I promise, I genuinely thought it was called the Emerald Cup for the first six minutes. Sorry about that.

I'm holding myself to a public declaration of weekly episodes again. If I miss one, everyone who likes and reshares this podcast will win $100.*

This week’s episode is a single-topic deep dive into the Shamrock Cup, with a little side diversion about how obvious ChatGPT-generated social media posts have become, along with an announcement about the elephant in the room. We're still waiting on a comment, and we’ll follow up in next week's episode.

*may not be true

It's been 43 days since I wrote a podcast bio description after recording an episode and I do admit I missed it a little bit more than I thought I would.

Quick catch up and chat about what's been going on the last little while and why there's not been an episode, hard to act like everythings going great for your training when you're not able to do it the way you would like to.

That's probably a sign to have the back up plans ready in terms of the longer form guest interviews from the last little while but we will see how the next few months goes now after that.

We couple of thoughts on CJI as well within the debate of making it a spectator sport vs the competitors trying to win no matter what because the prize money is very lucrative. As well as why it seems like there are two (maybe more) versions of Craig Jones we should be aware of and how this could lead to what CJI 3 could (or could not) look like.

Chris Leddy is a Brazilian JiuJitsu Black Belt, He runs https://martialartsbray.ie/ alongside his brother Adam, He's also an instructor with David Gray Interactive https://www.davidgreyrehab.com/courses/Interactive

Chris has been training JiuJitsu since the late 2000s after befriending Darragh O'Conaill in a local weight lifting gym. Since then he has traveled, trained and competed all around the world.

We discussed Chris having not just one but two microdiscectomy operations, the most recent being earlier on this year. I'm not sure if this was a good title for the video, we discussed a lot more than what's there I had a loose idea where I wanted to go through his back operations, a famous boards.ie discussion around him competing as a white belt at the world championships in 2011 and then his journey and opening his gym up until this point.

But like most good conversations with Chris i've had it drew off into different paths and directions but we got there in the end. I will get around to the timestamps in the next day or two and they'll be posted in the comments.