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The Joe Rogan Experience everything is weird about this for me it's just like I don't I'm just like I guess a socially awkward kind of don't really put myself out there well I do with fighting but it's like I've never really put myself out there in life so it's like to be in these kind of positions it's just it's all a lot for me wow well it's amazing that the way you handle fighting you could handle this the same way you handle fighting you just get comfortable with it I think that uh I don't know for me social situations are a lot harder than like fighting situations wow that's crazy oh yeah like has it always been like that 100 since you were a child yeah I I feel like I've always been like the like socially awkward kid in the back of the class like the Nerds well I still am like at the gym but um I volunteered with animals my whole life I uh volunteered at like an uh the Humane Society a horse rescue uh wildlife rehab but just like animals were my thing and then it was just kind of a left field I started kickboxing when I was 16. just for fun yeah I really don't know where it came like what the idea was but uh where'd you start what gym at Dean's gym oh yeah wow you got lucky so exactly uh one of Dean's Pro Fighters worked for my dad so I wanted to start kickboxing and then my dad found out that this guy was a pro Fighter for Dean so he ended up finding his gym and that was the first gym I started at wow wow what a great place to start and so then you start kickboxing and how long before you decide well what about this MMA stuff how long was that I think I think four or five months before I started taking the MMA class there but I wasn't like thinking about fighting it was just uh there was a kid who's on the wrestling team at my high school who started training at Dean's gym and he was like oh why don't you take the MMA class and I thought okay I'll have a partner why don't I try it and I just kept on doing it and then I was training like every day for like three hours a night you know and they're like all right well why don't we just get you a fight at this point wow what was it about fighting in martial arts that you became so obsessed with
I think it was a when I I don't know what it was at first because I didn't start Jiu Jitsu especially in the ghee until like a year after I started training but when I started Jiu Jitsu I fell in love with that 100 where it's just the technique of it and the the little tiny details of Jiu Jitsu that matter so much like if you put your thumb on this side of the hand or on this side of the head it makes a huge difference it's like the little tiny techniques that can make the difference where now 115 pound girl at the time could do whatever she wanted to a 200 pound guy you know I was manhandling these guys around the room and I'm like just because these techniques that I learned and I thought that was awesome yeah that is an amazing thing it's Jiu Jitsu is the one martial art that delivers as promised where the smaller trained person can defeat the larger untrained person whereas a lot of other martial arts I mean you have a better chance but when they're really big you know and some guys swinging if he knows how to punch a little bit and you get clubbed with one of those giant hams you get [ __ ] up but if you get into a straggle like some sort of a scramble and you knock into some chairs and all sudden you get a hold of this person oh now he's [ __ ] that's what's crazy it's like that a small person can physically control and submit a much stronger person regularly it happens all the time it happens with black belts even in Striking it's like a person cannot know anything but if they're big enough they throw their hand the right way they can knock you out yeah if you get hit with Francis and gano's Pinky you're in trouble exactly there's certain people they're so powerful like the idea that you're gonna stand and trade with them is going to hit you once and you're dead you know that's like it just doesn't work that well Jiu Jitsu it's just there's the not the uh variant of space so the there's not that element of like guessing where it's like I can control and I can feel what you're gonna do by touching you it's like it makes it a lot easier you're not guessing with that space is striking you're also not guessing the variables like how fast is this person how fast am I accustomed to people punching me is this person much faster
do I have to anticipate that because if you ever see like street fight videos the most horrific ones are some poor [ __ ] who wants to start a fight with someone who's a trained fighter and the train fighter [ __ ] them up but you could see like they have no idea how fast things can happen like you I'm sure you've seen the Joe showing one yeah so silly one's ridiculous but there's no way that guy could have known that that could happen that quickly there's no way and people don't expect like like for someone like me a lot of times I get oh I would never guess that you're a fighter for someone like Joe Schilling is still even like oh yeah you wouldn't like just say Max murderer well you just see him walking around like most people you don't expect that they're Joe Schilling you don't expect it psycho to me yeah yeah but say like Ryan Hall Ryan Hall is a great example you know you don't be a fighter but it's like you never know what somebody's capable of when it comes to sports like this oh for sure what Jiu Jitsu Mikey musumachi yeah exactly yeah Mikey is a stone cold killer and he looks like a guy who comes over to fix your computer like he's he looks like the friendliest super nerd oh this video is horrible this is street fight in in a parking garage have you seen this no these guys start [ __ ] with this dude in a parking garage the guy's trying to get away no he [ __ ] the other guy up before this this is the shorter version okay this is a shorter version so this guy he's trying he's like come on you want some and he moves forward this guy leg kicks him and then this is where it gets ugly punches them bam yeah you don't want that like what like it's it's it's awesome to see that stuff works right for people like hey this is real someone tries to attack you you have an upper hand but also like what are you doing yes [ __ ] people uh I've never been in a street fight in my life good for you like I don't intend to ever but it's just I I don't get it like yeah there's I I don't see a use for fighting outside the cage for me like a lot of people anger management issues and then there's criminals too and you know bad folks yeah exactly yeah there's a lot of weird stuff in the world but I just for
me um I think it's fascinating that you are more afraid of social interaction that you're afraid of cage fighting that might be one of the greatest lines that anyone has ever said I think that's going to get you a lot of fans for real for me it's just like literally I never really uh did any kind of interviews or Media or anything like that until I got in the tough house so that's going from absolutely zero to one hundred percent like what was that like you were like 22 at the time I was 22 and I was having interviews every day cameras on you 24 7. literally after every single interview I had to go and change my shirt because I'd be dripping sweat like I just got out the sauna whoa just so nervous after every single interview do you think they brought you into the house knowing that you were nervous too that like that you're a little socially awkward in that regard and like that maybe that would make good television but they also cast that show as a reality show it's a very cleverly done show you know like it's it's smart the way they do it they like even with what they're doing now with Conor McGregor and Michael Chandler it's great but perfect perfect [ __ ] talking when Connor tells them you'll do is your toes it's amazing okay I hope that fight takes place but it's it's such a it's such a show right so it's not just an athletic competition it's also they want to make sure the people are fun oh yeah our season seemed pretty like tame though I feel like in general we had a lot of there is me and Montana De la Rosa were the two like younger girls and then everybody else I feel like was like older and more mature like around like at least like 30s and like they were like I don't nobody was trying to start drama nobody was trying to like get in each other's faces or we didn't have any altercations it was like it was a pretty chill season that's great so no one ever encourages like any bickering or anything like that they don't ever tell you hey you know that's [ __ ] has been signing some [ __ ] does anybody ever do that no nobody ever really does anything like that but it's just like the boredom gets to you if anything else it's like I feel like no phones right no phones no TV no music no books no nothing books
nothing at all oh God nothing so it's like can you have a notebook you're allowed to get a notebook and then they gave us we asked for coloring books and they gave us sketch pad oh my God I think I would go nuts that sounds like one of those uh like anti-tech Retreats you know exactly are they trying to weed people off their tech tech addictions I was just talking to one of the boys who's actually on the Conor McGregor season over the weekend and he said the exact same thing as me he's like it was the best and worst experience of my life because it's like when you're in the gym there's so many highs it's so great but then when you go back to the house you're just sitting there for hours and you're bored and it sucks what do you guys do to kill time can you play games do they have like I need they used to have pool right yeah I think they had a pool table and a chess table and then they have like the list where you can order anything oh so you could order like Monopoly yeah so we would order a bunch of [ __ ] just try and entertain ourselves God people did you have good conversations uh or was it weird because you're all competitors it's weird well not because they're competitors because I'm weird that's awesome I'm like I felt like I I especially back then I wasn't able to just like I don't know acclimate to that going into a house with 16 different girls that I don't really know right yeah that a completely alien experience and you sell you're feeling a little bit awkward and you're also 22. and then also bam now you're on TV and it's my first time like really like leaving home I would say you know for a long period of time so it was it was definitely a big experience like a lot to take what was that now um six years six years yeah so what do you would you say that now you're entering into your fighting Prime do you think that's happening right now oh yeah I think this is like just the beginning of my Prime I'm just getting into where I've really found the right combination for everything and I feel like I'm just getting better every fight are you ranked right now in uh where are you at uh my next fight is against the number 15 girl uh Tabitha Ricky interesting she's tough that'll be fun that'll be a
good one yeah I'm like it's coming up quick June 24th oh wow that is quick