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Now here's John and Tex. Drop on.

Kick the wheels.

Mr. Madzanis, thanks so much for joining us on Power Athlete Radio again.

It's great to be here again.

Again. Every time I come out here to Austin, I'd like to take the opportunity to come and wrap with you guys.

Yeah.

So you were in town doing Tim Kennedy's sheepdog response shooting combative scores. Yes, that was the main reason why I came in. How'd it? I paid to get my ass kicked. It was great. A lot of life lessons learned there, too. What did you learn? Oh, boy. Well, one, validation for what I'm doing from a training standpoint, because the

strength, the size, and the mobility in particular, particularly along with the variety of

movement I'm capable of put me in a good foundational place to try and attack something like

Brazilian jitsu, which I've just never had any experience or exposure to before. So I was able to

hold my own, even though I didn't know any technique and then take the lessons that I was learning there and then apply them to be able to create new movement patterns, right, that the brain could actually learn from. Did, who's the course, that's like, who's marketed? Like, who shows up to this thing? Oh, man, there are people from all kinds of walks of life coming there. A lot of East Coast people that came out to Texas.

But, I mean, they weren't just strength coaches.

There were some of us there.

But there were a couple of their medical providers and optometrists.

And then people, pizza shop owners, literally anybody in their mother came to this thing.

Because it was a great course to learn how to defend yourself and how to be able to take charge in a pretty sketchy situation.

So the, like it wasn't just necessarily geared towards law enforcement or people that are in that kind of community.

No, and there were a handful of them too, like, you know, former special ops guys, former Marines, Army police.

But that was probably only about maybe, I'd give it like 20% of the population. The rest of it was Everyday Joe's like myself. How many people showed up? I think this cohort is about 35. Wow. So it was a pretty decent sized class. And that's included in actually that paid money and didn't show up. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Which is mind-boggling to me. Well, you know, people are busy. Sure.

So 35 people show up, private range. A lot of like, you know, I mean, was a proficiency with a pistol?

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