Andrew Wiltse, one of the most beloved figures in the Jiu-Jitsu community, has shed light on the growing rift between him and the Daisy Fresh team.
Wiltse, once a prominent member featured in the Daisy Fresh videos, revealed that he was gradually excluded from various team activities.
Here is what he had to say about the topic, as reported by BJJDoc:
Even when I was there all day every day, I was phased out of Daisy Fresh YouTube videos.
Just, like, I wasn’t invited on trips to camps.
And I wasn’t informed about local tournaments or virtually anything that everyone else knew.
Wiltse attributed the divide to several factors, including his tendency to “call out people for acting stupid or harmful” and his disagreements with the team on training methods.
However, the “stupidest reason” – in Wiltse’s words – was the creation of a YouTube channel:
People were upset that me and Bird (his brother) had our own YouTube channel.
They thought we were competing for views or something silly, but super harmful.We were flat out told we were not allowed to record in the gym anymore.
That’s why rolling videos stopped happening.
Wiltse also recounted an incident where a popular BJJ YouTuber contacted him and Bird to collaborate on a video at the Daisy Fresh gym.
Andrew agreed, but…
He made a story or a post or something about it, and Daisy Fresh members messaged him and told him no, he wasn’t allowed to film in there.
Because he was a direct competitor.He ended up just not coming.
Wiltse still continues to train at Daisy Fresh sometimes, but also evades communication with some of the people there.
He thought back to the days when things were different:
Daisy Fresh was very different when I started.
There was a bunch of older members that were incredibly intelligent and reasonable and they kept the younger members in line and acted as role models…
Those people aren’t really there anymore. Now it’s just the young dudes.
No one acts as the sanity checker anymore.
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