Speaker 1
I find that, you know, by watching instructional, you can really, really find, like finer details that can enhance things that you already do. Or sometimes, sometimes you're learning an entirely new system. A great example of this was a couple of years ago when I purchased Keenan online for his lapel guard in Cyclopedia. Now, I'm not a huge lapel player. However, it is effective in the G and I wanted to become familiar with the system. So I bought it. I think it was 200 bucks. It was a good investment, you know, and I got to absorb that system. Whereas there might also be, I don't know, Gordon Ryan attacking the legs. I'm already a pretty proficient leg locker, and I'm just looking for like those little details that might enhance my game. So it kind of depends what your, what your objective is when you're watching the instructional, who is watching the instructional will talk about that a little bit later. But it depends what your, what your purpose for the instructional is. Like I said, Jujitsu is an arms race. So every year in Jujitsu, we're seeing new techniques at the highest level, whether it's ADCC or worlds, which is actually going to be happening today, it starts today. We always see new positions, new techniques, you know, new guard passes, new sweeps, all these different things. And because Jujitsu is so novel, it's always changing. It's always evolving. First of all, that's one of the reasons why I love Jujitsu so much is because it's never staying still. But because it is always evolving, I think it's so important for the student to stay ahead of the game. And if you see something cool and competition, right away, we should be thinking about how can we study this? How can we learn more about this? We should get to the gym and try this. We should try and system, systemize this. Whatever, whatever it may be, a big example of this would be like leg locks, you know, around eight or nine years ago, when we would see the young Dan and her death squad, when they were kind of unknown, you know, the Gary Tonens and the Eddie Cummings, we'd see them start to leg lock everyone. And we're like, man, like these leg locks are so dangerous. And it was, it was at a time where, you know, if they got a bite on a heel, their opponent would almost instantly tap. And when you have an advantage like this in competition, when you have a weapon that is unstudied and unpracticed, that can be huge advantage in competition. And so we see things like this in competition, we see things emerge that become incredibly difficult for people to deal with. And it's winning tournaments and and and super fights and things like that. It's like, man, we got to learn this. This is a that's the power of the arm race of jujitsu. And I like to use the term arm race. You know, it's almost like we're comparing jujitsu to military tactics, because of course, in in military times, when we first saw the machine gun on the scene, you know, what, when it would have been like, over 100 years ago, we saw people with machine guns go into battle, and they would just destroy the other the other army, because the other army has nothing that they can use to compare against a machine gun, right? And before that, maybe it would have been the artillery before that, maybe it would have been medieval catapults. And even before that, it would have been things like bow and arrows that would have been absolutely devastating to the opposing forces who maybe were just armed with like, you know, blades. So this is just the nature of combat. We always see things progress. We always see technology improve. And jujitsu is no different. We're always seeing new techniques, new positions, new guards, new submissions, new mechanics. And it's exciting. It's something that keeps me passionate and interested. I recommend for every coach, especially if you if you are a coach of a jujitsu school, you're doing a, you're doing a huge disservice to your own business and to your students by just ignoring current trends. And I see this. Okay, usually, usually it's coaches who are older and, you know, kind of at the end of their career as it is, and they're just sort of like, well, you know, I'm coasting. I have a successful business. I'm able to, I'm able to run my business based on my merits, which are, you know, things like rank.