Coming to you from the Mardi Gras "Hotel" and "Casino" in Las Vegas Nevada.

I'm flying away in a couple of hours so wanted to run down the week in Las Vegas so far, including the couple of banana skins that was on the way leading up to it.

You'll never be worse off not trying, and that's something I will keep trying to remember even more after this week in Las Vegas.

Here's to NoGi Worlds 2025.

I had hoped for this episode to allow me to take a week off and just publish what we recorded last weekend, however I took for granted how annoying of a process it just might be to get everything done the way I wanted to in my head...a good lesson learned that we dip into slightly on this weeks episode.

You'll hear all about it, and then all going to plan you'll be able to watch it very soon.

Thanks again for everybody that has been in touch over the last weekend, there's a lot of goodwill floating about and it must be this time of the year. It's appreciated.

To keep the early morning friday listeners happy, there's a very small episode right now with an update.

BUT

A longer, audio + video episode being recorded in a couple of hours after time of writing + recording. All going to plan that will be online over the weekend.

Was set for the British Open but now the timing of the matches just might not work out in my favour.

I genuinely started off this episode with the inteniton of being nice and concise and shorter than last weeks but here we are again.

Legacy in JiuJitsu I feel is going to be respected and highlighted way more than it is in the sport of MMA and that's something we will jump into and contrast between the next steps for the like of Jon Jones vs the returning steps for the GOAT of JiuJitsu, Marcelo Garcia.

It's also confirmed, the podcase is heading back on the road and there'll be episodes coming to you from SIN CITY. Las Vegas in December as I am now booked to go compete in the IBJJF NoGi World Championships.

Two topics for discussion this week.

It's episode 15, please ignore the intro and how confident i was that it's actually epsiode 14. There's no do overs here, it's why we are consistently above average and not some elite high end podcast.

Patching holes in your JiuJitsu game and how that can be different from trying to implement it as an athlete and competitor vs how you are trying to patch other peoples games through coaching.

There's definitely some parallels but just some thoughts of what i have come across in the last year or so.

Then at (21:30) of the episode, we transition shockingly over to the sport of Mixed Martial Arts. Ahead of the return of Jon Jones this weekend I just wanted to give some of my thoughts or read of the absolute masterclass this man is playing in the media this week, and if he is robbing us as MMA fans the ability to see Tom Aspinall do to him, what he once did to Mauricio "Shogun" Rua.

It has been a tough enough week, but I didn't want to do a shorter episode and make some excuse. Instead, I just tired to run / talk my way through it.

One conversation heard at the right time, at the right place could have a huge effect that you didn't think possible. We might have had one of those during the week

And a quick debrief about last weekends 14 hour round trip to London.

Normal, Postive, Upbeat service will resume next week!

Winter Arc is the meme of the season so far, there'll be multiple other trends between now and christmas that i will miss and go completely over my head, but maybe there is some truth behind the winter arc, let's try figure it out.

I need to get up to skills on how to use Instagram best to this shows advance. There's a market we need to tap into, so I will be enlisting the help of PFL Superstar CRIS CYBORG to help take my next steps.

It was my birthday yesterday too, one year closer to deaths sweet embrace

and for the second time in as many weeks, there's going to be a second podcast later on in the weekend with everybodys favourite guest (1 out of 1) as i'm heading off for a 16 hour round trip to London on Saturday to watch a grappling event called Polaris.

I can't believe I'm writing this on a Friday afternoon, that's insanely off brand.

The week after a tournament when you are questioning your life existance, happy to just be trianing for the sake of enjoying training instead of doing 3x per day,

Took a seemingly normal diversion of my week and headed up to our fine capital country, where I'm reminded despite loving Dublin, everything people say about it is probably fair and true.

Ponder over what could have been from a viral body kick thrown in a EUROPEAN FINAL might have led to and a question to consider and what side of the coin do you land on.

Why is getting beaten up in BJJ Enjoyable?

The bonus episode. Longer than usual.

Recorded in three parts, Sunday Night after dinner, the middle of the night trying to not fall asleep before heading to the airport and sitting at Gat E44.

Thanks to Jean for joining me, for the first time but maybe not for the last time. We will have to see how it went.

There are a couple of cuts in the editing, one mic between two people was a rookie move but wanted to make do with what we had.

Three people agreed to meet for a Taxi to the airport at 4AM but only two showed up, what happened next?

Back home now and back to training this week, Episode 11 this Friday.

Coming to you from Ostia, Rome. Episode 10 of Consistently Above Average is live.

The Airport Taxi drivers are clued in to what fares they want to take anyway,

Day One is over and done with, Day Two will be kicking off just about an hour before this episode goes live. I am competing today, and it was a strange process to record and verbalise that the night before I competed.

There'll be follow up episodes throughout the weekend, but this podcast started as an accountability thing leading up to the NoGi Europeans. It's gonna continue no doubt, but very happy I decided to start it up again and it helped in the preparation towards competing.