 Imagine that. This cup is worth 50 euros. But that is a story for another day because today I have a story for you about nothing other than Dragon Ball Z, or specifically Sangoku, and actually kind of the whole culture of Dragon Ball Z. You wonder why? And that's obviously because I was as inspired by the Dragon Ball Z saga as a lot of other people of my age when Dragon Ball Z was relevant. I guess it still kind of is, but you know, it was like hype, hype, hype. We would use to run back then, you know, internet was not around as or not as much. And so we were relying on TV and Dragon Ball Z was shown on Lithuanian television when some of us that were still in school. So some kids would, it was like a big thing. They would even say it on TV that a lot of kids actually ran away from school just to watch Dragon Ball Z on TV. And myself, I remember I was hanging out with these group of friends, kind of like this peaceful gang of hip hopsters. And soon as the clock would hit, everyone was like, Oh my gosh, Dragon Ball Z is like in 15 minutes. And we would all run away and all like two or three people would be staying there like, I hate Dragon Ball Z, you know, so it was a big thing. I guess whoever watched it, you know what I'm talking about. And I think not only to myself, but also a bunch of other people were inspired by and touched by that narrative and story as well. And personally, which I have a feeling. And now let's do this. Let me know in the comments if you were like that too. If you trained more or wanted to learn martial arts because of Dragon Ball Z. So myself, I always liked martial arts. I don't necessarily practice martial arts because of Dragon Ball Z, but the desire to train like hell to become the strongest was definitely impacted at least a big degree by Dragon Ball Z. And that's actually kind of what the story is going to be about. And as you know, the title, which actually led me to some trouble as well to overtraining and suffering injuries because of Dragon Ball Z. I'm not going to sue them. I'm not going to do a lawsuit, but but I think it's a valuable story for me to share. And you know, this is lessons I learned the hard way episode list, which where I share something I experienced in my life, which gave me some wisdom and through impactful stories. This is one of them. I hope that what I learned through it, you will be able to apply to your life. So it's kind of funny as it sounds, but I think it's legit. So the story is like this. I was into Dragon Ball Z and my favorite character was I actually always like Piccolo. It's too bad that he kind of became a minor character as time passed. It was always cool, but you know, they didn't give him more power-ups after a certain point. But then I also loved Sangoku. Interestingly enough, initially when I watched Dragon Ball before Z when Sangoku was young, he was meditating. He was learning meditation in one of the episodes when he was in the Tower of God, Kami. And that actually, I was like, I don't know, like 7, 8, well, max 10 years old. And I was like, this is interesting. I started meditating. I think the first meditation I did in my life might have been because I watched Dragon Ball. It's pretty cool to consider. But then obviously they get older and they train and train and train and they train with a lot of weights, extra weights, additional weights. You know, Goku walks around with weights and the West and everything. And I thought I should do that too. I wonder again, let me know in the comments if you did that too. I have a feeling there's more of us. So I bought weights, like ankle weights, like 5 kilos on both feet, on both legs. Then hand weights, I bought like 4. So on each, you know, hand I would put a couple. I bought a whole West of like 10 kilograms and I would just like take weights as well and or put stuff in my backpack. And I would do the weight training, like running around like crazy, kicking and punching because of Dragon Bozy. Now the thing is, and why I wanted to make this video is because it wasn't smart. And it was cool. The Dragon Bozy inspired me to get on with it and do it. But I got injured because of that and not only actually because of that and that's something too I wanted to tell you in this story is those were also the days when I was really training Aikido in my hometown. I mean, where I grew up, quote, city, quote, but anyways, I was the first Aikido school I went to. And the instructor there, I always try to not talk too much about other people, but sometimes you just can't avoid seeing certain things. And the thing was that my first Aikido instructor, he was kind of supportive towards that radical type of extreme training. He loved Kyokushin Karate, which is a heart style of Karate Oyama Masutatsu, who was a Korean. Actually, he lived like in the mountains for like, I think about a half a year, just training every day, breaking rocks with his bare fists, fighting bulls and cutting off bulls and like extreme level of training, ways of training. And my first Aikido instructor, he was hyped about that. And the whole Kyokushin Karate culture, which especially in the old school one, which he was hyped about, it was a lot about, you know, carrying each other on top of your shoulders and punching each other in the stomachs, running on top of each other's abs and stuff like that, doing hyper flexibility, stretching. And so combine those two, the culture that was there in my first Aikido school that I trained at and Dragon Ball Z, I was all about that. And part of me wishes that my first Aikido instructor would have been more wise in that regard or that I had some better teachers around or knowledgeable people, but also you need to recognize, you know, it was not the age of internet yet. The internet was still just kind of becoming a thing. And now you can easily go online and see how correct ways to train the science behind it. Then we all only kind of, we all knew kind of things from hearsay. So nobody around me was talking about joint health, you know, healthy flexibility, mobility. And I was like 15 or 16 training, you know, like badass with extra weights and whatnot. And it started to feel slowly like my knees started to give in, I had knee problems. That's a lot of it because of Aikido, because in Aikido, I know a lot of people in general, like, you know, have knee problems because they're sitting on the knees and there's turning movements on the feet, which actually impact the knees. But also to my Aikido instructor, he would, first thing instructor, he would, I was the big guy already, but my friends were also pretty big. And the way we were quite big, we tend to be quite big. And he would put us on top of each other's shoulders like in pairs. And you would either do squats, which is already, you know, not healthy for your knees, but also we would do these Aikido turns, which I don't know if the camera will catch it, but let's give it a shot. So we would do these Aikido turns. This is the stance and we would turn, you know, like this boom, boom. And then the thing is, one of my schools that I trained in told me later, pick up your feet, because if you're turning and putting pressure on the feet, that also applies pressure on the knee. And I would feel it because my knees were bad. And also we would do the stupid samurai Japanese thing where we would slide, you know, you turn and you slide, you slide legs. And there's always pressure on the knees. And not enough of that, that was not enough. We'd also put each other on top of the shoulders. Like I'd have a guy, my friend, like, you know, an 80 kilos guy on my shoulders. And then I would do these trists. And no surprise, my first, like, you know, instructor is quite badly injured all over the place. I think I think he can't really train anymore from what I know, because of all the injuries. It's too bad, you know, he kind of put us on onto it as well. And we did the same. And I suffer the consequences. And yeah, so I had a knee surgery. My always forget which knee was it. And my both knees were bad. I still do feel that impact. But I have like this. Okay, it's it's the left knee. Had a meniscus surgery. That was but that was like when I was 22 when I just opened my kiddo school actually funny story for another day. And my back, I still have problems with that. Luckily, I started doing yoga later on. And I kind of stretched out my body and started fixing a lot of things because again, when I was like 18 or 19, I had constant back pain, knee pain, shoulder pain, like my body, I felt like an old man. And I think we'll part of it is because of the culture that I trained in as my personal kiddo school. But also because of Dragon Ball Z. And that's the point of the video. And that's what I wanted to say is, I hope that times have changed. You know, now with the internet being around that people are smarter and they test, they investigate and read about stuff before they do it. Pardon me is concerned, not everyone does it yet, especially younger kids. In general, questioning and the ability to use critical mind and to ask yourself how do I know that this is smart? How do I know that this works? A lot of people are lacking that. And I wish this kind of channel is one of the things about the channel is I want to inspire people to do that. Now, it's cool to get inspired, let's say from Dragon Ball Z, to want to become the best, to want to become the strongest to train more. But you also have to consider how you're doing it. And you have to do it in a smart way. Whatever a rare enemy guy who's creating that enemy will investigate into the science of training, you know, to make it legit. So, so be careful about that, you know, question things. That's why I say the end of each episode, keep questioning. Never take things for granted, always ask how you know what you know, why do you think it's true? So yeah, so I fucked up my body because of partly because of Dragon Ball Z and I wanted to share the story, because not only in Dragon Ball Z, but in different animes, you know, you see guys doing this and that and some crazy stupid training. I guess it's self evident to not do that. But who knows, just in case I wanted to share the story so you wouldn't do the same thing. But yeah, so I'm about to finish the video, but just to wrap up, because I'm pretty sure if you press this episode, there's a big chance you are a Dragon Ball Z fan and you're sharing that. And let me know who's your favorite character in the comments. But I also thought I'll share, you know, a little bit about why Goku inspired me. And that was because of his purity, he still does. Actually, he still inspires me not as much as in the day. But now I consider there's certain characters in my life, like fictional characters, obviously Batman, also Rony Kenshin, Vifor and Dera, Vifor, but actually more the graphic novel, graphic novelist back there. I have it. But also Goku, they, I feel like those fictional characters inspired certain qualities in me. I admit that part part of why I am how I am is because of those characters. Although they're fictional, they're still kind of representing certain qualities and attitudes. And I really always love Goku because I guess we all love him because of that. He's naïve, he's pureness. He's always eager. He represents to me that you shouldn't give up. Obviously, you shouldn't give up in general. That's his kind of approach. But but he's never, he never feels down. If he meets a challenge, and I think that's kind of how we should be. You know, actually, I have this cup here, I need to at least use it once. Costs, it's worth 50 euro. So we should never like if we are faced with a big challenge, usually, we tend to get scared and have doubts. Not to say that doesn't happen to me either. But that attitude is so admirable, that if you get overwhelmed by a challenge, you don't shy away from it. But you do the opposite, you run towards it. Not like don't jump into teeth of tiger. But but in general, especially in social situations, like, if there's a challenge, don't be intimidated by it, but grow up for it. I think that's what Dragon Ball is. You really represent it well. And that's what Goku is all about. It's about being inspired by challenge, wanting more challenge, because understanding that it grows you and makes you better. So always love that. And he's not, I guess, yeah, that says it. That's it. Yeah, a bit shorted and usual, but it's a funny story. It's a fun story. I thought I'll share it with you and remember the good old days. And I'm sure maybe if you do that too. And so just again, let's have a chat. Now, let's let's talk about this and downstairs and comments. I will tell you more about other characters which highly influenced my life. Again, part of my attitude does come a bit from Sun Goku. But what characters were most influential in your life? What's your favorite Dragon Ball Z character? And did you do stupid fucking shit because of anime yourself? I bet you did. Let me know in the comments. I will jump in and I'll be there and I'll respond to every comment, especially before this channel is not like one million followers and can't literally do that. But until then, I'll be so happy to get those comments and let's chat, let's get to know each other. So thank you for listening to this crazy fun story. And we always keep questioning.