 The longest range would be a long rifle. If somebody popped in here with an AK-47, that would be the longest range, right? For chances of survival, probably not very good. But that's the longest range. Then of course we go to medium guns and short guns and hand guns, and it can be a long range, but you can have a gun fight in close, right? So then we can look at our other weapons, or we can go to projectile weapons. Somebody can come in here and throw a hatchet, or a chainsaw, or a squirrel. Where's Brian? Yeah, see? A squirrel's flying, it's a story for another time. But it can happen. You've got to be prepared for anything, right? I'm prepared for that big pod in the Halo games to come down, the guy jumps out, and you've got to be ready to go with it. But it's true, it's a mindset. And so we look at ranges, and then we break that down into weapons ranges. We have long weapons, right? Staffs, chairs, boards. We've got blunt-weapon sticks. We've got knives, long swords, short knives, right? So we're breaking it down into different ranges, and of course, our ground fighting, all that stuff. But then we have to, we can't be done there, right? Because we saw that the ranges, in the MMA fight that guy had in the bar, that wasn't a bad tactic, but it was a bad tactic because the elements were different, right? There were multiple opponents. So we break it down into ranges and elements, right? And so the elements can be what? Can be there's two guys, three guys, 10 guys, a bunch of honor workers, some kids, your wife. We've got the types of weapons. We can kind of bring them down. Two guys had a knife, one guy had a stick, and another guy was just ugly. So we just, you know, we've got the elements, but one more thing is we've got environment, right? The environment can change your tactics, right? Because we want to get to a point where we're able to spontaneously adapt to what is, right? And the what is can take many forms, but if we have these principles to kind of guide us, then it's a way to kind of chunk large bits of information, right? But our environment, you can be in close. You can have tables and chairs that the surface could be wet. You could have broken bottles on the surface. You could have a lot of room to move, right? You can be in a jail cell. You don't know, you might be in a church. It could be any number of things, and we have to be able to adapt with our ranges, our elements, and our environment. And so this gets us back to systems. Now we have a way to kind of break violence down, right? And you can do that if you train in the martial arts and you start looking at the specific style that you're training in, look at where it's limited, right? Brazilian jiu-jitsu is great for what? Ground fighting, right? There's a few things standing up, and they do train against the other ranges, but for all intents and purposes, it's a ground fighting art, right? They don't, the last time I was in jiu-jitsu, we did not wrestle with a knife, right? Some places do, but that's where you can start to look and say, okay, where is my system? Where is my, what I'm relying on, where is it limited? And you start filling in the holes with those things, those other systems that work, right? But we need a philosophy, and this is really important. So what we wanna do is we wanna be able to absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add specifically what is our own, right? And what that means is we basically, look at the system, look at all the elements, look at the ranges of what we're preparing for, and we say, okay, in this particular scenario, we're gonna take this, these particular techniques, these work, these don't, throw those out, but then we wanna add specifically what is our own, right? Because Bruce believed that the individual was more important than any system or styles. I think we can all agree on that, right? The individual, the living, creating individual is more important than system or style. So you don't wanna have to change yourself to be a part of a system, right? That system should be flexible enough to change to suit you, and if it's not, you throw it out, right? If you're a 300 pound man with limited flexibility, you're probably not gonna be doing jump spinning kicks in a fight, right? Doesn't mean you throw out kicking altogether, but you might pick one or two kicks and then have to change the way you throw them based on your body type, right? So you're getting those things that are effective, throwing those things out, but you're now honoring your expression of who you are. And so this is very important when it comes to life, is it not? How many times do we not do that? How many times do we try to fit in? How many times do we stifle our expression because of a system or something that other people are saying that this is the way, right? So this is very important. I'm gonna share a story of how this philosophy is universal. Has anyone ever heard of the gambler Don Johnson? Not the actor, but the gambler. He's one of the most famous high rollers in Vegas. Anybody ever heard of that guy? Yeah, there's a documentary, I was pretty short. I forget what it's called. Anyway, this guy used this to a tee. And what he did is he analyzed casinos for weaknesses, right? He looked at the systems of the casinos and he analyzed them for weaknesses. And what he said is he identified the best game that would give him the best chance to make money. And if you know anything about casinos, it's all statistical and it's always in the house's favor, right? That's how they exist. And what he was able to do is take their entire Perk system along with everything else that makes the casino money in conjunction with the rules of Blackjack. And he identified all the rules that he needed to make this thing work for him. So he absorbed what is useful. He said, I'm gonna keep all these. Then what he did is he went through all the rules and identified the ones that he needed to get rid of, right? You did it at a time where the casinos took a dive and they were courting him. They really wanted his business because they thought that they could get millions from this guy. So he said, okay, I'll come play at your casino, but you gotta take out these rules. I wanna do this, this, and this instead, right? Because what he did, once he absorbed what is useful and he rejected what is useless, he got rid of those rules that weren't there. He calculated the chance, right? He calculated the advantage. And he got it all the way down to like 0.0025, still in favor of the house, right? That's not enough. You know anything about, that's all the house needs to still get money from you if you play over a period of time. Doesn't mean you can't win in different settings, but statistically if you play over a good amount of time, you're gonna lose your money. So what he did is he then added specifically what is his own. And he said, okay, well I want this rule. I wanna surrender rule where all I need to do is do that with my finger and I can surrender half of my bets, an insurance bet. And if the dealer doesn't see it, then I get to have a free hand. I basically get to play with your money and they agreed to it. And that tipped it back into his favor. Because that was an element where he was very smart. What he did is he hired a bunch of adult film stars to sit with him when he played to distract the dealers and he was able to swing the bet more into his realm. And what happened was over a period of, I don't know, three or four different sessions with different casinos, he won $15 million before they ever pulled the plug on him. Because he was going with a system that he created but he did it in a way that worked for him. And he didn't do anything illegal, the casinos agreed to this, he simply tipped it into his favor. And that's the type of thinking that I wanna get to you that you can get out of this. These are universal things. So we get to this and now we have to get to our training. We're still on the first reason, we still need to survive. And so what types of training do we do? Well, we know that we have different systems and they have ways of training that we wanna take. But also we need to add a couple other things. I'll just do it up here because I don't see a washer. Oh, yeah. We're still on survival, but this is what we need. We need to do scenarios. We need to have spontaneous scenario sessions, right? In other words, we're gonna do something where we set up a training session and we don't really know what's gonna happen. And maybe the opponents know where we have one person approach us and they're gonna talk and then the next thing we know we're getting attacked from the side. And then we go through these different scenarios. If you fall on the ground, maybe somebody throws in a knife and you're flowing from scenario to scenario, right? Because we have to cultivate spontaneity. We have to have responsibility. We have to be able to respond to what is. And see through this training, having different scenarios, you're never gonna know how you're gonna respond unless you do it in a way that's unexpected, right? Isn't life like that? You think you know and then it happens and you respond it in a totally different way, right? This happens probably with pickup. You've got all the lines. You do everything the first time you go talk to a girl, you follow up, right? It's just, that's the way it is because the scenarios, we've gotta do another thing. We've gotta train different scenarios because you wanna flow from range to range and art to art without getting stuck anywhere, right? You even need to make mistakes and recover from your mistakes. So we have to do scenario training, but then we have to pressure test everything. You gotta pressure test everything because if you don't, once again, you might get caught in a paradigm, you might get caught in a system, in a system of false belief. You can do a million different disarms and have some really good training methods to deal with the knife and taking a knife away. And in fact, there's a lot of knife arts that are highly evolved and you see the top guys and they're moving really fast, taking knives away like that. And you can get to a high level, but a lot of times they don't add pressure. And what pressure is, is getting a guy who's gonna really stab you. He's not gonna go along with it. You don't know what angle it's coming at and he's just gonna come at you with intent and pressure and you have to try that disarm. And if it doesn't work, what do we do? We throw it out. But it becomes a process of self-discovery, right? So we're constantly running into the cause of our own ignorance, right? You're constantly refining that which doesn't work and throwing it out. And you're probably gonna get down to the one or two things that work best for you. And you'll find that in certain scenarios and certain environments, what you thought worked before doesn't work and you have to change it up, right? But it's the thinking and being able to change yourself on the fly that's changing you, right? The ability to change your thinking on the fly is what changes you, right? Because we're pressure testing. We're moving from everything. We have to do one more thing. We have to get aliveness in our drills. You still need to drill your techniques and your basics, right? But we wanna do it in a way that's alive. And what we mean by that is we wanna add movement, right? If you're just working your jab, cross and hook and you're just standing still, that's not realistic, right? We have to work out a movement. So we want our partner, if they're holding pads, to move. And what this does physiologically is you're training your visual cortex. You're training your spatial relationship, right? And this whole thing, training in this way, no matter what the style or particular scenario is, teaches you and forces you to change your focus, right? It keeps you in the present moment. So by going through this type of training, all of a sudden you're forced to be present because if your mind slips at any moment when you're with a partner training partner, they're gonna punch you in the face. So you get immediate feedback and it forces you to train your focus to be in the present moment, right? Because I was saying that the past and the future don't exist, they're mental concepts because you can only experience the past and you can only experience the future in your mind, right? It's not to say that the past and future don't exist but if you look at the truth of the way of things, everything is one continual present moment, is it not? It's just constantly changing. It might have the illusion of being still but if you break things down, we know that everything's constantly changing. And so by training in this way, you're training your focus to be more in the present moment and as society, the way it's structured now, all of us are split when we're going from the phone to this screen, to this screen and it does something to your attention. We are finding it harder and harder to be present and my contention is that the longer you train because it's not a state you can train. Nobody can be in the present moment all the time, right? We have to think and we think about things in the past and in the future but if we train it, we'll find that we are actually have our focus in the present moment more often, right? So we have the present moment and we have our responsibility. So now, right? So now we are increasing our responsibility and there's an inverse relationship to this. So this just means that there's external stimuli, something changes, we adapt, right? You move like an echo, you respond like an echo, it moves, you move, whatever that song is, right? You're increasing your responsibility and this has an inverse relationship to what in gun training, which originally came from fighter pilot training, is your Oda loop or Oda loop, right? O-O-D-A, it's an acronym. So it's observe, orient, decide, act. You observe the threat, you orient yourself to it, you decide and you act and we're decreasing this and we're increasing our responsibility and what I believe is that we're getting more out of our left brain, if you wanna use that model and we're getting more into your right brain and that kills your internal dialogue, it kills the critical mind which kills your responsibility. When it comes to violence, intense situations and even transitioning into business and being the better expression of yourself. His first degree, black belt under William Vandery, he also has trained with Paul Vunak, certified JKD instructor. The list goes on and on. Mr. Ed Akin, what's up, man? All right, thank you. All right, all right. So this is my second time at the 21 convention. Where is my system? Where is my, what I'm relying on, where is it limited? And you start filling in the holes with those things, those other systems that work, right? But we need a philosophy. And this is where, this is really important. What the correlations is, then you, by changing one area of your life, you change the others, right? And what we find is that we find ourselves in the zone more often. You're in the present moment, you're responding like an echo.