What up, guys. Welcome to the Jiu-Jitsu podcast. And so today we're going to go into a book that I've been reading. So I know a lot of you guys like hearing about the books that I'm reading. And so one of them recently that I've been reading is a book called The Pajama Game by Mark Law. It's a title, subtitle is a journey into judo. It's a book about judo. Now, obviously, there's a lot of comparables to jiu-jitsu. I read the book and every day, I'm like, if you guys are looking at the video right now, this thing's like dog ear to hell because there's so many good little ideas that I took from it. And it's also interesting if you just want to find out more about some of the history of judo and some of the inner workings of the culture, I find that's fascinating to compare it to our martial art and how different it is.

Yeah.

And yet how similar.

And so a cool book.

Today we're going to chew on an idea from it that I think is important.

As we get into it, it's an idea that is battered into everyone's head very early on a

jiu-jitsu, you know, and every white belt has heard it.

We harp on it all the time.

And then in judo, they have their own version of it where, you know, and the guy talks about how

and why, at least in this, when this book was written anyway, why so many of the Japanese fighters have such a different style and a different take and mentality on judo than say some of the Westerners do.

And so it's an interesting book. Worth a read. If you like reading, it's an easy read. It doesn't read. It's not like a fact book, like textbook. It's an easy read.

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