I did aikido when I was four years old.
Stylistically, though, I've always liked Carlos Condit, because he at least amounted to at least the level of doing what I do. I mean, but I think he stands a little upright.
My first experience of doing martial arts was weird, real traditional, strange smell with incense burning. We did a lot of bowing, it was a lot of path of least resistance and go with the flow... Really good stuff for when you're at a young age.
I had my mom drive me to practice everywhere. I'm really grateful I had her.
I'm trying to live life like a normal person.
I just never try to beat somebody on the scorecards. It's never happened. It's not in me, I think.
I don't care about the Strikeforce belt.
I'm not no chump.
What I do is, I fight.
I'm ready to fight anybody.
I'll fight anywhere.
I had a really hot girlfriend in high school and I'd get into fights over that. And by the time I got into high school, I was moved around into a lot of schools, so I was getting into fights in high school.
I was never, like, picking on people or anything like that. I was more the other way around. I was a little insecure, I was broke.
I'm not in love with fighting. I never was.
I was always throwing a fit about it, like somebody I was fighting had their hair painted and I would be like, it's not enough that this guy has to win a fight against me, but he's gotta do it with his hair being on blast, like big mohawk. Just a wild man.
Sometimes I'm like, man, I wish I'd just fall off, so people stop talking about me.
I like the idea of being able to fight my way out of something.
I don't want to say I was a big Shinya Aoki fan, but it's just that I felt like he got out and was able to do a lot of the tricks that I like to do before I was able to do them. I guess you can say, a little bit jealous in a way that he was making that sort of show before I was.
As far as MMA, I want to say there's maybe five guys that do jiu-jitsu that have an actual level of understanding when it comes to boxing.
I enjoy fighting here in Japan under the regular Dream/Pride rules with the ring and the whole rules criteria.
