 I shut down completely before a fight. Clear my mind completely. I don't think about anything. I don't think about the opponent. I just think about what the mission is and the goal, and the goal is to win. It's not a physical meaning to anybody like a belt. It's, you know, that emotional standpoint of saying, I'm better than that guy. You know, I'm better than that fighter. If you think about it, you got M-O-S's. From Rangers, SF, to tankers, to artillery, to military police. You know, we're all going against each other. You know, who's the baddest man or woman out there. Finish her! Finish her! It's okay! It's okay! Everybody knows when they come in here that this is a competition. And it's not football. It's not hockey. This is actual fighting. And it takes a lot out of you. BFC Dennis, in his fight, the opponent was punching him in the ribs. They didn't look like they were doing any damage at all. Dennis went to slap him in the face twice in a row and the ref called that a tap. There's nothing you can say to a fighter right then and there when a call like that happens. You can't condone them. You can't do anything. No matter what you say, they're just kind of shutting you out and they have all the reason in the world to complain about it, but there's nothing we can do with it. It breaks my heart. It honestly does. It just tore me up. I could have gone way beyond this tournament. My coach told me before that I was going to take top six and that I could make number one a match that lasted no longer than a minute. It definitely sucks when I put everything into this. It definitely feels a little awkward because I know that I should be here and not just fighting for third or second and live for number one. It's a little hard to look at the belts and the medals but I'm still excited for the other guys that are fighting but it still kills me to be on the outside with them. Find yourself, look, find it, take them down. 16 shifts that are going to go through. As soon as you take them down, you're in guard. You're in their guard. You have punches now. Punch a few times, posture. Punch them to keep them down. Break guard, pass, get inside control. Keep breath, keep breath. And let it out slowly. Right? We've been here before. How many times have we been here? Twice? What do we get? First place. What do we get all our top six weeks? From last year and to actually get first this year means a lot. Just the hard work pays off. It sucks but it comes down to how you turned it up for it. It just wasn't conditioned enough. Can't win them all. You have to leave it out there on the mat and they learn that. They learn that there's nothing that you can do after. It's all what you take out and put out on the mat. It's a learning process. It takes time. It takes devotion to the sports. Superman got beat one time.