Nate Tilley and a training partner discuss the shift from being broke to investing in themselves through martial arts. One has trained Jiu Jitsu since 2002 and Muay Thai since 2014; the other has seven years in Jiu Jitsu under Andre Galvao-affiliated coaches. They talk about booking tournaments and how spending differently changed everything.
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December 2, 2024
Seven years
Since about 2002
Since about 2014
Andre Galvao (Atos affiliation) and coach Mike Liera Jr.
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What was your moment?
Two things. Dinners. I started getting appetizers and dessert. That we were looking at the prices to decide what we were hungry for.
Yeah.
You know, and now it was like, I would go to the most expensive thing and get that out of, like, spite for being broke, you know? But then really what I started doing is just book in Jiu Jitsu tournaments.
Okay.
Because that's what I really do.
In Jiu Jitsu.
Seven years. Okay.
I've been doing Jiu Jitsu on and off since, like, 2002.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But I did. I've done different things, like, Muay Thai more, but since about 2014. And I'm not going at it hardcore, so I just. But I try to do it once a week. What school you go to?
Yeah, I'm under autos, so. Andre Galvao.
Yeah.
His. One of his, like, prodigies. Mike Liera Jr. Yeah. Multiple time world champion. He's in Denver.
Okay.
Start an academy out there. Came up to South Dakota, taught a free seminar. Yeah. And, you know, like, really, I guess, kind of to jump back to the backstory of, like, where, like, the competition edge comes from. Bad influences were all around me.
Yeah.
And I start. I wanted to be the cool guy.
So I start.
You know, partying, and I'm. Well, in South Dakota.
Yeah.
And so I start getting good at networking. Oh, I know him. I know him. Oh, Fifty dollars. A hundred dollars. I start middlemanning all this different stuff. I realized, like, oh, I can go down to Denver. I can get a guy driving down three times a week. I got into some serious stuff way over my head.
