Mike Maxwell

Yeah.

Like, I literally am just trying to share.

But it's like jujitsu is forcing me to share it, regurgitating it into some other host so that it can regurgitate itself into somebody else.

But it's a beneficial parasite.

Don't you think that teaching helps your jujitsu, though?

A million percent.

Like, I show all of my students all of my tricks so that when I try to use my tricks on them, it stops working.

Yeah.

And then I have to evolve the tricks.

or create other little smoke screens and diversions to get to the spot that I need to get, because they know.

I'll show stuff that I don't normally do, but a majority of my curriculum is stuff that I do, that I know works, that I know all the ins and outs of.

I know every little detail of how you get to the spot, what you do, what you do if they do A, B, or C, and that's what I share.

And as I do that, like I notice little techniques not working anymore.

Well, don't you think it's also as you explain the techniques to people, it tightens up your own understanding of the techniques?

Yeah.

It makes you better at it?

A thousand percent.

Because you have to think of it.

And like a lot of times our movements are muscle memory, right?

We don't really consciously think too much about it because we've done it a thousand times where it's like I do this, then I do this, then I do that.