John Danaher

So they loved their experience in Puerto Rico, and almost everyone wanted to go down there.

So I tried to explain to them there's a world of difference between going to a place for vacation versus living there, but that didn't have any effect.

So the majority decision was made to go to Puerto Rico.

In Puerto Rico, the conditions in which the team lived changed significantly.

When you're in New York, New York is such a big city that if there's any tension between team members, and inevitably there will be in a competitive sport where everyone's fighting each other, you can kind of bury them in the size of the city because there's so many distractions in New York.

You come in, you do your workout, you go outside, and it's New York City.

In Puerto Rico, we lived in a very small local town, Dorado, and most of the athletes were living with each other.

And so unlike New York, where there was always a break, you trained together, but when training was over, you went about your life in New York and New Jersey.

with everyone living in very close proximity to each other, any tensions got magnified because there was no relief from them.

You didn't get to get away from people.

If you had a problem with someone on the mat, well, now you had to live with them for the rest of the day and the night.

And this goes on for long periods of time.

So I believe it had the effect of magnifying whatever tensions there were.

In particular, there was a family tension between two brothers, which magnified over time.

And, you know, so often it's the case you get two brothers growing up, one older, one younger, and the younger one wants to

grow and feel somewhat like a young tree underneath a bigger tree.

And sometimes people just need their space.

So there was some unhappiness.

Yeah, yeah.

Unresolved family issues coming out here.