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4th Degree Blackbelt Teaches the Way of the Ninja in Life & Business

• Arlin / Jesse Catalano • Season 1 • Episode 269

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Welcome to this episode of the podcast, today we have Jesse Catalano, my new Sensei in becoming a literal ninja...

As I settled into a quieter part of LA, my senses sharpened to the undercurrents of the city, recently tested by an encounter that blurred the lines between defense and compassion. Our latest episode wanders through the complexities of such human interactions, delving into the unexpected lessons they can reveal. We'll explore the 'cycle seven'—a reflective period before one's birthday, and the critical notion of zan-shin, the art of total awareness. It's a conversation that connects the dots between ancient wisdom, the anticipation of our future selves, and drawing strength from our past, all while navigating the urban landscape.

There's something deeply human about the way we connect with others, especially those who live on the fringes of society. Join me as I share a personal story involving Dante, a homeless man whose initial confrontation evolved into a moment of profound understanding over a cup of coffee. This episode isn't just a narrative; it's a journey through the triggers of human engagement and how our choices in those moments can lead to either conflict or connection. We examine the subtle signals we emit and receive, and the balance between self-defense and the open hand of kindness.

Navigating the streets of LA, or any city, comes with its share of complexities when it comes to personal safety and the ethical treatment of its homeless citizens. We'll share strategies and personal anecdotes about maintaining security without sacrificing respect or projecting fear. It's about the confidence that comes from self-defense skills and the empowerment they offer, all while fostering compassion in the heart of the city. Tune in for an episode that merges the practical with the philosophical, offering a fresh perspective on the intricate dance of urban coexistence.

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Arlin Moore:

Bye so this is supposed to be. This is like a Ninja Paneer tool. I think of it. Also like James Bond, where, like in James Bond, every James Bond movie, there's a scene with his, like control center guy. I forgot his name, but he, like in the beginning of every James Bond movie, somewhere in the first 30 minutes, he goes into his headquarters and the guy's like okay, bond or 007, here's your new tools, there's new gadgets. You know he has like, it's like. You need this so that you can like every like. You need to wear this on you at all times. This thing goes in your shoe. This button in the car does this so like? The idea is like when I'm like when I'm this is supposed to be.

Jesse Catalano:

I didn't even realize that you had this out right now. This is Ninja right here.

Arlin Moore:

This is full on we're recording a high quality. This is a shore microphone, so this audio on this thing is legit. Like this is like and that's what the that's kind of part of the thesis of Ninja Paneer is the tech the transistors in the tech gets smaller every year and the quality doubles. So, like this is really good, but next year I'll just get the next one and then I'll get the next one of them, because it'll pretty soon you'll just be driving in the car and it sounds like you're in a studio, you know, and it's hands-free. So I can do this on my way to work out. I can do this, you know, I can basically whip this thing out all day long and I'm recording content all day long.

Jesse Catalano:

I was just about to say that I was like normally, you and I. This is like a one-on-one in the car. We're on our way to breakfast, about to start in a credible beautiful day. And I feel like there's constantly, there's stuff I'm saying and I'm like oh man, I wish, I wish I had that recorded.

Arlin Moore:

We were just talking about something super interesting, which is what made me think of it too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you were talking about in, you know, in like monk wisdom, you know the idea is like, if you want to become intelligent and if you want to learn things, you add, if you want wisdom, you subtract. And if you and then you were talking about how that's like simplicity and the best sense is they don't tell you what to do, they show you, they point to it and they let you kind of figure it out.

Jesse Catalano:

So yeah, right when I said that, that's when you started recording and I didn't realize you were recording, and I thought to myself that is what a teacher does, like you didn't even say what we're going to do, you just did it, you're showing you're demonstrating because, like this has been, I've been kind of plagued with this for the last couple of months, like on my one to one calls or, yeah, just just having any conversation at all.

Jesse Catalano:

I was like I wish that was recorded so you can capture the gold and keep it. Keep it simple.

Arlin Moore:

Yeah, yeah. So I love this thing and I've been. I've been recording like some banger episodes Nice, just just like I mean, normally I don't like to like do anything and drive, but audio is fine as long as you're not messing around with it, and this is like a very hands off little thing, um, dude. So I wanted to talk to you and this is also good content. I wanted to update you on my current situation of my need for becoming a real ninja. So is that him? No, it's not him, nevermind, it's him, it's the fucking guy.

Jesse Catalano:

No, there is a guy.

Arlin Moore:

There is a guy and we will probably see him today. Um, but I think did I tell you about the new guy. Is he a friend or a foe? He's a foe, he's a foe. No, you did not tell me. I did not tell you about the new foe. Okay, so I move to this new space in LA that I'm not going to reveal the exact name of, just in case there's any creepers out there, but I don't think there are. I think my audience is generally pretty cool, but you never know, just have to remain stealth in their movements. But I moved to this new location, la, which is pretty low key, you know it's if you look around, which is as we're driving and listening to this.

Arlin Moore:

We are kind of just perusing this neighborhood that I'm living in. It's very nice, you know. There's lots of old people. It's super well capped. There's like security neighborhood watch here.

Arlin Moore:

There's, um, yeah, just doesn't seem like there'd be any danger around here, right? Or, of course, we're in LA, so homeless is a bit of an issue. There doesn't seem to really be that much of a homeless situation, but uh, we're and the reason that is even a concern at all, by the way, and this is like I kind of have to preface this every time because I, I hated. I lived in LA for a long time, not a long time, not as long as Jesse here, but I lived in LA for a while Not minding homeless people at all, didn't care, you know, maybe even talk to some of them, befriended them until the past. About two and a half months ago, I got punched in the face by homeless guy. So I, my guard, is much more aware now and I realize, you know, a homeless guy could have you know, and it was for no reason, literally no reason, just out of nowhere. Um, that was a crazy day.

Arlin Moore:

Look at that, look at that Lucky, yeah, yeah, vigilant, and we got some time on it, dude that was a wild day.

Jesse Catalano:

Yeah, that was a cycle seven, as Jesse would say. I would love to recap my my memory of that day. Do it. So I'm in New York and visiting my family for Thanksgiving it was my dad's birthday that day and I, you know, I'm browsing Instagram checking out Arlen's story and I see, um, you know, I told Arlen that he was in his cycle seven. So your cycle seven is the 52 day period before your birthday. Every year. It's usually when people go through a shedding or some type of a transformation. It's when the change in your life happens. Is your cycle seven? Um, and I can go so deep into cycle seven, but I normally meet a lot of people when they're going through this change in their year. So I was just letting Arlen know like, hey, man, like you're in your cycle seven, like you know, take it easy, keep, keep your dukes up. So I saw his story on Instagram and he just shared that he almost stepped on a on a rattlesnake.

Arlin Moore:

That's correct. I forgot about that part. Yeah, so we almost ran into a rattlesnake on a mountain biking trail. And also another thing to to give context Jesse is a fourth degree jujitsu black belt and has been training me. We'd only done like two or three sessions, but you taught me the basics, yeah.

Jesse Catalano:

That's right. Okay, yeah, pick them up. I check stuff like that, yeah. So yeah, we had just, you know, went on a hike, had a couple sessions, you know, meeting of the mines. I was in New York, you were here, you almost stepped on a rattlesnake. I was like holy shit. I replied back to you and I said you know, man, keep your dukes up, keep your dukes up. Cycle seven is the time where you want to stay more alert and more appraise your feelings internally and externally. You want to have something I like to teach and practice for myself. In martial arts there's this topic called zan-shin, which means total awareness to build our minds and bodies as one. It's the first line in our student creed to build my mind and body as one.

Jesse Catalano:

So that mind, body, spirit, everything, the total awareness of it all, externally and internally, is called zan-shin. So when you almost stepped on a rattlesnake, that's a sign from the universe to pay the fuck attention. So I was reminding you to keep your dukes up in that moment. That was what my intuition told me. Your intuition is actually when you start to develop a relationship with your intuition, it's actually a future version of yourself.

Arlin Moore:

That's telling you, yeah, warning you, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Jesse Catalano:

So I've been kind of cultivating, Bro you know what?

Arlin Moore:

It's funny. You say that because that's the second time I've heard that in 24 hours and I've actually never heard that before I've been connected to my intuition. But my friend just tweeted. He said your intuition is literally what you said, like it's your future self communicating to you. So what you should start doing is start communicating to previous versions of yourself when you were going through a hard time. So yesterday I sat there and I was thinking about just past version of myself and just sending messages like do this, do this, do this, don't do that. Wow, that's so cool, that's so cool, I've done both spectrums.

Jesse Catalano:

It goes to the future, goes to the past, yeah, so I told you to keep your dukes up. So then, three hours later, I'm in my car, I'm in my truck with my dad, my dad's driving. We're on our way to Jiu Jitsu. We're in our geese, we're suited up in our black geese. I got my 4th or 3rd black belt on. It's my dad's birthday and we're about to go teach class that night. You attacks me and you said yo, you're like dude, I almost I just got punched in the face.

Arlin Moore:

I just got attacked. Like what's going on you?

Jesse Catalano:

were freaking out. You FaceTime me. You were like my dad and we're just talking you through this crazy experience that you just had and you wanted to share this with me, and what are the chances that that happened where I literally told you to keep your dukes up Yep, Crazy. And a couple hours later you had to keep your dukes up Crazy. And if you didn't keep your dukes up, you might have got clocked harder yeah, hard.

Arlin Moore:

I could have been knocked out literally in the freeway, Like on sunset Boulevard, Chloe. Then what was Chloe going to do? You know, like that could have been really, really bad. But I had my dukes up, I remembered my training from Jesse and I created distance and then we actually screwed. We started walking away from him. We didn't know if he was going to charge us or not. We saw this couple in like a mini Cooper and we just they looked at us. They're like get in the car. We just got in their car and drove away. It's random, stranger couple. So that was crazy, bro. I think right now we should take a commercial break and go grab some coffees.

Jesse Catalano:

Yeah, let's do it brother.

Arlin Moore:

So we're back back from our commercial break, we are airwond up, we just had a nice airwond and now we're resuming our story. So we're driving through this village, this nice village, and we just told you the story about how I got punched in the face by homeless guy. And now where we go is back to why, in this new place that I I moved to, why I'm cautious of homeless people is because I got attacked by one. So, anyway, I'm excited about the place. I moved because there's doesn't feel like there's many homeless people around. I mean, I haven't seen one this whole time. There's security watch I don't know if you noticed that there's like security people and it's just like a protected area in LA. Whatever happens, we're going to there's security.

Arlin Moore:

The other day I'm in a bagel shop actually it's across the street over there and I walk in and with Chloe this is on a Sunday after the farmers market here, and the farmers market is, you know, amazing. It's like all families, just like very crowded, you know there's tons of stands and like local farmers and it's just like really good Sunday energy and we walk into the bagel shop. There's a bunch of people in there. I order, you know, some breakfast sandwiches for me and Chloe. And then we go and we wait on the side by the, the coffee makers, and we're just waiting there for our bagels to come out and this tall dude who was I don't remember if he was in front of us or kind of where he came from, but is this dude, probably like six foot two, long, red hair and a black, a backpack on, sits down like kind of at the table next to us and pulls out a bagel that he's, he starts eating.

Arlin Moore:

And then he stands up and I'm on my phone just like review, literally reviewing my reels and like reviewing comments and everything, and and he looks at it's a video of me. And he points at the screen and he goes that's me and I was like, oh hot, like I thought he was just making fun of me for watching a video of myself. And then he kind of moves over to Chloe, stands next to Chloe and Points at the coffee machine behind her and he goes that's you. And then he sits down and Chloe's kind of just ignoring him and I just I look up at him and and he points at the coffee machine behind me and I look at it and I'm like what is this guy doing? He points at it and he goes see that I was like, yeah, he goes that's you too.

Arlin Moore:

And I was like, okay, what's going on here? Then I lock eyes with him and this man is staring deep into my soul, hairs on the back of my spine just Light up, like just tingles all around. He's just staring at me like like just direct into my, my soul, and he goes Do you know? And I look at him and I go, oh, I know. And he, he, looks away and he goes ah, ah, you are leagues ahead, my friend. And then I and I like hairs on the back of my spine just like Every, every hair my body, just like like up, I'm just like what the heck is happening in the like ether, like the spiritual plane right now? Whatever's happening is like going nuts. And so Then he starts talking to some thing Across from him. There's nobody there, he's just talking to it and saying things.

Arlin Moore:

And I'm looking at Chloe and I'm like, all right, we, we got to get out of here. So we Move to like we navigate to the other side. He's like in some conversation with some other entity or whatever. And we get, we're like waiting there, and I'm like Chloe, if that man moves, we've run out of the store immediately and I was like I don't care for bagelscom, she's okay. So they was calm, we leave.

Arlin Moore:

I'm like, oh my god, that was fucking weird. Chloe's like freaking out. She's like why do you attract these people? She's like what, what is it?

Arlin Moore:

And I actually ended up calling my friend Julian, who's like he does like ayahuasca ceremonies and he's like a Spiritual healing type guy and I told him about it immediately and he was like yeah, sometimes like these entities like attach themselves to people and I was like I mean he was probably schizophrenic, but sometimes, when people are schizophrenic, you know they like he was telling me like it's like an entity that attaches itself and it's attracted to you because you have this light inside of you and it's like malts to a flame, it's like they just want to, they want some of your light. He's like you just you don't want to make eye contact. Yeah, that opens like a portal, yep. And, like you know, he's like if you notice yourself like getting angry or like getting super irritated or like Something happens in the next you know day or so, that doesn't feel like you. You need to like clear your energy out, go ground yourself, like you know, stand in the grass, like you know, do all that. So it did all that.

Arlin Moore:

Next day we go back to the village and and we're like driving in, like right where we just were, and he's standing there, he's still, he's like in the same place and he's just spinning in circles. And then Two days later we went back again to get brunch, because that area is just so nice, you know.

Jesse Catalano:

It's like just such a nice and it's close.

Arlin Moore:

Yeah, and uh, and Wow, and, and Chloe and I go into this restaurant. There's like one couple sitting there and then we sit down not five minutes into going into the restaurant. We're the only two, we're the only two people in there aside from the other couple. Not five minutes in same dude walks in and he looks at us and he's just like hello. And then he goes and he sits in the other room and the entire time he was having an imaginary conversation with someone else and I told the waitress and I told the like the owner of the place.

Arlin Moore:

I was like, hey, just so you guys know this guy's, you know just keep an eye on him and Gave me some weird vibes and I don't know if he's dangerous or not, but you know, you never know. So, yeah, bro, that was like one of my interactions recently and and actually I have I kind of like the whole, I don't want to just like sit in the parking lot like a little more. Yeah, I'm gonna just turn up on a hill, yeah, actually, yeah, let's just kind of go up this way. So so, yeah, that happened. That was like one thing. I don't know if you have any thoughts on that, but there's like a couple other things that have happened.

Jesse Catalano:

Yeah, yeah yeah, I definitely agree with your friend in terms of, you know, like the moth to a flame analogy. Yeah, yeah, there's, there's something about your energy that's like either inviting or maybe you're just curious and they and they feel that and you know, these people also subconsciously might want help.

Jesse Catalano:

Yeah right, that's interesting. So there's that piece of you that Maybe wants to. You know you're curious and you want to understand, yeah, which is why you know they're attracted to you. And then, yeah, that the eye contact is always what opens it up. If you're not trying to engage, you should never have eye contact, mm-hmm, obviously, never let them get behind you. You want to be aware of your surroundings in that way, also to with homeless people. So real, quick story about my Experience with this homeless kid is his name is Dante, actually, and they do. They are creatures of habit, so they do like to go to the same places. My the first time I ever saw this kid, actually, I was walking into a CVS and he. I usually have no patience for homeless people. I.

Arlin Moore:

I yeah, you've been in LA for eight years.

Jesse Catalano:

LA for eight years. Don't look at me, don't, don't touch me, I don't want to smell you. You know like I get very combative in certain situations, like don't fuck with me, don't fuck with my car, like and that might not always be the best way to handle it, because I handle it this way with this Kid. Initially he just wanted a dollar. He was in front of a CVS and I rejected him and he got so triggered and he was threatening me with a skateboard.

Jesse Catalano:

Haley was in my car Waiting for me to come out of CVS and I Always carry a cubitone with me. So always, yeah, on my key chain. I can't see this right now, but I'm holding a cubitone in my hand and I promise you I could do some damage with this thing. Yeah, you could break windows if you're in a car. It's an amazing self-defense tool. So I always have this hidden in my hand and these guys don't know it. But, yeah, I could whip my keys with this and strike with this. You can strike to the eye, then you throw jaw, you could pin this in some way. It's, it's a true.

Arlin Moore:

You know what else is a good weapon? That I learned from my friend uh yawn is the. Is the iPhone, Mmm, oh yeah, I like it without the case. Yeah it's aluminum, titanium.

Jesse Catalano:

Yeah. So anyway, he freaked out. He was just having a day and we wind up just driving away. I wind up seeing him a couple weeks later at the coffee shop and he was so chill and I think he knew that we had an altercation before. But you have to think, like these guys are homeless, they're living on the street, they have all these traumas, are constantly getting in fights, maybe they were raped, like they have all these things and they get triggered super, super easy. So like it's not your job to fix them. The best policy is just to avoid. But in this experience I actually wind up making friends with him and I learned about a story and I was oh wait, how did you transition to friends? So we were in the coffee shop.

Arlin Moore:

Wait, also one sec. I just want to test the mic.

Jesse Catalano:

Yes, okay, we're good, sorry, guys, nice, nice, yeah. So we wind up talking and wind up getting to know each other. And I asked you know His name and I found out where he was from and he was a total in a totally different state because he just ate Mmm, like he just finished up his meal in the coffee shop. So when these guys are starving and they're on the street and like you know, like I felt like his first reaction was triggered rather quickly because he was probably starving.

Arlin Moore:

Yeah, yeah, that makes sense, yeah you know, there was a.

Jesse Catalano:

I've seen this guy multiple times and another thing that makes me realize that was because there was another time where he was walking behind Haley and Haley's mom on the street and he was like saying some racist comments towards them. He was following them and he was just being really, really rude to them. I wasn't there, so he didn't like associate Haley and Haley's mom with me, but I wound up actually seeing him on the street again and he remembered me from our last conversation.

Jesse Catalano:

Yeah, and I gave him food, uh-huh, because I knew that if I gave him, like, that's what it was, like he was triggered because he needed food. So I gave him food, he ate and I, you know, his energy totally settled down anyway. I guess the the lesson and the moral of this story is don't engage with homeless people. Yeah, okay, yeah, literally, yeah, just like avoid them, don't try to become friends with them. Yeah, did you have any specific questions or thoughts about, like your experience?

Arlin Moore:

Yeah, so okay, so there's a couple more things how to handle this guy in the future.

Arlin Moore:

There's there's a couple more things, so I'm just gonna continue our drive here. So every morning I wake up and we're like near my apartment, so I come down here, I walk this way and I I walk around the corner here and then I walk down to the beach and the first like week I was here, of course, I got like blessed with luck and and I didn't see any homeless people and I was like, oh my god, this is great, like I don't have to worry about like getting attacked. No, no, no, I don't have to worry about getting attacked on my morning walk. But there was a guy in that little like area over there, like in kind of one of these things. And then even this morning I came down and I was at this stoplight here and there was a homeless guy with a bike and a backpack and there was a small broom Sticking out of the back of the backpack, which was just weird. And then he was like talking to nobody and I'm standing at this light and I'm like the light is taking forever and I'm just getting PTSD, the fuck out.

Arlin Moore:

This lady's been here all morning too and I'm just standing there and he's probably ten feet away and I'm just waiting for the light. Waiting for the light like, also just like trying not to notice him at all but also trying, like it's kind of a weird you have to kind of Pretend you don't notice them but also completely be aware of them at all times. But then the other thing that I struggle with is maintaining my energy so that I do, because they're also, I think, they can sense. It's like it's like a, you know, dog. They can sense if you're afraid or if you're like don't like them, or if you are giving off an energy of like don't, don't touch me because they feel like you think you're better than them or something. So, you know, here I am and I'm, you know, wearing fucking. I mean, I don't know if you would even notice, but I'm wearing like a nice, like a designer hoodie and I'm just like, fuck, I don't feel comfortable.

Arlin Moore:

And I just had to wait enough to cross the street. But I was like you know what, Fuck this? And I just turned around, bro, and when I got a coffee at the coffee shop, yeah, I was like no, I'm done, Like this is no, I don't want to deal with this right now I was having. The frustrating thing, too, is I was having a great morning, Like I was really, you know, excited to go down to the beach, do my breath, work, all that. But you know, and for people that think I'm a pussy, like, listen, it's not that I'm afraid of the fight, Like it really is not. If I knew all he had was a fist, I really wouldn't be afraid at all. But you don't know if they have a gun or somehow, or really more, a knife or a shank, and then I just don't want to deal with that in the morning, Like it's just not not fun.

Arlin Moore:

So that's mainly what I want to talk to you about, Because literally right now, I have a morning routine that is being disrupted by a potential homeless attack and I don't know, you know, I don't know what to do. I guess it's just, I guess it's just keep distancing, you know? I mean, do you have any advice for like, what kind of what I said. Like you're at the stoplight, you kind of feel like something might go down, but you don't. You also don't want to give that off. Like, how do you maintain total, like alertness while not giving off any vibe that might upset them?

Jesse Catalano:

Hmm, ooh, there's so many ways. I feel like you could play this. You know cause, if you were to like life is a mirror, right? So if you, we reflect back what we're projecting out, yeah, so if you're projecting like, even if it's subconscious, if you're projecting out this like fear or like hesitation or uncertainty, you're gonna get that energy reflected back to you. So you could take the opposite approach, like with this guy and, you know, maybe try to make like, be, not befriend him, but just give him good energy in the slightest way.

Arlin Moore:

Mm, that's good.

Jesse Catalano:

Yeah, you know yeah.

Arlin Moore:

Even though you're like Like pray for him almost.

Jesse Catalano:

Yeah, yeah, pray for him or, you know, just wish him good morning, and you could do all that without making eye contact.

Arlin Moore:

Yeah.

Jesse Catalano:

Just depends on how crazy they are. You can obviously like try to avoid him you know across the street somewhere else Like avoidance probably is step one, and avoidance of eye contact, yeah, definitely step one. But if you can get to a place where you feel comfortable and you're not uncomfortable in that situation because you have enough distance, like you should know that if you're like a certain distance away from this person, like he can't touch you, so maintaining safe distance and then also like just these feelings that are coming up, it's telling me that you don't feel confident in your ability to really defend yourself if you really needed to.

Jesse Catalano:

Maybe if it were life or death maybe you would, but like, maybe deep down there or something that I should like, I actually feel like, because I feel this way, I need to work on my skills.

Arlin Moore:

Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.

Jesse Catalano:

Absolutely, because these, the thoughts that you're kind of having, don't really come to a fourth degree black belt who's been training for 17 years or however long?

Arlin Moore:

How long's it been? 20,?

Jesse Catalano:

27?. So my father signed me up for Japanese Jiu Jitsu when I was three years old, three and a half years old. I'm 33 now, so it's been 30 years Wow 30 years.

Arlin Moore:

That's actually crazy. 30 years experience is crazy.

Jesse Catalano:

It's my art, it's my self-expression. It's the way to connect in your physical body and develop confidence in yourself in your skillset. And when you you know how you do anything is how you do everything. So the fact that I came and was raised in a dojo setting my whole life it developed this belief within myself, this confidence.

Arlin Moore:

Yep, yep, yeah, you're prepared for it.

Jesse Catalano:

Yeah, yeah and it also has this like level up mentality within the dojo setting.

Jesse Catalano:

So, like you, start off at white belt and then you rank up to your yellow belt and then your orange belt, your green belt. It's different than Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is a sport, it's for competition, it's a part of mixed martial arts and the ranking system there with Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is white belt, then you go right to your purple belt, then you get your brown belt. Oh sorry, white belt, blue belt, purple belt, brown belt and then your black belt, and sometimes it can take you up to like 10 years to get your black belt, depending on who you're training under. It's a great workout.

Jesse Catalano:

There are elements of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu that do have self-defense within it, but it's not true self-defense because there are rules you can't eye gouge, you can't bite, you can't stop to the head, you can't hit the groin, you can't claw, you can't rake or scratch or pinch. You're kind of limited from a self-defense perspective. And yeah, that's the more popular Jiu Jitsu term. When you say Jiu Jitsu, people think Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, but my style of martial arts is traditional Japanese Jiu Jitsu. Like what the samurai is, it stems from samurai self-defense, so samurai's, they used to fight to the death and there's this concept which I love. Martial arts is just, it's the way, it's the way of life, and there's a concept in Japanese terminology called budo, which means the way. Bushido is a code of honor that they would have when they would fight, and the reason why Japanese Jiu Jitsu developed was that they would have these sword fights to the death and eventually they would get so close to each other and they would have to learn hand-to-hand combat and wrist locks so like, let's say, you were like taking out, you're reaching for your sword. Ooh, there we go, I just unbuckle the seatbelt. There would be pinning moves that were invented and developed to stop the person from taking out his sword, and that would be like one of the wrist locks that I show you. Right, yeah, so, yeah, they needed to learn hand-to-hand combat, and there's a lot of personal development associated with martial arts and Eber.

Jesse Catalano:

I love it. I've been training my whole life. It's my way of connecting with people, it's self-expression, and a lot of the concepts and principles and theories that you learned within the context of the technique can be applied towards your life too. What do you do if someone grabs you? This way? You know, whatever you're going through in your life can be applied towards how you deal with that person, it forces you to stay present. So, going back full circle to the homeless situation, stay present, stay alert. Practice Zan-Shin, which is total awareness and trust that intuition that we were talking about. Zan-shin is total awareness. Zan-shin is total awareness, total awareness.

Jesse Catalano:

And there's also this playful energy that you can have. Martial arts doesn't necessarily need to always be like a masculine energy. Jujitsu actually means the gentle art, the gentle art. So it's actually developed for the smaller guy to be able to defeat the bigger guy using his momentum against him, using his force. So you flow with the energy.

Arlin Moore:

And then you transmute that energy. I never knew that. That's dope. That's so cool, that makes sense. It's like how does a smaller guy beat a bigger guy? Well, he just transmutes the bigger guy's energy back to himself. Wow, that's crazy. That's a breakthrough, right.

Jesse Catalano:

Right, it's alchemy. Alchemy, do you take his negative energy, you alchemize it and send it back. Send him love. Wow, ooh, love is the answer.

Arlin Moore:

Wow, that's so cool. So, guys, this is Jetzy, this is Jetzy, I don't. And yeah, I mean we're going to do a lot more content. Obviously, I'm doing this Ninjapreneur brand. Jesse is building Ninja Ninja, which is literally going to be able to take you know the lessons that he's giving to me and he's a 30 year Jetzy, fourth degree black belt master, and he's going to create content and a program that you can go through that will level you up so that you aren't a pussy, basically, that's basically what it is. You know. It's like hey, you know, you got some. You make 100K a month. Nice, what are you going to do if someone punches you in the face? Do you know how to respond? So, anyway, we'll talk more about that in the future, but we're going to be doing some content and, just like you know, yeah, it's going to be fun.

Jesse Catalano:

It's going to be very fun. Ultimate level up in life is when you can take care of yourself, take care of your family, and that confidence that you develop in yourself will spill over into every other area of your life. Yes, skill stacking right. If you're a success conscious individual, which you have a growth minded, you want the best life that you could possibly live. In this one life that we get. What we're doing is we're stacking our skills and we're stacking our awareness. When you can control your physical body, you could defend yourself. I believe it's one of the best skills that you could possibly stack on all the other skills that you guys are learning with personal branding and sales and mindset and manifestation and goal setting. This is what we're doing. We're attracting like minded people. And if you want to level up your badassery, why not learn to turn your hands into a nice pair Weapon's freaking weapons, bro. Yes.

Arlin Moore:

All right guys. Thanks for listening to this episode. More to come and enjoy the rest of your day. All right peace.