May 20, 2025 • 18 mins
What happens when you mix martial arts, a little peer pressure, and three people who should definitely not be sparring at work?
You get a wild, hilarious, and surprisingly insightful podcast episode on self-defense, teamwork, and knowing your limits.
Jimmy is sharing stories from his many many years of martial arts training... from the moves he’s mastered to the injuries he’s racked up along the way (including one unfortunate groin incident that’s hard to forget). Then Megan and Miguel share what it felt like to step into their very first kickboxing class and how a few simple tips made them feel stronger, safer, and more prepared to handle themselves in the real world.
But don't get us wrong, this episode isn’t about how to win a fight... it’s about how to avoid one, how protect yourself, and how to get the confidence to maybe throw an elbow or two if it comes to that. Whether you’ve got martial arts experience or even if you’ve never stepped foot in a gym, you’ll come finish out this episode with a new appreciation for confidence, distance, and the power of staying calm under pressure.
Life Safety Associates specializes in emergency response training for corporate ERT Teams. We help businesses create competent and confident first responders who are ready to handle unexpected emergencies. For more information you find us @lifesafetyassoc or email@lifesafety.com.
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Jimmy (00:00):
What's happening?
Welcome to another Life andSafety Podcast.
It's Jimmy with your girl, megs.
Megan (00:06):
Hello.
Jimmy (00:07):
And we got special guest Miguelito Miguel with us today
and we're going to talk aboutsome of our off-duty shenanigans
, things that we do here.
Not a lot of people know thisabout me and you can't tell by
the way I look.
(00:28):
You know, pretty flabby, that Ido like to work out and one of
the things that I like to do isI like to do lots of martial
arts.
I used to do a lot of jujitsuand lately I've been doing
kickboxing, specifically MuayThai kickboxing, and I like to
say Muayai that way because it'sfun, so you can make fun of me
(00:50):
later.
But you know it's had somechallenges and we're gonna talk
about some of that stuff andthen we're gonna kind of lead
into some other things with that.
So, man, you had a questionabout some injuries.
Is that what you said?
Megan (01:07):
Yeah, what are some injuries that you've either seen
or caused on the mat, so tospeak?
Jimmy (01:15):
So just in my martial arts experience I've definitely
seen lots of different things.
Fun fact I actually broke myhand in what I call a boxer's
break, which is basically myring finger and my pinky finger
and the hand bones right behindthere doing jujitsu, not
punching anything.
(01:35):
Somebody fell on my hand andbroke my bones so I had bones.
Those three bones basically inmy middle finger were all broken
and it hurt really bad.
And I was actually helping afamily friend put their ski rack
on, oh no, and I pulled on itand my hand went click, click.
And I went huh, yeah, she didn'tdo that, and that hurt really
(01:58):
bad so that's what triggered.
Miguel (02:02):
That's a common Jimmy reaction, right?
Huh, I was like cool cool.
Megan (02:06):
Maybe not the best.
Jimmy (02:08):
So I went and got checked out and had a break, so that
was fun.
And then my brother decided towrite hola on my hand.
Because every time I lifted myhand up to wave at somebody you
couldn't see anything.
So he wrote hola on my hand.
Because every time I lifted myhand up to like wave at somebody
you couldn't see anything.
So you wrote hola on there.
So that was fun.
Then that turned into an holasmack, so I'd say hello to
(02:30):
people and smack them with it.
Megan (02:34):
That sounds very Jimmy like Right.
Jimmy (02:37):
And I ended up having a little girl ask me how I hurt
myself in the grocery store.
It was really fun because I gotto tell her I was doing ninja
training.
So that was fun.
And actually if you look at apast sports injuries and walk it
(02:59):
off newsletter, the picture ofme is with a cast on and that's
how I got that cast and thatpicture is doing jujitsu and I
walked it off and then hurtmyself again helping somebody
and I think the story you wantme to tell is about the exploded
(03:23):
testicle.
Yes, I think that's what youreally wanted me to tell that
story.
That's what we're waiting for.
That's what you're waiting for.
Yeah, not my exploding testicle, so to speak, but we were doing
a kicking drill drill and it'sin martial arts.
(03:46):
You know, you have to have arespect for your opponent and
like your training partner right.
Never.
I always tell people don'tbreak your toys, don't break
your training partner, um,because they have to go to work
tomorrow and nobody usually istraining for a professional
fight or anything like that.
And, and you know you shouldn'thave an ego, you should just
have fun with it.
(04:06):
And this guy was kicking mereally, really hard and I kept
warning him and you were a guyand then he kicked me in the
groin and I walked it off aftera while and you know, because I
didn't have a cup on, because Ididn't think we're going to be
(04:27):
getting kick there and becausewe weren't even supposed to be
in that area, he was supposed tobe kicking me in my calf, um,
fun fact, he should have beenkicking me in the other leg.
So it was just really, reallymessed up.
And I, I'm, I'm a little mean,um, and I can be a little bit
(04:55):
vindictive.
I'll have to say that's theprobably the best word for this.
So when I had a chance I kickedhim back really hard in the
lake and he complained and had alot of choice words for me and
then he kicked me again in theno-no square and he did it on
purpose.
(05:16):
That time I was ready for it.
I was able to kind of take aglancing blow.
It still really hurt really bad.
That time I was ready for it.
I was able to kind of take aglancing blow.
It still really hurt really bad.
So it's a thing called receipts, right, if you?
get hit you give a receipt andhe hit me.
So I decided to hit him alittle bit harder and I was like
, all right, well, you want tokick people on the no-no square,
(05:39):
I'm going to kick you back inyour no-no square.
Then I kicked him in his no-nosquare and his testicle ended up
exploding.
Um, and, yeah, it sucks to beyou.
Moral of the story is don'tmess with jimmy.
No, no, no, no, no, no, don'tno.
Megan (05:57):
The moral of the story is don't mess with Jimmy.
Jimmy (05:59):
No, no, no, no, no, no, don't, no.
The moral of the story is benice, be nice, don't, you know,
don't do things that you don'twant done to you.
And to be nice.
Megan (06:12):
The golden rule.
Jimmy (06:13):
The golden rule.
Megan (06:16):
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
F around to find out.
Jimmy (06:21):
There's a lot of phrases for this, there's a lot of
phrases for this, and there's areason for that.
It's because you should just benice to people, be nice.
So, with that being said,something that Miguel and I have
in common is he also enjoysworking out, and he just
recently started going toKickboxing.
Right, yeah, not because of me,right, yeah, yeah, not because
(06:43):
of me, right, no?
Miguel (06:45):
no, it wasn't because of you, something I always wanted
to do.
So when I heard you did it too,that's when I was like, oh cool
, but it wasn't an actual fullinfluence per se.
Megan (06:56):
Yeah, it's just a little extra push of inspiration.
Miguel (06:59):
Yeah, basically Because I've always wanted to but never
thought of it until, like Jimmymentioned it and I was like oh
sick, and then I started lookinginto it, but it was mostly just
because the idea itself justcame back.
Jimmy (07:15):
Yeah, that's right, we go to different gyms, so it's not
weird I had to make that rule.
I said I see too much of youalready.
You can't come to my, myprivate spot.
Miguel (07:27):
No, no, especially if I mess up, I don't want to be the
one getting whacked so we, um,yeah.
Jimmy (07:38):
So then megan, also a little toughy, a little baddie
in her past.
She was on the wrestling teamat her high school and enjoys,
uh, working out and doing funstuff like that.
So miguel and megan had bothasked me separately and then
together I don't know if youknew that or not if we can do
(08:02):
like a little kickboxing jujitsuthing here at the office.
And I was like, no, not theoffice, we're getting trouble.
What if you get hurt workman'scomp and all kinds of stuff
happening?
They asked again and we did itand now we're on a podcast.
Yes, they are very persuasive.
Megan (08:22):
I don't know persuasive so much as just constant nagging
Relentless is more accurate.
Miguel (08:29):
Yeah, constant nagging nicely.
Yes.
Megan (08:33):
Maybe on your part I don't know that I was so nice
about it, but I also get awaywith some more.
True, but I also get away withsome more.
Jimmy (08:40):
True.
Megan (08:41):
And to be clear, was not life safety sanctioned just
occurred at the office not apart of life safety?
Jimmy (08:50):
Right, I was just going to say the same thing.
The disclaimer here is this wasnot a life safety sanctioned
event Outside of work hours.
It was outside of work hours.
It was all the things, and Ihad fun.
What did you two think?
Megan (09:09):
Yeah, I enjoyed it a lot.
That was my first sort of forayinto the kickboxing world.
Like you said, I had done thewrestling team in high school
for a year but I had never doneanything kickboxing-like.
I feel more prepared going outin the world.
I can throw an elbow or a knee,yes, and I get the.
(09:32):
You're like what?
Okay?
Miguel (09:35):
That is the truth.
I walked out that day feeling alot better.
I would look at people and goall right, don't get too close.
Megan (09:42):
And you also, I think you taught like good life skills,
especially like as a smallerfemale human in the world.
Um, like you know, you explainthe concept of sort of what type
of move you would throwdepending on how close or far
they are, like kicking distanceversus knee distance or punching
distance versus elbow distance.
(10:03):
And, like you know, having thatsort of awareness, um was good.
And, like you taught me how tolike break out of holds.
If somebody tried to grab mewhich hopefully I never use, but
I feel a lot more confident Iwould say like if I have to walk
to my car alone at night, I'mlike, hang on, does jimmy taught
me how to handle?
Jimmy (10:23):
this awesome.
That's great that great.
Miguel (10:26):
I think what you were mainly teaching us in reality
was not to go looking for afight, but what to do if we ever
find ourselves in one.
Basically, we want to handleourselves and protect ourselves.
Basically all the basics youwere teaching us.
Megan (10:43):
Yeah, I would say the biggest overarching message, so
to speak, of the class was likehere's how to not fight like the
most of the best way to win afight is to have it not start
okay so um and then you know, ifit does have to start, show
them that you know you're notsomebody to be messed with.
And then so they're like.
(11:04):
You know, they try to come atyou, throw a punch and they're
like you know they try to comeat you, throw a punch and
they're like okay, nope, I don'twant to do this anymore.
Jimmy (11:11):
Bye, yeah, good, no, I'm glad that you both got that
message, you know, becausethat's what I wanted you to both
walk away with.
It was a little bit ofknowledge how to protect
yourself, and you know managethe distance and do those things
and you know be aware of yoursurroundings.
So I'm really glad that.
That makes me happy.
That makes me I'm I'm prettypumped, you know, proud dad
(11:34):
moment right there, so to speak.
Um, so it's rad.
It's rad Um team out there inthe life safety world.
That was probably a one-timething, um, and and don't ask.
One-time thing, um and anddon't ask oh yeah, that was a
(11:56):
in-house private thing.
Only, um, if you want to have aconversation about that stuff
off of uh, um, outside of classtime you know I have time I'd
love to have a conversation withyou about it.
Megan (12:03):
I love that stuff I'm sure he'd be happy to give
recommendations of good gyms inthe area.
Jimmy (12:08):
Absolutely.
Actually, on Wednesday I foundout one of our students does
jiu-jitsu.
We were actually talking aboutcars.
We were parked next to eachother.
It was really just random andhe opened up his hatchback and I
saw his jiu-jitsu gi, hisuniform.
I was like, oh dude, you dojiu-jitsu and I was able to like
(12:30):
, ramble off.
I'm a nerd, I rambled off likehis type of gi it was and what
it was made out of and all thisstuff, nerd.
Such a nerd.
Just a jiu-jitsu head.
They call it a jet head, sothat was fun.
I like the guy from the classanyways but now I met like a new
(12:52):
Jiu-Jitsu buddy, so to speak.
So that was really cool.
So if you want to come up andtalk about that, awesome After
class, awesome Before class, notduring class, Fair, fair.
And one more injury you canalways ask about, if you
remember, is my forearm.
(13:12):
If you ever see me, I have twodistinct injuries on my arms.
On my left arm you can't see itbecause I'm pretty tan now and
the scar is gone.
Well, it's not gone, but it'sjust really dark.
It's from a football helmet.
When I was a freshman year, afootball helmet actually cut me
(13:33):
to the bone Rough.
Megan (13:34):
Yeah.
Jimmy (13:35):
Fun fact, I showed myself up because I knew the emergency
room doctor.
I grew up with his son.
His son was on the footballteam too.
So he, let me do like twostitches Probably should have
done it, because I took four inand two of them popped out
Arguably my two, I think, one ofeach and I lost a lot of blood
Story for a different time,though.
(13:56):
And then on my other arm, if Itake a fist and kind of turn it
the right way, when I was doingjujitsu again, somebody did an
arm bar and ripped all of myforearm muscles and it held back
weird.
So I have a bump and a littlevalley there in my arm.
Miguel (14:14):
Dang, you see it, you wouldn't tap out.
Huh, I didn't get a chance.
It was crack crack, crack,crack I was like oh my arm.
Not sportsmanship.
Jimmy (14:34):
No, it was.
You know on white belt crime.
Somebody was just drilling andthey did it wrong, and that's
what happens, you know Well.
Thanks for I don't know.
Megan (14:44):
Do you guys have any other questions or comments
about our class or just ingeneral sports things?
Do you have a favorite?
I know that you like to watchfights in Jiu Jitsu fights.
Do you have a favorite one thatyou recommend everybody watches
?
That's a weird question.
Jimmy (14:55):
No either, An actual favorite fight.
Megan (14:59):
A favorite fight or a favorite fighter to watch a
fight of theirs.
Jimmy (15:07):
Great question Kickboxing one championship Rotang versus
Superlek Amazing kickboxingfight.
I like to watch Mighty MouseJohnson.
He was in the UFC champion andthen he was a one UFC champion.
(15:29):
Mighty Mouse also has a reallycool YouTube video where
actually where he started doingGi Jiu Jitsu, and there's a
really cool video of him goingin the open division, which
means there's no weight classand he's like a 125-pound human
and he wrestles against likealmost a 300-pound Jiu-Jitsu guy
(15:53):
and he actually picks him upand spins him around.
What it's wild.
But Mighty Mouse ended upwinning because that's what
Jiu-Jitsu is about.
I love watching the Graciebreakdowns on youtube, uh, and
then instagram.
I love the woman empowerment.
(16:14):
I think it's so cool thatsimple jujitsu you know really
are effective.
Um, so that's henner and eve,uh, gracie, so it's just really
cool.
Uh, they do a lot of that.
And there's a fun video whereeve is simulated, uh, being
attacked by henner, her husband,and she chokes him and it's
(16:38):
such a deeply effective choke heactually goes unconscious.
Oh my god.
So it actually shows you, likehow effective it.
So that's really fun.
I think it's really good.
Megan (17:04):
And then for children.
Jimmy (17:05):
I think look up the Gracie Bullyproof Program,
because they really talk aboutkids not fighting but
de-escalating and thenprotecting yourself, which I
think is really cool, and itused to be a really fun
conversation starter when my sonused to walk around with a
bully-proof T-shirt on, so thatwas really fun.
All right, yeah, there you go.
There's some recommendations,peace.
What's happening?
Welcome to another Life andSafety Podcast.
It's Jimmy with your girl, megs.
Megan (00:06):
Hello.
Jimmy (00:07):
And we got special guest Miguelito Miguel with us today
and we're going to talk aboutsome of our off-duty shenanigans
, things that we do here.
Not a lot of people know thisabout me and you can't tell by
the way I look.
(00:28):
You know, pretty flabby, that Ido like to work out and one of
the things that I like to do isI like to do lots of martial
arts.
I used to do a lot of jujitsuand lately I've been doing
kickboxing, specifically MuayThai kickboxing, and I like to
say Muayai that way because it'sfun, so you can make fun of me
(00:50):
later.
But you know it's had somechallenges and we're gonna talk
about some of that stuff andthen we're gonna kind of lead
into some other things with that.
So, man, you had a questionabout some injuries.
Is that what you said?
Megan (01:07):
Yeah, what are some injuries that you've either seen
or caused on the mat, so tospeak?
Jimmy (01:15):
So just in my martial arts experience I've definitely
seen lots of different things.
Fun fact I actually broke myhand in what I call a boxer's
break, which is basically myring finger and my pinky finger
and the hand bones right behindthere doing jujitsu, not
punching anything.
(01:35):
Somebody fell on my hand andbroke my bones so I had bones.
Those three bones basically inmy middle finger were all broken
and it hurt really bad.
And I was actually helping afamily friend put their ski rack
on, oh no, and I pulled on itand my hand went click, click.
And I went huh, yeah, she didn'tdo that, and that hurt really
(01:58):
bad so that's what triggered.
Miguel (02:02):
That's a common Jimmy reaction, right?
Huh, I was like cool cool.
Megan (02:06):
Maybe not the best.
Jimmy (02:08):
So I went and got checked out and had a break, so that
was fun.
And then my brother decided towrite hola on my hand.
Because every time I lifted myhand up to wave at somebody you
couldn't see anything.
So he wrote hola on my hand.
Because every time I lifted myhand up to like wave at somebody
you couldn't see anything.
So you wrote hola on there.
So that was fun.
Then that turned into an holasmack, so I'd say hello to
(02:30):
people and smack them with it.
Megan (02:34):
That sounds very Jimmy like Right.
Jimmy (02:37):
And I ended up having a little girl ask me how I hurt
myself in the grocery store.
It was really fun because I gotto tell her I was doing ninja
training.
So that was fun.
And actually if you look at apast sports injuries and walk it
(02:59):
off newsletter, the picture ofme is with a cast on and that's
how I got that cast and thatpicture is doing jujitsu and I
walked it off and then hurtmyself again helping somebody
and I think the story you wantme to tell is about the exploded
(03:23):
testicle.
Yes, I think that's what youreally wanted me to tell that
story.
That's what we're waiting for.
That's what you're waiting for.
Yeah, not my exploding testicle, so to speak, but we were doing
a kicking drill drill and it'sin martial arts.
(03:46):
You know, you have to have arespect for your opponent and
like your training partner right.
Never.
I always tell people don'tbreak your toys, don't break
your training partner, um,because they have to go to work
tomorrow and nobody usually istraining for a professional
fight or anything like that.
And, and you know you shouldn'thave an ego, you should just
have fun with it.
(04:06):
And this guy was kicking mereally, really hard and I kept
warning him and you were a guyand then he kicked me in the
groin and I walked it off aftera while and you know, because I
didn't have a cup on, because Ididn't think we're going to be
(04:27):
getting kick there and becausewe weren't even supposed to be
in that area, he was supposed tobe kicking me in my calf, um,
fun fact, he should have beenkicking me in the other leg.
So it was just really, reallymessed up.
And I, I'm, I'm a little mean,um, and I can be a little bit
(04:55):
vindictive.
I'll have to say that's theprobably the best word for this.
So when I had a chance I kickedhim back really hard in the
lake and he complained and had alot of choice words for me and
then he kicked me again in theno-no square and he did it on
purpose.
(05:16):
That time I was ready for it.
I was able to kind of take aglancing blow.
It still really hurt really bad.
That time I was ready for it.
I was able to kind of take aglancing blow.
It still really hurt really bad.
So it's a thing called receipts, right, if you?
get hit you give a receipt andhe hit me.
So I decided to hit him alittle bit harder and I was like
, all right, well, you want tokick people on the no-no square,
(05:39):
I'm going to kick you back inyour no-no square.
Then I kicked him in his no-nosquare and his testicle ended up
exploding.
Um, and, yeah, it sucks to beyou.
Moral of the story is don'tmess with jimmy.
No, no, no, no, no, no, don'tno.
Megan (05:57):
The moral of the story is don't mess with Jimmy.
Jimmy (05:59):
No, no, no, no, no, no, don't, no.
The moral of the story is benice, be nice, don't, you know,
don't do things that you don'twant done to you.
And to be nice.
Megan (06:12):
The golden rule.
Jimmy (06:13):
The golden rule.
Megan (06:16):
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
F around to find out.
Jimmy (06:21):
There's a lot of phrases for this, there's a lot of
phrases for this, and there's areason for that.
It's because you should just benice to people, be nice.
So, with that being said,something that Miguel and I have
in common is he also enjoysworking out, and he just
recently started going toKickboxing.
Right, yeah, not because of me,right, yeah, yeah, not because
(06:43):
of me, right, no?
Miguel (06:45):
no, it wasn't because of you, something I always wanted
to do.
So when I heard you did it too,that's when I was like, oh cool
, but it wasn't an actual fullinfluence per se.
Megan (06:56):
Yeah, it's just a little extra push of inspiration.
Miguel (06:59):
Yeah, basically Because I've always wanted to but never
thought of it until, like Jimmymentioned it and I was like oh
sick, and then I started lookinginto it, but it was mostly just
because the idea itself justcame back.
Jimmy (07:15):
Yeah, that's right, we go to different gyms, so it's not
weird I had to make that rule.
I said I see too much of youalready.
You can't come to my, myprivate spot.
Miguel (07:27):
No, no, especially if I mess up, I don't want to be the
one getting whacked so we, um,yeah.
Jimmy (07:38):
So then megan, also a little toughy, a little baddie
in her past.
She was on the wrestling teamat her high school and enjoys,
uh, working out and doing funstuff like that.
So miguel and megan had bothasked me separately and then
together I don't know if youknew that or not if we can do
(08:02):
like a little kickboxing jujitsuthing here at the office.
And I was like, no, not theoffice, we're getting trouble.
What if you get hurt workman'scomp and all kinds of stuff
happening?
They asked again and we did itand now we're on a podcast.
Yes, they are very persuasive.
Megan (08:22):
I don't know persuasive so much as just constant nagging
Relentless is more accurate.
Miguel (08:29):
Yeah, constant nagging nicely.
Yes.
Megan (08:33):
Maybe on your part I don't know that I was so nice
about it, but I also get awaywith some more.
True, but I also get away withsome more.
Jimmy (08:40):
True.
Megan (08:41):
And to be clear, was not life safety sanctioned just
occurred at the office not apart of life safety?
Jimmy (08:50):
Right, I was just going to say the same thing.
The disclaimer here is this wasnot a life safety sanctioned
event Outside of work hours.
It was outside of work hours.
It was all the things, and Ihad fun.
What did you two think?
Megan (09:09):
Yeah, I enjoyed it a lot.
That was my first sort of forayinto the kickboxing world.
Like you said, I had done thewrestling team in high school
for a year but I had never doneanything kickboxing-like.
I feel more prepared going outin the world.
I can throw an elbow or a knee,yes, and I get the.
(09:32):
You're like what?
Okay?
Miguel (09:35):
That is the truth.
I walked out that day feeling alot better.
I would look at people and goall right, don't get too close.
Megan (09:42):
And you also, I think you taught like good life skills,
especially like as a smallerfemale human in the world.
Um, like you know, you explainthe concept of sort of what type
of move you would throwdepending on how close or far
they are, like kicking distanceversus knee distance or punching
distance versus elbow distance.
(10:03):
And, like you know, having thatsort of awareness, um was good.
And, like you taught me how tolike break out of holds.
If somebody tried to grab mewhich hopefully I never use, but
I feel a lot more confident Iwould say like if I have to walk
to my car alone at night, I'mlike, hang on, does jimmy taught
me how to handle?
Jimmy (10:23):
this awesome.
That's great that great.
Miguel (10:26):
I think what you were mainly teaching us in reality
was not to go looking for afight, but what to do if we ever
find ourselves in one.
Basically, we want to handleourselves and protect ourselves.
Basically all the basics youwere teaching us.
Megan (10:43):
Yeah, I would say the biggest overarching message, so
to speak, of the class was likehere's how to not fight like the
most of the best way to win afight is to have it not start
okay so um and then you know, ifit does have to start, show
them that you know you're notsomebody to be messed with.
And then so they're like.
(11:04):
You know, they try to come atyou, throw a punch and they're
like you know they try to comeat you, throw a punch and
they're like okay, nope, I don'twant to do this anymore.
Jimmy (11:11):
Bye, yeah, good, no, I'm glad that you both got that
message, you know, becausethat's what I wanted you to both
walk away with.
It was a little bit ofknowledge how to protect
yourself, and you know managethe distance and do those things
and you know be aware of yoursurroundings.
So I'm really glad that.
That makes me happy.
That makes me I'm I'm prettypumped, you know, proud dad
(11:34):
moment right there, so to speak.
Um, so it's rad.
It's rad Um team out there inthe life safety world.
That was probably a one-timething, um, and and don't ask.
One-time thing, um and anddon't ask oh yeah, that was a
(11:56):
in-house private thing.
Only, um, if you want to have aconversation about that stuff
off of uh, um, outside of classtime you know I have time I'd
love to have a conversation withyou about it.
Megan (12:03):
I love that stuff I'm sure he'd be happy to give
recommendations of good gyms inthe area.
Jimmy (12:08):
Absolutely.
Actually, on Wednesday I foundout one of our students does
jiu-jitsu.
We were actually talking aboutcars.
We were parked next to eachother.
It was really just random andhe opened up his hatchback and I
saw his jiu-jitsu gi, hisuniform.
I was like, oh dude, you dojiu-jitsu and I was able to like
(12:30):
, ramble off.
I'm a nerd, I rambled off likehis type of gi it was and what
it was made out of and all thisstuff, nerd.
Such a nerd.
Just a jiu-jitsu head.
They call it a jet head, sothat was fun.
I like the guy from the classanyways but now I met like a new
(12:52):
Jiu-Jitsu buddy, so to speak.
So that was really cool.
So if you want to come up andtalk about that, awesome After
class, awesome Before class, notduring class, Fair, fair.
And one more injury you canalways ask about, if you
remember, is my forearm.
(13:12):
If you ever see me, I have twodistinct injuries on my arms.
On my left arm you can't see itbecause I'm pretty tan now and
the scar is gone.
Well, it's not gone, but it'sjust really dark.
It's from a football helmet.
When I was a freshman year, afootball helmet actually cut me
(13:33):
to the bone Rough.
Megan (13:34):
Yeah.
Jimmy (13:35):
Fun fact, I showed myself up because I knew the emergency
room doctor.
I grew up with his son.
His son was on the footballteam too.
So he, let me do like twostitches Probably should have
done it, because I took four inand two of them popped out
Arguably my two, I think, one ofeach and I lost a lot of blood
Story for a different time,though.
(13:56):
And then on my other arm, if Itake a fist and kind of turn it
the right way, when I was doingjujitsu again, somebody did an
arm bar and ripped all of myforearm muscles and it held back
weird.
So I have a bump and a littlevalley there in my arm.
Miguel (14:14):
Dang, you see it, you wouldn't tap out.
Huh, I didn't get a chance.
It was crack crack, crack,crack I was like oh my arm.
Not sportsmanship.
Jimmy (14:34):
No, it was.
You know on white belt crime.
Somebody was just drilling andthey did it wrong, and that's
what happens, you know Well.
Thanks for I don't know.
Megan (14:44):
Do you guys have any other questions or comments
about our class or just ingeneral sports things?
Do you have a favorite?
I know that you like to watchfights in Jiu Jitsu fights.
Do you have a favorite one thatyou recommend everybody watches
?
That's a weird question.
Jimmy (14:55):
No either, An actual favorite fight.
Megan (14:59):
A favorite fight or a favorite fighter to watch a
fight of theirs.
Jimmy (15:07):
Great question Kickboxing one championship Rotang versus
Superlek Amazing kickboxingfight.
I like to watch Mighty MouseJohnson.
He was in the UFC champion andthen he was a one UFC champion.
(15:29):
Mighty Mouse also has a reallycool YouTube video where
actually where he started doingGi Jiu Jitsu, and there's a
really cool video of him goingin the open division, which
means there's no weight classand he's like a 125-pound human
and he wrestles against likealmost a 300-pound Jiu-Jitsu guy
(15:53):
and he actually picks him upand spins him around.
What it's wild.
But Mighty Mouse ended upwinning because that's what
Jiu-Jitsu is about.
I love watching the Graciebreakdowns on youtube, uh, and
then instagram.
I love the woman empowerment.
(16:14):
I think it's so cool thatsimple jujitsu you know really
are effective.
Um, so that's henner and eve,uh, gracie, so it's just really
cool.
Uh, they do a lot of that.
And there's a fun video whereeve is simulated, uh, being
attacked by henner, her husband,and she chokes him and it's
(16:38):
such a deeply effective choke heactually goes unconscious.
Oh my god.
So it actually shows you, likehow effective it.
So that's really fun.
I think it's really good.
Megan (17:04):
And then for children.
Jimmy (17:05):
I think look up the Gracie Bullyproof Program,
because they really talk aboutkids not fighting but
de-escalating and thenprotecting yourself, which I
think is really cool, and itused to be a really fun
conversation starter when my sonused to walk around with a
bully-proof T-shirt on, so thatwas really fun.
All right, yeah, there you go.
There's some recommendations,peace.
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