"Gentleman'S Haircut" Hair Transformation Albuquerque, New Mexico Scissor Cut

Thank you long time spent uh almost three months in South Africa, oh wow, yeah more recently yeah. I just got back all right and uh. What would you like to do last? The usual yeah yeah wait. So what did you go to Africa for um? We went to uh. I took my two kids to go visit grandparents because you're from Australia, because South Africa, oh yeah, never mind yeah, yeah yep went home, and so how was it? That was great man? Was it like warm out there yeah it's summer, it's summer day, oh wow, this is like a beach beach day. Every day on the beach lots of good food picked up quite a bit of weight. Yeah, that's cool nice things go! That means you're eating good. You know positive way to the roots on which a buddy of mine, uh texted me when I got back and uh he's all set on it says, also entered them. First, it's TJ's, oh, and I thought it was you and he said uh. He said I'm heading to Ireland for a couple of weeks: oh my God, I'll uh I'll see you at uh Jiu Jitsu. When I get back - and I thought when did you um join this? When did you join the gym, yeah exactly and then uh? It almost took me a lot. It took me a while to put it together, dude, that's funny, because it's like how random that is. It'S like okay, wow, I I told you I was doing Jiu Jitsu, but Jesus Christ. You tracked the exact gym down and and you'll see me next week. It'S like my God, yeah wait. Why? Which one are you which one are you at, which is the one over on uh for sale, Tramway and um Academy yeah across some of that Albertsons yeah? Yeah, it's five minutes from the house, so nice and what is that a Gracie Vada yeah, it's good fun! It'S good fun! I missed it in South Africa I was in. I was in a small town and there is a there is a grating gem in Cape Town. I'Ll give you joined that particular gym. You can go to any of the US yeah um yeah. A lot of the guys are trying now like pilots and things of that nature, so they're always on the move, so they train they train all over but um. I was like four hours drive from Cape Town, so that was not. I wasn't gon na. Do that? No so much effort and what are you a clear belt, or did you get your blue um? I should probably I haven't thought it back up again, but I should be getting blue in the next couple of months like in a month or two. I took lots of breaks in between interrupt the uh, the progression, but it's okay, I'm in no rush. Apparently it takes a long time. Yeah I got a buddy. This was the first black belt in the state and I grew up with them and uh and I took a fight. I took a heavyweight fight. This was a heavy R. You won't build it, so this is the first fight that I took when you know, when I got out was me versus this dude Luke, and that was a heavyweight fight. I was only 184 and then so we did a catch rate. He was like 260 or something like wow, but I fought him but uh. He had a blue belt in Jiu Jitsu and I called a good friend of mine and I was like oh no, he had a purple belt and I said: hey uh his. He goes who's, the guy that you're fighting and I told him and and you know what he was uh and he he was uh, and I told him: oh yeah he's got a you know because I looked him up and then I see he has a purple Belt in Jiu Jitsu and then and then I guess, Adam Wasola, oh yeah player, that's a glorified Blue Bell or whatever it is so it was so there was nothing to worry about it. Yeah! Well, once you're hitting brown, it's it's something different. I don't know: dude GSP was approval belt, so I still think purple's gon na I've um I've encountered purple belts, that's pretty good or not. I was like that. I was able to hold out against oh nice, so it is a glorified Blue Book, but then I've then there's some other purple belts that just like you know like tapped me 10 times in 10 minutes and I got a buddy who's, a black belt in Gracie Vada, so it's not like he's he's not like a black belt in some lame ass, fake Jiu, Jitsu or whatever it's you know, he's registered and yeah. It'S not some random um, like God, I think it took him 12 years to get it yeah. That'S what I heard it takes like 10 years plus I mean he instructed at the Gracie bottom. It was like for a long time. What'S his name, uh adamuki, I don't think he's an attorney now, really you know what I'm saying you went through a rough life. I was with him when he got shot broken. I'M doing this and I like the Jiu Jitsu, because I know that I had gotten to a fight once on accident. It was some idiot was all you to the door, and so I was like so this is weird and so like we had pulled over into a location that was close to here and I didn't pull over. He pulled me over so he's like he's a pull over whatever, and so I pulled over and and so I'm just saying in that situation I was like okay, there's, there's three dudes in the vehicle, but one of them's gon na supposedly have a fight with me And I'm like uh, you know I'm gon na go ahead and stand up with him until I see otherwise yeah. Once I see that someone's exceptional with their hands, then I have the choice to you, know: go ahead and take him down and - and you know, deal with it from there yeah but uh. That'S where the one you know I'll start to think and I'll say: okay! Well, you know, I'm not going to start it. You know on the ground or whatever I'm going to start standing up, but if uh he happens to have any kind of hands or he's quick or yeah. You know he seems to be pose an issue. Then I'm going to take him down yeah and I doubt that he'll have a remedy for it. You know I just mean take him down and choke him out like nothing crazy. It'S maybe tweak his arm on like an arm bar and let him Escape it and go for like a rear, naked choke or improving in necktie. The issue is always, if there's more than one, isn't it yeah? If there's more than look, I have a homie that swears by Jiu Jitsu and he used to get into a lot of street fights using Jiu Jitsu and he was getting his ass kicked a lot, it's good if you're fighting one person yeah, because the moment you're On the ground and and people out here have this ego of it's like oh stand up when you fight you're, not gon na dictate. How I, how I take you out, dude they'd, say you don't get to tell me how you want me to fight okay, I'll stand up, uh, blindfold yourself. It'S like you know what I mean. You can't start making rules it's a fight. Unfortunately, if he wants to kick you in the sack, it's it's a you're in a fist fight, it has for it. You know, I would say out of all the fighting techniques, though the best one in my opinion for the overall would be jiu jitsu, and I would do what you're doing full ghee yeah, because it replicates clothes. You know what I mean that that's the reason I like it. I didn't know he or you know about six years. I'Ve got a little bit about. Actually I actually quite enjoyed another Jeep. I enjoy the nogi too, but I'm saying you know for MMA yeah yeah yeah, but for a street fight - or you know, having prison clothes on like the the full ghee is the way to go yeah because then it's like, Oh no you're in the ghee all Day yeah, I was in the key for 1 827 days straight and then I rolled with the dude for like four years straight every day. Every day I get on my back and he would - and he would uh submit me three different ways and then he'd show me how to get out of that submission three different ways and then how to better my position. Three ways in three ways out: we practice every day for four years that was before I got out. That'S why I took that first fight because it's taken, I was like. I don't see anyone out here being any more prolific than that homie in there yeah. That'S where it is that's only four years of training is a good amount, and you know we had done and stuff on the street. We were the first ones to do it out here. I did Jiu Jitsu in 1998 out here, really 1996 and Southern when nobody did it yeah. So you know we were choking people out at House Parties like I said one of our homies like was the real one that first black belt out here from Albuquerque. That'S pretty cool Jiu Jitsu is good to know like when you're in that type of environment yeah. I agree you know I actually started doing it because I took my my kids to graduate um just because it was a. It was another activity that was close to the house, so I took the kids to go, do it and then it looked like fun, so I gave it a try and it's stuck well. You have a great bill before it just seemed like to where how you are like you'd, probably you know a longer, you know Limbs and everything I'll be able to get those moves off, and flexibility along the strength and yeah. It'S I think it's like it kind of reminds me of uh of rugby in that there's a there's, a role for every body type. So, like everyone can do it you're. Just your approach is probably going to be different if you're short and stocky versus, if you're, like you're falling like you're holding arms, and that that's what I like about it, though, because at first I was like. Oh, this is too slow. I need to implement strikes in it. I can't just do the, but then you realize the the the beauty in when two men will Square Off standing up and it won't be the sitting down, because when I was in prison I just did the back movement to the to the top position. To you know, and then working boxing, of course, because the guy that was a world champion boxer that was in there, so it's like we were boxing and I'm gon na be just boxing and Jiu Jitsu yeah. That'S that's an excellent combination and kickboxing too, because there is a homie named thread, but then, when I got out I went so when I first got out. I went to Albuquerque boxing from there. I trained uh Jiu Jitsu, with my buddy adamoki at Los vatos. So I was doing Albuquerque kickboxing and Los vatos for my ground training, and then I went straight over to fit once I got like felt like. I was ready to with Donald Sanchez, shout out them. Dudes and uh went over there and then and then I went to Greg Jackson's uh, the official Camp. Whenever uh, you know it became world famous or whatever, and that's when I you know after having another four years out here or three years of training, you know so a total of seven years and then I went to go Jackson's and I would say the fit. Was a very hardcore camp fit in HP, but I'd say Greg Jackson's was very, very methodical and well thought out and very very, very just very professional. You know - and there is you know, a bunch of fights happening, a bunch of going on in there. I lived there when I trained there yeah see because I'm a weirdo dude. So for me, when I started you know doing something on before I hear real foreign able to connect able to just commit uh fully, and you know: hey dude. You want me to throw another feather in the camp. I was also very poor, so I had another goddamn thing coming in yeah, so it was easy for me to go sit over there and train all day. Yeah. You know hanging out with women that maybe had money or whatever might have been back. Then it's like nowadays, it's you know: oh where's, the fine line to reach. Now when I open up my school, my buddy has a gym. I'M gon na you know get the with him on that and figure out. Where is there a class where there's some older guys can go that aren't necessarily going to have a fight, but we want to train at the level of a fighter yeah. So that's weird and then my Engineers they come here and doctors and everyone that's real, soft and comfortable. That isn't you, but I'm saying uh those guys that are here. I want them to have a place to go to that's comfortable, so a spot. They can go to to where they don't have to fill any kind of weird vibe animosity, or you know what I mean they could truly learn at their speed, yeah and since those schools are so smart, they'll pick it up like it's nothing, yeah he'll be the Next Black Belt, any one of them needs and then good luck within this, because I don't know if they're 100 DVR. If I could say once you get that bike open it's over here, your ears are going to get up. That'S the only sad part, yeah, probably not the motor rugby day. Oh, you got ta cauliflower here from the rugby yeah yeah I've seen some other people have the same things I was like. Oh, you can do on your mediums off now. Rogue is a big old, dude, big white dude eating a big old plate of nachos, and this is a teenagers put in shape. I don't think brother, you can be as small that small plain rugby though, like I think you have to, I think, like what is there anyone smaller than you yeah? Oh really like someone my size, yeah smaller than you, God, damn nothing, that's hard to believe because I just say it's like those big ass fools and it's like you, have some tiny, ass you're not allowed to throw a punch or anything. So what do you just? I mean you catch that ball you're, going to hand off like a yeah, I'm running like hell, yeah their positions where it's cheap to your advantage to be smaller position is that it's like yeah they're, like um. There are a couple of positions. Did you kicked the ball so that it's like you know what I mean yeah? They definitely see less, like maybe less intense contact but well yeah. You can't have any incense contacted that size because even in the UFC they have weight division. So imagine like rugby. It'S like damn most of those holes have to stay in shape, like you know, buffer shape kind of, do they or not they're in good, try, professional Architects yeah, let's sort of a figure. Just because I mean it's, you have no pads on you. Can you know you're up what is it like for a lateral or whatever that they do like forward lateral movements or where they can throw to the side? But you can't throw in front of you or whatever it is an American football, that's kind of cool, because then it has a certain. You know pattern setup, yeah yeah, like that, there's a very clear, like defensive line, um oh yeah, to get faster defensive line. You can't throw the ball over because you kind of try to go through them. You can kick it forward, so that's another way around, but then you know you're not guaranteed to get it back, because if you kick it over, you can kick it over the defending team, they're, probably the ones ending up with the balls. It'S an interesting game, and so are you on the rugby team out here I haven't played in a long time. That'S why I'd like to see you in the Jiu Jitsu tournament that'd be cool um. I won't get lost. I don't play this more than a year ago, see what I'll do is I'll go play, maybe one or two games a year yeah. This looks great when I go and go do a season, my body Won't Give Up and how old are you brother? 30. 34. Oh yeah you're still youngsters and I wonder what you're already having some issues or that's a lifetime of the sport, oh yeah, so some some of them just come from a long time. You know, there's a guy out here in Albuquerque. Church he's 94. no way yeah and I thought I was the highest. I thought I was second highest because shout outs still played Men's Salon. I thought they were the highest and I was right underneath them and then he comes out to find out, but then the barber they told me that that guy was doing the diesel. Oh he only does it get a couple of haircuts a day it's like. Well, that's not really worth it financially! That'S only a couple hundred bucks, I would say cheese, that's a smallish, because at first I was like. Are you dying the hair too, or something or like having that like what comes along with it? Is it A Woman's Threat or is it is it it says no regular haircut? I was like God damn it's nuts. So what does a regular? I mean like dude, I could see if you're in Miami or possibly because La prices aren't even 94.. Well, that's a lot for men's haircuts. Yeah shout out to my homie that has a salon in West Hollywood. I think he's at 60. online. He was at 60 in 2019, so he could be it somewhere around 80., but but that's West Hollywood, and to be more than that here, it's like whoa, which part of town is this guy in uh he's over a Knob Hill, and you know how we it's Like what he said is it's a house uh, it's a house, that's uh because I said oh, it must be a humongous shock like just saying. If you're at that kind of price point it, I would think. Oh, it's an uptown or it's somewhere with a big wall. You have a bunch of overhead, but he said no, it's he's doing it out of his house. It'S like a house in Knob Hill. He converted his living room, has a shampoo bowl and then uh. I guess you go into his master bedroom and get a haircut. Here'S the thing with me: dude I'll end it all right there. I ain't going into your bedroom to get a goddamn haircut there. I don't give a. It sounds weird to me, so it's like nah that just doesn't sound. I dude. I have to go into a real location, that's where it's like. I ain't going to your bedroom for 94 dollars I'll go to your bedroom haircut. If my barber is not available for 15 or for free to give you the practice to say that you know it's like, but God 94. I was like damn. That only has balls balls. Is steel. Yeah, that's uh! That'S an odd one! I agree, and you could probably you know what's so funny about it is - is uh we could probably look it up because I, the thing was because I have someone working here now and he's the one that showed me this next time. You'Ll meet him. Also we'll talk about the same thing and then he shows me on the phone after he told me a couple days before that he goes hey look and he showed me and it says regular haircut and heavy four dollars and I was like, and so I said You got to be me and I said well, dude uh, do they like? Even they probably have no kids haircut, it's probably just an adult thing and then he said no. Their kids are good as 77., so I was like, but the pricing is strange too yeah. It'S almost like 64., you nudged them for that extra dollar instead of I mean a 94 citizen 95 and they give you 100, you nudge that extra dollar out of them. It'S like! That'S where I just said it's that that part was crazy and see. Look. We got the inspector came in so now. All of these are new. If I pull something out of here, it's clean, and so this says clean implements. All of this stuff is uh had to go through and uh. We all do this for, for OSHA now, like our water bottles, mine says water on it, yeah the dude. That'S here on the label, his yeah, so OSHA requirements and our towels are no longer out they're in a closed environment. Is it because you have someone else working here? Also, no, that's part of the Steve Ward's uh requirements. Okay, so we're in compliance every year that that same guy said he's going to be here and then my razors, because he's all uh do you need to dispose of those. He saw make sure to take him to the sharps place because they incinerate him and they have to write paperwork for you and the next time he comes in he's gon na check it. So it's like okay cool there's, a special place in town. You have to expect them yeah, like a medical facility, maybe like like wherever that sharp scene is or whatever you could probably take it to a pharmacy, and they could take custody and write. You papers that you brought in there or whatever that dude everything over here is going to be by the book. Sorry, you showed me what the non-compliance looked like. I guess two people came up non-compliant and it's a big old red letters, Red Letters. You see non-compliant and press perform on your shelf. You have to post it so like when you come back next time. You'Ll see my compliant one. So that's embarrassing, yeah, because I would feel kind of weird if I was the client coming to install non-compliant, but let's do it yeah do they have dirty tools or I also, if you missed out, I had to take 12 hours of extra credit hours to hold My teaching degree this guy that I hired here he's working Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays, and I'm going to put them on the website and he's also becoming an instructor he's at Paul Mitchell school to become a barber instructor, all right, cool yeah. So he just got his Barber License, he's already enrolled in barber in an instructor program, so over here you guys will have two instructors very cool yeah, so I had to take 12 extra credit hours to. They came up with a new certification, a new thing. Rdl uh, the licensing department, said now. The regulations and licensing department for the board of Barbers and cosmetologists told me that uh well told all the instructors now. If anyone holds an instructor license, if you're going to renew it this year, you have to have 12 extra credit hours in uh in uh, you know in teaching, or they have a bunch of different things. I see so I had to take like a few different courses online, costing more money, of course, yeah, of course, but I'm saying also too, I did learn a lot about uh. I did a three hour infection control for us. I needed to get 12 hours, so I did like a three hour of inspection control and then I did a mentor, styling professional level and then a bunch of other that I already knew but uh there was a client customer service, one that I picked up a Lot on and that part was uh. You know how you greet the client and bring him in, and I noticed I was kind of like the bad stylist dude, because the bad stylist in that video would just say, okay come in, have a seat. What do you want to do? That was, I guess, bad and the good one uh said: hey. Is this your first time here welcome in I'm, I'm Thomas nice, it's a pleasure to meet you uh. Let me take you on a quick tour around that. It'S not big enough here, but I'm saying he had the decency. Then he brought you to the chair and said uh. Are you ready to get started? He took his coat. The gentleman took his coat off. He took it so I'm buying a nice coat rack. It'S that way I can take one, you know there, you can take their coat, go, hang it for him, allow them to come sit, and you know so I got to that. Was the number one thing that in the infection control that I pulled out of it interesting, but mainly that dude it was that customer service that I didn't realize that I had been locking so heavily. I was like damn dude, just because I I didn't know that that was that look that girl also did other wrong things of where uh she hurried up on the client, and I don't do any of that. But I'm saying the one thing that I do do is how she saw them, and I guess that wasn't the they didn't. They don't like that interesting and it was something to do with running a successful salon, and I just I I bought that video and then it was that schooling, so I can add that so then I was like I want to take this one just to see What yeah and then they talked about looking at your finances daily, this that and the other and having product, and so I brought the product back into the shop. You know it's like. I have the connection on getting the product wholesale, I'm a distributor for the company. So it's like. Why not yeah! Why not have it in the shop? Have it there? You don't need to shove it down there looking through it. If someone wants it give it to them, they don't because a lot of the times now people are like. Oh do you have any of that paste or clay or whatever it is, and it's like? Oh I don't retail it. I don't why you don't like making money. That'S weird! That'S what I'm saying those videos showed it from some things. I didn't even really you know, I'm just the artist at the end of the day but yeah. Unfortunately, I have to be everything. Bookkeeper accountant book intoxic yeah, do you have uh? Do you have some sort of software you use for it? Oh that uh I I don't. They told me to use QuickBooks. I just used. My actual bank account that's tied to my LLC on any kind of financial transaction that I'm making for the business and then uh that's, but I mean I you can do QuickBooks. I mean there's nothing wrong with nothing wrong with the QuickBooks. As far as the taxes, though I do have the CPA, is it and I could hire him to do the accounting, but it's like man, if you um, if you have something like like books, then it makes things really easy for the accountant. At the end of the year, because you don't have to like take in all your receipts and stuff - it's all right there, oh wow, so maybe I should just go ahead and give that a try, but people have suggested it. I think it's time to jump on that thing, because I can start it for this year for next year, just get the lowest tier subscription mm-hmm, and then you know it's like it. You hook it up to your bank account and it automatically picks up what was like. You know what was the regular business transaction. What was something you put on a credit on your like company credit card, what you know like what are business expenses and what's not tax deductible? Like you know, those things just happen, I'm going to lightly trim your eyebrows too. Okay. That looks great thanks. I, like it yeah that looks great now this one's sick and I figured the bike, will like