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How Jiu Jitsu Resets Your Mindset, Builds Confidence, and Improves Mental Health · Stacked Intent: Your Guide to Authentic, Intentional Living

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  SPEAKER_00: Today we're going to be talking about how jujitsu helps your life with our guest Isaac Stackhouse.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's get started.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, Isaac, let's start with how about you give us what your background is, just generally what your background is if somebody were to ask you who Isaac is.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, at this point, I started off as a jujitsu like hobbyist.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like I kind of just found it after playing college football and being an athlete my whole life.
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  SPEAKER_01: So if anybody asked me like who is Isaac?
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  SPEAKER_01: I'd say I've been in pursuit of being an athlete my whole life.
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  SPEAKER_01: And at this point, I now have spent the last I mean ten years at least, but probably closer to like twelve or thirteen years uh down the path of martial arts.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I started off in jujitsu, did a lot of MMA, and now I've been really, really, really deep in the jujitsu wormhole for probably the last like eight years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who is Isaac outside of jujitsu and being an athlete?
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh um a husband, I uh am a son, uh there's not a whole lot outside of jujitsu though.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_01: That's what I meant by deep off in the wormhole.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I uh spend basically every spare moment I have doing something related to jujitsu.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he's a son and a husband, but not a sibling in case you miss that.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I mean I'm a sibling.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um I'm I'm another I'm a person to other people.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_01: Uh did you did Tori send you that uh meme?
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  SPEAKER_01: This that's basically mine and Tori's relationship.
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  SPEAKER_01: She just sends we send memes back and forth on Instagram.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, the one of, oh, sometimes I forget my siblings aren't just my side characters.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: What the guy just did that made me laugh.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_01: I think I opened it like after class at like 10 30 at night one night, and it just made me laugh.
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  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, I'm a sibling too.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm a brother.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm a I'm the oldest of three.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so jujitsu is our main focus of today's talk.
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  SPEAKER_00: So our brief summaries of our objectives of conversation are we're gonna talk a little bit about how does jujitsu help life?
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  SPEAKER_00: How does jujitsu give you a reset for your day, or each time you step on a mat, and where and how somebody could get started.
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  SPEAKER_00: So our first topic is how does jujitsu help life?
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  SPEAKER_01: It's become kind of a cliche.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, Joe Rogan says it all the time where there they there's been a bunch of different guys that I've heard say this is that like jujitsu makes every part of my life better.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so like that can go in like a million different directions.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's been a bunch of different conversations of guys talking about and ladies talking about how you know it affects everything from you know your outlook on the day, like you asked about like the reset on the day, or just you can come in and check out sometimes.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_01: You can really uh that that's kind of what a lot of my friends really like about jujitsu is that they come in here and they find that uh the term has been used like flow state, and they can go in there and the rest of the world doesn't exist.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_01: All that matters is the match between me and the person across from me.
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_01: Um for me personally, it's kinda I'm kind of going through a transition of what it means because that I was that guy, like when I would go to jujitsu, it was kind of jujitsu was my escape, and it kind of went from being my escape to becoming like my everything that I focused on.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like any, like I said, any of my extra attention just continually poured more and more and more into it, and for me that's like the never-ending puzzle is that this thing, it doesn't matter how much you figure out, it's always going to give you another uh pathway, another dilemma, another thought, another, you know, way to look at things, and that kind of like transitions throughout kind of back into the thing saying of it it touches everything, is that that when you learn how to look through a complex problem like getting beat up, and that sounds like such a a not a complex problem, but when you go to get up when somebody can hold you down to the ground and never let you move, it becomes a complex problem.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_01: And then you can take each moment and split it apart and make all these different ways to express the movement is what fascinates me.
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  SPEAKER_01: So did that answer that whole question, or did I get too far off on my soapbox?
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  SPEAKER_00: No, it does.
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  SPEAKER_00: So how does jujitsu change the outlook on your day?
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh like I was saying, is that like it's it's this thing that you get from a really, really hard physical task, and there's nothing harder than trying to not get strangled.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's what I was saying, is that like it seems like such a simple problem until you have somebody who knows what they're doing, and that's so hard to describe to somebody who's never felt it, is that like there are people out there that can make you feel like a small child and they're half your size, and they can just do cartwheels around you and just do all these crazy things, and it for some people they they hear that and they're like, Yeah, and they never for me.
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  SPEAKER_01: As soon as I felt that I had to see what that was about.
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_01: I had to understand how could you take this thing that seemed so easy to you, but when I would try to do it, it was so hard, and so like things like that just fascinate me.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_01: And so the way that it like changes the outlook is that it it takes big problems, like big things that seem like they would cause uh you stress or harm or you know, anything like that, and it allows you to kind of like break it down in your mind in a like systematic way, and I was never able to understand that from like a school standpoint.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_01: So like watching this in jujitsu has allowed me to look at other things and break them down in the same way that I broke down jujitsu for myself, so I can like understand something and then know it in a broad sense.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_01: Like I can I can understand the system and it's just time, it's just repetition, it's just seeing those things.
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  SPEAKER_01: So like your everyday problem can be like, oh well it has a solution, but it has to.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you would say that jujitsu helps life by helping teach you how to systematically work from a difficult place.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but how like there's no like absolute like terrible, like you can always find your way out.
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  SPEAKER_00: So how have you been able to make that applicable to a life situation?
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_01: Hmm.
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_01: I mean it's it's kind of the way that you can carry yourself through every situation in a way that's a you're present and you understand what's going on, because like when guys and ladies that are training end up in situations that I feel like they start to spiral, it usually becomes a scenario where they're outside of their mind, they're not paying attention to what's going on, and so they're panicking.
• 9:06
  SPEAKER_01: And so, like, in a real life situation of just an everyday um argument between uh friends or between uh somebody could just be averted just by not being in a panic mindset.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_01: And so, like when the person comes to you and they are immediately, you know, your first reaction is like to push back if somebody like questions you or asks you if you've already been through those ego checks and those thought processes in a physical altercation that is in jujitsu.
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  SPEAKER_01: I feel like that you can navigate that a whole lot better sometimes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like if you've had the repetitions and if you've tied that together.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_01: Like I don't think everybody always gets that lesson.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's one other thing that I've heard a lot is sometimes jujitsu's lessons and how it app is applicable to life is different from person to person.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that would very very much be how applicable comes from differences in who people are.
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  SPEAKER_00: So why does jujitsu give you a reset for your day?
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: As somebody who, like I said, I've gone kind of way off the deep end to where I've been training twice a day as much as possible for the at least the last few years.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_01: And so like it kind of starts my day, it kind of splits my day, and it kind of ends my day.
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  SPEAKER_01: So like that's not the same experience for everyone.
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  SPEAKER_01: If that makes sense.
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  SPEAKER_01: So like your typical hobbyist is training what four times a week, maybe is kind of your average.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_01: I'm doubling that in a week.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so like it's it's a complete different path to be on, if that makes any sense, is that like if you're coming in because I did do that for a while, like I worked a regular job and I was working ten hour days, and I came in, I trained afterwards, and did kind of the like that was the end of my day.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_01: And so uh it's a totally different mindset than anything else that's out there, and so you get to just like like that's that's the allure of for the hobbyist is that like it's the perfect hobby because like nothing else matters.
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  SPEAKER_01: You see people that are on complete opposite ends of the political spectrum training together and being friends in a jujitsu gym.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's like it's this completely neutral ground.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like I can go to foreign countries and train with people that completely speak different languages, but we still speak the same like body movement language, and so we can like engage in this extremely like intimate and like real expression of what uh a stressful situation can look like.
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  SPEAKER_00: But know where a stopper point is.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, that makes sense.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you find people different paths, different days.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some people start their day with it, and some people end their day, and a lot of times that reset is either to reset and begin your day, or it can be reset and end your day.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you get like this sense of accomplishment, like when you get something and you hit a move or you like understand a pattern, or you s your game when people understand and like make that transition where they like actually have a game that works and they can go in and they can play it on people and they start seeing the like benefit of it and what like that feeling because there's there's two different feelings too in this.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think that there's the person that learns how to like dominate people, and you can go in there and you can just swing the sword around the room and you can just smash everybody, and that's one way to be.
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  SPEAKER_01: But like I've been around guys that are it's you can train and it can be fun and it can be like experimental, and you can be the guy that like smashes everybody, or you can be the one that's like giggling, giving them a wet willy, and the reason you're doing that is because they can't stop what you're doing, it's way more fun to be the second guy.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so, like, to me, I feel like that that's the most applicable thing is that you can stay so calm in one of the most stressful, like most people think about a physical altercation or a fight, and that's the most stressful thing they could ever imagine being in.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you are so relaxed that you're giggling and cracking jokes and still running the game, that seems like so much more fun to me.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's kind of like my whole philosophy these days.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, that definitely does.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, that also takes the tension and the stress out of trying to learn something.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right, right, right.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I that comes from a deep root, and like someone one of my like somebody I consider a really big mentor puts out there is that like that comes from a very, very deep root of like the guy that's capable of doing that also doesn't care that he loses.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I think that like in especially in the climate of jujitsu right now, and kind of like where people are talking about things, and like I won't give any more shine to the story, but like where people are talking about like injuries inside the uh training room and whatnot, I think the injury prevention and keeping your uh training partners healthy and safe, it starts at the root at the very top of like the the best guys in the room, their goal shouldn't be to win in the room, their goal should be to get better.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_01: And so if like a a move is gonna jeopardize somebody's safety, uh I think in a training scenario, it's on both parties to just like don't do the move.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_01: If you're gonna have to force it, if you have to use any strength, anything, you're not using jujitsu.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_01: So cool, cool, cool, cool.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_01: Like we're in here, and maybe we're we I can wrestle you and slam you through the wall and do all this stuff.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_01: Cool, but is that really jujitsu?
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  SPEAKER_01: Is that really what we're trying to figure out?
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_01: We're trying to figure out what the best technical movement is.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if you're in a room, that's where that starts at the top.
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  SPEAKER_01: That guy that, like I said, if he's not trying to win or she is not trying to just win every single round, then you get the the philosophy comes out, and then you get to see the art and you get to see the things play out, and less people get hurt.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_00: Alright.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_00: I could definitely see that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, some of the best training partners I've had have been guys that probably have triple the amount of muscle I'll ever have, but the reason they were good roles is they never I was the one that challenged them to not use strength on the mat.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_00: They had to use the technique to beat me, not just their strength to get out.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_01: Right, right.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_01: And then like that goes both ways too for the person that's the smaller person, is that sometimes they won't realize that they're getting the uh relaxed version, and they'll use strength or uh aggression to do something to the guy that's not using strength or aggression, and it's like, no, like I got a guy that trains here that if I played around or whatever, I mean he could pick me up and throw me through a wall.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_01: Like it it's very apparent that he could.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_01: But if we play within the rules and we play within things, like then we can play the game.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_01: Which one are we trying to prove?
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I think that like that ego check, I think that's something that does lack in the community as a whole.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_01: I think that there are people out there that still live in that, like I I don't even really have a nice term for it, so I won't use one, but like just the there's just this culture of like I'm the best in the room, so I have to win in the room, and it's like, hey, do you have to?
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_01: What does that cost?
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_00: That's what your tournaments and high.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_01: Right, right, right, right, right.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_01: If we want to go put the money on the line, let's go put the money on the line and play a game like for the people.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_01: If we're just in the room training, like there's no point in doing that.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_00: So what do you think the difference in stepping on the mat each time is compared to just in a day?
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_00: Like every time you step on the mat.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I think that that's part of the transformation that I'm going through now is that like coming to the mat for with like super good like intentions, like coming in and going, okay, instead of just being like, I'm just gonna survive, or I'm just gonna try to dunk on everybody, or I'm just gonna try to get submissions, or I'm just gonna try to get this submission, like I'm only gonna try to run Dart.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_01: I'm only gonna try to instead of doing that, I come in and I'm like, I'm just gonna run the patterns that I see.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_01: And so like the further that we get into what we're doing here at the gym where we're running all these uh warmups from the 10th planet warm-ups, is that like those patterns become more and more and more and more and more recognizable.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_01: And I think that like that's really really really kind of been my like last couple years transition is understanding how to like have a pattern in place because I didn't do very good with having like game plans.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_01: Like if I if it was too structured, my brain would just seize up and not remember it.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_01: Like that was always my problem in school.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_01: Like it was just like I I was never good at formulas, and so like until I turned those formulas into the like physical, and I don't even really know how to explain that.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I kind of under started figuring that out about myself when I was uh working on uh um line crew, like doing uh have like what dad does, like the power industry, um trying to explain to your audience, like line crew, like linemen.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_01: Um so like when I was doing that and like things like engineering and math became like in the physical, it started to kind of click with me, and then when we just when I dove off into jujitsu and MMA, like the the physical repercussions made it way faster learning for me.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_01: But it didn't it took till probably you know three whenever I met Steven like three years ago, four years ago, for me to really like put all that together into a system and that's where the tenth planet stuff like clicked with me was that I was like, Oh, okay, it's just a flow, and you just put it all together and then everything like you start seeing it unlock of you can grab one position and see all of jujitsu open up in front of you.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_00: You can see the positions come in in different angles and aspects, not necessarily just from one typical way that it might have been done before.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_00: Or one typical way that it may have been explained too.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_00: So the difference of the day is the day is more of an entire reset for you versus stepping on the mat, it's the intentionality of every time every time you step on the mat, right?
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean like my day feels incomplete if I don't roll.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_00: Why?
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_01: It's because it's just part of my life now.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_01: Like if I like it doesn't matter where I am, I mean I'm gonna go pri I'm gonna prioritize getting on the mat in some shape, form, or fashion.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_01: But now as I've aged as a belt and like and aged like in the sport, the reason that I get on the mat has become different.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_01: Like I I was still playing the game every single time I got on the mat.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_01: Like I was trying to, you know, score points, like I was trying to win when I was getting on the mat, you know, like I said, even up to a couple years ago.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_01: But now it's more of when I come in, it's like okay, I'm gonna run the patterns that I see in front of me.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_01: And whichever patterns I have, I'm gonna make those better.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_01: And then like that's if if it's not executing in the right way, I don't care.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I don't I I couldn't I mean there's definitely still taps out there that hurt my feelings.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_01: Like there's definitely still like roles out there that it's just like, oh man, that didn't feel good.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_01: Like I'm not out there just like lollygagging out, like I'm trying to play the game too, but it doesn't make a difference to me one way or the other.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_01: I I don't count taps, I don't care, but like what I do count is oh, I ran this portion of the system perfectly, and it got me like to this step.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I gotta finish there.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_01: Like, that's what I mean by like I count the finish of like that that what matters to me is how did I get there?
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_01: How did I control it?
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_01: Did I have control?
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: Was I having to force it or did I just play the system well enough to where it occurred?
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_01: So like that's where I think has been my biggest change.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_01: I don't even remember what what question we're on at this point.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_00: No, if what the changes of getting on the mat every day.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_00: So you've gone from in the past it was more about just beating people versus just playing the game.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_00: Now you're running the pattern and successfully improving the pattern.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_01: Well I'm not competing with anybody, and I mean it's a cliche thing, but like I'm not competing with anybody but myself.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_01: Like I'm not competing with anybody when I'm rolling inside the inside the gym.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_01: Now if we decide that we're putting the money on the line and we're out in a competition and we're doing EBI and we're both carrying our team flags, now we're competing.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_01: But like if we're just running it in some random gym on Thursday night, noop.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_01: We're just I'm trying to make my patterns better.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_01: And if your patterns are better, I want to know why.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_00: So you look for the whys behind things maybe more often now than you used to.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, instead of just looking at it up like, oh man, he tapped me this many times.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, no, why could he get to get me to that position to where he could finish me?
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_01: So what what put me?
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_01: So it's like the why and the what.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_01: It's like why was he able to do it and what did he do to get me there?
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_01: Or what did I do to put myself there.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_01: That was m my biggest transition in it in jujitsu, like if we're talking about the the idea, was I had uh I was right in front of Matt Scaff one day and I was like trying to pass this guard, and I was just like trying to pin a foot and I was like, you know, jiving and trying to like juke him out and do like I was doing all the purple belty stuff, like trying to like backstep him and and whatnot, and he just I don't even know to this day if he knows he did this, but he was like he's he said under his breath, he was like, huh, just moving for no reason.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_01: It shook me to my core for like three weeks.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, I'm just moving for no reason, and then like I started noticing it, and then I had like a conversation with Brandon and then Steven, kind of like all in these different like three-week periods that I would be rolling with them, and then I would just stop moving for a second, and I'd realize they're not moving.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_01: I'm moving, and then I'd be like, huh.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_01: And then like it's been all over the internet, and I know we shared it, but Brandon talks about like, are you are you patient enough to let the mud settle?
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_01: And I say Brandon talks about that just because it's the most recent person I heard talk about it.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_01: I'm pretty sure he stole that from Book of Five Rings, and he'll openly tell you that.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_01: But and I might be misquoting which book that was from.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_01: But anyways, somebody really smart once said, like, are you patient enough to let the mud settle?
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_01: And it's like you can't see clearly what they want to do.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_01: So settle down and let it play out.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_01: Let them make a choice, they'll get bored.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_01: Especially if you have your fundamentals, you have your your your frames in, you have your you know, arms close to your body, you're you know, in a safe position, just let them move.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_01: Don't be the first one to move.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_01: They'll they'll make a mistake.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_00: So when you're trying to make that applicable to life, sometimes it's just being patient and letting something settle.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_01: Sometimes just let it play out.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so our next one kind of takes us into the topic of where if I was somebody that didn't know jujitsu and I heard this, or your podcast is played after Donna's podcast and Kaya's podcast has.
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_00: So they've now this is the third one on talking about kind of how jujitsu impacts our life.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_00: So where does somebody get started and how?
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_01: I mean it's getting to the point that depending on what if you're in a major city, there's definitely jujitsu.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_01: Um my advice would be is try them all out.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_01: Go to a jiu-jitsu class.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_01: Some places will be different, some places will have different rules of different things.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_01: You can always call them.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_01: Most of their websites suck, so like don't rely on that to be your end-all be all on whether or not you go somewhere, because like I've been to some pretty incredible places that have some pretty terrible websites.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_01: So like don't let the website necessarily be what deters you or makes you come in.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_01: Because I've also been to some pretty awful places that had some dope websites, so it goes both ways.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_01: Um I would go use Google.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_01: Google's your friend.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_01: Most of the time these days their hours are somewhat accurate.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_01: There's almost always a phone number you can call.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_01: Call up there, say, hey, do y'all have a class?
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_01: Tell them, you know, what schedule.
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_01: If you have any experience, usually places are a lot cooler.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_01: If you're brand new, try to look for a beginner's class or ask them if they have a beginner's class.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_01: Um here.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_01: I'll usually recommend for beginners to come in on their trial class uh on like Monday or Tuesday, because we're going over kind of like a little bit more of the fundamental part of the movements.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_01: As we get later in the week, we get a little bit more complicated because everybody's already seen it.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_01: So like if it's your first day ever doing it, it might be a little overwhelming.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_01: But um beginners' classes are a good thing, it's a good way to go get your fundamentals, get your movements.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_01: So, like, call, ask, say hey.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I have no experience, and usually people will be like, Oh, well, we have beginners on Tuesdays and Thursdays at this time.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_01: Go to that class.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_01: Um go in.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_01: My biggest advice is when you're starting, is go in just with an open mind.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_01: Because even what you might think you know, you don't, and that'll that's advice all the way through is as soon as you think you know something, go check yourself.
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_01: Like that's where competition comes in valuable, like things like that, is that you kind of get those tests all the way along that most people don't ever get to know about themselves.
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_01: Um open mats, like if you have any experience in being an athlete and you just kind of want to experience it, there's in the culture there's a thing called open mat, and they're almost always something going on at some school somewhere at a lunchtime.
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_01: Uh a lot of times they happen on the weekends, on Saturdays and Sundays.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_01: Like, if you want to go in and just see what it's about, a lot of these places will let you.
• 28:37
  SPEAKER_01: But uh it's not necessarily an unsafe activity, but you are participating in something that like the goal is to render the other person incapable of continuing in a physical altercation.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_01: You're in a fight.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_01: We're simulating it, we're making it as safe as possible to train it.
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_01: That's what makes jujitsu different than everything else out there is that we can safely train our techniques at a hundred and ten percent, and there's a stop point that everybody knows.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_01: To keep that safe, we have to protect our training partners, protect our friends, like when we're training.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_01: If you're out in the streets and you're trying to use it or we're in a competition, that's different.
• 29:25
  SPEAKER_01: But if we're in the training room, we're trying to take care of each other.
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_01: So if you go into a gym and it's your first time and you get a weird vibe, and like the guys that are better are like trying to dunk on you and it's your first time, like be wary.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_01: Like, look at like understand.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_01: Like now, if they're being super cool and they're like trying to teach you and show you stuff and whatnot, don't be a jerk to them.
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_01: Like, don't try to like smash them and do and use your strengths.
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_01: If they're better than you, learn from them, absorb it, and like reciprocate the being cool.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_01: And that's kind of how this culture can kind of stay this like really fast growing and uh exciting thing.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_00: So how where would somebody go to get started if they were in the Watumka area, since that's where your gym is?
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I mean, here it would be Kusa Jiu Jitsu and Wellness if you're in the Watumka River region, which would be like Montgomery, Millbrook, Watumka, Kusada, Brattle, any of you guys.
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_01: You're like twenty Rockford, yeah.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you we're we're about twenty to thirty minutes from everybody, like everybody can basically get here within that like 30 minute window.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_01: Um but yeah, we got a bunch of space.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_01: You can go to Kusa Jujutu and Wellness dot com and there's a link on there that you can sign up for a free intro class and come try them out.
• 30:49
  SPEAKER_01: Like uh like I said earlier in the week, if you're a super beginner and uh all week we run the warmups and we run patterns and uh we have different live scenario training every night.
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_01: We have jujitsu twice a day, every day, Monday through Friday.
• 31:07
  SPEAKER_00: And then one thing that I know I talked to the other the ladies I talk to about is if you're a lady in a city, try to find a gym that does have a lady if that makes you feel more comfortable that is an upper belt, which is uh not easy, but it is easier now than it has been in a it's becoming way more common to have uh some of the upper female belts.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_01: Like uh there's a lot of especially down here in the southeast, there's a lot of uh female black belts, brown belts, uh a lot of my good friends that are purple belts, like there's there's a a very good share of those.
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_01: And a lot of the areas, a lot of the gyms too sometimes have a ladies' program too, like we do.
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_00: So that's been one thing I've known is if you're a female that isn't comfortable walking into a room that has a bunch of guys, you may be able to find a female only class that gives you that buffer zone to get started and then work your way into that bigger room.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_01: I got you.
• 32:09
  SPEAKER_00: So that recap on these things is so how does jujitsu help our life?
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_00: It's that thing that comes from a hard physical task that you might be pinned into the mat, and it helps you learn to make that complex into a moment in time.
• 32:25
  SPEAKER_00: And then why does jujitsu help you reset?
• 32:28
  SPEAKER_00: Because it can give you that feeling of accomplishment, whether it's a good accomplishment or it's helping you figure out how to navigate a hard part.
• 32:37
  SPEAKER_00: And where to get started, really get started by Googling Jiu Jitsu gyms around you.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, jujitsu near me is a pretty good Google has gotten pretty good at that, and most most of your gyms that are worth anything, like they've all kind of gotten pretty good at their Google presence, at least to where like you can find them.
• 32:57
  SPEAKER_01: And like, like I said, they'll always have a number, just call the number.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_01: Like a lot of my best training sessions that I ever found when I did all my traveling, because that's like a little bit of my background on that.
• 33:06
  SPEAKER_01: I guess I never told anybody that was that I've been traveling around the country of really North America, and you know, trying to hit the global.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_01: If anybody wants me to come visit, I I would love to hit some global spots.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_01: But I hit a bunch of the 10th planets and trained all over the country, and um there's always a number that you can call, and like I have yet to have a super negative experience.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_01: Like I've had like the ones that are like a little awkward or a little weird or things like that, but especially since you know, a toot the own horn of the 10th planet network of the guys that like I've yet to really have a negative experience dropping in on a 10th planet.
• 33:44
  SPEAKER_01: Like every single one, like they're super cool, super easy.
• 33:49
  SPEAKER_01: Map fees are never outrageous.
• 33:51
  SPEAKER_01: Like, and like if they do have map fees, usually it's super justified, like it's a really good open matter, it's a really good like instructor there.
• 33:58
  SPEAKER_00: Like, and they're typically I mean ten to thirty dollars, and I mean you have to think about it, you're using a space in their place, so usually they gotta pay the power bill, they gotta pay rent, they gotta pay like clean.
• 34:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you want it to be a clean place.
• 34:13
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I I came up in the era that was the very end of the like mid to like late 2000s that was the guys just training in garages and just because somebody had some mats that could roll out.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_01: And I mean the staff infections I've seen and like the things that I've caught like off of nasty places because it was just a place to train, like I'm telling you it's better.
• 34:34
  unknown: Pay your fat mat fees.
• 34:36
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's so it's just that helping things get helping things function.
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_01: And to m let monetary not really deter people is this is how cool the community is, is that if you are deterred from going to class because of money, nine uh I'm not gonna speak for everybody else, but everybody I've ever dealt with, and myself included, if you provide some sort of value, whether it's clean in the place, whether it's you help teach something, you if you have video, if you can do bookkeeping, if you can do like if you kind of like throw yourself into the community, the community almost always gives back.
• 35:16
  SPEAKER_01: Like if you're if you're trying to train, there is somewhere that'll let you train if you're providing value.
• 35:23
  SPEAKER_01: Now don't show up and be a chump and like leave your stuff laying around and just come in and duck right into class and duck out.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_01: Like that's that's being a like that's not being cool.
• 35:32
  SPEAKER_01: But like if you pull yourself into this community, like this community always gives back.
• 35:38
  SPEAKER_00: So the last part would to this would be what would a call to action be that you would give somebody?
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_00: What is something that they could do right this second if they were interested in jujitsu but not ready to step on a mat?
• 35:52
  SPEAKER_01: Stretch.
• 35:54
  SPEAKER_01: Start stretching.
• 35:55
  SPEAKER_01: There's plenty of like there's plenty of yoga, like you don't have to go find a yoga place, you don't go have to go find a coach or anything like that.
• 36:02
  SPEAKER_01: You don't have to pay anybody online.
• 36:04
  SPEAKER_01: Like I'm not I have friends that make their living off of like coaching online.
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not trying to take away from that.
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_01: There's a huge value in that.
• 36:11
  SPEAKER_01: So like there's a massive value in somebody helping you and telling you like the thing, but if you really want to get into this, every bit of knowledge there is is on the internet and it's on YouTube.
• 36:22
  SPEAKER_01: And you can you can look up yoga and you can figure it out and you can stretch and you can you can start yourself down the path that you need to be on to feel like that, but also you're never gonna be ready, you're always gonna have an excuse.
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_01: So always my advice is is just start, just show up.
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_01: And then if you just keep showing up, it'll get a little bit better each day.
• 36:46
  SPEAKER_01: And then it's just a time thing.
• 36:48
  SPEAKER_01: It has nothing to do with talent, it has nothing to do with intelligence, it has nothing, it has everything to do with who hangs out on the mat the most.
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_01: And then it starts to become like if you start splitting the hairs and figuring out who's the best in the world, then it gets down to who allocated the most efficient time during the best point of their athletic career.
• 37:13
  SPEAKER_00: So the call to action would be start stretching and then start showing up.
• 37:17
  SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
• 37:17
  SPEAKER_01: Just go.
• 37:18
  SPEAKER_00: Just go to class.
• 37:19
  SPEAKER_00: If people were curious to find you, how would they connect to you if they wanted to on any platforms?
• 37:26
  SPEAKER_01: I'm all over the internet.
• 37:28
  SPEAKER_01: Um The Daily Stack is the Instagram that I follow off of, but then I also have The Wonder and Grappler, which is a show that kind of goes around on all the different uh aspects that I was talking about of my travel and my training and things like that.
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_01: So there's different episodes like that and whatnot on the YouTube, which is the Daily Stack, uh, which has all kinds of different content that's going up all the time.
• 37:55
  SPEAKER_01: So you can either find me the Daily Stack or the One and Grappler or Kujutsa Jiu Jitsu and Wellness is also on Instagram.
• 38:05
  SPEAKER_00: Awesome.
• 38:06
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• 38:20
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• 38:24
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• 38:32
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• 38:35
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• 38:43
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