The 5 Deadly Sins of Jiu-Jitsu failure

Episode 359: Are you guilty of committing a BJJ Deadly Sin? We are always looking to add something to make our Jiu-Jitsu better. But maybe you actually need to remove some handbrakes that are holding you back from making progress on the mats. These Deadly Sins are f*cking you up! If you can just stop doing at least 1 of these 5 things you will improve 20%. This is based on the principle of Inversion and we are not talking about Berrim Bolos. Inversion is your ability to look at solving a problem from the completely opposite point of view: instead of adding something try removing a bad habit that is limiting your progress. Removing things actually frees you up and makes space for improvement. But What are these 5 Deadly Sins? Watch till the end and let us know what you think in the comments.

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Chapters

• 0:07 Five Deadly Sins of BJJ Failure
• 7:06 Importance of Hydration in BJJ
• 17:13 Navigating Jiu-Jitsu Without a Strategy
• 21:40 Maintaining Structural Integrity in Driving/Jiu-Jitsu
• 31:15 Setting Yourself Up for Jiu-Jitsu Success

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:07

A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Essentially, at this point, the fight is over, so you pretty much flow with the goal who is worthy to be trusted with the secret to limitless power? I'm ready. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another Bulletproof for BJJ podcast. The five deadly sins of BJJ failure. The five things you've got to stop doing to ensure your success. Now people are always talking about what can I do to be more successful at bjj, but actually what you need to consider is there's certain things you need to stop doing to get better. That's right. You need to stop committing, is it? It's meant to be seven deadly sins? I think it's meant to be seven, but I fucking haven't read the bible for a long time. No, fair enough, fair enough, but I think five is ample. I think you know, for the people it encapsulates. Yeah, it's a good amount. And the first thing, the reason why this talk came up, is I was talking to someone and they're like oh, I'm trying to do more things to get better. And I said, sure, how about these other things? Are you also not doing X, y and Z? And they're like oh, yeah, I don't have time for that. And I'm like well, if you can get rid of these handbrakes, you'll make forward progression. This is the thing People don't often think. They're always like how can I add? It's like if you remove these things, you are going to improve, because these things are holding you back. Handbrakes, if you will Handbrakes, if you will Handbrakes, sir, yeah, I think that's an interesting flip that you did there about not adding more but taking things away. Yes, it's a real flip in your mind because often, when you're like listening to an informative podcast such as this, potentially, or some other podcast perhaps that's on a similar level to this, let's say Huberman Lab, if I pick one out of four, there's so much stuff you're like I've got to add that in. I've got to get that supplement. I've got to add that routine. Oh fuck, yoga, nidra, shit, I need to make time for that Damn breath practice meditation. All right, coach, I'm on it. I've got to tape my mouth. Yeah, them now. Yeah and um, and it's, it's quite overwhelming because there's just so much stuff there's you can't do it all. It's too much. But if we take stuff away, that's like oh, that's refreshing. Yeah, that's actually maybe freeing. That's freeing up time. Yeah, that's freeing up bandwidth for better performance. That's it.

Speaker 1: 2:37

And so the way that uh, I guess the way I try to look at this this came from a discussion about inversion, so it was talking about business, and people was like what are the things that make businesses successful? You're not talking about inversion in a jujitsu sense. No, I'm not talking about a kiss of the dragon, or beer and bolos, my friend's crab ride no, unfortunately not. No, no, no, levi's. And to do God stuff right here, talking about, instead of approaching a problem from what makes things work, let's look at what you should avoid. Like these things guarantee your absolute freaking failure. So if you can be like, well, we don't do these five things. And then you go oh, actually I have been doing a couple of those things, you know. Oh, maybe that's what's holding me back, not, I need to add in a whole bunch of new shit.

Speaker 1: 3:28

So the way I often think about preparation is I think about going on a journey back back into time, or forward into time, depending on how you think about the time. Continuum. Jt likes road trips. I do. I love a road trip. I do like to drive. I should have been born into a trucking family. But think about this If we can think about a trip and go on a trip of any sort.

Speaker 1: 3:50

If you're someone, whether it be a short trip or a long road trip, coastal, maybe, go on the beach, something like that. Maybe you're traveling inland, maybe you want to visit a more rural part of the country, maybe you want to connect with your farming roots, maybe you're going to the ski slopes, maybe you enjoy the alps, maybe potentially, if you've, if you've got that inclination, you need fuel for the trip. Right now. I don't know if you've been there, but when you're not paying attention, you know you're distracted, busy, busy and then you're like oh, my god, fuel's on empty. I don't know if you've ever done that, joe, where it says like it's. I don't know about your car, but it might say I have a certain amount of K's to empty, like now. Someone told me this that's miles for our American listeners, right, but once it hits empty, a friend of mine said oh, don't worry about hitting empty, you know, once it hits empty you've got at least like a hundred K's. Oh shit, depends on the car straight into the danger zone, straight into the danger zone, right into the danger zone.

Speaker 1: 4:49

My mate from school, a guy called Pat funny as cunt he you know when we're all getting. He was like he got his license, I don't know, maybe we're all getting around the same time and we get our license and we drive into the city and like into King's Cross, which was, like you know, a bit of a a night um spot yeah, night spot here in sydney, bit bit rough and kind of edgy, yeah in the day and uh, in his parents car and he would get petrol paranoia. That was easy. And he'd be like, fuck, I'd only have a quarter of a tank left, I've got to get petrol. And we'd be like, bro, you've got a quarter of a tank, like it's good, no, I've got petrol paranoia, and legitimately.

Speaker 1: 5:26

One time we did run out of petrol and it was in king's cross and we were like three white boys, like you know, 17 year olds, on the street just waiting to get robbed. Oh god, nothing happened. But we're like you know that film, um, is it judgment night? It's dennis leary and shit, where a bunch of guys are going to the ball game and then they get lost and they come off the highway at the wrong point and then they get ambushed by this gang and that's the whole premise of the film. We're basically figuring that's what's going to happen to us. But yeah, running out of petrol is absolutely a deadly sin and you know the feeling of having to being not far from the gas station and having to then walk there, get the jerry can fill that mother up and then walk back to the car. You feel like an idiot. Yeah, it's just. It's one of those things that you Like a dickhead. You just it's something you don't think about.

Speaker 1: 6:23

But typically, you know we had talked about intermittent fasting. It's a classic thing. Someone's having a busy day, skip lunch, they didn't eat breakfast and they're like oh, I'll just have a coffee. Oh, 5 PM, I got to go. Man, I've had such a great intermittent fasting day. I haven't eaten all day. I've had 20 hours of fasting. Get in, do your warmup and blow out. You know you, you, you basically cooked for us in the class and you're just not learning. You know, like they. Well, you know we think about even the attention we might give to our kids. We wouldn't want our kids to go to school without their lunch or like. We know, they're not going to have a great day if they're hungry.

Speaker 1: 7:06

Now, as adults, we have ways of compensating whether you have a smoke or you have a coffee or you do something that might suppress your appetite. You have a smoke? All right, western Sydney, fuck, get out, mate Out here. It's a fucking green smoothie. Only rich people smoke, bro. Here in Australia, it's $60 a day. It here in australia, god damn, it costs a lot of money. It's 60 a day. It's crazy. Oh, you might vape. I don't know what you're into, but I'm just saying there's certain behaviors that can suppress your appetite.

Speaker 1: 7:31

Yeah, you know your young kid. Yeah, you can, you can figure it out. Young kid isn't pumping a black coffee in a couple of seasons. Kindergarten's hard. Hey, fuck, yeah. No, it's not like that. We're not building them tough like we used to. No, no, get them back in the coal mines. But, uh, so you gotta have fuel, you gotta fuel up. So, in case anyone hadn't caught on, we're not actually teaching you how to prepare for a road trip. No, that's the analogy. It's the analogy. Yeah, gotta be filled up, don't fuck that up. Yeah, and I was fucking that up.

Speaker 1: 8:02

I was on the way to training on monday night. I had to. I was like shit, gotta go. Wasn't in my usual routine where I would leave from here to go coach. I was at home and I'm like, oh my god, I haven't eaten for like four hours and I'm gonna get to training in an hour, yeah, and then I'm gonna coach for two hours. And so I was like I feel okay, but I had no fruit. I was like shit, there's no fruit. Went to get protein powder Shit. We only had the plant-based protein which mixes like shit. It's tough. If you're going to do a smoothie, it's fine, it's fine. So I was like dah, and so I was like searching through the kids' snack box and I found two muesli bars, roll-ups, biggity, bam. Yeah, two muesli bars, old ones, well past their use by date. But you know, whatever, a bunch of rancid nuts. Get some fake yogurt and chocolate, we're good, these nuts? Yeah, pretty much.

Speaker 1: 8:51

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Speaker 1: 9:07

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Speaker 1: 9:45

I'm very fortunate. My partner, ola, is a bargain hunter, so whenever protein bars go on sale, they're like 50% off. She's in there at Chemist Warehouse. She's just like dropping $100 on protein bars. So I'm always stocked. I either have some in my glove box, even if, you know, the car gets hot and I get melted. I don't care, I'll probably eat half the wrapper, I'll be driving. Just cut the corner off the packet and then just squeeze it. Whatever it takes, my friends, protein gel and um. The next thing too, and I look I've. I've done this. Know, I'm not the technical guy. I've fucked up.

Speaker 1: 10:22

I've destroyed a couple of car engines by not paying attention to coolant. I don't know if you have that where you're like you're driving and you're like oh, hang on a second, the heat meter seems to be going way up. Oh, I've got bloody steam and smoke coming out from it. What the hell is going on? Whatever it might be, you blow a gasket. You've got a hole in the radiator. Whatever the fuck. It's an expensive thing. Did you say hole in the radiator, radiator? Very good, you've got a hole in the radiator. You've got to pour the water just straight in through the radiator. You know, I drove a car. I ran my car on empty with oil, oh yeah, and I had to replace the whole engine. That's it Melting an engine is? It just seizes up, it just goes, it just stops. And then they're like yeah, we got to give you a new engine. I'm like I got to remember not to do that again. Yeah, that's an expensive fucking mistake.

Speaker 1: 11:14

And where this can kind of show itself out as a deadly sin in BJJ is simply not drinking water, right, and so you know. We can talk about electrolytes, we can talk about a lot of different things, but essentially you drinking water. Is you keeping your blood fluid? Because if you are not drinking water, you are turning your blood to mud. You are basically seizing the engine of your circulatory system. Wow, there it is. Wow, was that from a fucking Trump speech or something I don't know? Maybe Turning your blood to mud? Turning your blood to mud, I don't know, you know, greatest hydration in the world electrolytes? No, it's just one of those things that.

Speaker 1: 11:59

So, for example, there was a fairly famous cyclist I think it was Paganini. Anyways, back in the day of Lance Armstrong, he died of a massive heart attack. They called him the pirate. It was from too much EPO. So epipyrithrin, I think I'm mispronouncing it EPO makes your body produce more red blood cells, right, and he pumped too much of that and basically made his blood too thick. Oh, wow, yeah. And now it is a bit of an advantage in terms of, like, injectable fitness, but you can go too hard with it. Too close to the sun, he did. But here's the thing you are doing it to yourself by, you know, running your day taking. You know, if you drink caffeine, which I do, I remember when I went I actually, when I was back in high school, I did my work experience at Penrith Panthers Training Institute.

Speaker 1: 12:51

This is back when Panthers were not as successful as they are now. That's an NRL team in Australia, local rugby league team. Yeah, they're now three times Won the premiership. Fuck, yeah, three times baby in a row. But the fucking, the golden trio have disbanded now, haven't they? It's true, they lost the chance of them, lui, is it? Yeah, the chance of them repeating is not high.

Speaker 1: 13:12

But here's the deal. They actually had in the bathrooms, lui, sorry, a lot of strong strong not necessarily well-educated young men playing football, and they had different colors above the urinal about what your urine should look like, and it had a color scale and it said if your urine looks like this kind of color, then you're good. If you're here, that's not good, and if you're here, you're fucked and I'm like it all. Just put this impression in my mind back when I was 15 doing work experience, and I regularly will go to the bathroom and go dang, I'm fucked, I need to get some water in right now.

Speaker 1: 13:52

This is like I don't know if you ever had that, where you have like B vitamins and then oh, yeah, or asparagus, or beetroot, yeah, and then it's just like oh, my God, are my kidneys bleeding? Yeah, what the fuck is going on right now? Yeah, it's fucked up, yeah, and so what is coming out of your system is a dark, yellowy orange. You're like this ain't healthy, this is wrong. And that is your meter blowing up telling you you are dehydrated. You are going to be cooked because you're going to get to training. You're going to forget your drink bottle and, yeah, you're going to get through the warm-up and then you're already steam is blowing out your ears. You seize the engine.

Speaker 1: 14:29

Yeah, and even if you have, like, your water bottle and your electrolytes, they're training with you. If you are showing up dehydrated, yeah, you can't really fix that, like while you're training. No, like it's, it's better than not having that shit with you. But you really should be hydrated throughout the day in preparation for training and even if you just think like, obviously be a great habit to be in every day because it just helps your brain work right, yeah, I'm a fan. I think it's just, it should just be a standard in life. Yeah, but if you, if you, if you're just coming into it early, like, so you just just don't hydrate on days, you do BJJ, getting that liquid in prior it makes a huge difference.

Speaker 1: 15:09

The simplest way that I found for folks who are like I feel like most people get it. They're like yeah, I need to drink more water, but a lot of the time they just don't have the habit of doing it. Yes, particularly Europeans, I find. Okay, I think often because they don't deal with depending on where in Europe, of course, but most Europeans don't deal with hectic summers like you have here. No, so, like, the cost of like hydration isn't as important as like here, when it's 40 degrees in summer, sure, but two glasses at breakfast, two glasses at lunch, two glasses at dinner, it's like that's actually a really good sign. Glasses of wine yeah, that's right European cousins show. Yeah, like boom pump water, great, like, if at least you've got that, you're probably going to be okay.

Speaker 1: 15:55

If you're the kind of person you know, because you generally are having meals, unless you're on that IF tip, and so if you just like habit, stack what's up, james, clear the water onto your, uh, your meals. There you go, thank you. Thank you, joe. And my advice would be to have that water before the meal, not after the meal, because it's actually gonna getting it in your system, it's not gonna dilute your digestive acids. So my advice, because I actually, but it can crush your appetite a little bit, can't it? What if you're fucking trying to get, big bro, two glasses of water. Crush your dilemma on it. You want it more, you want it more. You can't drink two glasses of water. Get the fuck out of here. No water before the meal. Put it out there. Get that coolant. Now also the third deadly sin. That is fucking up your jiu-jitsu. Do you need the best inside information on bra up your jiu-jitsu. Do you need the best inside information on Brazilian jiu-jitsu? I have the answer for you. It is Tap, nap and Snap the jiu-jitsu newsletter. We have partnered with them to help you guys connect to the latest happenings, drama, gossips and goings on in the BJJ world. We even have our own little section dedicated to helping you move better for bjj. So if you're interested to find out more, click the link below and get connected with tap, nap and snap the bjj newsletter.

Speaker 1: 17:13

It's trying to go on this trip without a map. You don't know where the hell you're going. You know we all got google maps on our phone right. Or you know, back in the day my parents always used to have the Gregory's sideways and stuff. You know, like they'd have a book. A book, yeah, like a catalogue. My dad still carries one, oh, wow, because he just doesn't trust. I think he uses the phone, but he's just like but I just want the Gregory's there.

Speaker 1: 17:40

What if the phone dies? Yeah, and it's a good point. If you don't have reception, it can be. You know, you're like where am I? You're like fuck when you're in the outback. I know that's a relatable topic, thank you, thank you, farmer. Joe, that's that's a. You come to Australia, you might go to the Outback maybe. But here's the deal If you don't have a strategy, you don't have a map.

Speaker 1: 18:11

It's not even something you necessarily have to carry with you. It's just a little thought oh, tonight I'm going to this. Now the fact that you are not doing this is fucking huge impact. Like it's very easy to forget things. Like it's very easy.

Speaker 1: 18:23

I am actually a very forgetful person, but I always write shit down. I put notes in my phone. I have two or three journals. I write it on the, on the planner, on the wall. Like I put it in so many places I can't forget it Now, if I haven't thought about it in one year, out the fucking night, like it's just not relevant information at all. But if that morning or the night before I've gone, oh, what am I doing? Then? Oh, that's right. We're doing a podcast. I need to come up with some shit to talk about, write it down. It's. It's already cataloged somewhere in my mind, so it exists.

Speaker 1: 18:55

If you are so busy, you know, keeping up with your day, that you haven't actually given any thought to what the hell you're going to be doing in jiu-jitsu, it's probably going to be a bit of a lost cause in terms of remembering anything. Yeah, I agree, that's what I'd say, and we've spoken about it at length in other episodes. There's a lack of intention. Yes, about. Well, what am I trying to get out of my roles tonight? Or out of the session? And you know, fair to say, it's probably not. You're probably not going to die. If you commit this sin, however, your progress will be bleeding a slow death. Yes, because you just don't. You're just slowing down your ability to learn, whereas and and you know for lost in the outback desert of ignorance. That's there you go. The.

Speaker 1: 19:41

For those who don't know me so well, yeah, you might be a newer listener. I'm. I'm the guy that doesn't. I like things to be very simple in terms of. So an intention for me might be in every role.

Speaker 1: 19:52

Tonight, I want to practice that armbar from mount that I was working on for the last couple of weeks, or I want to practice retaining my guard. I'm just not going to let anyone pass my guard. I still do other shit and just whatever happens happens. But if it gets to a position where I'm on my back, then no one's passing my guard tonight, because guard retention is my jam. Yeah, so you can keep it very simple. You don't have to be complicated about it. No, just like one thing, like knowing where you're going. Right, like you would never start a journey without knowing where the fuck you're going. Same thing for me.

Speaker 1: 20:23

If I'm going shopping, I like to know what I'm going. I'm not just going to walk around the shops and be like, oh, what's on sale, oh, that looks nice. Like, no, I'm getting, I get what it came for and I leave. So for me it's like protein bars, nike's on sale, baseball on sale, baseball caps, baseball caps. Basically, if you can get a good price on a hoodie, okay, and if we can wrap it up at a chicken shop half chicken and chips, we're good, whole chicken and chips.

Speaker 1: 20:48

But yeah, the thing with that is that for me, for the longest time, I want to work on my stand-up. So I will always provided my partner is consenting, it's consensual I'll'll say can we start on the feet? I just because I know lots of people are like, oh man, I'm just not up for that stand-up war. They'll be like, oh, we just, I'll just start in my guard, you start on me. You know what I mean. But I'm like no, no, no, even if your intention, your training partner wants to play guard, all right, you, you pull guard then. Or I'm going to go for the takedown because I want to work on my judo, I want to work on my wrestling, and I know a lot of gyms. They, when they say, oh, okay, it's free rolls, go for it. It's a a form of discipline for me to force me to not be lazy with, like, just, you know, starting on the ground. Yeah, that's just a basic way that I keep myself working on that thing. Yeah, okay, you gotta have that strategy, you gotta have that map.

Speaker 1: 21:40

But the fourth thing is Fourth deadly sin. The fourth deadly sin, not just a thing. No, fucking Bro, this is life and death out here. You need to check the structural integrity of your fucking vehicle. Oh, bro, like, you've got flat tires, your suspension fucking working. You've got tread on those tires. You've even got fucking Do your mirrors? Are the wheel nuts tight on the wheels? There's just do you have a fucking steering wheel? Yeah, do you know how to use the gearbox like? This is important. Actually.

Speaker 1: 22:06

There's nothing funnier than seeing someone who doesn't drive a manual or doesn't drive stick trying to drive like someone who's driven an automatic car for a long time. And maybe they learn when they're a teenager. But they haven't done it and you're like, oh just, how's the the clutch going? Where do you see it? Because I just don't see many manuals around anymore. Oh, no, no, no, it was actually a young person on their piece, their provisional license. When you get off your learners, this is the first kind of license you get in Australia and they were bunny hopping shit. I just did not have the dexterity on this.

Speaker 1: 22:44

And there was like another person in the car just like, are we going to get somewhere today? And it's one of those things that if you you know, maybe you're not necessarily aware of it, or maybe you've come out and you're like, holy shit, I've got a flat tire and you've got the little dinky fucking shit wheelbarrow tire oh, the cheese cutter. And then you can feel like it says do not go over, don't exceed 80 Ks. Yeah, you're like I'm taking this on the freeway, let's go Give it a try. It is such a bitch to one have a flat tire and two then have it work with the dinky, shitty tire. Right, and this is dangerous to drive with a car that doesn't have the wheel nut, like all that shit You've got to have.

Speaker 1: 23:29

The integrity of the car needs to be of a standard. Yeah, so I drive a terrible car but it functions now because I spent a bunch of money on it and there was a point in time when the turbo completely fucked out on my car. It's got a turbo, it does have a turbo. It goes pretty hard for the first 10 seconds. Western Sydney standard issue gets me fast enough to lose my license. But, um, I was trying to go up the mountain to visit my parents and the turbo was fucking out and so there was like this, and then we just lose power and then we're like power up, and then we go and I'm like losing, I'm like I can even I don't know if I can pull over safely because I was in the middle lane. I don't know if I can accelerate up this fucking mountain to just get the fuck out the way without a truck or something knocking into me.

Speaker 1: 24:19

And that's the thing. If you don't have the structural integrity, you're a fucking liability. Now, structural integrity check. You need to be strong and mobile to make sure your shit works right. And here's the thing on a given day, your structural integrity might be better or worse. So let's just put it out there.

Speaker 1: 24:40

Say it's the weekend, you've had a big weekend. You've done a bunch of stuff around the house. Maybe you helped a mate move house, maybe you had to fucking do some gardening, I don't know. It's been a big weekend. You might have had a bit of a party, sunk a thousand beers the night before, yeah, and you wake up then punched on till five in the morning like a fucking champion, and then you're like oh, it's stiff hammies. Oh, why is my neck sore? It's kind of like waking up from jiu-jitsu. Oh, big night. Your structural integrity is fucking off. But you got not enough coffee and you know advil and painkillers. You will feel so much better. Your structural integrity is off. If you don't check it before you go anywhere, you're in trouble.

Speaker 1: 25:25

And so that's where we bring in you know, say, oh, doing that little bit of mobility, you know, prior to class or earlier in the day, is something that's going to let you know. Hey, man, you're fucking. You know, you got your ankles not 100 or maybe the knee's not great and by ignoring this and not doing this, you're, you're high risk of injury. Yeah, and I'm gonna add, if you are just generally not in good shape, yeah, if you are weak in certain areas, if you are tight and you're doing the jiu-jitsu thing regularly, you are at a high. You are more of a liability. Yeah, right, so there's, we don't know where the the exact place you want to be is. We just want to know that you are doing what you can to maintain a decent level of strength and flexibility.

Speaker 1: 26:14

And look, I'm not someone who's fucking taking out an engine and putting in a new engine. I'm not someone who fucking looks after their car that well. I do the bare fucking minimum. People. Why? Because I spend too many hours in the gym working on the rig. You spend more time working on the car or learning about the car. But here's the deal I give the car to trusted people to let me know how good or bad it is, and then when they tell me what to do, I fucking do that shit. Hey man, you got to make sure you keep the oil topped up. All right, I'm gonna fucking do that. All right, hey man. You actually buy an extra tire, pay that money so you don't have the shitty cheese cutter tire. So when you change the tire, it's smooth as fuck, it's like. All right, I'll do that.

Speaker 1: 26:55

I take people's advice who know better than me, and so what I do now is I do check the oil. I get the dipstick on. Oh, check that shit out. All right, feel like a man. Now I know some shit. You know, I will have a look at the coolant levels. Be like, seems okay, got a bit of coolant in the boot. I do these things now because it's cost me so much fucking money with the amount of mistakes I have made and also the amount of inconvenience and pain. It's put me in the embarrassment for just being an absolute fucking noob around not looking after my shit. So with the structural integrity, my friends, we want to make sure that you you are doing a bit of strength conditioning work, but also just checking in on the bod and, and the way we would usually do that is, by doing a bit of mobility on the reg. What say you, joe? Yeah, do weights, do strength training? Mobility on the reg? Amazing, I can do it.

Speaker 1: 27:51

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Speaker 1: 28:37

Oh yeah, now the fifth deadly sin of fucking up your own jujitsu. This is probably cumulative of all these things, but it's the running late, it's the speeding, it is the lack of thought that fucks you up. And let me give you the analogy Back in the days I was very early this is back university slash, college days I used to work this really shitty job offloading trucks at a transport company, a large transport company. It started at 4.30 in the morning. I used to go there, punch out like four and a half five hours work and then drive to uni. Anyway, it paid very well. But I woke up late, it was fucking cold. I had ski gloves on, I had a scarf in the car. I'm driving a Tarago.

Speaker 1: 29:27

So this is like old van, it's like one soccer mom car, soccer mom car in the 80s. I'm driving it in like I don't know, you got that long blonde hair socks pulled up. I got my beanie. I could you know it didn't. I mean, what's great with modern cars is you put on the demister and it demiss. This didn't demiss, you had to to. Just you had to have a rag and wipe the window. So I'm caning at like 4.15. I've got to be at work by 4.30 and I'm like absolutely fanging.

Speaker 1: 29:55

And a cop had me on the sirens behind me like lights. I couldn't even see anything. And then like the guy pulled up beside me and was like, and I was like oh shit. And I pulled over and he was like you know, we've been telling you with the lights on for like two minutes. I was like, oh sorry, I said like I couldn't see and I like I had my window down like look. And he's like, oh shit, you can't see in here, can you? And I was like, nah, man, he's like, why are you driving? So I'm like I gotta get to work for 4 30 and he's like, what are you doing? You're on your, you're on your, you're on your. You're like you're going to lose your license, you're on your provisional license. I'm like I know, but I just didn't wake up and I've got to go to union or the all this stuff. And he's like he took pity on me. He's like, all right, look, we're only going to take one point off. You Like we're only going to demote you one point, but you still get got 200 bucks.

Speaker 1: 30:49

So what was the point of me speeding to get to work on time to then lose that money anyway? Right, I completely fucked myself up, but at the time all I could think was I gotta get to work on time. I gotta get to work on time. Like that was the only thought in my head. But at the end of the day, that lack of preparation I kind of completely eradicated any benefit from. Actually even I should have called in sick that fucking day. I would have been ahead, right.

Speaker 1: 31:15

And so we often do this with jujitsu. It's like, oh, I've just got to get there. You show up 20 minutes late, you don't warm up, you miss what's going on, your head is not in the game and yeah, you did get there. So, okay, pat on the back. But actually that session isn't going to help your jiu-jitsu. If anything, that lack of preparation might put you back because you might end up injured as a result of not doing anything right leading up to that. Yeah, I think like every now and again it might happen, happens to me.

Speaker 1: 31:44

But if you're doing that consistently, if you're like the person that's always just getting in on time or a couple of minutes late, and yeah, you find you're always kind of rushing to get there, that immediately kind of indicates well, you're not like you're not preparing well with the other things, right, if you're rushing to get there, you probably are not hydrated either, right? You probably haven't managed yourself well throughout the day. You probably haven't had a snack in the last cut, like it's a cascade of stuff, yeah, and, and so it was funny, there was a comment, a comment on YouTube. I can't remember the handle. I'll have to go back and have a look.

Speaker 1: 32:17

But Joe had said you know, you show up to class on time or you show up 10 minutes early and the guy's like puts it yeah, no fucking way, bucko. It's just like, oh damn, some people like to show up late, some people kind of you know, and they talk about purple belts, skipping warm-up, right, because it's like, oh, we know entitlement, we know better than that. And it's like well, look, you can run your life how you want. That's cool. But jujitsu is something we give a shit about and the way you show that you give a shit is by, you know, being on time or being there to set yourself up for success. Yeah, and that's really what we're talking about.

Speaker 1: 32:55

We're trying to remove these handbrakes or these stumbling blocks so that if you come to class and you're fueled, you got plenty of coolant in the tank. You come with a plan, everything's working good and you're there a bit early, it's going to be a great class. That's the fucking holy quintrinity, trinity but five, or however you work that out, it's going to be magical, my friends, and ultimately we want you to have that success in jiu-jitsu. So the first thing you can really do is stop fucking yourself up. So remove these things. Banish these sins from your life and you will have an entirely holy new experience. Salvation awaits you Now. My friends, we love you, we appreciate you. You guys have got us over the line. You are great. You have given us five star ratings. You have liked, you have subscribed, and we want to thank you for that, because you're awesome.