Digital Social Hour - The Evolution of Power Slapping: Inside the Sport | Da Crazy Hawaiian DSH #1269

Episode Date: March 26, 2025

Step into the adrenaline-packed world of Power Slapping with "Da Crazy Hawaiian" on this episode of the Digital Social Hour! 🥊 From dethroning Russian champions to mastering the science of the slap, discover how this rising sport is making waves worldwide. 🌍 Hear untold stories of grit, technique, and the mental toughness it takes to dominate the slap table. Plus, we dive into the evolution of the sport, its future, and what it truly means to be a champion in this electrifying arena. ⚡️ Don’t miss out on this exclusive conversation packed with valuable insights, humor, and jaw-dropping moments! Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets. 📺 Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🚀 Join the conversation and become part of the movement redefining sports entertainment. 💬👊 CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:27 - History of Slapping Sport 02:19 - Mental Aspect of Slapping 04:58 - Today's Sponsor 06:10 - Technique in Slapping 08:56 - Motivation Behind Slap Fights 10:40 - Larry's Record in Slapping 15:27 - Arm Wrestling Insights 16:40 - Larry's Weight Loss Journey 18:19 - Larry's Career Transition 21:35 - Gun Prevalence Discussion 22:33 - Learning Combat Skills 27:30 - Speed of the Slap Explained 29:44 - Fairness in Slapping Competitions 32:40 - Dana White's Call  37:45 - Corruption Issues in Hawaii 44:04 - Future Plans Discussion 47:33 - Finding  Da Crazy Hawaiian  Online APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [e-mail] GUEST: Da Crazy Hawaiian  https://www.instagram.com/da_crazy_hawaiian SPONSORS: KINSTA:  https://kinsta.com/dsh LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ #ufc #johncena #mma #therock #striker

He looked at me I looked at him I was like I don't know what to do but I'm pointing at you I'm here for you You know so it's You're not mentally prepared for that You may get lost in it And forget all your training It happened to me And I watched some fights back and I'm like

Damn you got lost what the hell was I doing Disappointed Alright guys we got the crazy Hawaiian here. One of the best slappers of all time. Let's go. Thank you. I appreciate that entrance right there. No one introduced me as one of the best of all time. I think you're on the Mount Rushmore right now. Oh for sure. That's a good question. if it was a question. But Mama Rushmore. Top four. Top four.

You've been at it for longer than most people, too, right? I've been doing it before COVID. Ron, Beta, Bada, Wolverine, me and him started the same exact day. Wow. Yeah. It was just a dive bar in Branson, Missouri. Okay. Yeah. I thought you were going to say the Russian league. I went to the Russian. I well, I dethroned one of

their Kings and then they all just kind of flew back home. Really? Yeah. The guy that started off doing it in Russia, he wanted to move down to America and try it out. He bought one of his champs and they didn't know what there was here, untapped land for them or whatever, but we have warriors, we've been starting it already. And dethroned one of their Kings and then they went home and they came back we bought them back now they're fighting a power slap or no now we got we got the dumpling which is a super champion dethrone me but I felt

honored to lose today for sure yeah you fought him twice, right? Yeah. So it's got to be Wolverine, me, I mean, American Mount Rushmore. So I don't know. The other two is kind of a toss-off. It's such a new sport. Yeah, it's new. We'll see. Time will tell, I think.

Time will tell, but we ain't going nowhere. If you haven't been there in person, you wouldn't know. Dude, I watched your first flight in person with Dumpling. Every time you slapped him, I thought he was going to get knocked out. I don't know how he takes those hits. It's crazy. I mean, he's a tough dude.

Some guys just got it. When you want, oh, man, I want to try this, it's all about taking the hit. Anyone can whack somebody and knock them out. You know what I mean? So you think defense is more important? 100%. Defense wins championship. That's what they say with basketball.

Yeah, for sure. I think I believe in that. I stand by that. If you got a glass chin, this is probably not something that you want to do. How much of that is genetic, the chin strength versus training? A lot.

I would say 75% of it, at least because there's a lot of Hawaiians coming in on it. You know, and the bigger people, wider people, and it's just a bigger basis of people like, and you know what? Taller people are actually like through experience are becoming one of the harder people to be is that cuz the angle of the slap is higher Yeah, and the taller you are the better. Yeah, cuz they got a hit off. Yeah, and then there's a point in the trajectory where You lose power So far up, you know, you won't be able to knock someone Wow So someone seven foot should enter this and just sweep everyone I got a I got a secret weapon

he's seven foot three oh my god big white boy that's not yeah and uh how much does he weigh probably was 500 holy shit are there divisions that even do that super heavyweight oh my, you don't get no cap There's no cap. There's no weight limit that guy can't lose. There's no way anyone can knock him out. There's so He hasn't been touched like that before doing He's he's been doing football. Yeah, and that's that's a big thing too, you know being able to take a hit it's kind of like a football hit you know leave with your head and You'd be surprised man

Some of these big guys, you know, you can be big and all that But if you don't got a chin, it's just not possible And you probably know the exact point where to hit and the exact pressure by now, right? And then I do also when I hold seminars, I actually ask people, what do you think you need to hit? Just point to it. And a lot of people sit back here and this and that. And the question is,

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but it's literally right here. Oh, down here. Where you need to place your hand. Where you need to hit. Because anywhere else, you can tell. You can just tell when you actually do it. When you're watching it, you're like, wow. Because people's hands are so big. And you don't know.

They're hitting with their whole hand. But the base of it is kind of the bottom part over here. And you don't want like they're hitting with their whole hand But the base of it is like kind of the bottom part over here And you don't want to leave with that see legal to lead with your palm for sure So you can't go like this cannot lead with your palm at all so when you make connection They slow-mo it you need to land like this But the base of your power at the end point of your power is like a red around here right obviously you can't knock somebody out without using your palm makes all to it but the point of contact it has to be flush your hand to their face mmm it's gotta be seamless it's gotta be seamless it's gotta sound like a slap look like a

slap and people overthinking man they're like oh couldn't be that bad It's gotta sound like a slap, look like a slap. And people overthink it, man. They're like, oh, couldn't be that bad. Couldn't be that hard. I see people that were doing MMA professionally and they rip, they're just on point. You can tell that they're focused, but there's a science to it. There's a technique.

And people give us respect after the fact, after they compete. There's a lot that goes into it because you only got three chances. So like if you mess up, that's one of your turns, right? Right. Well, three chances, but if you flinch, you get hit again in one round. Right. And a lot of people flinch the fight I went to. Well, I flinch. It's natural to flinch. It's natural.

I would strongly advise not to watch it come and Find a spot on their body because when you watch it come you anticipate it and the whole point of not flinching or the whole thing on not flinching is is Crazy to me You don't think that should be a thing. Well, no, no what I'm saying is, you know when you flinch try to teach someone not to flinch and It's a mind thing, you know, you're gonna hit you know, you're gonna get blasted in the face It's a mind thing it's a

Trying to get yourself to a cool place in your head So, you know not to flinch even me. I like Flinching I have to watch back the replay. I'm standing there. I don't give a fuck how much time I have I'm watching I'm waiting. I'm looking like wow I did flinch. Okay. I'll take another step You know I wrote the rules. Oh you did yes, I didn't know so I Did my own from I've started my own promotion with my partner in California and It was called chin check slapdown. Mm-hmm, but before that I was doing it for

Slappify championship and I wasn't getting paid you just doing a fun. Well the first one I did I was like man I was really curious. I wanted to do it. I Did for free, willingly. That's crazy. I just wanted to try it out, you know? Because before power-slapping or any slapping, I worked here in Vegas. Oh, yeah? As a bouncer at many clubs. My brother was pretty much my boss.

And instead of, you you know punching somebody slapping them on the streets is is a wake up like oh snap I just got slapped I better not mess with this guy you know people you know they like to test and back back in the day slapping somebody was just more of a hello you don't want to get punched like that do you like a warning right and I just started accidentally knocking

people out with slaps like knock them out glasses fly everywhere I'm like oh man I'm just putting back his pocket I used to be nice you know I was mm-hmm you used to be just a warning that's nuts and I was that knocking these guys out accidentally and my brother was like, oh you should do this Send me a video. It's about slapping Hmm Now fast forward I'm no one of the greatest that ever did it in America. That's nuts man. How many fights have you been in so far? I'm 20. Holy crap. That's it

What 19? What's your record? How many fights have you been in so far? Almost 20. That's it. About 19. What's your record? It is 19 total. So it is 2 losses, right? 2 losses and 1 draw. What is that? 16-1 and 2. 1-1. Or two losses, right?

Two and one. Yeah. Well, you lost to the same guy twice. Yeah. 16. Well, no. The first one was a draw. Oh, it was?

So it's two and one. Okay. Because I did lose to another Russian guy that the dumpling lost to as well. Oh, really? So there's a guy better than Dumpling? So yeah, it's a guy better than Dumpling. And I challenged him before I challenged Dumpling and I lost him. He actually dropped me. Damn.

He didn't knock me out, but he dropped me. Is that the first time you've ever been dropped? Oh, first time I've ever been dropped, rocked or anything. Wow. Yeah, but it was politics at that point. They came with their whole team and the whole official team. No one spoke English. No English was spoken in the bout.

But before the match, they were telling me my strike was illegal. Oh, really? Because I used to come really down, you know down at my hip and Really not my hand was when I started my trajectory it started at my knee holy shit and people people do that now and That was like comfortable for me. But now that I try to do it. It's uncomfortable because I've learned a new technique since that time And now I just adapt to it. Oh, so you got a new technique since that time and I just adapt to it.

So you got a new technique. Yeah, 100%. So you don't wind back as much? No, I don't wind back as much. It's the placement, it's accuracy and speed. But when I challenged this guy, his name is Zales, Z-A-L-E-S. He beat the dumpling, so I was like, I'm gonna be the best. I called out the best in the world, and my team,

we could get anybody in the world to come and stand in front of me and test this theory, like I'm the best in the world. And when we hired him, he said, Zala said, I want my team to officiate this. Okay, but on my soil. So we brought these guys from Russia, the whole squad, the officials, the refs,

everything, everybody. And I was literally the only American on that stage. Damn. So I actually dropped him, but his guys that were the catchers held them up. You can see it on YouTube held him up. There was one guy behind him like this. The other two had his arm hemmed him up and stopped him from dropping on the ground. Held him up for a good three seconds and then put him literally put him back on the table so he was out he

was he was out you can only cry he dropped back boom you know then they caught him the very next slap he did the same thing to me no one caught me no one even helped me just stay there I dropped like this like Like my butt went back. And I sat down. When I got dropped and I sat down, the official, which is another Russian, was cheering and holding my shoulder down, telling me, you lose, you lose, yeah, you lose.

And I'm trying to get back up. Within eight seconds, I was back up on my own. I mean, at the time I was like 375. It's hard to pick up somebody that's that big. So I got up on my own. Logan Paul was like, this guy's ready to go. I looked at him as a yes, I'm ready to go. It's my turn. It's only been eight seconds.

They've been dropped. They called the fight. Called the fight. Wow. Yeah. Is there a time limit like 10 seconds or something? It was a 10. So when you get dropped, it's a 10 seconds. seconds they've been dropped. They called the fight called the fight. Wow. Yeah. Is there a time limit like 10 seconds or something?

It was a tent. So when you get dropped, it's a 10 count. Yeah, like boxing but between the rounds you get about a minute, you know, and at that that specific one we they give us more than a minute. So when he won they gave him his little toy belt. I walked off on stage and I was just pissed off. Damn. You got to run that back with fair judges.

He was tested. We were tested and he... He felled? Yes. That doesn't even count then. That officially doesn't count. I count it because I'm just that guy officially it doesn't count I count it what was he on steroids a bunch of steroids and then now he's doing arm wrestling and they don't test in arm wrestling really it would be very hard for him to piss negative friend Wow I watch those arm wrestling videos

sometimes yeah those guys are amazing bro I one white guy with the glasses. Yeah, he doesn't look like he he nah He doesn't he looks like a normal guy and he busts out. Boom. Oh, he beats every doubt. Yeah, he beats everyone. It's crazy What do you think it is like just to hang? He's not the strong. He's not the strongest. He doesn't not the biggest either. Yeah, it must be technique you see the one he went to the beach and everyone was like Muscle Beach and He channels a biggest guy on the beach. Yeah, I'm like, yeah. No, there's no way he's gonna be this guy He was playing with the dude

That's not it's crazy. Yeah I got a fine that video I forget his name, but that he's a legend legend I want to get him on the part. There's a guy almost looks like you too. He's really young kid and He was glasses and everything. He purposely makes himself a dress like a dork. Mm-hmm So when he goes into this gym people like what the heck that's funny. He's Boom damn fast too. Would you ever do arm wrestling? When I when I like workout or lift I don't like specifically work on my arms More so like I love boxing. Hmm. So

Maybe when I start lifting again, I haven't left the weights since high school. Damn. Yeah, how are you still slapping that without? Well, I had the art of boxing I really love my IQ is something else it's actually my next career venture yes okay boxing or no bare knuckle or anything combat related that's why I'm dropping this weight because I was 420 pounds about five months ago holy Holy crap. I'm 300. What? I lost 120 pounds in five months. That's like what, 25 pounds a month? Yeah. And I walk around, naturally walk around at 225.

I'm a smaller bunch in my family. All my brothers, like if you know my younger brother, the Hawaiian Hitman, he's more so built to be a super heavyweight. So I was like, bet if he gets a shot at the title and wins the title, I'm going to get a shot at the title eventually, not the super heavyweight, but a heavyweight. And for boxing or any combat, you have to be in shape. And me at 400 pounds that's me like grabbing a snack every you know half hour and doing nothing just watching shows and not working out.

So you want to box at 225? Well I want to be comfortable I want to be just fit you know. I've always just been this big guy and I have opportunity the platform like power slap. It's an amazing platform, you know, it's a big one So but they were only going slapping right now. Mm-hmm. And when I train you can You I hate training. I really just I do you know, I'm lazy guy. Yeah, but boxing fighting the art of it Just adrenaline you get when you you you know you got to defend yourself, fight, you know. I love that. That's what gets me going, like, oh what? I get to hit something? Let's go. I love it. Have you boxed before at all or no?

Professionally, amateur, no. I just, the way I grew up in Hawaii, there was no guns. Now there's guns. There's no Hawaii there was no gun out his guns there's no there was no guns really when I grew up I didn't have a fear like oh pull out a gun to shoot me the only people I had guns was cops hmm um so I grew up in a time where what you looking at you know why you looking to be funny you can even look at somebody without without like I remember walking past somebody looking at me Funny, and we didn't say one word. We just started fighting You know no cops nobody nobody there to stop us and then after the fight When me and him you know fucked each other up

We shook hands Wow and not and now he's he's my best friend. Holy crap still to today He's not and I live in in America, but he's we call each other all the time That's that's what I grew up doing, you know fight fighting and the the location of where I grew up at is It's a one-on-one and there's no ground. You guys go to the ground someone's there that everyone's it's like a Unspoken rule of where I'm from Everywhere else. Yeah, the ground and pound is okay

Like jump on somebody pull their hair get to them to the ground or whatever the hell you gotta do Just to win the fight where I grew up at we we we we had some of the best boxers in the world You know yeah, I mean max Holloway's from where I'm from. Hmm, you know, and I think after I graduate There's only a few more years about five more years of that like lifestyle of just fighting For the sake of your last name. Like, oh, yeah, that's the Pelens right there. Oh, that's the Veronis right there. Oh, that's the Saterras right there.

You don't mess with certain families. It's not like that no more though, which is sad. Guns started flooding in. Yeah, I don't even know how it even happened. I don't know the backstory of how much why guns are so much now Like the presence of it And especially where i'm from because where i'm from you get guys that Should be world champion

In boxing fighting or any kind of combat sports kickboxing So maybe guns was like the cure for that I don't know you know but that that part of it man it just makes me sad yeah you know yeah now when you get in a fight with someone you got to worry about if they got a gun or a knife oh yeah and and if they don't you know they got family standing right there you know it's almost not even worth it. It's not worth it at all. You want to fight, go do it in the gym.

That's why I train my kids now to defend themselves. And I explain to them while I'm doing it, this is why. And when I was taught growing up, my dad's a musician. So I wasn't really taught to fight. when I was taught growing up my dad's a musician so I Wasn't really taught to fight hmm, you know my bunch of my family was just musicians farmers and When I decided is after I got beat up yeah, I said man I probably should learn how to fight so what I would do I would my family didn't have money so we Couldn't go to the gym or anything like that. I would stand outside the gym and just watch people train

and go home and do the same thing. And I would mirror it. But when I finally got into the boxing gym, a boxing coach came up to me and asked me, are you right handed or left? I said, right handed. He said, well, you know what, Sanch, you're fighting again, right? I said, no, I don right handed. He said well If you know what sense you're fighting in right as you know, I don't know

Said you you you know southpaw right now left handed do this some right handers do it But so I was I when I started learning my own I was a southpaw Anyone I learned at a gym He taught me the other way around so I'm ambidextrous now with a lot of things. Wow. So you just slap with both hands? Yeah. And the first time I've slapped somebody with my left hand was on the streets. And I knocked them out. And it wasn't even like a full ball technique.

It was just like, you know, like a half slap. Yeah, it's like half slap. Like I was just trying to shut him up. Like, stop fucking talking shit.. I'm gonna slap you right now And I did it but professionally Left handed slaps. I haven't gotten a

Real knockout yet professionally. Yeah on my left hand, but I know it's there, you know So when my right hand retires from slapping, I have my left. I wonder if you could be strategic with it during the fight. I did. I could do both. Yeah, I did both at one point. But it just threw me off, you know. Because I don't know when to do it.

Can't get in rhythm, too, I guess. And I don't want to put in my head, oh, I'm going to do this on this round. Because when you're up there Like it's different. You gotta take a round. Yeah, you have to adapt on the fly, you know, so And I see some guys out there and not being able to do that Just you see them you see the just the loss in their eyes They're just going on the plane to the crowd

Yeah like when you up there when I when you do it and there's no crowd is different from when you do it And there is a crowd. Yeah, they start folding under pressure. I like that butcher guy Bordeaux I think yeah, he looks at his opponent in the eyes, right? I mean that's intimidating. Yeah, that's intimidating bro There's a lot of guys close your eyes. Yeah a lot of mental games going on. Yeah, it's It's 100% mental game. You can tell when you're walking around in the back. This event, I'm a coach, so I can really tell.

When I'm competing, I don't really pay attention to everyone else. But you can tell who's mentally lost already. Really? You can tell, 100%. Sometimes you can't tell. They're just hyping themselves up. But they're using that energy they need on the stage

too early in the back. And it's just like if you're mentally not prepared for it, you can possibly get just adrenaline dumped before you even do it and lose all your energy and power. So you got to be conservative. You got to be conservative. Some guys can do it and lose all your energy and power. So you gotta be conservative. You gotta be conservative. Some guys can do it, right?

You can physically get over that adrenaline dump. Like for me, I can't. The crazy Hawaiian gets woken up as soon as I start walking up to the stage. But the backstage, I'm dormant. I'm chilling. Like I can't turn myself on. I know this already until I start walking out.

So you feed off the energy of the crowd? Yeah, feed off the energy of the crowd. I think I'm a specialist with that, with like crowd work. I coach that too. I don't just coach technique with power and speed and all that, blah, blah, blah. I teach them how to make the most out of that, what, 15 minutes of fame?

Make the most out of it. Look in the crowd, like make a connection with the people you find. Look to see who you can find, you know? Famous or not. Like, I was up there, I saw Tiovan. He looked at me, I looked at him. I was like, I don't know what to do, but I'm pointing. I'm here for you. You know, so it's,

you're not mentally prepared for that. You, you may get lost in it and forget all your training. It happened to me. And I watched some fights back. I'm like, damn, you got lost. What the hell was I doing? Disappointed. Yeah. You can make an like, damn. You got lost? What the hell was I doing? Damn. Disappointed. Yeah, you can make an impression for sure. You got Andrew Tate coming tonight. You know, you can knock him out. I wish I was competing for him, but it's all good. It's all good.

He'll be at future ones, I'd imagine. Oh yeah, for sure. Yeah, but imagine knocking someone out and then running up to him, getting a photo. That's legendary. It's legendary. Where's he flying in from? Miami, he already flew in.

Where he lives, Miami? He just moved to Miami, yeah. Smart move. Yeah, he was in from? Miami. He already flew in. Well, he lives Miami. He just moved to Miami, yeah. Smart move. Yeah, he was in Romania, but they were treating him terribly. Like shit. Yeah. What did he get arrested for?

Child trafficking or sex trafficking, something like that. Which was false, right? Yeah, I think they beat that one in Romania. Yeah. But now Florida's going after him. Not even? They opened up an investigation.

What the hell are they looking for? Who knows, man. We'll find out. Yeah. Yeah, shout out to Tate, man. Shout opened up an investigation. What the hell are they looking for? Who knows, man. We'll find out. Yeah. Yeah, shout out to Tate, man. Shout out to Tate. For the speed of the slap, are you just trying to go as fast as possible, basically?

Speed is everything, brother. You can be the strongest guy. I've seen some of the biggest, strongest, massive guys just get knocked out with speed. It's kind of's kind of like a like a flash knockout, you know, yeah Cuz you gotta make the most out of it. It's a free shot. It's guys standing there. If he doesn't flinch you get a free shot So the speed is a big thing This is the ones you see or the ones you don't see, you get knocked out from.

If you're that fast, even if you watch it come, you won't see it. Wow. You know? If you watch my early ones, I wasn't really trying to work on speed. I just wanted to knock them out. Power. I didn't know that to work on speed. I just wanted to you know, knock them out power I didn't know that speed was a thing and then as I go got on with my career of slapping I

Tried to dissect my technique so I can teach it to somebody Well, I wrote a 10 week just seminar of just slapping mmm and just seminar of just slapping. And. A 10 week program? From toe to fricking head, like every part of your body. And it goes into details.

And I've got a few students already, but I quickly realized that's the secret sauce. Cause it doesn't specifically do one technique. It's not even about a specific technique. It's like Stuff people overlooked when when you're when you're training. Yeah, you know, that's the little things that count And then I quickly realized like oh no, if someone gets a hold of this It's over like it may be like a rocky moment where he's he's I mean I got to fight my Tony gun one day, right and

It took two guys and One of them is a girl and one of them is a guy The guy is getting a knockout on the first round every fight cheese and he's getting a bonus for it, too Oh, you get bonuses for knockout. Oh, yeah for sure the best knockouts of the night. Yeah, I Wonder cuz like I feel like the person that goes first has a huge advantage hundred percent but but It's a mind fuck when you get the first one one. It's free shot. You don't knock them out. Mm-hmm

It's a mind fuck even for me if I go first and I don't knock the dude out. You start getting in your head. Now I have to go and turn around, grab the slapstick and damn like how did I not knock him out? Because I have to slap him again after I take the slap. So the mind is everything. you need a solid one. Yeah, yeah. I remember the fight I went to last time in Vegas. The guy that went first won pretty much every time I think. Oh yeah. It's you guys that just have amazing slap. Yeah.

There's no defense for it. It's all off a coin flip too, right? Off of a coin flip, you know. What do you think mean that system? I would keep it the way it is, but but. It's a big, but I would make it more public. Like, obviously, there's officials that do it,

the gaming people that are a part of it. I think they used to of it, right? I think they used to film it, but no one really watched it only the guys that gambled to watch it. Mm-hmm Just not like important to the media part of it. Mm-hmm, but I feel like okay Hear me out It's literally, okay, literally right before the fight. Up on the stage, you get the official, the coin, right? And you can make betting odds on this too. Who wins the coin toss, right?

Like, kind of like football, when they bring the two captains in there, boom, boom, boom. They should, I wanna do this, you know, I want this to be a thing. You get a coin flip, the winner goes first and also gets to pick out of two coaches which coach you want. That should be a thing.

Because we get fixed coaches, like I'm a coach on the red corner and the red corner only. But there's some guys that I've been training and I've been, you know've been friends with and I pulled into PowerSlap that are now in Mubuva Corner on this event. Some of the Hawaiians I don't even get to coach. Wow. I mean, obviously we're friends.

We can just go to our hotel rooms and coach, but that's unethical. It's a professional sport. That's an interesting dynamic because you're coaching against your friends, against my friends. But. You know, me now being a coach, I'm like, man, how do I work around this without being a cheater, right? You know, separate the friendship, right? Business.

But it takes somebody like me that puts the word sport over everything. You can't get a sport if it's not fair. When I started making my own promotion, the word sport was just engraved into my brain. I didn't let nobody tell me anything. Or that this was in the sport and blah blah blah, blah. Oh yeah? Cornhole is a sport and it's on ESPN. And people watch it. Why can't this be a sport? Someone told me that there was no money in it

because I asked to get paid. I did five slap fights and began my slap fight career. Unpaid, zero dollars and I was going viral for each one. Knockout, knockout, knockout, knockout, knockout. Hey guy, I need to get paid. I have a family of six kids. I need to pay some bills. And I'm missing work for this.

Oh, there's no money in it. You're not a professional. I cannot pay you. That's what was said to me and I know going viral pays and I was going viral. I did everything in my power dude. I reached out to so much people, thousands of people. Hey I have an idea. All we need is investors. And that drove me. I used to tell my brother, my wife, hey, one day Dana's gonna call me.

He has to. Wow. He's just, I have an idea, a million dollar idea. It has to be Dana White. Nobody else can make this kind of sport blow up like that. And it was just something that I told myself, Dana's gonna call, Dana's gonna call. Sometimes I used to lie to people just to get the status,

like, oh, Dana called. You know? And then when he finally called, and I finally talked to him on the phone, I cried. I didn't even know what to say Wow I Called my mom as a cry I couldn't even tell my mom it took me a while You get the words come out of my mouth my wife had to say they didn't call Dana White called mom. He's crying

And We're here now. That's crazy. Yeah, it's crazy right what do you say on the call? He was like uh I crazy. Yeah, it's crazy. Right. What do you say on the call? He was like, uh, I remember him calling me big daddy. I was like, what's up, big daddy? I was like, no way. This is AI or something like this. No way. This is the no way. Uh, he's like, yeah, baby, like we want, we want what you, what you guys are, what you, what you put it down. Let's do something. Wow. So, it was just me and our producers

and they don't want it. In the very beginning, we didn't even have the name Power Slap. So, I don't really tell people that unless I'm at a major podcast or anything, I don't walk around like, oh, I did this and that. I weren't getting paid in the beginning of my career. I had to fight for a paycheck.

Now everyone's getting paid. You paved the way. But that's how all sports work, if you look at it. Basketball players didn't make money at first. I did my research on how football started, how golf had started, how basketball started. A sport had to be started to be a sport. Had to have rules, had to have regulations.

Like I did all my research, had to have medical. Definitely need that in this one. Right. Officials. Like I'm just proud of the sport, bro. Yeah, no, it's really legit, man. And you guys are pulling in crazy views on social media. I think Dana said billions of views. It's hard to find a sport right now that

pulls in more numbers than slap. Wow. But being there in person is different. Oh, it's so different. Because I'm not going to lie. I was skeptical at first, like most people. Everyone is. Yeah.

But then I went in person. You went in person person when I'm hooked I saw someone get knocked out. I was like, holy crap The room went silent. It was like this is legit, right? Yeah, and I want the next the next you know growing step is we need we need celebrities we need like athletes from other combat sports to come in and get knocked out or dropped or anything or not to do it out. Welcome to PowerSlap. Just the name of the game.

That's the next growing thing. It might be in the Olympics. Who knows? Dude, that's a big talk too with this sport. It's an Olympic sport. How can it not be? The audience would go nuts. Dude, the audience would go nuts.

It would be the most hyped Olympic sport of all time, for sure. I would love it to be like while I'm still competing. That would be amazing. But we have a long way to go still. Where do you see it going this year? Anything exciting? Honestly, my bias for the Hawaiians, I want it to go and be in a way.

Because if you see tried, the government in Hawaii just... They won't allow it? Money. Oh, they want money? Want money. That's backwards thinking because they would make money if you brought it there on the why you just they won't allow it money oh they want money want money that's backwards thinking because they would make money if you brought it there on the back end oh no that's just a initial like handshake we want to come here it cost they know they know it's lucrative they know they're gonna make money off

of it but it's the greed in in politics you know so it's corrupt in Hawaii oh it's the most corrupt place I know holy crap yeah for sure are they dead right over there huh are they democratically oh they're Democrats yeah oh yeah that makes sense I mean there's a good amount of a good amount of republics yeah not enough yeah they probably have their areas. A little bit walk there. Damn, how sad. It's all good.

I mean, I love my home. Man, my heart's there. I grew up my whole life. My whole childhood spent in Hawaii. It's just sad. Yeah, that's how people feel about California now too. Yeah. For sure. Their hometown is just not what it used to be. Yeah. People used to rep Cali. Now I don't hear it so much.

No, now it's like a shame to rep it. Unless you're from like, you know, the hood. Yeah. Yeah. That's facts. I love Hawaiian food though, dude. Dude, what's your favorite Hawaiian food? Where do you go here? Matiki. Dude, you been there? I just did a thing with Matiki, bro. Oh, you did? Their plates are massive. That's why I love it, bro.

Dude, and then the beef ribs. Best beef ribs I've ever had. That's how we're so big. Yeah, I can tell. Eat like that from a baby. mac and cheese salad to do it dangerous unbelievable I think rice white rice and mac salad is the base of Hawaiian food Yeah, and then you get you know the meats and all that stuff, but

It was so tough bro Losing weight. Yeah, but not every day. How are you going to lose weight? Yeah, it's tough. But no, I'm Polynesians. We use our weight, our size to an advantage like like slapping. It really pays to be bigger.

And when I was four hundred twenty pounds. It was different. I feel like I could take a slap better now that I'm 300 pounds Now I have to use more technique right, you know cuz your defense got now it's easier to know you around right and That's proven and the last one with me and dumpling. How much did you weigh at that one? The first one I weighed 420 cheese and I damaged him. He didn't damage me. I actually took seven slaps total

He took five cuz you flinched I flinched tall. Yeah, it's twice Dan and I've been doing it for a long time and flinching is something it's hard to train for Both mentally physically right? How do you train for that? You can't really fight against it cuz it's a natural response Right and I and I and I I'm a really against closing your eyes while you get I'm I'm here again Then to this anticipation has to be there Knowing when you know when you're gonna get slapped because there is a defense they allow you to clinch

But you know, it's very much officiated you're the guy watching you and he as soon as you get slapped he's hitting replay as soon as you get slapped nothing nothing else matters to that guy the replay guy just to see if you clinched or yeah 100% Wow, they got that on lock. I don't think anyone's doing it better than Parcelot. I think that's the top of the... Yeah, because it's hard to see in real time if you messed up, right? It's different. And difficult.

And you can't hit on the bone too. A lot of people do that. Right. You can't hit on the... There's so much... When we do the fighter safety meeting we did one yesterday We go over so much details of What what are they gonna look for? what not to do and

There's a lot that goes into it Before when I was doing it none of that It was just a free-for-all free-for-all who can hit who can hit somebody the hardest you know and um I've created a lot of rules I brought so much rules to the to the table because someone told me oh yeah it's not professional it's not a professional sport well let's make it a professional sport you know why not why are we going to continue to do the circus act? Then skeptics will look at it as a spectacle. Yeah.

I don't respect that either. So let's change the game. Let's do it. That's cool. I didn't let nobody tell me anything. Yeah. There's a lot of haters on social media. Oh, I love them. I'm sure you get a lot of the day. Yeah. Your DMS. Yeah. I used to play into it. I'd just be, oh no, right back. And it doesn't do anything but waste your time. I mean, it would take all day to respond.

All day. It took all days at some points where I was just addicted to defending the word sport in slap and always says so much time so much days now I just don't they want you to respond they want they feed off of it yeah that's why yes I win as soon as you respond they win 100% that's what they wanted you could even respond with facts and it wouldn't matter oh it wouldn't matter someone especially someone like you if you used to respond to anybody wrong they'd be like first of all I know but what about and they already went you're feeding into that so yeah I don't I don't really feed into the details of

what they say anymore everyone says almost the same thing pretty much yeah join join the crew well dude what's next for you I know you got the energy drink company what else you got going on let's talk about that also a lot of people are like oh what are you doing differently now what are you like my wife actually wakes up and the first thing she does is crack a Red Bull that's what she likes I'm guy. You know, I don't just wake up and need something to start my day. A glass of water. But I started waking up and drinking a Red Bull too, just because I saw how productive she was. And I thought, if everyone's doing this a cup of coffee or whatever you do in the morning

Let's try it let's do it So when I got with the old school energy I Replaced my red pool with one of these yeah, that's probably healthier for you 100% and the taste is better It's like for me it's like a cherry taste almost but everyone else has kind of a different Yeah, cuz they don't reveal the flavor. There's no flavor which is fire on here. Yeah, and we it's like a little little Social media game. We let people try it and see what they say to guess right a lot of people say cherry which to me It's it's like a cherry flavor lots of people say cherry which to me is it's like a cherry flavor lots of people say like but

They don't even know what the drinking is an energy drink Um, I think it dumpings like a lot from other energies and I just don't for this one. It's more clean Focus man the the focus. I used to start projects and then start another project while I'm in the middle of doing that project and start another one. Just can't get focused, can't get anything done, finish. This one right here, it's almost like,

do I wanna get stuff done today? I'm gonna drink an old school energy. Bro, I had like a 10th of that. I haven't had an energy drink in ten years and now I was wired I was so oh yeah dude it was crazy one of my buddies like takes Adderall every day give him a case of this he's like you want some Adderall? Nah bro I got old school energy what Adderall replacement. Dude, that's amazing. And he doesn't take his Adderall no more. That's cool.

Wow. Right. And I mean, it's not a drug, so I can drink it. I just, I owe this drink, this little drink in a can I owe it all my success nowadays Compared to you know waking up and having to lug around With purpose of making something a sport. Mm Now I got many new goals

That i'm just crushing right now. It's awesome crushing. Yeah, you guys are crushing without you guys keep selling out, right? Yeah, keep selling out. I mean, dude, if you haven't had one yet, try it. If you love focusing on stuff and getting it done, that's outside of working on yourself physically. This thing does wonders. Yeah, I'm sure we'll start seeing it in stores soon, right?

7-Eleven's already like, we're starting shipping to all the 7-Eleven. Nice. So, one down, you know. That's a big one. Yeah, that's a big one. Yeah, congrats. Well dude, where can people find you? The crazy Hawaiian, if there's any other dog crazy Hawaiian,

DA, let me know. I'm taking that. We'll link your stuff below. Yeah for sure Thanks for hopping on. Yeah, watch power. Yeah, stay tuned for power slap in the future of slapping guys