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Speech Transcript

Unknown Speaker  0:00  

Hey everyone. This is Milton from the jujitsu dummies podcast. And if you really want to learn how to level up your life you should be listening to the time to shine today podcast with my incredibly, incredibly talented friend Scott Ferguson.

Unknown Speaker  0:11  

Time to shine today podcast varsity squad to Scott Ferguson. I am so stoked to bring you this interview with my really good buddy Milton campus. He’s a heart attack survivor, got into the jujitsu game a little bit later, I’d say I mean, he said his early 40s but he’s a purple belt in a pretty much a badass, but he’s not a badass outs outside of being on the mat. He’s very humble. approachable, is a fantastic podcast, which I do want you to check out after you listen to our show. And our interview here. It’s called a it’s called jujitsu dummies. It’s fantastic. It has you kind of laughing sometimes but also gets serious. He really loves the veterans get some veterans propped up also competitors if you’re out there and you’re listening and you want to get interviewed reach out to me I can make a personal introduction to Milton, my good friend here so without further ado, sit back, relax. This is abundance of knowledge. It’s coming your way from my good friend Milton campus. The podcast host of jujitsu dummies. Let’s level up

Unknown Speaker  1:20  

I’m too shy today podcast. Firstly squatted is Scott Ferguson and I got people know that know me know I like I’m very active. You know, I’m on my paddleboard pretty much every morning here in South Florida. Like to go out and kind of do my thing and stay in shape. And I’m just recently started going to with George Andrade here in martial fitness here in Jupiter, Florida, with jujitsu and some Muay Thai, and it’s something I’ve grappled my whole life but jujitsu, something I’ve always kind of fell in love with the art of watching it. And now we’re bringing out a guy a purple belt, who’s around my age. He’s gonna be 49 next week, I believe he’s 4647 His name is Milton campus. He’s got an awesome podcast, which makes sure you listen this episode first. But when you’re done in the show notes you’re gonna see click through and go check out jujitsu dummies, and it’s not jujitsu for Dummies. Okay, people, it’s jujitsu dummies, and it’s funny. It’s interactive. And you actually get a jest of the art of jujitsu and how it can actually be fun and creative in life lessons that are learned in it. You know, Milton was a heart attack survivor. He’s a jujitsu purple belt. He’s host again, like I said, at the jujitsu, dummies podcast, Executive Director of the jujitsu dummies foundation. He’s a marketing executive by day and a jujitsu practitioner podcaster by night one thing about his podcast is he’s filled a void that like other people have tried to start jujitsu podcasts and it’s it’s kind of hard it’s like, I used to joke when I wrestled in high school it’s like you know if you’re wrestling How would a commentator call a wrestling match? Yeah, the refs tap in the mat there must be a fire there. Oh, he’s pinned you know, it’s kind of like that with with jujitsu but he makes it and it makes it interactive and it’s just awesome and Milton thank you so much for coming on. Introduce yourself to time to say to time to shine today varsity squad but first What’s your favorite color and why brother?

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Can you tell it’s black

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black?

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Love it man.

Unknown Speaker  3:18  

I specifically because it’s slimming. See, you can’t see Milton right now. So the black is definitely my favorite color. I love it. And my gym colors are red and black. So it’s like you know Yeah,

Unknown Speaker  3:31  

beautiful man. And you train out of Coral Springs. Is that right?

Unknown Speaker  3:35  

I train out of fight sports in Coral Springs. Most people know Roberto Cyborg Abreu who owns essentially like like the franchise or you know he is the the main guy down in Miami. My school is in Coral Springs I train under Philippe and Sophia amarante. They are to my stripe. Yeah, three stripe black belts. Or you know some people will get we will be called stripes. You know, some people call it degrees in other in other disciplines, but we call it stripes. But that means I every stripe is I think about three years so they’ve had their black belts for almost, you know, they’re going on 10 years now. So, so yeah, so yeah, very proud to train under them. had a really nice training session last night. They beat us up pretty good. But uh, yeah, man love it. Yeah. You know, fighting under on to fight sports has a lot expected of you. It’s it’s really tough. You know, I would say tournament, you know, tournament style jujitsu right there you know that trade they helped. You know, they have a lot of fighters that are fighting in the UFC. You know, so you know, but you know, very tournament competition style, a little less, you know, street defense and more of that competition style. So, yeah, so Love it. Love it. Love training.

Unknown Speaker  4:46  

I love that and like So what was your introduction into the jitsu world man squad when I say Jetsons jujitsu? It’s just Yeah. What was your introduction brother?

Unknown Speaker  4:56  

So I mean, it really goes back to the days of watching boxing with my dad. When I was a kid, like you said, I mean, I’m not as old as you are. You said you’re 49 you said almost the same age. I’m 47 I mean, that’s like, right years away. So yeah, back when I was a kid, I’m sure you can remember, you know, Wide World of Sports on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Right. You know, boxing thing they used to do it in like the parking lot, sometimes the really big ones. Vegas, right? Yeah, I mean it my love of combat sports goes back that far. Growing up, I would watch boxing with my dad, as I got older. You know, I lived in New York originally, as a kid I moved to Florida when I was about 25. And my friends introduced me to the UFC. Now I’ve done a little bit of martial arts, I you know, I was very much when it came to sports, I start something quit few years. My game was soccer when I was a kid actually was a gymnast, as well. Those are the things I did for the longest like six, seven years each.

Unknown Speaker  5:53  

But, you know,

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started you know, you get a little older, you want a little learn a little self defense got in and out of different Taekwondo and some karate never set the cap with anything. When I moved to Florida, we had a nice little crew of friends and family that we’d all watch boxing together. And then Mike, I had some of my friends introduced me to the UFC and it was over from there. Just so you know, and that was in my 30s I didn’t get my starting jujitsu till I was 41. So this year, I’m six years in six years in purple belt started again right before my 41st birthday. So actually, it’s gonna be seven years in right yet. I’m 48 in June, so almost seven years in and, you know, just felt, I kind of tell people I was in love with jujitsu before I even stepped on the mat. I did a couple years of wrestling in junior high, which I still some of those little things that I use with takedowns and things I remember I use today. But you know, I fell in love with you Just before I even got the mat just watching it. I actually remember the look on my professor’s face. When he asked me about it. It was a brand new gym family friend said what do you know about Jiu Jitsu? And I’m like, Well, you know, I watch a lot of UFC. So I kind of get the gist of it. I you know, I kind of feel like I know what I’m doing a little bit more than the average. And he just smiled at me. And I didn’t realize what that smile meant to be folded me up into a pretzel later in the class. And, and then I realized what that smile meant, like, you have no clue what you’re about to get into. But I drank the punch. I have been addicted ever since you start first three, four years, two hours a day, six days a week open mats on the weekends. My wife thought I was coming. My girlfriend at the time my wife now. She hated jujitsu. She didn’t understand that addiction. And, you know, I would open the gym for my coach or sometimes I’d be there for five hours on a weekday. He was in law enforcement. So he might have to be out on a stakeout or you know, he would just be out of the gym. He’d Hand me the keys and say, could you not open for me tomorrow? I’m a white belt, opening a gym training the kids classes and, you know, again, just fell in love with it. But five hours in the gym on a Tuesday. She used to get a little upset with me. But fast forward. You know, I had a T shirt website at the time that was an MMA site. I slowly converted that to a jujitsu site. It’s now our podcast store started the podcast or may will be two years. And you know, everything’s about jujitsu, my what my wife loves to tell me that. I look like jujitsu threw up on me. Of course, I’ve got the tat. I’m always in a shirt. I didn’t wear my jujitsu hat today cuz she’s telling me that it’s a little too much sometimes. But I did with my, my podcasts.

Unknown Speaker  8:18  

Polo today. I love that you brought up humility, bro. And like, What? Where does humility kind of fit into the world of of Jiu Jitsu with? Yeah, like, you know, because a lot of people say it’s fighting, you know, that don’t know, about more control in not only controlling the other person but controlling your emotions are things What do you think humility fits in row?

Unknown Speaker  8:41  

I’m going to tell you a story that happened to me yesterday. And I think that this it’ll answer your question. You know, we really need to leave our ego at the door when it comes to jujitsu. And for people that don’t understand, this is not the same as other martial arts where, you know, a lot of times you’re you know, you’re doing your cottas in karate, and you’re doing your forms. And you know, Taekwondo, you might be you know, hitting some pads. And that’s a great training session, and I take nothing away from those people. But Scott, you and I both know, you know, when when you go to jujitsu, your role in that day rolling, sparring, fighting, whatever you want to call it, we’re getting dirty, we’re gonna where, you know, it’s, you know, fighting without the strikes, let’s call it that. And if you don’t leave your ego at the door, you’re going to get hurt, or you’re gonna hurt somebody else. Right? But last night, it was funny because I have a friend that’s about to do one of the Orlando ibjjf tournament in March.

Unknown Speaker  9:34  

And we were all really hard

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and somebody was recording us last night for him, but they wanted to show him to blue belt. I’m a purple belt. I’m on the cusp of brown if I could stay healthy. And he was recording us. And this is where he goes slips in. He was going pretty hard. And so you know, usually you know, especially as the higher belts, I’m going to raise my level to your level. I might let you catch me in some stuff. But this is where the It comes in where it’s really hard, especially when somebody is taping you to lead. So my ego crept in, they sent me the video showing it to my wife. And we, you know, we were rolling around, I basically tapped them once. Second time, he caught me and like, we were in a transition, he caught me in an armbar. But it was kind of loose. I, under any normal circumstances, I would have tapped to reset instead of let him like, jerk my arm around, right. And my ego crept in. And that humility wasn’t there. And I didn’t tap and you know, got out of it. And we continue to grapple

Unknown Speaker  10:32  

time turn that thumb that certain way or something, you know what he

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actually a

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kind of had it, you know, my elbow was just below the crotch. So he really couldn’t have it, he had to kind of get a little closer and he created too much distance you read in jujitsu, especially when you’re attacking spaces bad, you too much space, you know, for the submission. But my wife is looking at me, and she’s like, why’d you let him do that isn’t gonna support? You know, she kind of asked that question. You just asked me, aren’t you supposed to tap and just continue. And it’s like, my ego got, the better me somebody was recording and I let it creep in. So yeah, I think we always grapple with that part of it. It’s, you know, sometimes we go hard. I think everybody has maybe that one guy in the gym that they really don’t want to tap with tap to work maybe goes a little extra hard when you roll. And he’s actually one of my co hosts on the show, his name is Miguel, he’s actually one of my close, very good friend, I let my ego creep in. So I could have that could have hurt me, and I’m going to learn my lesson from that, whether somebody’s recording or not, next time, you know, Tap Reset, you know, let him get a little excited. I have to also say, he’s never tapped me yet. And he reminds me of that of that, like, I’m going to get you one day. So again, a little bit of ego crept in. Sure. But you know, long story short, is, we really do have to leave the ego at the door, you got it, you can’t let your you know, you got to be very humble. Humility is something that we discuss all the time. And we’ve got to know that if you don’t check that ego, you’re gonna usually wind up hurting yourself or somebody else, somebody so you know, it’s a tough game, but, but if you do the right things, you can, you know, last a long time and at 47. You know, I definitely see that black belt on the horizon, and I want to stay healthy and and continue to train is my way can

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you get that man, that’s gonna be amazing opportunity for you. So what do you think makes a great jujitsu? We’ll call it coach because the listeners are going to hear Yeah, so like, what do you think makes a great jujitsu teacher or coach,

Unknown Speaker  12:20  

I know, for me, again, Funny enough, I kind of relate my my background in marketing to this, and I was talking to somebody about this in my marketing, you know, marketing gig during the day, it was talking about, we were talking about training, and I feel the best coaches, they see kind of like, they kind of help you emphasize what you’re good at. You know, if I’m skinny with long legs, you know, I know triangles are going to be your game. So I’ve got to guide you to that path. I’m a bigger guy. I’m about 235, about 511. You know,

Unknown Speaker  12:58  

I

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got a nice little gut here that I could probably get rid of, but you know, work out, I tried to keep strong, but I’m a big guy. I’m the biggest and the oldest guy in my school. So, you know, my coaches know that I’m not going to spin around and flip around like a younger guy. So them showing me little things, you know, it’s a game of inches, showing me the little things that have worked for me in those positions are really helpful. And again, when I was talking to somebody about this yesterday, I was talking about emphasizing like, what are you strong about? What are you passionate about? And if I if I know those things about you, then I can help you be the best salesperson, I can help train you. And it’s the same thing with jujitsu if I can really see your strengths and your weaknesses, and say, well, don’t go here. Like, I hate getting stacked. Getting stacked when you got a little bit of a belly is is a nightmare. Yeah. So like learning how to, you know, kind of crawl with your shoulders and learning how to shrimp out properly. And, and again, maybe you just got a tap, right? But when you when a coach knows how to help you emphasize what you’re good at and what you should stay away from. I think that’s what makes a good coach. And that’s why I like my coach. He’s got a bad back. I got a little bit of a bad back which I’ve actually been getting better. But we’ve he teaches an incredible half guard game, you know where you’ve got one the lockdown if you familiar the lockdown, or the electric chair as Eddie Eddie Bravo calls it, bravo. He’s one of my coaches one three, he’s undefeated in fight to win, he’s got three wins, all with the electric chair, all within a transition of a sweep tool. It’s like a leg like a knee or leg lock. So like, I’m really strong there let you attack and and I’m going to take advantage of with my strength, I’m going to be able to take advantage of that position. So So yeah, again, you know, a good coach is someone who’s going to help you kind of restrain your play to your strengths and teach you the things that you that you need to know. They’re gonna make you better not trying to turn you into something you’re not

Unknown Speaker  14:50  

got it. So when somebody kind of comes in, is say a newbie, we’ll just call them up and they kind of come in. And when you’re having that first discussion about jujitsu What how does that conversation go? Whatever you put, but let’s ask it this way. Is there any good question that you would want them to ask you when starting their jujitsu journey?

Unknown Speaker  15:15  

You know, I love one of the questions that we asked on the show when we almost said we have like a group of four or five questions that we ask every guest. And one of them is what would you go back and tell the white belt you the moment before you stepped on the map for the first time? What would you tell yourself? And I do I like when people engage, like, you know, you know, they’ll usually say, you know, how do you like this? How long have you been doing it? That’s great. But I really do like to ask them the question, why are you here? Right? What are you here for self defense? You know, we’ve got law enforcement officers that are that are doing it for their job. You know, are you some kid that got fell in love with the UFC and you feel like you’re going to, you know, be training MMA? Why are you here, and again, just like we said, playing to your strengths. If I know why you’re here, I know how to help you. Now, I’m not a coach at my school I’ve coached before I’m not a coach at my school, I’d love to be and if I had more time, but I do love coaching people, you know what, as a higher belt, you’re always coaching the guys that are below you, you know, if you if you’re good at what you do, and you’re a good student, yourself, you should be coaching the guys that come behind you. So really understanding why they’re there. And then just like we said before, helping them emphasize their strengths, or what they’re looking for. So somebody that’s looking for, you know, more of the health aspects, or maybe they’re having to look into lose weight. Okay, listen, you need to be running on your own. Before you get here, make sure you stretch, you know, do these things, you know, do an extra five push ups when we’re doing the warm ups, you know, do something a little bit more. If you’re truly doing this for law enforcement. You know, my school may not be the best school for you. I interviewed a guy got from a website or Instagram handled jujitsu, five. Oh, and he is a police officer who actually trains other police officers in their academy. So again, you know, we might not be the right school if you’re looking for straight law enforce my school right now where I am, I said this before fight sports as a whole is very much a tournament jujitsu style. So you know, a lot of times we start with starting on the ground, sometimes, well, you’re not going to be starting on the ground when you’re making an arrest. So understanding what they’re looking for will help us guide them in their journey. And it’s sometimes maybe we’re not the right school, American Top Team down the road. You know, if you want to be an MMA, you want to be in the cage. We’re just doing straight jujitsu, you should be over there learning stand up grounded pound MMA, MMA true MMA. So you know, that would really be my advice, or or how I would handle it in that situation.

Unknown Speaker  17:32  

Beautiful. I love that answer is very transparent. So who has had the most profound impact on your jujitsu practice?

Unknown Speaker  17:39  

Oh, I would say probably my first coach, my first coach, and he we don’t speak unfortunately, now, so I’m not gonna say his name. But he was, I was lucky enough to, to train with him when his school first opened. So literally, and I got my I got my blue belt in six months, and really, actually seven months, because I asked him, Hey, hold off, because I wanted to this next tournament, my first tournament ever at white belt, I said, Can you just do the ceremony in February, because I’d really like to do at least one tournament at white belt, which I did got double gold and good nogi. And they actually put me in with guys, half my age, I was very proud of the of that performance. But you know, it was just me and him some days. So I was a, you know, I hear I’m standing in front of a black belt, who’s a friend, I could ask him anything, we could, you know, we would train for two hours sometimes. And it just be the two of us are very small classes. So I just the interaction with your coach without there being 20 other students in the class, I mean, that had a huge impact on me. And I was able to move very, very quickly from from, you know, just white to blue, because of that, that that personal attention. We also became very, very good friends at that time. So it was you know, training with them and then going to his house to watch a UFC The next night, you know, and asking him questions, and you know, you’d be in his house and be like, hey, how do you do this? And I remember that movie where but you know, having just that encyclopedia right in front of you was incredible. So he definitely had the biggest impact. Very sad that we kind of drifted apart when he goes to school. It happens. But yeah, you know, definitely had the most profound effects on me and my jujitsu to this day.

Unknown Speaker  19:23  

lucky enough to

Unknown Speaker  19:24  

he was to 65 and shorter than me. So big dude wrestle Jihad Judo, brown belt, jujitsu, black belt, wrestled in high school, law enforcement, so he knew he knew everything, right. So, you know, learning from somebody that was big like me and learning how to maneuver my weight in the right ways to get the outcome that I wanted. I still use those. And I was with him for I think that two years, I still use those tactics and methods that he taught me today.

Unknown Speaker  19:54  

The thanks for being transparent about all that, you know, I’m 61 I’m 265. So like, I get stacked like now on the class. Cuz I didn’t know what it was, but but you learned to breathe through things really quickly. Yeah. So how about what’s the worst advice you’ve ever been given in jujitsu?

Unknown Speaker  20:09  

Ah, the

Unknown Speaker  20:13  

worst advice that I’ve ever been given, you know, I’m gonna maybe kind of change that question a little bit and say,

Unknown Speaker  20:21  

I got really bad advice.

Unknown Speaker  20:24  

I’m sorry. Because I’m thinking in the back of my head, as you say that, I would say probably the worst thing that I’ve heard in jujitsu, let me say it this way. Everybody says no politics. You know, all of our gyms are competitive. All of our coaches know each other. Some of them don’t like each other, because they open in each other’s backyards. Right.

Unknown Speaker  20:45  

So,

Unknown Speaker  20:46  

you know, somebody’s preaching in front of standing in front of me saying, No, no politics. Listen, no coach likes to see you online training at another gym at an open that, you know, there’s a respect thing involved and you want to, you know, talk to you.

Unknown Speaker  20:58  

Again,

Unknown Speaker  20:59  

I can’t call it advice, but Oh, yeah, yeah, there’s no power don’t go anywhere with a political guy down the road. And they’re all political. And I get that, as I’m not a gym owner. So I get to, you know, I’m interviewing other gym owners in the area and in other parts of the country. So again, that’s not necessarily a piece of advice. I can’t think of anything off the top of my head advice wise, but I can certainly say that when they stand in front of me telling Yeah, no politics Don’t get involved with that stuff. Meanwhile, they don’t like the guy down the road. I always kind of, you know, laughing to myself.

Unknown Speaker  21:29  

When you saw the movie Back to the Future, right?

Unknown Speaker  21:31  

Oh, yeah. All right.

Unknown Speaker  21:32  

So let’s get that DeLorean with Marty McFly. Let’s go back to the 22 year old you know, Martin, what kind of knowledge nuggets are you dropping out from a jujitsu? I’m talking life standpoint right now what kind of knowledge nuggets so we call him here. Time to shine today. Kind of knowledge, I guess Are you dropping on the 22 year old Milton to help them level up shortness learning curve and blast through maybe a little quick.

Unknown Speaker  21:53  

You know, one of the biggest things that I do that I wish I was doing from the very beginning, stretching, yoga, taking care of my body outside of jujitsu as a whole. That’s I’m just really starting to do that properly. Now. I wake up in the morning, I have a massage gun. So almost from from neck down, down. Literally, the neck down to my calves gets massage. Yeah, got one of those. Massage gun, massage gun, I’ve got the so right, I use it on the front and the back, it gets in all the little crevices. That’s the chirp wheel. I’ve got the little contraption that you put on your neck and you kind of put it on the door or a banister, right and it pulls the neck you lay. I’ve got it all. I wish I was doing those things from my the beginning of my journey. Yoga would have solved a lot of problems for me. Yoga again, it’s not just stretching. probably helped me with kind of my weight when I first started. But really, you know, as a whole taking care of my body off the mat. Yeah, sleep, eating rice. I’m just really, excuse me starting to do those things now. And I really wish that I was doing those from the beginning. So that’s the best advice that I can give myself or anyone else that’s going

Unknown Speaker  23:07  

to do jujitsu thank you for saying that. It’s funny. I started I got on a mat yoga, three mornings a week and Ashtanga and Juno Beach and it is life changing man. I mean it got rid of all my plantar fasciitis actually created space on my C five c six and all that Yeah, the the falls I took on the mat so that know that thank you for saying that. being transparent about that. So Milton, how do you want your dash remembered man that little that little line in between your incarnation date and your expiration date man your lifetime that they How do you want Milton’s dash remember?

Unknown Speaker  23:36  

Somebody asked me this question the other day and I kind of think I answered it wrong. You know, if somebody said as it relates, like when I ask sometimes I have like a group of questions that I ask and I’ll always like what’s your one of them? Is that what’s your biggest regret? I always say as it relates to jujitsu so that we don’t you know, we’re like stay within the jujitsu realm. And when I answered that, I answered it just like I was would ask it and said it kind of within the realm of jujitsu like now I want to continue to be an ambassador for jujitsu but I you know, as I get older, you know, really want to be known as a good dad, a good husband provider. As as it relates to jujitsu if I bring Jiu Jitsu into that jujitsu has taught me how to be a better person, be more patient. You know, I preach you know, being healthy and eating healthy. I had a heart attack a few years ago, so you know, going I don’t want to say vegan but getting rid of meats and cold cuts and you know, kind of living just, you know, putting better fuel in my body going back to the food that I put in my body is fuel right good in good out. So, you know, as it relates to jujitsu, I you know, I always you know, I like that it’s made me a better person. But you know, at the end of the day, I want to be a good dad, a good husband, a good provider. And, you know, I think martial arts. If I had been in martial arts when I was younger, I don’t know if I would have stayed with it because I said, and I quit a lot of sports when I was a kid. Sure. I think I found it when I needed it. I found jujitsu when I needed it. And in my 40s, you know, as a single guy, dating businesses, you know, my business wasn’t going so great. But, you know, and it really helped to get rid of the stresses of the day. And I was able to come back, you know, you know, you go a good training session, you go in with not feeling well, strat, you know, just some bricks on the shoulder from that day, you get when somebody is putting their foot on your neck, or about to choke you, or they’ve got a leg that’s, you know, being put into a precarious position. You’re not so worried about how much money is in the bank at that moment, or that that order that you didn’t get from your best client or that deal you didn’t close? And I’d say for a good couple of hours after that, I put it this way I tell my wife, if you want to argue if you’re mad at me and you we’re gonna have an argument, do it after jujitsu because you’re gonna win every time. You’re gonna win every time because I am going to be the I’m going to be like a bowl of jello. That’s when you need to talk to me about stuff when I’ve just had a really stressful day. And you know, maybe I didn’t get that sale that I thought was coming through or somebody cancels whatever to come home and like hey, we’ve got to talk about this thing that’s very important and life changing You know, I’m going to be on edge I’m going to be you know, I’m ready for that battle. But when it comes out of jujitsu, that’s all gone. I mean, you can really like pour me pour me into my car when I’m when I’m done. Because that’s like the that hour two hours is probably I forgotten about everything right? Every I’m not thinking about anything I’m in my car. I’m smiling nearly got my favorite music. Right right home that 15 minute ride home is probably the you know this other than the roles and the training. That’s my second best 15 minutes of the day. That it’s just like everything is gone, man. It’s like this is what life could be.

Unknown Speaker  26:49  

I love it. I love it brings you this serenity bro in Yeah, what’s one thing that you think people misunderstand about you the most?

Unknown Speaker  26:55  

About Jiu Jitsu?

Unknown Speaker  26:57  

about you? Oh, about me?

Unknown Speaker  27:00  

Well, we’ll get this Hi. Yeah, that I trained karate. That’s one annoying one. But I would say personally, you know, because if you can’t tell, I talk for a living. I do sales for a living. When I was in my 20s I speak very loud. I’m from New York on top of

Unknown Speaker  27:20  

York, bro. Yeah. You know,

Unknown Speaker  27:22  

I walk around

Unknown Speaker  27:24  

with you know, if I can, you know read resting bitchface my wife says Why do you look so mean? And she’s like, she she tells me she loves it. But why do you look so mean in the same breath? You know what I just used to be in like, I love to smile. I’m a jokester. I love to have fun. I started a funny t shirt website was my first website just because I wanted to be surrounded by laughter all day. But you know, being from New York and just having to put on that tough facade you know, I’ll just walk around with a straight face like nobody’s gonna want to bother me because I’m gonna look like I’m gonna kill them. But I’m not I’m a big freakin teddy bear. I’m not like us you know, I’m I got this nice you know, soft center. Right? So I think most people will look at me see my size here about jujitsu and think like,

Unknown Speaker  28:06  

Oh,

Unknown Speaker  28:08  

yeah, if I if I have to raise my voice, especially like at work if I’ve had to raise my voice, it’s like, oh my god, Milton’s gonna kill somebody. I’m never I’m not gonna punch somebody out or put them in a chokehold. That’s for me. That’s for my stress relief. That’s for protecting myself and my family. I’m never going to use it in an aggressive you know, nature. And and I can’t say that’s always been you know, before jujitsu. I can’t say those. That same thing. Yeah, it might have been a little bit more aggressive, but it taught me how to relax a little bit. But I think most people see this you know, my bald head under here, my shaved head I you know, look like I might be a hoodlum. If I’m wearing baggy pants that day. And I think just people don’t realize until they talk to me. They’re like, Oh, well, here’s my frickin softy. You know, your foundation. I’m giving away money. I give away stuff on my like, I love to give away and to do things for others. So I think once they get to know me, they’re like, holy crap. I

Unknown Speaker  28:57  

had you wrong. I love it.

Unknown Speaker  28:58  

That’s That’s funny. I get that resting bitchface

Unknown Speaker  29:01  

Yeah. I cross the street if I was if I saw you on the side of the road, I probably cross to the other side too.

Unknown Speaker  29:09  

Hey, we’re back with my guy. Milton Kappas from jujitsu dummies move into our leveling up lightning round in love it Milton, like you and I could talk for hours on each one of these questions. You got five seconds I’m gonna cut you off. Oh, okay. So whatever comes into your head and all of them can be answered quickly. Okay, ready to rock?

Unknown Speaker  29:29  

Let’s do it. I don’t know if like five seconds is short, but let’s do it. No, I

Unknown Speaker  29:32  

know but you got to I got let’s level up. What’s the best leveling up advice you’ve ever received? Focus, love it. share one of your personal habits that contributes to your success.

Unknown Speaker  29:47  

level of training. Love it, daddy.

Unknown Speaker  29:50  

lat not outside of jujitsu dummies. Calm and time to shine today.com my shameless plug. What other website do you go to to level up

Unknown Speaker  30:01  

I love Jeffrey Gitomer prefer for sales but it also helps with life.

Unknown Speaker  30:05  

He has a lot of really cool books. Beautiful. So now that kind of leads into this question, if I’m in my doldrums just not feeling it, like Fergie read this book. What’s the book?

Unknown Speaker  30:16  

Oh, wow. A jujitsu University is my go to because it’s a you know, it’s a manual for jujitsu,

Unknown Speaker  30:23  

that’s my go to love it. Any charity organization like to give your time and or money to

Unknown Speaker  30:28  

Wi Fi Foundation and the jujitsu dummies Foundation, we award scholarships to first responders and veterans

Unknown Speaker  30:33  

and kids.

Unknown Speaker  30:34  

frickin love that man, especially the veteran side, we do a ton here. Last question. You can elaborate just a little bit on this one, man. But what’s the best decade of music? 6070s 80s or 90s? What’s the best decade of music? 6070s 80s and

Unknown Speaker  30:47  

90s? Come on. That’s not a question. That’s like stating fact. I mean, ladies r&d, come on East Coast. Next class to give you a better one than that when

Unknown Speaker  30:59  

we’re done, man, tell us about jujitsu dummies podcast,

Unknown Speaker  31:04  

the jujitsu dummies podcast that we’ve been around for maybe two years. It was, you know, I put it this way. I never thought about podcasting in my life, ever I didn’t think was gonna be something I did. The only podcast I probably listened to was Joe Rogan once in a while, if I wanted to listen to the podcast, and I, you know, out, you know, you know, training sessions, go have a beer or some pizza in the evening with some friends go watch a fight. And the stories that I would hear from some of my, you know, kind of like higher belts, I’d be like, Man, I wish that white belts can hear us talking about this, that they This is the stuff that they need. And I walked away from those a couple of times. And then finally, one day, I just told my wife, I said, I’m thinking about doing a podcast. And I told her why. And the first words, I thought she was going to tell me again, she says, you just throw up on me. So like enough with the jujitsu, we’re ready. And she goes, Oh, that’s really cool. You know, there’s some guys that film a podcast in my office, you can come do it in the conference from there and I was just like, eyes bulge out of my head, we’re eating dinner. And inside, I was just like, I can’t believe she just said I could do this. Because without her support, I really couldn’t have any. That’s our podcast originally before. COVID was a round table of four to five, sometimes six jujitsu players, our coach would come in, we had guests coming in. My one of my newer hosts is was a former two time guest. He’s a permanent part of the show. Now, we would sit around and just talk about jujitsu. Now, we had to go more to the interview format, because you know, kind of doing this because of COVID. But we’re going to be moving into a bigger studio where we can go back to those roundtables as we can bring guests in, I do film in my house right now, this is my kind of home studio. So you know, it’s very uncomfortable to number one kick my wife and my daughter off the internet so that it doesn’t disturb the feed. You know, I don’t know if you’ve been there to, you know, to just have strangers come in the house. I’m rolling around with these guys. But you know, not always and to have strangers come in the house. So we’re moving into another studio, and hopefully going back to that roundtable format with our guests coming in. Because it’s really, really fun to have them sitting right there. So, you know, it’s just it’s expanded into this, you know, or grown into this interview style where we’re having some really big names on the show. I have Brandon mccaslin coming on next weekend. Aaron Hurley. She’s a world champion. I mentioned to you before the podcast with Richard Pressler, who is Horry and Gracie, his first official student in the US. He’s coming on. He just wrote a book he’s gonna be on in March, the first weekend of March. So we got some just really good things happening. And just you know, it’s growing. And it’s funny because now people call us to be on the show where I used to, like hit people up on Instagram, like, Hey, would you like to be on my podcast? You know, now it’s grown into this thing where people know who we are. And we’re kind of like a stop on the road of jujitsu podcasts. Like if you want to get to be known, or you’re doing a tournament like hey, you know, you got a big event coming and fight to win. Hey, call let’s get with Milton. He’ll have you on the show. And you could talk about and you know, shine some light on what you’re doing. I love having we mentioned veterans. We define ambassador, two of my hosts or we define ambassadors as well. We kind of say the show is that we define ambassador, and they award scholarships to wounded combat veterans. We also run the jujitsu Foundation, and separate from the podcast, it’s its own foundation, but we actually award scholarships to children, just children doing cool things good things out in the world, and veterans and first responders we haven’t awarded to those two yet we’ve done to children, and our next one’s going to be a veteran, but just people doing really, really cool things out in the world in their community. It’s our first two podcast our first two awardees were Bridger Walker, the little boy who got bitten the face protecting his sister. She’s our very first scholarship winner Bridget Walker’s dad Robert is a is a lifetime Patreon supporter now is a an official kind of, you know, is on our Hall of Fame here. But Bridger was our first and then our second was a little girl who’s been raising money through it. organization called tap cancer out who we’ve also had on the show whose mother is battling cancer. So colon cancer so she raises money through tap cancer out. She gets to do their tournaments for free go to the tournament and compete in the top cancer out tournament. So those were two amazing kids and our veterans and first responders have a lot to live up to. So we’re looking to award our next scholarships sometime between February and March. But so that’s what the show’s allowed us to do. We give away tons of stuff on the show, gear CBD from sponsors, t shirts, GIS, if I can get my hands on it, I’m giving it away. I don’t keep it for myself, I might give it to you know, some of our my co hosts but you know, that’s what our show is about talking about Jiu Jitsu shining light on some really cool people within our world and given lots of stuff away.

Unknown Speaker  35:47  

I love it and I love what you’re doing for the veterans people that you know know me know I did six tours from 997 so it’s been a it’s nice to local community here in South Florida. And everyone knows I’m you know, the unifier, you know, the veterans of Palm Beach, I’m involved in all of that stuff here. And also,

Unknown Speaker  36:04  

maybe you could send us some suggestions on somebody, a worthy veteran, somebody who maybe you want to get into jujitsu doesn’t have to be somebody that both of those winners that I mentioned, we’re both already doing jujitsu, okay, we’d love to find a veteran that’s doing some really cool stuff that maybe you know, could would want to try to just you so you know, maybe you can help us out with that off the

Unknown Speaker  36:21  

air. Absolutely. Brother will definitely appreciate that. You bet. And I’m also going to give away the orange jujitsu for dummies jujitsu, dummies t shirt, podcast t shirt, the first one that comments positively either LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook and the time to shine today handles there. So once it’s in there, I’ll make sure that I get the money over to my boy Milton and have him mail that out to you. Maybe he’ll take care of the postage. If not, I’ll add that to the Venmo. I send him

Unknown Speaker  36:53  

It’s on me. I said that’s on me. Awesome. I’ll take care of the whole thing. Don’t worry about it. Let me know

Unknown Speaker  36:58  

when you got a winner. In squad This is a lot different than a lot of the people that I’ve that I’ve interviewed most of the people are coaches, consultants and whatnot. But I was so stoked to have Milton Come on. He’s someone that believes in humility, he leaves the ego at the door because he doesn’t want to hurt himself or others. He emphasizes that a great coach, a jujitsu coach is going to help you with your strengths and help you stay away from your weaknesses. And that’s what happens in life anyways, you know, if you’re starting your jujitsu journey, you know, ask yourself why you’re doing it. Why are you here is the studio or the school gonna be the right fit for you. And if you’re working with a coach, ask them what they’re going to do to hold you accountable. If you’re going to start working with a jujitsu coach, ask them what they’re going to do to hold you accountable as well. So you can work together as a cohesive team, you know, he’s gonna, you know, Milton tells us make sure you’re stretching, get into yoga, get into plyometrics stuff is going to help you be elastic, because trust me, you don’t want to go through what me and Milton went through in our 40s. If we would have started back in our 20s to be a hell of a lot different. He’s going to be remembered as a legacy of a teacher, a good father, an awesome husband and a provider. You want you to stay mindful and present and always focus and Milton, you’re humble you’re hungry you level up your health you level up your well. Thank you so much for coming on, brother. It’s been nothing short of a pleasure. Thank you, man.

Unknown Speaker  38:11  

appreciate you having me.

Unknown Speaker  38:12  

Awesome. You got your varsity letter brother.

Unknown Speaker  38:14  

Thank you, man.

Unknown Speaker  38:15  

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