The Shintaro Higashi Show - How To Get Better | The Shintaro Higashi Show

Episode Date: July 16, 2025

In this episode of the Shintaro Higashi Show, Shintaro and David Kim dive into the realities of how to get better at judo and Brazilian jiu-jitsu. They discuss training strategies for different belt levels, how to self-direct improvement, and common mistakes that keep people stuck—especially beginners. This episode offers real, actionable insights for grapplers of all levels, from struggling white belts to plateaued purple belts.00:00 – Intro: Same Room, Same Sweat01:00 – Beginners: Why You’re Not Getting Better03:00 – White Belt Wisdom04:30 – The Middle Belt Plateau06:00 – Limited Mat Time: Making It Count08:00 – Identifying and Fixing Problems10:00 – Creating a Self-Guided Practice13:00 – Custom Drilling and Specific Training15:00 – Developing Training Awareness17:00 – Breaking Through Technical Plateaus19:00 – The Black Belt Dilemma: Keep Evolving21:00 – Personal Growth Through Self-Directed Study22:00 – Balancing Training and Life23:00 – Reimagining Class Structure25:00 – Final Thoughts: Relax and Stay the Course🚨 LIMITED-TIME OFFER: 40% OFF 🚨The All-in-One Instructional Bundle just got even better.Every major instructional. One complete system. Now at our biggest discount yet.Grab yours now at 40% off : https://higashibrand.com/products/all-instructionalsThis won’t last. Build your game today.🔥 Get 20% OFF FUJI Gear! 🔥Looking to level up your judo training with the best gear? FUJI Sports has you covered. Use my exclusive link to grab 20% OFF high-quality gis, belts, bags, and more.👉 https://www.fujisports.com/JUDOSHINTARO 👈No code needed – just click and save!Links:🇯🇵 Kokushi Budo Institute (The Dojo) Class Schedule in New York, NY 🗽: https://www.kokushibudo.com/schedule🇯🇵 Higashi Brand Merch & Instructionals: https://www.higashibrand.com📚 Shintari Higashi x BJJ Fanatics Judo Courses & Instructionals Collection: https://bjjfanatics.com/collections/shintaro-higashi/David Kim YT/Instagram:  @midjitsu ​

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Nice to see you in person. We're in the same room right now, we just worked out. Yeah, it's a little disturbing. Yeah. I think we're right next to you. Yeah. But yeah, we're going to talk a lot about what are we talking about today? I think we're going to talk about how to get better, how to know what to work on. Yeah. As you progress, as you gain more experience. Because obviously the things that a brand new white belt,

whether you're in Judo or Jiu Jitsu, their process is probably gonna be a little bit different than when you're purple or brown belt, or even black belt, right? I mean, we're probably not gonna cover black belts, because you're on your own. If you're a black belt, you're on your own. You should be coming up with new stuff and ideas,

and you should be able to self-direct your training. Yes, 100%. But I think a lot of times you have, obviously there are a lot of new people coming into both sports, and I see the messages all the time on some of the forums I'm on. It's the same questions over and over.

Like, what do I do, how do I get better, how do I not get injured, why am I getting injured, what do I do, when I get injured, and all the type of stuff that you've heard. Yeah. Unfortunately the answer for a lot of this stuff is not very exciting and I think the biggest mistake with a lot of this stuff is that when you go to a class most people are teaching offense. Offensive stuff. And you look at boxing too as an example. You go on you learn how to throw a jab, throw a cross, hook and now all of a sudden you're at boxing too as an example. You go on, you learn how to throw a jab, you throw a cross, hook, and now all of a sudden

you're shadow boxing and moving and moving and moving. So like the defensive side of grappling is much more important for beginners. You're like, all right, we're gonna learn taiyatoshi today. We're gonna learn this set up, that set up, game position, do this, do that. All of a sudden, go live, doing mandori. And now you're just getting taken down left and right

and it's an issue of not learning the grip fighting yeah hand positioning yeah how do you even defend those techniques early stage defenses right when you see it coming you could block with your arms late stage shifts in your body weight using your hips and then falling properly yeah that's probably the most important thing yes so it's like now all of a sudden you're getting taken down a little time taking down a time, not getting better. Let me watch these YouTube videos. I want to throw a tai-to-shi.

How to throw a tai-to-shi. You YouTube me, you learn this stuff, you try to hit it, can't hit it. Yeah. Because there's missing so much context. And then when you're in survival mode, you're not able to consciously think about what I'm doing right or wrong because you're just kind of surviving. And then you become very, very tense upper body

and you sort of do the natural Fight or flight situation now. Yes exactly now your offense is not getting better now You're frustrated and then most of the time you quit. Yeah. Yeah, I think from a Jiu-Jitsu perspective Yeah, there is like a natural progression right? So if you're a white belt, I think that's why some people miss being a white belt because There are if you're paying attention there are so many threads you can pull on to improve right and so same you know we were just talking about it before yeah maybe you're not gonna get that mounted cross choke that the guy went over a class but you're probably getting

you're getting put in the mount you're getting put inside control a lot so even if the class isn't about that, you know which positions you're getting stuck in. And you can sort of pull on that. Whereas I think it's actually a little easier in Jujitsu than Judo because in Judo you just get thrown. You just get thrown, it's over. Where Jujitsu, you can remember like, I got put in this position like every single role and they all submitted me the same way. If it's the last thing I do I'm going to learn how to not get submitted that way at least. I'm going to make him submit me a different way. Yeah or even like I'm getting pinned.

Okay put my hand like this put my hand right there push away and try to wedge a knee in between. But in judo it's like oh I'm upside down. Getting taken down. Yeah you know.ek kind of did that to me today. I won't lie, hurt my feelings a little bit. Did he trouble you a little bit? No, no, he was perfectly civilized, but he did put me head over heels. Nice. On like a nice little sort of Tomo and Age balloon sweep type thing.

That always hurts my feelings. So you were the middle of the pack, white to black, you're a purple belt. What should you be working on now? How do you guide your own practice? Yeah, I mean I think this is where it gets hard because it's not as obvious anymore. Like why are the things that are happening happening? And I think that's sort of linked to blue belt blues or even purple belt. You feel like you plateau because you don't know.

And it's not, that's what I think you have to study more. You have to be, it's less about the position, it's more about, okay, what am I really trying to do here? Am I doing combinations? And we talked about this a little bit last time. Am I doing combinations? Do I have something that complements what I'm doing? Right?

And this is where the details become more important, right? Like am I really studying the intermediate positions? Are you studying? No, hell no. How are you gonna get better at it? I mean it's hard. I mean I've been working a lot more now. Yeah.

Training schedule goes down. So now I'm training, so this is actually an interesting thing because now I'm training I so this is actually an interesting thing because now I'm training not really For technical progression. I'm trained just to keep the thread alive Yeah, because you don't want to get to a point where you just stop training for a few months And now you're just like who the hell knows where you're gonna be. So how often are you training now? I try to make it at least twice. So do you pick the roles that you go against? Like I'm gonna go with these guys, I'm gonna go with these guys?

I wish. I wish. Everybody picks me, man. You pick me, all the guys pick me. And I think it's, and I told you this before, I think it's because they know I have good reactions, but they're a little bit slow. So they can practice, they get so they can practice they get good training because they get to practice yeah but I don't you know so when you

come to a training yeah and then you get guys who are just like all right come on go David yeah and do you get frustrated frustrated that they that they thought they want role of me no afterwards oh yes of course yeah I get frustrated sometimes sometimes I get frustrated what. Sometimes I get frustrated. What is it like having to drive home from training? Are you like, all right, I gotta think about work, now I gotta make these calls? Or are you like thinking about training on the way home?

Sometimes I'll think about training. Right? Because, and more of the frustration is because maybe I'm getting into the same positions over and over again. And I'm not quite like, able to work on the things I want to work on but again only you know only training a couple times a week It's hard to really And sometimes you know I'm like just running in trying to make like trying to make the class

So I might be a little bit late. You always late. Yeah, thank you Thank you for letting everyone know but it's always because I have meetings right before. So when you go in though, you're like, this is what I want to be working out today? I think most times I'm just happy to be there. And I'm just happy to be there, happy to train. And it absolutely is not the right mentality for improvement, but it's sort of like where I am. But there was a time where I was probably going four or five times a week. And there I'm really trying to figure out from class to class, I'm trying to home down to certain positions and trying to think out of

those like micro games, kind of micro positions where I can work my game. But also it depends on the structure of the class. Do you go back and think about the workout that you did and then say, alright, this guy did this to me, that guy did that to me? Yes, yes. 100%. Yeah, 100%. Especially if there's a pattern among, like if a big guy, a small guy, this, you know, purple belt belt brown belt like if there's if there is sort of a spread of people doing the same things to me that definitely will ring bells like there's a problem. What is one of your issues? I would say open guard retention it's definitely a problem it's just so hard it's so punishing you know and I've been trying to get away from the half guard game, you know, just because it can be such a grind, you know?

And it is probably my best position, that coyote half, because I just feel like once I get to that position, like, I'm 51% or better to get into a good spot. But I don't want to keep playing that all the time, because it just like such a war you know when you get that and if someone's got a really good wizard or they're just really good with their hips it can be really hard. So that's sort of what I'm dealing with right now. Interesting. So I'm not, do as I say, don't do as I do. I'm not very average. Yeah. Let me give you some unsolicited advice.'t do as I do. I'm not very average. Yeah. Let me give you some unsolicited.

Oh yeah, please do. Please. This is what I would do personally. Going into training, a lot of the time I'm working on this. People say this. And then let's just say I'm working on floating pass or whatever. In judo contests, I'm working on hitting my ojimana, setting it up, whatever it it is, but a lot of times you don't have the ability to get to the position view to do that

Yeah So you have offensive stuff that you want to work on if I could get to this position I'm working on this and defensively I'm gonna if I get out grip, I'm gonna spam Tomonage I'm gonna work this stuff this stuff this right so having those two things and your context would be okay open guard retention, right? Doing open guard retention, right? Doing open guard retention if I get put onto my back. If I'm on top, the person pulls guard, I'm gonna do open guard passing,

like open loose passing. So I understand the reverse side of the open guard retention. That way, when you're on top, you get to work on this thing, and it connects with when it's reversed. That would be my thing. And then after training, you gotta drill those positions.

You have to workshop it afterwards, like hey man, let's work on this thing. Okay, so you know I'm gonna go high-luck over, so you did that today. You tried the toriando or whatever it is, then X-Pass and you're high-luck over and then he anticipated caught and ran it on the side and you gave up.

Yes, 100%. But so it's like, you know what I mean? and then he anticipated, caught and ran it on the side and you gave up. Yes, 100%. But so it's like, you know what I mean? All right, so what would you do from there? Let's go through that. I go here, you high step, I'm going around. Maybe you choose to invert, I don't know, something. Or maybe you get ready to, right? Because everybody's walking.

Or just turn them. Even turn them would be better. Yeah, even turn them. And then go through, what would you do from here? How would I do it from there? And then spending 10-15 minutes in sort of this zero stress environment of like me and you kind of like working through it and then You bring it home and then you go to training again and then thinking about it before you do it

And then when you repeat that I think you know in my humble opinion that you didn't ask for It's totally fine. I totally 100% believe you. Yeah. It's just, you know. So having an offensive thing, having a defensive thing, then you have to understand whatever you're trying to do requires you to have a certain winning position to be able to do it. Right.

So Judo is like, I want to hit a sort of from this position. Okay, right versus left, he's killing this lapel hand, I cannot put my hand on his chin. Yes. Can't do any of it, right? So it's like, all right, you want to be able to work on getting to that position first. So there's like that contextual thing

that pre-sees the actual technique that you're working on. Then you head to that thing, and then there's a multiple lines of defense, right? And then when you have that idea, then you can kind of see where things break down. You know? And then when Superman's like, hey what am I doing wrong? Am I not clipping the knee? And then you have to be able to understand sort of the phases and then sometimes like you're working on phase two entering with Soto but then he's able to shift his head and then now there's no

pressure on the head. You have to go back to that initial thing of putting the hand on the head. One of the most luxurious classes I've ever been to, and actually I would love to have this class at Essential, is it was a drilling class where the Tori chooses what the drill is. So you would do specific training for like let's say you're working on your deli right so you work on your tell you what the instructor doesn't tell you what the constraints of training you choose as the you know as a person training right so I could say maybe I'm just trying to

monitor with my my posting foot right I'm just trying to make sure I can get that you know and spread spread out the stance. You know, and if you lose it, you can stop the training right there and start again. And that was like probably the most luxurious thing because you could choose to work on the thing you wanted to work on. That's a nice thing.

I think there should be more, you know, of that. In my dojo, we do like, all right, first 10 minutes, drill whatever you want to drill, and then I'll pair the white belts with the higher belts yeah it's like hey you know guide them whatever but like most majority of the room are yeah they're not basic beginners and then I would say get 80% of the room gets the most out of that and then every now and then I'll put all the white belts here and you guys have a little mini class on yes and then but

the rest of you guys work on what you've been working on, and then to make sure that there's activity happening upstairs, what are you working on today? If they can't, tell me, like in an eloquent way, where it's like, I'm working on X, Y, and Z, troubleshooting this and that, this and that, I'm like, dude, you have no clue what this guy's doing. So, you know.

You're wasting your time. You're just doing regular drills, like just inside trips over and over and over with no context. It's like, all right You know when that's the case You know, you have to incur that out to be more mindful. Yeah, it's like hey, who did you work out with second? You know, I do you remember the context of our workout today or what was like yesterday? Yeah, we get caught Why did you get caught? Yeah, and if you can't recall any of this stuff, you're just full survival mode. You're way behind.

That's where I live, man. Survival mode. Although I remember the De'ashi. De'ashi, yeah. Yeah, right over there. But so for like concrete steps for a lot of the guys who are listening, I think in the beginning, before you even get to that mindful stage, right? Understanding like offense, defense, defense hand positioning winning position yeah yeah and for

jujitsu I think it's the same thing if you're just beginning for jujitsu it's just a lot easier and having those people forget about like the defensive posture yeah right I mean John Donner says like up until booba they should be only doing escapes yeah I guess so yeah so. Yeah, you're right. There's something to be said about that. Because you should have that foundation. And you should be like, and also it sort of shouldn't be a choice. Because if you're a white belt, rolling with more experienced people, they're going to put you in those positions anyway.

So you have to learn that. Otherwise you're just going to, it it's just gonna be a miserable but you have to accept that as a goal right like I'm never gonna get my goal is never to get submitted the same way twice that was my goal as a white book like I it's almost like you know those movies where the guys playing poker and he's like those guys promise they're not gonna win and I'm but they're just watching everybody's towels Yeah, and I sort of felt the same way when I started I'm like, you know I'm gonna make everybody submit me use all their submissions on that and I'm gonna learn everything they do

Yeah, I mean I still use a lot of that defense now, you know, I still use a lot of it Yeah, ironically You know like I never really took classes right? Yeah coming up my grappling. Yeah, so it's like I've never taken like a beginner beginner class. Yeah, and so it's like I've never quite learned to open close go that much Yeah, like I've never had the training. I never have to do it Most guys will hold you in close guard and they'll open it themselves so you don't even need to force it open yeah you know and then it's like a lot of the times

when you're rolling that's a welcome to rest because I can kind of yeah just enough yeah yeah so it's like it's a little bit of a lost art too I think now like a lot of guys are not playing they're all playing K guard you know they're not playing close guard anymore you know that's just funny thing man judo too stand up it's like there's just so many things to work on, you know, they're not playing K-Guard anymore, you know. That's the funny thing, man. Judo too, stand up, it's like, there's just so many things to work on too. You know, if you're just going to class and listening to the teacher and just only doing that,

you know. It's hard to. It's hard, because like, all right, today, move of the day is Ochi, flavor of the day. It's like, I don't really do that, and I'm working on this thing, and it's so different from what I was thinking about earlier today. Now I'm in the live training portion of the class.

Yeah, how are you gonna... How are you gonna put that in there? You're trying this new thing. All right, go here, I clip this coachie, he steps back, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna try to hit that exact sequence. It rarely ever happens. I sort of think of it as like you... You sort of...

It's more of a threshold. Like you get experience, you get experience, but none of it makes sense. you're just trying to do it. And once you pass a certain threshold, you sort of start figuring out what you need to do. But you gotta be in the soup long enough to get to that minimum threshold where you can start pulling on those threads.

But just the exposure yeah the conditioning like a lot even jujitsu which is not as high impact yeah especially if you start older yeah the body needs time now to like your joints hurt all that kind of stuff and that goes for the technique too like you know unless you're an athlete if you're just like the regular office guy you know like I was it takes a long time to just figure out where your head and your toes are when you're when you're rolling. Here's another one when you get to the higher belt, black belt, explore new positions. Yeah because you

get so good at a couple things and I see it all the time in my room here. You know guys who are visitors. They have one or two things that are very good then you ask them about anything outside of that they can't do it they can't teach you they don't understand it but they have a very good, then you ask them about anything outside of that they can't do it They can't teach you they don't understand it But they have a very good system to get to the position that they want to get to right and then having a couple of different Attacks whether it's combinations or misadventures and then they blast those things take people down That's it. Yeah, they have this really narrow path of victory that they stick to and everyone has to be filtered into that, you know yeah, so it's the responsibility of the higher belt to say you know what man I'm gonna

explore something different today hip to hip you know Georgian position yeah I'm gonna do one-handed Judo instead you know I'm gonna try to grip fight and then try to snap the person down and force transitional wins it's your job to kind of fill in all the gaps especially if you're a high-level black belt who isn't competing yeah I think that's the most important thing You know, is that the hardest is that the hardest transition between an athlete and an instructor though? Because yeah, I think so you got a I guess when you're an athlete you have to do that You have to do people. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is it. This is my path

You know, like I remember Jimmy Pedro's, you know watching and Travis and those guys like right grip fight hard win the vantage Force penalties force no walls. Let's submit that right yeah, and that really was the game plan out of course is there's throwers like Kills after all Travis Lee, but whatever right but everyone has to learn that it's like that's your path to victory hard-ripping And then our geniuses yeah, yeah exactly and then that was sort of the path to victory. And then all of a sudden it's like, you know, you're not experimenting with Tomonage. Let me try this new thing. Even though you are kind of on your own time, you know, and a lot of the champions are like that too. I remember Inoue, he's an Uchimana guy who's had a drop of Senagi.

He was working on Tomonage one time. Interesting. Yeah. I was like, oh, you know... During his competitive days or? After. Yeah, after. And he was like, I was never able to hit it. And I saw him do a dori and try it and fail like nine times.

He was like, I just don't know why this shit's not working. It was kind of like, it was so cool to see that, that this guy who won an Olympic gold... Still trying to get better. Yeah, and that was really cool. I'm sure he's figured it out by now. Maybe he's teaching it to the guys. But Tamanagi wasn't my thing back in the day. And it wasn't even a thing I even... I was used to just bail out of that position.

I call it a bailout throw. But little by little, I'm exploring this thing. It was a self-guided thing. No one's teaching me Tamanagi in here. And then all of a sudden, I'm showing it to the guys. I'm exploring this thing. It was a self-guided thing. No one's teaching me to when I get here You know and then all of a sudden I'm showing it to guys. I'm learning it troubleshooting it I'm doing it in my door. You're thinking about it now. I could hit almost anyone with that tonight Yeah, not almost anyone, but you know Almost any hobbyist that comes in over a certain age

Yes, yeah, yes. Yes. I'm I think I might be square in that demographic yeah right yeah I'm in the bullseye of that. A jiu-jitsu guy that doesn't really need judo. I'm your uncle Barry. But that's that's a really important thing you know to have a self-guided practice and be very mindful and think about your round. Coming up with a plan when you enter the training room. Yeah I mean it's funny because this reminds me of a conversation I just had with my son. Because I think as you, again, this is why we're nostalgic about being white and blue,

because a lot of those things you're working on are sort of obvious, right? Yeah. But as you get more experienced, you sort of have to study. You do. Like it's not easy. Like it's not easy to get those gains anymore. You have to study, you have to pay attention, you have to drill, you have to explore. And it's a pain. It's a pain in the butt. It's a pain in the ass. And so you're balancing your desire to get better against your time, your commitments, your children, all that kind of stuff. And you still got to do all that stuff. You still got to do all that stuff. So I think as a

practical matter, you have to accept a reasonable rate of improvement. That's how I look at it. And you can't beat yourself up saying like, oh, I rolled with that purple belt, I rolled with that brown belt, I rolled with that 220 pound white belt you know and had a hard time like you just gotta let all of that go. Yeah, a lot of these rolls aren't even helpful. Yeah right. For instance like if your son's in a wrestling room and they're teaching these sequences like you're right man and this is how he's been wrestling all the time. Yeah. Alright, set up, you know, collar tie, snap down, single. Right. Alright, go drill that.

You know what I mean? Right. Guy reaches for the forehead, elbow pulse, shoot, collar tie, pass the elbow, shot. Okay, go drill it. So now you're doing a set up and a shot, a set up and a shot, a set up and a shot. It never ever looks like that. Yeah. It's two or three set ups, hand fighting, game position, make it look like one thing, clear it and then go for the whole thing.

It's like you got to kind of, I don't like the one setup, one shot, one finish, and then it's a huge waste of time. You're almost better off like, alright guys, hand fighting and these are the shots you kind of get in on. So it's like hand fighting, enter the shot. Hand fighting, enter the shot. So you learn to kind of chain all these hand fighting things together. Right. Where's the first point of contact? Backhand pulse to the shoulder, backhand collar tie, right?

Dealing with those three. Three ways to deal with it. Hand pulse, three ways to deal with the collar tie. Go try that over and over and play fight with it. Play fight with it. There's no risk of getting taken down. You spend a lot of time doing that. You spend 20 minutes doing that. Getting to a leg. All right guys we're going to

start with a single leg now. Yes. You've already can get to the leg. You start with a single leg. All right guys we're going to do a deep down drill. First of all, you're going to get 30% resistance. All right these are the three finished now. Run the pipes with your elbow. Run the pipes with your elbow. Clear it. Lift the ankle up to your armpit. Okay go. Cycle through, cycle through. Now all of a sudden, you've spent 40 minutes training and developing skill, you're not that tired, your lungs aren't blowing out, your legs aren't gassing, you're not in survival mode. All right, now let's wrestle a little bit.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the best practice ever. Yeah. Not that you're starting to listen to you. Yeah, but that's how it should be, right? Yeah. But if you're in a class, you're paying money, and then the instructor's there, and they're getting paid money to teach the class, and they're like, this is what how it should be, right? Yeah. But if you're in a class, you're paying money, and then the instructor's there, and they're

getting paid money to teach the class, and they're like, this is what I'm good at, I'm going to show this thing, it doesn't, that's not the best way. Yeah. So it's like, how does it become economically viable for a guy who runs a gym, who hires instructors, and has this service, and then that scales in this way Yeah, most out of the yeah, it's really tricky thing. I think you know yeah, but I love that example man Just like you know I wish I was tall like that Yeah, you know took me a long time to kind of come up with these things and I wrote my judo classes like that

You know and it's really fun. Yeah, I mean I think that's great You know and that's sort of similar to what we were talking about before with like the pick your own drill kind of thing. It's very similar because you have a little bit of that freedom right but it's still very specific at the same time. So I would love to have that. I like Tom Joanie you know sometimes like the super submit time. Yeah. That's at the beginning. Yeah. Usually late. But you know if you were, if you were like motivated, yeah, you could use that time. I use that time. That's 20 minutes or 10 minutes or

whatever to essentially do what you're talking about. Like I can pick whatever like whatever I want. Like we don't have're talking about. I can pick whatever I want. We don't have to strictly sweep. I can work on that guard or I can work on that head. I don't know if your partner is willing. You can use that time very efficiently. Yes, for sure, man. I did that the other day.

A little bit early. Did my thinking and then we were doing sweep, pass, submit. And then I was like, I'm going to practice my floating pass and hip switch pass. Floating, hip switch, floating, hip switch, knee cut. And I was just trying that. With my back foot, I'm going to do a little bit of a back flip. I'm going to do a little bit of a back flip. I'm going to do a little bit of a back flip.

I'm going to do a little bit of a back flip. I'm going to do a little bit of a back flip. I'm going to do a little bit of a back flip. I'm going to do a little bit of a back flip. I'm going to do a little bit of a back flip. I'm going to do a little bit of a back flip. I'm gonna practice my floating pass and hip switch pass floating hip switch floating hip switch knee cut You know just trying that you know, but my back was hurt. I couldn't quite like rotate and I was like aching and You know Yeah, welcome to my world Catching up to your age catching up. No, I'll always be in fun. Yeah, that'll be Catching up to your age catching up. No, I'll always be in front. Yeah, that'll be

Yeah, that'd be good advice for the most guys I think so, you know, I'm also was clear enough, but I think You know if you listen to this this far. Yeah. Yeah. No, everybody's dealing with this stuff and You know, especially if you're starting out Just relax. Yep, if you're doing jujitsu it's gonna take care of itself. Don't worry about it. Worry about it when you get to Purple Belt. Or Judo too. Yeah. You're not alone. It's gonna be fine. It's hard out there. It was hard today. Holy s***. Thank you so much. Yeah. Thank you everybody.