah it gives us meaning right it gives us money to see something

Victory MMA

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um improve in somebody's lives is very very rewarding for sure yeah yeah

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yeah so I mean you you're coaching at Victory MMA right

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and um I was looking at the schedule there's classes other times like dinglister coach

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do you still have your legs or intact yes these videos you can watch you can

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just you can just type in um fighting with a grizzly bear oh my God

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I mean he's he's a big guy and it's just he is so good it's like he's a Jujitsu

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genius you know but I think he's all he's he's my coach and um still they might say I'm

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on the same schedule with him but he is he's always being one of my coaches and uh he's my coach and I always look for

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him for advice and every steps on the mat I give him the respect that he deserves because he was I mean at a time

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one of the best in the world and I always remind the students of that I'm like you guys are so lucky you get

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to learn from here like it's like learning basketball from Michael Jordan and here you guys are the

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guys there are so lucky uh and he's like a big brother of mine so I'm very lucky

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and he actually just texted me too so I have to text him back that's awesome yeah he's I mean awesome and I learned

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like I I wasn't allowed to do leg locks until brown belt purple belt at my own

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Academy yeah it's that old screen style it's like cheating you're cheating

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but I mean I got to Victory 13 years ago I think and

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these blue belts were foot locking me and I was like okay great now I got to be a Wipeout

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again you know so we try to start early with

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the leg locks so what happened to me doesn't happen to other people and it's like okay it's not the best

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um thought process to say oh this is a dirty move or it's illegal don't learn

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it it's like okay learn how to defend against it you know instead of just saying that's a

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bad move just you should learn how to you because you don't know what's going to be legal in five ten years

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and you should learn how to get out of everything because you can't be in a fight and say hey you can't do that you

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know there's a line we're not punching each other you know there's MMA for that but with Jiu Jitsu we try to say okay

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how do you get out of that how do you escape in case it happens are you like a ghee or no ghee kind of

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guy I started my whole probably five six years with the ghee but I love Nokia

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guy right now yeah yeah there's just so many leg attacks it just I wish they

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would just let you leg lock and key just let me heal hook like the guy can tap it's on

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him yeah I don't see them why they can't they they can't remember it's a strange

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rule yeah there's so many different uh excuses yeah there's different sets

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because the ghee is too much fabric and if it's too late in this Lego man's like

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I've seen so many people get hurt with kimura's and americanas when people just

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put their whole like it's uh it's it's a technique if you get caught in it it's

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on it's on the person you know yeah exactly are you a bramble

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I'm a brown belt for me for many years oh yeah that's that was me it's purple I

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was the world champion uh of being the longest purple belt ever

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because I move a lot and I have many many foods like one out of five things

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maybe that I do maybe more yes yeah so but right now you know I still

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compete I just um yeah I missed this master worlds because my my shoulder wasn't really agreeing

Clinical Psychology

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with the training but uh I you know continue to compete as much as I can I'm

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also finishing a grad program in Clinical Psychology and getting to the field of neurofeedback text yes so

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that's very intense like finishing December and there's the whole practicum part that you're seeing clients and you

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have to have so many hours you know to graduate as a therapist so you're you

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know talking to people all the time and you know processing all kinds of stuff

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stuff that people has never mentioned before in their lives like big traumas

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and you know unimaginable things and they're like maybe 40 50 years old is

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the first time that they you know nobody's ever heard of that and I'm the first one to like so

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it's very you have to be in a very serious space to like receive that and to like you know sit with that with them

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and yeah and help them out so that I really enjoy doing that kind of work so

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I'm gonna continue on to uh that line of work I'd be a hypnotherapist and a life coach for a

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long time but now I'm actually getting the credentials of you know being a mental hat like getting up applying for

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my license once I graduate being a therapist yeah and uh because I'm doing all that

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leg work because I want to specialize after the this grad program post-grad in

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neurofeedback training neurofeedback training is very interesting especially for jiu jitsu and

31:01

pro athletes that's why I'm mentioning bringing this up is because um you can there there's like a kiwi EG

31:09

there's like this little cap you wear on your head and connects to the computer you can read the brain waves and through

31:16

the brain waves like you know reading your Delta your Alpha your you know

31:22

Theta all your different you know beta waves it creates right a map and then

31:29

that that data can be fed into a program that spits out a report and it's like a

31:36

brain map report and it shows like which areas of your brain have you know trauma

31:42

like TBI or um brain fog or like lack of sleep or

31:50

even people that have ADHD it shows like um is the highest level of efficacy for

31:57

reversing able to D without medication just through neurofeedback training so

32:04

you can for for example ADHD they look at the Theta beta ratio so Theta it's

32:13

kind of like hypnotic kind of like if when I put people into hypnosis they go into more theta waves get more dominant

32:21

predominant right and then beta is when we're working like you know we're awake and we're working that's we're like in

32:27

beta mode but people that have ADHD they have the ratio for Theta is too high in

32:34

the frontal loads and then the beta is too low so there is a way through neurofeedback training other than the

32:41

mapping the actual training you sit in front of a computer like just like this

32:46

with something like a couple electrodes maybe like three like the ground and two more in a certain specific area that

32:53

you're trying to train so you're training your brain to stay on a certain wavelength in a certain frequency and

33:01

you can alter like the brain waves pattern just by watching like a video

33:06

game that is yeah you have the remote control

33:11

and then you're watching this video game and you're just controlling with your mind so it gives you the cues of Lights

33:18

in sound every time you in the right lane cool so you're in the right lane

33:24

that you can kind of adjust the like might reverse these things like reverse

33:31

is proof and scientific like for ADHD is FDA approved like insurance covers it's

33:36

like no Brainerd yeah it's all brain now for TBI also very effective

33:44

um for people that have concussions so there is some neurofeedback people that

33:51

just specialize in reversing the concussions like damage in the brain because if you get a concussion in the

33:58

brain like in Jujitsu if you're far you've got thrown or whatever you just get up and you don't feel like the brain

34:03

is not gonna like a muscle or something that's going to be sore you don't feel it but you could have actually areas

34:10

that are slower so you can you can see that on the map and you can Target the

34:16

area and adjust it and let's say you don't have anything right let's say you're your brain is fine you don't have ADHD

34:23

you don't have any kind of trauma psychological anything or addiction but you want to increase

34:31

the power of your brain your cognitive capacity there's programs for that or uh

34:36

how about age decline right there's Alzheimer's and things like you can get older your brain starts to get a little

34:43

lazy in low power you know and you can crank up the machine to like make it

34:48

work like a muscle that's so interesting it's so cool what's it called again it's called neural feedback neuro like neuro

34:56

or neuros with a oh Euro well no neurology and then feedback therapy

35:06

so it's very interesting area is there every area of psychology the specialization of psychology so for

35:13

psychologists out there they don't even know about this stuff it's so cool you know what I mean like they don't even

35:19

know because it's kind of newer yeah it also goes against like the mainstream

35:25

forms of like you know pushing I know Jiu Jitsu people like that they're stuck in their ways you know there's no

35:32

adapting yeah you know um it's good for jiu jitsu people in a sense okay maybe you have

Biohacking

35:37

TBI you have some level of trauma but even if you don't like pro athletes they

35:44

use it this is a form of biohacking right so biohacking is this whole field

35:49

in which you you hack your biology through science like you do the cryotherapy you do the sauna you do you

35:57

go to clinics and you you know the the NAD IVs and you do like hormone testing

36:03

and you do your like so it's like functional medicine you know together with you know just doing all the exams

36:12

and seeing like that's like for elite level right if I really want to invest on like maximizing my performance so

36:19

it's high performance coaching right oh people train their brain pro athletes

36:25

just to maybe track the ball or track your opponent so that your response is

36:30

faster you can I I did some for like in the back of the head like behind the

36:37

ears you can train for um physical balance so you're balanced like

36:44

in your in your physiology right yeah there's some for emotional balance yeah

36:49

it's really amazing yeah I get fascinated geek out on that pretty hard

36:54

oh I'm gonna yeah I'm gonna look into that yeah because it works you know like

37:00

um you know what are the things that can take people to the next level right that's then that's the other therapy

37:05

that the guy suggested one is like martial arts yeah to heal deep trauma complex trauma PTSD man people there go

37:13

and see like horrible things and have PTSD and then they drink to mask that they're they're not allowed to access

37:20

their emotions because they were trained not to you can't have emotions right go ask Joko about emotions yeah right yeah

37:30

right so you trained to like perform to be a machine right so but that has

37:37

consequences in relationships right so in your in your soul social life so they

37:42

said Jujitsu it's it's a great way to really overcome all that kind of uh you

37:49

know dissociation right the association come back into your body like become

37:54

like right to to like how to say

37:59

um yeah I mean Association it's uh yeah like I uh it's balance you know

Balance

38:05

rebalance yourself exactly exactly out of balance sometimes out of sync right we're disconnected

38:12

from our body disconnected from our emotions yeah you know and uh depending on what

38:19

media you consume depending on what foods you're eating you know mental health and then you know they're through

38:26

a pandemic there throw some Financial instability in there there's just like the people are just like on the edge

38:31

yeah a lot of people yeah so so the beauty of Jiu Jitsu too is

38:38

that you know it creates this this safety net for people like the the connection the human connections

38:45

sometimes like we you know one thing is to talk like this and to be on the screen but like that human connection

38:51

like you know to to be on a mat and you know day in and day out and do kind of

38:57

right you create this network that is like uh everybody's talking about like

39:03

diversity and like you need to like there's no more I heard my friends say

39:08

it there's no more diversity than on a Jujitsu mat there's doctors and janitors

39:15

and mechanics and people of every shape and color like coming together for

39:21

self-improvement and to improve each other uh I mean I it's hard to Advocate

39:27

something that's better than that for people in my mind just

39:32

just getting along for a common goal and purpose that everyone has just

39:38

Improvement yeah I mean it does so much for for people in so many levels and uh and

Mental Health

39:45

mental health mental health right you have to start somewhere so the way I see it the human being has four different

39:51

dimensions so the first one that we Mo most used to is the physicality is the

39:57

physical self right physical and then there's the called the intellectual the intellectual be like the mind the realm

40:04

of thinking and then there's like a whole thing about that like what are you thinking and what are you paying

40:10

attention to right because that will create you know different emotions and

40:15

bring about you know all sorts of things depending what what it is the content of

40:21

of your thoughts right let's say for jiu jitsu like if you're thinking oh you

40:27

know I have to I have to win or whatever or fail the discernment I see people

40:32

posting that oh I failed you whatever yeah you know what I mean you're not there to

40:39

you know prove your master right or to impress your master you know not your

40:45

master your coach yes about anything so I tried to put that in the book just you

40:51

know everything is learning and yes if you learn you ever like I'm happy to say

40:57

like I've competed for a long time I've never been caught in the exact same submission that tapped me out twice in

41:06

years of competition like it might have been a variation but not the same because if you lose to something in a

41:12

competition you know it sticks with you it's like okay he put me in how do you put me in that triangle the whole next

41:18

two three weeks you know at the gym I'm more I don't want to get caught in that again it's just different than I mean

41:24

it's just it it it's good to lose you know now it's good to lose it just

41:30

it helps you grow you know it's in like it's hard with kids especially it's um because every

41:37

time you get it's tears and you know you have to calm them down it's like we're here to learn like it's not that yeah

41:43

kids are awesome even if they win they cry if they cry

41:49

all emotions man right yes oh my gosh it was like the best picture ever just some

41:56

kid it was his first year jsu's tournament he had one match he won and his whole family was crying

42:02

he was crying he was eight years old his mom was crying his dad started crying I

42:07

was like this is the best day ever love that and you never forget because like the emotional intensity of them I really

Emotional Intensity

42:14

imprints and you never forget like in how you do one thing it's how you do

42:20

everything so when you when you feel like okay I can win in Jiu Jitsu I can get better improved I progressed I

42:27

didn't know anything and then I won it's like huh yeah goes on it's like huh maybe that's the same for math yeah

42:35

for whatever college life yeah yeah and I actually I mean I uh

42:42

bragging I went to I I passed the bar exam uh I I yeah I was I went to law

42:49

school and you know I was a c student but I if I didn't have martial arts I wouldn't

42:55

have passed that test like just applying okay this is what I need to do to get

43:00

this done you're drilling the the material yeah right exactly and like I I

43:06

would have been like I could take some I could do this maybe I'll do it later then I'll put it off until late I didn't

43:13

do that it was just like no you know what you need to do to get something done and accomplished and I got that for

43:18

martial arts not from school not from my friends you know not from my not from my

43:25

parents it was it was the martial arts school it's like okay this is called discipline and you need to do this to get this done

43:34

there's any parents out there listening to this I think this is a really important point that if your kid is an orange Jujitsu in a boy or girl or

43:44

I think it's really important to see that this cool system is not there

43:50

your children you are you know responsible for the education

43:56

of your children in many ways you have to be on top of the school and not just

44:02

Outsource your children to the school because you don't we don't really know

Importance of Jiu Jitsu

44:08

what's going on behind closed doors there like you know and what and how is this we know that's not

44:15

really preparing them for for life so if we waste their childhood there all that

44:20

time where the Prime energy into just going to school and memorizing things and not

44:27

actually learning anything for life we're wasting their time we're wasting our time right

44:34

Jujitsu is really something that they can carry on for their whole life that's

44:39

really gonna matter uh in the long run right whether or not

44:45

you memorize you know equations triangles and history facts that they

44:51

change and they change again we don't know you know so Jiu Jitsu is very truth because it's

44:58

like it's it's the same you know an arm bar hasn't changed yeah exactly

45:03

there's so many schools now you can you could do a free trial once a week to find one that you like like it has

45:10

changed a lot where back then it was one one school maybe

45:16

every 50 miles now it's like it's like pizza shops now they're everywhere

45:22

you know every every two miles there should be a Jiu-Jitsu scroll around you and find one that you like that's

45:27

teaching these lessons of just discipline and you know not being a

45:33

champion but like what it takes to be a champion you know and not killing yourself

45:38

because you're lost or you do you like if you even if you didn't do well like why didn't you do I'll just analyzing

45:45

things and having that for your whole life you know I mean I'm like I said before I'm just appreciative

45:51

that I fell into it because I could have just walked by the school and my brother could have never told me about it and I

45:57

don't know where I would be I don't know yeah exactly it does it just keeps you

46:03

out of trouble you know you can't be an athlete in a party person at the same time I gotta choose one

46:10

exactly yeah you can't show up on uh Sunday morning still smelling like a

46:17

whatever you did the night before yeah some try some try they get called out pretty fast yeah yeah

46:24

so yeah the men have a way to to kind of correct all those sorts of things

46:29

educate you you know in a way um but yeah in San Diego for example

Schools in San Diego

46:35

you're talking about schools being everywhere San Diego is a city that I don't know how many schools you guys

46:41

have there's one everywhere right and they're awful and they're all full

46:48

we have para yoshida's gym probably a mile away from us we have Clark Gracie

46:54

school probably two miles away from us we have ottos probably five miles away

46:59

from and they're all full it's not like they're we're not even competing against each other because so many people are

47:04

doing Jiu Jitsu now yeah there's Tenth Planet yeah sorry for everyone that I left out

47:10

I love you good yeah yeah there's so many like we can't possibly list them all but like in San Diego I like to go

47:16

to Leticia riberos yeah she's great she used to teach her victory oh really no

47:21

yeah she was the kids coach at Victory and then Torah Morongo opened her own school and they're doing great and

47:27

they're great people yes they are they really live it like and it's such a great Community you see

47:33

all these people you see Superstars at these local tournaments and competition and you're like hi hi people who've uh

47:39

it's it's just a great community that I love yeah yeah there's also baroon Jiu

47:45

Jitsu baroon is great yeah Alfredo is my good buddy yeah this is he's like how can you not like a friend oh yeah

47:53

who are you I want to like take them home yeah

47:59

so he's out there in Las Vegas somewhere so the oldest people are in Las Vegas right now but yeah not so much you know

Where to train in LA

48:06

like if you there there are some great schools in Los Angeles but not as many as San Diego

48:13

it kind of gets more sparse I'd say like where would you recommend somebody in LA

48:19

to go train uh I say it's up to them everybody stands around it's everybody's got their

48:25

own taste and um right right it depends do you mind you might be a tent Planet

48:30

kind of guy you might be uh more gay based um Gracie Barra kind of guy it's

48:37

like I think it's up to you but as long as you're doing jujitsu I think that's a

48:42

good step there's also um whether or not you want to compete or you just want a

48:48

fitness kind of like gym they're gym they're competitive the gym that I started at in Temecula under uh Tom

48:56

Cronin uh yes yeah Thomas Cronin he's he's a great competitor right he's um

49:03

yeah he he created this massive Empire there's so many kids yeah I see him at

49:10

tournaments all the time so it's very competitive there it's almost like you get in there it is you just become a

Competition

49:17

competitor there's no way around it you know what I mean yeah I'm rolling with your with your with your teammates you

49:24

know it's it's very competitive already because everybody's competitive minded

49:29

so that's one kind of gym that's not for everybody I don't yeah I don't want to scare off any older people that are like

49:35

oh I don't want to compete it's like right Victory we're very balanced it's it's we have 60 70 year old people that

49:42

come in that are safe like it's like okay like we know who you who and this

49:48

should be every school like the teacher should know who to put you with based on what their goals are and there

49:54

should be no fear of um okay go with this guy and the guy that guy rips your head off like this

50:00

should be the coach should be able to tell you okay this is if this is your goal all right this is how you

50:06

accomplish it right and if you're six years old and you want to compete like that's fine too there's people that do

50:11

that but this should be you should find a school where it's safe for you if you if

50:18

you find a school and you're an older person or just trying to lose weight really out of shape and your first class

50:23

experience is somebody pulling your arm super hard and hurting you like that's not a great environment

50:29

I don't think yeah the first first few months are

50:34

really difficult to you know like um you don't know anything trying to learn and you know once you

50:42

get to sparring I mean there's a lot of schools have beginners programs now maybe that's a good idea

50:47

with a beginner program yeah or just like we have on the schedule it says uh

50:54

beginner friendly just so you know you're not going there and getting killed yeah getting killed after work

51:00

the vehicles there just get smashed thanks people there's people that get like I have people that I know like they

51:06

get upset like oh this guy just comes he just wants to like roll and go I'm like well that's that's him like you what do

51:14

you want do you want to win worlds like then train with people that want to win worlds like the the mad is yours like do

51:23

what you want with it like you don't have to get mad at the guy because he's trying to lose 10 pounds and he's 55

51:29

years old with four kids like everybody's got their own Journey you know

51:35

that's for sure and also um it's this whole thing of like you know

Women Training

51:41

training with women and having women in the gym like it's yeah I think it's really cool to see a lot of women

51:48

training but sometimes there's like issues because it's like a con that's part like yeah there's you know it's

51:56

kind of rare but every once in a while you know there's that one percent or two percent like of weird like you know

52:02

people yeah stories that come up or whatever that's something that also the

52:07

gym has to Be watchful for and to protect the women right and uh to I

52:14

think to encourage women to train and feel safe right and uh I think the more

52:22

women are training the more it becomes like a more friendly atmosphere you know it's kind of fun to have you know the

52:28

women jumping around and doing all doing their things attracts more families more

52:33

children and really the children I think is the heart of the gym right that's true care of your Children's Program

52:40

like if you probably and it's funny I have like a 99

52:47

Dad mom's too but not not his dad enrollment rate when they see their kids

52:52

start to get good at Jiu Jitsu they're like oh like I better learn this or he's

52:57

going to be choking me soon soon they sit and watch their kid and then

53:03

they're like it's just it's so funny because what other sport do you see it after it's not it's not like they're

53:09

watching their kid play baseball and they're like I'm gonna play baseball now you know parents are like I'm gonna get

53:16

into you and then they end up I've had parents fall in love with it more than the kid eventually exactly that's what

53:22

happened to me I was living in Temecula for for a

53:28

couple years I was I've I've lived in Orange County for longest

53:33

time and then we moved to um Temecula and I didn't know anybody

53:38

and I didn't know anything so when I found this Brazilian Community Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

53:44

and then I went to go see and Carlson Gracie was there Junior was the first person that I saw every once in a while

53:52

so he's the one who greeted me and I was like in Portuguese oh this is cool

53:58

what's going on I'm gonna put my son in here so I infiltrated one of mine and then before I knew that's good so yeah

54:04

that's great that's amazing before I knew there every day I was trading uh morning and night I had moms like that

54:12

yeah it's a great it's a great story yes

54:18

so yeah I really really started competing right away like

54:23

the there's the grappling X tournament back in the day oh yeah I remember I

54:29

know this guy's no Corey Corey right but Sean were doing it but now that Sean

54:34

does his thing and Corey still does grappling acts yeah came back right yeah

54:41

yeah grappling X and um yeah just doing all kinds of different tournaments and

Longevity

54:49

still like 12 years competing so I'm just surprised that I'm still it's amazing yeah that's great yeah

54:57

and that's the great thing about Jiu Jitsu is like you see the 50 and 60 over

55:03

division it's like it's possible you could do it for a long time you know if your body

55:09

um keeps up with it which I've been doing it for 30 years now I'm still competing it's like I know

55:16

70 year olds that have competed for a long time and they're still doing it it's possible

55:22

what's the secret to longevity in Jiu Jitsu right because there's a so you have to be careful you can't be careless

55:28

right careful and careless and sometimes you have to be a little bit of a jerk but I mean like as to who you roll with

55:36

yep and not afraid to say no to the person that you're like No

55:42

Maybe not maybe not today maybe maybe not the guy who outweighs Me by 100 pounds

55:48

and is gonna go crazy on me it's when I have something coming up it's like I'm pretty picky with who I roll with now I

55:55

still roll with like basically like most of the students but there's some I'm like

56:02

dude you need to relax when you roll because you're going to hurt somebody and people aren't going to like you very much when you're hurting everybody

56:08

and it's not good for your Jiu Jitsu if you're just the spaz yeah yeah it's yeah it takes a while to

56:16

to slow the down it took me a long time still sometimes you know struggle with that to just you know slow

56:24

down everything and um and see see what you're doing and see

56:31

and drill and like you can really learn more

56:36

but I call it find a find a road dog like who wants the same thing as you I have a I have a guy who

56:44

um when I'm getting ready for something like it's like big ones like his name's

56:49

Tom and I'm I uh I'm like hey man I'm getting ready for this he's like let's go and we meet and it's just I trust him

56:56

and we both want to compete but otherwise like I'm not going super hard

57:01

every day I can't every day I'm I'm more relaxed and more Drilling and taking my

57:08

time and Slow Rolling like Slow Rolling is huge yeah learn to flow like flow with life

57:15

right go with the flow and stay stay in the game stay keep rolling right

57:21

I think I think I could make an analogy with Jiu Jitsu with just everything in life because it's it's just so you know

57:29

just it encompasses so many things it's a great it's a great sport it's a

57:34

great martial art yeah I mean the first day you step on the mat you're learning how to fall you

57:41

know what I mean you know five from the ground like if if life throws you down you know if you're on the ground that's

57:49

perfect because I'm trained on on the ground from any position you know what I

57:54

mean unconsciously these lessons are transmitting you know I can be in a

58:00

Chokehold in life I can be in a real naked token like the whole convenient but you know what there's a way to

58:07

breathe and calm down and find a way to defend and you know put the put their

58:12

hands in there tuck the skin in and and that's you start to without knowing it

58:18

starts to affect other in a positive way yes it's just a great it's a great confidence Creator

58:24

it's great at making more confidence I think every kid should be in Jiu Jitsu

58:29

every single child it should be part of the you know school system like some

58:35

places are like that like I think in in United Emirates

58:47

it's like Judo is like mandatory and wow it's a different level of thinking right

58:52

yeah and um also wrestling is available in high school but why not sooner right

58:58

so right yeah that's when they have all this energy like wrestling should be available sooner for kids and I say like

59:06

you know if it's if it's between an hour on the pad the iPad and between an hour

59:12

of Jiu Jitsu it's a no-brainer it's just like okay like here's the compromise just you you don't get to use this for

59:19

an hour if you're not doing something productive because class is only an hour

59:24

and then it's just kids just don't want to go a lot of kids they want to go every day but there's some kids like no

59:31

I just want to hang out at home it's like I feel like with those kids you just say okay well then you don't get to do this

59:37

because there's consequences you know yeah I mean the parents job is to parent not to be a buddy you know

59:44

some parents are too much like you know trying to be buddies with their kids and and not you know you have to be a parent

59:51

you're not there right to to you know there's there's there's time for conflict you know it's like okay let's

59:59

go you you'd make her bed you clean up your room and you train something you know like it's Gotta Have Some

1:00:04

guidelines and then you have this adults that grow up and you know don't have any clue like how they didn't know how to

1:00:11

feed themselves cook anything or like you know yeah clean up their house it's

1:00:16

like you're an adult like couple yeah we're sort of an adult yeah yeah

1:00:22

you can help people uh overcome a lot of these hurdles

1:00:28

and I hope like even like hopefully they anybody who brings their kid to Jujitsu I hope I hope they don't have a bad

1:00:33

experience but I hope even if they do their first time like try another school make not every school's the same right

1:00:41

no just who knows there's still some schools out there who maybe have some

1:00:46

work to do but you if you look you'll find a school that fits you yeah yeah

1:00:52

keep looking keep trying right it's just kind of when you find a therapist it's not just your first therapist that

1:00:58

you're gonna find that maybe is a good fit so you may have to shop around the same thing maybe with the doctor like

1:01:04

you know some you go to the doctor you need your diagnosis you're gonna buy into that yeah right here's your

1:01:09

diagnosis here's your pill no it's like okay or here's a surgery you need to take now wait a minute like let me get

1:01:14

another opinion yeah just kind of like this mentality of not just accepting whatever it's just like okay let me do a

1:01:22

little bit more investigation like and then you can really find a better place

1:01:27

a place you know it's going to fit your your lifestyle your budget your whatever right you can connect with people better

1:01:33

so it's on you to to really do the work so so that's awesome and um as a final note

1:01:41

like if people want to come and train a victory MMA and try it out if they're

1:01:48

from San Diego right what is what is the deal like um

1:01:53

is there a free trial your monthly deal for for people I mean

1:02:03

I think I'm gonna get in trouble for talking about prices I'm joking but I know we have a

1:02:11

three-week trial for people who live in San Diego okay and there's a 20 drop in

1:02:17

for people outside um [Music] uh but otherwise you know come come see

1:02:24

me and uh if you say if they're like hey I I saw you on the YouTube live interview I'll be like dude come in

1:02:30

you're fine come yeah I'll just I'll let him in okay that's cool and one thing is they're visiting one day or two right

1:02:37

but another thing is like there's you know I'm seeing Scenic for a month okay

1:02:42

it's crazy the how cheap it is a victory it's like 110 a month

1:02:50

for jiu-jitsu which is crazy for San Diego good price yeah yeah it's crazy I

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mean he just the in the caliber of guys too there's great guys to train with there's so many good

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guys you know what about women like is there we have an amazing woman's program now

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it's growing it's growing we have a women's class every Wednesday

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and Saturday yeah and um we have women that jump into just

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regular classes but we do have women specific classes on Wednesday and Saturday and they're great and they like

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and it's like a little camaraderie the girls all hang out too it's like it's nice it's a whole cult the women

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yeah and I want to be a part of it but they won't let me

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someday you got you gotta be at Birth like a biological yeah

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know and yeah and find a gym right find a gym there all kinds of gyms you can hit me

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up you know on my social media and then and ask me for you know if you want to train in LA or in Texas or whatever we

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always know somebody somewhere where you can train and um and then come come

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come train come find a you know a Jiu Jitsu gym that you like that's amazing thank you thank you thank you

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I'll talk to you soon okay bye thanks again bye