What's up guys? So today in the podcast, we've got Ruben Alvarez. My first time meeting Rubin,

he was, I think, 18 or 19 years old, and I was, I want to say 24, something like that.

And I was at a tournament in North Carolina, and him and I went up against each other in the

semifinals, and he hooked me. I remember he gave me a sore ankle for a couple days. But he was a really good competitor back in the day and was doing jihitsu full time. He gave up jiu-tzeu full-time to become a full-time law enforcement. And so in this episode today, we're going to talk about all kinds of cool stuff, everything from him going jihitsu full-time to law enforcement to sport jihitsu versus self-defense

Jiu-jitsu to ghee or no-gee for self-defense all that kind of stuff and everything in between

It was a fun interview when you listen to the episode he was on the road so you'll hear some some noise in the background things like that

You know just because he was on the road and he's a super busy guy. Guys, and also,

just a reminder, if you guys are interested in getting some more behind the scenes extras,

we have some rolling videos in there. We've got all kinds of different stuff. I even put like a

stretching video that we did after class one day. That's available on the Patreon. If you go to

patreon.com slash the jihitsu podcast, we have that available to you. And then also, if you guys are interested in CBD, CBD is getting more and more popular. We have a partnership with Charlotte's Web. So if you go to charlotsweb.com and use Jiu-Jitsu 10, you'll save 10% on the order and you can give it a try. No joke. I'm not even like, this is not even like me trying to, you know, sell it or whatever. But the other this morning, I was actually training, had a good role. And we were filming this podcast with Rubin. And when I was headed here, I was like, right before I got here, my neck was all jacked up. So I rub some CBD ball on it. and by the end of the podcast, like like it's still a little sore but the muscles in my neck have kind of relaxed a little bit so some good stuff anyway check it out if you want to give it a go and let's get started the podcast

so what have you been busy with man? Busy with doing road patrol.

Right now we have a lot of overtime in my department.

So I've been hitting up the overtime.

And I just got put on a specialized unit called the Quick Response Force.

I just graduated there in two week in Doctrine School.

So what's involved with that?

A quick response force. Usually we respond out to active killers.

Basically now you trend on these, the active killers within schools or within public areas.

We respond to large crowds, so like field force crowd control.

And we do other things too, like dignitary protection and stuff like that.

What got you into being police officers?

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