What's up guys? So in today's podcast, Eugene and I just sit down and have a chat. We talk about some recent belt promotions that I had. I talk about kind of what I personally expect from my guys as they get promoted, you know, up into blue, purple, brown, and black belt. Afterwards, we talk about, you know, just some different things, you know, as far as finding your own path in Jiu-Jitsu, going your own way, and dealing with some of the pressures of competition. And of course, you know, as any conversation that Eugene and I have back and forth, we go all over the place and go off into the weeds a bit. So, but it's a fun conversation. And I hope you guys enjoy it. And with that said, guys, let's get started. We have belt promotions last week we did have belt promotions

um kind of suspected some people some people i didn't we had such a big crowd um but it was nice

see everybody i get promoted i see them smile now with people that you didn't expect um let me ask

this why uh i wouldn't even like not belt promotion maybe stripes

something like that some people i thought were going to get stripes didn't get them and some

people i thought i didn't know if they were going to get some got one or two or whatever so no i

think always i was just curious i think always people are more deserving you know like I feel like you always say I wait too long

to do belt prom or something like I let they're overdue a little bit I let us I let him simmer you know

um in the reason I do that is because as I was talking about the other day I don't I don't

promote people on belts just here just by the fact of your ability to compete you know and

I mean everybody's got their own this is the beautiful thing about jiuitsu it can be kind of the

kind of a bugger at times but it's kind of the beautiful thing because there is no regulation right

it's like kind of what you see and kind of your own your own interpretation so with me you know

I know the power the influence that the higher belts had.

And I understand like, well, to me when I was younger, right?

So purple belts and up.

When you're moving into that range, to me, man, you're, you're now in this spot where

when you, when someone new walks into the mat they look to you and they

look up to you you know like for instance i was talking to the i go to this coffee shop and one

of the guys that got promoted um this past week was a one of my guys his name's thomas

thomas is about a hundred and about 125 pounds and um he's a small guy. And one of the other guys that

works at the, there's two of them, two of the guys that work at the coffee shop also train

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