What up guys? Welcome to the Chiu-Jitsu podcast. Today we have my buddy and former student. There's a quasi sort of mentee relationship. Okay. Like Brandon, I read on, he just won the 2025 East Coast Trials. And again, he was in town. I remember he sent me a message yesterday. He said, Hey, I'm going to be in town. Do you want to grab lunch? I was like, yeah, let's grab lunch. And hey, you know, if you're here,

let's talk about, you know, your experience and his catch up. You know, it's for him. It's, this is a, this is a big moment for him. He will talk about it in the second and then we'll get on the podcast. This is something he's trained for for several years now. You know, it's like,

I remember back in 2022 when we did the first trials, like I got him into trials the first time. Like, I knew he wasn't going to win. You just know that, right? But it's like, you need to see this. I need you to experience this because I know this will help you long term because you, now it's like it's, you've been, you've been infected with it. Ah, this is what it is, right? And, um, you know, he's a guy where again, he has a, he has like, it's like the perfect storm of stuff. He's athletic. He's incredibly, he's an incredible hard worker. He's incredibly coachable. Like you tell the guy to do it, he does it.

You know, this is like one of the things with, with, like, if you want to be a good,

if you want to be coached, you know, if your coach says run through the wall, like you, you don't ask questions. You just run through the wall. That's just what you're going to do, right? And then on top of that, right, he's in a good environment for the goals that he has that he wants, right?

So it's a perfect storm. And then on top of that, right, he, he's in a good environment for the goals that he has that he wants, right?

So it's a perfect storm. And so he's also a nerd about this stuff. He's obsessive about it and he watches it a lot. So anyways, we're going to get into the podcast, talk about his training, talk about his experiences, all this stuff. And there will be a bunch of other random things because obviously, you know, when we have someone who's been on the podcast multiple times,

which he has, who I know very well, there's going to be a lot more sort of side conversations.

And this is also why so much longer than our normal podcast, right?

It's two and two and almost two and a half hours.

We get into all sorts of different stuff from playing video games to, you know, specific stuff that we read to, I mean, just anything and everything that we want to talk about. So hopefully you guys enjoy this. There's some gyms in there as far as training goes and some ideas on training. And then on top of that, there's just some, you know, fun ideas and just entertainment value to it. So hopefully you guys have fun on the podcast today.

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