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No Gruffs Given with Sean Avery

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Sean breaks down competition life and the benefits it brings.

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0:00.0	Let's get a mic check here, one, two, one, two, episode, 54.
0:29.8	No gruffs given. It's okay to lose to opponent, must not lose to fear. Mr. Miyagi, karate kid.
0:39.3	It's okay to lose to opponent, must not lose to fear.
0:44.6	Now I open with that quote because I was just doing some thinking, I was doing some thinking.
0:54.3	And it just so happened when I came into the studio, Kevin and Doug were recording the victory
0:59.6	podcast and Doug came into my mind because this past weekend, I did my second Jiu-Jitsu competition,
1:08.5	they call it Naga, which is National Association Grappler's Association, something along those
1:16.9	lines. There's a great video of the legendary Kabeeb competing at Naga. I think it's 2012 if you
1:25.7	want to look it up. It was great. All right, this time around, I felt much more comfortable. I knew
1:31.4	the understanding of you walk in, you got to get your, you got to check in. Their check-in was much
1:37.4	easier. You had a bar code that was sent to you, you scan your name, you weigh in, and then you get
1:44.1	at it. Now, what I did this time was I went down to the younger age group, which they call
1:53.0	masters. So I believe masters is like, I don't know, maybe it's 29 to 40 or something,
2:01.8	or maybe it's even younger. I'm not sure. But it's younger than what I had previously gone in at,
2:09.2	which was my age group. Now, when I weighed in, when I signed up online, I assumed that I was
2:15.5	going to be a heavyweight because if you're a heavyweight, your 200 to 225 is considered heavyweight
2:23.4	in the Jiu Jitsu world. But I weighed in at 196. Nice. Yeah, I was very excited about that. Were you
2:31.5	surprised? I was. I thought, you know, I didn't really have any expectations because it didn't matter.
2:36.9	I was like, I'm not going to be heavier than 225. I know that. So I'm all good. I didn't want to
2:41.1	stress about it. At that moment, I was sort of given the opportunity whether or not I wanted to
2:47.3	drop down to the next lower weight class. And I asked, because now I know the process, I said,
2:53.7	how many competitors are signed up for that weight class? It was the same amount. And I said to
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