You ever have that?

You ever have a tall day?

Oh yeah, I think it's the shoes you were wearing.

Oh yeah, I'm not wearing any shoes today.

I was deadlifting and just sometimes it's easier just to not have shoes.

My day I'll have this do that too. You fight with no shoes on, right?

Might as well get used to it, right?

Yeah, and then is that a big change coming from a wrestling background?

It was at first, but but honestly like all the guys get pissed off at me in the gym

because I don't wrestle shoes on anymore even when we're doing just straight wrestling practice.

So like my defense is completely changed. I don't do a lot of the basic like sprawl that all hit pressure, you know and and

Plant your foot slide it out. It's all just stinky leg now. I bring the knee up and like slip my knee out and they're just like what the hell we can't even shoot single legs anymore and I mean it's I don't fight with shoes on so why do I want to learn all the techniques and

defense with shoes on so that's my mindset in it anyways.

There's a huge difference between

between some of the martial arts that people end up

becoming accustomed to when they're young or trade that they learn wrestling, right?

There's a huge difference between that and getting into a cage and having, you know, in particular,

like UFC rules, right? rules right yeah oh yeah I think the biggest part of it for me was

The the way my body structure was I mean being a wrestler from age five all the way up through college. I'm used to

doing everything bent over in wrestling stance. So then when I came into the fight world I

like had to stand straight up and now punches and kicks are being thrown in my head.

I'm like, what the hell?

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