#78 Champion Athlete Vs Great Coaches: Why the best performers are not always the best people to help your BJJ.

It takes Champions to make champions. But is that actually true? What it takes to win is not what it takes to teach. Being a BJJ Champion requires incredible levels of focus, discipline and self determination. Being a great coach requires great communication skills, setting a good example and empathy to relate to someone else’s struggles.
JT & Joey examine examples of great coaches who were not champions and phenomenal athletes who have proven to suck at coaching. Your relationship with your coach is one of the most important factors in the BJJ Journey and their past experience can really help or hinder your development.

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Ladies and German . Welcome to another Bulletproof for BJJ podcast. I am JT. Hey guys, I’m Joey. And today we will be talking about athletes versus coaches. What makes a great coach and why learning from a champion? Isn’t always the best option. Now, a lot of people are like, oh , you gotta hang around champions to be a champion and all this kind of stuff, but I’m actually gonna say, that’s not true. I believe. And there’s plenty of good examples out there of guys who came up, maybe they weren’t as famous as their other counterparts, but because of their skills and their ability to teach, they have created champions and created an environment that built the next generation of champions. And also because they , they didn’t just think about themselves. They were thinking about how to help others. And I feel that’s a big delineation between someone who’s good at doing their own thing and someone who’s good at helping others. Your thoughts on this, Joe . Yeah, I agree. I think what happens there is that we tend to conflate someone who performs well as being able to teach somebody else to perform well. Yes. And it’s a bit of a natural thing. It’s like, oh , you know, so, and so’s a savaging competition. I’m I’m training with them at the moment. Yeah. There’s there are obviously examples of people who have done both, you know, I don’t know how I’m sure. Marcella Garcia is a great coach. Yes. Right. Um, you know, there are , there are those people out there, undoubtedly, but the, the qualities that it takes to be a great athlete or a great performer are different to the qualities that it takes to be a great coach. Mm . One is, you’re an educator. The other one is, you’re the action. You’re the person doing the thing executor. Yeah, that’s right. It’s a better way to put it. Like you see certain brands of jujitsu or certain coaches, whatever, really kind of holding up their achievements in that area. Like, oh , look what I did in competition. And I’m multiple time , this and blah, blah, blah. You know, it’s cool. It’s worth mentioning to a point. Definitely. But when you view it from this perspective, it’s like, well, it’s actually kind of irrelevant . Yeah . Show me what your students have done. Exactly. Like what, what have , what have your people achieved? This is very interesting. Cuz this comes up in the realm of , uh , coaching, you know, PT, all of this because this is where you can sound out the, the kind of BS and the health and fitness game, cuz yeah, sure. You look great. Look at you with your abs and your chest and your bench press and your pullups show me what your clients can do. Show me how you actually help someone else become great. I in their own way. Yeah. As much as you can be like, look at me. I’m so awesome. It is a very different set of skills to be able to help someone, an individual tap into their own potential. So I’m gonna give an example, you know, shots fired of an athlete. Great athlete, terrible coach AO Soza . Oh . That guy got no I’m cool with Avia . You have no idea. I’ve got no idea what he’s like. I’ve seen you . He looks like great ion man. He’s so good. Like three or four time world champion got kicked out of his own gym. Like he was running a Gracie Baja gym, but he , he would just change the training to suit himself. He wouldn’t do the warm up . He’d just go, you, you, you come with me, we’re gonna roll. Yeah. You guys, whatever you take him . And just was just shaping the training. It was actually a bit of a debacle a couple of years ago that he actually got kicked out of the gym that he was meant to own. Wow. Cause he was just, he’s just running it as his own personal little training camp, five him and didn’t. Yeah. And that points to a quality of a great athlete, which is not to say that you have to have this, but one of the qualities that you do see with these very high level athletes is selfishness. Yes. Right? And it’s like gone Ryan <laugh> I’m here to do what I need to do. I’m not here for you. Yes. I’m not helping you with. I’m here to get better. And if that means I’m gonna crank it on you and I’m gonna hurt your foot cuz I’m working foot locks tonight. So be it . Yeah. It doesn’t matter. Not my problem. I’m sure I gotta comp on prepping for, it’s not to say that you have to be that way, but well actually, maybe to be at that top level of, of number one in the world do need a bit of that. Yeah. And really, you know, black belt world championships, you have to be not afraid to hurt somebody to win. Yeah. Like cuz I watched the final between AO and Leandra Lowe and he breaks LO’s arm , right? Yeah. He puts low in an armbar cuz LOE , you know , is breaking the DHE and AO is good at that. And AO throws on it’s in 2014, check it out. Ottavia versus low. He bends his arm the wrong way, this, the wrong way. And you know, a lot of people talk crap , doesn’t tap. No doesn’t tap. You know what he does do? He just goes like fights out of it and just goes, snaps it back into place and just keeps fighting. Like doesn’t pause. Just let’s go. And I think even ATAE is like, oh no, I can’s a huge flag . He’s a zombie. What can I do this guy now let’s go the other way. Let’s talk about some amazing coaches in AO son. Michael Galvan would go on , him up. <laugh> I have no idea if they’re related. <laugh> <laugh> I think that’s a tough , I think I’ve given away a few years there misattribution

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We have no idea if a TA even has children. But um, no. I mean it’s like one of those things that even if we look at other fields of sport, if we think about some of the great coaches in football, basketball, even Olympic sports, even though they may have gone through their process, their ability to bring out the best in others is really what separates them. So if you train at a gym that’s not famous. That doesn’t mean you can’t get exceptionally good. As long as your coach is willing to really invest in you. That’s right by same token. If you go to a famous gym and you’re like, well, I get to hang out with famous jujitsu champions. You know the magical rub off on me. It’s not necessarily true by the way, dropping you into unity when you go to New York <laugh> I just might. No I’m I’m JC Torres rubbed some shoulders. <laugh> get staff . No <laugh> Oh , dare you . Full respect. Full respect. Last episode was on staff FY . So yeah . Yeah , of course. You guys already knew that. Yeah. You already listened. Um, yeah . Let’s talk about cases of people who were probably very good competitors, but not necessarily world champions who are now breeding the new generation or have coached champions. So I’m gonna say Heath PADI go of, you know, Pado submission fight team. Yep . Daisy fresh Daisy , fresh shout out to those guys, obviously doing some things . Right. Amazing. You know, that training environment is crazy intense. And I think what he’s been able to do is take that hardcore work ethic from wrestling and apply it to jujitsu. Yes. And they’re just, they’re creating killers over there. I wanna mention something before this because when you look at what it takes to build something great from a team perspective or from an individual perspective, it is often the ability to apply something that is missing in that person’s approach. Sure. Right. So as an example, say I’m a coach I might have, and I’m not saying this relevant to PADI go by the way. It’s a completely isolated statement. Joe’s just stepping back right now. Yeah. But it’s like, I might not have the best technical understanding I might not of the game. I might not. And any game, any sport, I might not have the best strategic , um , ideas, but I’m really good at motivating you. Yes. I’m really good at lighting the fire within you. Yeah . And you happen to be good enough at strategy. Good enough. Technically that that’s all you needed. Right. Right. Or, you know, it could be something else, you know, you have all of the fire, but you don’t have the technique. I’m an amazing technician. You know? Maybe like maybe John Danahers a bit like that, like incredible technician and strategist and not necessarily the greatest practitioner in his career, but his ability to make others better. Ridiculous. Yeah. But it’s like, it’s so nuanced. It’s like, is he in there yelling at Gordon? Like do they no . Or is he just like, Hey man, this is a system I want you to start working on. And that system’s beating everyone. Obviously speaking outta turn . Cause I don’t know him and I’ve not trained with him. But my point is, is that like it’s so it could just be one little thing that you are able to give to the right person at the right time that allows them to become great. Yes. And a conversation I had some time ago with a , a strength coach about that and about developing athletes and it was Emmett Lewis I was talking with. Yeah . And he said, and I think I’ve used this example before, but he said the training method for the top level of like athletes like Olympic athletes, it doesn’t matter too much. He’s like if you take someone that is sort of genetically predispositioned to be the best at , at their given sport, you can pretty much lock them in a room for three months with a set of weights and just tell ’em to come out and win the world championships. And they will. Okay. He’s like the specific program, they follow isn’t as important as, or the qualities they already have inherently. Okay. Um , and, and that’s also not to be defeated by it’s like, no, of course the program matters, but he’s just pointing out that like when you get to that level. So the reason I mention that is because for a lot of the people listening to this for a handful of them, they might be like, Daisy, fresh. I wanna train at that level or Danaher . I wanna be, I wanna try and be the next Gordon run . Yes I try . But majority of ’em probably like, I just like wanna get as good as I can get and I’m not trying to beat the world, but I just want to get good, roll , better, get my next belt, like continue to progress. Sure. Which, which for them, right. Whatever they need is probably different to what Gordon needs or what Craig needs. Yeah. Agreed. And I can speak to that a little bit. Cuz I’ve spoken to as much as I like to talk about Craig Jones. I respect Craig and I have spoken to him and picked his brain about what it’s like to train at DDS when , when he was still coming back to absolute like , Hey man, how’s your trip? You know? He’d he’d like locked the outta me and I’d hate him for it. But I’d be like, yo. It’s two and a half minutes left in this round . You tell me about your trip. <laugh> no , no , no . There’s no chat when we roll us on . But uh , but I’d say like, man, like how’s Gordon, like how are you going against Gordon? Like I want to know in truth cuz he, he won’t lie. Like Craig’s pretty straightforward guy. And just say man, like, what’s it like? And he would say that John coaches very little to the senior guys, I’m not sure what he’s like with the, with the more beginner crew. But he would just challenge them. He’d say something like, you cannot take the back. If the hip is higher than the shoulder, like say you’re coming from guard . He’d just say something like that. But he wouldn’t say it because it’s gospel. He’d kind of give it as a challenge and be like, prove me wrong. And so they’d all kind of look around at each other and be like, is that true? Like, okay, let’s see if the old man’s right. You know? And they , they would , they’d go to work on , they’d do specific training and they they’d either kind of it wrong, prove it. Right. But he’d just incite them to work. And that was his role. And that’s really like that. Craig would say, he would just say really not mystic things, but things which you weren’t sure if they were right or wrong, you had to discover for yourself. And I think for very high level people, maybe that makes sense. I think what I have observed, like I’m gonna speak to Cicero , Cicero , Costa fame. A lot of people don’t necessarily know who he is , but he’s really the father of the Meow brothers. Lero low and many. It’s a great , still a great team. Just probably same , no tap . Yeah. killers killers from that gym. And interestingly enough, our friend Ari Toback is actually a black belt under Cicero . Yep . And I’ve had detailed conversations with Ari about what it’s like to train Cicero and train at Cicero , Costa and SA and all of that. And he says, everyone just wants to be like Cicero. They , they all aspire to roll as technical, as good, as hard as him. And I’d never heard of him within the fame of all of the champions from the nineties. And I do know that he had won championships and things, but he never had that like top level guy , Andre Galal fame. He wasn’t his face as Fabio Gelle and stuff like that. Yeah . But all of these guys just wanted to be like him. And he created this environment that was super intense. Like they fight to the death, you know, there’s no real like specific. It’s just, you’re ready. Okay. Now we’ve rolled to the death for an hour and a half and that’s the training they do. And I’m not saying that’s the best way to train, but he really inspired his guys through his example. And I’ve never seen him coach. Um, the , the flip side of this is there are very famous guys. Who’ve created champions like Fabio Gael , Andre Galvan , blah, blah, blah. Yeah . But if you’re out there and you’re listening and they’ve , and they’ve repeated it multiple times, multiple , multiple times , which alludes to, well , they have a process that makes them an exceptional coach. They do understand to a point you could also make the argument and not in all of those examples, but you could make the argument for some of them that the exceptional athletes find their way to that team. No, they do. Right. So there’s you gotta take it with a grain of salt . There’s a bit of a , like a confirmation bias there. Definitely. Once people know that there’s really hard training there and you’re trying to be the top 1% in the world. You’re like, I’m gonna go there. I’m gonna go into the fire and become one of those humans. And there’s plenty of learning in that. I guess the reason why I wanted to bring this topic up is I get really, I don’t know what the right word is for this. I feel , uh , bit nonplused when people are like, oh, I have to go train with this champion bit non what nonplused like, I don’t care. Right? Like I don’t think it’s true because I’ve trained with a couple champions and learned nothing because they’re , they’re , they’re training for them. They don’t care to show you something, you know, they just wanna bash you. You’re just a body. That’s not good training. What I have benefited from is someone above me, better than me rolling me. And at the end of the role saying, Hey man, when you are here, you sh you shouldn’t do that. You should do this. That’s a gem. It’s like, oh , no one ever told me that that’s great. Or someone who’s way better than you just outclassing you. And then being like, Hey, this thing you did was good, but this is don’t , you know , stop doing that. Just something, just something little. But that’s huge. Just getting that little bit of feedback as opposed to someone tapping you 10 times and they’ll be like , yeah , cheers, bro. And just walking off. Yeah . Like that’s crap. And I I’ve rolled with a couple of high level champions. Who’ve who’ve just kind of wrecked me in , walked off and they didn’t give a. And I , I feel like this idea of trying to get greatness from greatness is a myth. Yeah. That’s what I’m trying to say. It’s a little bit a similar , um , similar thing that was being spoken about when Dimitri clock, I was running weightlifting seminars. Oh , I was just about to talk about clock . Yeah . Right now, if you guys don’t know who Dimitri is, he’s possibly one of the strongest Olympic lifters in the history of the sport. And also now, and he’s got a six pack , which you don’t see in heavyweight weight lifters. No , he he’s . He looks like a body builder . Yeah . He could be a pro body builder type look , but also just ridiculous. I have some inside info about him, but you you’re assuming he is , is enhanced because he’s never, he doesn’t compete in the Olympics. He’s stronger now. No, he was in the Olympics. Was he? He did the Olympics for about 12 years. Okay. But now he’s not, he’s so much on the Olympics and he’s just, he’s huge. He’s so much stronger now than he was . He’s an awesome guy to follow on social media and stuff. Like he , he does crazy lifts. He loves putting, you know, girls in bikinis on the barbell and push pressing. Yeah . Funny, like funny. He’s he’s one of the few guys from, from that site , from like the Soviet region who is, who’s having a bit of fun sense of humor. Yeah. Sense of humor’s one wanted to say he ran these, these seminars, these workshops. And apparently actually to his credit , I did speak to a couple people like, oh yeah, he did help me with a couple things, but it was also less. So like he’s not producing amazing athletes. He’s not a great way lifting coach. He’s a great way. Lifter. Yes. Practitioner, but not a teacher mate. There is a clip and you can Google this. And I wasn’t at the seminar, but my old weightlifting coach was, if I , so Finn Kabuki , shout out to Phil as he’s otherwise known film , cuz all the Aussies couldn’t say is they couldn’t say you fi what? Fem yeah . FM what he’s like, just call me, Phil, just call me. So he had to translate for clock off’s coach and he knows clock off’s coach because actually he trained with him back in the day. Right. So, and he actually understands their method really well. Cause he , he told me, you know, back in the day they all used to train in this big training hall, the Olympic like, like the AIS for Russia. Right. And he used to play ice hockey. He didn’t represent Russia, but he was trying to make the team. This guy was there on the Olympic weight lifting team, offs coach. So he knows Coff’s coach. And he’s like off , you’ll eat a bag of candy and a can of Coke for breakfast at this seminar, he says to this guy, stop pushing your head forward when you jerk, like the guy is like doing the jerk and throwing his head forward and Kock was going stop doing that. And the guy’s not so literally the guy he’s like, alright , jerk. And he puts his fist in front of the guy’s face and the guy head butts, his fist and, almost TAs himself. He gives the guy a blood nose . He’s like, you’re welcome. You paid him . <laugh> you paid $350 for a blood nose from clock on . That’s up , man. That’s so far I saw that and I was like, this guy’s a Dick <laugh> oh , what a meathead ? You know? And he’s a king, like he’s, he’s a hero. He’s an actual hero in Russia. So he does what he wants. But that’s terrible. I , I just like, I can’t condone that . Yeah, no that’s not cool. And you know like, like no , uh , no shade on it’s it’d be great to go to a seminar if he’s just cuz you get to hang around the guy and see what he’s like. Yeah. Whatever. I’d think it’s overrated, but <laugh> . Yeah. But if you want that experience, right. Yeah . And we , I remember , um, I remember we spoke about this on a couple episodes ago, but I remember um, our mate, Adam Childs sure was, was RA on a few years ago. Apparently habe Noah , me of ran a seminar in Melbourne. Yes. And Adam was like, he ran a seminar and parent tickets were a thousand dollars. He’s like, you know, as if like what, like he’s not a great coach. He’s just, he’s just the UFC champion. Like what is he, what is he gonna be able to pass on? But I was like, dude fired a thousand bucks spare . I’d love to go to that. I’d love to hang out with CIB in the same room for a day. Just vibe. Just even if he was just showing us how to pumble like, whatever, I’m not here for the technique. See what he’s like. Yeah. No , I , I definitely understand that. I guess if we can like circle back around and think about someone’s out there and maybe they’re looking like, who do I learn from? And I , I think you can learn from anyone. It doesn’t matter if they’re a champion, they’re not a champion, but I think it’s where you start looking at the qualities of somebody, because sometimes you meet somebody and you’re like, wow, they’re ju just is great. And they’re a complete. Like God, it’s like sneezing on the girls and you know, is like, you know, just doing UN you know, unsanitary things and maybe she’s sneezing on the guys. Sh sh well, I dunno about that. But you know, I’m just, <laugh> , I’m just saying, regardless of who’s S sling on who they exhibit behaviors that you wouldn’t model. Yeah . You know, and what I have had to do in my lifetime is learn to separate the art from the artist. Like, I think you can still appreciate when someone does something. Well, but you don’t have to love who they are. Yeah. Like con McGregor at 1 45 was like crazy. Like him that like 1 55 he’s better than anyone. Yeah . Con McGregor is possibly one of the worst humans in the history of humans. Yeah. It’s , you know, looking that way, you know what I mean? Like, and so you , you go , alright , can you appreciate what he did to build himself up to be who he is ? Yeah. He’s some working class dude. And he made it be , you know, he leveraged everything. He had to be who he is . Great. That doesn’t mean that you’re gonna take life lessons from that guy. No , it doesn’t mean he’s an awesome guy. And you want to emulate his life . No, you’re not . He’s not your life coach. Yeah. Right. You’re not like I’m gonna live the Mac life. It’s not gonna happen. So I , I think when you’re looking at your coach, you might look and think, ah , I don’t know if my coach has all the qualities I want , you know, you might be older than your coach. You know, your coach might be 21 years old and really good at jut . So you’re 45 years old. And you’re like, man, this, this kid’s partying on the weekends. And what are you doing? Questionable stuff . Maybe they’re , you know, they show at class, they bit blurry iron and you know, you’re like never party guys. <laugh> never have sex. Never have fun. Only drink water, only water and see the Bulletproof maxims and eat . I say , <laugh> no, I look . And some days, boy harder some days. But I , I , I look at , I look at it and I , I think what has held me back in the past is being too judgemental . So looking at someone like Gordon, Ryan, I , I don’t believe it. No . Well, you know, me being the Buddhist, I am, I accept all, I , you know, hating the personality, but then understanding there’s lessons to be learned there. That guy is good at what he does. Yeah . You could learn from him, but can you tolerate his personality kind of thing? Yeah . That’s what I’d say. So I think for all of you out there listening, you also might wanna reexamine is this person you’re learning from the best person, because you might think, oh no , I’m , I’m developing all the traits of a champion. And then you find out that champion takes steroids. And then you also find out that champion, maybe abuse somebody. And then you find out that they do other questionable things. You’re like, no , I don’t wanna actually give this person money. I don’t wanna support what they do. If you are thinking about how you live in the world, you know, where you put your money is kind of where you show your support. And I think this has become more prevalent recently that you might look at a gym, which is full of champions and people who are great at jujitsu, but maybe they’re not great people. Yeah. You vote with your dollar a hundred percent. Absolutely. A couple things on that one. I think that we need to give credit to like, there’s those list of individuals who have gone and created world champions and built these amazing teams and got notoriety around it. Yes. That’s the tip of the iceberg in a sense, then you’ve got all these other people who, amazing jujitsu coaches who are out there and some suburb , some team. Yep . They’re not breeding, you know, high level competitors. They’ve just got everyday people coming through and they’re changing lives. Yeah. And they’re doing their best to be the greatest coach for those people. Yeah. You know, they’re , they’re building their kids team and they’re keeping the kids engaged and teaching them discipline. And then they got people coming in that who’s maybe health isn’t in the greatest place, but they’re helping, ’em find fitness and, and you know, an outlet in jujitsu and, and no one will ever know their name. Right. No, but that value that contribution’s huge. That is. And that’s, and it’s also very noble, I think, to choose. Maybe it’s not a choice maybe for a lot of people. It , it might be. But to , to work with that, to work with those people is very noble because there isn’t any notoriety, no glory in that. Yeah. It’s like, it’s like personal trainers will often say that like, oh , I’m kind of sick of working with general population. I , I , I just wanna work with like athletes and. Yeah . You’re like, well, that’s really great. Like, I , I can see the appeal in that, but general population, like regular folk, that’s actually where you’re gonna make the biggest change. Yeah. Like if you , if you wanna have an impact, you’re helping someone lose 20 kilos. You’re helping someone like whatever, extend the quality of their life. Like really it’s a big change. It’s huge. Right. So, you know, and in jujitsu we look at it and that’s , and that’s the bulk of the coaches out there like, oh my team’s just a , just a regular team. Yeah . There’s so much credit in that. And I guess it’s, it’s , uh , going back to that point, I made earlier where it’s like, it’s nuance. Like, what does that person need versus what does that person need? It very different between someone who’s an elite level athlete. And then someone who’s just doing it to stay in shape and enjoy their life a bit more. I saw a documentary many years ago, which was all about Hado Vira and I’m a huge fan of Hado Vera . Even though I LOA people take steroids, I’m pretty sure Olfo was on a lot of gear when he competed. But honestly, possibly one of the most dominant heavyweights to ever do jujitsu take down pressure, pass , just destroy everyone. His coach, Julio Caesar also known as the general, he’s the founder of GF team in the documentary. He said, you know, jujitsu creates the citizen and that’s the role of jujitsu. We create like good people in the society. And then the champion comes from good people. It’s like a layer on top of that. Right. But the role firstly is to create the , the good citizen. Yeah. That’s cool. That was like, that’s, that’s cool. And it’s very rare that you hear, I guess, people speak philosophically about why they teach jujitsu. Cause he , you know , G team’s just this small gym in Rio. And I mean, there’s a lot of people who train there now, but it’s just super ghetto and G team’s some of the toughest guys in , in all Brazil and it’s all around the world now, too. And really, you know, even though they’ve had a , a fair few high level , black bolts champions Olfo is the most famous that still sticks with me. And I still think about that every day when I’m teaching and I get massive joy out of the people I’m teaching, even though I know that, you know, maybe one out of 10 of any of them wants to really compete and go hard there. I don’t mind because I see the changes in people week to week , month to month becoming more resilient, just being that little bit more Savage in a quiet way. Yeah. Like, you know, you , someone who was a bit like, ah , they hurt my hand to like, yeah. And then I cross faced them . I’m like, yeah. Yeah. Mm . Because I know that when they go out in the world, they’re better humans. They’re tougher humans. They can deal with more easier. Yeah . Yeah, absolutely. That is arguably a larger transition than say taking an elite athlete from being exceptional to being like 1% better. Yeah. It’s a much bigger difference for that, for that regular person who is now no longer timid to engage in a full contact sport . Yeah. Definitely regularly and enjoy it. It’s like, that’s a huge change that like, that is a fundamental change to, to you as a person. How you approach life. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, look, if you are early in the jujitsu journey and you’re not sure, you’re like, ah , we don’t have heaps of champions at my gym or is this the right place for me? Or I went to a seminar at a Champion’s gym and I feel like I need to go and train there. Yeah. Like cuz cuz it was just so cool and oh yeah. You know like , cuz there’s , there’s an allure to that. Definitely. There’s an allure to ah , but they got that person in there that’s like killing it and you’re like, okay. Yeah, yeah. Is it relevant to you? It might . It might be. Could be , you know , I’ve, I’ve done that. You know, I went to Alliance headquarters in Sao because it was the hardest training I ever experienced cuz I wanted that. But you know, whether you want it or you don’t, I think being able to identify a coach who is investing in their students and, and doing that, I believe there is more value in finding a coach who cares about how you are going, you know, on the mat and personally than just having someone who’s really good at jujitsu and just doesn’t even know who you are. Yeah, absolutely. Um, fam , we’re gonna wrap it up there, but couple things to mention couple new changes to the standards program of late for anyone that’s using standards, you will notice that the accessory drills, which is the last superset in each of the three workouts, the exercises there have changed. Uh , it’s a manual thing. So I went in there and changed . It had a couple people mess me like bro , where did the split squats go? Uh , I noticed we got some sick ketlebell rack squats in there now just wanted to check. So that was a manual upgrade. And you’ll see that stuff change every six to eight weeks. So just keeping you on your toes, make sure if you are using the standards program that you do check back in with the actual program itself on the website at least every week so that you’re aware of that stuff. The next piece we got coming is we’re gonna be adding some warm up elements and some extra instruction to how you navigate each of those workouts. That’s what I’m working on at the moment. So keep your eyes peeled for that. If you are not on our program, but you think that you could do with some more strength and some more flexibility, that’s gonna help you be more athletic on the mats. We got you sign up for our program today. You can take a free trial for one week Bulletproof for bj.com. It’s all there. There’s multiple options within there that are gonna help you get stronger and more mobile and rehab, old injuries. Um, so get on it. And if you use the code BJ J podcast, you’ll get 20% off your subscription. Now last piece on that, if you do wanna support the show, but you don’t feel like doing the program, you can also hook it up on Patreon. We got a few options there, go and check it out. We don’t want you to do all of those things, but if you’re like, Hey, I like what you guys do. I would like to support you in some way, man, train our program and get stronger mobile at the same time. If that’s not for you do the Patreon piece and uh , we’ll enjoy a bowl of us a in your name. Yes, sir. Thank you, fam . We’ll catch you next week. Appreciate you guys .