Craig Jones

It was just me and all of DDS.

And I think we competed the week weekend before.

So I thought it was gonna be super awkward, but it was actually, it was actually pretty chill.

And the Kasai was in New York and they suggested to come train that week.

So I came trained, hung out with them a bit.

Ultimately, the goal was to move to America and join a bigger team just because that flight to Australia is death.

Australia is so far away from everywhere.

It's kind of like not realistic to base yourself in Australia when all the tournaments are in America.

And then I went and trained with the guys, and they just had a massive –

massively deep talent pool in that room.

Like show up to like a, meant to be 7am, actual 8am class, uh, on Brazilian time.

And there'd be like a hundred people in there, maybe, I don't know how many black belts, but a ton of elite guys.

And I was coming from Australia, um,

Training with Lachlan Giles, but really that room was pretty shallow and most people had serious jobs and stuff.

So it was basically me just training with Lachlan, maybe a couple of other guys, and then to go to New York and have access to a wide array of training partners and guys that are training twice each day.

I feel like that's what you really need.

You need people that can train as much as you are, work together.

Yeah, humbled.

Humble in that room at first.

For sure.