No money and I can still train? How to afford any Jiu-Jitsu School While Being Broke! - Kama Vlog
Summary
TLDRIn this video, Ryan Young addresses the common concern that Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is expensive, drawing from his own financially challenging upbringing. He counters the idea that he doesn't understand the struggle by discussing the importance of mindset, contrasting a scarcity mindset with an abundance mindset. Ryan suggests practical solutions like finding additional income or cutting other expenses to afford BJJ, emphasizing that it's about prioritizing what you want and being resourceful. He shares personal anecdotes and examples, like teaching extra classes or using rideshare services to offset costs, to inspire viewers to find creative ways to pursue their BJJ goals.
Takeaways
- 💡 The cost of jiu-jitsu can vary greatly and is often perceived as expensive, but it's relative to one's financial situation.
- 🏆 Ryan Young, despite not having a wealthy background, emphasizes that financial constraints shouldn't limit one's pursuit of jiu-jitsu.
- 💼 To afford jiu-jitsu, one can consider cutting expenses, finding additional income, or reevaluating personal priorities.
- 🚀 The speaker advocates for an abundance mindset over a scarcity mindset, suggesting that one's attitude towards money can influence financial success.
- 💰 The speaker shares personal anecdotes of living in a housing project and having a tight budget, yet still finding ways to afford what he wanted.
- 🚖 Examples are given, such as using rideshare services to earn extra money or teaching private lessons, to demonstrate how one can afford jiu-jitsu.
- 🏦 The importance of budgeting and being mindful of expenses is highlighted, with the speaker sharing his own experiences with budgeting.
- 🤔 The speaker challenges the audience to think creatively about how they can earn the extra money needed for jiu-jitsu instead of solely focusing on cutting costs.
- 🌟 Success in jiu-jitsu and life is tied to one's mindset and approach to challenges, including financial ones.
- 📈 The cost of jiu-jitsu can be influenced by factors such as the instructor's fees, the cost of doing business in a certain area, and the supply and demand for jiu-jitsu schools.
Q & A
What is one of the reasons people quit jiu-jitsu mentioned in the video?
-One of the reasons people quit jiu-jitsu is due to financial constraints, as indicated by comments on a previous video by Ryan Young.
How does Ryan Young respond to comments that suggest he doesn't understand the financial struggles of some people?
-Ryan Young responds by sharing his own background of not growing up with money and living in a housing project, emphasizing that he does understand financial struggles.
What is the 'scarcity mindset' as discussed by Ryan Young?
-The 'scarcity mindset' refers to a perspective where individuals believe they don't have enough resources and are unable to find ways to acquire more, often leading to giving up on opportunities due to perceived financial constraints.
What are the three options Ryan suggests for someone who finds jiu-jitsu training too expensive?
-Ryan suggests three options: 1) Not joining the school, 2) Cutting other expenses to afford the training, or 3) Finding a way to earn additional income to cover the cost.
What is the difference between a scarcity mindset and an abundance mindset according to the video?
-The abundance mindset is characterized by a belief in the ability to generate more resources or opportunities, whereas the scarcity mindset is focused on the lack of resources and a perceived inability to change one's financial situation.
How does Ryan Young exemplify the abundance mindset in his own life?
-Ryan Young exemplifies the abundance mindset by sharing how he managed to increase his training at the Gracie Academy by working in the studio, showing his initiative to create opportunities rather than being limited by his financial situation.
What advice does Ryan Young give to those who feel jiu-jitsu is too expensive?
-Ryan advises those who find jiu-jitsu too expensive to change their mindset and look for ways to earn the extra money needed, such as taking on additional jobs or finding creative solutions to cover the cost.
Why does Ryan Young emphasize the importance of mindset in achieving financial goals related to jiu-jitsu training?
-Ryan Young emphasizes the importance of mindset because it determines one's approach to financial challenges. A positive mindset can lead to finding solutions and opportunities to achieve one's goals, whereas a negative mindset can lead to giving up.
What is an example of how someone might earn extra money to afford jiu-jitsu training as suggested by Ryan?
-One example given is using ride-sharing apps like Uber to pick up passengers going in the direction of one's commute to and from work, effectively getting paid for what would otherwise be a regular commute.
How does the cost of jiu-jitsu training vary according to the video?
-The cost of jiu-jitsu training can vary based on factors such as the teacher's fees, the availability of different types of jiu-jitsu in the area, the cost of running a business in the area, and the overall supply of jiu-jitsu schools.
What does Ryan Young suggest about priorities when it comes to spending on jiu-jitsu training?
-Ryan suggests that if jiu-jitsu is a priority, individuals should be willing to adjust their spending habits or find ways to earn more money to afford the training they desire.
Outlines
💸 The Struggle with Jiu-Jitsu Expenses
Ryan Young discusses the common complaint about the cost of jiu-jitsu and how it relates to personal financial situations. He shares his own upbringing without much money and how it shaped his perspective on expenses. Ryan emphasizes the importance of mindset, suggesting that instead of seeing jiu-jitsu as unaffordable, one should consider adjusting their budget or finding ways to earn extra money. He contrasts a scarcity mindset with an abundance mindset, using examples of how wealthy people maintain their wealth versus those who struggle financially.
🚗 Creative Solutions to Afford Jiu-Jitsu
The speaker provides practical advice on how to afford jiu-jitsu by sharing examples of how individuals can earn extra money, such as using rideshare apps to offset commuting costs. He also talks about his own experience of teaching private lessons to supplement his income. The paragraph highlights the idea that with the right mindset, one can find ways to afford what they want, rather than focusing on the limitations of their current financial situation.
💼 The Importance of Determination and Work Ethic
Ryan recounts his own experiences of working multiple jobs and living on a tight budget to afford jiu-jitsu training. He emphasizes the importance of determination and a strong work ethic in achieving one's goals, including in the pursuit of martial arts. The paragraph serves as a testament to the idea that with enough desire and effort, financial obstacles can be overcome.
📢 Call to Action and Upcoming Seminars
In the final paragraph, Ryan Young addresses the viewers directly, encouraging them to like, subscribe, and share his content. He also announces his plans to visit southern Texas for seminars and invites local schools to get in touch with him to arrange mini-seminars. This paragraph serves as both a call to action for viewers and a personal invitation for interaction and engagement with the jiu-jitsu community.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Jiu-jitsu
💡Expense
💡Mindset
💡Scarcity Mindset
💡Abundance Mindset
💡Budgeting
💡Prioritization
💡Income Generation
💡Affordability
💡Financial Flexibility
💡Value
Highlights
Discussion on why people quit jiu-jitsu due to financial constraints and the author's perspective on expense.
Author's personal background of financial struggles and how it shaped his views on jiu-jitsu expenses.
The importance of mindset when it comes to affording jiu-jitsu training and the difference between a scarcity and abundance mindset.
Strategies for affording jiu-jitsu such as cutting expenses or finding additional income.
The idea that wealth accumulation is a mindset and how it applies to earning money for jiu-jitsu training.
Example of using Uber to cover commuting costs as a way to afford jiu-jitsu.
The author's experience teaching private lessons to afford more training time.
How the author managed a tight budget to afford jiu-jitsu training in the past.
The role of priorities in determining what one is willing to spend money on, including jiu-jitsu.
The variability in what is considered 'expensive' and how it relates to individual financial situations.
The author's friend's approach to setting jiu-jitsu tuition rates based on personal value and desire to teach.
How the author's friend identifies those who can afford higher jiu-jitsu rates by observing their lifestyle choices.
The concept that if you really want something, like jiu-jitsu, you will find a way to afford it.
The author's upcoming visit to South Texas and plans to conduct mini-seminars in the area.
Invitation for schools in South Texas to contact the author to arrange a mini-seminar.
Transcripts
hey everyone Ryan young coming soon okay
doing well you know a while ago I did a
video on why people quit jiu-jitsu and
one of the reasons was I don't have
enough money and every once in a while I
see a comment come up on that video
telling me basically that jiu-jitsu is
expensive which it can and it's not
always and it depends what expensive is
right it's expensive and that you know
some people like me just don't
understand right what it's like to not
have enough money or something yeah it's
some ridiculous stuff like that and and
I say ridiculous because if I think of
my background I didn't grow up with
money right my dad had money but my
parents were divorced and so I lived
with my mom I grew up with my mom my mom
never made more than 25 or 30 thousand
dollars a year she worked clerical were
things like bookkeeper type dammit and
she had to raise a son so she and I
would live on our own we didn't really
know every once in a while we had to
live with our my grandparents and all
that when my mom would run out of money
we did live in a part in a housing
project in Honolulu called Red Hills for
a period of time but we kind of bounced
around and you know the only real steady
thing in my life was number one my mom
you know I was lucky that you know I
didn't have to deal with a stepfather
there's just my mom and I
you know I never starved she never got
on welfare but we did you know briefly
live in the housing projects but I
couldn't get a lot of stuff I'm gonna go
into more of this in another video but
about the mindset that you need to have
but I brought this up because a couple
of people who getting got in contact
with me recently who joined up you know
the first thing they said you know
people asked what's the price and I give
them the price of our tuition here and
we're not the most expensive but we're
not the cheapest either they say you
know it's just too expensive for me and
I asked them I go well what exactly are
you looking for these people they they
do the research you know a lot of you do
your research on what you want to what
you want to train in before you you go
to a school before you approach the
school and sometimes you find out after
you've been at a school for a while that
maybe this isn't for me I need to find
something else you do your research you
reach out to somebody like me if I'm in
your area and then say well this is what
I want and you come and try a class or
two out this is perfect you know this is
exactly looking for but the cost its
prohibitively expensive in in first in a
person's case here's my thought on it if
I'm looking at a something I want to
give but it costs me $75 a month more
than what I'm paying now I might be
running my budget on a razor-thin margin
where I don't have very much in the way
of flexibility you have two options
I actually have three one is you just
don't do it right you don't you don't
come into our school for instance or the
school that you're looking for number
two is you think to yourself I need to
cut my expenses by $75 so I can I can
afford it
the other is I find a way to get another
$75 so I can't afford it the mindset
you're looking at here is the scarcity
mindset versus the abundance mindset
I'll give you an example how do people
amass a billion dollars well I don't
know because I have I don't have a
billion dollars so I've still yet to
figure that out
but let's say you have somebody who has
a net worth of six digits how do they
get to that point versus somebody who
doesn't if you've never gotten to having
a positive net working you're always in
debt you're always you know putting
things on credit card go spending you
always have no money or pocket you don't
know what it's like to have money in
your pocket on the other hand somebody
who does have money in their pocket they
will always have money
there's a saying that goes that if you
were to take all the money that the
wealthiest people have give it to the
masses that are poor then within five
years all the money that the poor hat
will be right back in the hands of the
people who once had once you develop how
to do something then you can do it all
the time and it's not just a case with
money it has to do with anything in life
right if you do it once you're
unfamiliar with it but what you did it
once and you think you know you did it
once you can do it again so if you've
earned a million dollars once you know
you'll be able to do it again even if
even if the powers that be were to take
all the money away from you you'd know
how to get back for those who have come
to me and tell me you're too expensive
by this amount because I can't afford it
then my thing back to you is what ways
given your your life knowledge and your
expertise can you earn that extra
seventy five dollars instead of give up
on coming to train at a place like ours
instead of being one of the the charity
cases that we do have we do have them
you know you just want to come in and be
like everybody else how do you do it I
don't know I mean actually you know
popped my head
if you have a car you know and you drive
to and from work I actually have a
friend and what he does is he'll he'll
turn on the uber or the list yeah and he
would just go find a ride that you can
pick up that's going in the direction of
his house coming home from work so it's
almost like his commute home is being
paid for by someone else
same thing with leading when he's hit
when he hits out in the morning
maybe leaves half an hour earlier opens
the app and sees if there's anybody
going in the direction that he's going
to work goes to pick him up
drops him off he goes off to work I
don't know how much money that'll make
but if you do that five days a week you
think that would make you $75 right it's
not gonna cost you that much more
because it's on your way to and from
right that's one way to do it for me
it's I'll just teach another private
I mean that's something that I can do
you know a lot of you know most of you
who watch a channel are not a black belt
to teach or whatever and but when I was
living in California and I was getting
my reps and teaching I would just put a
crazy Lestat out and I got I don't know
three four or five students that way
teaching privates is a brown belt I
didn't charge all that much because I
was still kind of in my mind I'm
thinking I still have to learn how to
teach and you know I just I was at
Dave's school and actually I was I was
teaching some before I was at Dave's
school and I was teaching more wallows
at this school so for me it was still a
learning process I didn't really quite
have the finished product ready to go
yet but people were paying me for my
time and you know to bust me up in my
garage but that was a little bit extra
money so for me I don't really worry
about mine and it's not because I'm
wealthy it's because I don't worry about
money you know it's not really anything
and if you kind of look at in jiu-jitsu
terms if you think of everything you do
in jiu-jitsu your level of success and
you just simply start at the money terms
you could do that as well as an example
when somebody mounts me am I thinking to
myself oh crap I'm not getting up right
I'm thinking oh this might be a pretty
good mount okay instead of me getting on
five seconds that might take me a little
bit longer and I just do what I need to
do to get out right so you come up to
something you want to buy and it costs X
amount and you go man I don't have that
amount well it's gonna take a little
longer I said uh beginning tomorrow I
may need to get at the end of the month
what do I need to do between now and
then to get it right it's all a mindset
right you watch those of you who have
watched the videos that we have on our
channel you notice that number one we
don't teach technique on our video so
what do we do 250 videos on a lot of the
history which is unrelated to this video
but a lot of it has to do with how do
you need to think to become successful
introduced to it one of the things to be
successful introduced is to get into
jiu-jitsu your first place
and once you get in and you realize wait
a minute there are actually different
types of jiu-jitsu oh I need to try a
different type well just as easily as
you can go to go to 1 1 type 2 and from
one type to another type and realize
it's more expensive it can go the other
way you realize oh it's actually cheaper
doing that you get so I really want to
do know what makes you Jitsu cheaper
more expensive a lot of it just has to
do with who the teacher is right some
teachers just simply cost more
but it could be the Yamato jiu-jitsu
that's available in your area it could
be the area living so for instance you
could live in an area where the cost of
running a business is very high so guess
what the cost of jiu-jitsu is gonna be
pretty high there or it could be in an
area where there's very little to do
students so then it would be high or you
could be in a place like Southern
California where there's jiu-jitsu are
on every single corner so even though it
is expensive to do conduct business
there you're gonna find a lot of places
to train for not that much money because
of the supply of jiu-jitsu in that area
you just have to kind of put it all
together realize I am where I am and I
just have to kind of deal with things
the best that I can so if you find that
you want something and it costs more
it's easier to earn a little bit more
money than it is to cut expenses because
what if you're already cut down as much
as you can right when I first moved to
California I made $2,000 a month from
both my wife and I you know she worked
part-time but she was going to school I
literally cashed every paycheck that I
got and I put it together in envelopes
and each envelope has a category of what
I could spend on you know for food for
gas or whatever right and I my budget
was tight so what I had to do was to go
and train to get an extra day of
training at the Gracie Academy in
Torrance I actually talked to master
Fabio Fabio Santos he wasn't a master
did professor Fabia there and I just
said hey this is my situation what can I
do well he made me work in the studio
because he could do that he had that
ability but I I asked and I did what can
I do to go from training twice a week to
three times a week because monetarily I
didn't have it right and I was working a
full-time job and I didn't have at that
time the ability to just turn on an uber
app and earn a few more bucks that way
because this is back in 1992 so
but I could have easily picked up side
jobs here and there I could have easily
gotten a hard time job working some
nighttime hours it just comes out - how
badly do you want it and if master
fabulous master fry but didn't give me
that option about being able to work on
Saturdays at the studio teaching helping
him teach the the beginner class so
therefore I could stay the rest of the
day and train and then I would have had
to figure something else out I've worked
my entire life
and I've worked sometimes two jobs
during college so working I was not a
strange to the working so whatever free
time I had I could easily say get
another job so for those of you who may
want to train and feel that you can't
afford it just change your way of
thinking
for those of you that are still of that
mindset then you know I don't know what
I'm talking about or I don't know your
situation you're right I don't know your
situation but really it doesn't matter
it's just you you know if that's your
mentality that's your mentality if you
got the school mentality you got the
Pullman Tyler's not tank and do them
anyway
that's all I got if you I hope this
helps you guys kind of put things in
perspective but realize that you can you
can even move things around so a friend
of mine I was talking about and he says
and he charges more than I do and I said
wow you know this is this is years ago
and I said how do you charge that much
and he says it's what I want right you
know it if I'm gonna be teaching a
certain person this is the number that I
need to be able to teach that person and
want to do it and that's another thing
to eat that that's what it was ready for
him to wanna if he if he let you in for
less he would be like man I don't really
want to teach that person he wasn't
incentivize that's the way he thought
and I said isn't that kind of a lot of
money to charge and his answer to me was
what's too expensive what's too
expensive to you is not the same as
what's too expensive for me or for him
or for her everybody has a different
scale on what's expensive right for
somebody buying a car somebody might say
you know I'm just gonna buy a Honda
Accord right I just need a full-size
four-door sedan that's what I'm gonna
buy another person who will go and that
person who buys the Accord will say I
would never buy a Lexus because that's
just too expensive on the other hand
somebody you know let's just sell a lot
of cars which means that it's not
expensive for a lot of other people you
know it's not too expensive if Lexus
were to come into the automobile market
saying you know the Honda is the number
one selling car in the world I'm not
gonna there's no way I could I can
sell this $50,000 luxury car if they
thought like that
then there'd be no Lexus's for people to
drive but they just came into the market
same thing with what this friend of mine
was telling me about her school and
another thing too he says if I think
let's say as his rate was 250 dollars a
month which I think it was and I and I
told man that's crazy you know you crazy
gonna get that he goes well you know
somebody walks to my studio and they
tell me I can't afford that
he goes and I see they've got the latest
iPhone he goes they can afford it
or they're you're clear worried really
really nice expensive clothes they can
afford it with him it's just priorities
what do you want to spend your money on
you know somebody may say you know I
mean I may spend a hundred thousand
dollars on a car but I'm not gonna spend
more than $100 a month on gee good song
they can afford more they just don't
want to think about what's important to
you if jiu-jitsu is important to you
then you're gonna do what you gotta do
to afford it if you're not willing to
spend more than a few bucks to go to the
school that you want to go to then
that's not really the school you want to
go to because if you really want
something there's nothing that will stop
you from getting it really think about
it right and that's the same with me too
if I want something I will do what I
need to begin anyway that's all I got
for you I hope that helped comment below
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