#355 Josh Answers 40 Questions | How to Suck Less

I suck at Jiu-Jitsu. What's the program that brings you this thing for Christmas? I guess it sucks less. What is one piece of advice that you would give a beginner to help them suck less at Jiu-Jitsu? Well, the advice would be the same advice that I gave you guys 360 episodes ago. Six years ago. And the advice is this, you've got to focus. That is the secret. There are way too many important pieces to getting good at Jiu-Jitsu. And you really need them to all happen at once to get really good at Jiu-Jitsu. But the problem is, it takes a very, very long time to develop all of those pieces, especially the way that most people do it. Most people work on whatever is randomly taught at the gym, whatever they randomly see on Instagram or TikTok or YouTube or wherever they consume their Jiu-Jitsu. And the big problem occurs because you're never actually getting good at any of these things. When we really boil it down to really high-level black belts, the best black belts in the world, they always have this thing in common that people will talk about. People will say, oh, this guy, he does the same thing to everybody. He's so good that he can do the same thing to everybody. That is not the measure of being good. He is so good at that one thing that he can do it to everybody. There is a difference in how we look at it. So the problem is not that you don't have enough information. The problem is that you haven't gone deeper on the information that you have. Very beginner, the first thing that you can do is listen to your coach. Listen to what you're you're paying this person to teach you Jiu-Jitsu. Why would you assume that your opinion on what you should be learning is relevant yet? You don't know anything yet. And so the idea that you should be telling your coach, you know, I want to listen to this. I'm going to I'm going to pick my own thing to work. A lot of times your coach can show Jiu-Jitsu, can teach Jiu-Jitsu, and they'll show you this is a Kimura, this is a triangle. One of those things will click with you. You'll go, oh, this feels a little better for me. When we roll live, I find myself almost getting here. That's what you should focus on. You should commit, actually, it's the beginning of the year. You should say for the next six weeks, six months, or even this entire year of 2026. Holy smokes, I shouldn't have done 666 there. That was wild. Um, rewind. That was not, didn't mean to do that. But this year, you choose to get good at one thing specifically. And the times I've challenged my own students to do this, and this is not an exaggeration, I have had some people that have decided that they were going to pick a specific position, a specific type of pass, a style of passing, a specific guard. They're going to play half guard, they're going to play collar sleeve. And they would say, I'm only going to do this for the next year. Every time somebody say, hey, where do you want to start? They would go, oh, could I start in half guard? Could I start in collar sleeve? They did it over and over and over again. And those people, and this is not an exaggeration, I would say on average went up two belt levels at that position in one year. Think about that. Think about how beneficial it would be for you as a white belt. You're going to suck at everything a year from now. I promise. But what if there was one thing that when you went with a blue belt and even when you went with some purple belts, if you could get them there, you could beat them. And obviously, winning in the gym really, it's not that relevant. But what if that could happen? What if you could just just with a little dedication, just with a little focus, and most importantly, with the choice now that you're going to focus in the future, and you keep yourself accountable, you keep that in mind. It's like, I am going to do this. Why not do that? And so to me, that is the that is the secret. Pick a focus, spend time on it. Because imagine this, a year from now, now you're a purple belt at one guard. You know how to get to purple belt level at something. That is the the true secret. Is the black belt at your gym, if he is training consistently, he's actually getting better faster than you. He hasn't learned it all. He's starting to get to take these things that he's actually good at and refine them down to be great at them. And what is he doing? Oh, he's just choosing to focus. The secret is the same if you're a beginner or if you're advanced. It is you find focus. The problem is, where do we find focus? Right? As you get better, it's harder to find coaches that you like. It's harder to find podcasts that you like. Um, things start to get too redundant in not redundant in a good way, like, I've tried this information already. And so let's move on. That is question one, and we only have 39 to go on our New Year's special. Obviously, you guys can see a little longer than a typical I Suck at Jiu-Jitsu Show episode, but I thought it would be fun to just start the year off with something like this. Answer, this is 40 listener questions. Some have been saved for a while. Um, some we just got recently. But the truth for me is like, I really appreciate you guys listening, and I wanted to answer as many of your specific questions. So, as you go through, maybe one of your questions get answered today. Um, number two. Have you ever hit a plateau in your training and what strategies do you use to overcome periods when progress seems to stall? So, yes, I do occasionally hit plateaus, maybe for a couple weeks now. Maybe probably not even that. And these probably happen every three to six months. It's very, very uncommon. I train consistently. Um, but I do feel like, and this is what I was saying earlier, is the secret is that I get to improve over and over and over, and it's like, I get the practice of improving, and I get to refine that skill of getting better at Jiu-Jitsu as I'm getting better at Jiu-Jitsu. So I am getting better at getting better at Jiu-Jitsu. That has, um, and so that that's why I don't really stall as much anymore. But I also have deep focuses. I have things that I've literally been focused on in my training for three years now. And, um, it's basically ruined my life because I haven't been able to focus on anything else in Jiu-Jitsu but these things. But it's also changed my Jiu-Jitsu, so that makes your life better. And so it's like, even if your life is on fire, if your Jiu-Jitsu is getting better, is your life really that bad? You know? Think about all the people that are super successful and happy and fulfilled that you could submit in less than a minute. Think about that. Number three. Yeah, I think that's that's my answer is like, just get better at Jiu-Jitsu. I guess if I ever did plateau and I was struggling, I didn't answer that part of it. It's a two-part question. We won't go, man, there's more than 40 questions when we add the two-part questions in together. Um, but how do I overcome it when I do have those periods of plateaus? I would say, I like to just try to get as much perspective as I can. What a lot of people do too much of, I don't do at all. I actually hardly listen to any podcasts about Jiu-Jitsu. Um, watch any YouTube videos about Jiu-Jitsu, watch very little Instagram stuff about Jiu-Jitsu. And, um, I know that would be surprising to some people, but I deal with Jiu-Jitsu so much. A lot of the times when I'm consuming things, I am consuming them for entertainment. And so it's just like, I don't want to watch Jiu-Jitsu for entertainment. I am exhausted from Jiu-Jitsu. And so, um, that's why I typically don't. But like, if I ever start to feel myself in a plateau, I'll go, well, what's new from the YouTubers that I like? What are they showing? And usually it takes me a couple of videos, and then I'm like, okay, I have some great stuff to work for the next six months. Um, stuff that I know I need because I have specific people that their perspective just seems to click with me. And so, that's what I typically do. If I was the opposite, if I was somebody that struggled with having too many outside sources that you're always learning, you're always learning, I would just dial in, only listen to the I Suck at Jiu-Jitsu Show. Um, and then people that I have on the I Suck at Jiu-Jitsu Show, obviously. That's like me telling you guys to listen to them. Um, but, or just listen to your coach. But the big thing would be focus. It's like, tune out all that noise and try to dial in on something. If that means you only you still watch YouTube videos, but you only watch them on a specific position. And, um, you still watch your Instagram videos and study them, but only on a specific position or idea. And so, uh, yeah. Now, number three. Would you ever teach a seminar in the Philippines? I would. I would definitely do that. I think the question, I assume the listener knows that I am half Filipino. I'm actually 3/8 Filipino. Um, but, yeah, I would say, uh, I would definitely, I mean, for money? Yeah, well, honestly, too, um, I could definitely see myself. I have a lot of family that is in the Philippines. Um, and, um, on top of that, I sit on the Board of Directors for Mission 111, which you guys should check out mission111.org. Um, I make no money from it. I'm a volunteer director, just like all of the up to the president, the CEO, everybody is a volunteer. And so, um, that's what's awesome about Mission 111. Um, and my mom started it. That's what's also awesome. But, they we do so much work there. I could definitely see myself going there not for Jiu-Jitsu. And if I did, I would, uh, I would try to do a seminar or two, I would think. I think that would be a really cool experience to get to do. Um, but who knows? Yeah, if somebody, I mean, even if not, if somebody wanted to pay for me to go to the Philippines and then pay me to do a seminar, yes, I would do that. I mean, I don't know what places I wouldn't do that. Um, yeah, if the money is right, I think I think I'm there. Um, number four. Ooh, this is a good one. What are your go-to tips for dealing with significantly larger or stronger opponents? Um, I like significantly larger. Okay, that gives me enough context. Cause like, just larger or stronger, it's so general, like 20 pounds heavier, sometimes that guy literally doesn't have any negatives to being 20 pounds heavier than you. Sometimes he's literally just bigger, faster, stronger. But typically, if somebody's 100 pounds heavier than you, typically they have, you know, unless you're just really small, um, they have some body weight that slows them down. They're not as, you know, usually, not always. Um, but we're just saying somebody bigger. The the thought is is this, is you have to, just like we do in Jiu-Jitsu all the time, just like the goal is really in Jiu-Jitsu, you have to take as much of your body to attack as little of their body as possible. That is how you're going to typically beat those people. Why? Because most people go, well, I'll play guard. That's how I'll deal with this guy. And that makes sense. Like, you play guard and it works. But you get tired from your guard because the person is so much bigger than you. If you make a few moves and you don't get them off of you, they stay pretty square, things start to get closer and closer and closer, you lose your position. The thought is, you pull guard, you think Omaplata. Like, oh, but coach, I don't like Omaplatas because I can never finish them. Just listen to me for once. Just stop arguing back with me and listen to me. Go for Omaplata. That segments the body. It makes the person make a choice with, I either have to roll and give up the sweep and it changes the fight, or I have to sit here and get submitted. And so typically, that is going to be your best way of hitting, um, attacking somebody. And, um, there are a lot of different collar sleeve, there are a lot of different lasso variations to get to Omaplatas, and they're very overpowered, especially early on. Um, and they're on honestly, they're overpowered because so few people have good Omaplata finishes. And so it becomes this thing where people go, oh, it doesn't work. And it's like, no, it's just very few people have figured out how to get it to work. And so, um, I like Omaplata against big guys, um, or you get completely underneath them and start to segment them, segment their legs, right? You start to get both of their ankles, people stop being athletic if you get both of their feet, um, or if you get their knees to the floor. And so, um, there are ways you can look at it, but I'm always thinking, I want to fight as little of this person as possible. Um, I do not want to fight their size if I can't. Cause like, imagine that Omaplata, we sweep, we come up now, and no, we're not dealing with the hips or legs. We're past into side control now, right? And so maybe this is a good position for us to hold and even out the exhaustion a little bit, right? And that might mean, obviously, we're going to have to be a lot more dynamic if the person's bigger. We're going to have to disconnect more than overly connect and squeeze and crush. Um, but the bigger the person, obviously, like, I'm telling you guys to be on top, too. That's the real secret. It it's just hard to get there. Um, bigger people will start to understand, hey, I have this value that I get from being on top. I win more when I'm on top. And, um, then they'll just make it hard for you to get on top. And it's about how do I, how do I segment them to either get on top? Obviously, submit them off your back. But, that's I think much harder. A lot of the submissions off your back, when somebody's bigger than you, they can actually just lay on you as a defense. And it's like, that is a that's not ideal. I would rather be hitting submissions from top when somebody is exhausted, or just being able to get to top. And so, those are thoughts on somebody much bigger is how much, how much can I just separate their body? How much can I pull their elbows away from their body? How much can I keep that happening? It's just like, I don't want them to be one big unit crashing down on me over and over and over because even if I stop it, it's too taxing. I'm going to get tired. And I'm like, man, I almost had them, but then at minute three in the five-minute round, he passed my guard and submitted me, like always. Well, that is because you got exhausted. That is because he kept beating your offense. And so you need offense that you can hit, because you need him to be on defense. And that is the thought. Or her, you know, I don't want to be, I don't want to discriminate. There are girls that are significantly bigger than guys and will just thrash certain guys at the gym. And those guys will ask questions on the I Suck at Jiu-Jitsu Show and purposely not mention say significantly larger or stronger opponents and not say guys. Who knows? Who knows? Um, oof. This is rough. I don't like this one. This is a little too deep. Um, biggest failure as a coach/gym owner, how did you make peace with it? Man, I think that it's hard. It's hard to say because, so I'm still in the middle of being a gym owner and a coach, right? I have not I have not finished. I can't look back and say this is how this turned out. And so, I don't know. For me, it's like, there are most of the failures that I see, I have addressed now. Um, I think any of the failures I I've seen, um, I've addressed now. And so the biggest failure is just not having addressed it earlier. Because no doubt for me, like, when I think biggest regret as a coach, I think of specific people. I don't think of, um, oh, I should have advertised this way or I should have done this. I I don't really think of it like that. Um, but I do think of, I think of specific people. People popping in my head. And we all trained together for years. Literally, like, this is when I would teach every class. Literally, like, every day we trained together for years. And you build really good bonds with people and you really care about people, you know? These become your best friends. And then there's life outside of Jiu-Jitsu. And that life can be really hard. And so, as a coach, I really think the biggest thing that I've always struggled with, that I've always seen is is just those faces of like, is there something I could have said or done? Or, you know, is there something I could have done to have to have helped this person? And so, obviously, I have not, uh, completely made peace with it. But, let's take a quick commercial break. The Jiu-Jitsu mats are really gross. If you really think about it. I try to not think about it. 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And so, at checkout, when you are getting your case of Full Guard to just douche your body in because of how gross the mats are, be sure to use promo code I SUCK at checkout. Let's get back to the show. And we're back. Sorry about that. Somebody was chopping onions in the studio. Started to, uh, yeah, mess with me a little bit. I don't know. Um, number eight, the greatest album in the last 10 years. Oh, in the last 10 years. Holy smokes. And what was the greatest album of all time? What was the greatest album in the last 10 years? Alexa, when did The Fame Monster come out? The Fame Monster was released on November 17th, 2009. Oh, 2009. Holy smokes, I'm old. Um, dang, I don't know. I don't listen to a ton of current music. Only album. Ooh, Alexa, when did the Teal Album come out? Are you not listening to me now? Alexa, when did the Teal Album come out? The Fame Monster was released on November 17th, 2009. That's not what I said. Alexa, when did the Teal Album come out? I guess we'll never know. The Teal Album by Weezer was released digitally on January 24th, 2019. Okay. Ooh, that changes things. Okay, so Teal Album is really good. The Teal Album by Weezer is just, I want to say it's 80s, um, uh, what do you call it? Covers. It's just like 80s covers. They do, um, they do Africa, they do No Scrubs by TLC. Great album. What, that's the last 10 years. Tough thing is, it's 80s covers though. Does it really count? Last 10 years, totally honest, this is going to shock you guys. You guys are not going to see this coming from your boy, your boy Josh McKinney. But have you ever listened to Harry's House from front to back, the album by Harry Styles? Anybody? I'm telling you. Harry's House is absolute gold. I was listening to that album during some of my biggest wins in 2023. Album just goes off, dude. So, last 10 years, it's between those two. I'll say just because it's a hotter take, I'll say, uh, Harry's House, last 10 years. Now, greatest album of all time. I already mentioned The Fame Monster. Fame Monster is Lady Gaga. Um, that was I think that was her first album. Um, excellent, excellent, excellent album. And the thing is, all music then shifted to trying to sound like Lady Gaga after that. So you forget the fact that she was the one who created that new genre of pop. But, uh, yeah, like, I don't know. The greatest album of all time, probably not. I mean, you really, cause you also, you make the same, you can make that same argument with so many different groups, so many different albums. Uh, I don't know ex what album it would have been from Metallica. I don't think it would have been Kill 'Em All. But, uh, which, I don't know which Metallica album was, but that was like the one that shot metal into the scene, right? And also changed the rock game. So, it's just tough. Greatest is so hard. Nirvana, Nevermind. I'll go greatest. Same year I was born. That's the one I'll go with. Now, favorite album. Had you have said, what's your favorite album? Way easier. Way easier. And this is a great album, but I don't think I can say it's the greatest album of all time. Um, but Appetite for Destruction is, uh, my favorite album of all time. When I was a kid, growing up, um, don't tell my mom about this because we really weren't allowed to listen to this type of music at that time. Um, but me and my dad would work out in, um, at his gym. And he had The Appetite for Destruction CD. Don't tell Jen, okay? But, I mean, just so many memories of lifting weights that growing up, learning to lift weights, um, to that album. And, uh, yeah, still will me and my dad will still lift together sometimes today at 31, and we will still, I'll still hit the old play Appetite for Destruction. Favorite for sure. Ooh, deep cut. The album Maggot Brain by Funkadelic. That's a good album. That's a wild album. Super, super, super old. But, that's a good one. I don't know, so many good ones. I I really don't know if I could do greatest album of all time. I'm sorry, guys. I just I know I can pretty much make all takes. I don't like the Nirvana pick at all. I don't like the Nevermind pick at all. Um, that's the that's the hardest question I've ever had to answer on the podcast. Greatest album of all time. I'll give you something generic then. Abbey Road, greatest album of all time. Boom. Hit you with it. Super safe pick, not a hot take. Guys, give me your greatest album of all time because I'm struggling. I don't I don't think I missed anything off like the top of my head, but I just don't know if maybe there's something that I am missing that's just like the one. Like, bro, freaking Meteora by Linkin Park. Even, I mean, is Meteora even their best album though? Right? It's just that Linkin Park was that good. Okay. Number 10. Oh, no, we're at number nine, sorry. What is the best advice for purple belt gym owners who still want to compete? And it's steroids. Number 10. What did I'm just joking. Um, it is this. Okay, here's the thing about all martial arts. And pretty much everything. Your personality will dictate, who you are as a person will dictate how you approach martial arts. It will dictate how you approach every individual thing in your life. And so people that are crazy tend to have crazy Jiu-Jitsu. People that are really safe and play things safe, get learn to play things safe in Jiu-Jitsu. And, um, it tends to be like to the detriment of both people, right? And so, um, often times your greatest strength is your greatest weakness. If you are a purple belt gym owner, this is me just guessing because I was a purple belt gym owner. You play long games. And that is something I didn't even realize at the time. But at 21 years old, I was so puzzled why everyone was like, I can't believe you're starting your own Jiu-Jitsu school. Are you sure this is a good idea? I kind of was like, what do you mean? Nobody's making any money through competing in Jiu-Jitsu right now. Why wouldn't I just, the only guys that I know that are making money in Jiu-Jitsu have schools. Why not start the school now and then grow it? And that was the thought. I didn't realize that that was such a long-term thought. I knew I was sacrificing my own training. You have to do that as a coach. Literally, the coach's role and the competitor's role are two totally different roles. When I am a competitor, I need coaches. When I am a coach, I don't need coaches. I need competitors. And so, and I can play both of those roles, but I cannot play both at the same time. Um, it is just I don't really know what that is, but, um, it is that way. And so, um, when you're going into the gym as a coach and you're saying, well, today I have to be coach. It's very hard to have any focus on your own training. One thought is you need a place where you can be a student. You need a person that can make you a student. You, there are so many sucky mentors out there that it's hard to find a good one. So you got to test and you've got to test the advice, test the advice, test the advice. And the people that are giving you good advice that is working over and over and over again, you just keep trying to get more from them. And you just keep trying to get more from them. And that is going to be like the long-term mindset for your growth in your business and in the growth in your Jiu-Jitsu. The problem happens at a couple years in. You're going to start to have success. You are focused. You start to have some success, and then you go, oh, this is what it is. I am done now. I don't need to add more to my, I don't need to get better at Jiu-Jitsu now. I don't need to get better at my business now. But the truth is, that practice is why you're there. That practice of being a student, it's why you got to purple belt. You've got to keep that practice going because that is a skill. And so make sure you find a place, it's literally like, you find a place to be fed. I remember my wife asked me years ago, um, when one of my friends had left our house. And I don't know what type of turmoil his life was in or or what it was, but we talked for a long time just about what he was dealing with. Um, and he left, and my wife goes, you ever notice that you are the one always having those conversations with people and you don't seem to have anyone to have those conversations with? I'm like, yeah. And it sucks. But I get to be that role for so many people, and that is a special thing. That is a thing that I should never not respect and cherish because I see the value in it, because I am searching and I now have so many people that I really feel confident to to talk to, that I feel confident to be coached by. Um, and, uh, yeah, so I just think that, I think that that's the thing is is you want coaching. I have, I do so much learning that's non-Jiu-Jitsu related stuff. Because as a gym owner, you have to. You have to understand more about business, even though it's not the fun part of Jiu-Jitsu. I just talked to, um, Jake Luigi a few episodes about this. Um, the guy who runs the YouTube channel Less Impressed, More Involved. Um, and, uh, he was talking about, um, we're both talking about, you dedicate all of your time and you love Jiu-Jitsu so much. So you go, I'm going to create this Jiu-Jitsu business. This business around my Jiu-Jitsu. So you dedicate so much time and effort to it. And then what ends up happening is you go, um, wow, I I've gotten good at this business stuff. I've gotten good at signing up students. I've gotten good at coaching, but now I don't get to do Jiu-Jitsu. And so the same thing that I wanted to do, I don't get to do. And so finding places that you get to still have that fun and still be a student, I think is, um, I think it's incredibly valuable. Um, number 10. What advice do you have for training smart and staying consistent while avoiding injuries, or coming back from an injury if one happens? Um, not overtraining. And that's a hard thing. A lot of people, I mean, through Jiu-Jitsu, most people are inherently overtrained. Um, and so they just like always are habitually overtrained. Um, and, um, so they are just always, there is no baseline of like, hey, what does it mean to be recovered or why would you be recovered? So this is different if you're a hobbyist or if you are a competitor. If you are a hobbyist, it is good to find a consistent schedule that works for you, and you can just kind of feel your way through it. But you go, okay, four days a week, I get injured. So maybe we try three days a week. Or four days a week and they're all night classes, I get injured. You hear Steve McKinney, my dad talk about how if you do, um, if he does daytime classes, he gets injured way less. And it's all like, as he's aged, it's always been that way. And so maybe you move your classes to the day and it let you recover a little bit better. Maybe you cut down on one of those classes. And so it's different for every person. Um, but for me, I'm always looking at it at it like, um, I just don't want to train hard on days that I I feel less than 90%. And I know that that's a again, that's just my own feel. When I'm talking about percentages, I there's really no good way to explain it. 90% means I can almost do everything that I can do on my best day, but it just takes a little more effort. 80% is it starts to take a lot of effort to do the things that I can do pretty effortlessly on my best day. Under 80%, there's like a, you know, 50% now is like, I can't no matter how much effort, I can't do my best stuff. I don't have it, it's just not available. My legs are feeling a little, they just, I'm in quicksand today. And, um, maybe my, and like if that happens, like I just told you, you don't train hard. That doesn't mean you don't have to train. Maybe I'm just training like bottom side control, trying to escape, and when I can't, you get tapped. Like, oh, okay, restart. You know, you escape. Oh, okay, go back. You know, because when you start to open up, you start to get to the more dynamic positions of open guard and stuff, that's where you have more more risk of getting injured. If you're getting hurt in bottom side control, like a lot of times it's because you didn't tap. Um, because you're pretty pinned and there's not a lot of stuff that you can do from that position. And so, um, yeah, I would say the the biggest thing I'm looking at is like, you've got to learn your own feel for your own body. And, um, and then from there, that's where you build your schedule. Not for competitors, it's different because competitors' jobs are to win competitions. Their job is to perform at their best when the moment arrives. And that part of that is being recovered when the moment arrives. And you can only judge that again, knowing who you are. I have done, and this is my rule, um, I'll just give it to you like this, this is really easy. Um, it's called the 100% rule. And I will not train in the last now, keep in mind, I'm an old man. I'm 31, and I've 17 years of competitive Jiu-Jitsu on my body. And that's joints are older than 31, okay? And so, um, I am, um, looking at it from this perspective now. I take two weeks before every competition, and I will only train live and hard if I feel 100%. I will not train on any because that's how I want to feel on tournament day. So I'm trying to get like the most complete performance reps when I'm doing performance. I still show up to the same to the same schedule, but my training can just like, the intensity of my training just drops drastically. And, um, that is that's called the 100% rule. It just add that one thing, you'll perform better. Literally, two weeks before your tournament, even just one week before your tournament. I know so many people worry about losing the cardio that they have. And then they end up overtraining all the way up into the tournament, and then they get tired. And they go, well, maybe I should have done more cardio. Maybe I should have ran 10 miles last night instead of five. Like, no, that is why you're tired. You have a certain amount of energy. Your body needs to recover that, it needs to replenish that energy. That's how everybody works. Yeah, you can take steroids and make that energy replenish a lot quicker. But still, even if you're on, you still need to think about, I want to perform at my best at the tournament. That's the goal here. And so, obviously, different for competitors, different for hobbyist. Um, but those are just general thoughts. If those thoughts make sense to you as a competitor, I have a free ebook called The Competitor's Journey. It's on simplifyingjiujitsu.com. We'll link it in the description. And it is, uh, it is, sorry, I'm writing down The Competitor's Journey, so I don't forget to link it in the description for you guys. But it is, um, just about how to structure a six-week, it's actually a seven-week camp before a tournament. What days you should train, depending on who you are and how much free time you have, and what those training sessions should look like. It's three different templates. One for a guy that can only train or girl who can only train two classes per week. One for a guy, this one's not for girls. I'm just joking. Um, that can only train three to four classes per week, maybe because physically that's all they can do, or timewise, that's all that they have. And then one for like professionals that is for me, while I was, I've always been a natural athlete, so while being a natural athlete, competing in adult black belt, that I give you like the exact training schedule, the exact routine that I had down to the stretches that I was doing, just everything. And so, um, yeah, I think that is, I think that that is, um, a helpful piece for you guys if you want it. Um, now let's go, number 11. Best post-competition meal. This is a great question. And I know I'm an AJJ guy. But back when I was a BJJ guy, you would go to a Brazilian barbecue after, right? And then, and like, I mean, dude, Brazilian barbecue, it's buffet. So if you've never been to a a Churrascaria, you go and they have huge skewers that they have all kinds of delicious meats on. And, um, they will cut piece of meat, you put them on your plate, and then you consume them. And then they have ridiculous salad bars too, and everything's all you can eat. You have like a some type of red light, green light system, card system on your table that you can show, hey, we want you to keep bringing all of these delicious meats. Obviously, what I just described to you is without a doubt, the best post-competition meal. Here's the problem. Pretty expensive. The experience tends to dwindle down the bigger your group gets. Um, your table gets about the same amount of service, but the amount of people starts to spread. It's much nicer when you only have a group. And then when you also have a big group, you're like, people like, oh, this is really expensive. Do we really want to do this? Are we sure? Shouldn't we just eat Jack in the Box? Like, no, we don't want to do that. And so, yeah, here is the thing. This is the thing. You guys may have different opinions. Tell me, best competition post-meal, maybe it's a specific place. If I'm in, if I'm on the West Coast, it's in and out, right? Because I don't I don't have in and out where I live, and those burgers are great. I know people on the West Coast are like, oh, no, he said in and out. That's ridiculous. Like, but it's just it's what we don't have access to. Sometimes we're going with crews that have never had in and out. So you get to enjoy, it's like you get to enjoy the first experience again. And then the thing is, this is this is what makes it the best competition meal. And this is this is the criteria, and this is the most important thing that I need you guys to draw from this. Best competition meal is the planned post-competition meal. If you know a day out where you guys are going to eat, I promise you, the competition will be significantly better. Like, what we are going to do for dinner after we leave here. I promise. Now, if you know a month out where you're going to eat, the competition is easier. Your chances of winning skyrocket. I'm telling you, they do. You think, Josh, it's all about focus. You're losing focus. No, no, no, you're not. It's so hard to not overfocus on a competition when you know that there is life after the competition. What tends to happen is you tend to do better. You tend to not obsess so much. And you have something to look forward to, and it lets you a lot of times take it off your mind of like, I like, when you see on on, uh, TV show and the dad's like, yeah, no matter if you win or lose, we're getting pizza. That's what you're doing for adults. Like, no matter what, we get pizza. So don't worry about that. Don't stress about whether we win or lose, right? And so, um, and that really typically lets you enjoy the game better. And so, best post-competition meal, even if it's freaking McDonald's, it's about that the group wants that and that we all go together. We all we all revel in victory together and or defeat, you know? And and we talk about it. As human beings have done after wars for as long as they as they've existed. You sit around and you say, man, I crushed that dude. Yeah, that dude beat me down though. You know, that was rough. Like, oh, man, I'm I'm not should I even post that on Instagram? Nah, just keep it a secret. Don't tell anybody you competed, right? Let's go to number 12. This is tough. Is there a widely accepted idea or rule in Jiu-Jitsu that you actually disagree with and why? This is tough because, we kind of do our own thing over here on the I Suck at Jiu-Jitsu Show. I don't really, like, all the I Suck at Jiu-Jitsu Show is is is me being against these type of rules. I would say, okay, there are unspoken rules, and that's what I don't like. Um, and that's what I have, if you have seen, there has obviously been a change in some of our content in 2025. Some of the stuff, some of the opinions have gotten hotter. They have gotten spicier. And the reason that I started to do that is not because I I think there are a lot of people that do that and they go, I'm going to build a brand off of clicks. And that's like the mindset, which is totally cool. Do it, right? That wasn't my mindset. My mindset was, I want to, I have a platform. I want to talk about the things that we aren't allowed to talk about. There are certain unspoken rules in Jiu-Jitsu that we all have to look the other way on. And, obviously, the steroid issue is one of them, and I talk about it. But the TRT thing is another one, and I talk about it. And I understand that that hurts feelings. I have tons of friends that are on TRT. I have tons of students that are on TRT. I have no problem with those dudes being on TRT. I was very specific on, I have no problem with anybody doing it. I couldn't care less. I explained why I don't do it. I explained that there are other options. There are other thoughts around it. And my complaint was that I see in the space that that isn't explained to people. And so, for me, the the the accepted idea or the accepted rule is these unspoken things that we don't talk about. Hey, are we ever going to have a discussion on, is it right or is it wrong that so many BJJ coaches, not AJJ coaches, but so many BJJ coaches, especially married BJJ coaches, sleep with their students, sleep with their white belts, especially, right? People that just come in that they pray upon. Are we ever allowed to talk about that? Like, well, guess what? We can talk about it on my show. I don't, I don't care. I think that that is an important issue. I think that that is something, but we all know people that have done it or we are close to somebody that has done it. And a lot of us have just turned the other way and said, ah, it's just whatever, which is fine. You do you. But for me, that is the, those are the things that I talk about on the show now. And that's why there are no real rules in Jiu-Jitsu. As the podcast has grown, it's crazy how much, how much power it has in the Jiu-Jitsu space. Because, I I one time was, I guess it would have been this year. I was going to, I offered to teach some designated winner. And a coach goes, oh, no, we we do that. We do that already. And I go, oh, really? And like, yeah. And I was like, I was going to teach the concept, the training method that I invented, designated winner. And, um, he's like, oh, no, no, we got that. We we know it. I'm like, oh, cool. And then he started asking me about it, and he's like, yeah, what what what turned you on to designated winner? And we started talking about it. And I was like, this dude doesn't know that I invented this concept. This is awesome. He's using the term, he's using the language. He has no idea where it came from. It's just part of Jiu-Jitsu now. And so, for me, that's why I started to do that. I don't really know. Even the I Suck at Jiu-Jitsu Show is like, a lot of the I Suck at Jiu-Jitsu Show listeners might be surprised to learn about. Um, but, uh, when I had long hair, it was pretty curly, pretty frizzy. And, um, there was if you want to search back on my Instagram and find a picture of it, you will laugh because this was the, probably the greatest roast I've ever been hit with. Um, but, uh, when I had long hair, one day my student Robert Areas looked at me and said, how come you look like a cross between Johnny Tsunami and Johnny Tran? Johnny Tsunami, obviously from the Disney movie Johnny Tsunami, and then Johnny Tran from, uh, Fast and the Furious. And so, the first one. And so that's a really, really good joke. Like, he really, really lit me up on that. And so, either one of those guys could play, you know, could play the be the actor. Um, when Twilight was popping and I was a young man, um, I was like 15 or 16, uh, the teenage ladies would always tell me, I look like Taylor Lautner. And I didn't, but they said it, so maybe him too. He's gotten a little chubby too, so it might be perfect. It might be a actually, Taylor Lautner, yeah. Um, we've aged well. Um, number 23. Will you grow your hair out again? Or are you afraid people will criticize it? Well, I really wasn't afraid that anyone would criticize it, but you asking the question that way made me feel like people might criticize it. Were people criticizing it before? I kind of thought people, I thought it was cool when I had the when I was long-haired, Josh, you know, not tax-paying, Josh. Um, hippie, Josh. I think that that was cool, right? Maybe it wasn't. I don't know. Now, I guess I won't. Um, I don't know. It was cool to do, but you got to go through so many stages of bad hair. And I do a podcast every week, guys. I don't want to be looking ridiculous on the podcast for months again. Like, man, Josh really needs a haircut. It wasn't until like the last couple months that it really started to look cool. And then we had Matthew and I cut it. Ruined it all. Um, yeah, that is the, yeah, I don't know. I don't think I'll do it. If if they made a movie about your Jiu-Jitsu life, what would it be titled and which actor would play you? I think if they made a movie about my my Jiu-Jitsu life, he almost had it is probably would be the, uh, would probably be the title of that. Um, you know, like, I'm just a lot of things like, man, he was close to greatness in a lot of places. Did it ever go? I don't know. We'll have to watch the movie to find out. But after, I don't know what actor would play me. I always thought the best look-alike that I ever got, it's funny, we just got the long hair question. Um, but, uh, when I had long hair, it was pretty curly, pretty frizzy. And, um, there was if you want to search back on my Instagram and find a picture of it, you will laugh because this was the, probably the greatest roast I've ever been hit with. Um, but, uh, I had long hair, one day my student Robert Areas looked at me and said, how come you look like a cross between Johnny Tsunami and Johnny Tran? Johnny Tsunami, obviously from the Disney movie Johnny Tsunami, and then Johnny Tran from, uh, Fast and the Furious. And so, the first one. And so that's a really, really good joke. Like, he really, really lit me up on that. And so, either one of those guys could play, you know, could play the be the actor. Um, when Twilight was popping and I was a young man, um, I was like 15 or 16, uh, the teenage ladies would always tell me, I look like Taylor Lautner. And I didn't, but they said it, so maybe him too. He's gotten a little chubby too, so it might be perfect. It might be a actually, Taylor Lautner, yeah. Um, we've aged well. Um, number 23. What is the best piece of Jiu-Jitsu advice you've ever received and the worst? I don't know the best off the top of my head, but the worst is no doubt, um, I you you get these a lot, but the the mindset of like, this is the way. This is the only way to think about this. This is the only way to do a Kimura. This is the only way to pass the guard. This is the only way to think. Um, those things, if you if I held on to them for a long period of time, my Jiu-Jitsu evolution, I think, would have stopped. And so many times, the best advice that I got was like, looking at things again, relearning things, diving deeper on things. And so, um, and I've said this specifically, uh, I had went to a Sean Williams seminar once and he was talking about rolling without strength, and the idea of how to roll without strength. I didn't an entire episode on this once. Um, it's called the the best Jiu-Jitsu advice I've ever I've ever received. Um, but, uh, he had been talking to Roger Gracie and it was about when he was a competitor and he was winning open class of worlds. And he said, Roger said, um, that his best training partner was a purple belt. Like, that was like his highest ranking training partner was like a purple belt. I think he was smaller than Roger. And he was beating the best black belts in the world. And so, um, so Roger said, well, how, like, what are you doing? Um, and he goes, you have to learn to roll without strength. If you can remove your strength and your athleticism from your rolling, and just learn technique, timing, and weight distribution. He said, you will be able to beat people so effortlessly that if you ever add your strength back, it'll be like a superpower. And, uh, that to me is still that. I started, I was a coach at that time, and I was a purple belt at that time, and I was struggling with the fact that most of my training partners went from being really good purple belts to then all sucky white belts because it was the people I was coaching. And so, um, and all white belts that only had me as a purple belt coach, they didn't have a bunch of coaches, they didn't have a bunch of guys to roll with to get more context and how to be good. It was just like, um, yeah, the best piece of of of Jiu-Jitsu advice was that, like, just roll without strength. Because when I started to do that with with white belts that were trying to kill me, and I started to find the techniques that worked on a guy going 100% without technique, he didn't know anything. But somebody actually resisting at 100%. What techniques works on work on them without strength, without athleticism, with just timing, with just leverage, with just weight distribution. And that journey has completely changed my Jiu-Jitsu. Number 24. How do you balance your personal family life with the Jiu-Jitsu grind? I think a lot of it just is having the right team. Um, I have a wife that is really cool about the Jiu-Jitsu stuff and is understanding that there are times that I am home way more than most people get to be. And then there are times that I'm gone just because of, you know, going to tournaments and freaking going to expos and doing hot takes and getting in fights with people, because that's what I do now. And, you know, just doing stuff like that. Um, I don't know, it's just like, it's a different lifestyle. And so it's hard to really fit into like, my same question to this person that probably balances like training two twice a week and, uh, has a job that they have to be at Monday through Friday, and they have no flexibility of schedule. They get a certain amount of weeks off. I would ask them, how do you balance your personal family life with that stuff? And so, I think for everybody, it's hard to do that. I think trying to really have, especially if you have kids, having really making effort to just be present, to just be there as much as you can with your kids. And, um, I think it's important. But even that is like, I think having the right spouse is the only reason that I have that balance in my in my grind. I do. I think that there is no, I just do too many things. I have too weird of a schedule. I have too much change in schedule to have a to not have an understanding spouse. That would be life ruining for what I do. I wouldn't be able to do what I do. And so that is really the balance for me is, uh, and then her having a similar lifestyle too. Obviously, not with Jiu-Jitsu, but just with, um, like self-employment, and things like that. We just have a different life. And so, um, it's like, you balance it by working your butt off when you're not around them, and then, um, being present when you are, you know? And, uh, trying to be there enough. I think that's pretty much all it is. And it's and it's feels like a a work in progress. I have one kid. Imagine when I have more. And it just that becomes even harder. And imagine as the businesses and the things I do grow. So, who knows? But for right now, I'm I think things are really good. And I blame choosing the right spouse as a big part of it, as the main part of it. Um, number 25. Are there any books, philosophies, or role role models outside of Jiu-Jitsu that shape your outlook on life and training? You know, I bet you you could you could ask Chat GPT to dissect the first 100 episodes of the I Suck at Jiu-Jitsu Show and say, how many of these principles and ideas that Josh talks about are just stolen from, um, the Four-Hour Workweek and Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Those two books. Um, yeah, I would say those two books. How many of those just then, you know, shifted over to Jiu-Jitsu. So, yes, there are a ton of of them. But those are like, those are two go-tos. Those are two of my favorite. Just Four-Hour Workweek as a business book. For someone that runs like three different businesses and just does all the things that I do. Four-Hour Workweek is such a good one because a lot of people think it's like about only working four hours and then just messing around for, I guess, the rest of your week and doing whatever you're watching TV. But like, that's not. It's about you can take four hours of your time with the right mindset, doing the right things that are important in your business, um, or even in your life, and take four of the best, most efficient, most effective hours per week and do what you want to do. You can do take four hours per week and get good at Jiu-Jitsu, as long as you are efficient. You can actually take three hours a week and get good at Jiu-Jitsu, as long as you are efficient. That's where those principles came from. And so, um, it's such a good business book, but that's where I started to apply those for to Jiu-Jitsu. And then, uh, yeah, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People as a coach. That was, um, the last three habits are about really dealing with people. And, uh, sorry, um, it's like habits four, five, and six are about like dealing with people. And, um, they are just absolute gold if you're going to be a coach. And I it's it's it's a pretty boring read, to be honest. It's even a pretty boring audiobook, to be honest. It's so long, but the content is so good. I think it's definitely worth it, um, to help you be a better coach for sure. Uh, number 36. You're a black belt, a coach. Okay, perfect. This is what we were just talking about. You're a black belt, a coach, a gym owner, and a podcast host. How do you balance all these things and roles and still continue to grow and train in Jiu-Jitsu without burning out? Um, without burning out. What does that mean? Um, I mean, okay, burning out in the sense of like that I get tired of doing these things. That doesn't happen. I agree. I do not burn out in a sense of that. I love doing what I do. But I get very exhausted. I'm often very exhausted. But doing all of those things, you just list off a bunch of things that I do that are all my own personal choices. No one's making me do any of these things. No one's making me try to start more Jiu-Jitsu schools. No one's making me do this podcast. No one's making me run my school. No one makes me do any of these things. These are all my choices. And so, by choosing these and saying that I'm also making my like, I am going to be there for my son. I'm going to sacrifice sleep. I'm going to sacrifice rest. I'm going to sacrifice downtime. You know, that's like, I don't, you know, part of like, I I told you guys, I don't consume Jiu-Jitsu content. And literally, this is hilarious. This is the only content that I really do consume by myself, and this is honest to God, I watch nothing else. And I barely I watch this probably 15, 20 minutes a night. My wife makes fun of me every time I do. But because Jiu-Jitsu consumes my life so much, and I just it's just nice to get away. I need something that is entertaining for me. Shows don't really do it. But it also has to be something that I like. But not something that I do, because if it was something like, here's the problem. If it was woodworking, I love woodworking channels on YouTube. I will be like, well, I have to build a table now. The studio needs me to to do to build a new table in it. And I'm like, why can't I just enjoy this? And so, this is my perfect thing right now. I watch YouTubers play Madden. Whether they're playing Madden franchise mode and just drafting players, whether they're playing actual games with weird stipulations. Those are my favorite things in the world to watch. Because I love playing Madden, but I haven't bought a new game system in forever. I haven't played a video game like that in forever. And, um, yeah, so I just don't like, I don't interact with that. I don't go, oh, man, I'm going to play this way. I'm going to do things. It's something that allows me to shut off my brain. But that is just to say that I don't really have a lot of free time to watch stuff. Me and my wife watch a few shows, but, um, you know, that's just like part of our hanging out, you know? And so, uh, yeah, I just don't have time. And that's just part of the sacrifice of doing what I'm I'm trying to do. Uh, and so, um, yeah, it's good. It's good that I'm exhausted from those things. So many people are exhausted working at things that they hate, working at things that they feel like don't bring them their life value, working at things that they don't see a future in. For me, I'm exhausting working at things that are all those things. And so I'm happy to do it. But it's just a choice of like, I'm going to be consistent. I'm going to get tired. I'll rest when I need to, but I'm just going to keep doing it. And anyone, it's just, what is the point if not? I just, I don't know. I don't see, I don't see it. I don't see what the point is if not. Um, in life, if not to do something, right? That is helpful. That is helpful. I ideally now we live in this world where you can do something that can be helpful to a lot of people. What else is there to do? You can do things that are helpful to you, which is also cool. I'm also all into that. But if you only do things helpful to you, and then you die, do you feel like your effect goes on? If you do things that are helpful for others that are still here, and then you die, and they do that same thing. Even without your DNA, you get to live on through being good. And so, with all of these things that I do, it's because I get to help good people. And so, that's what I do. Number 37. What does your weekly routine? Oh, gosh. Look like in terms of training, cross training, and rest. Oh, perfect. This is what we were just talking about. What is going to be my weekly routine in general? Holy smokes. Um, but just training. Right now, I like my Sunday open mat. It's a 10:30 open mat, and I generally don't train with my hardest rounds that day. That's a that's a hard day to to push it with how I I get a lot of volume that day. And so, like, I like to do like 15 fives that day. Um, which means if you're going to do 15 fives, that's not smart as as a natural person to be doing that once a week and training with people that are like right at your level, training super hard. Um, maybe I'll do one hard round that day. Maybe, maybe two. But it's mostly just me, I mean, I'm beating people down, but it's people that are not near as good as me. Um, and that's kind of my that's my Sunday. Um, Monday, I switched my Monday to my day off, which is weird. I've always had Tuesdays, my day off, not just in training, but in work too. It just always been, but I switched that to Monday recently. And, um, so I haven't been really training on Monday. Tuesday, I typically don't train. If I do, it's something like, I'm just too busy on Tuesday. I wish I could, but I just really don't have time. Um, Wednesday, I liked only train once. Every once in a while, I'll get I'll get uh, gaslit into training twice. And, um, I teach a noon class and I teach a 6:00 p.m. And so I always like to train with my 6:00 p.m. We do bad positional positional sparring. That's one of my favorite nights of training because I can go hard, but also it's not as hard on my body because it's bad positional stuff. Um, I do a lot of positional spars from bad spots with some of my best guys that are fighting those spots. And so, um, then Thursdays, I like to do I like to try to do a day a week of Nogi. I probably do every, you know, couple weeks. But, um, I do I teach a noon class on Thursday, so I train those. Um, I go to Revive, um, Nick Sanders and Junior Silva's gym. I Nick Sanders, one of the coaches of the I Suck at Jiu-Jitsu Show experience. Um, but, uh, those guys are Junior Silva, who is the owner of Revive Coffee, who's going to be providing coffee for the event. Um, but, uh, where was I going on that? Oh, yeah, on Fridays, I go over there training. That's like my performance day. If you guys have the, uh, the Competitor's Journey ebook, it is, um, the day that I always use in my performance day. I just try to get live rounds from the feet. They have a ton of space for it, and I get to go with their students. And so if I like injure anybody, I don't lose any money. And so, um, yeah, that's one of the best things for me to do on Friday. Saturday, also, Saturday is truly my defensive day. I kind of go back and forth on on Wednesday, whether I'm doing defense or offense. But Saturdays are just consistently my defense days. I just meaning, I love starting rounds in bad positions and then going all the way through on your rounds. And so, ideally, like, I start bottom side control, and I'm going with somebody, and I'm trying to get a submission eventually, so then we can start bottom side control for me again. That's kind of the way I I like to play Saturday. And then Sunday, we're back. And so that's why I started on Sunday. And so you're like, why did he start with two rest days? But again, my schedule is different than yours. If you guys just pushed that weekend to your Saturday, Sunday, my Monday, Tuesday, your Saturday, Sunday, it would translate better. Um, oh, only four questions left. Only four cues left, and I have four A's for you. 38. What's one hobby or passion outside of Jiu-Jitsu that your fans might be surprised to learn about? I don't think I have any fans. The show maybe has a few fans, but that let's call them I Suck at Jiu-Jitsu Show listeners might be surprised to learn about. Obsession or hobby? Passion or hobby? That they would be, man, I don't really have. Um, I feel like I've talked about cooking a lot on the show. That's definitely my other, more than anything else, my other hobby or passion. Um, I've always, um, I always helped my mom cook growing up, but I started to learn to cook when I was like 17 or 18, and my dad and I would get home from, um, Jiu-Jitsu, and we would like have to go get fast food every night because my mom was generally, uh, doing, she ran boot camp classes at the time. And so she was generally not there. And so every night we were eating fast food. And at one point, I was like, maybe I'll learn how to cook us a meal. And then that turned into like a few meals. And then that turned into like, I cook all the time. It's like, yeah, a lot of you would be surprised of of this. Like, people in my wife's family probably think of me as Josh the good cook than Josh the good Jiu-Jitsu guy. And so, uh, yeah, definitely one of my one of my favorite things to do outside of Jiu-Jitsu is to cook. I did say woodworking stuff. There's I've done a lot of woodworking projects. You ever look around the I Suck at Jiu-Jitsu Show. I built every square inch of this place. And so that's something that again, that was more a habit out of like not having a lot of money. I was like, oh, well, you can build it for cheaper. And then as you get better at those things, then you build a whole studio, um, for cheaper. And so, um, yeah, that's those are probably my, I don't think I have any other hobbies. I think that's about it. Any other hobby or passion that people would be, nah, I don't think that's it. I like to, uh, I like to eat the food that I cook or that anyone cooks for that matter. But that's about it. People wouldn't be surprised by that. Number 39. If you weren't dedicating your life to Jiu-Jitsu, what career what career or life path do you think you might have pursued? I don't know, like, is this mean like if I wasn't, if you weren't dedicating your life to Jiu-Jitsu, so like if I just wasn't making Jiu-Jitsu my job, what would I be doing right now? Um, like I guess, I mean, some type of marketing and sales. It just probably wouldn't be Jiu-Jitsu that I'd be selling. I'd be selling something that's much easier to make money off of, that you could sell for a lot more money than Jiu-Jitsu. Um, there, yeah, that is the, um, yeah, I don't know. Like, I don't know, because I don't know if this is the question of if you had never started Jiu-Jitsu, where would your life be? I have no idea where that is. But like, if I just couldn't make money from Jiu-Jitsu, I'd be selling something, bro. Like, that's that's uh, that's what I know how to do. Like, that's what I know how to do because I tried to learn to sell Jiu-Jitsu. And so, yeah, that's kind of I assume that's what I would be doing. Um, only two left. We're getting to the end of this obnoxiously long episode. And I'm starting to get sad. Like, I don't want to do it this long of an episode. But now I'm like, I liked doing this long of an episode. I don't know. Maybe you guys aren't even listening to me anymore. If you liked the long episode, trust me, I'm not doing these every week. But the long episode every once in a while format where we do a deep dive Q&A, hit a million topics. Let me know in the comments. I would love to, uh, I would love to do one again, but I need a break after this. Um, number 40. If you could have a dream roll with any person in history, holy smokes, living or dead, not necessarily a grappler, who would you choose and why? So many stipulations. I have a roll with a person. Okay, I'm I'm just going to I'm just going to assume that his Jiu-Jitsu is actually relatively good. He's always got the kimono on. You know? And then he also grappled Jacob in the Bible. And so, and dislocated his hip in grappling him. And so, um, you not Bible scholars are like, that was Jesus. No, that was just that was just God. No, God on earth as human form of Jesus. Jesus is eternal. It's the Trinity. He was the guy who grappled Jacob. And so, what did he use though? Banana split to dislocate his hip? The old grab the ankle and yank to dislocate his hip. Apparently, they did like an eight-hour round. It was like sundown to sunup or something crazy, right? It was a fight to the death. That's so that's a good man. Great. Great story. But, yeah, I guess dead, but living, Jesus. Um, but let's answer it. Dream roll with anyone who's alive right now. Man, there are so many people that would be fun to roll with. Um, I mean, getting to do a Nogi round with Gordon Ryan would be so cool. You just imagine how good he's got to be. If you've never gotten if you've never gotten to roll with him, you just you have to assume that it's like nothing else you can experience. Roger in the Gi, Roger would be, ooh, Roger above. Roger's my number one right now. I think that's it. Yeah, if I could roll with any if I got a dream round with any person, it would just I would just get a round with Roger. That would be a blast. Um, and it would be filmed. Because apparently, when Roger go when when they you have the camera on, Roger will beat that people down worse. I've heard. I've heard. I saw him, I forget what it was. I think I think one of his guys like was trying to hit something on him. And, um, he made the joke like, yeah, nobody nobody submits me on camera, buddy. And, uh, yeah, that would be that would be cool. I bet his Jiu-Jitsu is insane. Um, last question. When you're not on the mats or in the gym, what does your perfect day off look like? How do you like to unwind and recharge away from Jiu-Jitsu? That's tough. Um, a lot of times if I am taking like a day off and I'm trying to be away from Jiu-Jitsu, just with how much Jiu-Jitsu stuff that I do, I do try to be away, away from Jiu-Jitsu. So like, if it's nice out, go on a hike, um, not have my phone most of the day or all day. Leave my phone on the charger. That's one of the most helpful things because if my phone is on, people are going to be Jiu-Jitsu texting me and Jiu-Jitsu Instagramming me and Jiu-Jitsu is going to be on my mind. And so, uh, yeah, that's one of the best things for me to do. Go eat with my wife, go to the movies, eat a ton of popcorn, sneak in all kinds of good snacks. Um, like, uh, there was this point when me and my wife were, I don't think we were married yet. We might have been, maybe we were married. Um, but we had, no, we were married. Um, we both had the, uh, AMC Stubs Premiere. So it was like the you pay monthly and you get to go to up to three movies a week, um, for whatever the price is per month. And then they just, you know, make millions of dollars off you off popcorn and soda. And so we started to beat the system. And so we would like sneak in like some candy, and then we would get popcorn. And then it was like starting to progress because we also both didn't work during the day on Thursdays. And so we'd always go on Thursdays. And it was like daytime show. Literally, we would be the only people in the theater most of the time. And so, then we started, we're getting away with popcorn. Like, we're getting away with candy. Why not, you know, bring our own cheddar popcorn from the popcorn shop next door. It's even better, right? Why not bring chips and guacamole? Why not bring Chick-fil-A? Why not bring Chipotle? And so, you know, my wife's purse just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger. Um, but that was the that was the best that was the perfect day off for a long time was the movies. Um, uh, we were rewatching movies all the time, but it was like it didn't cost anything more to do that. Perfect date day. Um, but, yeah, for me, day off is just a a day without my phone that I do something that isn't strenuous, but I do want to do something physical. I want to stretch, I want to do something. If not, you just like, I don't know, don't tend to feel as good that day. And I don't feel like you, you know, for me, I don't sleep as well, so I don't recover as well. If I don't do something. Um, but those are kind of my typical is stretch, go for a walk. Like, typical active recovery things. Do something that interests you that doesn't beat up your body too much. Something that isn't bad for your brain either, you know? Uh, and so, yeah, those are all my tips and tricks. That's literally everything I know, guys. I am just fried after doing 41 questions and trying to stay mentally engaged in it. But thank you guys, anyone who listened to the end of this. I appreciate you guys listening to this. This is, uh, this was fun for me to see how much people actually pay attention to the show. Um, a lot of these questions were like very a lot more specific than I expected. And so, um, I appreciate that. I appreciate how much support the show has gotten. I really hope to see you guys in January at this expo. I hope to get some live in-person hot takes from you guys. It's going to be so cool to get that. Hopefully, I have some amazing interviews for you in this coming year. Um, and we are just able to crush that. Hopefully, you already have your tickets to the I Suck at Jiu-Jitsu Show experience. I S A J J I S A J J X. Man, I should have named the show something easier to say quickly. Um, but maybe you already have your tickets to that. Get geared up in February for the best Jiu-Jitsu experience that you have ever had. Um, that is going to be just such a cool thing. And, um, thank you guys again for listening, supporting, commenting, reviewing, all of the things that we ever ask. Um, I really appreciate it. We are going to continue to try to deliver just the absolute best and most helpful Jiu-Jitsu content that we can. Um, all of 2026, and I promise it's going to be better than ever. Um, I really know that for sure this year. The team has just gotten bigger and better than ever. And so there's just no way that the the content is not going to show that and reflect that. And so, that's all I have for you guys. I hope you guys enjoyed today's episode. I hope at some point it made you laugh. And most importantly, I hope that today's episode helps you guys suck just a little bit less at Jiu-Jitsu. Have a great day, guys.