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Scott and Matt came from an inherently dangerous profession. The attacks and ever-changing world of vice, drug dealers, duplicitous informants, bullshit administrative backstabbing, and the pressures that go with it required a real, solid approach toward how to live and how to do a job. How does this translate to training? They go in, set a goal they want to achieve, and they get it done. This is how they want all of their athletes to look at training, a great principle that their students can take with them to their professions and the real world.

API is known to be hard on their athletes, and for good reason, as I asked Matt whether they would baby their athletes. I received the expected response: “Hell no. Life is hard. Training is hard. Sometimes you will get shit on, sometimes you will fail or embarrass yourself, but if you can have the right frame of mind in place from the very beginning, from the very first time you step into API, anywhere around the world, then you are already ahead of the game. When that cage door closes behind you, the only person you can rely on is the man in the mirror. Your coaches and teammates can yell all they want, but the person who either survives or attacks is up to you. Train like the way you fight. Train your brain to push past all that bullshit.”