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UFC Fighter Giga Chikadze on Discipline, Fighting Mindset & Never Giving Up | Coffeez for Closers

46 min
Apr 10, 20269 days ago
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Summary

UFC fighter and kickboxing legend Giga Chikadze discusses his 30+ year martial arts journey, the opening of his new Giga Kick dojo in Newport Beach, and how he's building a unified training facility combining striking, wrestling, and grappling. He shares insights on elite-level fight camp preparation, mental resilience through career transitions, and his vision for reviving traditional martial arts while developing the next generation of mixed martial artists.

Insights
  • Modern MMA success requires mastery across multiple disciplines (striking, wrestling, grappling, jiu-jitsu) rather than specialization in a single martial art, fundamentally changing how fighters must train
  • The consolidation of elite training facilities under one roof addresses a critical inefficiency in fighter development—previously requiring 6+ hours of daily travel between specialized gyms
  • Traditional martial arts like karate have lost cultural relevance and credibility due to belt inflation and tournament-focused training rather than practical self-defense, creating a market opportunity for authentic instruction
  • Elite fight camps operate with scientific precision including altitude chamber sleeping, ice bath protocols, red light therapy, and detailed opponent analysis—far beyond what casual observers understand
  • Geographic and cultural factors significantly influence athletic development; Georgia's 3-million population producing multiple UFC champions demonstrates how martial arts culture drives elite athlete production
Trends
Consolidation of multi-discipline martial arts training facilities as the new standard for elite fighter developmentRevival of traditional martial arts (karate, Kyokushin) as counter to commoditized jiu-jitsu gym proliferationIncreased adoption of biohacking and recovery technologies (altitude chambers, hyperbaric therapy, cryotherapy) in professional fight trainingGeographic clustering of elite MMA talent around premium training hubs in major metropolitan areasIntegration of cultural identity and philosophy into martial arts facilities as differentiation strategyShift toward multi-sport athlete development starting in childhood rather than single-discipline specializationProfessionalization of fight camp logistics and opponent analysis as competitive advantageRising importance of striking in MMA entertainment value despite ground game technical complexity
Companies
UFC
Primary professional MMA organization where Giga competes; signed in 2018-2019 after building kickboxing credentials
Glory
Premier kickboxing promotion where Giga was ranked #1 featherweight and headlined shows at Madison Square Garden and ...
LFA
Regional MMA promotion whose CEO was previously featured on the podcast discussing jiu-jitsu requirements for fighters
Everpur
Data storage platform sponsor offering subscription-based storage infrastructure with automatic security updates
People
Giga Chikadze
UFC featherweight striker and multi-world champion kickboxer opening elite training facility in Newport Beach
Joe Shalaby
Podcast host conducting interview and discussing business/personal development themes with Giga
John Gallant
Renowned artist who created St. George mural for Giga Kick; previously worked for UFC, Nike, and Reebok
Quotes
"I live in a camp, you know, that's something that I've been doing since I was little kid four or five years old"
Giga ChikadzeEarly in episode
"It was impossible before to get to someone who's one of the best grappler one of the best striker one of the best wrestler all together in the same gym"
Giga ChikadzeMid-episode discussing Giga Kick concept
"To be a champion like you really got to put in an extreme amount of effort in every martial art"
Joe ShalabyDiscussion of modern MMA requirements
"Mixing up all the techniques it's something that takes time and people don't understand"
Giga ChikadzeDiscussing elite striking demands
"I believe every single morning when I wake up and sunshine something's good. It's gonna happen"
Giga ChikadzePersonal philosophy discussion
Full Transcript
Today we are on site at a brand new facility in Newport Beach called Giga Kick and we are sitting down with the founder of Giga Kick, Giga Chikatsu and he is known as one of the world's foremost expert strikers a UFC legend a multi-world champion kickboxer and karate specialist this guy is an absolute ninja and one of the most humble people you will ever meet Please welcome the one the only Giga Chikatsu welcome to another episode of coffees Thanks for having me Giga. It's a pleasure. It's it's it's an honor to hang out with you You're such a special human being a very very humble guy. I'm very impressed with with your new dojo It's it's beautiful and you're attracting some of the world's best talent now I like to open up every single episode the same way ask everybody What's your morning routine? Oh morning routine is Waking up jumping in a shower obviously then making the coffee preparing the Go breakfast, which most of the time is very limited and Preparing my bag and heading towards the gym. That's pretty that's when I'm in a camp It also depends on timing Sometime I'm mixing up with my kid to drop one of them at school depends time and Yeah, always heading towards the gym Yeah, you don't need a crazy morning routine when your whole life is training. Yeah, yeah, I skipped The supplement as well because when I'm doing the supplements Like it's not just one or two. It's Pretty much like the couple of glass full glass of Different type of the vitamins. Yeah, different pills. I mean, I'm sure your supplement stack is pretty intense. Oh, yeah You gotta be on time And do multiple times per day Most of the time when I'm in a camp I really follow that plan if I'm not in a camp, right? Because I'm all I live in a camp, you know, that's something that I've been doing since I was little kid four or five years old and Always had the tournaments and competition. I was preparing for some tournaments or fights It's your four years old. This I was a four or five years old. I stepped in on the karate And dojo and that's how I started Yeah, I mean like I was just talking to your doctor here He was like, yeah, did you see what Georgian kids look like his kids? They're all ripped every single kid I'm like, yeah, you know, that's what RFK is trying to do to America now You know trying to bring America back to how we looked in the 60s You know in the JFK era, it's like you guys are already there in the Georgian era now It's like all the kids are competitive their athletes and and we see it now in UFC those multiple fighters coming out of Georgia. Yeah, Georgia is doing so good in UFC and it was just a matter of time and I'm glad I had I had to do my part to help that little Little flow to come up Here we are we got two champions right now at the moment one but Yeah, we're only like three million people and it's insane how much of the mixed martial arts is loved inside the country and how all the new generation are involved in martial arts It's amazing and I think you've been a big contributor to that, you know Put them on the map as the first official. I think I did low part. Yeah, God bless you for that Let's jump into it now. You've been in martial arts now for 30 years. That's that's crazy. I mean over 30 years Now, you know, who were you? Before the UFC like well, what was life like? Before the spotlight before the center stage before, you know The notoriety and the fame and the you know all the following etc So I signed in sir in US I signed with the UFC 2019 2018 I had the contender series chance to get to UFC so I already had some relationship with them and Till then that was like 2018 19 and I Came here first time in 2014 Just to check it out and 2015 I moved here So I spent like three years working really really hard really tough to get to the US and while I was In this years I was fighting the kickboxing the biggest stage called show called glory I was headlining the shows in Madison Square Garden, Staples Center in multiple different areas different states in The biggest kickboxing show then I was invested all the money into my grappling wrestling to get get Smaller steps to make it to the UFC because we all that is was very Necessary to get to you see the UFC even you are the I Was like ranked number one featherweight kickboxer and I left that show called glory and UFC won't sign you straight if you don't have some experience of MMA even kickboxing and mix MMA so close to each other It's like all different sport and you have to be ready for that. You have to have a couple of fights on the record and It's funny that I was fighting one day on that show like the biggest show in kickboxing and three four days after I would come and Do some local show you're a nobody in MMA MMA and Yet in MMA they all knew me all the fighters. Yeah public wise, you know the people they didn't know So I had to prove it that I was ready for UFC and it was Then same time I had to do like competition in jujitsu and start with white belt the blue belt Purple belt and travel around the tour. Are you a black belt you did to two or just no I stopped when I got to purple. I never trained with G after which was Seven years ago or six. Yeah The requirement now in in UFC is jujitsu, right? You have to have some jujitsu experience You gotta know jujitsu and you gotta know the Kickboxing as well and wrestling. It's not the one thing only You can't do just one thing. Yeah, I had the CEO of LFA on my show a couple weeks ago about a week ago and he said that Hoy's grace he came in and proved that jujitsu is the superior martial art and that was and he was one little tiny guy your your weight, right? 150 pounds going up against 300 pound fighters and since he proved that now look at you see they're requiring every fighter To know jujitsu to compete So it's become such a difficult sport now because everybody knows jujitsu. Yeah, so to be a champion Like you really got to put in an extreme amount of effort In every martial art Yeah, that's how the sport evolved. You know, this this is only like what 35 years 30 years old sports and there's only gonna grow More and more and more and we just started I'm super excited to see in the future like back in the days. There was like karate versus wrestling kickboxing versus boxing or jujitsu with some both so there was all different type of martial arts Going against each other. But nowadays you can go in a one gym and you can bring your kid inside and have Wrestling and grappling and kickboxing and karate and all that together They they're gonna grow someone like well those kind of gyms don't exist And then we talked about this when we met the concept of giga kick What was the inspiration for starting giga kick when I train and when I have a camp When I really want to train was one of the best Striking gym one of the best wrestling or so if some big fights coming up I want to get all the experience Be till my fight and it's like almost impossible It was impossible before to get to someone who's One of the best grappler one of the best striker one of the best wrestler all together in the same gym because All that they all have little egos that oh, I'm a best wrestler. I want to be separated with everyone I want my thing to have then you have grappling that I'm the best grappler and I Do traditional this way and there's only way I'm gonna do it in my case so I Was driving around in one gym and LA for boxing almost two hour just one way and come back Doing 45 minutes to Anna Hame and come back so 45 minutes back and then To different areas in Urvain and in other areas and then after all that me driving and spending the Six hours of driving per day just to get to the gym I was like, you know what? I think it's the right time to do something for community put Nice tojo here bring my all-day experience help the fighters become the better strikers better fighters and To the community to build up the traditional martial arts as karate jujitsu and bring mixed martial arts more more easier for community and Kind of like to build something special because you come in this place and you have everything the best best karate best boxing best grappling best wrestling Finally you meet somebody the young kid who is an old of full mixed martial arts in one place I think it's a good good concept. What we do I love the concept because You know finding a boxing gym you got to go to a boxing gym You got to go to a jujitsu gym and you know we discuss I got kids You know and I want them to learn to strike but then it's like I got to take them to the striking gym And we belong to a jujitsu gym and you know like having daughters They got to learn a strike before they got a little jitsu You know and and jiu-jitsu is a long process. You know striking like If they come to a couple striking classes, we know that they could defend themselves Just a couple classes. They don't got to train years. They don't train arm bars, you know So for me just finding something where as a even as a parent that I could rest assured that my kids can Properly defend themselves quickly is awesome But then to learn all of the arts in an intense environment like this where you have some of the best fighters in the world Training here. We just witnessed it and the viewers will see it on camera here. It's like You're already attracting the most elite talent here already the gym just opened Right and the best fighters are already coming here How in the world did you attract the best fighters on the planet that quick? You know the gym name is giga. There is a reason why they call it giga. So When I was a young kid Started training with karate and then I developed the skill that I could transition my Direction of the kick from the different areas while I was aiming high kick to switch the body kick or body kick to high kick and That was really success. So then I moved to kickboxing and I Moved in Netherlands traveling around the world for team Thailand and and Multiple multiple different countries and I use my kick once I got really said a lot of success in Kickboxing people started to call this kick gigas kick so time to time then they some people just Skipped ass and it became a giga kick so after that There's not only one kick I do I do Multiple different kicks and some people think that that's a giga kick some people think the other one is a giga so In mixed martial arts today people know me as one of the best kicker in the game and I Have something that not many people have it maybe only couple of and All that experience what I have in the kicking and striking game and Transitioning karate to kickboxing kickboxing to mixed martial arts Finding the right stances right kicks right techniques for the striking. I think that's a something that attracts a one of the best fighters to come and train with me and Take something from here, you know because What I find for mixed martial arts It's not came just like that for all you just mentioned the over 30 years of experience. I was concentrating and Practicing the all different striking Sports I'll be in strike. I'll be practicing the a lot of high level boxing trainings as well Kickboxing Dutch style kickboxing in Thailand Muay Thai karate in Different style that is a Kyokushin. There is god juries. There is shitori or says Shotokan all that different type of karate So that kind of gave me the ability to Help other fighters find rare or find for them the real and right techniques plan their strategy for the fights and not only in MMA obviously in kickboxing and Muay Thai fights as well. I Think that's a smart thing to come here and hang out with us and train I think that that's why they figured it out by themselves, you know, because we just opened It's been only like 15 days 15 days and there was like five UFC fighters here champions here 15 days and they're coming I heard them talking and they're they're driving like an hour two hours Many of them and how many hours was the training session like those two hours They come for two hours and they train and they're gonna train again because these people are training in the middle of the day So they're all professional fighters. Yeah, a lot of most of them there. They have a fight coming up like yeah Okay, one kid has in two weeks the title fight coming up in other Yeah, 15 days three weeks UFC fights four weeks use lights all pack It's amazing. I mean I I just come here and I see all these shredded dudes just like fighting in the middle of the day It's like they're all fighting Coming up. It's just I've never seen that. I've never saw Professional fighters in their element training in their training camps here and they're just you know, and I'm like It's 12 o'clock. You know that these guys are all pros It's not like it's a few way they work out in the morning. They're not they're not here for a workout They had their workout. No, they're gonna go now take a little nap and in one more hour They're gonna do the same thing in different place for conditioning or something like that Unbelievable it's so cool 15 days now you're attracting. I mean What is it gonna be like here because you're in a prime location? This is the first time I've ever seen like a this like a fight camp area And it's in the most famous part of Newport Beach right on Newport Boulevard. So you're getting a million views Probably more than a million views a day You're gonna get you know every probably 10 seconds. There's some UFC fighter Being turned on to this place. I foresee this place as being like a hub for the world elite athletes coming Because there is nothing like this and we're in the most prime real estate on the planet gonna be fun that where professional high-level fighters and Serious kids and get together in the same mat get the same energy get the experience for kids from Professional stars that are around on TV and and for all of that professional fighters they It will be more like unique place because in the in the back backyard. We're building the ice pass sauna some private area for the gym as well so they that is a Someone has a special camp and we don't want nobody to see the training that will be in That's room. So you can have like the world famous like Number one champion in the back. Nobody knows he's here I we're probably gonna direct him here as well because all the kids are gonna have fun to share that Experience, you know, it's always good to see someone whose role model But yeah, yeah, we'll be something really special there in the behind I Love the idea that you've made it like with a focus on the children You know like because you got the pros coming in the afternoons training in the Middle of the day the world elites and then you got kids in the evenings, you know my challenge What was my challenge in reality? you know how lately last 25 years around karate Has a better reputation around that you see the very young age kids with the black belt and most of them they don't know how to use it and Let's say some incident happens and they cannot defend themselves You watch karate tournament and it's all about belt or Not all of them but most of them, you know, so I'm trying to bring real traditional karate Back again, so my my challenges to Get that Japanese traditional martial arts back to Popularity and teach them the real karate In general this is what I want to bring because you see there's so many jujitsu gyms around here and so popular become right? And imagine that we bring the karate back again in the same same popularity with the right instructors right senseis then this kids can be unstoppable I was talking with a dad actually who's at our jujitsu gym that You know jujitsu now is the karate of like the 90s. Yeah, you know where there was a karate gym on every corner Yeah, yeah, and in my country back then it was no it was even illegal to train karate It was illegal my parents and their brothers and cousins they would train karate into the Separate like the closed area and garages and stuff the giga kick. It's an up down kick Right. Yeah, it could be Can we get can we get a like a demo of what it looks like? Sure. It's like You're going into the body and then you do the high kick or high to the body Was there a moment in your career where you had to rebuild mentally not just physically to keep going? You really had to just get through that barrier mentally because this is a very taxing Yeah, yeah multiple times, you know like First thing I got married when I was 18. I was a world champion in karate And I'm like hell what I'm gonna do, you know, I don't want to be just there Back then I wanted to be a fighter and karate would not pay any salary back So I had to figure out what to do So I moved in Holland and moved in Netherlands to join the kickboxing team and kick learn kickboxing and Because back then there was a league called K1 and K1 would pay some money so There that fight there was always like I Mean it was mentally tough, but say because my I had the new wife She was pregnant very soon as well and we had the baby on the way we moved in city called Breda first and then Then later in Amsterdam all that things like Fights were like only 200 euros they would pay so I had to fight Friday out for a fight Saturday And Sunday to survive every other weekend, you know, so Wow, we would I would fight in Belgium in Germany and in Holland and travel around in a closed by countries So after time to time I made my name there and everything changed and Yeah, there was many ups and downs with it besides that My mom had the health issues while I was in Holland and Was really hard to be there and support my mom somehow right and Then she passed away from cancer that's another The big change was in my life. I was very young I was 24 and Then That was a time that Kind of destroy a lot in my life Then was another Big change we moved from George so from Holland we moved to Georgia and from Georgia we moved back in US all My wife was like Again, we're gonna do this again. We settled in Holland finally. We're good Everything is great and now we're going in the US but actually she She actually loved that idea as well because Moving first. Yeah, first I traveled here. I came down I was invited from one of the Philadelphia's boxing gym to start boxing career, but I checked out Philadelphia traveled to New York and DC and Last stop was LA and when I came in Cali, I was like That's the right place to come The weather is big game changer, you know, so what's the weather like in Georgia? Oh in Georgia. We got the great Four season we have a very nice summer Oh, we got Beautiful autumn and spring when the nature is changing not called or something like that and we have winter when Sometime has some snow in a city, but nothing crazy. It's not like Russia Like freezing and stuff. No, no like that. We have a mountain in You know, Caucasus mountain. Yeah that you can go and have skiing It's beautiful snowboarding it's amazing like Whoever lives close by all the regiants, they know that that's a skiing resort are in Georgia So while we have a black sea, we also have a mountain. Yeah, I mean it sits right on the ocean Yeah, on the black sea. It's very nice So what was that transition, you know moving from a beautiful place like that Then you're coming over to these random states in the US finally landing in the most beautiful part of America In Newport Beach, but then before that, you know the transition is like did it feel like a downgrade? Like did America feel like the place that you wanted to be? Yeah, there was a really different because I we loved Europe. We loved the Amsterdam when we moved first We slowly worked we worked on a seven years to settle the welder and we were very happy in the end and Somehow something didn't click, you know, I was already one of the biggest naming and kickboxing in my weight division category but Price-wise that was not what I dreamed of. You know, I wanted something much bigger and that's I felt like Some talent I was wasting into something different Because financially to even till today kickboxing It's not saying what it used to be 20 years ago in Japan It doesn't drop the attention. Yeah, now you're known as one of the most technical Fighters in the UFC. What does What does elite level Striking demand that fans don't fully understand because what I witnessed right now from your striking was like That was crazy. I don't think fans really understand what it takes to be an elite level striker you gotta know so much you have to train a Lot and get a lot of experience of You know the boxing The one thing kicking is another thing mixing up these two things Let's say you are a good kicker, but you're not good boxer or you're good boxer. You're not a good kicker you can use your hands to distract your your opponent and then get benefit from kicks and then mixing up again and it's all like all that mixing the combination and mixing hand to Hand knees and whole leg it's very Something that people Don't understand how much it takes it to get like your habits, you know Yeah, people train like 10,000 kick and they do well this or Good boxing forever, but just put the boxer into the MMA or kickboxing and you'll see how Quick they're gonna fail it or someone who's let's say type one two fighter you bring in kickboxing and Even a karate fighter who goes straight to kickboxing without experience. They felt very quick. So mixing up all the techniques it's Something that takes time and people don't understand And Today How much it takes it's all about experience so yeah, I mean people are now not valuing striking as much, you know as they as Ground and pound type of stuff, you know, they want the there it's all the I think there's a resurgence now in striking and really that's You know if fans witness the UFC, I mean, I think striking is obviously them the most entertaining Most exciting definitely And we were just having that discussion like for kids, it's obviously the most Like exciting for them to do it versus like, you know, the technicalities behind jiu-jitsu and a lot of the fans don't Don't understand how technical jiu-jitsu is and how much Brain power goes into it versus like striking. It's like the same we see punching we see kicking. It's more fun We're not looking at the mental chest. Yeah Even though I know it's as a striker. It's definitely still mental chest. Yeah, they can still Have fun even if they don't have much experience. It's much easier to start baby steps now walk us through a Real fight camp. Okay a really high-level fight camp. We see these fighters in here right now What's happening behind the scenes that the public never sees because the people are like fight camp like I don't even know What the heck a fight camp is like what is a fight camp? What's a high-level fight camp? What's happening? Like how do you guys become the ultimate fighters in these camps? Yeah, there are so much that has not really seen on TV or publicly like A lot of times people say that oh, I don't watch my opponents fight. I don't care whoever he is I'll fight anyone and I'll do this and that We all watch our opponents fight. We try to learn their skills What type of shapes they are who they are training? It's something that kind of Helps you to understand that we will be fighting right what's A lot of fighters they have a habit that Oh after they punch they drop the hand or after they do left hook they do shoot take down something so It's we really study our opponent very well At least like we try high-level fighters. That's what we do We got You know, what's one of the most hardest in a camp to stay healthy because you come here you saw it here and all the MMA gyms when there are high-level fighters camp going going on A lot of times people get injured So to stay injury-free for the whole camp. That's the most challenge I mean these weight cuts are gnarly like you're probably rolling around 170 you fight at 145 Right now I'm 185 so 185 So you dropped 40 pounds for a fight last time I started camp I was for 191 When I saw 45 pounds over You're gonna drop 45 pounds for your next fight next. Yeah so far 40 probably. Yeah Yeah, you guys gonna not gonna recognize me when I when I'm When I make the weight but next day What this dropping 40 pounds and you're you're fit already Like what are you gonna do to drop 40 pounds because you already train every day right nutrients follow my daily routine How I told you about my limited breakfast and the right supplements train multiple times per day Walk because walking is great for burning the fat Sometimes you run you train Nothing happens. You cannot break your Weight on the scale. You know, it just doesn't come It's interesting that just a slower like a little higher pace walking for 45 minutes to hour Could be so much helpful to burn that little fat inside the park all that makes Much easier weight cuts. So we all do that We try to nap between trainings Otherwise, you'll feel really tired and none of the training will be so the helpful So that part You know, the recoveries are multiple different Facilities that we go and use do red light therapy. We do hyperbaric chamber Seavoc therapy obviously mechanically Like some injuries we have we go see massage therapist and acupuncture and all that stuff Oh, I forgot in my daily routine and when I wake up I start with ice bars as well When I'm in a start with an ice bath. Yeah every morning you put your whole body like five days a week I jump into 40 40 firing gate To stay at least three minutes You have an ice bath at the house. Yeah, so every morning you start that's you do do the cold plunge every morning When I'm in a camp in a camp, okay, not not normally normally I try to kind of relax a little bit Which doesn't last for long Okay, so walk me through a morning routine during camp my bedroom When I sleep when I'm in a camp it's sealed And I have an altitude chamber where I sleep every single night So you come in my bedroom and it's like like a big tent And you plug it in there is a big machine generates the altitude So it's high altitude over 8 000 feet In your room. Yeah, and do you do your room here? Like are you leaving somewhere? You're doing it here at your normal house in in the house in my bedroom. Yeah, wow They flew they did all that here What does it do is like helps me to have benefit of my conditioning It's like amazing you say And I do that every Don't throw my sneak out from my tent I try to stay there every night Wow, it's not easy first two three days And then starts your nose kind of sometime bleed bleeding Depends how we feel it's like a higher In yeah, yeah, I remember taking my kids just to colorado on high altitude. They all had bloody noses There are the fights in colorado there are fights in Mexico City when people go there and if they don't use to it They get tired in one round And whoever lives there if they just come from there and fight in vegas or somewhere else Then those guys get Extra cardio boost It's fascinating. Okay, so you're opening up giga kick now. What kind of culture Are you intentionally building inside this dojo because we see a culture? I love when we chatted the first time, you know, you're the first person to bring like an icon of st. George from Georgia in martial arts Theme I've been driving by this and you know for a long time and yeah, it's the first time I've seen something like this where you're really intentionally Building a very unique culture so that this place as in as you guys can see it looks very traditional very old-school Japanese culture influenced Same time I want to bring something from my country more from my culture which is based on respect and We have in our christianity the st. George which is Like a role model for a lot of people around that it's What it translates it's like St. George battling with evil. It's a pretty much similar as in yan in Asian culture, right it's like Your inner good and inner bad. So you pick your path which way you're gonna go so One of the artists John gallang He did the posters for ufc. He worked for Nike Rebok and it's very famous. He flew from new york and stayed here for two weeks and when he came up with that painting mural Made my I don't know like one of the dream come true as well that I wanted to do something here I want that painting in my house. Yeah, I want your fabric, you know Publicize that painting and release. Yeah, those two things also he came up with yeah And this was later done. So there was a little earlier And yeah so That's something that I want to show the kids and teach the kids that everything you guys decide into your Pads you want to pick the good or you want to pick the bad? so We're gonna help the kids to choose why they should pick the good ones, you know so That's what I'm trying to build The way this gym is gonna run. It's not gonna be just a gym. It's we call it dojo Where when they come they do bow and when they leave from here, they do the same thing It will be about to respect everything here and Respect the higher balls and Olders and trying to share the knowledge I think we're gonna do something really good. I believe it. I think it's gonna be something really special Now I have a couple last questions for you What's a personal goal that you have for yourself this year? What's a family goal that you have for your family? And what's a business goal that you have for giga kick? Personal goal Your personal goal besides the business wise and this gym to make successful is To get Get my sports career get going back again. I have to come back with a nice Nice w that's something that I'm looking for Um About You say the family dream family family goal business family goal personal family goal family goal I mean family goals. It's very simple, right? Yeah, it's torture Who's studying at high school and make her Make her see Success at school at the moment Um My son plays football Trains here. So we want to see some competition We want him to make it and Actually, I want to see him happy, you know happy. He's already very happy and even happier in the future So that's the something that I'm not really pushing to him He he picked the side that he wanted to train here. So I'm happy to see his What he stands for and what he wants to do And For my Wife together we have You know, I think we made the one of the dream come true that we started the business year together. He is the main Uh of this dojo that looks like this japanese style very minimalistic and is very involved in pretty much everything marketing to sales to all the stuff and In general like I kind of see that Family dream is like more business dream this at this moment for this year to get the gym going Get multiple members in the gym right community And going from there And how about a personal goal for yourself? Personal goal, um Back to 140. Yeah 145. Yeah, definitely you know, I'm um I'm very god-believer person. So I believe every single morning when I wake up And sunshine something's good. It's gonna happen So I'm just trusting in the god's plan and following it. I don't plan I mean, I always like to plan it Just live in positivity and I'm gonna do my 100 whatever I can do every day and I know that Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow something good's always gonna come up now Last question for you When you're in front of the pearly gates, what do you think god's gonna tell you? I hope not Too many bad things. I'm gonna hate about me And I hope I'll hear something one thing that makes me Happy that oh, I did the right thing. You know, we are all seniors here and and We all are working on that to Make the way Up there with him I don't know. I don't know. I probably inside me. We all I know what I What I'm doing good or bad And hopefully when I go there, well, I'll be I'll be ready to face it I don't know that's what we all pray for man. What about you? You know When I go and I was just thinking about this and I think about this every time I ask the questions like Is he gonna tell me well done good and faithful servant is he gonna tell me like you could have done better? Like I give it my best and I fall every single day every day fall in my face And I just get back up and I fight again Every single day. So when I go For me god knows my heart and he knows I exist for one thing and one thing only to do his work Yet I fall into the same temptations and the same issues and But I'm here as a servant. That's it. So he's gonna tell me And this answer probably changes every time I think about it And he's gonna tell me you should have done better But I'm a little Like barely barely made it Get your visa Giga chikaze If people want to find you or find out more about your charity or get in touch with you, how do they find you? Uh, our website for the gym is called giga kick dot com Besides that I run my social media My personal and for charity they can contact me on knockout cancer on instagram And we just opened a new account for the gym in All social media giga kick as well for the gym. So Yeah, that's it very simple Thank you. Yeah, the twitter like on the x it's giga underscore chikaze And facebook giga chikaze. Thank you so much giga chikaze. 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