What's up, guys? So today on the podcast, Eugene and I talk a little bit about some trash talking and the respect aspect in the MMA.

We touch on the whole Kabeeb and Connor fight and, you know, whether or not trash talking should be a part of it.

But before that, I get started with a little bit of a ramble and try to give you guys a tip that it came about as an experience with one of my blue belts recently and it was helpful to him and it was something that was really helpful to me

with my training and so with that said guys let's get started um we're going to talk about some

trash talking in mixed martial arts yes um in the respect aspect of martial arts and fighting

but before i get into it i wanted to sort of start with a little bit of a chewy ramble

um on the um sort of idea of setting an intention for your training. So last night,

when I was getting ready to coach, one of my blue belts, he came up to me. And he's someone that

he, you know, he comes in and trains and all this stuff. But he came up to me last night and he said, man, he goes,

you know, I don't, it was so funny how it came up because I didn't ask him about it, but he just,

you know, it was something I guess he needed to kind of get off of his mind. You know, like when I,

you know, I was asking him how he felt because his body was kind of having some trouble at one point. felt fine. He said that one of the things that he struggled with, and if you guys follow my emails, then you would have gotten this this morning. He said that when he trains, he gets really

like nervous. He gets a lot of anxiety when he's headed to the gym. He's like, when I'm headed to

the gym, he's like, I have to like listen to certain music to pump myself up. I've got to mentally

get myself ready and I've got to do all this stuff. He says when he goes into the gym and he's kind of like when I'm teaching techniques,

he's looking around at all the people that he's going to have to roll with and he'd be like,

well, that guy messed me up last time and that guy's really tough.

I think I can maybe like hang with that guy and all these things are going through his head

about the eventual outcome opposed to the actual training itself. Now, the reason I bring this up is because I know I suffered from this a lot.

Like when I used to come into training, I remember I would have like hard music playing.

I'd be like, you know, getting ready for it, like Like when we're doing heavy training, I still like come, I'll be listening to certain

music to get myself pumped up.

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