The Shintaro Higashi Show - Judo Comment Sections
Episode Date: November 6, 2023The Judo community lives in the comment section! If you're doing an Uchi Mata and you hit that far leg it's actually Hane Goshi....and you'll hear about it. The comments on our videos are ...overwhelmingly positive, but there's always some that stick out as negative. We talk today about the commenting judo community across the internet and give our thoughts. like COMMENT subscribe lol Join our Discord server and start chatting with us and other grapplers by supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/shintaro_higashi_show. Any amount helps!
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hello everyone welcome back to the shintaro higashi show with peter you today we have greg
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yeah this is a brand new format too usually when i do it with you it's at the dojo
right that's right that's right and we got the crash mat set up the pads as yeah Yeah, this is a brand new format too. Usually when I do it with you, it's at the dojo, right?
That's right.
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And we got the crash mat set up, the pads.
Yeah, we're doing this format.
What are we doing today?
So today we're going to talk about the judo community at large in the comment section.
Comment section.
That's where the community lives, right?
Judo community comments on YouTube and Reddit.
YouTube, Reddit, Instagram.
Yeah.
You know, it's always, it lives in the ether. It's a very fun collection of people because it's always like this big international scene.
And, you know, I was talking to another guy that goes to the dojo joe coker you know him and uh he was mentioning that like everybody always comes at these comments
from like a seeing red kind of like purely martial setting and you always get like half of these
comments being like you know will it work in the streets what is this not even useful kind of stuff like that
and uh it's just funny that like you know there's so many approaches to it you know for yeah
for us you know sometimes it's like for me i i i consider it a lot of gamesmanship you know
trying to be the best in this setting and i always get the feeling that a lot of these guys that are
making these like negative comments,
they couldn't even play the game.
They couldn't play the modified judo game.
And they're complaining that they can't do leg grabs.
Yeah, I mean, I get it.
I know some guys that were amazing leg grabbers.
Now they can't do it.
They just never quite recovered from it.
I know guys like that.
But I think you're right, man.
Majority of the people, it's like,
why are you complaining?
But everyone complains, right? The high level black belts. I know like fifth degree black belt coaches are just constantly complaining about the issues of
judo and us judo. And they're so critical, you know? Yeah. I mean, we always talk about like
the growth of the sport too, in like a, a general sense and looking at like like i i'm constantly on judo
reddit just to see if i can find like technique video ideas or things that we could do
and half the time it's this like i'm quitting judo you know oh i got i got devastated i'm like
oh my god like this it's like this uh yeah uh rough undertone sometimes across the spectrum
that I don't see a lot of other places.
So it's just, you know.
Yeah, there's definitely an overall negative tone, you know,
in the judo community, whether it's very, it's aggressive, first of all, right?
And it's never like complimentary.
You know, it's never like, oh, this is so great.
You know, you're doing a good job.
It's always like it's Hanegoshi, not Uchimata. Youimata you know like oh this wouldn't work in the street or this and that
and we gotta start trying to do something where the community is a little bit more positive and
it's got to be a little bit more uplifting i think because these kinds of toxic environments
in these forums man it hurts the sport i really believe that you know people are afraid to post
stuff on internet like instagram and stuff their technique videos because people are like ah you suck you're terrible you should
just quit you know all this all this won't work in the streets you know it's generally the same
kind of message you know what i mean it's put down culture almost i don't know why since judo
is such a martial art based in respect you know yeah i mean you know i i know from like a personal
standpoint like i'm apprehensive posting my highlights because half the time it's guys in
my gym who i respect and if i post a video of them getting bombed it's like i don't really want to
hurt their feelings or anything i think the rule for that and i always try to get you to post some
video stuff because you're very good technical judo you know what i mean so i always say like you know put one or two of like you attacking
failed attacks successful attack and then maybe have one or two that those guys that you're posting
have maybe succeeded on you you know so it's a little bit of like your highlights but they're
also you're giving them a bone too you know what i mean so it's not one-sided the worst i just saw
something on on instagram with those guys like dancing on the guy's back doing cartwheels and like doing handstands
on a guy that's like in bottom turtle and i was like man that's there's no need for that
you know what i mean they just submit them already like yeah it's stupid you know but
you gotta throw your uke a bone a little bit you know if you're gonna post something online right yeah i mean yeah yeah
like it just just as you know like general community vibes but everybody want like the
things that kind of reach that upper echelon of like virality and hyper things are are the biggest
slams i mean we even pointed out even in like the jiu-jitsu community too a lot of their highlight
reels are takedown highlight reels yeah and they
you know so it's like it's not that it's not uh viewer friendly you know it's just like
it's it's getting that dynamic you know sometimes they don't have the opportunity to
to post that or sometimes it gets clipped and clipped and clipped and then eventually it's
just the slam and you know you don't like yeah i that that's just for me starting out with like
posting anything that could be disparaging to anybody else.
But then it's always like, you know, it's it's it's.
I don't know. It's just funny, you know, like I'm reading all the comments.
I'm always on. That's what we're going to do today. Right. We're going to read some judo comments.
comments oh yeah well we always got guys yeah uh that uh you know the the biggest the biggest judo thing is like nitpicking technique names yeah it happens yeah all over the place it really does
my favorite so there was um we we made this uh post where we had no dialogue right and we got a comment from this other guy on instagram
dubious dom oh yeah yeah pretty pretty famous dude and he's been recently he's a good dude and he
makes good content yeah he recently went on a little bit of a judo kick he was starting to show
judo yeah i think he's been doing judo though he's been doing judo i think he trains out there
with justin flores and those guys and he's at atos in california there's a lot of judo, though. He's been doing judo. I think he trains out there with Justin Flores and those guys, and he's at Atos in California.
There's a lot of judo in California, and I think he cross-trains a lot.
And you can tell by his technique.
He looks good.
He's sharp.
Yeah, it doesn't look bad.
And what was my favorite part is he says, like, okay, we're going to do kataguruma,
and he shows a kataguruma from a competition,
and then he does a move that's, like, slightly slightly different and all of the comments are blowing him up it's like oh no that's sumi
otoshi that's you know yeah yeah yeah it's almost a yokoguruma it's like yokoguruma yeah yeah and
where's your video where's your content yeah dubious dom well welcome to the judo world welcome to our uh online community
glad you found i guess this happened in boxing too right you see these guys like shadow boxing
and guys like oh man it's terrible he has no head movement there's no snap in his jab so i think it's
very people are so quick to criticize you know what i mean but i think uh where it stems from is the competitiveness between
the gyms used to be you train in the gym you're loyal to the gym you never train elsewhere you
don't cross train that's was something that was very very frowned upon even in brazilian jiu-jitsu
they have a word for it uh caroncho or something like this it's called it means dog like a betrayal
like a betrayal cowardice dog so like if you train at another gym you were a dog you're betraying oh my god and you were being loyal to your gym right so like this comes down from japanese martial arts
culture too you have your teacher and all this stuff but now with like the internet and information
age everyone's sharing stuff people are doing open mats going to different gyms so i i think that's a good thing you know and uh a lot of gyms still kind of have
that mentality so when they see like their competitor gym or gym down the street or gym
even in another state that they're not even pulling from the same pool they see someone doing a
technique they really want to put them down first that's just kind of their go-to because they go
i'm the guy that's good at judo i'm the best at judo you know and we all can't be the best at judo you know
yeah yeah right i mean there are there are there are very few and far between like the the goats
of yeah yes definitely for sure but you know if someone's trying their best there's their second
third year of running a gym or something like that and they're showing their tai otoshi like
lift him up you know encourage him to post more maybe you could
learn something maybe he does something good that you don't there's a gap in your knowledge
maybe you've never done tomonage before instead of being first and foremost to criticize that
technique like hey show us some more stuff like how's your entries how do you set it up
those are the conversations we should be having in the comment section. You know? Where can I find out more?
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Well, you know, I think it kind of stems from, you know,
the people that seek out martial arts in a broader sense,
and specifically judo,
maybe come from a bit of a conventional sport rejected community so they
they're there finding a niche for themselves and then it's kind of like this backlash of
excluding everyone else because they've felt excluded for whatever reason true and you know
going off of that man when you're looking at martial arts you're not pulling from the best
athletic talent and the best athletic pool you're just not you. You know, when you go to high school or something,
and you're a great athlete, and you can
play ball, and you can hit the ball
in baseball or something, and you have a
freaking arm and a half, you're going to play school
sports, because that's where you're going to
get the most amount of attention. You know what I
mean? That's where the entire community cares
about. No one cares about some fringe sport martial
arts in a gym somewhere, you know,
where there's no scholastic anything.
There's no opportunity for scholarships.
Like, you know what I mean?
So it's going to be the guys who weren't on that path for mainstream sports that's generally going to be attracted to sort of these like martial arts things.
You know, and it's like whatever you're seeking, most of the time is something you don't have.
And if they're like, oh, man, I want to backbone and I want to learn to stick up for myself.
have and if they're like oh man i want to i want to backbone and i want to stick up for myself a lot of these guys are just like guys who were sort of you know already taking a beating throughout
their life and now they want to you know what i mean yeah so when those guys climbs the ranks
and gets somewhat competent in the sport they're going to be the first to be like oh forget that
guy that guy's using too much strength. That guy's using too much power.
It's not a good thing.
It's not a good thing.
It comes down to pure volume knowledge
in the sport. Judo is
very nuanced. In the western
world, it encompasses
all the Japanese terminology
and the traditions.
You can become a student
as much as you can become a practitioner.
And that's kind of the beauty of it.
You can get whatever you want out of it.
But then it leads to that, like, as long as I know one more thing than you, I win in the
typing judo and the, you know, the textbook letter of the law kind of uh combat and it's really true right
like uh you know what they say like if you don't have anything nice to say don't say it at all
yeah i mean part of this is just the it's it's it's the internet too right that's just like
a certain percentage of the internet's just a cesspool and you know
we're just dealing with uh life on the internet but you know just as like a general vibe i'm like
uh you know just seeing it from a broader perspective like it's just like like half
of it of like we've guaranteed guaranteed any of the videos we post one person's gonna be like
ah it wasn't that move no that wasn't the name of that it's actually but overwhelmingly our comments are positive like 99 of it are positive which means we're
doing something right you know right oh it's it's fantastic you know nothing nothing uh makes me
happier than when like these guys from uh asia or even like europe they come in and they're like
we've been watching your stuff.
I've been watching your stuff personally for five years.
And then you watch the guy's judo.
And it's like,
yes,
it's like,
if you,
if you distilled all of the videos and made a person,
this is the person to get this judo result.
And then like the guy from Korea who was like,
we don't have a,
we have a dojo,
but we don't have a sensei.
We watch your videos.
You're our sensei. Oh yeah. That was a cool a cool comment yeah i like hearing that kind of stuff you know
yeah like that's so wild man i'm telling you like every now and then man we'll get visitor
that's like carbon copy of my judo and i'm like this guy's judo looks so familiar like what
and then afterwards he's like dude i learned you know my teacher wasn't a competitor he doesn't
know how to grip fight or fight for position.
He just kind of knows the name of the technique
and makes us drill it
over and over.
But I learned all this,
all this stuff from you
and we all watch your stuff
and then I'm like,
oh, okay,
that's really cool.
You know,
I really enjoy that kind of thing.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
It makes me feel like
I'm doing,
you know,
something good for the community.
You know,
that's what we should all be doing.
Even when you're like
posting stuff,
sharing stuff,
we got to do something
that benefits the community as a whole,
not put each other down.
All this nonsense is so much negativity out of the world already,
you know?
Yeah.
I think like,
um,
you know,
changing the,
uh,
uh,
just the dialogue around it,
you know,
it's like,
is the,
like I've never maybe attempted or I've forfeited the idea of like trying to change the
the community writ at large you know but i can only change what we do so we like um for instance
all the judo uh like anything on youtube uh like that you go comment or the i'm sorry the thumbnail
the title any combination of that negativity gets a click so
it's like the move you can't do the don't get don't get absolutely slammed so like but our
content isn't negative you know it's not no a negative leading thing so it's like it's it's
trying to maybe make that more positive just to kind of come into it more as like a environment
to learn versus like uh antagonistic approach yeah yeah and then i think
the stuff that we do with uh the commentary can at least like bolster kind of like in the enjoyment
of the sport i think so and you know what we're not we did the commentary and we weren't bad
mouthed than anyone you know obviously like because we know a lot of technique and stuff
we could be like oh this should push on that why did he step out but we're not trying to do that you know
what i mean and i think that's a really important thing let's read some comments though let's see
some comments yeah go for it you read top one i'm very tall six foot seven and standing in
senagi feels awkward for me you know and these kinds of questions specific to their style they
i have a lot of people comment on this way right like i'm really short i'm really big i'm really
fast whatever it is.
Can you give me some tips?
You know, but it's so difficult
without actually seeing footage
of the person throwing
or doing judo,
you know, because
they don't have, like,
the basic movements down,
you know?
So, like, a lot of these questions,
the answer is just
straight up it depends,
you know?
And that's partially why
I don't respond to all
these questions, too,
because if I really wanted
to help that person,
it's going to be a very,
very long winded response.
You know,
if I'm really tall,
what should I do?
Every,
you know,
person who's ever done Jiu Jitsu would be like,
Oh,
tall guy,
Uchimata Osorio,
because your legs long.
It's like,
yeah,
kind of,
you know,
but there's exceptions to that,
you know?
And like,
does that person have a refined system to use those techniques?
How long have they been drilling it?
It's like, oh, Uchimata doesn't work for me because X, Y, and Z.
It's like, all right, we got to talk about gripping and hand position, obviously.
Do you stagger the timing?
Do you throw feints in there?
There's just too much to kind of just give the response in the comments.
You know what I mean?
So I wish I could help, but it's very difficult to you know
what i mean help people sometimes when it comes to like hey i'm bigger and stronger and faster
than the person how do i take them down i'm like i don't know if uh you need that full response
yeah yeah like maybe just do it just just i don't know do something hook a leg yeah it probably will
work here's a good one comment why judo socks
that podcast episode that you know we did uh and then this person comments all comes to money
sadly person's not wrong who is that calves do a nerf
yeah yeah yeah
interesting a nerve. Yeah.
Interesting.
So my,
one of my favorites that I saw,
uh, recently,
uh,
it was,
it was hyper negative.
It was on the,
uh,
oh man,
of course everything's slow,
but it was,
uh,
it was on,
uh,
uh,
the podcast we did about like,
uh,
just,
uh,
uh,
kind of like, uh, deep dive in judo. Then when we do the most recent one that we did yeah and the guy goes no one cares jump in
the street and I was like I was like first off thank you thank you for
watching the video thank you for your support and thank you for the engagement
yeah and and no but you know there's always those buried in there
and I'm always, it's just, it's funny.
I mean, you kind of have to wonder, like,
what kind of background these guys grew up in.
You know, maybe they were in an unsafe environment
in a very rough neighborhood
and they were getting jumped and stuff like that.
You know what I mean?
But, like, a lot of that stuff, you know,
before you even get into the technical side of martial arts,
it's like awareness of your surroundings, you know?
Not walking down the street with yourods in and listening to music really loud so you can't hear anyone come up on you you know what i mean and even before you get into like the oh what's
the most effective technique like all right what about like you know running away or hitting them
in the face with a pepper spray or something you know those things are pretty very effective you
know i think it's been proven you
know so it's like uh yeah these criticisms don't really hold water i think you know what i mean
and it's a sport that we're doing judo is a sport a lot of the times yes the martial arts too
there's martial elements i've said this before you know you're going into an environment where
there's certain rule sets and yeah we can't train with rocks and knives and stuff
because people get injured.
What about striking?
Yeah, but you're developing yourself as an athlete,
which makes you the best chance of survival first and foremost
because you're healthier, you're stronger, you're faster.
You're much more coordinated, gripping.
So it's like you see hands coming, you see hands slower.
Your reaction time is better.
Your base is better.
There's a lot of auxiliary benefits that can help you in the self-defense situation it's not it doesn't just
come down to the technique you know and i love seeing these criticisms coming from dudes that
are just extremely out of shape and just like sitting around reading about this stuff look at
me being negative now i know it's hard it's hard it's hard not to like you get because you know you put out a lot of
content and it's like you know you it feels uh you know personal because it's yeah your thing
and your it's your work i know anyway so it's so hard to make the videos and it's so easy to
comment on it but i mean just scrolling through these it's it's overwhelmingly positive people
are loving uh you know all the technical stuff
because you know i i think like i i haven't like i i i haven't trained at any other uh dojo i'm not
a dog but uh i uh yeah oh you've been to kano you've been to open mat and brooklyn you know
and you've been around a little bit what's but i i haven't been to a dojo that either
isn't associated with you directly because gary hey you own the the dojo and gary's a
contemporary and then isa trained under you so everything the new york city uh judo landscape
is shaped pretty much by shintaro higashi but You should go check out some of the other ones. Five Points, Oishi.
You should go check them out and see what it's like.
Oh, true.
And what is it?
Cranford, right?
I'm not against that.
Yeah, Cranford's out in Jersey.
Go see your Netska brothers there.
I'm all for people who have a good skill set
to be able to go out and train in other gyms.
You know what I mean?
I don't recommend it for people
who are going to go out there and get injured right because like it's not for everyone you know
if there's plenty of stuff to learn in your home gym first you know before you go out there be like
hey i'm from shintaro's gym getting your bug kicked and potentially tearing an acl or even
worse hurting someone there and then that coach is going to be like oh shintaro why did you send
this maniac over to my gym he told him i, beginner ACLs, it's really messed up.
Didn't we have a student who went to a local tournament,
like an intra-gym tournament in Jersey?
Do you remember a couple years ago?
Yeah, this kid's a monster.
He's a savage.
He's a brown belt.
And he's like, I signed up for a tournament.
I'm like, I don't know any tournaments this weekend.
I wasn't aware.
He's like, there's a tournament.
I go.
And he goes and he shows up and it's an in-house tournament at some local dojo.
And he just like murders like four dudes.
And he sends me the video.
Yeah, he's like posting his country's flag up in the thing.
And then.
Two gold medals.
Like, I did it.
I got it.
I'm like, all right.
I think the coach is good for you, man. Like, dude, why'd you send this guy? I was like, I did it I got it and I'm like alright I think the coach texted me like
dude why'd you send this guy
I was like I did it I'm sorry
I didn't even know he was going
yeah
but um
as far as like the other gyms from what I've heard
from the broader community
is that it's
10 minutes of instruction
on a move and then just straight
rondori for a lot of these uh classes and i've i've never experienced it myself yes and no no
there's many ways to run a class you know and i've seen it so many different ways because i've
been to so many different dojos before and you know some classes do a really really long warm-up
you know and as they do sort of in middle school and high school in Japan, they have very, very
fundamental skill-based
things that they do. That's why their practices
are four hours long, five hours long.
They kind of
take off of that and it's like,
oh yeah, this is what we should be doing, but it's like, no,
your time is so limited in the room
that you shouldn't be doing that.
I don't believe in a long, drawn-out
warm-up, 30-minute warm-up. I don't believe in that and then they maybe teach for 10 minutes 20 minutes but
it's usually the teacher just ramble about one technique with no context this is osotogari this
is kochi or whatever it is and they show their one way it's wrong to take your foot off the ground
when you're doing ochi i think they just kind of misunderstand they just show the move right and
everyone has to drill it do throws throws, et cetera, et cetera.
And they're missing a lot of the nuanced stuff.
And that's sort of where my YouTube comes in, right?
Yeah.
I mean, like, I don't...
From the overwhelming positive feedback,
it just feels like there's this big gap
in the knowledge base that you're providing.
I think because the japanese never
really taught a lot of it is like all right go do it you have tons of time to do judo right
right four or five hours every day after school six days a week it's not a seasonal sport it's
not like spring season summer season fall season you do one sport a year around you know six days
a week four hours a day easily plus conditioning on top of that you know
so like people naturally develop like a feel and intuition so the coaches don't have to like
meticulously teach like this that this that this you know what i mean so those people who rose to
the top through that system came to the united states and ran it kind of like that like my dad
would all right guys 10 minute warm-up uchikome randori go you know i
think that's because club runs are like that too it's not very like let's do technique let's do
technique it's traditional in that sense you know so yeah it's just kind of like evolved in that way
right yeah i don't think it's great because now it's got to be specifically taught if you're
teaching a class and people are signing up for a one-hour class,
you've got to teach and then make it quick, concise, informative,
and then they have to also get a workout in.
Not a workout that they could do at home.
We don't need to be doing sprints, jumping jacks, and push-ups in the dojo
because you should be doing that shit at home.
You should be going to the gym.
You could do push-ups at home.
You know what I mean?
Why waste valuable gym time,
maybe even like five minutes, ten minutes,
out of the hour, you know, on doing push-ups?
Do push-ups at home, right?
So like that entire class, I think, should be super efficient.
You know?
Let's get started, guys.
You know, ten minutes of technique,
warm-up drills that are judo specific
to that technique and then maybe some modified randoir nirwaza at the end if you kind of taught
nirwaza that day you know what i mean it should be that way i think you know when i first started at
kbi it it leaned more traditional in the like zempos and then the break falls and a lot of the
the core fundamentals in the first 10-15
minutes and then i as i think your mentality went more toward this it's shifted and i've it's only
gotten better because it's like it's just all i like just the play nature of it which i'm sure
you'd get if you did a four-hour judo you know environment class of like gripping the gi pushing
a hand down like how do i grip this Just getting those like extra sensory movements is huge. And the more you can only do that gripped
up. You can only do that in the dojo. Like, um, I remember when I, when I was younger,
like something blew my mind where it was like, oh, these soccer players, when they go to practice,
they don't run around. They don't run five miles in practice. You go do that on your own time. Yes. Go to the gym on your own time. Like we're here to develop little skills and chemistry so that we can bring it to the game.
Yeah. But like every second, every second you're not doing that, you're wasting.
You could do it all. Do it. We're expecting you to do that. You're professional.
Like be in shape. Be a be an athlete. So, you know, it in judo like um like those little things like just
uh keeping it loose and less formal gives you those uh abilities to improvise because you've
formed these shapes in a low stakes environment yes like um even uh not to keep harping on soccer
i saw this tiktok This guy was saying like,
um,
the best development for a little kid is to just put three soccer balls in
every room and not kick them around,
but just pull it back.
Keep it under your feet.
Just move with it.
Like all the time.
And then when you get to the field,
it's like,
I know where this ball is.
I know where the,
my foot's going to be.
That's very good.
Yeah.
Cause you don't,
people focus so much on shooting the ball into the net, you know? And it's like, I know where this ball is. I know where my foot's going to be. That's very good, yeah, because people focus so much on
shooting the ball into the net,
and it's like,
yeah, it's true.
That's like one part of the game.
I shot the ball at the net so many times
in soccer, but I had horrible ball handling
skills in soccer.
Basketball, I'm much better at basketball.
But it was just kind of like,
it didn't transfer over.
The amount of time that I put into practicing soccer,
I never played in a professional thing or even in a league or anything like that.
But I was a hobbyist player that I would play at school
and I wanted to get better and beat all the other kids because I was competitive.
The time that I spent training soccer on my own outside
between 3 and 5 p.m. after school to how it translated over to lunchtime soccer, it just didn't translate at all because I
didn't know what I was doing.
No one was able to guide me.
But that's really good advice.
Should have done that.
Yeah.
The more you do it, the better you're going to get at it, pretty much.
That's true.
That's absolutely true.
And very judo-specific stuff.
No need to be doing sprints or anything like that in the room.
I mean, it's okay to do a little bit of it
at the very end or something like that,
the top-off trading,
because there's guys in the room that are there to work out.
And then doing an extra one minute of push-ups at the very end,
see how many push-ups you can do in a row.
That's great.
That's one minute of your time.
That's fine.
You know what I mean?
But do we need to dedicate a whole 10 minutes to conditioning?
I don't think so.
I think you should be doing some of that stuff on your own time.
You're there for skill acquisition, to learn and do skill stuff.
And then after people bow out, then you can do the push-ups and sit-ups after that,
when everyone else left.
So that's my thoughts on that.
But are we going to go back to the comments at all?
Sure, sure, sure.
Go back to, yeah.
I thought you had it all like listed out all the comments i didn't even get a chance to set up this podcast setup i had to bring
it into my bedroom that's true that's true so but yeah love the recent principal based
instructionals showing just a few key examples without getting lost in the weeds great curtis topside thank you
right one dislike from peter's hematologist says he's pissing blood after that this is from a video
way back i saw that too that's yeah yeah pretty funny it's two days ago that's the best part
about your content too it's evergreen so you you can go back and watch it all the time, and it's great.
It's still applicable.
I got to start responding to these comments, you know?
Oh, I love this one.
Me doing throws with Lara, who's my baby mama.
And then this guy goes, is that Mia Khalifa?
It's like, no, motherfucker.
Dude, blur out the F word you said, please.
Yeah.
Oh, man.
I'm curious about your opinion on...
Man, these comments are great.
They're all overwhelming.
You know what?
Also, this is a good opportunity to plug our membership situation on YouTube.
So we have different tiers.
The first tier is you get these little badges next to your name.
So then all the people who are on it get sort of you can visually see who commented who are a member.
So I actually haven't responded to anybody.
We're much more likely to respond in the near future if that's what we're going to go down
the road for doing right next year uh we have a bunch of uh unreleased content whether it's like
uh stuff that we filmed that just didn't make it to the main channel we're going to put those up
for members only and then one instructional a month will be available for anybody who subscribes to that second tier.
We're going to rotate them out. They won't repeat.
So you can support the channel and get something on a monthly basis
for a little bit less than the cost of one of the full instructionals.
So it's basically like a little bit of a deal.
And then same thing on the higher tier.
We're going to have the red belt status.
It gives you full access to all of the instructionals that we have,
all of the unreleased content,
and we're going to think of more perks.
We'll put them up there too.
That's 50 bucks.
Yeah, sounds good.
Sounds good.
All right, let's wrap this up.
Maybe do another episode or anything, Reagan.
Sure, let's do it.
Awesome.
You got it.
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