hey what's up guys welcome back to the channel my name is travis and what i almost said welcome
back to another daily q a that's not what this is we're going to be doing a quick update video
trying to keep it under five minutes or so but uh mainly for those of you who have emailed me over
the last week or so asking me if i'm okay and then sean sent me an email this morning and asked me if
i was okay because i cancelled the live stream last night so i figured i'd give you guys an
update uh just kind of everything that's going on and talk about shipping and jiu-jitsu competition
and personal stuff and just get you guys kind of up to speed and let you know that i'm okay so
uh yeah first things first canceled a live stream last night because i had my last uh training
session before my fights tomorrow and uh not fight but fights i think i have five scheduled right now
and then it will go into elimination so i gotta win all those so we'll see but uh we'll get into
that here in a second but either way uh yeah i was i trained so hard last night i got home i
was like i'm gonna do my live stream then i got and i literally sat on the couch and i was like
nope not doing that tonight so when i went to bed but uh yes that's why i cancel live stream
hopefully we'll get back on schedule next thursday and everything will be you know back to normal so
uh on top of that we had ice storm on sunday monday and then we had something going on tuesday
so corals did not go out this past week i attempted i sent notifications out to you
guys saying hey your order's going to ship soon but then had to send emails saying hey that is not
going to happen because we got word that there's ice storm coming in with possible delays so
coral did not go out this week just because i don't like to risk it it's already sub 30 degrees
and even though i do put the 40 hour heat packs in there if it's out there and it's too many
states in the back of the truck for longer than it should be because of a delay no matter how
strong that heat pack is even if it is set for 40 hours if the temperature gets too low it just out
competes the heat pack and then the heat pack dies and then shortly after that your coral dies so
i try not to uh expose corals to those situations if i can help it um and a lot of people understand
that this time of the year with the delays and everything but either way i will be back to
shipping coral next week on tuesday or wednesday kind of depending on how everything goes on monday
now i do have some personal stuff going on which i'll dive into at a later date but it's been
basically a year and a half worth of nonsense that we're going to be dealing with on monday
which is good or at least move forward in the process um and again i'll talk about that stuff
later on um and then of course the brazilian jiu jitsu competition i've been training for over the
for the last year and trying to get ready for um that's going down in maryland tomorrow i'm pretty
excited about it i've been uh cutting weight and trying to just doing a ton of training trying
to get ready a lot of just a lot of grinding and just you know preparation for this kind of stuff
and hopefully it turns out well it's my very first competition and i do plan on doing a couple more
of them um before the end of the year just trying to get that stuff in while i can and uh yeah so my
plan is to go down early in the morning i'm going to weigh in probably around 9 a.m that way i can
go out and have a decent sized breakfast and try to get some carbohydrates in me and then i'm not
scheduled to fight to like 5 p.m which is which is totally fine there's uh a few fights set there set
you know ready to go a few different brackets and then it's going to go into elimination i know it's
itchy [ __ ] it's going to go into elimination and then you know i just got to win them so we'll see
at this point i've trained as much as i can i mean i was doing four to five days per week
like upwards of like 15 hours a week if not more than that and i've been doing that consistently
for a while lots of training lots of cutting a lot of weight training and just focusing in techniques
and drilling so if i get beat tomorrow it's it was meant to be because i uh i can't do any more than
i'm possibly doing and um you know we'll see what happens uh i'm just gonna go in with a mindset i'm
gonna try to stay as calm as possible and go in there i do have a general plan but um you know
plans are meant to be changed so we'll have some i have some stuff in the works that if i need to but
uh yeah so i'm looking forward to to experiencing this it's been a long time since i've had any kind
of any kind of hand-to-hand combat stuff i mean the last time i've ever had anything that was
remotely close to this was in afghanistan and that was when i was 21 years old and i am now 34. so
i have to remember that i've got through that stuff i've gone through those experiences i've
done those things and i turned out just fine and this situation isn't going to be any different
so uh yeah my nose is itchy as [ __ ] but i'm not starting this video over because this is like the
fourth take already and i'm running out of room so we're gonna keep going uh yeah so with that said
looking forward to it and i'm i'm going in the mindset that if i don't win i'm at least gonna
learn something and i'm gonna train harder and do what i need to do in my next competition just
keep grinding i mean at some point um you know i am going to come home with a gold at some point
in the future it's going to happen um because well the reality is is everything in my life that i've
ever wanted and i truly wanted i've always gotten because i've always put the effort into it so
this is not going to be any different it's going to happen at some point in the future
if not tomorrow so yeah uh with that said i uh yeah i think that's about it i'm going to
get back on schedule with videos and stuff once things start to calm down
and uh still cutting coral 3d printers are doing well i have one that's down right now just because
i had to wait for a hot end to come in i have had some issues getting filament um so some some of
the prints have been taking a little bit longer because um it's just you can't you can't really
get anything i mean you guys know the inflation stuff which is just super annoying prices have
gone up um i'm going to keep my prices the same on the website mainly because it's too much work to
go through and try to update all the prices so i'm just going to leave them the way they are and just
take the you know additional hit for whatever i'm caught whatever it costs for material but
uh yeah so getting filament in has been a little bit of an issue it's not horrible but it's
definitely a lot longer than it usually is and then the price of filament's gone up but again
it's it is what it is at this point so uh other than that i think i think that's it that's about
it for the update i'm almost out of time anyways uh so i will try to get the competition recorded
and maybe i can upload that stuff on youtube i don't know how the algorithm is or how they
are about that kind of stuff being on youtube i know that i've seen other channels do it with no
issues i just don't know if it's going to be you know monetization-wise i might just put it up and
just have it not monetized in general so i don't worry about it in that stuff so we'll see how
everything goes wish me luck and i'll give you guys an update next week all right peace
you