Staying a champion is harder than becoming one

Transcript

Transcribed by machine (Whisper) from the episode’s audio, so a word may be off here and there.

1. 25:05

   showing up. Well, those are all distracting things. When you become a champion, there's a massive amount of attention on you. Sometimes it's contracts, sometimes you end up having to fly a lot, you start getting busy with things, and little by little you begin to miss your workouts. You miss one, you miss two, you miss three. And all of that takes a toll, and the person who used to train with such a drive with a hunger to be the best as soon as they actually become the best they just don't know what to do next and they live their whole life just to become stay on the top as soon as they get there what are they supposed to do that's it they already made it, they've reached their goal. And there are just so many distracting factors, money, flights, you know, meetings, contracts, video shoots, there are just so many distracting

2. 26:06

   factors. And so if a person doesn't know how to handle all of this, then that person comes down from the top real fast. And I'm saying this based on my own experience, from what I've seen all around me with the ones who came before me. And back then when I was training with my father, his students who went on to become world champions just how they finish their careers and so on and it's what i saw from uh from my own observations of other types of sports how they came back down as far as i've learned this is a very delicate moment if a person climbing all the way to the top if they can handle all of that that already shows they have an incredibly serious mindset reaching the championship and staying there reaching it is one thing but staying a champion that's totally different it's incredibly tough you're saying that

3. 27:01

   even on a local level once you become a champion that's already the tough moment because a lot of