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This is the John Hallett podcast with John Hallett. Because the way we’re living, we need to change it. Make it change today. And all learn from failure. Maybe they just wanted it a little bit more than you. That’s probably the fact. And now your host, John Hallett.
Hey, everybody. Welcome back. Thanks for joining me. I really greatly appreciate it. If you want to help us out, my new suck less brand of, uh, performance supplements help you suck less. We have a six week challenge that we are posting out there later today. It is just trying to be a little bit better.
It’s nothing complicated. Life is complicated enough. It’s try to work out three to five days. If you’re working out three days, try to do five. And I’m not talking. If you’re not doing anything out there, just get out and walk around for an hour. Put a backpack on, walk for an hour.
It’s nothing crazy. We’re going to, uh, put links, if you’re not at my gym, of how to get to our workouts. And part of it is a whole bunch of other things. But work out three to five days, try to improve your diet. Slow changes, right? I’m, um, all for just like ripping the band aid off, but sometimes people need to take slow little steps.
I always tell people I slowly took sugar out until I felt like, what kind of heroin crack addict am I that I’m like sprinkling sugar into my coffee? This is stupid. Um, and now I cannot stand the taste of sugar in my coffee whatsoever. I’ll spit it out. Um, it’s just too sweet, too gross.
Your cha, your taste buds will change over time. You get accustomed to the super sweet right there and they’re just hooking you in. Those mother suckers, those big corporations. We’re small, but man, they just try to hook you in and get you addicted. Um, improve your diet, keep the principles of suck less in mind, do hard things.
And hard is all relative. It doesn’t have to be some crazy workout that you found on the Internet and now you hurt yourself like say a Murph type of workout that you find, um, from Crossfit and you just wreck yourself. Um, I had somebody really in shape, uh, in my project fit class.
Go and visit family for like two or three weeks and how sore they were from four minutes total in a workout of sit ups. So hard’s relative. Start slow and easy, right? The disclaimer, check your doctor, all that stuff. But you know, too many people are stupid out there.
Don’t be stupid. You know, be smart, slowly. Ease yourself into it. It’s all relative. And don’t be a wuss. You know, people whose out all the time, they make an excuse and all these other things that, you know, is that that little voice in your head? I told my class just yesterday, look, do I need to go a little bit easier today, or am I being a wuss?
And sometimes in the middle of a workout, I’m going, you know, I’m feeling better. Come on, you’re being a wuss. Step it up. Put more weight on the bar. Go a little bit faster, whatever it is. Now. You’re going to get a ton of stuff with this. We’ve got our project 101.
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I forget the button to push. There it is, there’s Josh.
Remember the button push? I like the seasoning guy. Just because food is healthy for you doesn’t mean it can be. Has to be bland. Like in seasoning is everything. Yeah, I really like that because I.
Had a lot of bland things before. My wife, she’s really good at that.
And that’s, that’s what really throws people back.
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There’S a ton of value in it. All you have to do is start a subscription, uh, to two or more products. You know, there’s great, it doesn’t have to be what’s on that site on suckless co. It’s anything, any product. Um, we will email you a code to get onto our clearsky training portal and have access to all that stuff.
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That really helps out. You know, the number one thing here we’re trying to do is build confidence. And you know, part of that is slow and steady.
Yeah.
You know, you are talking about finishing what you started, and that can be a challenge these days. It’s a big thing because something pops up and just trying to finish a product. Yeah, I, you know, we’re just talking about suck less. But it was a slow, steady process because I just couldn’t devote all my time as an entrepreneur to something that’s making zero money.
It is not making. It’s tough money. And you let, um, alone, you know, getting back to zero from the amount of hours I spent and everything else, just getting the production of these supplements is Isdev. Time consuming and, you know, costly.
Yeah.
So. So, you know, we believe in the. The lifestyle image of suck less.
Yeah.
Like, what we represent, because there’s a ton of choices out there, and we’re trying to offer a good product at an affordable price. You know, we could up the price and everything and get even crazier supplements and, you know, you know, you’re looking at a $10,000 investment of, you know, going even crazier, um, just to bring your own label to market, which is why that’s, you know, that’s kind of what you’re looking at.
We’ve partnered with a great lab that does supplements for other companies, you know, across the United States. They’re a great brand. Know, it’s that USA.
Yeah. Uh, american.
You know, we can, you know, I can do custom formulas, but we’re way off, uh, way off of that. We’ve got a, you know, we’re not even breaking even. But, of course, my mind was like, I’d like to do this, and. But they’re, they’re great. Um, they’re good stuff.
I’ve been testing them myself. Um, really good stuff compared to, um, you know, you guys know, we use prestige labs. We’re just an affiliate with them, um, where it’s a. It’s much better to do your own thing than be somebody’s affiliate.
It was just what you’re after.
It was some really good stuff. Um, but I’ve been testing. Haven’t noticed any, uh, degrade. And I know when I don’t supplement, I don’t feel as good. Yeah, it’s pretty. Have that energy. So, you know, check that stuff out. And, uh, it’s a family biz, too, so make sure you help my daughter.
The video Josh is making, but, you know, send people in and, uh, finish what you started. There’s such. It’s such a journey that, you know, one of our ideas are kicking around for the podcast was, you know, I want to talk briefly about 911 calls because you don’t want to mess that up.
Yeah. And, you know, can, you know, self regulating, controlling, being a good training partner, um, that’s tough stuff, right? It really, like the evolution going from wipeout to any black, even blue. It’s, you know, it’s being a good training partner. Nick was talking about trying to teach his students last night and in some other classes of being an actor.
Like, you’re trying to role model this stuff. You know, Ryan just told me. He’s like, I was trying to role play, and all my wife did is laugh. I’m like, it’s really tough with your family. Yeah. Uh, she’s just laughing at me, and I’m trying to play the bad guy.
Yeah. Training your family. Super tough guys. I know a lot of guys. It’s better to send them in. I know this is my job, but, man, I see. Trying to train your own family. And this is from personal experience. Seeing my martial arts instructor struggle with his family and different things, it is just so hard.
Um, it’s that reinforcing, I think, like, the best thing. One of our, uh. Oh, yeah, I think he’s in his thirties now. Um, said, uh, on our Facebook recently, you know, John was like a second dad to me, a second role model. That’s what we want. That’s what I want.
Right. Like, so many guys want to be the guy and teach their family everything. Sometimes, uh, they learn better from somebody else.
Yeah.
You know, and I’m not saying you can’t, you know, help them and practice at home and stuff like that, but I can’t. As I touched, like, you’re not a trainer, you have this limited experience. You know, send them to a professional. God, in my evolution, I’m like, God, I thought I was good ten years ago and I had years and years of experience.
So, you know, that person day to day, it’s just the professional, you know, is a whole lot better. We don’t know it all. We don’t. You know, I tell the kids it’s okay to ask questions. Look at all the jobs out there. That means other adults, other parents don’t know how to do that job.
Yeah, right.
They don’t have that skill set. They’re good at this and, you know, other life skills. But when it comes down to you need your taxes done, go to the professional.
Yeah, it’s experience. I tried to teach my wife some things, and by the end of the training session, I just said, uh, you know what? You need to go train with John. Like, I’m not gonna. I can’t do this for you.
Yeah. And it’s just so difficult.
And I was like, you need to go see the pro. And then she signs up at the gym to start exercising and all that stuff. Just because I didn’t have the capacity to do it, it was beyond my level of expertise. How’s that?
Yeah, uh, dealing with your wife is beyond your level of expertise.
And that’s what I tell her all the time. You’re beyond my level of expertise.
Yeah. It’s a good way to get divorced.
It’s a good way to start a fight.
Yeah, yeah.
It’s really, it’s really tough sometimes to train that way, but, you know, self regulating, you know, having yourself under control, you know, training, uh, with, uh, Eric today, you know, our good buddy, um, that trains BJJ with us. You know, he was saying, just in his experience, you know, God, we, a bunch of us, you know, we switched, um, gyms or they started, you know, going to an open mat with, you know, and they were like, God, you guys are a bunch of hillbillies.
Yeah.
You know, you’re like, super hard. Like, no, I’m not going hard. You are. It is, uh, it’s a learning experience. It. I think it’s really, really hard to be a good training partner, not overdo it. People get way too excited to get way too amped up. And, you know, regardless of what it is, if it’s, you know, striking, you know, getting hit with a freaking elbow is no fun, and, you know, getting arm bar applied, overly aggressive, Lee is.
No fun either. It doesn’t matter what the heck it is.
No.
When somebody’s getting a little out of control, they’re just. They’re learning it, and they’re trying to go through those moves all so fast in their head, they end up hurting somebody.
Yeah. Yeah. It’s like riding a bike. You don’t. You get on a bike, you have to learn how to pedal slow, and there’s training wheels, and then you just don’t get on it and start going a million miles an hour because you’ll hit the wall and people get hurt.
Right. Yeah.
I mean, it’s like a bicycle. Just once you start pedaling. Slowly pedal just. Just to get used to the movement. Because if you’re a brand new student, you don’t even know where your hands.
Are in relation, just the body awareness. I mean, yeah, it depends. We were kind of saying, like, different athletes, different sports, um, pick those things up quicker.
Sure.
You know, that they’re more, um, attuned to their body and they can go slow, but some, you know, some sports, you know, it’s just aggressive. Aggressive. I said, you know, football can be that way. Like, you’re just going hard.
Yeah.
And that’s what, you know. And you’re like, hey, we’re. We’re going hard, you know, and we’re saying, you know, those band guys, they think everything’s hard because nobody’s ever touched them, and they’re all sensitive. That’s a poke it, Josh.
Yeah, that was a band.
If, um, you’re a band person, don’t get all mad at me.
Oh, there’s a lot of them. And all of a sudden.
Go ahead and comment on our YouTube. We like comments. Go ahead and comment. We don’t read the comments, FYI, we do not read the comments because they hurt our feelings. And then we have to go to therapy.
If they’re really bad, then we’ll just block.
But if, like, uh, if somebody comes in and they were a dancer, I mean, they already know where their body’s been, right. It’s kind of elegant to watch somebody who’s done ballet and stuff like that, but do a martial art, because it’s. There’s a level of elegance that they have to it, man.
Yeah. Body.
But you get a band nerd in there who’s never done that stuff.
Yeah. I had a young guy, young teenage, uh, you know, he was probably 16 ish, and it took me so long to diagnose his fight stance as he progressed. And just one night, I don’t know, what’s wrong with your fight stance? There’s just something about it. It kind of seems like you’re gliding.
You have no contact, you have no power from the floor. And your punches, like, it’s like you’re gliding.
Uh hm.
And he goes, well, I’ve been dancing since I was a little like two, you know, the whole family, like, our whole family. And the mom was in the class, like, oh, yeah, we’re dancers like that. Well, there it is. You’re gliding. You have no power from the floor. You’re just very.
It is so hard, it, and I, once I diagnosed it, was going to my upper level coaches here and be like, what’s wrong with his stance?
Mm hmm.
And it would baffle them. I’m like, don’t worry. It took me a, um, minute longer than usual, that diagnosis kid stance. And this is out. You know, he had progressed. This wasn’t a beginner mistake. You look at him, you’re like, solid positioning, and, you know, he’s move around. But he was gliding.
Like, you didn’t have any pot. He didn’t have any power when he came in.
Yeah, but he look great again.
Look graceful. Yeah. Um, and again, you. You picked it up. I’m glad. You know, dancers, like, they have good awareness of where they’re. And their foot, you know, in footwork.
Yeah. Because work is so hard, I get lost in footwork. Like, I. I’ve been trying to really concentrate it on it lately.
Yeah. Yeah. It’s your base. It’s your foundation. So you got anything else on that?
Well, you know, we just live in a world where everybody will start something and quit. Like, in video games or movies or stuff. Like, it’s so easy to stop what you’re doing. The things that we’re given for entertainment and stuff in our lives.
It’s easy.
Just quit. Right. Because the next thing will come along. The next thing will come along, and it’s. It’s really hard to, like, grab something now and to pursue it, which is kind of sad in our society, because when you find something you love, you want to do it for the rest of your life.
I mean, I told you once, I was like, I want to do this for the rest of my life, and I meant it.
Right. Yeah.
And that’s why I continue. But if you don’t find that kind of love for it, it’s easy just to stop.
Yeah.
You don’t realize how detrimental that is to you on anything. You stop because then you never get anything done. You know, I made my bed halfway. I cooked dinner halfway.
Right.
I did my homework halfway. I cleaned the yard halfway. Like, you’ve got to finish.
Yes. It’s, you know, speed, like martial arts. It’s fine tuning something. People try to learn too many techniques.
Keep, uh, it simple. But it’s even, like, how many front kicks have you thrown? Yeah, and people are like, a lot. Not really. Not really. Like, how automatic is it? Does it just go off without thinking? There’s no conscious thought. But people want to learn more techniques and m more and do more.
You know, sometimes it’s just training. It’s like, I had my apex class today. I mean, we had some good discussions and, you know, just like. Discussions are good, but it’s not. Matt, quote time. Sure, but they’re important. But just rolling. Like, just go. Alright, we’re just working, clinch. Just.
Good guy, bad guy, bad guy. Go for your weapon. Bad guy. Give him things and situations to go to. Yeah, they’re all good. You got to play the game. You got to get those reps. Yeah, we get like. Let’s cover our new technique. Sure. But how about refining these or, like, one that came up that I think you would you would like, um, we have two females.
Doesn’t matter, but you have two females. Bad guy is on top. Now, bad guy starts to lose the weapon that they have. And we didn’t have the bad guy. The bad guy still had on their gun. And that offers another problem, obviously, for the good guy, that the bad guy has a gun.
But it was a perfect one in that scenario where, ah, uh, they’re losing the gun. No intention. And that led to a discussion on what are you gonna do?
What are you gonna do? What are you gonna do?
Oh, wow. If I’m the bad guy, that’s losing the gun.
No. Let’s go, good guy.
Okay.
Let’s go, good guy. So what are you gonna do there?
I monitor hands. I, uh, might make a play for the weapon if it comes out, because.
Let’S hold on there. Might. Let’s go. Some principles of krav maga.
Yeah.
I should control the weapon.
Yeah. Yeah.
You know, and that might be. That’s probably too hands on that. You’re on bottom.
Yeah.
They’re already in superior position. Uh, you’re like, monitor their hands. You better be monitoring the hands.
Yeah.
And controlling that weapon. And how are you controlling the gunman? Well, in that situation, you don’t really have a strike, so you better have two hands on that control of the weapon.
And I’m going to be thinking about position. Uh, I want to get up and actually out at that point, but if they’re on top of me now, I got to think about.
So probably a trap and roll.
Yeah.
I got a guy to work, you know, do some sort of control and trap and roll and still maintain the two and that whole thing and going, what’s the whole scenario?
Yeah.
Because I said, okay, so this lady was drunk at Applebee’s and attacked you. What’s her demeanor? Mhm. Are they going, oh, my God, are you going, whoa, you got a gun. Are they backing down? Are they backing down? Are they having this sobering moment of going, what am I doing?
Yeah.
Or is it the homeless person or whatever, you know, situation? And they’re like, they, quote, lose their gun, but now they’re going for it. Is coming out and.
Yeah.
Oh, and you’re going for it. You’ve got it. You got no choice, because if not.
You’Re in a bad dude spot.
But if they’re backing down, you know, of course, you know, Justin was like, what if they back down and move away and shoot you?
There’s a lot.
I mean, there’s a whole lot of what ifs here, you know? If you do, uh, are you taking them in good faith?
Do you draw on them? I’m like, sure, maybe. But now you’re starting a gunfight.
Yeah.
Are they trying to re holster? Are they looking like they decided to be like, oh, no, I’m gonna shoot you?
Ha ha ha. Huh? Yeah.
I mean, a little bit. Like, come on, guys. Like, oh, shot you. Some of it’s getting a little childish sometimes of like, how were you presenting yourself in that scenario for your partner, you know, because it is like, whatever. Like, you were acting like, hey, man, this. This is stupid.
Right, man? Oh, crap. Whoa, whoa. You know, totally backing down. And then to be dear to your, uh, training partner, like, I’m gonna pull like, okay, asshole.
Right?
It’s a tricky. Because these are so. They’re so conduct dependent, as Todd says, but it’s a tricky scenario. I’m like. Are you trying to de escalate here? And I would be trying to like, whoa, come on. Whoa. Especially if they aren’t looking like they’re really drawing this gun on purpose.
They’re like, oh, crap, and shoot. I was like, did you? Cuz I. When I came onto this.
Yeah.
I’m like, who’s the good person?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Cuz I can’t tell if you’re just losing your gun and a little bit you. I’m losing my gun. So instinctively kind of went a little bit to weapon retention. You know, it was out. And she’s trying to keep it in her shirt.
As a good partner, you don’t want to start with the gotcha things, like, you want them to work out the problem.
Yeah.
And sometimes as the bad guy, you want to win, but you’re. If you’re training with somebody, you’re not trying to win as the antagonist, right. You’re just trying to give them a problem that they can create a solution for. And that’s how you describe it to me. Right? Give them a problem, let them work it.
If they work out the problem fast, give them another one. But don’t start giving them problem after problem after problem. Then get a gotcha moment where you’re.
Like, oh, you were ready.
Yeah.
It’s, uh, where Tyler said, what the heck was it? Um, now, if somebody challenges me or insults me, now I’m going to go. Right now I’m gonna go you now. That’s a reason as a training partner, like, now I’m gonna get you. Now, you’re not disengaging. Now you’re doing this.
Um, because that way, the person who’s protagonist can see what their. Their actions will. Will have an effect on the person that you would be confronting in that moment. Right. Like the challenge part.
Yeah.
Salting them.
Yeah. And I think it’s a discussion that, um, what are you doing to them? Did you, as the good guy? You know, Krav Maga is not great at it, either, is BjJ. I got you in an armbar. Did you just get. You’re doing great bodily harm. I know you know, Krav Maga is guilty of that, um, guillotine shit.
You name it. Yeah. Uh, and including, you know, excessive force that knowing when to regulate and that I can disengage of knowing and feeling that fight of when I can, when’s too much? Or did you get yourself into a blind rage?
You know, are you able to keep.
Yourself calm in that fight and not get so amped up that you can’t stop.
Yeah.
Yourself.
Yeah.
It’s crazy. I mean, some people just get themselves going. They can’t have calm themselves down.
Just watch that level, trying to keep on rising, rising and rising. And that’ll be the hardest thing for some people, is just trying to keep a level head. I mean, you can see some people overreact to a wrong order at the coffee shop, right?
Yeah.
They can’t self regulate there. And then they go to one of these classes and, you know, the self regulation part, you see how hard it is, because if you can’t do it in normal life, you won’t be able to do it in training life, and you won’t be able to do it certainly in fight life.
If it were to happen. And then that’s where some of the mistakes happen, where you might do things that may make you the bad guy, quote unquote. Right?
Yeah.
And that’s super important to remember because, like, uh, as soon as I put something on someone, I’m doing them great bodily harm. I gave them reasons to go.
Yeah, you gave somebody scary, legal, even if they were the bad guy.
Yeah.
You gave them a legal reason to now maybe access that knife.
Yeah.
Was it what you did?
Yeah.
That caused that action? You can think you were, you know, justified in doing that, but now it might become mutual combat that, hey, looks he attacked you, but now you’re crushing his airway. You are, you know, you’ve got him in a kimora.
You.
Hey, whatever. It may be an ankle lock, whatever, you know, told whatever. Yeah. And you’re limiting my ability to escape. These are all positions where I’m justified in using higher force.
And you’ll never see that fine line unless you train. You always think in your mind that you’ll be able to figure it out. But I’ve been in lots of scenarios where I’ve shot the quote unquote good guy. Being a good guy myself, I remember one particular. I’m doing an elevator scene scenario, and I’ve got two people that are trying to attack me.
I eliminate both of them. But John’s standing there, he looks at me and he goes, ah, uh. And I shoot him. And it, like, there was so much going on there, I didn’t regulate the point.
Yeah, you got yourself so amped up that everything’s a threat and that’s what happened. And you’re like, anybody near me? Mhm. I’m so amped up, I’m just shooting everybody and somebody putting their hands up of like, don’t shoot me. Like, whoa.
I remember playing out in slow motion. I’m like, I know I shouldn’t shoot this person. Poop. And that’s the scary part, right?
Because, yeah, the body’s already going and the mind’s like, catch up and it’s like, can’t stop the body. Um, it’s tough. So, you know, going slow and sometimes.
Slowers better and safer. I mean, it.
And students, you know, it’s a learning, it’s a learning process that you just have to go through.
Yeah.
Uh, there’s no way around it. You have to go through the, you.
Know, and, and once you see what they look like, you know. Now you know that when you put the gloves and the mouthpiece on, you’re going at a different intensity level. Right. You’re talking about like when you’re doing a light, if you’re doing something light with a partner, you’re just trying to work things out.
You realize that it’s a lower level of intensity, right? And you start to see these levels of intensity happen as you start, I.
Don’T know, I’m lost on, like you said, now you threw on the mouthpiece and the gloves.
Okay, well, uh, what I’m getting at is that you start to, now I’m.
Going hard cuz I got a mouthpiece in.
But you’ve got to talk to the person about it.
It should be regulated by the, hey, we’re still, we’re making contact.
Okay.
Just cuz you put the mouthpiece and gloves in, is that go time? And that’s what m. It’s not go time.
Yeah.
Oh, ah. Now I’m putting the mouthpiece in.
No, no, I’m just trying not to lose teeth sometimes, like out of safety.
Yeah, I mean, you don’t want to bite your tongue off or anything like that, um, chip teeth. It’s that like, sparring can be slow and e it can be seeing the fight and rate. You might be doing slow touch gloves. You know, it’s a little bit safer, you know, for those people working through those.
But there’s all those different levels of intensity.
Yeah.
And that is super hard. Hey, we’re going 1020 percent. Yeah. And you might go out and you got to be able to regulate yourself back down. Oh, I felt I’m going a little fast. Not continuing to go. It’s not like you’re getting on the on ramp and, you know, you’re not that super slow.
Annoying person trying to get on the highway. Like, get on the highway, get highway speed. You can start sparring and. Right. You’re coming off of that on ramp. Let’s just say at 35, uh, you know, 45, you get. Are you hitting 100 or did you regularly and merge yourself in there or do you just continue to accelerate?
Now you’re at Skyridge doing 100. Now you got caught in that speed.
Yeah, maybe I just wasn’t here. But you.
Yeah, you kind of start to recognize. Let’s go, ty. Right.
But you know, you know the difference between the. The level here versus the level here. And most beginners just think that there’s just this high intensity level. The more you train, the more you.
Realize you just don’t know how to regulate yourself through. Those beginners are going way faster than they think they’re going. They think they’re going at 50 and they’re really probably like 80 or 90. And it’s not creating an injury. And so we can train and we can protect our families.
So we’re a bit long, guys. Uh, one thing I want you guys to think of making that 911 call. Run it in your head. Run it in your head. Do those things. Don’t get in a situation where you spill your guts or say something. My wife just showed me a horrible, um, law enforcement.
Bad shoot. Bad shoot. And this guy, um, I think I believe is. So it just makes it worse because now, is it. Is it racially motivated? But a, ah, woman calls for somebody, maybe around her house or an intruder, you know, snooping around or something. Long story short, this guy, the cop that ends up shooting this woman, his body cam is off partners is on, luckily.
And this woman says nothing that I can particular that there was a threat. They actually, like, had her sitting down. She’s like, oh, I’ve got something on the stove. Goes over the stove. You’ve seen this once and. Yeah, and it’s just terrible. I mean, she says, I rebuke you in the name of Jesus or something.
It’s. It’s, like, kind of hard to hear her because she’s so far away, uh, in the room. But he’s like, I’m gonna shoot you in the face. And then he says at the end where the, um, supporting officer was like. I’m gonna get medical m gear or something. And he’s like, yeah, good luck with that.
Essentially, that. Don’t quote me on that. Um, that was a head, that was a headshot. And he took. You’re going, you sound like a cold blooded killer.
Yeah.
And it’s caught on record.
Yeah.
You know, it’s on video. It’s on, you got the audio. So when you’re calling 911, run those. Scenarios in your head. You know, give them your name, give them your location. Um, I was attacked. I was in fear for my life. I had no choice but to defend myself.
Don’t start breaking down what the hell was happening. Yeah, you don’t need to. You have the right to remain silent. Give them the pertinent information. We need EMS here. This is what I’m wearing.
Uh, boom.
You know, and you can see, actually, the two or two of my ladies today were wearing very similar clothes. One had a different color blue shirt on than the other. One had black, one had brown pants on. And they’re both blonde. You’re like, whoa, man. You can see how that could get.
I’m the blonde and the black pants, right? You show up and there’s four of them. It’s like, oh, crap. And they’re all good.
Like, was that brown or black? Like, all of a sudden, is it. Was the bad person wearing black or brown? I can’t remember. Under stress. Uh, you know, it’s not easy, you know, don’t get yourself all spun up and saying something that might put m you in a bad position.
Yeah. Later on, it’s the start of the.
Legal record, so you gotta remember that. That’s the first evidence they present in a case is your 911 call. And if you haven’t trained a 911 call, you’re behind the eight in your head.
You can get a lot of that. And we do that.
Uh, certainly we practice that in our citizen defender classes. You should certainly check those out. We make sure that that becomes part of what you do. That way you’ve at least got the training on that side. So go to the website, get signed. Up for a class.
Now, I mean, you really so much that even in the lower levels that. People just, you’re at the lower level. And even some of our intermediate, intermediate people there, there’s a lot. We had, um, yesterday I had two of my, you know, conditional junior black belts. Like, they’re not adults.
And we, we have the whole process here. Um, they don’t automatically, they have to go through our adult program. But it was, you know, summertime. And I’ll do some advanced stuff with you guys. I want you guys to work on your striking. And you guys are growing. Guys, I want you to reevaluate.
You know, that’s a tough part. That what you did and all that training you did at a younger age, you’re now more mature. You know, mentally and physically, your dynamics have changed. So work that. We’ll work something advanced. Well, in the meantime, three or four other kids come in a little bit late.
I’m going to stick to what I told. These black belts, and I’m showing them knife versus knife. Um, that. Hey, guys, there’s more to this than what I’m showing you, but I want you guys to wrap around your head. I mean, I was drilling it in. Into them that because one.
One was an excited boy. Like, oh, like, dude, you do not. You do not want to get into a knife fight. You do nothing. Want to use this. This is. You were in the kitchen. You had, like, there’s an weapon, uh, there that you can use to try to equalize this fight because they have a knife.
You want to be able to integrate that knife into what you guys are doing. And that’s not an easy skill set to have a tool in your hand. People think it’s easy, and they’re just going to do this and that. And, you know, until you train and train enough, you have no idea.
Yeah, people are so skewed and what they think they can do. Um, what, two different things. Yeah, I was. You know, they’re teenage boys. I’m like, I don’t even know if I’m getting through to all, but one or maybe two of them are giving me good facial. Like, yeah, I’m following you, Coach John.
Like, guys, seriously, you can bleed out in a, like, one mistake. One mistake. Yeah, you know, we. I told them about these team, these 20 somethings getting to a fight into a mall. It was in the United States. But how, uh, you know, this one kid just got cut, hit in the carotid.
That’s all it takes, right? Like, guys, one mistake here, and you’re dead. Like, this is something you do not want to do unless you absolutely have to. But there’s a ton. There’s a ton to training, and a lot of people don’t ever recognize that they had more to go.
Like, they think they’ve got something down. And, you know, the more I train, the more I think I need to train more and suck less, so. And that goes double for you, dude. You better train more.
Like, Josh. Train more, suck less. You need to train more. Um, you. You know, you get a really good mental understanding of things, and then you kind of go, yeah, yeah, m. Like, now. Yeah, now you need hours of what you kind of registered. That’s a lot of people like, yeah, I understand it.
Yeah, you understand it up here, but your body’s not connecting those things. You need to train and train. And that’s. It’s a big problem with a lot of people out there. Like, I don’t need it. I got it. Yeah, you might have. And you might have it up in your head, but you do not have it hands on.
You have to be putting hands on on a regular basis. Alright, uh, guys, train more, suck less. Check out our new suck less challenge. Uh, that’s gonna be coming out on all our socials, but you can check it out at suck less doc, uh, dot CEO. I almost said.com from all our other so suck less co.
All right, guys, train more, suck less. Be safe out there.
