What up, guys. Welcome to the Chichita podcast episode. God knows what number and nobody really cares, but there's some number for us to categorically put these up in a somewhere on the inner web so you guys can watch them, right?

Today's podcast is, for me, it's going to be a fun one. So I got asked a question. It's actually been asked a bunch of times. And the question is, like,

Chewy, like, what have you learned from jiu-jitsu that has affected your life off the

mats? And when people say jih-suitzoo, I'll sort of lump that together with grappling, right? What

have you learned in grappling that's changed your life off the mats? So wrestling, jihitsu, so forth.

And I've never been able to really answer that question directly on because I became an adult on the mats. You know, when I started

grappling, I was, you know, in high school, was it 15 years old? And then now I'm 40. So I've been

grappling longer than I have not been grappling in my life, right?

We've passed that halfway point.

So I don't know.

I don't know like how it's changed me because it's changed me in innumerable ways.

And I don't know who I would have been without it.

No, I think a lot of the lessons that you get from grappling, you can get elsewhere, you know, other disciplines, but I learned from grappling. And so

what we're going to do today is I've been collecting a list of ideas for, you know, a number of

years. And I eventually want to make like a video on it or something like that, but I figured we

would just wrap about some of these rules or lessons, if you will, from

BJJ that have changed my life or have influenced my life.

And I'll talk about how they came to be on the mats and then how they have affected my life off the mats.

And so hopefully this is interesting for you guys or you enjoy the podcast.

One of the things from talking with you all through Instagram or getting messages from you or talking to you in person or a lot of you that are in my email list, I get my daily email as part of the shoe crew.

A lot of you guys send me messages and you say, man like i really like your stuff and it's more than just jiu jitsu you know recently i uh i posted i i didn't mean

for it to sound grumpy or anything but i posted a message up on instagram the other day and i was

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