What up, guys. Welcome to the Jiu-Jitsu podcast episode, whatever it is with David Avalon.

David Avalon is a, you know, he's a fantastic grappler, you know, a world-class grappler,

competed in the 80s, all that stuff. And he was someone, I think it was funny. I met him for the

first time. We'll talk about this a little bit, but I figured I'd go into more detail here. We met each other for the first time. He came into one of my beginner classes and, you know, he just sort of jumped

him at this is 2009. I was teaching under my coach and come up to him like, hey man, you know,

nice to meet you. He already had no geek gear on. So I was like, he must train. I'm like, hey man, nice to meet you, you know, whatever, you know, and I wasn't really a, I wasn't like a good enough coach at like asking specific questions.

So I was just like, hey, you know, what's your name and David?

And you know, okay, cool, man.

And I didn't really ask him anything else because usually I would kind of let people tell

me that they trained to, but he didn't.

He was just like, I'm not named David. I'm here for class. Okay. So we're doing like, we're doing like, you know, shuffling our feet around.

We're doing shrimps, you know, this is 2009, doing a really basic beginner white

bell class.

He's just going along for the ride.

That's awesome. FFA, him and his brother were well known at the time for their gym. So we talked with each other and we end up having several great training sessions.

I really enjoyed rolling with them.

And I remember that one of the days we trained, I've got a picture of somewhere on the

internet.

I had on a pair of Vali Tudor shorts and then I had on this t-shirt that my coach had given me.

He thought it was funny.

It was a T-shirt and it had this cat with like a handbag.

And it said like purplish color letters says, let's go shopping.

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