John Danaher

My thinking is...

Everything bad passes in time.

I've had a lot of bad points in my life.

So my life experience is whenever things seem dark, have patience.

Time will ultimately cure most ills.

Not all of them, but most of them.

And I'm confident that if you give me a new crop of students, I can produce magic.

But it's going to take time.

Yes.

I wasn't confident that ADCC 2022 would go well because we only had one year without a gym and with a team that was completely broken up to even attempt to get into ADCC.

So things looked a little grim, but I was confident, given enough time, I'd get in a new group of students and work.

As it turns out, one of the demonstration partners that I used during filming for instructional videos who lives in Boston, Giancarlo Badoni, was interested in the idea of

coming down and training.

But he'd always felt like it would be difficult because there were people in his weight class

who were already there, and he felt it would be awkward.

But now that they had left, that opened up an area for him.

So he was the first one to come down.

He moved from Boston to Austin, Texas.

I began teaching at a local school.

It was rather like going back into my earliest days in jiu-jitsu.