For Fighters Only - Gregorio Di Leo- Interview with Jadi Tention (Karate) — Transcript

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1. 0:05why in the 21 century do you think
2. 0:08people still fighting or we supposed to
3. 0:10fight because let's say that this is a
4. 0:12kind of ritual we transform fighting
5. 0:14ritual where we we challenge ourselves
6. 0:17but main thing is why still do you think
7. 0:21we are there and fighting and people
8. 0:23like go in the cage or do karate or do
9. 0:27jiujitsu what's what's the point we
10. 0:29don't need it
11. 0:30we we used to need it when we were like
12. 0:32maybe in the
13. 0:33jungle but now what's the point I think
14. 0:36from from the physical stand board the
15. 0:38the most juvenile part of fighting which
16. 0:40is the violence the I knocked you out I
17. 0:43put you in the arm bar I submitted you I
18. 0:45hit you with a blitz that is the most
19. 0:47juvenile part of the fight but the fight
20. 0:49is an expression you know we it's it's a
21. 0:53part of how we express ourselves and
22. 0:54it's not necessarily for me it's not
23. 0:57necessarily the violence it's the
24. 0:59strategy is my mind against your mind
25. 1:02and can I make adjustments to your
26. 1:03adjustments and can I overcome what
27. 1:06you're trying to do to me and I think
28. 1:08it's the acknowledgement of your
29. 1:09opponent and is and being one with
30. 1:11yourself H paying attention to all the
31. 1:14details and being in the moment of just
32. 1:16our minds you know and then when you and
33. 1:19then when you don't uh like I said when
34. 1:22you engage it's a mind thing it's a odd
35. 1:24thing if I you kick if I do this if we
36. 1:26can feel each other's energy it's a un
37. 1:29if you don't fight you could never
38. 1:30really understand what I'm saying but
39. 1:32it's a unsaid energy between two
40. 1:34competitors two people trying to get
41. 1:37their agenda across with the same rules
42. 1:39with this knowing the same techniques
43. 1:41can I outsmart you can I control your
44. 1:43distance can you control my distance and
45. 1:45I think that the thrill of that to me
46. 1:48the the my autistic expression I'm just
47. 1:50expressing myself it's an expression
48. 1:52when when I do what I'm doing it's just
49. 1:53me expressing my point of view for the
50. 1:56problem that you present to me I'm just
51. 1:58let me let me express my solution to the
52. 2:00problem in every fighter gives you a
53. 2:02different problem like in life everybody
54. 2:04gives you a different in life life gives
55. 2:06you different problems different
56. 2:07situation and how can you adjust to not
57. 2:10paying the bills or your wife wants a
58. 2:11divorce or your kids are being bad in
59. 2:13school or you can adjust to each problem
60. 2:16and that's the same thing as fight it's
61. 2:17just an expression it's just we fight
62. 2:19every day you fight to keep your wife
63. 2:21you fight to keep your lights you fight
64. 2:22to pay the car bill the phone bill it's
65. 2:24a fight it's a struggle every day and
66. 2:27how you could have make those
67. 2:28adjustments and that's what I get out of
68. 2:29it I just love the beauty of two minds
69. 2:33not not the not the elbow or the knee or
70. 2:35the kick it's your mind against my mind
71. 2:38who can make who can see all the details
72. 2:41that's that's what I think why I love to
73. 2:43fight and it's not it's not again it's
74. 2:45not the violence it's the strategy and
75. 2:47and and are we willing to prepare the
76. 2:49preparation for it you know the visual
77. 2:52visualization of it the spirituality the
78. 2:54feeling that brings you even in De feat
79. 2:57you got to be a special type you have to
80. 2:58be a special person to get punched
81. 3:00kicked submitted taken down elbowed and
82. 3:04get up the next day and do the same
83. 3:05thing again with a smile on your face
84. 3:07everybody can't do that so you know I I
85. 3:10think that it's a special mindset though
86. 3:13and I I I think that Fighters are in
87. 3:15tune with that because under the right
88. 3:16circumstances all of us can be Killers
89. 3:19but it's like a
90. 3:20controlled organized
91. 3:23aggression but but mentally though you
92. 3:27know so I I I think that's why I like to
93. 3:29fight I mean and when I say fight I
94. 3:31don't just mean tournaments or it's just
95. 3:34getting up and competing to challenge
96. 3:37myself and again that that reflects in
97. 3:39my whole life my whole life everything
98. 3:41that I self just just read the last self
99. 3:44experiment I call this SE self
100. 3:46experimentation to grow you need to self
101. 3:49experiment you need to to do something
102. 3:51that you were not used to and you need
103. 3:53to even to try something that you don't
104. 3:56know even where it's going to bring
105. 3:58absolutely okay
106. 4:00and what's the what's your point about
107. 4:03self experimentation if you if you have
108. 4:05done some something in which feeli
109. 4:09what's what's your point about that uh I
110. 4:11I think that it it goes back to Faith
111. 4:14belie the belief in a seen and unseen uh
112. 4:16I think that we all have to believe in
113. 4:18something greater than ourselves may you
114. 4:20don't have to be God whatever you ever
115. 4:21want to call it we all have to believe
116. 4:23in something greater than ourselves it
117. 4:24makes us strive to another level and I
118. 4:27think like what you said that
119. 4:28self-expression
120. 4:30that that when you self-explore yourself
121. 4:32but the thing is it's not the self
122. 4:35exploration of yourself it's the mindset
123. 4:39that you tell yourself I have to do that
124. 4:42that's that's the key the the ability to
125. 4:43say it's not enough there's something
126. 4:46more that means you're searching for
127. 4:48something more you're not satisfied and
128. 4:50if you're not satisfied you desire to be
129. 4:52greater than yourself you challenge
130. 4:54yourself to be at another level and I
131. 4:57think that's the god in all of us the
132. 4:58the thing that says there's more there's
133. 5:00no matter what I'm not ego is the thing
134. 5:02that stops US ego is the thing that
135. 5:04makes us go I'm there I'm good enough
136. 5:07this is this is the moment that I'm at
137. 5:09but I think that that humility that the
138. 5:11that's the that's the most
139. 5:13purest part of the that voice that we
140. 5:15all have to say this not enough more
141. 5:18more more and our egos go no no you're
142. 5:21good you're good you're good but the
143. 5:23humility in you the GU and you'll go
144. 5:25more more strive for more strive for if
145. 5:28if if man didn't have that the only the
146. 5:31the only institution that that that does
147. 5:33not respect change is the
148. 5:35cemetery but life is always changing
149. 5:38that's why caterpillars turn to
150. 5:39butterflies it's a it's a change that's
151. 5:41why the that's why the leaves go away in
152. 5:43the winter and they come back in the
153. 5:44summer it's change it's always Evolution
154. 5:47it's always down so something dies so
155. 5:49something could grow and sometimes the
156. 5:51old us has to die so the new us can grow
157. 5:54but in the get to get that you have to
158. 5:56explore yourself and you have to be
159. 5:58honest honest with yourself and some of
160. 6:00us don't like the the reflection in the
161. 6:02mirror we look in the mirror and it's
162. 6:04dirt on our face and we wipe the mirror
163. 6:06the mirror is not dirty it's ourselves
164. 6:08and we have to be honest with ourselves
165. 6:10to have a clean face and I think and I
166. 6:13think it's go goes to the point that
167. 6:14what you just said you have to be honest
168. 6:16with yourself to
169. 6:17grow yes absolutely great J thank you
170. 6:21got to be
171. 6:249,772 appreciate that my man thank you
172. 6:26man I hope you enjoy no that's good