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Craig Jones

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling

A cage you can see into, an elevated platform sort of stage you can see clearly into because it's basically flat. But the athletes could fall off and injure themselves. So if something happens to UFC fire passes, the elevated flat stage It's kind of scary to be near the edge. You go off, you're going to land on concrete. You might want to do that to the other guy if you're that way inclined.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling

But the alley, the angled wall solves all those problems. Very minimal referee interference. Again, the only thing that holds people back is the expense of building it. But again, when you're spending someone else's money, you will spare no expense in production.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling

But the alley, the angled wall solves all those problems. Very minimal referee interference. Again, the only thing that holds people back is the expense of building it. But again, when you're spending someone else's money, you will spare no expense in production.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling

But the alley, the angled wall solves all those problems. Very minimal referee interference. Again, the only thing that holds people back is the expense of building it. But again, when you're spending someone else's money, you will spare no expense in production.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling

So we've spent a lot of money on the alley, and we've really gone out of our way to create an experience that around the alley, we've elevated everything so that the people watching will be able to see down into it. Because your instinctual thought is, oh, it sounds great, but how am I going to see in it unless I'm far up?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling

So we've spent a lot of money on the alley, and we've really gone out of our way to create an experience that around the alley, we've elevated everything so that the people watching will be able to see down into it. Because your instinctual thought is, oh, it sounds great, but how am I going to see in it unless I'm far up?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling

So we've spent a lot of money on the alley, and we've really gone out of our way to create an experience that around the alley, we've elevated everything so that the people watching will be able to see down into it. Because your instinctual thought is, oh, it sounds great, but how am I going to see in it unless I'm far up?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling

You'd need a Colosseum-like structure, which is basically what we've attempted to create so that you get both a perfect... place to wrestle, to grapple in, as well as a perfect viewing angle for the fans. Well, I think it's an amazing idea.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling

You'd need a Colosseum-like structure, which is basically what we've attempted to create so that you get both a perfect... place to wrestle, to grapple in, as well as a perfect viewing angle for the fans. Well, I think it's an amazing idea.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling

You'd need a Colosseum-like structure, which is basically what we've attempted to create so that you get both a perfect... place to wrestle, to grapple in, as well as a perfect viewing angle for the fans. Well, I think it's an amazing idea.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling

I'll be honest, I competed for Karate Combat twice. Never once did I ever step foot into the pit. Just, again, like you said before the podcast, if there's a right way of doing things, I'm probably doing it the opposite.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling

I'll be honest, I competed for Karate Combat twice. Never once did I ever step foot into the pit. Just, again, like you said before the podcast, if there's a right way of doing things, I'm probably doing it the opposite.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling

I'll be honest, I competed for Karate Combat twice. Never once did I ever step foot into the pit. Just, again, like you said before the podcast, if there's a right way of doing things, I'm probably doing it the opposite.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling

i'm mostly an inspirational speaker at this point yeah you and tony robbins are like this same size at least but in terms of the training for obviously the athlete's very difficult some of these guys have gone out there and built their own angled walls yeah i saw that there's a cool video of that they're getting into that that's a smart thing to do there's a million dollars on the line you should probably invest in that but i also like a new surface that no one's competed on no one's

Lex Fridman Podcast
#439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling

i'm mostly an inspirational speaker at this point yeah you and tony robbins are like this same size at least but in terms of the training for obviously the athlete's very difficult some of these guys have gone out there and built their own angled walls yeah i saw that there's a cool video of that they're getting into that that's a smart thing to do there's a million dollars on the line you should probably invest in that but i also like a new surface that no one's competed on no one's

Lex Fridman Podcast
#439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling

i'm mostly an inspirational speaker at this point yeah you and tony robbins are like this same size at least but in terms of the training for obviously the athlete's very difficult some of these guys have gone out there and built their own angled walls yeah i saw that there's a cool video of that they're getting into that that's a smart thing to do there's a million dollars on the line you should probably invest in that but i also like a new surface that no one's competed on no one's

Lex Fridman Podcast
#439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling

gamed it yet. We're going to see it unfold. Like when UFC, when people started figuring out how to use the cage, we're going to see this unfold in front of our very eyes, how the strategies work for this. The other thing we've done too is we're doing rounds. So qualifying rounds would be three five-minute rounds. The final would be five fives.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling

gamed it yet. We're going to see it unfold. Like when UFC, when people started figuring out how to use the cage, we're going to see this unfold in front of our very eyes, how the strategies work for this. The other thing we've done too is we're doing rounds. So qualifying rounds would be three five-minute rounds. The final would be five fives.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling

gamed it yet. We're going to see it unfold. Like when UFC, when people started figuring out how to use the cage, we're going to see this unfold in front of our very eyes, how the strategies work for this. The other thing we've done too is we're doing rounds. So qualifying rounds would be three five-minute rounds. The final would be five fives.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling

why i want to do that is to incentivize action we're going to incentivize action through penalizing people but we really want i love a short burst a break and the guys can go hard again i don't like a jiu jitsu match where the guy takes the back early and he's like oh if i keep this position i've won and that's something that people that don't compete don't realize is if you take some if you get a good position early get up on the points