Jun 3, 2026 · 30 min · 12 segments
Hey, thanks for waiting. Jetlag drove me to planning this episode, maybe I should consider not sleeping more often during regular weeks and we could get some more podcasts out. I went to California…
Um, I was sitting away typing half four in the morning, Mazzy Star's Fade Into You on repeat and a cup of tea, and I was just really thinking when I was, like, compiling notes and thought that the last seven days, uh, the trip to California was one of the most important trips and experiences that I have had as long as I've been doing jujitsu.
But I think I can now understand why nothing in the sport of Brazilian jujitsu comes close to the Pyramid in Long Beach in California.
The Walter Pyramid, as it was renamed in 2005.Like year after year, you would see content, photos from the steps outside Mike and Arlene Walter Pyramid just above the main en- entrance of this unbelievably phenomenal structure.
Uh, I was man- meant to fly there to compete at Purple Belt in 2019, and I pulled out of going the day before because the type of, uh, existence I had at the time, I was, like, anxious as mad, like, an- I was anxious as hell.
I left a friend, uh, to travel solo, um, which was something that I was aware of while I was heading there last week and realizing, playing in my mind, it was like, right, six ...
Um, I was sitting away typing half four in the morning, Mazzy Star's Fade Into You on repeat and a cup of tea, and I was just really thinking when I was, like, compiling notes and thought that the last seven days, uh, the trip to California was one of the most important trips and experiences that I have had as long as I've been doing jujitsu.
But I think I can now understand why nothing in the sport of Brazilian jujitsu comes close to the Pyramid in Long Beach in California.
The Walter Pyramid, as it was renamed in 2005.Like year after year, you would see content, photos from the steps outside Mike and Arlene Walter Pyramid just above the main en- entrance of this unbelievably phenomenal structure.
Uh, I was man- meant to fly there to compete at Purple Belt in 2019, and I pulled out of going the day before because the type of, uh, existence I had at the time, I was, like, anxious as mad, like, an- I was anxious as hell.
I left a friend, uh, to travel solo, um, which was something that I was aware of while I was heading there last week and realizing, playing in my mind, it was like, right, six ...
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