084 - Learnings from the Grand Masters in Malaysia (Part 2)

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[00:00:18] Hello there. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome back once again to Connect The Dots podcast

[00:00:22] And if you've heard the first or the previous episode about Rishabh's Malaysia trip, that's great

[00:00:28] It'll be a continuation from there

[00:00:30] If you haven't heard it yet, please go back and listen to the episode about Malaysia trip part one

[00:00:36] And I'm going to go straight into part two now

[00:00:39] So Rishabh, the last time we spoke about your you know

[00:00:43] How was it for you to go alone for the first time with our parents and how was it to learn responsibility?

[00:00:48] And now we're gonna go into what are some of the things that you learned from your masters there

[00:00:54] Now talk a little bit about your grandmaster

[00:00:56] Grandmaster Michael Liu

[00:00:59] Yeah, so I

[00:01:01] I like that grandmaster. He was a very nice person from the beginning

[00:01:07] He taught me a lot of things about being

[00:01:10] Responsible with your money and also not to be selfish because

[00:01:15] many Indians are actually quite selfish in small ways like

[00:01:21] We learned all these things how to become like a gentleman

[00:01:24] So it was kind of fun. Awesome

[00:01:26] So we learned like these small things when you go into an elevator should stand in the side

[00:01:31] letting other people through and

[00:01:34] When you're going down an escalator or something

[00:01:36] You should stand on the left side always and the right side is for people who are in the rush. Of course

[00:01:43] some Indians won't know this because

[00:01:46] Yeah, you know we are Indians

[00:01:49] No, no no offense to Indians I I love Indians even I'm a Indian myself

[00:01:56] So but these small things can be changed

[00:02:00] Go on it and what did he teach you about money management or what is exactly that he taught you about money?

[00:02:05] He taught us how to keep the money. Okay. Yeah, so he told us that

[00:02:11] like the ringgits the Malaysian dollars the ringgits you are supposed to keep the

[00:02:17] Face of the ringgits up. Okay, so then you can keep it number wise like

[00:02:23] 150 20 10 5 like that. So from the smallest denomination to the highest in order

[00:02:30] Yeah, so you can keep it like that with the ringgit person facing up

[00:02:35] and

[00:02:36] That's how he taught us how to keep the money in the wall and should it be kept folded or shouldn't be kept straight

[00:02:42] How is it? How should we get he told us to keep it straight?

[00:02:45] Yeah

[00:02:46] But keep it as straight as possible

[00:02:48] If not, you have to keep it folded if it doesn't fit

[00:02:51] So he taught us a lot of things like this and and he said you have to change your wallet once a year

[00:02:57] And then did I say about how to keep your ID card and where to keep your credit cards all of that

[00:03:02] Yeah

[00:03:02] He taught us everything about how to keep your wallet nice and neat and then when he showed us his work

[00:03:08] It was so arranged. He is he said this is my ID this point

[00:03:11] This is and it was so neatly arranged you could just take out anything

[00:03:15] So do you believe if you keep money in a neat way and in a beautiful way you'll get more fit in your life

[00:03:22] Yeah, if you can maintain it nicely

[00:03:24] You definitely get more of it got it and then there was another segment that I saw him teach you about food

[00:03:30] What was it that you learned about food? He said that

[00:03:33] You know like for some time. I I haven't been finishing my food because I am also a kid so

[00:03:41] I

[00:03:43] Then he taught us my parents have told me this a lot of times not to waste food

[00:03:48] But when he said when he said that it kind of shifted in a way. He told me that

[00:03:54] When you waste one grain when every person wastes one grain like in India, there's some how many people there are say

[00:04:03] 1.1 and 40 crore people

[00:04:06] Is that in billions?

[00:04:08] Just 140 crore there might be billions and there was billions. So yeah, there's millions billions

[00:04:15] No billion is seven thousand something. Oh, okay, but they told us and it was some 1.2 billion or something and

[00:04:24] If everywhere if every person waste a single grain of rice

[00:04:28] It's like one point one billion grains of rice that is wasted

[00:04:33] so it's not just you who is wasting its

[00:04:37] Billions of other people who are wasting so that's what he told us about food

[00:04:41] Awesome. Awesome and now going over to

[00:04:45] What was it that you learned from your other student?

[00:04:48] I'm not the students that traveled with you from India

[00:04:50] But the others that were already in Malaysia from different other places

[00:04:54] It was actually

[00:04:56] Crazy they they're all able to do full splits at the age of five and there's like red belts

[00:05:02] A red belt is a very high

[00:05:05] Level of a belt he's they are very

[00:05:08] There they are like very close to the black belt that is known in all martial arts

[00:05:14] so

[00:05:16] They're red belts in the age of five and they are just really amazing

[00:05:21] So how was the training in Malaysia as compared to I know you have an excellent teacher in India

[00:05:26] But how was this style of training there? Did you feel it's more competitive and it's more tougher or what was it that you felt?

[00:05:33] What I felt is how we're training in India is

[00:05:38] very easy

[00:05:39] But it's the exact same training, but it's much easier

[00:05:44] the other

[00:05:46] International students they are

[00:05:49] very

[00:05:51] Competitive when we went to run tau when we were sparring and run tau we were fighting in run tau

[00:05:56] So when you're fighting then we are literally getting destroyed

[00:06:00] There was a kid that was so much shorter than one of the students that was coming with us from India

[00:06:06] He was so much shorter and he literally destroyed that guy

[00:06:10] Destroyed him and that kid was a red black belt. That is like between red belt and black belt

[00:06:18] so yeah, they

[00:06:20] They were literally destroying us. So what do you see different in them? What do you think they're more?

[00:06:27] You know focused they're more dedicated or what is it that differentiates them from you know kids here

[00:06:34] They started a very very young age

[00:06:36] They start at the age of two or three and then they grow up to become really strong and high belts

[00:06:44] So that's what changes and in run tau especially they only do sparring which explains that they are so good at it

[00:06:54] So was it like when I opening for you and

[00:06:57] Do you feel like amazed seeing the kind of skills that kids outside have and did it motivate you to become more focused in your

[00:07:06] Taekwondo in India it motivated me to be much better much much much much better because I'm

[00:07:12] Just I've only a yellow belt, which is just one belt away from white

[00:07:18] Okay, so one belt after white one belt after white so you're like then the second level now right second level

[00:07:24] Great. So that's what I think that those are a few learnings and those are a few experiences that

[00:07:30] Rishabh had with his teachers and students from outside

[00:07:33] I hope you liked this episode guys because they're gonna come up with how he was in his first tournament

[00:07:39] And what are the other fun things that he did towards the end of the trip in the next episode?

[00:07:43] So do stay tuned until then and Rishabh over to you for the close-off so if you like this podcast

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