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Training with Brian Shaw and OSG · The Best Experience

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Nick, with everyone that's being up to date, because it pretty recently you
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and Brian went to heart attack Gerrill. We did, we did, and
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we come to see how much you love ketchup and mustard? Now, oh
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yeah, yeah, yeah, I wasn't much. I wasn't one much for
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ketchup in the first place. I do like a little mustard from time to
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time. I'm not a male guy either, but I got to wear a
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lot of it, to say the least, which was pretty funny. I
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mean it, it's hilarious. Brian's just being a big kid and it was
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a lot of fun. But they're pretty serious about finishing the meals in that
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place. And I think the best part was is Brian got a taste of
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his own medicine, you know, with all that, because he ordered the
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quad or yeah, octopass, which is like eight one pound cooked hamburgers,
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so they're a pound each after being cooked, it's an eight pound burger.
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It's no joke. And I'm they also have a butter milkshake, but that
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wasn't there. The milk sugar issue was broken at the time, so that
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I kind of got away with that one, but burger was serious. I
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think Brian got five patties and I got four. And man, I think
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a few of those nurses in that place have some angry issues. Zara swinging
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for the defenses. Well, you know you got to get that Fremont experience.
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Oh we got it. We definitely got it. So wow, you
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have anger issues, you need to stop now. That was plenty plus.
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I mean Brian took one of the paddles from one of the girls and he
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kind of wrecked it for him because he laid in there pretty hard. And
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after that I was like, oh, we're all done with this. Yeah,
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it was still it was a lot of fun. It was a good
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time. Well, with Brian being down there. I did notice that you
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guys did some training. Uh yeah, we got ahold of Frank Mayer and
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Brian's gonna do. I think Brian's fighting Marty Ford either Marty Ford or at
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a hall. But I think now, but him and Marty are they're almost
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the same size as in type, not in size, yeah, it's like
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they're not even close. Yeah yeah, not in height, but not in
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like weight and body competition because Martin's pretty shredded, but Brian is thick.
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So where Marty had to go against the fake Iranian strongest man, the Hulk,
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found out that guy was not the Hulk. No, nor was he
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even remotely close to being the strongest man in the world. I mean,
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heck, he's not even payments there in Iran. He's probably the strongest guy
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in Iran. And yeah, this dude was nowhere near even payment. So
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but Marty's gonna have to fight one of the strongest guys to ever exist,
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which that would be Brian, who takes things very seriously. Oh yeah,
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yeah, that competitive edge. If it had definition, it'd just be Brian's
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picture underneath it. Yeah, And it was neat because Frank was He was
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rolling with Frank a little bit and then learning from Frank and then using me
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and Ace and a few of the other guys in there as beating dummies for
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him, which was pretty cool because to get in there and like, you
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know, brace some frame and push off and stuff like that. As he's
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trying the moves. It just helps him learn how to do the move even
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better and some of the refining of the technique that he's already learned. There's
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a couple like camoras that were switched to an armbar that switched to another wrist
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lock that they were playing with, and Frank was like, okay, now
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move your hand, get get that full crumb down below the elbow instead above
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the elbow, and watch what happens. And it just made the little small
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technical things that Frank identified as they were rolling with him is really going to
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make It's going to make all the difference in the world. Yeah, especially
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flexibility. I think everybody was surprised by his flexibility, but me because I
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know how flexible he is. And there's a they were rolling and there's like
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a spot where Frank's showing him how to get out of something, and he's
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like, if you can throw your leg over his head like this, and
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so they're in there and he's in and he just throws his head right over
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there. I'm like, he's gonna be able to try and he'll be out
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he's flexible enough to actually triangle choked with his legs. I mean, even
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though he has sports legs and they're gargantuan, he's still gonna be able to
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do it. So and then then thinking you're gonna go to his legs,
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that's gonna be in any relief. I mean, I don't see Marty being,
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you know, a black belt in jiu jitsu. It's possible, but
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I haven't ever seen anything of that from the guy. Nah. And you
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know, I've seen him wear gee's here and there, but I've never seen
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anything like substantial like boxing. Yes, throwing hands and mits and bags,
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yes, but I've never seen like full on like him, right, any
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real jiu jitsu training, at least from my perspective and where I've seen media.
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Big differences though, between gee and nogi, because there's things you can
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do in gi that the move in nogi is kind of ineffective as far as
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you don't have something to grab a hold of, like a gee where you
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can get a hold of that sleeve. Yeah, you can't do that.
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No, you gotta grab the wrist and risks when you try to grab a
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tree stump of an arm. Yeah, when you're trying to grab you know,
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somebody's thigh. That's the size of his arms, the size of most
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people's legs exactly. You go to grab a hold of that and you're just
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not gonna get any pressure on the arm or the wrist to have any type
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of risk control. So it's it's gonna be fun to watch. And I
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just I think the moment he rains an elbow down on somebody, they better
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tap Yeah, pretty darn quick, because well he flattened out not that long
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ago on a video he's doing elbow drops and he flattened out the punching bag
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and that takes quite a bit. I don't think he's going with the intent
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of you would be when you're fighting someone, so oh yeah, when when
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that attent and that adrenaline is coming, I wouldn't be surprised if you can't
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crack somebody's head like a watermelon. Yeah. Well, because because of this
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where I can only reach up so hard so far, because of my flexibility,
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he can reach back. Yeah. I mean, it's it's like a
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picture when their arm goes back super far and comes flying forward whips it down.
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Yeah, He's it's gonna be a scary fight. For whoever, for
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Marty, whether he realizes or not. And I mean Brian's just got to
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take him off his feet. Yeah, and it's it should be pretty much
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done at that point. It mean Brian just gets on him and stays on
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him. I mean of the weight of him being on the body. That's
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one of those things that you're going to be watching out for because this is
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Yeah, he can get on him entire amount pretty easy and then just have
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his way with him. If he he just leans on his body, for
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if he gets him in guard and then just stays on it to where he
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can't take a deep breath. Well, here's the question, because like even
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with Thor and Adi boxing, you could see the gas factor there right and
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you know, and Brian bean as methodically as I know, he's prepared as
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cardio for it. But just just you know, just like do you think
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his cardio is there for rolling in MMA, because like I said, it
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is, you know, there is a strong man has a lot of training
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that comes up with cardio. Could is needed and the endurance is needed.
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Well, you need to be able to go all out for a minute to
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ninety seconds. And people don't understand how brutal and tough. That is actually
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because you're go into the oxygen debt and it'll take twenty minutes to sketch breath
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back going one hundred percent all out. Now, there's very rarely in fights
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or when you're rolling or training that you go one hundred percent. You're you're
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moving around at like thirty forty fifty. You know, you'll go up to
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eighty ninety and then back down and up to eighty ninety back down, but
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it'll be small stints of time where you're actually going to make ten fifteen seconds
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where you're going something super hard and then you stop because you don't want to
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gass out. So I think the type of training Brian's used to and then
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being at elevation, I think Brian's biggest issue will actually be dehydration. To
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be quite honest with you, Yeah you just poor sweat. Yeah yeah,
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so you know is I think some good electrolyte work before you know, intake
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before he goes in, we'll solve that problem. Anyway. Yeah, there's
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not really light here, No, and he already takes a lot of electrolytes
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and things like that. I don't think there's a whole lot of people smarter
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in the business on nutrition and things like that than he is. But like
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I said, his biggest issue I think will be the water loss. I
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don't know if it'll go, you know, three rounds that type of stuff.
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Yeah, how long the rounds are going to be. I haven't seen
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any of that stuff yet. If if they're two minutes or three minute rounds,
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you know, I think it'll be fine. If there's six minute rounds,
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five minute rounds, yeah, they're not doing UFC five minute rounds.
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I could definitely. I could definitely see three minutes being the standard, but
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maybe a two minute round might be the for both because, like I said,
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Martin's got a lot of muscle, and you know, and with the
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amount of muscle that that guy has at his level, you know the same
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thing with Brian, there's going to be muscle fatigue very fast for the amount
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of muscle that needs to be moved and stretched. Right, So we'll really,
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in all honesty, I think if he trains a little bit of quickness
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between now and then, I you know, I unless Marty catches him because
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they're big enough. Yeah. The swing for the fences, Yeah, that's
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one of the if you hit somebody in the head once they could get them.
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So yeah, hey, and that's the working about us of m M
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A is it's anybody's day that day, you know what I'm saying right right,
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So in all I it's gonna be fun to watch. It's definitely,
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definitely we're gonna have that pay per view ready locked and loaded. All right,
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let's switch, let's let let let's take a different direction now for those
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OSG is right around the corner December first to the third in Charleston, West
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Virginia, and it's at the Charleston Coliseum. For those there, guess who
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is going to be there. It's gonna be Nick and myself and we're gonna
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be uh. Nick's gonna be doing some walking, some talking, some handshaking
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and greeting and uh you know, we're definitely looking forward to do this mm
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hmm. And it's gonna be fun to to tease Lawrence, you know,
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is coming back out of retirement to do this show as a master's and I'm
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gonna let him know and just cheer him up that I was older than he
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is now when we went ahead to head in South Africa in twenty ten.
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Sometimes you know, it's just hilarious because you're like, oh, guess how
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old you are and how old I was, and look what happened. Yeah,
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I started World Strongest Man as a Master's competitor, which is pretty cool.
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But it's been a lot of fun, and it's gonna be good to
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see the guys and catch up and then go see the friends and see the
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other competitors and just everybody. And then I know there's gonna be a meet
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and greet Sunday that we're gonna be at. So that's gonna be pretty cool
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with everybody. I mean, Evan Singleton, Trey Mitchell, you know a
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lot of these guys are going to be there. So yeah, there was
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a pretty large list of a lot of guys going to be standing around.
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I'm checking it out, meeting Greek, shacking hands, taking pictures, boosts,
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all that good stuff. And you know, we will be doing the
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same thing there ourselves, and so we're definitely looking forward to it. Uh.
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You know, I always say I'm gonna put the links in the notes,
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but I'm gonna say it again. I'll put the links in the notes
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or the It will be on eighty L so we'll be live, live stream.
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Uh, there's still tickets to be able to be purchased for those who
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are going to be there last minute, you know, they're so you know,
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there's gonna be a lot going on, and also too, we're gonna
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be putting up updates as the days go on. So every single day after
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the show, please check out the next YouTube channel because I'm going to put
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up uh just clips and videos of you know, of the events things that
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are going on. So you know what I'm saying, if you want to
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get a little picture of what's happening, you're definitely gonna be able to see
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that through through those videos because, like I said, it is, you
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know, until you go to an actual strong man event like this, like
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OSG World's Strongest Man, you know, the Arnold, it's a completely different
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field. Like it's you know, it's exciting to watch, but it's even
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more exciting to actually be present while these things are happening because like you get
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a little bit more of a scale. Yeah, it's a lot of fun.
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And then you know, Evan always Evan and I always seem to find
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trouble, So I think that'll be kind of interesting. Uh oh yeah,
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you know, I you know, I introduced him into the mosh pit one
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of the years we were there, so now the guys now he likes going
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in the mosh pits. So it's it should be a good time all the
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way around. And Lliams worked very hard for this, and it's gonna be
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fun to watch this show. It's it's gonna be interesting. The overhead press,
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Medley and the I think the sticks and stones are like the first day
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of the competition. Yeah, so that should be pretty pretty cool, especially
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that's sticks and stones because you're gonna carry a frame and then you got the
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uh, the mockups of the it's not exactly the Denny stones, but pretty
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close. It's well no, but it's gonna be still pretty pretty difficult and
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you're not gonna be able to run with him. And I think he's only
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gonna allow like one drop. Yeah, so that'll keep the speed of the
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guys down because you go fast with with the stones in your hands, you
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go too fast and you lose your balance. It's it's gonna down. So
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in that event, is that gonna be your because it's going to be back
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to back, right, it's gonna be a melody for those two. They're
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just yeah, So if you had to give the advice for those who are
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going to compete right now in doing that, because like I said, they're
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having quite a bit of people actually running. This is gonna be men,
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women, uh in all the way, there's four hundred competitors. Yeah,
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that's what I'm saying. It's like those that. Yeah, for those who
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are listening, give that piece of advice for this melody because you already know
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and we've talked about it off there. Yeah, So for the medley,
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I would definitely say, you know, it's a frame, pick up the
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frame and go, like hell, get out of the frame. Go pick
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up the stones and you're gonna have the circles and the rings and stuff like
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that. Just deal with the pain and hook grifflin. There we go.
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So that's one too. You're gonna have to almost find the most efficient way
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to walk as quickly as possible without those things flying around too much. You're
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gonna have to get going and moderate your speed to a safe speed that you
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can go as fast as you can, but you still won't drop it.
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Yeah, that's gonna be the key. It's good. It's whoever can get
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there get it, get there to it the fastest, get it up,
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and then just go the smoothest because smoothest fast with stuff like that. So
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if you can get going pretty smooth and get yourself a good pace and go
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smooth with it, that that's that's gonna be your winner. Right there.
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There you go for those who are gonna compete, Nick, just let you
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know how to really effectively do this event, because that's gonna be one of
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those things. Because like I said, it is sometimes with those rings your
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hands, thumb locking, you know it's gonna be you know that hook grip
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is it's a mother you know what I'm saying. There's a lot of people
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that are not willing to do that. Yeah, your thumbnaim might not be
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there anymore, but oh well it'll come back, it'll grow back, exactly
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exactly. But some other things for that day, I would definitely bring pillows
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and bring some type of a blanket so that if you need to lay down,
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you can lay down and be comfortable because there will be time between events.
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Yeah, and being up walking around all day is not a great idea.
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Yeah, you're expending energy without even knowing it. Yep, get your
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pre pack meals done and set and ready to go so that you don't have
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to go anywhere and look for food, any of your favorite candies, any
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of that stuff, any hydration stuff, which you're doing two events a day,
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this first day really shouldn't be too much of hydration issues. But you
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know, go ahead and bring you know, bring what you want to drink,
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and you know some you know, hydration packets stuff like that. But
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it's it's still it shouldn't be that bad. It's not hot there, yeah,
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and it's inside and it's inside. And then just something to get something
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to get your head in the right mood and something to cool you down,
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because you don't want to run around like amped up like you're about to do
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at an event the whole entire day. You need to turn it on when
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you turn it on, and turn it off when you turn it off.
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And that's a skill that's something guys need to practice. It's an important skill
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because you'll see guys that just turn it on and just on it. It's
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like, dude, you need to shut that off. You know. Me,
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I would just walk around and talk to people because or I would just
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lay flat on my back and just put my feet up and chill. One
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of the two. But because sitting was always kind of rough on me because
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my back would tighten up. So it's either lay down flat or I'd just
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be up and just kind of walk around and kind of talk with people.
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But just stay keep my mind occupied and keeping a calm state until it's come
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out of that calm state. Yep. Make sure you're getting your food in
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oh everything you need in bout an hour and a half before, so that
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when you do go, it's everything's digested and you're not doing it on a
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full stomach where you feel like you're gonna, you know, puke. Those
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those are good things. Bring stuff with you, Bring super glue with you,
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preclue, athletic tape, you know, a little bit ibuprofen and aspirin
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in case you need it. Stuff like that. It makes makes a difference
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in the end. What kind of gear should someone's pack be carrying and going
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in here, because like I said, I know what you bring, but
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what would be key essentials or have to or something that you would need doubles
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of just to be on the safe side. Because that's one of those things
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that like, like I said, your pack is huge, Uh, Chad
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bring his pack because we went to the world because you got you guys,
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are the rolling case is serious? Yeah, the rolling cases are serious.
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You don't really don't need a rolling case, but basically bring your belt,
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but bring an extra buckle for it. I use a lever belt, so
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I always bring an extra lever in case something goes wrong. I've broken a
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prong on one of those before, and I make sure I got to back
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up as far as that goes, and through each event and what you're gonna
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need to use in that event and bring it with you. Baby powder for
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the deadlift, straps for the deadlift if you need them. You know,
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when you're doing a deadlift ladder, the most efficient thing is to not use
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the straps unless you have to. Baby powder though for the deadlift to help
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the bargo up your legs and stuff like that will will go a long way.
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The proper shoes, you know, barefoots for the deadlift, and then
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for the for the frame, probably a pair of vans, you know that
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will help you go fast on that floor yet give you enough cushion for your
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knees, some type of lift shoes for the for the stones you know that
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that type of stuff, and for the bag toss things like that. Yeah,
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you know that that's one of those things who is being prepared. You
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know, it's better to be over prepared than underprepared because when you're not need
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it, than need it and not have it exactly because that the mental aspect
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of strong man is something that I never took into consideration when I first started
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joining you on these things, because, like I said, you can really
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see there's a lot of mental game and mental play when it comes to too
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strong man, because just like Nick was saying, when you get yourself to
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that level to be able to click it on and click it off. But
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the thing is too is being able to be focused like that, you know,
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to be able to cause like I said, it's serious out there like
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this this. You know, you always talk about training, training as you're
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competing, but a lot of times, you know, and you know,
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just being around you, like it gets serious, like I see your your
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mode and like, no, this is serious. What I'm doing is dangerous
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and I need to be prepared. You need to be prepared. And that's
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one of those things that you know, like sometimes it just you know that
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that mental aspect. Some people just have it, some people have to work
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for it. Yeah, and then still having the mental The mental aspect goes
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in a lot of different ways, and it really I mean, competition day,
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you wake up, you know, you get your head right, you're
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getting ready, you're going through what you're going to do that day, go
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visualize your techniques, stuff like that. As you're going through your head,
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focus on what you're doing, and then you start warming up. And sometimes
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when you start warming up, you're like, oh man, this this is
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it ain't there today, and it happens having the mental toughness to know,
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well, Okay, my top might not be there today, but I got
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to get everything out of every lift, every function, every event today,
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so I'm going to turn it on as much as i can. But having
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the mental fortitude to realize what condition you're in that day and make the best
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out of it and get every point that you can out of the those things.
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And then there's some days where you just go and you pick up everything's
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light and you're just like go and those that hit those are the days you
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just drop the hammer and go, you know, take it while you got
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it, you know, and then calm back down and prepare for the next
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event. But a lot of it's going to be. You know, feel
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where your body's at that morning, and if you feel like you're a hundred
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one hundred and two percent, let it rip. If you feel like,
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oh my gosh, I'm in like ninety seven ninety six, all right,
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this is gonna be a grind, but we're gonna get through this, and
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here we go. I'm gonna put everything into this. And the crazy thing
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is is sometimes you have been doing better. So it's just having the mental
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fortitude because it's not like training. You get you have a bad day,
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you start warming up and it doesn't feel great. You're like, all right,
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shut it down, come back tomorrow. There is no coming back tomorrow.
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So it's make the best of what you got on that day. Competition
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day is the only day you let it all fly, no matter what happens,
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and you got to get that state of mind right where or maybe if
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you feel off, you don't let it ruin your day. Yeah. You
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know, I've seen a lot of ungodly strong competitors that just if one thing
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was off, their whole contest was just shattered. And you know it's like
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pull it out, get your head right and keep moving forwards. Get that
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best out of every single event, get every single point that you can because
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at the end, that's all that matters. Yeah, No, that's it.
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That's it. And Nick, well that's an awful lot of advice we
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just gave everyone out there. So please, you guys out there understand that
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Nick is giving you experience right there. And with that being said, Nick,
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let these people know those beautiful words that line up exactly with what we
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just talked about. Okay, well, if you like this, please like,
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