Andy Stumpf

You know, and, you know, if you're good and if you're strong, you can avoid a lot of shit.

But, you know, you get in there with some fucking 25-year-old wrestler who weighs 210 pounds and is built like a superhero.

Who moves at a speed that your joints and ligaments can't move at.

Yeah, it's just like, I can't keep up.

You're on my back.

I can't keep up with this.

And if I do keep up, I'm going to blow something out.

Since I founded at 41, I don't think we should teach it to anybody under 30.

Because it deeply offends me when children come out of the children's class and they've been training like six times longer than I am like what?

Like their movement patterns were developed on the mat.

I'm like, I know we're using the same alphabet We are not putting together the same words Well, I knew that from striking because I knew that from kicking I was like I started martial arts before my body had matured and

And my body matured, becoming very flexible and very fast.

And so as I got thicker, I maintained that speed and everything.

But I was like, I don't know if you could ever get as good as I got if you didn't start when I started.

I don't know if it's possible.

And I didn't start jujitsu until I was 30.

And when I started doing jujitsu, I remember thinking, God, I wish I did this when I was a kid.

Yep.

Because I see some kids where their fucking scrambles and their transitions like built into their neurons where they're just like everything is so fast and so kinetic and they're just moving and flowing like fuck.

I could have started in like 97.