374-Combative Solutions for Law Enforcement and Civilians – TTST Interview with BJJ Black Belt and Owner of Apex Combat Solutions Jarrod Anderson

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Jarrod Anderson is the owner of Apex Combat Solutions which provides combatives training courses specifically for Law Enforcement and civilians. Jarrod is also a black belt in  Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) with over 15 years of martial arts and self defense training and teaching. 

  I want to help as many law enforcement officers and civilians become more capable of defending themselves

– Jarrod Anderson

Knowledge Nuggets and Take-Aways

1. Superior positions establish control, leverage and angles

2. When walking into martial arts academy first lesson is to check your ego at the door

3. Apex Combat Solutions provides real life combat scenarios and what is going to work in a ‘real fight’

4. Do what you love in the service of people who love what you do

5. I’ve never seen anyone with an ego not get ‘checked’

6. ‘I want to be a good man, husband and served others’

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Time to shine today. Podcast varsity squad. This is Scott Ferguson, and I got, like, a homeboy here in South Florida, and I’m super stoked to bring it to you. It took a while to get him on because the dude’s busy. His name is Jarrod Anderson, and he’s the owner of Apex Combat Solutions. And over at Apex Combat Solutions, they’re created to provide effective combatives training courses for law enforcement and civilians. Their courses are based on methods and principles that have been pressure tested for over 20 years of competitive martial arts and force on force training. And it’s being taught, and it’s owned by my good friend here, Jared Anderson, who’s also kind of one of my Jujitsu coaches as well. And he’s got a lot of accolades within the Jujitsu world from winning the Pan Americans, he was third at the World. He competed in a bunch of fight to wins. And overall squad, he’s just pretty much a badass, but he’s also the nicest guy you’ll ever meet. That’s always how it goes. It’s always the nicest dude. You don’t mess with dude. So, Jared, thank you so much for coming on. Please introduce yourself to time to Shine today podcast Varsity Squad. But first, what’s your favorite color and why? Favorite color, I would have to say, is blue. Blue. Probably from that Atlantic Ocean that we had. Are you a floridian? I am not a floridian. I guess I am now. I’ve been here long enough, I think. No, I was born in Georgia. Oh, wow. Okay. I lived in Kansas City in Missouri for a little while as a kid, and then I grew most of my time in Minnesota. So I went to elementary, junior, and high school in Minnesota and then moved to Florida in 2009. 2009. Okay. Yeah, you’re pretty much whenever you say ten years, you can kind of say you’ve seen the changes that’s happened down here. This is my 10th year down here from Michigan, and it’s like, man, just the changes that we see here. Yeah. It’s a different world. Yeah, man. So let’s get into the roots of stuff because sure, I saw pictures of you back in the day, and you’re a pretty husky dude, kind of, like, still probably pretty much badass, but you’re kind of a husky guy. And then when did you really kind of take up the Brazilian jiu jitsu? And Scott, we’re going to call it BJJ. When did you take up BJJ? So I’ve been in martial arts my whole life. My dad was a martial artist and old school badass, and so he trained me a little bit just to make sure I could defend myself. But I was really big into the UFC, even in probably 2004. Five, six, seven in high school. Okay. I was watching UFC One, and I saw Hoyce Gracie, and I was like, you know what? I love that. And I was always more naturally tuned for grappling, like, fights and stuff that I got in. I was a grappler, okay? So I started watching Hoyce Gracie. And then Minnesota at that time, didn’t have a lot of places to train. So in 2009, I packed up, I moved to Florida, started training at a gym here. In West Palm Beach. And that’s where I met our friend Eric. And then the rest is history, man. It just kind of blew up from there. I fell in love with it. It’s crazy how tight the squad is. No matter what direction you guys go with you and kind of Eric and Tubby and Mike, it’s just funny how you guys, no matter which directions you guys go, you guys all circle back because you guys are kind of a big family, and I enjoy that. I had that with wrestling, and it was like so I see the guys I would wrestle with before, and it’s just kind of like we win our separate ways, but it’s just so cool. The flavor that you guys have here with martial arts, man. So you moved into the martial arts world. You competed at very high levels, won at very high levels or placed at very high levels. What got you into really rolling into the kind of the self defense and thank you for doing it back in the blue, by the way, with the police officers. But what really got that kind of my jujitsu instructor, when I was a purple belt, he kind of started changing his changing his ways of the gym and started focusing more on self defense, which at first I was like, oh, this shit ain’t going to work. This is bullshit. And nowadays I still think that, right? But it really made me start to think, like, what is actually going to work in a real fight? And this was even before I started introducing weapons into the play as well. But what’s going to work in a real fight? You can’t be sitting there trying to pull. You can’t pull guard, you can’t try to barembo someone. You’re going to get your head kicked in. And so you have to be able to have a very basic jiu jitsu game that follows certain principles, position, and not even necessarily submission. When you start getting into the realm of weapons based training because you’re going for a submission, the guy’s trying to stab you, right? So there’s a lot of task first priority type stuff going on where you need to kind of maintain good positioning and isolate limbs to win and survive and control. But it really struck a couple of years ago when I was trying to become a police officer. And so I started getting into more and more training and tactical stuff with firearms and combatives. And my good friend Ruben owns Paradox Training Solutions, and you see me with the headgear on and shooting SIM rounds at everyone that’s his company. And that’s what really struck me to start improving my overall combatives in jiu jitsu for realistic situations. I heard you say task versus positioning. Let’s unpack that a little bit. Okay, how does that roll forward into it seems pretty basic, but maybe you and a little bit me was saying it, but can you unpack that a little bit and explain what you mean by that. So it’s task versus priority, right? Yes. In jiujitsu, your task is to obviously get a good position and try to get the submission, which is important, but in the realm of when there’s a potential gun. Knife at play, you can’t go hunting for the submission because, let’s say and this actually has played out in some force unforced scenarios, let’s say I’m on your back, and I’m hunting for that rear naked choke. So both my arms are occupied getting to your neck. Your arms are free so you can reach in your waistband, draw your weapon, and shoot behind me and shoot me in the head. Right. And so because I was so focused, oh, I’m going to choke this guy out, I didn’t control your limbs. You were still able to do what you had to do even though I was on your back trying to choke you. Right. And so that’s what we talk about when we’re doing these weapon based entanglements is like, I’m not looking for any kind of submission unless I’ve already disarmed the person or something along those lines. So in that type of situation, controlling the weapon or controlling the limb that’s holding the weapon is the number one priority. Okay. So with that being said, if you’re in a position of, we’ll just say, a lack position where you are at a disadvantage in that moment, is that also something really big at Apex that you’re really kind of going over to get out of that moment to get a more advantageous position? Yes. Because a lot of the stuff that I do is we’re talking about even if you’re just a civilian that conceals and carries, a lot of the times or law enforcement, you’re seeing officers present their weapon when they’re too close to the person, learning when’s the right time to present your weapon as well. If you’re tied up and you’re grappling with the person, but you don’t have any kind of control over their limbs, it’s not the right time to draw your weapon. You can’t put your weapon into play because now they can grab your weapon and take it from you. So if you’re in a bad position, that weapon is staying away. Sure. And you got to defend yourself using your own hands and improve your position and get to a point where you can start to present the weapon. Right. You said to me before, even in a couple of roles that we’ve had, you said fergie like position over submission. Right. Especially at my level. Right. Versus you. You can go hunting in a competition, but that’s pretty much paramount is what you’re kind of saying, in layman’s terms for Jiu Jitsu as a whole, right? Definitely. And also, maybe in the combat as well, you want to maintain absolutely superior position. Superior position. Okay, got you. Because what does the superior position mean? It means you’re establishing control over your opponent now. That’s everything included that’s leverage, that’s angles, that’s everything that you need to win that fight. Like in boxing, they say, okay, hit that angle. What does that mean? In a fighting realm, the angle is the positioning of your hips in conjunction to. Position of your opponent’s hips. Okay. So if I need to win the angle, I need to offset my hips so that I’m still facing my opponent, but his or her hips are not facing me. Does that make sense? So you pull them off their angle while you keep exactly. And that gives me the leverage and everything for me to stay in that advantageous position. Got you. And that translates to fighting in general, whether it’s self defense combatives or a jiu jitsu match or a love it. So do you work some one on one in this combat? I know you teach privates with DJJ. Yeah. Let’s stay with Apex. Do you teach one on one or are you more group? I’m starting off as more group, but I have taught privates for this stuff. Also, I’ve got a couple of law enforcement officers that do privates with me as well, and this is all stuff that we go over. Okay. So maybe while you’re kind of like when you meet somebody, you’re not just like, hey, get mine. You probably have a nice little chat with them and whatnot. And when you’re talking to them, what do you think most of the law enforcement people or professionals when they come in, what do you think their biggest blind spot is when it comes to, I guess, really apprehending somebody or taking them down or however you want to put that? I think it’s all of it. I think it’s all of it. You’re starting to see more cops start training jiu jitsu, like I said, which is a big positive, but it depends. A lot of it has to do where they’re training. Are they training sport jiu jitsu, where they’re going to be just pulling guard every class and not really working things that are going to work in the street. Right. They’re developing habits that are good in a sport realm, but that are bad in an actual combatives realm. But like I said, any training is good. Sure. But I think the biggest thing is a lot of them don’t know anything. And you can tell by all the body cam footage and the videos that come out of officers getting attacked or getting punched and stuff like that. They’re not comfortable going hands on. Right. And I think that’s the biggest thing. And that’s what my mission is, to try to help officers get more comfortable and capable of going hands on and having less reliance on tools such as tasers, pepper spray guns, whatever. Sure. How do you help them and maybe like some of your secret sauce, if I don’t mind sharing, to help them maybe within that blind spot, if they’re used to a certain way, what is your technique to really get them involved? Because every time I see you on Instagram at Paradox, dude, it’s like, bro, you guys are just beating the shit out of each other. Right? Well, you know what? And that’s kind of the wake up call because we get black belts that come to these classes that think that their black belt is going to help them, which gives them a slight edge. But as soon as there’s weapons in play, they’re back to being a white belt. Right. I’ve seen that with really good black belts. My first time doing. It. It happened to me. I got shot to shit with the SIM round because they do they definitely give a little sting. Yeah. And that made me start to adapt my game a little bit for more weapons based grappling. So the best advice really would be is like, just show up, check the ego with my courses is my course is like an icebreaker that leads into the Paradox training solution. Got you. Because it can be intimidating if you’ve never done combattles before and you watch one of those videos, you’re going to be like, what the fuck? I’m never doing that. Right. But my training leads into that training. Okay. I kind of let them build a baseline, and then they can start to pressure test it in that scenario. Got you. So is Apex going to be part of the combatives that you work with, Ruben, or how is that set up? Not officially. Like, we’re not partners or anything. He’s a really good buddy of mine. He supports me 100%. I support him 100%. Absolutely. And I actually talked before I launched the company. I talked to him to kind of get his blessing for it. Okay. Because again, I want to be able to help as many officers and civilians as possible, become more capable. Love it, man. And so if I can help a group of people build a baseline so that they’re not lost when they get to that so it’s like, sure people that do mine are going to be guided and pushed to doing the Paradox stuff as well. Love it. I love it. So you’re actually just kind of taking a white belt in a sense, right. And just making them almost kind of a blue purple before they maybe take the advanced steps. Awesome. So when you’re starting to work with someone, Jared, is there any good question that you wish they would ask you but never do? I definitely like getting questions to pick out a specific one. I can’t really think of one. Got you. But when they’re asking me questions, I know they’re engaged. Okay. And I always tell that even for my jiu jitsu classes, does anybody have any questions? Nobody raises their hand. People have a million questions, but nobody comes out. No one wants to be the one that asks the question. Yeah. So I think that’s something that if I can encourage people ask me any question. If something happens to you, DM me, I’m an open door. I’m happy to help anybody that messages me. Or if you send me a video, I’ll give you my opinion on it. That’s one thing about me is I’m not going to be like, well, if you pay me for a private lesson, then I’ll show you what to do. I’m not like that. I didn’t start Apex to become rich. Obviously, making more money is a good thing. Absolutely. If I can help someone, that’s a victory for me. You’re doing what you love in the service of people that love what you do. That’s how I was taught. Like, when I get into coaching, it’s like I love. Coaching, right? But other people that I coach love that I coach. You know what I’m saying? Which that’s what you’re doing, because your passion is overflowing into different branches, if you will, of that. So, Jared, have you ever seen the movie Back to the Future? Yes. Okay, let’s get in that DeLorean with Marty McFly, man. Let’s go back to the double deuce. The 22 year old Jared. Yes. Okay. What kind of knowledge nuggets we call him here time shine. To what kind of knowledge nuggets might you drop on him? Not so much to change anything, because your journey has been pretty freaking awesome. Right? But to maybe shorten a learning curve last through. It doesn’t have to be martial arts, man. It could be about life. Well, the funny thing with me is that at that time, I started training when I was 20. Training, seriously, all of the bad shit, all the partying and stuff I did before that, I was a very young partier. If I could tell anything to the 22 year old me, I would say, just stay the course, because obviously it eventually paid off. There was a lot of times where I had doubts, but I always knew that if I stuck with Jiu Jitsu, it would lead me to better things. Yeah, okay. And competitively life, spiritually, physically, mentally, everything it did, it led me to the life I have now, which I have a phenomenal job, I have a beautiful fiance, amazing son, and it led me to where I am now. I don’t like to look back in regret. Now, if I could tell the 18 year old me something put the beer down, bro, I would fucking smack him in the head and tell them, get your shit together. Because that version of Jared was an asshole who just liked to party and get drunk and get in fights with his friends like a freight train to the grave, man. Exactly. If you’re not careful and I tell this openly to anybody, I truly believe that if I wouldn’t have committed to Jiu Jitsu when I did and fully commit like I did, I’d be in jail or dead 100%. I believe that. I love that you’re transparent admitting that. Because people ask me because they know I grappled my whole life. And then my Jujitsu journey, they’re like, what is it about it? I get asked on interviews because they see me posting here and there, and I’m like, Dude, jujitsu is life. It’s just the closest martial art to me. That’s like, life, dude. Because I’ve never before had somebody that’s Toro. And Toro is a friend of mine in Jared that’s 160 pounds and 60 to hold me down and make me feel like I can’t breathe and I’m drowning. And that’s what the best learning experience is. Once I learn to show up, when I walk in the door and have a mind of learn and not know, everything just opened up, dude. And I’m starting to process stuff differently with that. And I’m sure there’s a lot of that that would go forward with Apex as well. That if you show up with the learn attitude, not that you know anything, you’ll grasp the techniques that you’re that you’re teaching 100%. Because if you start jiu jitsu or if you’re a police officer looking to start more realistic combatives training, sure. If you go in there with an ego, it’s going to get checked. Yeah. I’ve never seen anyone with an ego not get checked. When they start training. And the ones that are a little bit more intelligent that have that ego, they understand. They’re like, oh, shit, I need to learn this stuff. I don’t know anything. There’s a lot of people that do try it. If they get their ass kicked that first day or they get choked out by a girl when there’s some big bodybuilder and they won’t come back, their ego can’t handle that defeat. Right. I’m actually different where when I show up, people were afraid because, again, you know, I’m big dude, right? And a wrestler, right? And people would be like, oh, dude, I want to roll with you, man. I’m like, dude, I’m not the spaz. Like, you get a lot of those very controlled. And now that I’ve been there a bit, they’re like, all right, Fergie can roll because he’s not just spaz out. And that’s where he’s the gentle giant, right? When I walk into place, I’m Midwest like, you lived in Kansas for sure. No, I gave hugs. I give hugs. I meet people. I give hugs. Everyone has angles. I don’t. I just freaking love life and going forward with life, man. How do you want your dash remembered? That little line in between your incarnation date, your expiration date, your life date, and death date? Hopefully it’s way down the line, Jared, because this world needs people like you. But how does Jared want his dash remember? You know what I want to be remembered as a good man who took care of his family and helped others. Hopefully, like you said, far along from now, if people can remember me, that as being a good person, someone who loved his family, supported his family, was good to his family, and was able to use his gifts to help others. Shit, that’s a fucking great life. Hell yeah, man. That’s badass. So what do you think people misunderstand the most about Jared? I can sometimes have a bit of an attitude, believe it or not. And I can be very short at times. I’m not the type of person that’s going to if we’re in a discussion and it’s not something I’m interested in. Right. I probably come off like an asshole. Okay. And that’s not a jab at anybody else’s favorite things and stuff like that. It’s just I’m so passionate about the things that I’m passionate about that I don’t put a lot of thought towards anything else. Right. So people probably think I’m an asshole. Have you ever picked up a step that really work for you from a lower belt? Absolutely. Really? Absolutely. Do you guys add an example, like something that might have happened? A lot of it is just getting the reactions because for me, my game is heavily reliant on how people are reacting and what they’re doing when I’m doing what I’m doing. Okay. And I think white belts have very awkward reactions. I’ll start all the way at the bottom. I learned from white belts. And that’s going to give you a realistic approach for self defense. Because with Apex, the chances of me having to fight another black belt at the bar or on the street is probably never going to happen. Right. Black belts or anybody that has self control and does martial arts and stuff probably isn’t walking around getting wasted looking for a fight. Right. Granted, there are some exceptions, but for the general, no. Right. You’re going to get reactions from a white belt the same way you would get if you fought some random person. Right. Where they’re going to spaz out for so true. Wow. Spaz out for a few seconds, you’re going to get a good position. They’re going to spaz out a couple more seconds until they gas out, and then it’s going to be like, I’ll take that, I’ll take that. At that point, it’s like training with a baby, right. You play with them, you talk. You’re so right with you saying that most high level practitioners, they’re not walking around saying, oh, that’s Jared Anderson and I’m Scott, forget I’m a black belt. No, you’re going to probably walk up and fist bump and be like fucking hug it out. Right? Yeah. It’s the truth. Usually the people that have that chip, man. So did anything keep you up at night? Not so much anymore. When it comes to bedtime, I sleep. I can go to sleep like that. Okay. Thank God. But I think that’s because just having a good mental focus sometimes when I was building the website, I’ll be up till 02:00, a.m. Building the website. But I think that’s more about just like I don’t like to leave things hanging. So it’s like if I start building a website, I’m going to finish it in a day. You’re flexing that hustle muscle. Stuff like that, times for that. But you have that superpower, like my Susan, dude, I can time her. We’ll get in bed in like 8 seconds. So I’m getting better because I really worked on the sleep hygiene lately, but I’m getting better, man. But extremely important. Oh, yeah. So, Jared, what is your definition of a life? Well live well, kind of like we talked about earlier. For me, a life will live is if I can obviously be able to support my family and live comfortably and do what I love. Yeah. Time well spent. That’s the best, man. For me, that’s the American dream, living a life of options, not obligations. Right, man, it’s like, if I can support my family and support having a comfortable future and do what I love and help people, hell, yeah. That’s all I need in life. That’s every day that I wake up, it’s like, dude, who do I get to serve? I serve myself the first 90 minutes. I’m 51 years old now, dude, and I’m up, and I’m on my trampoline. I take the cold shower. I got a cold plunge outside. That’s awesome. I do that five days a week, dude, because at 51, I have to do it, if not the snowball fluid. You take care of your body, your body takes care of you. Absolutely, man. It’s my temple, man. I have to take care of it. And, Squad, we’re going to take my good friend Jared here through our Leveling Up lightning round just as soon as we get back from thanking our sponsors and affiliates. Time to shine today. Podcast versus squad. We are back. Jared, you and I have had lunch. We’ve talked, and I’m sure we might have talked about a couple of these questions at length, but at Time to Shine Today, you have 5 seconds with no explanations, and they can all be answered that way. Brother, you ready to level up? Let’s do it. All right, Jared, what is the best leveling up advice you’ve ever received? Do what you love and try to find a way to make money doing it. I love it. And also just show up. That’s beautiful. Share one of your personal habits that contributes to your success. I become obsessed with whatever I’m doing, and that can sometimes be bad in terms of spending family time and stuff, but I’m obsessive. So if I’m doing something, if I’m trying to become better at something, that’s 100% what I’m doing. Beautiful. You see me maybe kind of walking down the street? Fergie looks like he’s in Indulgence a little bit. What book might you hand me to level me up? You know what I like thinking? Grow rich. How to win friends and influence people. The power of Little Hills. Yeah. Nice. My man. Dude, you got to come check out my library. I got them all, man. I’m slowly building mine up. Good deal, man. Your most commonly used emoji when you text. So there’s an emoji where it’s like the people’s eyebrow or the rock eyebrow. I use. That one probably more than anything. Love it. Nicknames growing up? JRod. J Rod. Love it. Did you make a New Year’s resolutions this year? Yeah. My New Year’s resolution was to start Apex and launch Apex. Start doing getting the courses going, and you start to lose weight. I gained a lot of weight when I went from teaching jiu JITs full time to working for building a business. So lose weight. And then I’m always trying to be able to be a better provider for my family. Love it. Quickly. What is a hidden talent or superpower that you have that no one knows about? A lot of people know, but I’m pretty good at doing, like, impersonations. Nice. I can do all kinds of channel people. Beautiful. Chess, checkers or Monopoly? Well, because I don’t know how to play chess. Okay. I have to say checkers. Beautiful. Headline for your life. Quickly. Headline for my life. A life well lived. Love it, man. That’s beautiful. Go to ice cream flavor mint chocolate chip, my dude. There’s a sandwich called the JRod impersonator. Build that sandwich for me. It’s going to be probably some chicken, some provolone, some tomatoes, onions, lettuce, maybe some aioli or ranch, one or the other. I throw some man candy on their little bacon bro. You know? What favorite charity and organization you like to give your time or money to? Honestly, I’ll donate to any charity that either helps military, helps fight human trafficking, or supports law enforcement. Those are my big three. That’s beautiful, man. Last question. You can elaborate on this one, but what’s the best decade of music? Sixty s, seventy s, eighty s or 90s. I’d have to say probably eighty S and ninety S. There you go, my guy. That’s what we hang out. Good stuff, Jerry. So, Jared, how can we find you, brother? So you can find me on Instagram Facebook for apex combatsolutions. Okay. And then that’s pretty much it. It’s Apexcombatsolutions.com. It’s apex combatsolutions with an s.com. You have to check it out. He does have an upcoming event April 8. I don’t know if this show will actually drop by then, but what I’m going to do is I’m going to have Jared keep up with the schedule. And anytime a new schedule comes up to my law enforcement people out there, or anybody that’s really looking to level up their self defense, I’ll make sure that you’re notified of that as well. And I know that he’s going to be building out a YouTube channel. He’s going to do. Like a lot of kind of instructionals. Like, there’s something that I like to watch and I buy instructions from called BJJ Fanatics. He’s kind of setting it up on a platform like that where he might have a voice overlay while he’s actually doing the techniques, or he might teach him just straight to the camera. But I’m super stoked for that. I can’t wait till he sets up, like, a subscription service for something like that. I can’t wait. Jared every day is just growing. So, Jared, if you could do me one last solid and leave us with one last knowledge we can take with us internalize and take action on, I would have to say for all my law enforcement people out there, just go train. Don’t wait for something bad to happen. Don’t wait for your agency to pay for something or offer something. Go out there on your own and do it. Because it’s going to be not just for your well being and safety, but for your mental work as well. And the same goes for civilians. I think there’s a lot of stresses and problems that we all have that can be fixed by training jiu jitsu. And you can call me biased, but I truly believe that because I am 100%. When I showed up on the Mats, I was 292 pounds. I’m coming down to the I’m getting down there. So I’m a huge attachment to that. Squad, we just had a fun conversation. Really good friend of mine locally here in South Florida, but also somebody that I respect immensely, Jared Anderson. He comes from a background of rowdy dowdy and really committed his life to Brazilian jiu jitsu, which, again, to me, jiu jitsu is life. It’s going to smother you. Your mind has to be a puzzle. You’ve got to solve problems. And we have guys like Jared and others down here. They will help you walk through it. But then he leveled up into Apex Combat Solutions, so he’s helped the law enforcement, which, you know, I back the blue. I donate a ton of money a year. I do anything I can to back the blue. And with Jared, he’s really going and teaching them task versus priority, maintaining position, understand the superior positions, and establishing control from angles and leverages is what it’s all about. I can’t get technical about it, Squad. That’s why I have my guy Jared here, and he wants you to know that you don’t know what you don’t know, okay? So when you go into someplace, whether you’re going into Apex or any martial arts, walk in, check the ego at the door, and learn. Not go in there with no. Because when you learn, your actual frontal cortex actually swells, and you start to retain information. If you go in to learn, if you think you know your shit, you’re going to get waxed by somebody else. It’s just how it goes. And that even goes for Jared. If he used to walk into somewhere, he goes in with no ego and he wants to learn. And if you’re working with an instructor, any question is a good question. Now, if going to ask the same question over and over again when he’s explained it to you, that’s not good. I’m talking about. Do questions and really putting it to work and doing what you need to do. And Jared is somebody that does what he loves and listen to Squad. He does what he loves in the service of people that loves what he does. They see that he loves what he does. So that’s why Jared’s going to just climb this mountain and he’s going to be world known. I guarantee it. He wants you to stay the course. That’s what he would tell his younger self. Stay the course when you find something you love, day of the course. And if you don’t know, like I say, get your asking gear. Ask. There’s people out there like myself that can make an introduction to my good friend Jared. And he’ll help you get along. He’s going to be remembered as a good man, a fantastic husband, a fantastic father. I mean, this dude is planting trees he’s never going to sit in the shade of. And that’s, again, why I immensely respect Jared. And Jared also wants you to go train. Get better. Don’t wait. And like I say, work your day job, but mind your own business. Work your day job. You might be a cop, but I guarantee you that there’s a side hustle or something you need to level up in you to be a better cop. So work your day job, but mind your own business. That’s what my good friend Jared does here. He levels up his health. He levels up his wealth. He’s humble, yet he’s hungry. He’s earned his varsity squad letter here. Time to shine today. Thank you so much year for coming. I absolutely love your guts, brother. Thank you, Scott. I appreciate you. Chat soon. Bye.

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