Got any extra hats? I’d like to buy one. 😀

Hey everyone, very excited to be here :) I joined a couple days ago and haven't seen many discussions yet, so I thought I'd start one. What aspect of martial arts and/or you working on right now? Mine is making sure I don't strain my hip flexor as it's hurt right now, so mostly taking it easy. How about you guys?

This was INSANELY stressful, but we managed to offload a 3,000-lb CNC machine that will unlock a dozen new product lines for us. Instead of hiring a rigging team to offload it, I figured I could just rent a forklift for the day and save $2000... I mean, how hard could it be!? Well, I had exactly 15minutes to learn how to use this thing and hope that I don't drop a $150,000 piece of equipment that's not insured against idiocy. Luckily, this story has a happy ending, and we touched down without issue. But boy was I sweating bullets... This CNC machine is massive! It has a 5' x 8' working area with a 4th axis as well, so we are now limited only by our creativity. What is the first product we should make!?

Whoa… it’s been a while. But we’re back. The Budo Brothers Podcast has been reinvented and rebranded as Underneath the Kimono. This time around, we’re stripping things down, taking ourselves a little less seriously, and giving you more of a behind-the-scenes look at what’s actually going on in our world—what we’re building, what we’re thinking about, what’s challenging us, and what’s inspiring us. This is a place for us to connect and catch up. We’ll talk entrepreneurship, martial arts, creativity, innovation, new ideas, the ups and downs of building Budo Brothers, and, of course, plenty of jiu-jitsu. We don’t know exactly what the cadence of the podcast will be yet—and that’s kind of the point. We want to keep it loose, genuine, and fun. In this first episode back, we catch you up on what we’ve been doing over the last couple of years, where Budo Brothers is headed, some of the new products we’re working on, and the concept of Sutemi—full commitment with no turning back.