July 25, 2025 • 23 mins
Do you have a solid hygiene routine? Do you trim your nails regularly? Do you have hot breath but don't know it? No one will tell you these hygiene problems you may have, even though they really really really want to. Let your BJJ big brothers fill you in on all the things you need to know...
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
A good martial artist does not become tense, but
ready.
Essentially, at this point thefight is over, so you pretty
much flow with the goal who isworthy to be trusted with the
secret to limitless power?
I'm ready, the five pieces ofhygiene advice you need to hear,
(00:36):
but no one's telling youbecause they're talking behind
your back.
No one's going to tell you thisshit.
No, it's one of those thingswhere you kind of see people
talking in corners and then likeyou, you go, come past, hey
guys, and then stop talking.
You're like that's the chat gun, that's the, that's the stinky
guy.
You're like what I'm?
(00:56):
I smell okay, right, and thisis the hard thing, bjj, it's up
close and personal.
People are sweating on eachother, pubes in your mouth, it's
all kinds of grossness.
But we can negotiate this, wecan minimize the grossness, but
really we're coming with theadvice.
You might have this, joe, whereyou've got a friend it's a very
(01:17):
honest friend, maybe it's mewhen the person will just tell
you You'll be talking to themand they're like you've got
something in your teeth.
Uh, where the person would justtell you you know you'll be
talking to them, they're likeyou got something in your teeth,
you got a chunk of nonsense inyour teeth.
You're like, oh thanks Jesus,no one told me all day.
You're like, how long has thatbeen?
There Is usually your nextquestion yeah, like I wish
someone told me sooner.
And that's what we're doingtoday, guys.
(01:38):
We are, we're telling you, weare the, the mates who are too
honest and we're going to letyou know where your jujitsu big
brothers and we're prepared totell you the truths that,
frankly, others just will not,because it's embarrassing shit.
It's embarrassing to tellsomeone hey, man, you smell,
yeah, all the time.
You need to fix that.
Yeah, hey, bro, like we had akid in our gym.
Yeah, he trained with us foryears and, um, he, when he came
(02:01):
to start training with us, hewas, he was, he was an odd kid,
neurodivergent, sure, right,very quiet, but he really became
part of the fabric here.
But he was a kid when hestarted training with us.
He grew into a man over theseven years or so that he
trained here Big, fucking,strong, strapping, and there's
(02:23):
this period of fucking pubertyhormones where most young blokes
smell, yeah, and their skin'soily and you know, and it's this
and it's all and it was likeyou know what?
I don't know if anyone's evertold timmy how to like scrub his
underarms with soap in theshower rice, yeah, but it was
like as, and it was like someoneneeds to tell him.
(02:43):
So, because he's showing up forclass, he stinks, it's
offending other people, not tothe point that they're just
talking behind his back orthey're trying not to partner up
with him.
Sure, now, we weren't even doingjiu-jitsu, man, right, and we
know that we've encounteredthose people on the mats,
definitely that they fuckingstink, or their nails are long
and grubby and and you clock itand you're like dirty cunt and
(03:07):
but I don't know if I'd say that, but yes, no, but in your head,
mentally, in your head, you'reright.
And then you're like I'm notgonna try, I'm gonna avoid that
person, yeah, and that'sactually really shit, because
that person, no one might havetold them, yeah, and then that
person is having a like areduced experience in their jits
becausejitsu, because peopleare actively avoiding them and
you don't know what.
(03:27):
You don't know, you don't knowyour coach isn't going to tell
you because it's embarrassingshit.
They're just really happy thatyou just signed up, sure, right,
and it's like you're meetingall these new people, we're sort
of talking to you, those peoplewho haven't been doing this for
that long, because no one'sgiven you this information.
So we're going to lay it downhere, five things, so that you
can just not have any of theseissues and you can be clean,
(03:48):
hygienic and have the bestpossible training experience For
sure.
So, straight out the gate.
Number one when you first startjujitsu, generally people just
buy, like one gi or like onerashie, one pair of shorts,
right.
But that's not enough, becauseif you're planning to train
multiple times in the week, youneed at least two sets, because
(04:09):
even if you're only training twoor three times a week, you
can't rely on washing somethingand turning it around quick
enough, and you definitely.
This is what you want to avoidis, oh, I just I sweated in it a
little bit and I just I left itout in the sun.
And the sun kills bacteria,right, joe, doesn't it?
Of course it does.
Sun air, yeah, it could becleaner.
(04:31):
Actually, heat breeds bacteria,my friends.
Yeah, and that's the tough thing, you gotta wash your geese and
you gotta wash your no-gee stuffand you gotta be really
thorough, because here's thedeal.
As much as we know, a geeperson is a laundry person.
For any of you out there who'vegot a couple of ghees you know
what I'm talking about, but alsono ghee stuff Sometimes it can
(04:53):
hold the stink, well, I wouldsay yeah.
So if you're like, if you'relike in your first six to 12
months, you haven't encounteredthis yet because you haven't
done enough, you haven't gotenough miles on the clock Maybe.
But there is a time that'sgoing to come where there is an
accumulative buildup of likebacteria in the fabric of your
gi and no-gi stuff.
And you did wash it, probablymore your no-gi stuff, because
(05:14):
it's all polyester, artificial,it's all plastic and shit.
So, yeah, and you know, whenyou notice this I actually had
it yesterday with an old gymt-shirt, right this I actually
had it yesterday with an old gymt-shirt, right whereby you put
it on, it's clean, smells, fine.
Put it on and then you go andstart doing your day, whatever
body temperature comes up.
Body temperature comes up,you're not sweating yet, but
there's this activation of odor,stink and you're like, how does
(05:36):
it stink?
That's, that's when, right,quickly, you know, I'm I'm
assuming that your increasedtemperature has activated the
bacteria, like woken it up orsome shit, and it just starts
fucking making a bad Ghost ofbody odor.
Yeah, so I I spoke about thisbefore but I soaked my no gear
shit for the first time stuffthat I'd worn for a few years
and the fucking like, soaked itin nappy sand, right Like some
(05:58):
some heavy shit, and the fuckingwater, like overnight, the
water was brown the next day andthat was clean gear.
Yes, I washed it, it was clean,but still had this odor thing,
fucking brown.
Yes, soaked it twice, much lessbrown.
The second time washed it andthen it's like brand new again.
Yeah, now your shit might notsurvive, like you do.
Wear away at the integrity offabrics, sure, but this is the
(06:20):
lifespan of such an article ofclothing and I think that we've
got to go to this as a point ofetiquette, for, like, if we
think about, jujitsu just bringsyou in such close proximity
with a human.
It's a proximity you just don'tget other than your intimate
partner.
A lot of people probably don'teven get that intimate with
their significant other.
You know what I mean.
(06:42):
You've got a couple ofpositions that you hit on the
regular and that's it.
You got your, you got yoursystem down, you know you go
jiu-jitsu and it's like you'rehitting new positions reverse
triangled yeah, you've got.
I've never been here.
I've got anus in my face.
What the fuck?
I did not sign up for this andI guess this is where the the
washing of gays and no gaysstuff.
You gotta fucking wash your belt.
(07:02):
Oh, belt, you gotta wash yourbelt.
Any of that bullshit aboutdon't wash your belt like all
right man, you can keep yourfucking 1980s staph infections
like gotta wash it all.
Yeah, you just chuck it all in,chuck it all in and, plus, the
belt gets that little bit moreweathered so it makes you look
more senior straight up.
But, um, this goes to thepersonal hygiene piece, which is
two, because if you haveunwashed gear and it's about
(07:27):
respecting each other, right,you might not be thinking about
it for yourself, but then whensomeone else has a slimy gear,
you're like you got to grip itand you're like, oh, what is
this?
Is this some unique probioticmold that you have here?
Skin infections, hygiene beingstinky, like not only is it kind
(07:51):
of antisocial in a way andmaybe someone's not telling you
because you are the person who'snot smelling so fresh a staph
infection is going to get youSome fucking shit and it's going
to take you out.
It's an injury, essentially,and it can take you out for
weeks.
And I mean, right now, benAskren is like almost dying
because of like severe staff.
Oh wow, pneumonia and oh it'sawful, yeah, and I mean it
(08:12):
killed rent, like it.
Well, it didn't kill randallman, it almost killed randallman
back in the days he hadbasically had a crater of a hole
in his back from staff.
If you're not washing yourgeese.
This then takes us to thissecond move, which is personal
hygiene skin infections,bacteria on your skin and and
and also you.
Maybe your stuff is clean, butmaybe you are not, and so this
(08:33):
is where we need to talk aboutthat.
So, personal hygiene, we'retalking about your body.
So you got the okay, good, yep,got the clean clothes, got.
Here's the deal.
If I've been working all day inan office and then I go to
jujitsu at night, probably I'mpretty clean.
(08:53):
You're working in an office,it's air conditioned, you're
sitting down most of the time.
You're not breaking a sweatright Now, some of you, arguably
you might still get up a sweatin that kind of environment,
right, and if you do, and if youare a bit stinky, need to have
but like, let's put it in thecontext of it's the middle of
summer and you're a bricklayerSure, and you're fucking out
(09:13):
there on the job site all daylong and there's construction
materials and saw dust andfucking concrete dust and shit
and you're wearing, you know, awife beater and a pair of
fucking King G's Sure, and thenyou come and do a no-gi session
and you literally take off yourking jays and your wife beater
and you and you chuck on afucking rash in it.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, man, you got all sorts oflike, not even your personal
(09:35):
stench, but you've got fuckingconcrete and yeah, on your
fucking skin, right, yes, andyou know this if you've worked
in that environment.
Yeah, I don't know if I'vespent a day in the workshop.
You get in the shower, likethat initial flow of water is
like brown.
Yeah, right, like.
And so you got to fuckingobligation to your fellow
training partners to washyourself beforehand.
(09:55):
Yeah, now, if you are stinky inthe pits and whatnot, you're
going to fucking get in therewith some soap, like, like young
Timmy, like brother, you got toscrub that shit, true?
And I mean, look for me, the,the, the halfway step on this is
, let's just say, for example,the gym you train at doesn't
have showers and because of workand timing and stuff, you're
getting there.
(10:16):
Me personally, hygiene wipesantibacterial wipes is a good
halfway step to at least gettingsome dirt off you.
Some people, I've seen it, youcan have.
So solvol is like thisindustrial grade soap with the
grit yeah, you can get liquidsolvol, you can get like a thing
of it which just really getsthe grease and the bullshit off.
(10:38):
And if you've just got like abottle of water and fucking
solvol and just scrub, you scrubshit out yourself.
It's also like a self-defensemechanism.
Right, because it's not justhygiene and being nice for your
partners.
It's like if you've got dirt onyour skin and you sweat and your
skin absorbs the bacteria, thatcan lead to skin infections too
, right, can that happen?
(10:58):
If you're sweating, is itpushing the shit out?
No, it opens the pores.
So if you've got all this dirtand shit on there, like, the
chance of skin infection isincredibly high and you don't
want to end up like, yeah, youdon't want to.
It's one of those things thatthrough some small, simple
measures whether it be quickshower or hygiene wipes or some
(11:19):
soap and some whatever, whateveryou can do to make that little
bit of effort before you train,better for the training partners
, better for you.
And if you took a shit, if youwent and took a big sloppy shit
that afternoon and you're likeone of those, one of those, and
I'm going to say one of thoseguys that still manages himself
like a six year old kind of,like the half wipe and then like
(11:41):
, stumble out of the toilet,forget to flush, kind of thing,
cause I know that, I know youguys are out there.
Fuck man, you got to.
Um, fuck man, you gotta wipeyour ass.
You get the wet wipes.
Do, do, do the needful so thatwhen you reverse mount your
training partner, they're notcopping a face full of your ass,
half wiped ass, butt crack.
It's honestly like it's fuckingdisgusting.
(12:01):
It's tough and you, we've,we've been, we've all been there
.
Yeah, you're getting caloricand dude's sitting on your head
and yeah, you're like I don'tneed that odor.
Yeah, yeah, bad enough.
You're fucking about to rip myshoulder out of the socket.
The suffering is compounded.
What's our third one?
Our third one is nails, andthis is something that's like
maybe your gym has a policy,maybe they don't.
(12:21):
I, as default mode, always justcut myself to the quick, like I
just cut until I bleed, like Ijust toes and fingers just to be
safe, because I I, I have been,I've suffered getting scratched
and it's quite terrible.
Joe, you've you've got your ownroutine with nail maintenance.
Well, I mean, I used to.
(12:42):
I used to cut mine like yours,and it was always very short and
it was always a little bit tooshort, cause I'd like I'd trim
them and then I'd file them.
And then you're like, oh fuck,they're really short.
And then if you go and do a gigclass that night and it's a bit
of spider, you're like, fuckman, it hurts.
I've started playing guitar inthe last year, that's right,
which necessitates me having abit more length in the nails.
And at first I'm like this isnot going, because I'd grown my
(13:07):
nails quite long on the righthand.
But I've actually settled on,like this mid ground that allows
me to play guitar, and so Ihave longer nails than I used to
keep, but I'm not scratchinganyone.
They're still short andmaintained.
But here's the thing.
Here's the thing that no onetold me, and this is what no one
told me as a kid.
When you're an adult, you'reprobably going to need to have a
(13:28):
routine around cutting yournails.
You're probably going to needto have a routine around cutting
your nails, sure, right.
And that routine means you'regoing to need tools for it.
So you need, right, you needsome good nail clippers or
scissors clippers, I think, arethe ultimate.
And you need a good file file.
And he is, and I was talking tomy brother about it.
I'm like how do you?
And he's like every Sunday,every Sunday, me and the kids I
do their nails and then I domine.
And I was like fuck, I've neverhad that.
(13:49):
I've always just been like whenthey get long, but usually by
the time I realize that it takesme like four or five days of
being like, fuck, nails are toolong, need to do it.
Yeah, so I was like everySunday, I love that.
But what I'm getting at is hereis you need a process and you
need the toolkit and you need tostick to it.
So, yeah, if you don't havelike a manicure or nail clipping
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set, they're actually prettycheap.
If you go to the chemist orWalgreens or whatever, you can
get a little kit for like 10bucks, yeah, something like that
.
But you want the big file, notthe fucking, that little short
one.
No, of course, the fucking bigone, ideally, ideally.
But you've got to startsomewhere.
And the reason why I also saythis is toenails.
I was trying to pass this guy'sguard and he was not the
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cleanliness of humans and hisbig toe scratched my forehead
and it started to bleed and Iwas like I just got cut with a
toenail and it's like if a dogor a dog or a cat scratches you,
you gotta be careful.
Right, there's a lot ofbacteria under those nails.
Yeah, I mean, I didn't go get atetanus shot, but I was like I
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gotta really stay up on on thisbecause I don't want it to get
infected.
And that's the thing.
If I think, what is good aboutthis is if no one said to you
hey, man, cut your nails, you godo it and you pay attention to
it.
You then start to notice it inother people and you're like,
hang on, this guy seems to havefucking freddy krueger, esque,
fucking talons.
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I'm gonna get sliced up.
And until it happens you'relike, oh, that's no, that's no
good.
It's really just trying to makethis process of jujitsu easier
for you, easier for the trainingpartners.
So you are not.
You're not the bad guy, youknow, and and this is the thing
no one's going to tell you.
No one's going to tell youother than they'll just kind of
(15:36):
maybe resent you quietly becausepeople feel people feel like
self-conscious, that they don'twant to be rude, yeah, but then
they'll also talk shit behindyour back, which is kind of rude
.
Let me make a quick point too.
When you cut your nails justwith, like clippers or scissors,
you leave a very sharp edge onthem.
It is a sharp edge, yeah, soyou actually need the file just
to take that sharp edge off.
(15:57):
Like, if I just clip thesemotherfuckers, they will slice
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What's number four?
Number four is footwear.
Ah yes, this is one of the kindof biggest crimes in terms of
like just not knowing.
You don't know what you don'tknow.
And if your gym doesn't havelike spare slides or flip-flops
on the side, you just obviouslyevery gym is quite strict about
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like no footwear on the mats.
Right, this is like jujitsu.
That's the one thing thatjujitsu like don't wear your
shoes on the mats.
And then they usually saynothing else.
And then people are walking intothe toilet, walk out into the
street, coming back, you're likethat's not good now, even
though the gym may have a reallygood policy around cleaning the
mats and stuff like that.
If you have just walked intothe bathroom with bare feet and
(17:21):
then you walk back, you've justwalked all that bacteria onto
the mat.
And if you're that fucking dudewho meant, who manages himself
like a six-year-old where you go, like I'll piss half in the
toilet, half on the floor.
Sure, there's a little bit onmy feet.
That's fun.
You know it gets complicated.
But having your own flip-flops,even for showers this is, this
is a thing too.
Um, good friend of mine, mattcarmichael, shout out, he always
(17:44):
had, he had javaianas that hewore um off the mat and then he
had a spare set for gym and Iwas like how interesting he
always slipped them in the sideof his training bag.
And he's like, no, that's forthe shower and the bathrooms and
they're actually separate.
The Havaianas I would wear inthe street and not the Havaianas
I would wear in the bathroom.
And I was like wow, that's, andit hit me and I was like
(18:09):
actually, that's really, that'sum, that's smart.
And I think for whether it befor your own protection of your
feet, because you don't want tolike go have a shower and then
next thing, you got crazy tinea,because the shower is like
crazy fungal or something, butthen also just keeping the mat
space clean.
So having some flip-flops,thongs, whatever you want to
call them, which isn't yourshoes that you wear from the
street in, is key for thehygiene in the gym.
(18:32):
Yeah, you should be wearingyour shoes to the edge of the
mats and then stepping onto themats out of your shoes and then
vice versa when you get off.
Or maybe the gym has a littlebarefoot section around the mats
, but there's going to be athreshold where it's like shoes
to here and then, barefoot fromhere, yeah, and don't don't
fucking, even if other people inyour gym are fucking break,
don't, just stick to it, don'tdo it.
(18:54):
Yeah, be the one to um, leadthe way.
And actually, what wasinteresting to me?
Um, they're these things.
They're like these kind ofrubber shoe covers that
wrestlers have so they can runoff the mat.
They've got the wrestling bootsfrom, but, yeah, um, yeah,
talgut, who was our wrestlingcoach at Absolute, he had them.
They're like shoe covers so youcan go to the bathroom and come
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back and you take them off.
Oh, wow, yeah, and they werejust like slip them on, they
stick on.
Yeah, it was like smart,because obviously it's a set of
shoes that you are wearing onthe mat Now, on the mat.
Now, number five is contentiousbecause Joe and I were having a
little bit of back and forth onthis.
So, uh, I'll, I'll let youintroduce number five and let's
go back and forth on it.
Joe, yeah, your breath can'tstink like shit.
(19:36):
Now let me expand on this.
Some people, like some people,have stronger BO than others.
Sure, I'd be one of thosepeople that's blessed with not a
lot of BO.
Sure, to wear deodorant justhave just lucky, like that's,
those low testosterone levels.
Joe, potentially right.
Uh, I'm not the same.
I'm not the same.
(19:57):
The the breath thing is yeah,some people, whatever
biologically or maybe they havea medical condition have bad
breath.
This is, this is a thing, right, but I get, I know I got bad
breath if I haven't beendrinking enough water that day,
if I've been punishing a bunchof coffee, if I went out and got
a fucking kebab for lunch withextra garlic sauce.
(20:17):
You know you ate a fuckingheavy onion meal, whatever it is
like.
There are times when you'relike is that I think my breath
might be a bit chat.
So, whatever it fucking takesto just not be polluting someone
else's airspace with your badbreath, whether it's you pump
some mints or some chewing gumor maybe you fucking brush your
teeth in the afternoon beforetraining, all I'm saying is you
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got to have inoffensive breath.
Look, there's levels to thatgame, right?
So I'm not, I'm not pushingthis because I'm, I'm just like
fuck, there's only so much youcan do.
If you are keeping your giclean, you're keeping yourself
clean, you're doing everythingelse I I.
The breath thing, I think ishard to control because
obviously different people havedifferent habits and ideally,
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you know, whatever I havedeveloped my habit of, I always
have chewing gum on me in thecar, you know, in my bag,
whatever it comes from personaltraining, I do drink a ton of
coffee and I am aware that thatcan make my breath not nice.
So, on a professional level, asa trainer, I never wanted to
bring the bad breath vibe, so Iwould very regularly, just
always, have a piece of gumafterwards to combat that.
(21:24):
Now, most people are notthinking about this, but if we,
if we think about you, weregoing on a date, right, and you
wanted to make sure that you'reable to have another date, you
wouldn't want to have bad breath, right?
Because you're like, oh, Imight get a kiss, yeah, Ooh, you
know, and not not that you'retrying to kiss your training
partners here.
I mean, maybe you are, butmaybe don't.
(21:45):
Um, you think it's just asintimate as a date, right, so
you'd show up maybe with Moreintimate than most dates.
You'll go on, yeah, especiallydepending on how you go with
your dating scheme.
But you know you've gotsomeone's back and you're like
breathing, you know, like righthere, or even clinching, like
stand up, you know, and youmight not even be thinking about
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it at the time you are.
You're stand up, you know, andyou might not even be thinking
about it at the time you are,you, you, you're sharing
airspace.
You're basically huffing intoeach other's mouths.
Look, have a fucking packet ofgum in your training bag, have
some mints in the car.
You know, just just do it.
It's it's just, it's just littlemeasures that that just make
sure that you're not fuckingcoming in.
You know, I, most people,probably nine times out of ten,
(22:31):
are like hitting the mark onthese things, sure, but then
sometimes it's like that, thatone where you're like you did
pump the kebab or you know, sureyou did chug the fucking barrel
of coffee you might have.
You just want to have thatlittle thing in place so that no
one's like, hey, do you rollwith fucking so-and-so?
You roll with kebab.
Mate, over there, the fuckingdragon breath over there.
It smells like something died.
The hardest thing about all ofthis is no one is going to tell
(22:54):
you.
And that's why we're bringingit up, because we want you to
have a long, enjoyable jiu-jitsulife.
And you know it can be clickyand sometimes, when you don't
have good, honest friends atjiu-Jitsu, they don't tell you
this shit.
So we're telling you right nowto save you the nonsense later,
(23:16):
and even if you're like that'snot me, run the checklist.
Are you clipping the nails?
Are you doing the shower?
You know like how frequentlyare you washing your gi every
day, it can't be every secondday.
You know like it's just byrunning this checklist you might
be able to like go, oh, maybeI'm not doing that.
Run the checklist, don't breakthe laws, and you'll thank us
(23:37):
later.
Yes, sir.
A good martial artist does not become tense, but
ready.
Essentially, at this point thefight is over, so you pretty
much flow with the goal who isworthy to be trusted with the
secret to limitless power?
I'm ready, the five pieces ofhygiene advice you need to hear,
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but no one's telling youbecause they're talking behind
your back.
No one's going to tell you thisshit.
No, it's one of those thingswhere you kind of see people
talking in corners and then likeyou, you go, come past, hey
guys, and then stop talking.
You're like that's the chat gun, that's the, that's the stinky
guy.
You're like what I'm?
(00:56):
I smell okay, right, and thisis the hard thing, bjj, it's up
close and personal.
People are sweating on eachother, pubes in your mouth, it's
all kinds of grossness.
But we can negotiate this, wecan minimize the grossness, but
really we're coming with theadvice.
You might have this, joe, whereyou've got a friend it's a very
(01:17):
honest friend, maybe it's mewhen the person will just tell
you You'll be talking to themand they're like you've got
something in your teeth.
Uh, where the person would justtell you you know you'll be
talking to them, they're likeyou got something in your teeth,
you got a chunk of nonsense inyour teeth.
You're like, oh thanks Jesus,no one told me all day.
You're like, how long has thatbeen?
There Is usually your nextquestion yeah, like I wish
someone told me sooner.
And that's what we're doingtoday, guys.
(01:38):
We are, we're telling you, weare the, the mates who are too
honest and we're going to letyou know where your jujitsu big
brothers and we're prepared totell you the truths that,
frankly, others just will not,because it's embarrassing shit.
It's embarrassing to tellsomeone hey, man, you smell,
yeah, all the time.
You need to fix that.
Yeah, hey, bro, like we had akid in our gym.
Yeah, he trained with us foryears and, um, he, when he came
(02:01):
to start training with us, hewas, he was, he was an odd kid,
neurodivergent, sure, right,very quiet, but he really became
part of the fabric here.
But he was a kid when hestarted training with us.
He grew into a man over theseven years or so that he
trained here Big, fucking,strong, strapping, and there's
(02:23):
this period of fucking pubertyhormones where most young blokes
smell, yeah, and their skin'soily and you know, and it's this
and it's all and it was likeyou know what?
I don't know if anyone's evertold timmy how to like scrub his
underarms with soap in theshower rice, yeah, but it was
like as, and it was like someoneneeds to tell him.
(02:43):
So, because he's showing up forclass, he stinks, it's
offending other people, not tothe point that they're just
talking behind his back orthey're trying not to partner up
with him.
Sure, now, we weren't even doingjiu-jitsu, man, right, and we
know that we've encounteredthose people on the mats,
definitely that they fuckingstink, or their nails are long
and grubby and and you clock itand you're like dirty cunt and
(03:07):
but I don't know if I'd say that, but yes, no, but in your head,
mentally, in your head, you'reright.
And then you're like I'm notgonna try, I'm gonna avoid that
person, yeah, and that'sactually really shit, because
that person, no one might havetold them, yeah, and then that
person is having a like areduced experience in their jits
becausejitsu, because peopleare actively avoiding them and
you don't know what.
(03:27):
You don't know, you don't knowyour coach isn't going to tell
you because it's embarrassingshit.
They're just really happy thatyou just signed up, sure, right,
and it's like you're meetingall these new people, we're sort
of talking to you, those peoplewho haven't been doing this for
that long, because no one'sgiven you this information.
So we're going to lay it downhere, five things, so that you
can just not have any of theseissues and you can be clean,
(03:48):
hygienic and have the bestpossible training experience For
sure.
So, straight out the gate.
Number one when you first startjujitsu, generally people just
buy, like one gi or like onerashie, one pair of shorts,
right.
But that's not enough, becauseif you're planning to train
multiple times in the week, youneed at least two sets, because
(04:09):
even if you're only training twoor three times a week, you
can't rely on washing somethingand turning it around quick
enough, and you definitely.
This is what you want to avoidis, oh, I just I sweated in it a
little bit and I just I left itout in the sun.
And the sun kills bacteria,right, joe, doesn't it?
Of course it does.
Sun air, yeah, it could becleaner.
(04:31):
Actually, heat breeds bacteria,my friends.
Yeah, and that's the tough thing, you gotta wash your geese and
you gotta wash your no-gee stuffand you gotta be really
thorough, because here's thedeal.
As much as we know, a geeperson is a laundry person.
For any of you out there who'vegot a couple of ghees you know
what I'm talking about, but alsono ghee stuff Sometimes it can
(04:53):
hold the stink, well, I wouldsay yeah.
So if you're like, if you'relike in your first six to 12
months, you haven't encounteredthis yet because you haven't
done enough, you haven't gotenough miles on the clock Maybe.
But there is a time that'sgoing to come where there is an
accumulative buildup of likebacteria in the fabric of your
gi and no-gi stuff.
And you did wash it, probablymore your no-gi stuff, because
(05:14):
it's all polyester, artificial,it's all plastic and shit.
So, yeah, and you know, whenyou notice this I actually had
it yesterday with an old gymt-shirt, right this I actually
had it yesterday with an old gymt-shirt, right whereby you put
it on, it's clean, smells, fine.
Put it on and then you go andstart doing your day, whatever
body temperature comes up.
Body temperature comes up,you're not sweating yet, but
there's this activation of odor,stink and you're like, how does
(05:36):
it stink?
That's, that's when, right,quickly, you know, I'm I'm
assuming that your increasedtemperature has activated the
bacteria, like woken it up orsome shit, and it just starts
fucking making a bad Ghost ofbody odor.
Yeah, so I I spoke about thisbefore but I soaked my no gear
shit for the first time stuffthat I'd worn for a few years
and the fucking like, soaked itin nappy sand, right Like some
(05:58):
some heavy shit, and the fuckingwater, like overnight, the
water was brown the next day andthat was clean gear.
Yes, I washed it, it was clean,but still had this odor thing,
fucking brown.
Yes, soaked it twice, much lessbrown.
The second time washed it andthen it's like brand new again.
Yeah, now your shit might notsurvive, like you do.
Wear away at the integrity offabrics, sure, but this is the
(06:20):
lifespan of such an article ofclothing and I think that we've
got to go to this as a point ofetiquette, for, like, if we
think about, jujitsu just bringsyou in such close proximity
with a human.
It's a proximity you just don'tget other than your intimate
partner.
A lot of people probably don'teven get that intimate with
their significant other.
You know what I mean.
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You've got a couple ofpositions that you hit on the
regular and that's it.
You got your, you got yoursystem down, you know you go
jiu-jitsu and it's like you'rehitting new positions reverse
triangled yeah, you've got.
I've never been here.
I've got anus in my face.
What the fuck?
I did not sign up for this andI guess this is where the the
washing of gays and no gaysstuff.
You gotta fucking wash your belt.
(07:02):
Oh, belt, you gotta wash yourbelt.
Any of that bullshit aboutdon't wash your belt like all
right man, you can keep yourfucking 1980s staph infections
like gotta wash it all.
Yeah, you just chuck it all in,chuck it all in and, plus, the
belt gets that little bit moreweathered so it makes you look
more senior straight up.
But, um, this goes to thepersonal hygiene piece, which is
two, because if you haveunwashed gear and it's about
(07:27):
respecting each other, right,you might not be thinking about
it for yourself, but then whensomeone else has a slimy gear,
you're like you got to grip itand you're like, oh, what is
this?
Is this some unique probioticmold that you have here?
Skin infections, hygiene beingstinky, like not only is it kind
(07:51):
of antisocial in a way andmaybe someone's not telling you
because you are the person who'snot smelling so fresh a staph
infection is going to get youSome fucking shit and it's going
to take you out.
It's an injury, essentially,and it can take you out for
weeks.
And I mean, right now, benAskren is like almost dying
because of like severe staff.
Oh wow, pneumonia and oh it'sawful, yeah, and I mean it
(08:12):
killed rent, like it.
Well, it didn't kill randallman, it almost killed randallman
back in the days he hadbasically had a crater of a hole
in his back from staff.
If you're not washing yourgeese.
This then takes us to thissecond move, which is personal
hygiene skin infections,bacteria on your skin and and
and also you.
Maybe your stuff is clean, butmaybe you are not, and so this
(08:33):
is where we need to talk aboutthat.
So, personal hygiene, we'retalking about your body.
So you got the okay, good, yep,got the clean clothes, got.
Here's the deal.
If I've been working all day inan office and then I go to
jujitsu at night, probably I'mpretty clean.
(08:53):
You're working in an office,it's air conditioned, you're
sitting down most of the time.
You're not breaking a sweatright Now, some of you, arguably
you might still get up a sweatin that kind of environment,
right, and if you do, and if youare a bit stinky, need to have
but like, let's put it in thecontext of it's the middle of
summer and you're a bricklayerSure, and you're fucking out
(09:13):
there on the job site all daylong and there's construction
materials and saw dust andfucking concrete dust and shit
and you're wearing, you know, awife beater and a pair of
fucking King G's Sure, and thenyou come and do a no-gi session
and you literally take off yourking jays and your wife beater
and you and you chuck on afucking rash in it.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, man, you got all sorts oflike, not even your personal
(09:35):
stench, but you've got fuckingconcrete and yeah, on your
fucking skin, right, yes, andyou know this if you've worked
in that environment.
Yeah, I don't know if I'vespent a day in the workshop.
You get in the shower, likethat initial flow of water is
like brown.
Yeah, right, like.
And so you got to fuckingobligation to your fellow
training partners to washyourself beforehand.
(09:55):
Yeah, now, if you are stinky inthe pits and whatnot, you're
going to fucking get in therewith some soap, like, like young
Timmy, like brother, you got toscrub that shit, true?
And I mean, look for me, the,the, the halfway step on this is
, let's just say, for example,the gym you train at doesn't
have showers and because of workand timing and stuff, you're
getting there.
(10:16):
Me personally, hygiene wipesantibacterial wipes is a good
halfway step to at least gettingsome dirt off you.
Some people, I've seen it, youcan have.
So solvol is like thisindustrial grade soap with the
grit yeah, you can get liquidsolvol, you can get like a thing
of it which just really getsthe grease and the bullshit off.
(10:38):
And if you've just got like abottle of water and fucking
solvol and just scrub, you scrubshit out yourself.
It's also like a self-defensemechanism.
Right, because it's not justhygiene and being nice for your
partners.
It's like if you've got dirt onyour skin and you sweat and your
skin absorbs the bacteria, thatcan lead to skin infections too
, right, can that happen?
(10:58):
If you're sweating, is itpushing the shit out?
No, it opens the pores.
So if you've got all this dirtand shit on there, like, the
chance of skin infection isincredibly high and you don't
want to end up like, yeah, youdon't want to.
It's one of those things thatthrough some small, simple
measures whether it be quickshower or hygiene wipes or some
(11:19):
soap and some whatever, whateveryou can do to make that little
bit of effort before you train,better for the training partners
, better for you.
And if you took a shit, if youwent and took a big sloppy shit
that afternoon and you're likeone of those, one of those, and
I'm going to say one of thoseguys that still manages himself
like a six year old kind of,like the half wipe and then like
(11:41):
, stumble out of the toilet,forget to flush, kind of thing,
cause I know that, I know youguys are out there.
Fuck man, you got to.
Um, fuck man, you gotta wipeyour ass.
You get the wet wipes.
Do, do, do the needful so thatwhen you reverse mount your
training partner, they're notcopping a face full of your ass,
half wiped ass, butt crack.
It's honestly like it's fuckingdisgusting.
(12:01):
It's tough and you, we've,we've been, we've all been there
.
Yeah, you're getting caloricand dude's sitting on your head
and yeah, you're like I don'tneed that odor.
Yeah, yeah, bad enough.
You're fucking about to rip myshoulder out of the socket.
The suffering is compounded.
What's our third one?
Our third one is nails, andthis is something that's like
maybe your gym has a policy,maybe they don't.
(12:21):
I, as default mode, always justcut myself to the quick, like I
just cut until I bleed, like Ijust toes and fingers just to be
safe, because I I, I have been,I've suffered getting scratched
and it's quite terrible.
Joe, you've you've got your ownroutine with nail maintenance.
Well, I mean, I used to.
(12:42):
I used to cut mine like yours,and it was always very short and
it was always a little bit tooshort, cause I'd like I'd trim
them and then I'd file them.
And then you're like, oh fuck,they're really short.
And then if you go and do a gigclass that night and it's a bit
of spider, you're like, fuckman, it hurts.
I've started playing guitar inthe last year, that's right,
which necessitates me having abit more length in the nails.
And at first I'm like this isnot going, because I'd grown my
(13:07):
nails quite long on the righthand.
But I've actually settled on,like this mid ground that allows
me to play guitar, and so Ihave longer nails than I used to
keep, but I'm not scratchinganyone.
They're still short andmaintained.
But here's the thing.
Here's the thing that no onetold me, and this is what no one
told me as a kid.
When you're an adult, you'reprobably going to need to have a
(13:28):
routine around cutting yournails.
You're probably going to needto have a routine around cutting
your nails, sure, right.
And that routine means you'regoing to need tools for it.
So you need, right, you needsome good nail clippers or
scissors clippers, I think, arethe ultimate.
And you need a good file file.
And he is, and I was talking tomy brother about it.
I'm like how do you?
And he's like every Sunday,every Sunday, me and the kids I
do their nails and then I domine.
And I was like fuck, I've neverhad that.
(13:49):
I've always just been like whenthey get long, but usually by
the time I realize that it takesme like four or five days of
being like, fuck, nails are toolong, need to do it.
Yeah, so I was like everySunday, I love that.
But what I'm getting at is hereis you need a process and you
need the toolkit and you need tostick to it.
So, yeah, if you don't havelike a manicure or nail clipping
(14:10):
set, they're actually prettycheap.
If you go to the chemist orWalgreens or whatever, you can
get a little kit for like 10bucks, yeah, something like that
.
But you want the big file, notthe fucking, that little short
one.
No, of course, the fucking bigone, ideally, ideally.
But you've got to startsomewhere.
And the reason why I also saythis is toenails.
I was trying to pass this guy'sguard and he was not the
(14:34):
cleanliness of humans and hisbig toe scratched my forehead
and it started to bleed and Iwas like I just got cut with a
toenail and it's like if a dogor a dog or a cat scratches you,
you gotta be careful.
Right, there's a lot ofbacteria under those nails.
Yeah, I mean, I didn't go get atetanus shot, but I was like I
(14:55):
gotta really stay up on on thisbecause I don't want it to get
infected.
And that's the thing.
If I think, what is good aboutthis is if no one said to you
hey, man, cut your nails, you godo it and you pay attention to
it.
You then start to notice it inother people and you're like,
hang on, this guy seems to havefucking freddy krueger, esque,
fucking talons.
(15:15):
I'm gonna get sliced up.
And until it happens you'relike, oh, that's no, that's no
good.
It's really just trying to makethis process of jujitsu easier
for you, easier for the trainingpartners.
So you are not.
You're not the bad guy, youknow, and and this is the thing
no one's going to tell you.
No one's going to tell youother than they'll just kind of
(15:36):
maybe resent you quietly becausepeople feel people feel like
self-conscious, that they don'twant to be rude, yeah, but then
they'll also talk shit behindyour back, which is kind of rude
.
Let me make a quick point too.
When you cut your nails justwith, like clippers or scissors,
you leave a very sharp edge onthem.
It is a sharp edge, yeah, soyou actually need the file just
to take that sharp edge off.
(15:57):
Like, if I just clip thesemotherfuckers, they will slice
and dice.
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What's number four?
Number four is footwear.
Ah yes, this is one of the kindof biggest crimes in terms of
like just not knowing.
You don't know what you don'tknow.
And if your gym doesn't havelike spare slides or flip-flops
on the side, you just obviouslyevery gym is quite strict about
(17:00):
like no footwear on the mats.
Right, this is like jujitsu.
That's the one thing thatjujitsu like don't wear your
shoes on the mats.
And then they usually saynothing else.
And then people are walking intothe toilet, walk out into the
street, coming back, you're likethat's not good now, even
though the gym may have a reallygood policy around cleaning the
mats and stuff like that.
If you have just walked intothe bathroom with bare feet and
(17:21):
then you walk back, you've justwalked all that bacteria onto
the mat.
And if you're that fucking dudewho meant, who manages himself
like a six-year-old where you go, like I'll piss half in the
toilet, half on the floor.
Sure, there's a little bit onmy feet.
That's fun.
You know it gets complicated.
But having your own flip-flops,even for showers this is, this
is a thing too.
Um, good friend of mine, mattcarmichael, shout out, he always
(17:44):
had, he had javaianas that hewore um off the mat and then he
had a spare set for gym and Iwas like how interesting he
always slipped them in the sideof his training bag.
And he's like, no, that's forthe shower and the bathrooms and
they're actually separate.
The Havaianas I would wear inthe street and not the Havaianas
I would wear in the bathroom.
And I was like wow, that's, andit hit me and I was like
(18:09):
actually, that's really, that'sum, that's smart.
And I think for whether it befor your own protection of your
feet, because you don't want tolike go have a shower and then
next thing, you got crazy tinea,because the shower is like
crazy fungal or something, butthen also just keeping the mat
space clean.
So having some flip-flops,thongs, whatever you want to
call them, which isn't yourshoes that you wear from the
street in, is key for thehygiene in the gym.
(18:32):
Yeah, you should be wearingyour shoes to the edge of the
mats and then stepping onto themats out of your shoes and then
vice versa when you get off.
Or maybe the gym has a littlebarefoot section around the mats
, but there's going to be athreshold where it's like shoes
to here and then, barefoot fromhere, yeah, and don't don't
fucking, even if other people inyour gym are fucking break,
don't, just stick to it, don'tdo it.
(18:54):
Yeah, be the one to um, leadthe way.
And actually, what wasinteresting to me?
Um, they're these things.
They're like these kind ofrubber shoe covers that
wrestlers have so they can runoff the mat.
They've got the wrestling bootsfrom, but, yeah, um, yeah,
talgut, who was our wrestlingcoach at Absolute, he had them.
They're like shoe covers so youcan go to the bathroom and come
(19:14):
back and you take them off.
Oh, wow, yeah, and they werejust like slip them on, they
stick on.
Yeah, it was like smart,because obviously it's a set of
shoes that you are wearing onthe mat Now, on the mat.
Now, number five is contentiousbecause Joe and I were having a
little bit of back and forth onthis.
So, uh, I'll, I'll let youintroduce number five and let's
go back and forth on it.
Joe, yeah, your breath can'tstink like shit.
(19:36):
Now let me expand on this.
Some people, like some people,have stronger BO than others.
Sure, I'd be one of thosepeople that's blessed with not a
lot of BO.
Sure, to wear deodorant justhave just lucky, like that's,
those low testosterone levels.
Joe, potentially right.
Uh, I'm not the same.
I'm not the same.
(19:57):
The the breath thing is yeah,some people, whatever
biologically or maybe they havea medical condition have bad
breath.
This is, this is a thing, right, but I get, I know I got bad
breath if I haven't beendrinking enough water that day,
if I've been punishing a bunchof coffee, if I went out and got
a fucking kebab for lunch withextra garlic sauce.
(20:17):
You know you ate a fuckingheavy onion meal, whatever it is
like.
There are times when you'relike is that I think my breath
might be a bit chat.
So, whatever it fucking takesto just not be polluting someone
else's airspace with your badbreath, whether it's you pump
some mints or some chewing gumor maybe you fucking brush your
teeth in the afternoon beforetraining, all I'm saying is you
(20:41):
got to have inoffensive breath.
Look, there's levels to thatgame, right?
So I'm not, I'm not pushingthis because I'm, I'm just like
fuck, there's only so much youcan do.
If you are keeping your giclean, you're keeping yourself
clean, you're doing everythingelse I I.
The breath thing, I think ishard to control because
obviously different people havedifferent habits and ideally,
(21:02):
you know, whatever I havedeveloped my habit of, I always
have chewing gum on me in thecar, you know, in my bag,
whatever it comes from personaltraining, I do drink a ton of
coffee and I am aware that thatcan make my breath not nice.
So, on a professional level, asa trainer, I never wanted to
bring the bad breath vibe, so Iwould very regularly, just
always, have a piece of gumafterwards to combat that.
(21:24):
Now, most people are notthinking about this, but if we,
if we think about you, weregoing on a date, right, and you
wanted to make sure that you'reable to have another date, you
wouldn't want to have bad breath, right?
Because you're like, oh, Imight get a kiss, yeah, Ooh, you
know, and not not that you'retrying to kiss your training
partners here.
I mean, maybe you are, butmaybe don't.
(21:45):
Um, you think it's just asintimate as a date, right, so
you'd show up maybe with Moreintimate than most dates.
You'll go on, yeah, especiallydepending on how you go with
your dating scheme.
But you know you've gotsomeone's back and you're like
breathing, you know, like righthere, or even clinching, like
stand up, you know, and youmight not even be thinking about
(22:06):
it at the time you are.
You're stand up, you know, andyou might not even be thinking
about it at the time you are,you, you, you're sharing
airspace.
You're basically huffing intoeach other's mouths.
Look, have a fucking packet ofgum in your training bag, have
some mints in the car.
You know, just just do it.
It's it's just, it's just littlemeasures that that just make
sure that you're not fuckingcoming in.
You know, I, most people,probably nine times out of ten,
(22:31):
are like hitting the mark onthese things, sure, but then
sometimes it's like that, thatone where you're like you did
pump the kebab or you know, sureyou did chug the fucking barrel
of coffee you might have.
You just want to have thatlittle thing in place so that no
one's like, hey, do you rollwith fucking so-and-so?
You roll with kebab.
Mate, over there, the fuckingdragon breath over there.
It smells like something died.
The hardest thing about all ofthis is no one is going to tell
(22:54):
you.
And that's why we're bringingit up, because we want you to
have a long, enjoyable jiu-jitsulife.
And you know it can be clickyand sometimes, when you don't
have good, honest friends atjiu-Jitsu, they don't tell you
this shit.
So we're telling you right nowto save you the nonsense later,
(23:16):
and even if you're like that'snot me, run the checklist.
Are you clipping the nails?
Are you doing the shower?
You know like how frequentlyare you washing your gi every
day, it can't be every secondday.
You know like it's just byrunning this checklist you might
be able to like go, oh, maybeI'm not doing that.
Run the checklist, don't breakthe laws, and you'll thank us
(23:37):
later.
Yes, sir.
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
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