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the jurogan experience last uh tapes uh tape study we actually watched uh diego sanchez fighting nick diaz in the ufc because there was a lot of up and down scrimmaging where diego had to take down nick would go for a submission and then they would always end up on top and john just builds this habit of uh we call a hustle till you score where you just don't stop moving until you get to a score and it just completely changed the way that you know we all think about the agcc scoring criteria and and how how to play the game how does john maintain his motivation dude i wish i could tell you um he's just been doing the same thing for 30 years he just he loves it i mean i i wish i had like half the dedication and like interest in jiu jitsu that john has and i mean i'm probably i'm the most dedicated athlete i would say to jiu jitsu and it's still just pales in comparison like we're podcasting right now john's like watching like a 1957 boxing match or like the semi-finals from like the 1960 like judo olympics like it's insane it's just most people when they work really hard towards something they get a personal reward for it like i mean he's recognized widely as one of the greatest jiu jitsu trainers of all time but like it's not like the guy gets a lot of like personal satisfaction there's not like a lot of people like heaping praise on him it's not that's not his motivation which is so interesting to be that dedic like you get a lot of praise like you you're the guy who you're when felipe quit and then you [ __ ] walk around with a big smile on your face or when you write down on a piece of paper they're going to submit wagner rocha with a triangle and then you go and do it like you're getting like that feeling out of your own personal satisfaction your own personal accomplishment achievement he's not even getting that he's getting it from other people's achievements he's so dedicated he's really selfless i mean he
doesn't ask me he literally doesn't ask us for anything no money no nothing he just wants you to show up to training but i think he gets a lot of satisfaction from building athletes and seeing them succeed with the stuff that he teaches and i think that's that's where his happiness comes from is just seeing like when i like win avcc or i do something big like you can tell he's like very very happy that's like one thing that genuinely makes them happy i remember with john like when we i used to train with him for about a year when they were uh in puerto rico and you know most instructors they'll just come like the standard is 30-minute warm-up three techniques and then you roll for 30 minutes so me and john would actually hang out after class all the time he'd just come over we'd get some food he'd always be watching tape and then he'd always be making notes he'd make a program for a week he'd always have a goal one week one month three months and he would just go and apply that um every day in class so you know that's all he does is dedicate himself to his craft um and you see the results there's no one like him no one else does that and he doesn't do anything else in life like he bought enough he has an apartment now and uh i'm like hey do you go like furniture shopping you like get like plates and dishes he's like um i have to do that i'm like we've been living here for a year dude i had to go to [ __ ] bed bath and beyond last week to pick him up plates bowls dishes what does he eat uh take care so he fasts and he just goes he just goes to uh to whole foods at the end of the day and picks up whole foods hits on chicks and uh but he like doesn't have like i i helped him move into his apartment it's like no one's been ever been in like any of john's apartments so i helped him move into the apartment so he's got like some furniture he's got like a bed and like a couch and stuff and he's going to need to put some furniture in here i'm like yeah that's never going to
happen but then i asked them i'm like do you have like cups and bowls and stuff he's like no so i had to like go and buy him like all this [ __ ] he like moves in he's like gordon what do you think about wi-fi like what do you mean what i think about wi-fi he goes is it worth getting i'm like i'm like yeah i'm like you want to like hook up your tv and watch like you know netflix something he goes i despise tv i'm not going to watch it i'm like okay i'm like well like what if you want to have like your phone connected to the wi-fi so you can watch tape he goes i can just watch it with the 5g it's free i'm like okay and i'm like well what if you have a check over on a date and she wants to watch something on on netflix he is good point how much does it cost and i'm like i don't know like 80 bucks a month he's like okay i'll consider it oh my god he's like a character in a movie yeah it really is like there's i've never even heard of a person like him if a person was like that they would be pretending yes you know they're pretending to be this stoic master who's just selfless and dedicated to the advancement of their students but there's no real people like that no that's him that's just like that's that's insane