On today’s episode Sifu Dan Anderson returns to discuss the power of facing Adversity and what you let it mean to you. During our discussion we’ll cover the impact that our journey through ADVERSITY has on others, embracing the hero’s journey, and what to do when you feel like you’re never going to get there.
Sifu Dan Anderson is the founder and head instructor of Anderson’s Martial Arts Academy, New York City’s oldest training center for all areas of Martial Sport and Combat through the true lineage of Bruce lee’s Jeet Kune Do (JKD) concepts, Filipino Kali, Muay Thai, and Brazilian Jujitsu. In his two plus decades as an instructor, Sifu Anderson has created a true community of martial development and education. Over the years, he has had the privilege to teach thousands of students – helping them find their path, and gain lifelong knowledge and ability in the arts.
You can learn more about Sifu Anderson here: https://www.andersonsmartialarts.com/dan-anderson/
Episode Transcript:
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In this episode of Acta Non Verba, we hear part two of my interview with Sifu Dan Anderson, founder and head instructor of Anderson’s Martial Arts Academy in New York City. In part one, we talked about his martial arts philosophy, how protecting your family can and should be a driving motivator.
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and how to cultivate your inner warrior. You can hear part one on episode 39 of Okta Non-Verba. In part two, Sifu Anderson shares how the adversity that he went through at a young age has truly shaped the man, martial artist, and instructor that he is today. Please enjoy. You know, I don’t know if you remember when they killed this kid, Eric Garner, in New York. They interviewed me for one of these.
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I forgot the news channel they interviewed me and they were like, the police are going to do this hammer locks. This is a basic arm lock, a bent arm lock, right? And they’re like, do you think that they’ll be able to do this tactic and they can control a kid? And I said, no. And the producer stopped it. Of course you do. And can you just kind of like, you know, well, all right, I can rephrase it. Let me reframe it. So then it gets back on. They’re like, okay, go. And it’s like,
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Well, I think it’s going to be very difficult for anyone who doesn’t train martial arts just to apply martial art techniques. You may know the technique. Sure. I know how to play football, but I can’t play football. You know, I follow along in sports. I see baseball and I see basketball and sure. My father-in-law’s sitting here screaming at the TV, but he couldn’t play a single lick and he has no clue why that guy didn’t pass the ball to that other guy because we’re just watching it. We can follow it.
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but we can’t do it. You can’t do it unless you practice it and do it to where there’s so much repetition built in that you can do it on instinct. And that takes a long time. So they kept it, they kept it in there. But my point to everything is like, if you’re not prepared, you’re not gonna make it up. So it was so funny because one of my friends told me what a prepper was. Cause you know, you have this weird thing with preppers. You’re like, prepper, because then you’re a prepper. And I’m like,
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I’m not a prepper, those guys on that show with the thing. Everything’s stacked up to the ceiling. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he goes, no, you are. You’re a prepper. You’re a modern day prepper. You’re a smart prepper. So I go, what does it mean? He goes, it just means prepared. And I go, OK, then yeah, I am a prepper. But at first, I didn’t know the meaning, right? And I took it this weird way. But when pandemic happened, we were so prepared. I have like,
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five months of food rationed in the basement, two 55 gallon drums of water, the purification tablets, all this stuff. I had all those masks, I had 195 masks in my bug out bag. I had all this stuff, but being prepared for a weapons encounter, you can’t do anything but training. You have to go and seek out an instructor and train it.
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The hard part is like what you and I have been talking about loosely through the whole conversation is about will they be ethical? I mean, I’m not going to pull out a knife and be like, Marcus, you took my parking light. So you really kind of have to nurture and mold that student or you can turn them into like one of these crazy guys. Yeah, it’s easy to do. And I think again, this goes back to the ethics and the ethos. So many people now, if somebody cuts me off in traffic or takes a parking spot that I’m trying to get into.
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truly around what a real threat is compared to what my interpretation of what a threat is. And now the adrenaline is jumping in my body over this thing that really, in the grand scheme of things, I just drive on and go to the next place. Maybe I’ll walk an extra block to where I have to go. But to some people, that to them is, there’s this entire escalation of force. I’m going to do this and do this. And I’ve got my blade. I can draw it here. It’s like… They used to beef me. Yeah, I would lose my mind. My friends hit something to me.
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And it’s a rule now in my life. I never argue with strangers. Mm-mm. So smart. Guy said something to me. I look at him. I’m like, I just leave. And I try not to let it enter me. Before, when I was younger, I kind of proved points. I’m going to slap him right now. I’m going to hit him. I’m going to go crazy on him. But why argue with someone you don’t know? And I was like, wow, that’s really smart. He’s like, yeah, Dan, you’re pushing.
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yourself closer to the target. And he goes, you’re trained to do that, but you have to train yourself to walk away, which is gonna be hard for you. And he goes, why would you argue with a stranger? You don’t know him, you don’t have any relationship with him, you’re never gonna see him again, you don’t know what his life is about, he don’t know what your life is about, he’s not a friend, because a friend you can argue with, be like, hey, you’re drinking too much, you’re doing this too much, you’re doing that.
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Because you love that person. That’s why there’s a conflict, a debate with them. Because you’re trying to share a different viewpoint. And then I’m like, this makes a lot of sense. So then I made it a rule not to ever do it. Someone cuts me off. I’m just like, whatever. Someone does whatever. I’m just, whatever, whatever, whatever. It’s only if they come into my personal space. And then I give a nice warning. Just be like, listen, please don’t come any closer. I’m a martial art instructor. I know it might not mean a lot to you.
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but all day long I kick ass. So let me alone. I love it. Normally it works. It really works. Nice. Okay. You know, I’m like, just leave me alone. You’re right. You can take whatever that last T-bone steak there, you can have it. It’s all good. I’ll go to another store and get another one. You know, like it’s completely okay, man. But it took a long time to evolve to this. It really did. It took a lot of thought process to think like, this guy doesn’t know me.
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And I keep going back to never argue with strangers because it’s just a great way to think about it. Who’s this guy? Why am I going to argue with him? And again, we’re really honest. It’s like, what are the odds of you changing that guy’s mind in the heat of that? You will not. Virtually zero, right? If anything, it just makes them entrench into the cognitive dissonance. You’re like, I’m wasting my energy, my time. Sure. I could absolutely be doing other things with it. It’s so true. If there was a piece of advice, we’ve talked about adversity.
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We’ve talked about people going into it. You know my story about adversity. Could you share with us an adversity that you went through that at the time seemed like it would be really difficult to get through or maybe not even get through and you’d be stuck there, that once you got to the other side of it, you learned that lesson and what was the lesson that you were able to glean from that? Sure. So I’ll share a very personal story that I haven’t ever shared online or anywhere. So you’ll be the first person to have the story. It came out in like little weird forms here and there.
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So when I was a younger kid, I was a complete bad kid. I was really bad. My mom and my father got a divorce and I didn’t take it right because I was a young kid. I was like 15 years old or 14 years old and I’m seeing my family just broke apart, right? So I started running around with the wrong kids doing all the wrong things. We thought we were a gang or whatever. I’m a little dumb kid. So of course there’s no internet, none of this stuff. So.
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we start doing all the bad things that bad kids can do. So we start stealing baseball cards and all that crap. Little petty crime things that don’t mean a lot in the big scheme of life. I’m not out there killing people or doing crazy crap like that. So we stole these baseball cards from a Winnebago. Bo Jackson baseball cards, more Michael Jordan baseball cards. Oh, it’s crap. We get in trouble, we get busted. One of the kids that were with me, he’s a career criminal.
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Obviously the other kid was the young kid like me. We’re just around the wrong kid doing the wrong things and We get really seriously involved in a court case where they’re trying to throw me in jail for ten years Yeah, it gets really crazy. I’m a young kid. I’m doing martial arts too at the time this goes back and forth for a number of years and as it’s going back and forth for a number of years trying to like
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work, our attorneys try to work with the district attorney and everything and try to create a better deal to where all of us don’t go to jail. I’m learning martial arts and I found my way during this crazy time. Fast forward like three and a half years later, I’m like 17 and a half, almost 18 years old, and it’s time to go to court. And we couldn’t work a deal. So Dan had to go jail. So
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I went to prison, 17 and a half years old, for 14 months. A real prison, not like a fake prison, like a jail cell in your county jail cell. I went to prison prison. I was convicted. I was a felon. And they sent me to jail for theft of property. They gave me 10 years with nine suspended. That was a plea bargain. Since then, I’ve tried to go for clemency. So we are completely in a pending case right now to get full pardon.
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Because I was a young kid and shouldn’t have probably got that. But I grew up in Arkansas. There are different, you know, there is race tension there. My fall partner was black. You know, the other partner was a white guy. And of course me and Tyrone went to jail and the other guy did not go to jail. So spending 14 months in a prison where you’re institutionalized, you’re living every day and Arkansas is one of the only states that actually make you do.
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manual labor and they pay you like something like half a cent an hour. So all these things that you hear, like the whole squad, I’ve been on the whole squad. I’ve had a shut corn. I’ve had a pick cotton. I’ve had a dig ditches. I’ve had all this stuff that this is like every single day of the week, except for Saturday and Sunday. You’re working eight hours a day. So this taught me a lot at an early age about being around
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and associating yourself with certain people. And how you could think somebody is cool can really just end your whole beginning or end of your life. Now, of course, that adversity was a big thing for me. Just give you a little bit of background story. My father’s 26-year Army veteran, 26 years in the military. My uncle Dean and my uncle David, both like almost 30 years too in the military.
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So it’s a military family, my whole family. So my father, like, he has to take me to turn myself in. And he looked at me and he goes, no, you can’t even join the military now. He was like, you could fuck up everything, but you know, now you can’t even go to the military. Yeah, it was a big disappointment for my father. So 14 months there every day, all I thought about was when I come out, at first I was thinking, how am I gonna survive the next day? But I thought in my brain, how am I gonna come out and rewrite
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my whole life because now I have this stamp on my life saying I’m X and you know I can’t even join the military because somewhere in there there was aspiration come an army ranger or something like that you know delta force something something cool you know like because my whole family every anderson man was in the military except for me so you already know probably what my dad was thinking
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And getting out, he looked at me and he’s like, what are you gonna do with your life? How are you gonna make something of yourself? And that was the start of me starting to go into martial arts full time. I opened my first school when I was 21 years old in New York City. So 21 years old in New York City, opening martial arts school in 1996, it was a lot, it was really hard to overcome. So fast forward all of this stuff, it was like,
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One year ago or two years ago, the prosecuting attorney of the city, he reached out and was like, Dan, I want you to be the expert testimony in this murder trial. This man snapped this woman’s neck, killed his wife. And it’s like, you know, all this stuff, the red herring is like, he tried to say it slipped and fell in the bathtub and then he explained it all. And we looked at the whole thing and you know, he snapped his neck. So he’s like, I want you to be on stand. So I do the great testimony of hoping. And you know, of course I’m not expecting any of this crap.
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And then it’s like cross-examination. And then the guy’s like, can you tell everybody why you were in prison? But you know, my jaw hit the floor. I was not ready for that. And I was just like, you know, I was a young kid. I stole baseball cards. I was completely wrong. I did the crime. I did the time. And what I learned from it is what you see in front of you right now. The person that’s accomplished in martial arts circles and all the things that I’ve done for the community and given back.
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But I realized that being around wrong people can really do that. You know, it haunts me every now and then it comes up every blue moon, you know, like they wouldn’t let me in Canada. It was so funny where the train, like 50 Canadian Mounties surrounded me. And I was like, what the heck is going on? I was like, can you step to the back? And then I get the back. So, you know, you have this thing, you know, what would you do? And I was like, and I was like, I stole baseball cards. That’s like this thing. I’m like, yeah, the baseball card, you know, it’s like.
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baseball cards. Like, yeah, they sent you to prison for that. I’m like, yeah, man. Yeah. So, you know, a lot of people don’t know it, you know, but I share it with fighters and I share it with close students have been there a long time. And I always try to use it as like just a life lesson, just a life lesson. And what if it didn’t happen? You might not know me. You might not know me as a martial artist. I would have been in the army. I might have been a ranger or something or
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Something like that. I definitely couldn’t have been a seal because I hate swimming. I know a lot of seals that hate swimming though too. So I couldn’t do that, but definitely would have jumped out a helicopter or something. It’s a good time. I recommend it if you can. But what’s so beautiful about that is you could have spent that entire time in prison stewing and being mad and being like, this is bullshit. I didn’t do anything wrong. I’m a good person, played the victim, and then come out.
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and gone the other direction because you know as well as I do that with recidivism or most people that go to prison, they become more educated as a criminal, they develop a network, they look at more options when they get out to do more of that. But you went the other direction and now I’m sure that your father and your uncle are proud because you were teaching the military what works and what doesn’t. So in a lot of ways, you’ve gone beyond full circle, you’ve gone up and above because
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When I was in the military, some of the stuff that they were trying to teach us with hand-to-hand or even blade work, I was like, Lieutenant, can I come talk to you for a second? I just want to, I only know a little bit, but I want to show you what this is and this is. I think you were able to take that adversity and turn it into a huge win. And that puts you on this trajectory to help literally millions of people directly and indirectly with your work, with your beliefs, and with this incredible legacy that you’re continuing to carry on from Bruce Lee to Gura Nassanto to your academy to your students.
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And every person that’s listening to this, if you can hear this and you hear CFO Anderson explaining that, yeah, it’s okay to fall down. That’s part of the human condition. It’s what you do after what you decide to do and what you let that event mean to you that changes everything. Sure. I completely agree. I mean, look, you could have played the victim. There’s an easy moment where I thought in my head for a while, I was like, listen, I mean, this is a race thing and you know, I went down that road for
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a week or so. Again, it was my father. My father is a very strong man. Like I said, you know, he did the end of World War II, part of Korean conflict and then Vietnam. And you know, he’s like, Dan, listen, you know, it’s done now. Whatever’s done is done. It’s whatever you’re going to go do next. And he’s like, and if you get in there, first, you have to think about your safety first. But he’s like, I want you to read every day. I want you to lift weights, work out, and I want you to come out with a real plan.
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of how you’re going to contribute to society. And he’s like, and if you ever, ever come out and you go the wrong way, he’s like, I’m personally going to kick your ass. I don’t care how much kung fu you know or nothing because you have to go to sleep. I just started laughing, but I felt a big disappointment in my father. And I think…
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He’s such a strong man, you know, he lied to get into the end of World War II about his age, you know, he lied to go and to do something. It’s the definition of brave in my mind. It’s like do everything to help another person. So that disappointment resonated with me so hard through that whole time. I just kept hearing his voice like, you know, get strong, get smart, figure out what you’re going to do. And when I came out and I was like, I’m going to open a martial arts school.
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I think he was a little like, what do you know about martial arts school, business and all this? But he never tried to like, take that dream away from me. He didn’t. He’s like, if that’s what you want to do, is that what you love? Is that what you really want to do? That’s your passion? Then go for it. I remember the first time I was like, I’m going to West Point and then teach at West Point. And he’s like, really West Point? Yeah, he couldn’t believe it. He couldn’t believe it. He was blown away. He’s like, wow, that’s incredible. How’d that feel? Yeah, it felt really good because…
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You know, it’s a career military man. I never cussed in front of my father in his entire life. Think about that. Even when I was older, I would be too scared to even think about saying a curse word in front of my father. It’s like that level. He had a strong will, and I think a lot of his life lessons are coming into my teaching style, and obviously like how I do things now, you know, with that self-respect.
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that self-respect is so important. And that’s another reason why I give a lot of opportunities. Sometimes someone will mess up at the academy. The person will humble themself and come back and be like, can I come back to the academy? I was absolutely wrong in this situation. And I will give that person a second chance. And a lot of that is because I think people are owed a second chance. I don’t know if they’re owed a third, a fourth, a fifth, a sixth, a seventh, like that, but sometimes.
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the action can justify giving the second chance. So gave this kid a second chance and some of the interstaff and search like, this guy, he said all this stuff and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And he’s a good kid, he’s lost. He doesn’t have a dad and he’s a street kid and let’s let him clean the school and just let’s see if we can help him and let’s see if we can keep him from doing the wrong thing with his life. And that happens a lot at the academy. We have a lot of.
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kids that need that second chance or that mentorship to like tell them, look, I’ve been in the same boat as you. I was in the wrong side of the track and something got me to the other side. And, you know, I wish I had somebody to help me. And I did. It was my father. But some kids don’t have their father or they don’t have a strong role model. So I try to really position myself to be that.
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when the opportunity presents itself. I don’t intentionally look for it, but if the opportunity is there, I’ll drop whatever I’m doing and ask that and try to help the person always. You know, I just did it last week for somebody who was there, lost his job, lost all of his stuff. He’s crying. He’s been with me for a very long time. Very good fighter, good hearted kid. Everything is like, look, you know, I’ll give you some money. You don’t have to pay me back. Just do it whenever you want. No time limit. Just whatever. He’s just a cry.
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you know, really hardcore crime. And I was like, look, it doesn’t matter. We’re all here for each other, you know? So I think you have to give people second chances. I think you do. Like I said, I don’t know what degree, you know? They come kill a whole bunch of kids. Maybe you don’t give that person a second chance, but you steal some baseball cards. You think you should get a second chance. And I think that when you go through adversity, it forces you to understand better empathy. If you’ve ever fallen down and somebody’s picked you up, you will never forget that person. That, the…
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example you just gave, that young man will never forget you, the impact you had on his life because you actually lived it as opposed to talking a good talk. It’s like it is, it’s octanon verbosity. It’s not words. You’re actually putting your money where your mouth is. It’s like, I know you’re going through hardship. He’s going to pay that forward a thousand times to other people. And that’s because you were not afraid to do it because you put yourself in a position to be able to do that, to allow other people to protect themselves in situations, whether it be
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a physical self-defense situation or even a financial self-defense situation. And that’s why you’re incredible what you do Sifu. Thank you. It’s so true. I mean, we have the best people. We stand on the shoulders of giants like the people that we are around. People in my life when I was a young kid, I mean, Jesus, can you imagine? You know, they’re there now, but I always think that. So I think people like you, people like Daniel Lanero, people like Guru, people that are out there actually trying to change.
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just the perception of things and help share these stories of adversity or these stories of empowerment. It’s just the most incredible thing. I mean, you grew up, there was no internet. No, there was no internet. I was in Oklahoma, like you are in Arkansas, so it was like trying to read the Dao Jikun Do, like went over my head, the Dao De Jing went over my head. But at least it was an exposure and it planted the seeds. And now that I’m older, I can kind of grab some of it. But I’m still like you and even like Guru, I’m still learning.
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because I want to be a student. Think of me driving from Arkansas to Tulsa, Oklahoma to train with Super Gibson. That’s where I learned KKB. Really? Terry Gibson. That’s why sometimes when Guru Dan, I have a picture of Super Gibson on the wall. And if Guru Dan looks at it, if he even remotely starts to tear up, I instantly start to cry when he cries. It’s a hard core thing because I started studying with Super Gibson.
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He was my first teacher and JKD and colleague. I would take the Muskogee turnpike all the way there, all the way up. 15 years old. Sometimes a friend would drive us. Sometimes I would drive. Sometimes I’d steal dad’s car and drive. Then he’d be like, why is there 200 miles on a shit like 150 miles? I’m like, uh, I just said you’re going to the store. You’ve got like four hours. And it’s on me and I like, and then I’d tell him, but he knew that I was.
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taking martial arts and he was very much about it. Like, okay, if you’re gonna drive and go do that, do it. But that lasted forever. That was like a normal thing, going to Tulsa three times a week to do classes at Sifu Gibson’s school and take private lessons. And then when Sifu got really sick and, you know, brain cancer and passed away, you know, Darien called me on the phone and told me that he passed away and I was like, I’m gonna open a martial arts school.
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And I don’t know if people understand, but being in Arkansas and then going to New York, like, like there’s already culture shock all over the place there. Like you’re going from this to, you’re going to open a school in the big apple. That means every person there wants to like test you and bump into you and see what you got. There’s a lot of adversity there, but I think there’s been so much adversity in my life, but I think the big one was that.
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It was a catalyst that changed me for the better. And that was a big one because I was a young, lost, scared kid that was extremely impressionable with people that looked like they added together. I didn’t want to become a military kid. And I was thinking, I don’t want to go in the Army. I don’t want to do this. But in retrospect, now I think I would have done that. I would have been really good at that. It’s so funny. And there’s a lot of adversity. I think that’s a key story.
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But you know, Seymour Gibson, she is the one that connected me with Guru Dan after Super passed away. I’m the only person that she ever recommended for instructorship. It was just me. I was the last person and the first person, she said. I don’t know if she’s done it since. That’s a huge honor. People may not understand how powerful that is, but that is a huge testament to you, my friend. Yeah, thank you. They believed in me. So she believed in me with the school, which was a big thing.
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And I go, look, I want to open a school. And she’s like, do you think you can do that? It’s like New York. You’re not playing games right now. You know, people are going to come and knock on your door. And you better be ready for everything and anything. And I was like, yeah, I can do it. And here it is. A long time later. It’s just such a beautiful journey. That’s the hero’s journey. See who? That’s truly the hero’s journey, because we hit adversity. We fall down. We want to give up.
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We feel like we’re never going to be able to get there. Adversity strips away all the bullshit that we’re not, shows us what we really are. Then you’re given another challenge for redemption. And now you’ve created this huge empire that is making such a huge impact on the East Coast. It’s going all over the country. It’s going all over the world. I mean, it’s so loud that even Guru Nanak Santosh feeling it over on the West Coast. Truly, it’s a fact. Thank you. I feel honored to be able to do it.
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and just give 100%. And I think you can recognize this. It’s like, once you hit that rock bottom, you know how it feels. And you know how it is a climb out of the ditch. And you’re just kind of like, Hey man, I’m still here. There’s nowhere to go except for up. Let me just keep climbing up. So I think it’s a good thing when you hit rock bottom because it shows you what bottom really is. And I’ve, I’ve hit it not once, twice, three, four, I’ve hit it a lot of times, you know,
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the school almost closed down. We couldn’t afford to keep the lights on or students come in and the lights are off. We’re like, a fuse box blew. You know, like it’s just the things that you do, especially when you’re a business owner, you’ve hit rock bottom so many times, even during this pandemic, we lost a hundred something students or something. Obviously it’s no one’s fault, but just the nature of what’s going on with the world. But you feel like you lost everything. And then you’re like, well, how do you…
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We make a meaningful pivot right now to help everybody. Let’s find some light in this dark situation. And then I think if you can always just keep shifting yourself like that, you’re just gonna keep winning. You’re gonna keep succeeding and keep doing things and these things are gonna be your big story at the end of your life. You’re gonna have a really nice, beautiful story instead of just like a one page. You wanna go out there and create an incredible story for yourself. I agree. And the thing is, wars change.
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But warriors do not. And you are a warrior. And you’ve applied it to everything that you do. And like you said, being in that darkness and hanging rock bottom, sometimes that darkness makes it easy to find the light. And you’re shining light on everything that you do, Sifu. So I cannot thank you enough for giving just such a powerful, raw testimony to the beauty of martial arts, to the lineage of Guru Nassanto, how he’s influenced you, and how you’re truly living it every day, in every breath, with every intention, every deed, every thought that you’re doing.
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And I’m sure that everybody that’s heard this conversation wants to learn more about you. Where can we find out more about you? How can we get you to come speak to our company or come for a lesson or all of the things that you offer? Sure. So you can go to Ande That’s the best way to just communicate with the school and myself. You can always email there and someone will 100% email them. I am on social media, but I don’t know if you ever see my social media. They have to be kind of like thought provoking.
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moment. So I’m a very slow writer and sometimes I’ll write something in there to take me two months to finish it or a month and a half and then I just keep framing it. Another thing is I also want to make sure that whatever I’m projecting on my own personal account, it’s also something that is going to be inspiring, motivational or a life lesson in a whole. Like I love that people post pictures of food or something, but that will never be me unless somebody like
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There’s a real context behind it, you know? I’ve been very fortunate to put myself in these weird situations and moments and experiences in life. And I always try to share as much of that as I can with people that try to give them a little bit of that insight. Like what you’re doing now, this is an incredible thing. I wish I could do it. I interviewed a couple of people and I was like, I can’t do this, I’m not very much a conversationalist with things. I was like, you have to be really good at knowing how to like…
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turn the conversations and you know, I was just, I think I’ll stick with what I do really well. I don’t know if you’re giving yourself enough credit, Sifu, because this was an incredible conversation. I’ve learned so much. I’ve got so many lifelines that you didn’t think it was good. I don’t think I said anything very profound. I was like, like, I’m playing. Well, we just got to get you to write a book. And then, like you said, if it takes you a little bit of time, that’s fine. It took me a year and a half to write my book. But like you said, because it needs to be something powerful.
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He’s not Gary Vee, he’s not putting up 12 things a day guys, but the good thing is it’s quality over quantity. I’m the same way, I’m not putting stuff up all the time, but if it’s what we’re working towards that really means something to us, that’s what it should be there for. So follow him on Instagram everyone. Sifu, thank you so much my friend, I’ve learned so much and I cannot wait to come out there and learn from you. Hopefully I can come out there whenever goodos out there, get some instructor hours into and go have some foe afterwards and have a great time. Yeah, for sure.
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I’m shooting and throwing axes, shooting bow and arrow every day. We’re throwing knives every day. Got a whole target set up behind me. We’re out there every day having a good time. You know, Daniel is supposed to come out. We’re going to grill some steaks and just throw axes and knives. Shoot bow and arrow. It’s the funnest thing in the world. It’s fun. It’s so fun. Come out. And you’re cultivating the warrior culture as well. So that’s beautiful. It’s just a funny thing to do. I agree.
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You’re building the skill while having fun. You know, that’s what I like now. That’s my thing now. I’m like, all right, let’s not take ourselves serious. So these axes, now have a little glass of whiskey or something. There we go. You’ll feel good. You’ll be like, this is amazing. Thank you for listening to this episode of Acta Non Verba
