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Off The Record: What's Something That Seems Impossible, Until You Actually Do It?

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0:00 I climb up hella fast I was like this I'm Ain no B I get up there I do the technique and I look down and I'm like oh Jesus [Music] Christ welcome back everybody to a phenomenal episode of the careful boys where we have merchandise by the way check it out check it out Nick where's yours of October check the link hurry up Nick all right didn't want his BS you didn't have to do that cool we have subin in the house today what's up Sub sub thank you guys what is something you never thought you'd be able to do until you actually did it ████ every oh wow literally every archery what do you mean everything yeah archery is the first thing that came to your mind you thought

0:51 you would never be able to do it uh well enough but you got the caiss vibe already like it's so natural it almost feels like you could pick one up and just oh my God Bullseye do you have one of those you have one of those modern ones with like all the Neons and ████ no I don't I don't do compound I do recurve what's the difference hey C can I make a can I can I say something you cannot no I'm going to make a outside me and Anthony were making fun of you calling you uh no not making fun complimenting complimenting we're calling you you do look like action hero right now though can you can you can you get a quick strut for the camera so everybody you look like straight up like we were cracking jokes this is the black little this is Natasha Romanov superhero come on come on you like a ████ superhero so this is a compound B you're a ████ superhero I typed in compound bow yeah so that's a compound what's a recurve uh

1:41 recurve is like the original bow and they're actually a little bit harder to learn cuz you have to have a little bit more technique to it oh it looks like an Old School Compound you can get your dials in um well I think you just grow sticking ████ yeah oh ████ recurve re yeah recurve is like that what I want to do so like the ballers in Japan they um they all do horseback or archery that's pretty tight that's cool but then they also wear the outfit I would love like you wear the ████ Samurai ████ yeah and you're like I would love to learn how to do archery on a horse I would love to do that why do you say you didn't think you could do archery and then you tried it just cuz it just seemed a lot harder um and to a degree it is like to be consistent so like your groupings have to be super

2:32 consistent for you to even say that you did a good job you can't just hit the the target a few times here and there you want your groupings to be as close as possible and as accurate as possible across the board with how many arrows that you do have so um it is a little bit of a learning curve with recurve just because of like your Technique your body positions play a huge role in it um how far the target is so stuff like that um how windy it is the weather so and I think the craziest thing about archery is you're not even looking like this you're look you're just feeling like this really no you're looking I thought you're aiming you're definitely aiming are you yeah but do you have like sights or how what do you with a recurve you don't with a compound you do have a sight there's there's like ████ Crosshair

3:23 yeah with the compound it's more like um but the compound you can actually put a sight on oh but I did recurve too the OG style yeah and then it's and there's different there's different weights to the to the bows too I used to make them which ones recurves yeah with chopsticks oh I made those too tight and branches branches no Chopsticks those are the best I'd be like going on Hikes and ████ and you see the perfect Branch that's like curved they're like I'm taking this one H what kind of string would you use shoa I would I would take the elastic band out of my mom's sewing kit and then wait so Nick what were you making fun of me about oh what were you saying we were making fun of you dude we just said you look like a superhero that's all cool thanks wait we should do a a JK

4:13 Adventure forse back riding art treat or do we do art yeah let's so we could see your skills that would be cool so much Friendly Fire like oh ████ that's so dangerous shooting ones revolvers yeah have you seen those cowboys so cool that's wild so sick dude horseback riding in general is ████ cool it is it's scary bro it's scary as ████ it's scary youever see yeah dude do what in Hawaii I just did last week for Hannah's birthday oh brownie got you to hook up we went to Gunstock oh ask brownie his homie would just put you in the back of someone's Random House what I should have asked him no cuz they didn't let us Trot they didn't let us like like run faster no it

5:04 was just a walk I was like man I could have been on a ████ donkey yeah brownie homie is just so Random you go into someone's backyard and then boom it's just big big the whole Mountain wow ████ everywhere I want to get more into that though I feel like a lot of things people just have to like first see themselves be able to do it like that belief part A lot of it is just if you think about everything like if you want to achieve something it's just a broken down skill you know what I mean like being a painter or like there's no like magic it's like the fundamentals all at this point for everything it's broken down into small steps right it's like if you want to be a black building Jiu-Jitsu it's like do you have to be a genius at it no like it's achievable if you break down the steps stick with it

5:54 and then over time you get there I think you just have to be okay with sucking at something new for a little bit yeah yeah I think that's the big thing and sticking to it and sticking to it and being taking the L's knowing that this is okay to suck at because this is new and I just have to get over this threshold of sucking at this for x amount of time before I get get cuz you anytime you start something you always want to quit immediately because there's the ego involved in it like the ego and immediately you know what I actually I really like the beginner phas where I don't know ████ and I'm not good at it but like when I start to get some skill in it I get too serious or like you know what I mean like it gets to this weird hump where like it means too much to you is that what it is um it's not enjoying it's more like work now or maybe fall

6:45 back on like I'm just a beginner maybe yeah but mindset I always feel like at there yeah it's just weird at the beginning for me it feels like a lot more work always and that's fine but once you kind of get the hang of it then it feels like like oh I could have more fun with this I could have more creativity in it but usually when you start anything for me it's always like this is hard but it's I have to tell myself like all the time like this is hard but it's okay you know I think it's good to humble yourself with new new skills you got to eat pile of ████ I love new skills being being like at the very bottom of a learning curb is actually ████ healthy and awesome because you only have somewhere up to go especially for especially in your like later years of adulthood and stuff where you feel like you're supposed to be good at this and you start feeling all ████ self-conscious about things whether it be your career your relationship whatever like being at the

7:36 ████ bottom of the barrel sometimes is the exact thing that you need to just be like ah there's still stuff to do there's still stuff to learn and there's like a humility to it that makes it amazing I remember um oh dude I remember my ████ prob I've never had this feeling with any other thing ever in terms of trying to learn to do something but I remember trying to learn how to do windmills when I was in college yeah yeah yeah and it took me ████ in 4 and 1/2 months so like 4 and 1/2 months you know that's what people sometimes say but it feels ████ forever how come Filipinos get in like 3 days yeah what's up with that hey do Filipinos get in 3 days hell no thank you all the Filipinos I you got in like 3 days anime they they meant three years so so windmills is ████ hard to learn K's still learning them right now too right the point is like you're physically throwing your body in in a in in ways

8:27 that you're just like I you have to like understand your own physics your momentum your strength like the grace the fitness all of that but you're just hurting yourself and you're putting bruises on your body and you're just doing this and then everybody around you who ████ has it you just feel so like okay uh it's possible so I'm just going to keep going but it takes months and I remember the very first time I got continuous windmills I was at the recreation center at UCI and I was by myself it was just like we just did a workout and I was just like H the the the ████ Fitness room is empty I'm just going to go try on the mats right so I go in there and I hit ████ continuous swim Mills for the first time I was so hyped I was jumping up and down the room by myself I called my sister wow I stra had to call cuz I was like I don't know who's going to pick up the phone I had to call her and she's not even someone who usually like in she she if anything she's like that like uh that random back door like you only hit her

9:17 up if it's like the most incredible or the most painful things that you ever go through I just didn't normally think of but she was like I have to tell somebody and and she was the first person I thought of and I called her and I'm on the phone I'm ████ hyp I'm like you believe this I got Contin she like doesn't give a ████ but I got continuous windmills and I just remember that feeling being like I never would have thought I could do this and it was just super super powerful but I've never actually had that feeling ever again something that powerful thought you were going to say like I never did them ever again after that I was like and that's when I quit windmills I do I do that when I'm drunk I only do when I'm drunk the most powerful feeling like that that I ever felt was uh in boot camp so in boot camp like um I was trying trying to like crush it as hard as I can cuz I suck really bad in school today's video is brought to you by Uncommon Goods are you looking for holiday gifts cuz if

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11:48 tall and each rung is like four or 5T above the other one so if you're standing here there's like a big ass log the first log goes across like right here the next one is like another four 5 ft and I remember the drill instructor going to this thing and there's no nothing to attach to and the drill instructor goes who here is scared of heights I was like the first one I I had no shame and then he looked at me like what the ████ one of my squad leaders like get the ████ over here quanz they made him look bad I was like this recruit's scared of heights sir and cuz I think the people that are scared of heights he wanted to rush them through first because they're going to take ████ forever so there's a specific technique where it's where the logs meet you kind of like reach over like with your arm and then you kind of like hook the other log and once you do this you can hang your legs over and then you can

12:38 unhook your arm and then kind of rinse and repeat and go up the thing is um once you lock your arms in this thing technically you can't fall out so it t it allows you to swing your legs over but it takes a little bit of leap of faith so when it was my turn to go up I'm like all right ████ this I don't be no ████ ████ I don't want to be a ████ so I climb up hella fast you go all the way up but then on the way down is where the leap of faith happens cuz you're like this and you have to kind of like UNS swing your legs and then when you UNS the log you kind of just drop oh ████ and then you just have to trust that the you believe in this technique and it you're like oh ████ what the ████ and your legs are dangling and you're like 80 ft in the air and you're like this 80 ft so I'm up there I I climb up hella fast I was like man ████ this ████ I'm ████ I Ain no ████ I get up

13:28 there I do the technique and I look down and I'm like oh Jesus ████ Christ and then the children get the ████ down Guan what the ████ are you doing up there and you just see and on the bottom is just ████ wood chips like ████ like you know bark like like it's going to ████ prevent any death like you'll just die you know and I was like oh ████ this is time for me to go this is time for me to go ████ I don't give a ████ so I went like this I let go of my legs and I swing and you feel that moment of weightlessness and I was like oh and I'm like oh ████ this is ████ crazy and then then everything became easy because you just know that feeling and that was like that moment I'll Always Forever remember cuz it was something that it took a leap of faith to do and then the consequence I think would have just been death or I same

14:19 with windmills you know you could just die or or or you're just there and you're probably be like somebody called that1 I catch it down I feel like in the situation you're forced to do the first not the latter of being like someone called 911 cuz like everybody there in that environment you're just like I have only one option either die or do it yeah and looking at it in the other way I think they should make the scared people go last cuz if you watch other people do it you feel like okay we do it yeah I'm like why you making the ████ scaredy-cats go first cuz it teaches you the most probably does but then maybe everybody who thought they could do it is like maybe I can't can't do it but now I look like a ████ in front of 80 people it's all about the lesson yeah break dancing was one of the

15:09 only moments right I felt like that windmills was one of them air flares yeah really D I can even imagine getting your first air flare that's ████ you're just flying and hoping to not die yeah you catch it you're floating you're like what the ████ I'm one of those Asians break break dancing is hard though like I feel like every guy at one point tried break dancing especially your Asian yeah yeah like I tried I didn't ████ go anywhere with it and I was like I'll just start popping you know what I mean like it's just uh I think choreography is super hard lot people a lot of people try and they never pass that level of being able to do power moves yeah yeah you can only you have to be young if you're if you're if someone came up to me at 2530 said I'm going to start break dancing I would have told him stop really really flavor

15:59 or just flavor all foot work flavor not even flavor bro you too late you late kids are getting flavor like these kids now are in crazy kids now years it's too old to start break dancing at 25 you late to be like a killer in the game absolutely H you late you're going to be like I got my windmills you're going be like bro you mad late I can do 1990s cuz dude we're in 2020 right now right like 8-year-old got ████ 2,000 of those you late dog get out of here bro I would have said choreography or popping or freestyling but choreography I think is hard you got to count and remember your moves 5 six seven8 and one like come on that's hard and you got to listen just like a air flare no air flare you just throw it I think one one thing that's like

16:51 something that I'm like oh while I surpassed or I never would have believed is sometimes I just wake up and the first thing I'm thinking in the morning is like ████ this ████ how like yesterday I was like I don't know if I can make it as a YouTuber or like can I you know and then I'm just it felt like I just was that 20-year-old in college and I'm like I want to make funny videos on YouTube and then like that was me yesterday and I woke up fast forward I did all that and now I'm like damn that ████ really happened and I think that's really a weird feeling I get right when I wake up and it's fresh in my mind as if it was like I was a college student last night and I woke up today and I did it and

17:44 then that's I think that's one of the like it's like I don't know maybe that is a part of like this whole impostor syndrome that people talk about but and now I'm like what's weird to me is is it kind of like you're in disbelief of everything you've already done you're like wow I did all that or all that happened or yeah and I'm still shooting goals and doing it like my head is saying okay I want to live in multiple cities and I want to open up a business with my friends in Hawaii and I'll live there for a little bit cuz I've been thinking about it for so long since we been visiting our friends and family right so it's like it's a lot of people talk about for decades like hey one day let's open up a surf school together yeah we'll do it right and then you actually do it and I'm I'm like that's kind of the cool thing is like oh yeah we did it and then what's the next thing we can do so then my mind now turns into

18:36 this like how many other things can we go to and now there's more dreams than there is time to do it yeah which is a crazy feeling where that fresh College mind is is still like right there like that feeling and that memory of Hope is still there so it just doesn't feel that far away you know what I mean it doesn't feel like I I came so far from there it came it it really feels like wow that that I'm living it and I was dreaming it and it's it's not that I didn't what's the word it's kind of like you have the Hope early on but when you actually do it it's nothing like you imagined yeah it's usually not yeah yeah it's not and

19:26 sometimes it's good sometimes it's bad right so sometimes you like dream of something and then you get there and you're like oh ████ this is whack yeah but I think that's the craziest thing is um I think in the very beginning you just hope for something and you try your best and then you get there but then after you keep doing this over and over again it's just this crazy reality of not so much what if but like when and how yeah m

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