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Warrior's Mindset is about conditioning the mind,
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body, and spirit. It takes practice, commitment,
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vision, goal setting, determination, sharp focus,
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respect, and discipline. Once you learn it, you
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can apply it to all aspects of your life. The
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Warrior's Mindset prepares you for the largest
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competition ever, the competition against self.
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Hello everybody, what's up? How are you doing?
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We are here with Warrior's Mindset. Warrior's
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Mindset is about digging down inside yourself
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and tapping into your mind, your body, and your
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spirit. You know what we do, we like to always
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start with a prayer because everybody needs a
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prayer. Even I need a prayer every day I start.
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So we're going to start with the serenity prayer.
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God grant us the serenity to accept the things
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we cannot change, the courage to change the things
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we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
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As we know what the warrior mindset represents
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for 12 months of the year, there's always a principle.
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One of the principles I want to talk to today,
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I want to talk about honesty, you know, because
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the guest that we have today, man, he's an honest
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brother. I mean, we were just talking about how
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one statement that I always remember, he said,
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the cream always will rise to the top. And sometimes
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we think we have to lie, maneuver, and do all
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these different things to get by. But I think
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if we learn how to stay true to ourselves. God
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will bless us and give us things that we cannot
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even imagine. What we are going to do, guys,
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with the man, the one and only, you know, I don't
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know what to say, man. Johnny Tension, man. I
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mean, he's a good brother. He's a great martial
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artist. And as I told my students and everybody.
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He's one of the greatest fighters of his generation.
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Mr. Jotty, what's up, my brother? Thank you,
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man, for having me. It's a pleasure. I'm doing
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well. Everything's good? Yes, sir. Okay, okay.
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And look at that smile, man. You know what I'm
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saying? You got to be happy. You know what I'm
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saying? You have to be. So, Jotty, for the audience,
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can you give them a brief introduction? I know
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you don't like to talk about yourself, but just
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for the younger audience and the older, just
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a reminder of what you have done. Well, my name
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is Johnny Tension. I'm from New York City. The
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Bronx was born in Brooklyn, but moved to the
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Bronx. And I've been there all my life. I started
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martial arts in 1989. My mother put me in martial
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arts because she said that I gave my mother a
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Father's Day card. Because my mother was, my
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father really wasn't around a lot. And so, you
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know, I gave my mother a Father's Day card. And
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she brought me back to her room and she gave
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me a kiss on the head. I'll never forget this.
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She gave me a kiss on the head. And she said,
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I really appreciate this, Jotty. She said, but
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I'm not your father. She said, I'm not a man.
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She said, men make men. I'll never forget. She
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said, men make men. And I can't do anything for
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you anymore. It's time for you to be around other
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men who can guide you with that. And she put
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me in a karate school. And that was, that changed
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my whole, just the. That male energy changed
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my whole life. This is how you look somebody
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in the eye. This is how you shake your hand.
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This is how you carry yourself. And I got into
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the martial arts. And I was in the school all
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the time with my instructor, Sharif Nasheed,
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Professor Sharif Nasheed. And then he introduced
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me to tournaments. And that was it from there.
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I was just addicted to tournaments. It was my
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first, I think, passion. It was my first passion.
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And then I went on to just to... To make this
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long story short, I went on to compete, lost
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a lot of events, figured out what success was,
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how to get better, got with a real good team
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of Jesse Bray, Matt Sabo, Malcolm Williams, and
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other guys helped me out along the way, Richard
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Platt, Anthony Price, Jean -Claude, just different
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guys. And I became a six -time world champion,
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fighter of the year, took me all over the world,
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man, Russia, Africa. Switzerland, Spain, Argentina,
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Guatemala, as well. Just fighting all over the
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world, competing, and just I'm a kid from the
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Bronx, man. I look back on it and I reflect.
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I'm just amazed at what I was able to accomplish.
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One thing that you hit me with, I like the way
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you said, Even in that interview, he said, boogie
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down, props, baby. Y 'all heard how he said,
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rocks. That's like when we say b -ball 10 more.
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He said, he had to make sure that it, bro, I'm
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saying. No, man. Boogie down, right? Right there,
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you know, like I said, Brooklyn was my first
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place, and then we moved to the Bronx, and then
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all the people other than my family, that's why
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I met, you know, Jesse Ray, and I could have
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just, you know, just met so many people once
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I moved to the Bronx and got to mention. different
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parts of the world but that's awesome brother
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but the other thing you you said when you said
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you gave your mom you know a father's day card
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would you make me think about as being before
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my great wife came into my life it was just me
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and my son and i used to always tell him not
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your mom you know i was the i was dead yes yes
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yes but i knew you needed that soft yes all right
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you know and i think that's important for people
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to understand what we what we can't complete
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And I think that's what we both were saying.
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We know what we can't complete. Yes. Because
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Marco, even today, he would always say, yeah,
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you're my mom, you're my dad. No, I'm not. No,
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I can't do that, Pastor. But, you know, finding
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my wife and her bringing that, it was hard. She
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was giving me too much freedom. You know how
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it is. You know, I'm a little messed up. But
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I think that's so important for people, for us
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as teachers and as moms and as dads, single or
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together. to recognize our roles because once
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we become a master at that position, they will
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intertwine. I mean, what's your take on that?
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Well, you know, you just let earlier with honesty.
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And the beautiful thing that you just said from
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me listening to you earlier, you said, I just
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love the way you just put that. You said, we
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should know what we can't complete. That takes
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an honest mindset and a certain kind of humility.
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To know that this is not what it should be and
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what I'm capable of and what I'm not capable
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of. And I think that that mindset is what has
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allowed me to be extremely successful in my life
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and extremely successful and sparring on the
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mat as well. Those lessons transcend, not just
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on the mat, but off the mat and vice versa. To
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know what we are. To analyze and to go, this
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is not enough. Let me improve it or plus it.
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And somehow I get different help, network different
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ways. So, man, I said that was a beautiful, powerful
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stage. That's right. But, you know, man, love
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you, man. Love you back, brother. Because I had
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to go to jail to get that lesson. And I wish
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for no kid to ever go to that. And to be able
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to get that lesson, but no. that that lesson
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is what makes us complete. Yeah, yes. We got
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to analyze ourselves. Martial arts sometimes
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can make us believe that we have arrived. Every
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day, look, every day we wake up, what we say
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in the back of the shirt, a black person, a white
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person, just don't do it. And that's what I feel
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that, Jotty, every time we talk, man, and I think
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that's what got me emotional, bro, because you've
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been there. And I think the world and the students
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need to know. They're good people, good martial
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artists, real champions. We are real. Whatever
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we plant at that moment when we walk away, like
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you did with my son. That's what we're here for.
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He will always remember the impact that you made
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on him when you was just being Jotty. Yes, sir.
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You was just out there winning. But the man that
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you are now has always been that young kid. You
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know, my wife said it. It's Friday. She was like,
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you know, everywhere Marco went, it was Jotty
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this, Jotty that. It was Jotty so much, I wanted
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to beat him up, brother. I mean, what is that
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like, Jotty, to know that people looked up to
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you and you know that you're in that position
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even now where when we asked you to come, huh,
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you shouldn't be doing this, man. You said, can
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I talk to your son? In the midst of doing all
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this, you said, can I get Marco's number? And
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we seen each other at tournaments and everything.
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But at that one moment, you said, can I get your
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son's number? Can I get Marco's number? Yeah,
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you called him. Sorry, man. It's all right. It's
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all right. What is that like, Johnny, to understand
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that responsibility that God has given you? Well,
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you know, the physical abilities that we have.
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That's God -given, right? You know, your parent,
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you get your mom and your dad have a child, and
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you get their attributes, and you get their athleticism.
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Don't get no credit for that. That's God -given.
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Your character is 100 % on you. If you want to
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be an arrogant prick, if you want to be an idiot,
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you want to have your ego. And, you know, I always
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tell people this ego is like water. You need
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it to live, but too much will drown you, right?
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When you get so consumed to think that the tournament
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wins, that the ninth degree attempt to be, that's
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you, that's not me. That's like a part of what
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I do. But I'm somebody's son. I'm somebody's
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father. I'm somebody's brother. I'm somebody's
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friend. I'm somebody's fiance. All of those things
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mean more to me than anything I've ever won in
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a tournament. A tournament just allows me to
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have the platform. And I think that if we keep
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striving, To be better people. The honesty that
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you mentioned earlier is that, you know, when
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I was with it, it wasn't enough for me. I was
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like, no, there's got to be more. I'm making
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a mistake. Even today, I don't like watching
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my videos because I see my errors. I made a mistake
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there. Should have faded there more. No matter
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if I won, I always look at it could have got
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better, right? So I think if you take that and
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you apply it to yourself, it allows you to be.
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a big brother to other people. So when I speak
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to Marco, I'm speaking to him like, I have more
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life experiences. Let me check up on my brother.
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My mother says this, old men for counsel, and
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I don't want to say old in a sense, but she said,
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old men for counsel, young men for war. Yeah.
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We're supposed to counsel. Yeah, that's right.
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You know, nobody lives long enough to make all
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the mistakes to learn from them. But the mistakes
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that we learn, we're supposed to go, hey, check
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this out. I made this mistake. Don't you do this.
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There's some things you got to go through on
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your own. But don't you do this. And we have
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to be there. And we have to extend ourselves
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to the next generation. That's our job. That's
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right. I'm just sending the elevator back down
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like somebody did for me. That's right, brother.
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But I think we're so powerful that everybody's
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checking this out. That's what martial arts is
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all about. You said one thing, even two, when
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you talk about ego. What I learned is that ego
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is the flip side that's called easing God out.
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You know what I'm saying? That's what we do when
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the ego is there. It's good. But we've lost easing
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God out. I would work that sort of responsibility.
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Hope you're enjoying the show. Want to tell you
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about something that's dear to my heart. My book,
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Louise Mindset Daily Devotions. Pick up your
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copy by hitting the link below. Remember, if
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your principles are negotiable, you don't have
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principles. Be the warrior from the inside out.
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Like you said, we got to give it back, man. And
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it's happened for me with that. When we talk
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about the Bronx, we talk about New York. Let
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me just say one thing, brother. As a Kung Fu
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stylist, the first time competing at S. Henry
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Cho's All -American Championship. S. Henry Cho's
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All -American Championship. You knew what that
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tournament was like, brother. That was big time.
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That was big time. But, bro, I'm a little kid
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coming in from Baltimore on a Greyhound bus.
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That's what New York was like crazy. It was like
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the war year, right? Yes, 100%. Especially when
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you're talking about early 80s. Brother, you
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know, you're so afraid. You try to act like you
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got it, but you just remember these images. And,
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brother, I remember when I went to that tournament
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and I won. And I got tied up. Who was it? Man,
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who was that? He going to bust me up because
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I remember his name. But anyway, I got tied up,
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and I won the tournament. I was so afraid. Got
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back in the car. I mean, got back on the subway,
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went back home. I didn't even say to be around
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on TV. But the point I'm trying to make, ever
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since I went to New York, because I love the
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martial arts, there's been nothing but love in
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New York, man. And I know that back then, and
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even to this day, I don't give a nobody say.
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If you want to be good, you have to let him know
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that he has to. You know what I'm saying? You
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know, so I really appreciate that, man. And just
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knowing that the genuine, not you, everybody.
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I have never met anybody. No more Schwartz. More
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Schwartz that came from New York. Jesse Ray.
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Everybody, man. Even Fred Hamilton. Because I
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completed in the battle of the dojo. I'm going
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back, right? You're going back to the stories
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I heard about. Oh, man. It was incredible, man.
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But just to, once again, to know the skill set,
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to know that the man that you guys placing yourself,
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because I go back in the world of sports karate,
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and nobody would compete in New York. The starting
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attack was like, go to California. You know,
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it's beach parties. Have a good time. Go to New
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York. You're going to have to prove yourself,
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man. But what was that like for you to have to
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prove your level of excellence? to get the respect
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and the status that you are today as a martial
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artist? Well, for me, my journey was a little
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bit different because I didn't have a big network
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of friends. I was in my school, and my instructor,
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he had moved from New York to Washington, D .C.,
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okay? So I was just an underbelt looking for,
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I knew I wanted to compete. I knew I wanted to
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compete. So I was... I remember going to a tournament.
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I didn't know anybody because we were just in
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the school. You know, back then, just to divert
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a little bit, East School was almost like a gang
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almost to some degree, right? Or like you didn't
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really socialize the way there was no Facebook
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when you had a friend. You didn't socialize.
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So I only knew the people inside the school.
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So once he moved, I said, I got to figure out
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where I'm going to go to. I knew there was a
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tournament in New York, and I went to this tournament.
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This is crazy. I didn't know anybody. I didn't
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know anybody. And I'm walking, and as soon as
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I walked in, this gentleman looked at me. He
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said, how you doing? I said, how you doing, brother?
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What's going on? He said, I'm good. You know,
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you had a compete? I was like, no, I'm not. I
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said, I'm actually looking for an instructor.
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Whoa. Right? He goes, really? I said, yeah, I
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don't know this guy. He said, you see that guy
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right over there with the hat with the metal?
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They wanted like a Janet Jackson control hat.
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I was like, yeah. He said, his name is Master
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Sabu. I'm going to talk to him. That's my instructor.
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He shook my hand and said, my name is Akin Williams.
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First guy. Okay. Okay. Right. In Brooklyn. So
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I go, I do my stuff at Master Sabu. He said,
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yeah, yeah. You come down anytime. This is where
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I'm at. This is the address. I said, thank you.
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I took his name and I was like, I'm going to
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go down. I'm going to go down there. Again, I
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could have met anybody as a first person. Right.
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So I go back and sit. I sit at this table by
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myself. I sit at the table by myself. This guy
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comes and sits at the table. And we just sit
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in there like we're not really saying anything
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to each other because I don't know him. He don't
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know me. And he said, man, you look familiar.
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I said, you kind of look familiar a little bit
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too. He said, what are you from? I said, I'm
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from the Bronx. He said, he's from the Bronx.
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I'm from the Bronx also. He said, what school
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you go to? I said, Stevenson High School. I go
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to Stevenson High School. And I was like, really?
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So we just laughing and talking. We chopping
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it up. We laughing. We talking. And then he goes,
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at the end of the conversation, he said, hey,
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man, he gets up. He walks away. He might have
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took two steps. He came back and said, oh, by
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the way, my name is Jesse Ray. Oh, man. It was
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crazy, right? So I met Akin and Jesse back to
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back. I got his phone number. I said, I would
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like to come train with you. Those two, that
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whole Masabu, Ake to Jesse changed the whole
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dynamic, right? So when I started training with
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them, because so I would go, Masabu was my official
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instructor. I would go to Brooklyn. But Jesse
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was up the block. So if I didn't go to Masabu,
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I'd go straight to Jesse. And Jesse embraced
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me like he knew me. Jesse always been that guy.
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He embraced me like he'd known me for years.
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And he helped me. He used to say this. The first
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time we sparred, he said, you got a lot of potential.
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He said, you got to learn to use your hands,
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right? And I was kicking all day. He said, you
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got to use your hands. And then he would just
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keep saying this. I would go compete with them.
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He would have kind of had me like that little
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brother, but I would lose. I would take eighth.
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These guys would be taking first place, second
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place, grand, and I'm taking eighth, seventh
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place. And this is what Jesse would always do,
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though. Matt Sabu would always say. You're going
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to be so good one day. He said, you're not going
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to have no time for me. That's what he told.
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And Jesse would call, man, one day. This is what
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he would do. You're going to be good one day.
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Now, mind you, I'm older than Jesse. You're going
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to be good one day. And just to kind of, you
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know, because I know our time, one day, this
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is in 94 now, we got an invite to go try out
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for DKT. So we took the Greyhound from New York
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to D .C. And to the cab from D .C. to Virginia
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to do a trade, right? We took a $100 cab. All
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right. It was me, Jesse Ray, Frank Jones, Chris
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Stiles. It was all four of us. We went to trial
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for the team. Sean Elliott was there. DeCampo
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was there. And John Jacobs. So it was all there.
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And then at the end of the workout, he said,
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it was four of us. He said, he looked at Jesse.
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He said, we would like you on the team. He went
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there, Frankie. He said, we would like you on
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the team. He looked at Chris Stiles and said,
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we would like you on the team. He looked at me.
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He said, man, you got a lot of potential with
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you. You're not there quite yet. Right? You had
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one of those? I had one of those. So we go outside,
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and Jesse says to me, hey, listen, man. I said,
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Jesse, you go ahead and do it. Y 'all brothers
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is better than me. You go ahead and do it. He
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said, they don't take all of us. They don't take
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none of us. And I was like, no, no, no, Jesse.
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No, no, no, no. Dude, you go. He said, no. If
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they don't take all of us, Jotty, they don't
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take none of us. Now, mind you, we 23. I'm older
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than Jesse. So, Jesse's 21, 22. And this is him
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talking to me. If they don't take all of us.
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And he didn't know me. I just met him a year
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ago, baby. Yeah. Right? So, it just put a fire
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in me that the honesty is me. You said it earlier.
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It wasn't a no. Right? My ego could have been
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like, nah, I deserve it. And I was like, I had
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to get better. And you know what's so funny?
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I started training. I started reading books on
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success. I started doubling up my training. And
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then I started being successful. Right? And then
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I started winning. And I was the guy that everybody
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used to laugh at or say wasn't good. And I remember
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Ron Jenkins said this to me. He said, one of
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my biggest regrets was not picking you on that
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team. I didn't know you was going to become this.
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And I was like, I appreciate you telling me that.
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But I needed that because that fueled me. Had
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I gotten on that team, I might have felt like
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I arrived. It was enough. My ego in my head.
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And it wasn't. So, you know, coming up with that,
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it just was my determination, man, my level of
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excellence that I had for myself. Be wanting
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to be great. I didn't want to be good, man. I
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wanted to be great. And I think that mentality
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and, again, the word that you just said earlier,
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brother. I was always telling myself it's not
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enough. Always. So that led me to get to this.
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You know, in closing, one of the things you said
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that even brought something up when you said,
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you said, well, no, guys, get on the team. And
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Jesse and him said, no, if you ain't on it, I
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ain't on it. And you remember your teammate,
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Kemba Johnson, when you guys were on the team.
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Yes. What nobody don't know is this story, brother,
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where when we wanted. barco to be on elite and
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we went to charlie lee's at this particular time
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and everybody wanted everything we went to the
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meeting and they said well he can't be on it
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and miss kipper was already on the tank and she
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just said nah if he can't be on if we gonna go
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do our own tank that's what started me coming
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back to compete wow i hated tournaments i was
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done from competing But that moment, man, for
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her to read what you're saying, to be that honest
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and say, look, no, we a team. This is loyalty.
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And that's what you, in the midst of what you're
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saying right there, because all of y 'all decided
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to make that commitment to be for a brotherhood,
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a team, that then transferred to what y 'all
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got right now. It's the same thing. Am I correct?
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Yes. Anybody out there listening, once again,
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be honest, be committed, be loyal. Most importantly,
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that brotherhood goes beyond just what we do
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in the tournament. It goes to moments like this.
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You know what I'm saying? The great Jotty Tension.
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I know we're closing out. I know you want to
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say hello to Kimber Johnson. You know she right
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there. Where she at? Right there. You ain't see
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her sneaking? She hiding, bro. I see the brother
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right there, but I don't see. Move, Mr. Move.
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There she go. Anything you want to say, Jotty.
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I mean, kid, and I always end like this. Kid
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got 60 seconds. He's saying it's done. I don't
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know what to do. It's over. What you going to
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say to him to make a change? You know, I remember
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going through some difficulties when I was trying
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to fight for custody for my children. And I remember
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me wanting a passport to take my children out
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of the country, and at the time, their mother
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didn't want to let me have the passport, knowing
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that it just didn't work, whatever, right? So
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I was upset, and I was upset, and I was frustrated
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about it. And the judge was like, well, you know,
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we'll talk about that later, right? So I called
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my mother. I was upset about it. She said to
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me, she said, Jotty, delayed, not denied. And
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she said, you got to know when something is delayed,
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not denied. And sometimes every situation is
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temporary. It's a delay. It's not denied. And
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sometimes we have to learn that when things don't
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go our way, patience is not waiting. Patience
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is your attitude when you're waiting, right?
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Delayed in life. Things are delayed in life.
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They don't go our way. It's not denied. It's
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only denied when you give up and you stop. I
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leave for Mexico with my children on Monday.
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It's delayed. It's not denied. Yeah, yeah. God
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is good, sir. Yes, sir. Tell him I don't hook
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up with Mr. Jotty Tennessee. Give him the emails.
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Give him the websites. Give him the AOL. Oh,
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because you know he says. I still use AOL, brother.
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They be like, man, what's up with this? My wife
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be trying to get me to get on, baby. Man, you
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been listening to Kimba. To be honest, you been
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listening to Kimba. You know, my name is Johnny
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Tension, J -A -D -I -T -E -N -T -I -O -N. You
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can find me on Facebook. You can find me on Instagram
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at TCK Modern Martial Arts. And my email is at
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Tension at TCKWarriors with an S dot com. I'm
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always around. You can inbox me. Follow me. Check
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me out. Again, Instagram, TCK Bottom Martial
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Arts and Jotty Tension on Facebook. And as well,
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the TCK Bottom Martial Arts on Facebook as well.
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That's it, y 'all. We out because we ready to
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do a seminar. We ready to get pumped up. See
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ya!
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Warrior's Mindset is about conditioning the mind,
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body, and spirit. It takes practice, commitment,
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vision, goal setting, determination, sharp focus,
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respect, and discipline. Once you learn it, you
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can apply it to all aspects of your life. The
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Warrior's Mindset prepares you for the largest
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competition ever, the competition against self.
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Hello everybody, what's up? How are you doing?
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We are here with Warrior's Mindset. Warrior's
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Mindset is about digging down inside yourself
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and tapping into your mind, your body, and your
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spirit. You know what we do, we like to always
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start with a prayer because everybody needs a
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prayer. Even I need a prayer every day I start.
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So we're going to start with the serenity prayer.
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God grant us the serenity to accept the things
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we cannot change, the courage to change the things
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we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
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As we know what the warrior mindset represents
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for 12 months of the year, there's always a principle.
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One of the principles I want to talk to today,
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I want to talk about honesty, you know, because
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the guest that we have today, man, he's an honest
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brother. I mean, we were just talking about how
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one statement that I always remember, he said,
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the cream always will rise to the top. And sometimes
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we think we have to lie, maneuver, and do all
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these different things to get by. But I think
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if we learn how to stay true to ourselves. God
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will bless us and give us things that we cannot
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even imagine. What we are going to do, guys,
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with the man, the one and only, you know, I don't
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know what to say, man. Johnny Tension, man. I
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mean, he's a good brother. He's a great martial
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artist. And as I told my students and everybody.
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He's one of the greatest fighters of his generation.
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Mr. Jotty, what's up, my brother? Thank you,
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man, for having me. It's a pleasure. I'm doing
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well. Everything's good? Yes, sir. Okay, okay.
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And look at that smile, man. You know what I'm
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saying? You got to be happy. You know what I'm
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saying? You have to be. So, Jotty, for the audience,
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can you give them a brief introduction? I know
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you don't like to talk about yourself, but just
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for the younger audience and the older, just
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a reminder of what you have done. Well, my name
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is Johnny Tension. I'm from New York City. The
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Bronx was born in Brooklyn, but moved to the
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Bronx. And I've been there all my life. I started
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martial arts in 1989. My mother put me in martial
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arts because she said that I gave my mother a
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Father's Day card. Because my mother was, my
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father really wasn't around a lot. And so, you
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know, I gave my mother a Father's Day card. And
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she brought me back to her room and she gave
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me a kiss on the head. I'll never forget this.
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She gave me a kiss on the head. And she said,
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I really appreciate this, Jotty. She said, but
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I'm not your father. She said, I'm not a man.
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She said, men make men. I'll never forget. She
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said, men make men. And I can't do anything for
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you anymore. It's time for you to be around other
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men who can guide you with that. And she put
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me in a karate school. And that was, that changed
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my whole, just the. That male energy changed
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my whole life. This is how you look somebody
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in the eye. This is how you shake your hand.
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This is how you carry yourself. And I got into
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the martial arts. And I was in the school all
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the time with my instructor, Sharif Nasheed,
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Professor Sharif Nasheed. And then he introduced
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me to tournaments. And that was it from there.
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I was just addicted to tournaments. It was my
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first, I think, passion. It was my first passion.
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And then I went on to just to... To make this
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long story short, I went on to compete, lost
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a lot of events, figured out what success was,
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how to get better, got with a real good team
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of Jesse Bray, Matt Sabo, Malcolm Williams, and
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other guys helped me out along the way, Richard
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Platt, Anthony Price, Jean -Claude, just different
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guys. And I became a six -time world champion,
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fighter of the year, took me all over the world,
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man, Russia, Africa. Switzerland, Spain, Argentina,
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Guatemala, as well. Just fighting all over the
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world, competing, and just I'm a kid from the
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Bronx, man. I look back on it and I reflect.
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I'm just amazed at what I was able to accomplish.
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One thing that you hit me with, I like the way
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you said, Even in that interview, he said, boogie
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down, props, baby. Y 'all heard how he said,
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rocks. That's like when we say b -ball 10 more.
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He said, he had to make sure that it, bro, I'm
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saying. No, man. Boogie down, right? Right there,
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you know, like I said, Brooklyn was my first
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place, and then we moved to the Bronx, and then
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all the people other than my family, that's why
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I met, you know, Jesse Ray, and I could have
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just, you know, just met so many people once
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I moved to the Bronx and got to mention. different
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parts of the world but that's awesome brother
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but the other thing you you said when you said
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you gave your mom you know a father's day card
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would you make me think about as being before
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my great wife came into my life it was just me
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and my son and i used to always tell him not
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your mom you know i was the i was dead yes yes
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yes but i knew you needed that soft yes all right
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you know and i think that's important for people
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to understand what we what we can't complete
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And I think that's what we both were saying.
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We know what we can't complete. Yes. Because
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Marco, even today, he would always say, yeah,
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you're my mom, you're my dad. No, I'm not. No,
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I can't do that, Pastor. But, you know, finding
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my wife and her bringing that, it was hard. She
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was giving me too much freedom. You know how
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it is. You know, I'm a little messed up. But
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I think that's so important for people, for us
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as teachers and as moms and as dads, single or
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together. to recognize our roles because once
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we become a master at that position, they will
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intertwine. I mean, what's your take on that?
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Well, you know, you just let earlier with honesty.
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And the beautiful thing that you just said from
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me listening to you earlier, you said, I just
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love the way you just put that. You said, we
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should know what we can't complete. That takes
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an honest mindset and a certain kind of humility.
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To know that this is not what it should be and
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what I'm capable of and what I'm not capable
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of. And I think that that mindset is what has
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allowed me to be extremely successful in my life
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and extremely successful and sparring on the
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mat as well. Those lessons transcend, not just
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on the mat, but off the mat and vice versa. To
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know what we are. To analyze and to go, this
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is not enough. Let me improve it or plus it.
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And somehow I get different help, network different
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ways. So, man, I said that was a beautiful, powerful
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stage. That's right. But, you know, man, love
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you, man. Love you back, brother. Because I had
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to go to jail to get that lesson. And I wish
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for no kid to ever go to that. And to be able
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to get that lesson, but no. that that lesson
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is what makes us complete. Yeah, yes. We got
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to analyze ourselves. Martial arts sometimes
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can make us believe that we have arrived. Every
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day, look, every day we wake up, what we say
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in the back of the shirt, a black person, a white
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person, just don't do it. And that's what I feel
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that, Jotty, every time we talk, man, and I think
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that's what got me emotional, bro, because you've
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been there. And I think the world and the students
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need to know. They're good people, good martial
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artists, real champions. We are real. Whatever
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we plant at that moment when we walk away, like
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you did with my son. That's what we're here for.
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He will always remember the impact that you made
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on him when you was just being Jotty. Yes, sir.
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You was just out there winning. But the man that
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you are now has always been that young kid. You
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know, my wife said it. It's Friday. She was like,
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you know, everywhere Marco went, it was Jotty
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this, Jotty that. It was Jotty so much, I wanted
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to beat him up, brother. I mean, what is that
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like, Jotty, to know that people looked up to
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you and you know that you're in that position
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even now where when we asked you to come, huh,
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you shouldn't be doing this, man. You said, can
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I talk to your son? In the midst of doing all
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this, you said, can I get Marco's number? And
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we seen each other at tournaments and everything.
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But at that one moment, you said, can I get your
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son's number? Can I get Marco's number? Yeah,
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you called him. Sorry, man. It's all right. It's
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all right. What is that like, Johnny, to understand
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that responsibility that God has given you? Well,
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you know, the physical abilities that we have.
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That's God -given, right? You know, your parent,
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you get your mom and your dad have a child, and
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you get their attributes, and you get their athleticism.
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Don't get no credit for that. That's God -given.
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Your character is 100 % on you. If you want to
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be an arrogant prick, if you want to be an idiot,
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you want to have your ego. And, you know, I always
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tell people this ego is like water. You need
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it to live, but too much will drown you, right?
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When you get so consumed to think that the tournament
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wins, that the ninth degree attempt to be, that's
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you, that's not me. That's like a part of what
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I do. But I'm somebody's son. I'm somebody's
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father. I'm somebody's brother. I'm somebody's
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friend. I'm somebody's fiance. All of those things
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mean more to me than anything I've ever won in
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a tournament. A tournament just allows me to
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have the platform. And I think that if we keep
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striving, To be better people. The honesty that
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you mentioned earlier is that, you know, when
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I was with it, it wasn't enough for me. I was
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like, no, there's got to be more. I'm making
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a mistake. Even today, I don't like watching
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my videos because I see my errors. I made a mistake
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there. Should have faded there more. No matter
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if I won, I always look at it could have got
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better, right? So I think if you take that and
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you apply it to yourself, it allows you to be.
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a big brother to other people. So when I speak
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to Marco, I'm speaking to him like, I have more
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life experiences. Let me check up on my brother.
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My mother says this, old men for counsel, and
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I don't want to say old in a sense, but she said,
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old men for counsel, young men for war. Yeah.
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We're supposed to counsel. Yeah, that's right.
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You know, nobody lives long enough to make all
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the mistakes to learn from them. But the mistakes
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that we learn, we're supposed to go, hey, check
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this out. I made this mistake. Don't you do this.
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There's some things you got to go through on
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your own. But don't you do this. And we have
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to be there. And we have to extend ourselves
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to the next generation. That's our job. That's
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right. I'm just sending the elevator back down
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like somebody did for me. That's right, brother.
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But I think we're so powerful that everybody's
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checking this out. That's what martial arts is
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all about. You said one thing, even two, when
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you talk about ego. What I learned is that ego
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is the flip side that's called easing God out.
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You know what I'm saying? That's what we do when
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the ego is there. It's good. But we've lost easing
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God out. I would work that sort of responsibility.
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Hope you're enjoying the show. Want to tell you
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about something that's dear to my heart. My book,
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your principles are negotiable, you don't have
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principles. Be the warrior from the inside out.
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Like you said, we got to give it back, man. And
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it's happened for me with that. When we talk
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about the Bronx, we talk about New York. Let
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me just say one thing, brother. As a Kung Fu
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stylist, the first time competing at S. Henry
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Cho's All -American Championship. S. Henry Cho's
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All -American Championship. You knew what that
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tournament was like, brother. That was big time.
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That was big time. But, bro, I'm a little kid
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coming in from Baltimore on a Greyhound bus.
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That's what New York was like crazy. It was like
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the war year, right? Yes, 100%. Especially when
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you're talking about early 80s. Brother, you
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know, you're so afraid. You try to act like you
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got it, but you just remember these images. And,
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brother, I remember when I went to that tournament
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and I won. And I got tied up. Who was it? Man,
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who was that? He going to bust me up because
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I remember his name. But anyway, I got tied up,
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and I won the tournament. I was so afraid. Got
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back in the car. I mean, got back on the subway,
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went back home. I didn't even say to be around
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on TV. But the point I'm trying to make, ever
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since I went to New York, because I love the
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martial arts, there's been nothing but love in
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New York, man. And I know that back then, and
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even to this day, I don't give a nobody say.
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If you want to be good, you have to let him know
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that he has to. You know what I'm saying? You
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know, so I really appreciate that, man. And just
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knowing that the genuine, not you, everybody.
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I have never met anybody. No more Schwartz. More
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Schwartz that came from New York. Jesse Ray.
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Everybody, man. Even Fred Hamilton. Because I
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completed in the battle of the dojo. I'm going
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back, right? You're going back to the stories
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I heard about. Oh, man. It was incredible, man.
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But just to, once again, to know the skill set,
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to know that the man that you guys placing yourself,
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because I go back in the world of sports karate,
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and nobody would compete in New York. The starting
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attack was like, go to California. You know,
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it's beach parties. Have a good time. Go to New
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York. You're going to have to prove yourself,
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man. But what was that like for you to have to
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prove your level of excellence? to get the respect
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and the status that you are today as a martial
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artist? Well, for me, my journey was a little
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bit different because I didn't have a big network
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of friends. I was in my school, and my instructor,
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he had moved from New York to Washington, D .C.,
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okay? So I was just an underbelt looking for,
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I knew I wanted to compete. I knew I wanted to
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compete. So I was... I remember going to a tournament.
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I didn't know anybody because we were just in
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the school. You know, back then, just to divert
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a little bit, East School was almost like a gang
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almost to some degree, right? Or like you didn't
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really socialize the way there was no Facebook
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when you had a friend. You didn't socialize.
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So I only knew the people inside the school.
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So once he moved, I said, I got to figure out
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where I'm going to go to. I knew there was a
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tournament in New York, and I went to this tournament.
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This is crazy. I didn't know anybody. I didn't
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know anybody. And I'm walking, and as soon as
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I walked in, this gentleman looked at me. He
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said, how you doing? I said, how you doing, brother?
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What's going on? He said, I'm good. You know,
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you had a compete? I was like, no, I'm not. I
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said, I'm actually looking for an instructor.
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Whoa. Right? He goes, really? I said, yeah, I
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don't know this guy. He said, you see that guy
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right over there with the hat with the metal?
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They wanted like a Janet Jackson control hat.
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I was like, yeah. He said, his name is Master
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Sabu. I'm going to talk to him. That's my instructor.
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He shook my hand and said, my name is Akin Williams.
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First guy. Okay. Okay. Right. In Brooklyn. So
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I go, I do my stuff at Master Sabu. He said,
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yeah, yeah. You come down anytime. This is where
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I'm at. This is the address. I said, thank you.
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I took his name and I was like, I'm going to
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go down. I'm going to go down there. Again, I
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could have met anybody as a first person. Right.
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So I go back and sit. I sit at this table by
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myself. I sit at the table by myself. This guy
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comes and sits at the table. And we just sit
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in there like we're not really saying anything
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to each other because I don't know him. He don't
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know me. And he said, man, you look familiar.
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I said, you kind of look familiar a little bit
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too. He said, what are you from? I said, I'm
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from the Bronx. He said, he's from the Bronx.
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I'm from the Bronx also. He said, what school
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you go to? I said, Stevenson High School. I go
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to Stevenson High School. And I was like, really?
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So we just laughing and talking. We chopping
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it up. We laughing. We talking. And then he goes,
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at the end of the conversation, he said, hey,
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man, he gets up. He walks away. He might have
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took two steps. He came back and said, oh, by
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the way, my name is Jesse Ray. Oh, man. It was
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crazy, right? So I met Akin and Jesse back to
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back. I got his phone number. I said, I would
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like to come train with you. Those two, that
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whole Masabu, Ake to Jesse changed the whole
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dynamic, right? So when I started training with
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them, because so I would go, Masabu was my official
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instructor. I would go to Brooklyn. But Jesse
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was up the block. So if I didn't go to Masabu,
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I'd go straight to Jesse. And Jesse embraced
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me like he knew me. Jesse always been that guy.
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He embraced me like he'd known me for years.
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And he helped me. He used to say this. The first
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time we sparred, he said, you got a lot of potential.
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He said, you got to learn to use your hands,
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right? And I was kicking all day. He said, you
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got to use your hands. And then he would just
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keep saying this. I would go compete with them.
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He would have kind of had me like that little
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brother, but I would lose. I would take eighth.
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These guys would be taking first place, second
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place, grand, and I'm taking eighth, seventh
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place. And this is what Jesse would always do,
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though. Matt Sabu would always say. You're going
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to be so good one day. He said, you're not going
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to have no time for me. That's what he told.
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And Jesse would call, man, one day. This is what
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he would do. You're going to be good one day.
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Now, mind you, I'm older than Jesse. You're going
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to be good one day. And just to kind of, you
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know, because I know our time, one day, this
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is in 94 now, we got an invite to go try out
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for DKT. So we took the Greyhound from New York
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to D .C. And to the cab from D .C. to Virginia
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to do a trade, right? We took a $100 cab. All
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right. It was me, Jesse Ray, Frank Jones, Chris
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Stiles. It was all four of us. We went to trial
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for the team. Sean Elliott was there. DeCampo
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was there. And John Jacobs. So it was all there.
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And then at the end of the workout, he said,
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it was four of us. He said, he looked at Jesse.
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He said, we would like you on the team. He went
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there, Frankie. He said, we would like you on
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the team. He looked at Chris Stiles and said,
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we would like you on the team. He looked at me.
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He said, man, you got a lot of potential with
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you. You're not there quite yet. Right? You had
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one of those? I had one of those. So we go outside,
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and Jesse says to me, hey, listen, man. I said,
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Jesse, you go ahead and do it. Y 'all brothers
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is better than me. You go ahead and do it. He
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said, they don't take all of us. They don't take
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none of us. And I was like, no, no, no, Jesse.
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No, no, no, no. Dude, you go. He said, no. If
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they don't take all of us, Jotty, they don't
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take none of us. Now, mind you, we 23. I'm older
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than Jesse. So, Jesse's 21, 22. And this is him
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talking to me. If they don't take all of us.
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And he didn't know me. I just met him a year
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ago, baby. Yeah. Right? So, it just put a fire
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in me that the honesty is me. You said it earlier.
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It wasn't a no. Right? My ego could have been
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like, nah, I deserve it. And I was like, I had
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to get better. And you know what's so funny?
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I started training. I started reading books on
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success. I started doubling up my training. And
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then I started being successful. Right? And then
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I started winning. And I was the guy that everybody
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used to laugh at or say wasn't good. And I remember
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Ron Jenkins said this to me. He said, one of
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my biggest regrets was not picking you on that
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team. I didn't know you was going to become this.
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And I was like, I appreciate you telling me that.
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But I needed that because that fueled me. Had
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I gotten on that team, I might have felt like
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I arrived. It was enough. My ego in my head.
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And it wasn't. So, you know, coming up with that,
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it just was my determination, man, my level of
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excellence that I had for myself. Be wanting
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to be great. I didn't want to be good, man. I
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wanted to be great. And I think that mentality
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and, again, the word that you just said earlier,
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brother. I was always telling myself it's not
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enough. Always. So that led me to get to this.
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You know, in closing, one of the things you said
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that even brought something up when you said,
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you said, well, no, guys, get on the team. And
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Jesse and him said, no, if you ain't on it, I
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ain't on it. And you remember your teammate,
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Kemba Johnson, when you guys were on the team.
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Yes. What nobody don't know is this story, brother,
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where when we wanted. barco to be on elite and
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we went to charlie lee's at this particular time
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and everybody wanted everything we went to the
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meeting and they said well he can't be on it
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and miss kipper was already on the tank and she
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just said nah if he can't be on if we gonna go
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do our own tank that's what started me coming
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back to compete wow i hated tournaments i was
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done from competing But that moment, man, for
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her to read what you're saying, to be that honest
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and say, look, no, we a team. This is loyalty.
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And that's what you, in the midst of what you're
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saying right there, because all of y 'all decided
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to make that commitment to be for a brotherhood,
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a team, that then transferred to what y 'all
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got right now. It's the same thing. Am I correct?
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Yes. Anybody out there listening, once again,
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be honest, be committed, be loyal. Most importantly,
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that brotherhood goes beyond just what we do
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in the tournament. It goes to moments like this.
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You know what I'm saying? The great Jotty Tension.
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I know we're closing out. I know you want to
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say hello to Kimber Johnson. You know she right
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there. Where she at? Right there. You ain't see
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her sneaking? She hiding, bro. I see the brother
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right there, but I don't see. Move, Mr. Move.
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There she go. Anything you want to say, Jotty.
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I mean, kid, and I always end like this. Kid
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got 60 seconds. He's saying it's done. I don't
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know what to do. It's over. What you going to
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say to him to make a change? You know, I remember
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going through some difficulties when I was trying
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to fight for custody for my children. And I remember
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me wanting a passport to take my children out
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of the country, and at the time, their mother
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didn't want to let me have the passport, knowing
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that it just didn't work, whatever, right? So
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I was upset, and I was upset, and I was frustrated
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about it. And the judge was like, well, you know,
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we'll talk about that later, right? So I called
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my mother. I was upset about it. She said to
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me, she said, Jotty, delayed, not denied. And
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she said, you got to know when something is delayed,
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not denied. And sometimes every situation is
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temporary. It's a delay. It's not denied. And
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sometimes we have to learn that when things don't
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go our way, patience is not waiting. Patience
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is your attitude when you're waiting, right?
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Delayed in life. Things are delayed in life.
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They don't go our way. It's not denied. It's
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only denied when you give up and you stop. I
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leave for Mexico with my children on Monday.
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It's delayed. It's not denied. Yeah, yeah. God
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is good, sir. Yes, sir. Tell him I don't hook
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up with Mr. Jotty Tennessee. Give him the emails.
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Give him the websites. Give him the AOL. Oh,
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because you know he says. I still use AOL, brother.
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They be like, man, what's up with this? My wife
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be trying to get me to get on, baby. Man, you
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been listening to Kimba. To be honest, you been
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listening to Kimba. You know, my name is Johnny
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Tension, J -A -D -I -T -E -N -T -I -O -N. You
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can find me on Facebook. You can find me on Instagram
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at TCK Modern Martial Arts. And my email is at
00:23:59.930 --> 00:24:05.690
Tension at TCKWarriors with an S dot com. I'm
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always around. You can inbox me. Follow me. Check
00:24:08.880 --> 00:24:11.539
me out. Again, Instagram, TCK Bottom Martial
00:24:11.539 --> 00:24:14.779
Arts and Jotty Tension on Facebook. And as well,
00:24:14.779 --> 00:24:17.440
the TCK Bottom Martial Arts on Facebook as well.
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That's it, y 'all. We out because we ready to
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do a seminar. We ready to get pumped up. See
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ya!
