EPISODE 339: The MATT DAVIS Life
Gritty Podcast
Brian Call
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2018
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Gritty Bowmen I sit down with friend and Tradlife enthusiast, Matt Davis. Matt is the VP of Sales & Marketing at MTN OPS. Matt began working in the hunting industry for Hoyt Archery about 7 years ago and as a result of that interaction he developed a fondness for traditional archery.
SUBJECTS DISCUSSED:
Mixing MTN OPS Flavors
All About Matt Davis
Tradlife, Fitness,
What would you like to see change in the hunting industry?
Tom Clum Sr. Social Media post split finger
Post authentically, be genuine. Don't contribute to the noise.
If Matt Davis were fish and game how would you manage our wildlife resources?
Bonneville cutthroat trout
Hunter Dollars
Gap in what Fish & Wildlife do and the public's knowledge of what they do.
Which states do a good job of educating?
Arizona stands out. Arizona Game & Fish loves what they do.
What has been one of your most rewarding business relationships?
Jeremy Eldridge, Trevor Farnes, Shane Prescott
GRITTY BOOK CLUB UPCOMING SELECTION: 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson
36:00 What motivates you to get outdoors and share your hunting story?
The great oudoors is my therapy. It recharges me. I share it to help educate and shed a positive light.
42:00 How to become a better archer? Traditional archery story began at Hoyt. Fortunate to have the best teachers at fingertips
Compound more consistent than recurve.
How can you become a person that can make the shot in the moment?
Muscle memory.
54: John Dudley Releases and visualization
Ryan Lampers
58: What in your hunting arsenal are you bad at and you would like to change?
1:00 What motivates you to get out of bed and work out every morning?
1:06 Testosterone and swagger
1:09 What 3-5 exercises do you feel are vital?
Back Squats, Deadlifts,
1:13 building a base over a long period of time
1:19 managing stress
What are some mistakes people make in getting fit?
Shane Prescott
1:27 Fitness injury?
stress under load increases mobility
pain cave
Jocko Willink
Hunting Heroes/Influencers
Cameron Hanes - Backcountry Bowhunting
Steven Rinella - Meat Eater Podcast, Intellectual message
Jim Shockey, Aron Snyder, Tim Burnett
@matthew.b.davis on instagram
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| 0:00.0 | Find the right people. Yeah, talk to the right people and get help from the right people. I follow Tom |
| 0:05.8 | Clon because I value the information that he shares because I want to apply that to myself personally to better myself. |
| 0:12.0 | Get carries over into that fish and wildlife scene, but you're right. There's a huge gap in what they do |
| 0:18.8 | and the public's knowledge of what they do. I would be, I guess for me, I would be so much more excited |
| 0:25.3 | showing what that money is doing and actually showing a direct application and showing their |
| 0:30.8 | dollars hard at work. I'll tell you this is I'm like I'm going on 44 soon. My test |
| 0:35.4 | Australian levels go way higher. My sex drive is way higher. My swagger, my attitude, my confidence, |
| 0:43.0 | everything feels better. I feel they just feel good when I'm lifting heavy. Yeah, I know there's |
| 0:49.7 | weaknesses I need to address and I think that's the most important part of fitness, right? You're |
| 0:55.2 | addressing your weaknesses to improve. You check, you check, you check. Look at that. So nice. |
| 1:05.8 | We're probably sit up or twin in pretty hard today, dude. Dude, I know. |
| 1:11.9 | Jordan probably upset. We do have mountain on. I love this hat. He does, he has an idea, doesn't he? |
| 1:20.5 | How he wants this thing to roll out very much so everything you did before was wrong, right? |
| 1:25.3 | Yeah, until like no. The thing is is I don't get too caught up on the video side because |
| 1:32.3 | there are very few people who consume the video. Oh, absolutely. Everybody's in their car. |
| 1:38.6 | They're driving. I know Joe, Joe Rogan records it. Jocco records. I didn't even know Jocco recorded |
| 1:43.1 | until yesterday. Really? I only consume it through just audio audio. Yeah. So I think a lot of |
| 1:50.8 | people are the same in the beginning it was really critical. Like not to my own horn, but I'm pretty |
| 1:57.5 | sure that you revolutionized. You were the trance and you were the pioneer of that's right. I got |
| 2:04.8 | people into pod cat like hunters into podcasts. Oh, I don't doubt that. I would I would definitely |
| 2:12.6 | acknowledge and I had to use video to do it. Right. That's what they were accustomed to. Yeah, |
| 2:18.4 | that's why I just listen to you. They want to see you. Yeah. So they consumed it through YouTube |
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