#52 Our Biggest BJJ Mistakes: Save time, energy and pain by avoiding these Jiu-jitsu related pitfalls.

Don’t try this at home friends! JT & Joey confess to all the terrible and embarrassing mistakes that they have made on their BJJ journey so that you can avoid repeating the same mistakes.

Dietary Fails
Bad BJJ Techniques
Wasted Time & Energy
Social Faux Pas on the mat
Rolling Wrong and getting wrecked

In so many different areas the boys have blundered, suffered and been injured – all of which was totally avoidable. This is a very honest look at how not to get better at BJJ.

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Welcome to another Bulletproof for B J podcast. I am J T Hey guys, I’m Joey. And today we are talking about our biggest BJJ mistakes. So these occur on all kinds of levels, nutrition, technique, lifestyle choice, like all kinds of things that occur in the realm of jujitsu, which just completely stuff you up. And maybe some of them are avoidable. Maybe you can learn from these mistakes. We didn’t get it right all the way along. Actually be safe to say we got a lot wrong. Learn from that, and now are doing better subsequently, but some of these mistakes they take years to overcome because no one tells you you’re doing it wrong. You’re just thinking, oh , this is hard. And you just keep grinding away. Yeah. So , uh, we each have different experiences relevant to that, Joe . But what I thought we might talk about first, cause I have one, which is no , uh , it was something that worked in a different situation and I tried to apply it to jujitsu and it just didn’t work. Right. It stuffed me out quite badly and that is a nutrition fail. Oh , do you have anything in this realm? Yeah. Thinking about it. When I first started jujitsu, I was really obsessed with making my own Muley . Okay. What’s that eat to win in you isn’t it ? It was there . I mean , it’s always been a part of me, you know , I would , I would go to this shop that was in Chinatown, that this guy was like a middle Eastern dude. He would sell like all the different styles of oats and soy grits and sell and all these , you know, thing and I’d buy bulk and then I’d mix it. And anyway, this is probably the first it’s all gonna be in the , uh , E to win cookbook. That’s right. You guys would be able to get the recipe. You’ll be able to get your hands on it. You’ll be able to up just like I did. Um , and it was great. I would mix all this up and then I would have it and I would put yogurt and honey and, you know , put fruit. It was , it was a very, it was delicious. It delicious, it was healthy. You know, it was jam back full of fiber. Let me tell you , um, I would pour all of this dry stuff into a bowl, put some of the, you know , the yoga and the honey, which yeah . Has a bit of moisture to it. And then I’d put some , uh , uh , I don’t know what I think I’d just put milk, maybe some, yeah, I’d just use regular milk, whatever. And I would smash this enormous bowl of it. Enormous bowl. Wow. And then like 30 minutes later, I’d get my. And I’d go to jujitsu, which was just off , you know , up the street. That’s a full stomach when here’s the thing. So the first mistake was I was eating this big load, like of food before training. But the second thing was is that, and I didn’t understand this for a long time. When you eat dehydrated foods, your body needs to hydrate it for , in order for you to digest it. Yes, sir . So if you go and eat, so this is why like say , uh , if you cook your oats and make a Poage , it’s quite handy because you’re taking a dried food, you are hydrating it in water and then you’re eating it. It’s, it’s much easier for the body to, to says I was just basically taking this bowl full of dried grass and and putting some moisture , like a little bit of moisture in it and then smashing it. And then 30 minutes later when I’m on the mats, it’s just sucking all moisture outta my gut. And I’m just like, Ooh , like , I mean, I was in my mid 20 , so I , I didn’t even notice really, but look looking back I’m like, why did I do that for, so I persisted. I’m like, I gotta , and it was because I was really sold on the idea. No , this music is so healthy for me. Yeah . So good right now. Like I gotta have it. Yeah. Um, I probably should have like soaked it the night before I E Becher Muley for those out there. Sure . Or I just drunk a gallon of water at the same time. Sure. Um , but I would say that was a up that a mistake that I ran with for a long time, because I was married to the idea of the Mely man. It actually, I’m not sure. I , cuz I don’t wanna get this wrong here. I believe it’s a torture technique in either China or Japan where they feed you dry rice. Oh my God. And they just fill you full of it until it, and it sucks all the water outta you and it kills you. Oh my God . Cause you can’t process it bro . That’s. It’s terrible. It sounds like that you were , I survived. You did. Oh my God. You’re so prepared for your prisoner of war situation, man. That’s yeah. And it’s one of those things too. Like you get a not obsessed, but you, you believe something to be in , in a certain context and it was clearly nutritionally. It sounds amazing. Sounds delicious. Sounds it’s ticking a lot of boxes, but in that jujitsu context, like just before training, probably not the best choice. That’s right. And yeah. So it’s a mistake in one way. It’s not, it’s not a total it’s it’s not like, oh you would never do it, but just not just before training and yeah . Maybe a few tweaks like the Becher tweak or whatever it could be. Yeah . It would be a bit easier, man. Mine is much more catastrophic than that way worse. So there was a critical point , uh , in my career , uh , doing PT, the , the head of PT, like the PT manager was a hardcore Charles Pollan guy and personal training. We’re talking about personal training. Yep . And nothing to do with JSU . I I’d been doing Tao and I’ve just started to just started jujitsu, like not even for six months. And what I had done previously was taking , uh , a ton of amino acids to get rid of muscle soreness. And Charles Quinn had these box of like big containers of capsules and they’re meant to be the best amino acids going around, whatever they cost way too much money Quin , for those who dunno is one of the stall warts of the strength realm. He’s , he’s no longer with us, but he’s one of the guys kind of one of the godfathers of strength training yes . In, in this modern time and nutrition as well. Yeah. Yeah. That’s right. He helped a lot of body builders helped a lot of top athletes Olympians. So had a line of supplements and had some very good training methodologies. Yeah. Very good. And to this day, like he’s training still guys who trained under him are the now current and kind of Kings of the game. Yeah . But uh , yeah, I was really sold on this idea because the , the method was train weight training twice a day, but take an absolute ton of these things, obviously pushing product. But I , I tried it out. I was like, I’ll try it. And it worked like I was taking like 20 capsules before the lifting session, 20 capsules after 20 capsules 20. Now I have a very good tolerance for , uh , branch chain , amino acids, BC AAS. Right . You may have seen it advertised on various products or as a supplement. Now, not everyone has a good tolerance. As far as weight training goes like resting. I’m not doing anything on , I’m not going like sprints. I’m not, you know, I’m not wrestling, I’m not running. It’s fine. If you’re just in the gym, lifting weights , walking around now, I had started doing Brazilian jujitsu and I was like, yeah. I wonder if, if I take heaps of branch chain , amino acid and do jujitsu wonder how that’s gonna work, except this time I’d taken. Uh , I don’t know if it was the supplement or not. I was taking a powder because I was like , I I’ll just Chuck it in a , you know , I’ll get a big liter thing of water, just Chuck heaps of, you know, five or 10 grams in there, which is a big concentration save on the gel caps. Yeah. It’s way cheaper. So what I did was I downed a liter, which is like, like five to 10 grams before. And then I was like, oh , I’ll have it during, because obviously I don’t wanna get my muscles too sore. And I drinking it between rounds on rolling and I got acute stomach cramps. Like the worst, like that day. Or you were , you were doing over prolonged period. No, that day. Oh wow. Like just guts, just seized up. I couldn’t even sit up. I couldn’t move just guts going in the spasm. And I just had to kind of lie in the corner and fetal position. And then I was like, I’m so thirsty though. And the only thing I had was the amino acids. So I just got , and then eventually like, it really hit me and I had to go to the toilet bad, like explosive diarrhea. Oh the worst into the bathroom. And at that time I’m training at Peter de beans , there was only one male toilet. Right. And I just occupied that thing. Like everyone else is just gonna have to go anywhere else. Like you’re not coming in. It took me out. I was bad for the rest of the day. And I don’t know if you’ve ever experienced this. Guy’s like, you get a calf cramp, you’re rolling. Then, you know, you stretch it out. Whatever, but than your calf is sore residually for days. I wasn’t right for days because I had such intense abdominal cramps. My abs hurt from days and days. I couldn’t go back to training. I was like, God amino acids, just not working for jujitsu. Now, obviously you don’t have to do it the way I did it. You know, aminos have been shown to be beneficial for recovery. Why did you go so extreme, Joe ? How could you not? How could I not? No. It’s because the study that I’d read said you had to have very large amounts to get this benefit of really getting rid of muscle soreness. Right? Uh , yeah. Could I have done it a bit less? Sure. But I think upon reflection, I have played with it since I find yeah . Maybe having one gram or two grams of aminos after training. Sure. But the pre during post it’s don’t go there. It’s not ladies and gentlemen, just let me share it with you now. I thought we’d moved more to BJ J technique or something that you were like really fixed on that you were convinced would work and maybe didn’t and maybe put your game backwards. Yeah. You got something like that. Yeah. Um, not so much that I, I didn’t think about it. It was just a mistake I made for a long time. I used to close triangles. I used to just think that a triangle was you, you , you know, you wrap the head in the arm with your leg and then you close your, your other leg over your foot. Yep . And it’s done. Yeah. You know, you squeeze the out of it. Sure. And um, I think it worked for a little while, right? Yeah. You know, you catch someone off guard and they don’t really know how to defend a triangle. And, and then at a point I remember my gym people started defending triangles quite well. And I was hurting my knee all the time. Mm . And I was like, man , triangles are for the knees. Yeah. And I just stopped doing triangles. Right. It wasn’t until many years later when I was actually doing some , uh , like some strength training with a group of people, I was running a retreat. My partner was there. MEA . Yeah . And we were talking, I was, we were doing something with the knees and I was talking about how that triangle position. Oh no. I was showing a , have you ever seen that squat think it’s called a tabletop squat where you place your foot on top of your knee? Yeah, sure. From standing in these squat down, sit down. Yeah . Was talking about that. And, and my partner Misa , she offered up, oh , I learned in yoga that when you , uh , when you go into that position, if you keep your foot flexed, so if you pull your, your toes towards your knee, of course you flexion . Yep . Yeah . It actually stabilizes the knee. Right . And you’re in, in that position and I tried it I’m like, it really does. Wow . And then I was like, maybe this can apply to a jujitsu triangle as well imagine. Right . Right. And so , uh , what I realized all those years, I just would wrap my leg and then I’d just close the triangle over my toes. Right. You know? Cuz you , you just trying to close it anyway. You can right. Just close the thing and squeeze make it happen. Someone starts defending you yell this pressure on your knee. Yeah. My knees took so much damage from it cumulatively over the years. Yes. So I , I came to realize, wow, actually closing it over the ankle is a lot more effective, but also squeezing your knees together. Yes . So not allowing your knee to flare out when you’re in a triangle, but squeezing them together. And I’m like that, I didn’t even know that. Right. It was cuz that’s not a triangle. Like yeah . If you think of the triangle shape, it’s like knee flare out. That’s right. Yeah , yeah . You know ? Yeah, for sure. So just as a thing to realize, and I think it was only a brown be , I was like, ah , holy, there you go. And so, I mean, I’m, you know , I got short legs, you know what it’s like, I know triangles, not the easiest. Yeah. They’re not huge for me, but they’re a lot better now. Definitely, man, it’s funny how you just come to it. And for me, actually, my, my story relates to actually being a blue belt, similar situation triangle. But I did myself a mischief. Uh , it was actually against big George from Gracie Sydney now Gracie Parma . Ah , yes. Right. It was the first ever Abu Dhabi trials , like Abu Dhabi pro trials. Right. And we were at this tiny little basketball stadium summer on the north shore and George and I against each other first and I was a blue belt . I think he was a purple belt. Doesn’t matter. He was passing me with an arm in like he basically, I , he was in a triangle, but here’s the thing. He’s a thick human, he’s a broad shouldered, thick body human. And I could see my foot, like I could, I could see my foot like just like that. And I could , I was like, if I can get my leg across, I can triangle this guy. Like if only, but he had all his weight down on my leg. Like I couldn’t, there’s no way I could get my leg through. Right. So my leg , the other leg, the one that would close the triangle. Yes . Or the one that you were or the one that was wrapping around the neck. Yeah. Right. And his arms here. And I’m like, I just grabbed my foot and I’m like, if I can just pull this across, I’ll pull my leg through except my leg didn’t move. And I’m just yanking on my own ankle. Like, hi , I’m like, if I triangle this guy, I’m going Abu Dhabi , which wouldn’t true. But I’m pulling on my ankle and my ankle just went snap, snap. Oh . And I just basically like toe hold myself. And then my ankle just went to like this lax. Oh . And I was like, oh , and then I couldn’t triangle. And then just pass my gardening one . Oh . But I was like, why did I do that? And afterwards, like my partner , Tom was like, what , what happened there? I was like, I basically broke my own ankle. Like I just thought Liga to my own ankle foot like myself, because, and this is something relating back to that foot position thing. A lot of the times when people are putting on a triangle, they’ll grab their foot to pull the triangle on. Right. But then this is just something I learned later. Probably not, not even until I was purple belt to grab the shin, to like, yeah . You know, Dorsey, flex the foot, grab the shin. Yeah . And try and lock over the , the shin. Now obviously it’s a lot easier if you’ve got real long shin bones, you’ve got short shin bones. There’s not much to work with. That’s right. So man, sometimes you grab what you can. Yeah. You just , you gotta know that you might have to cop like some, you might cop an injury or you , you gotta know that you’re not doing it the best way. That’s right. It’s not the most efficient technique. Yeah . And then after that, because I hurt my own ankle. I was like, I gotta fix this. I dunno what I’m doing. So then I, I dug in a bit deeper about how to kind of do a triangle properly and it just took a while . Right. And you , you don’t know what you don’t know and I’m sure we’ve all had that experience in jujitsu where someone shows us something. You’re like, dang, why didn’t I know this like two years ago, I’m like, yeah . You know, because you’ve been doing it, you’ve been battling on, you’ve just been doing the best you can. And then someone shows you that the , or the , the easier way. And you’re like, man, I wish I knew better. And, and we’ve all seen it. Right. You see, you see somebody just struggling, like just giving it a hundred percent, but doing it completely incorrectly. Yeah . You know, I , I guess I see it a lot more with my students and then I have to jump in and give them feedback and say, Hey, don’t repeat your mistakes. And I guess what I, the extension of the, this chat really guys is don’t repeat our mistakes, please, please save yourself that time. And then, or maybe you want to , you know, walk the path. May maybe the Joey JT path . You’re like , you wanna , no, I wanna make that. I wanna feel that. Yeah, I’m go , go to Brazil, get that cheese bread . I close the triangles wrong, live a life. Right ? Yeah. Character building, scar tissue building. Um, but now I , I think we can go to something which is probably more, eh , not so much a technique, but maybe , uh , a mistake which you might be making, which we have made, which you could probably save yourself to trouble. Uh , which is maybe a little bit more general, but Ji related . Yeah. And for you, Joe , what would that be? Um, I, I had this really poor habit from, I would say up until I started training with Adam Childs , uh , because, and I’ve spoken about it on the podcast before, but I was very kind of, I didn’t really have a lot a coaching in my jujitsu from like , oh , you’re the natural late . Right. Any coach would be intimidated to give you advice. That’s right. I mean , what can they tell me that I don’t really know exactly, you know? Um , you know , um, from like blue, like late blue belt, you know, and this was because at the time when I was going from blue up to brown, I would say that my coach at the, I wasn’t really super committed and just wasn’t, wasn’t looking closely and that kind of thing thing , wasn’t paying attention to your game. Exactly. But I was also responsible cause I wasn’t paying attention to my game. Sure. You know? So it goes both ways. I had this habit of when I would start a role, I would just let my training partner initiate whatever they wanted before I started to really resist. Yeah . So say we’re rolling and you know, like you’re on your back and I’m step . I would just step into your guard and you would go boom , de get groups and then you would go, yep . I’ll take that sleeve. I’ll take that . And then I’d go right now, I’m fighting and I would do this, you know? And , and it would work I guess, against people who were smaller or weaker or, you know, not , not as good as me at the time, but I, I know like I look back at my key training partners at that time and I’m like, Ben would me up every single role . He would sweep me and come on top and then I would be fighting for life to get out of it. And I would always think, man, the rolls with him so tough. Right . And then I training with Dave, I would pull guard on him and I would do the same thing. I would just lie on my back and kind of let him take groups . And rather than like staying seated yes . Keeping my , my knees close , like yeah . Right . Actually having , uh , some integrity to the guard, you know? Right. And it wasn’t until like training with Adam . He’s like, man, as soon as we slap hands, it’s on. And if I’ve got the two grips that I want, or even one grip and my guard , you’re probably gonna lose that’s. Right. So he is like, you can’t let that happen. And I was like, holy. I was like, I’ve been letting this happen almost a decade. Wow. You know, position of greatest disadvantage. Hey . Yeah. And it was just a really silly habit. I, I look back, I remember visiting an academy in San Diego. I don’t remember the Fell’s name. Uh , it was, it was a guy somewhere out , more in the suburbs of San Diego. He was a black belt. I was a purple belt. And uh , I went to a lunchtime class cause I was traveling and I was like, oh, go check this gym out today. And I , I went to a lunchtime class and I think there was maybe just a couple of people there and I had a roll with him and I remember he, yeah . Let’s yeah , let’s have a roll. And he initiated his guard and he swept me and he was like, come on, man. He said to me like, come on. What are you doing? And I , I was kind of offended calling me out for not like being good enough something, but looking, it didn’t take me long to realize afterwards. I’m like , I , yeah. He saw my mistake and was like, you shouldn’t be making this mistake. Yeah . I wasn’t his student. So he’s , he was like, I’m not gonna take the time to break it down for you sure. Come on. Let’s go. Like, it should be better, man. I must have done that so often. Right. So, you know, I’m glad that now that I’m black belt, I don’t make that mistake as often. You know, it took a while . Yeah. And that’s the tough thing. And I always have remind myself of this because I do, depending on what time of the day you catch me and obviously how much food I’ve eaten or how much caffeine I’ve had. I have more empathy. And sometimes I have less empathy. And even for my white build students, I expect that once I’ve shown them the right way to do it, that they practice it and they learn from them as mistakes . Now , obviously that’s not exactly how it works because maybe I didn’t communicate it clearly enough or they were tired. They didn’t get it. The reason why I always wanna push people to not repeat their mistakes is that they just start to level up. And the thing is, you don’t know what you don’t know. You can’t have a crack at somebody for not knowing. It’s not that they’re willfully being ignorant. That’s right. It’s you just dunno these things. So it’s super important that we identify these mistakes and it does help us if , uh , we’ve got somebody who’s checking in on us and it’s not always your coach, you know, sometimes it’s your , your mate who started jujitsu the same time. And they’re like, Hey, what’s going on with you? I’m I’m kicking your right now. Are you what’s going on? And they , you know, and you check in on your friends because you don’t want them to quit when they’re blue belts or whatever it might be. I mean, we’ve mentioned this before. If I had have had the awareness, I think about my mate, Ben , who was the , the strongest counterpart, you know, blue to purple belt in the gym. We all , we didn’t wanna roll with each other cuz it was too intense. Yeah. We both we’d almost avoid each other and be like, oh you wanna do it ? Love to man. Oh , good training. And then it’s like worlds collide . You know ? But if I had have said to him, man , how do you , how do you keep sweeping me? What are you doing? And then he would’ve said it’s because you’re letting get my grips and establish my Deva . I would’ve been like it would’ve stopped there. Yeah. But I never asked that simple question. The feedback. Yeah. I never asked. So I, the , the blame is on me, but it’s just interesting to think that went on for years. Wow . You know, because it simply, because I just didn’t have the thought to go, Hey man, can you tell me why that keeps working for you? Yeah. And I think that that’s an important thing and that’s something that we try to do here at jungle brothers too, is like, give your training partner an opportunity to ask for feedback. But then also you have an opportunity to get feedback from them too. Oh man, you did that quite well. Or, Hey, the reason why that didn’t work is X, Y, and Z . Yeah . If your partner knows enough to be able to tell you, cuz sometimes your training partner doesn’t know either. That’s right. But I mean, for me, my biggest mistake, which probably didn’t change till probably purple belt . Uh , and it was like the big change in me for purple belt before kind of becoming as good as I could be at purple before going up to brown was just hanging on in really bad spots. Like from my guard, just because like just being stacked, one leg up here, that leg under here, my arm twisted behind my back and just eating it just because I could, cause I was flexible enough. I could hack it. I didn’t wanna be soft. I, no I can take this pressure and just hanging onto positions just to hang in there when actually what would’ve been way better is for me to accept that I was pretty much passed. Not that I’d have to accept the past, but like let them pass and then scramble and then go to something else. Yeah . As opposed to just absolutely just copy my . Yeah. Face knee rider , disc bulged, arm twisted, just worse spots. And then at the time it was okay. Full of adrenaline, warm as hell after training agony. Yeah . Like, oh my knee, my neck. And then just the psychology of trying to work through it of like, don’t wanna seem like I’m a worse or don’t want to seem week to my training partner, but then actually having weakening myself that’s right. And then being a cripple off the mat , not being able to do a whole lot. Yeah. But then bringing it for the training session cuz I wanna be a and then just doing essentially dumb things, but just eating way more damage and pressure than I needed to in the name of keeping my guard. Don’t let your guard get past like never, never, never. And actually what happened as a result of one of these, a guy at training, a world champion at many belts, but never at black belt, he actually gouged my eye with his chin in. So I was in half guard and I was just so determined mate. I didn’t even know it was possible. Right. Cuz I was like, what’s the worst that can happen. Right. I’m just hanging here in half guard and he’d pretty much gone to like a knee through knee cut . And I was on quarter guard. I was hanging on by the skin of my teeth. Like just, you know, pinching my thighs around his ankle. He’s pretty much passed , but he can’t get his foot out. Yeah . Doing everything you can. It’s all those years of thigh master , you know? Yeah . Just working those eductors and I’m just pinching. And unless like he won’t pass, I can’t let him pass. And I was just like attached to him and he basically grabbed the back of my lapel and he took his chin, put it into my right eye socket and just gouged his chin into my eye socket, started the pass and he literally, I blinded me. He , my , my right eye actually sits about five mil further back in my head. He pushed my eye back in the socket. Dead set . No lie. Have a look. If I like lean back my eye , my Al caveat is pushed back. It just sits a bit further in my head head . Right . Yeah . So this yeah . Could you believe it? Joe face used to be more symmetrical. Holy. You’re like Michael Bisping. Well, I can’t pop the eye outta my head . The up eye . Yeah . Amen . When he got double knocked out by Henderson, that was beautiful. That hit after the knock. But no , but the crazy thing was, I didn’t even know that that level of savagery was possible in jujitsu . Right. And I had to open my guard . Right. Like I was just, and I had this crazy burning sensation in my eye and I was actually blind in that eye for a week. I thought I’m in Brazil. I can’t see out my eye. Like, is this permanent? Wow. Eventually kind of vision came back, settled down. But that’s the thing guys in the NA there’s all this kind of bravado and stuff within jujitsu , which is you gotta be tough. Don’t let him pass your guard. Never tap all this kind of whatever nonsense. And just because I was told that you should not let people pass your guard and you should fight as hard as you can. I have damaged my body. And what I have realized now is that actually there’s opportunities in kind of letting someone pass, but then suddenly switching or , or coming up to a take down or scrambling. Yeah. It present , it presents opportunity. So just holding onto something for grim death actually held my game back , uh , at blue and purple. It really slowed me down. You can identify too , like when you’ve been the , the hammer in that situation. And then maybe it’s like some like Savage, young blue belt in the gym and you , you you’ve basically passed and you’ve got their body in a up position, but they’re just, you know , they don’t feel pain and they’re just not tapping or they’re not letting you pass. Yeah . And they’re like, but there’s still this foot that’s just on your chest or whatever. And you’re like, right . Like I’m chilling. Yeah . And like I’m literally watching the years in your life, little away right now, like, like a death eat to the soul is yes . And you’re like, fair enough. Okay. Maybe, maybe. Okay, well that’s fine. Like, let’s go back to your close guard or whatever. Cause you get to a point sometimes that where you’re like, all right , this is just a bit silly. Now this is a bit bad. But you know, when you’ve been the , the nail in that situation and you’re like, I’m gonna kind of impress my I’m gonna show how tough I’m. You’re like, well, Costco , grosser . Yeah. You’re kind of just showing how stupid you are. Yeah. Because yeah. Let them pass and live to fight another day and, and do something else. Like don’t you don’t have to cop all that damage. Yeah. You know, and there’s, there’s nothing necessarily cool about lying there on the mats contorted to being like, you know, a whimpering mess. Yeah . Someone’s trying to pass you . You can’t, you know, there’s no glory, you know , you can’t talk about the glory days when you were like, yeah. Men , I just hung in that quarter guard. God was there five minutes. That’s right. Couldn’t pass. But then I gased and he passed, but for five minutes I was in there with the best, no, look , this isn’t Rocky. You know, like it’s not like I did 12 rounds with the champ. No one’s gonna remember or cared that you bulged three of your own discs because you didn’t let the person pass. And then you Bulg your discs. And then they passed and you’ve got bulge discs , right? Like it’s it . Sometimes it , I feel, and this is like many things in life. We get really attached to an idea we get really attached to, oh , it’s my favorite technique or whatever it is attachment in general holds us all back because there’s so much more to find out when we end up in a chaotic situation where we don’t have any control, we don’t know what’s gonna going on. And maybe we discovered something new that works really well. I actually heard something the other day, which is quite interesting. I don’t know why it hit so hard. I’ve actually got it written down here. The saying was a mistake. May be the answer to another question. I was like, oh , that’s kind of cool. And now we’re talking about the post-it note, but this guy working at three made this, he was trying to make like a really good adhesive and he stuffed it up. And this adhesive was so weak that you could attach something, but then take it off. And then it didn’t mark the surface and it’s like, God , this adhesive is good for nothing. And then, you know, obviously 3m is a huge company. They logged this, you know, temporary adhesive. It wasn’t very good. And, and then this guy was actually , this particular guy was religious and he was trying to find a way to mark. He’s got this really old holy Bible to leave his place marker in the Bible from where he was reading. But he wanted to be able to remove it without damaging the pages right on . And he had tried to come up with this idea, this product. And he had, they had this catalog of things and he went back to revisit this temporary adhesive, which then led to the post-it note, which is makes up for a third of three M’s revenue. Holy. Yeah. It is like one of the , and that was a mistake that in a different context was very successful. Yeah . And often we get really scared of, I don’t wanna look bad. I don’t wanna make a mistake. And then maybe if that person passes your guard or maybe if that person goes for a submission, you find a new escape or you, you find something different just because you’re not so attached to your very limited amount of knowledge or skull of understanding. Yeah. It makes sense. I guess there , there’s a thing where there can be mistakes in whichever direction you go. Of course, because you could then see it as a mistake of, well, I let them pass my guard and it’s like, I always let people pass my guard. I don’t grit it out enough. Sure. Okay. Well that’s thing too . That’s a different thing. Yeah. Yeah. But I suppose what I , maybe what I’m to taken away from this is can you look at the situation from a different perspective? Yeah. And maybe see how you could develop more by taking a slightly different approach. I think we could look at this from a kind of Seinfeld George approach where Seinfeld, for those of you out there, no cross Seinfeld, you. I mean, get across it, do some Googling, get educated. And se Feld says to George, cause George is always struggling with things. He said, why don’t you just do the opposite? Because George always makes really bad decisions. And then as a result, he takes Seinfeld’s advice and he just says, you know, whatever you decide, you’re gonna do, just do the opposite of whatever you think you should do. And he starts winning. Everything starts working for him. And I think that it’s like, there , there is a value, even if it’s just a thought exercise to do something different with your jujitsu . So you’re not getting stuck and ultimately not repeating your mistakes. It’s great to learn and change and then get new mistakes cuz then you’re developing. But the same old thing, if you keep getting Armard, there’s a album there. If you keep getting swept on a particular sweep on a particular side, there’s a hole in the way you’re passing. So, or if you keep being in the mu and your guts, getting sucked at the moisture out of it, try have some steak for breakfast instead, maybe and OJ , that’s it. We , we all make mistakes with the keys to , uh , learn from them and fix ’em up. Fam , thank you for listening guys. If you are looking for some help with your training, the Bulletproof program is here for you. We offer online programs, strength, and mobility, and it’s all designed around complimenting you, the jujitsu player. You wanna prioritize your jujitsu. You don’t wanna spend too long in the gym each week or in your garage or wherever it is that you do in your training. 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