Full transcript: Steve Maxwell on London Real
2:19 This is London Real. I’m Brian Rose. My guest today is Steve, you’re here. What’s up, man? So awesome.
2:39 Been a year, so great to see everybody, to see you, man. How are you? If you’re looking like good, you know, you brought in that Maxwell would tell workout, man. You know, thanks, man. Thanks.
2:51 You’re gonna have a lot of fun today. Yeah, I’m super. I’m don’t know how long it’s been since you’ve been on the mat. Yeah, but I’m gonna rekindle your love affair with you. Just okay, we’re gonna have so much fun.
3:03 Old man, I’m gonna basic. Okay, I haven’t been in a gay in years. That’s good. I’m trying some noogie. Yeah, oh good, listen, as an NCAA wrestler, I love noogie in the beginning, right?
3:16 But then, as you got a little bit older, I really appreciated the nuances of the game, yeah, the technicality, and today I’m going to show you part of jujitsu that isn’t well known. If the Gracie’s just a self-defense, okay, how you can use the sport of accident aspect of jujitsu, but to defend yourself in a realistic, okay is this like a sub? Hannah Gracie teaches. Oh, that’s awesome. I learned directly from their grandfather and their father.
3:43 Hold on, and their uncle Helio and I love those guys. That’s those guys were really little boys when I was around the Gracie Academy. That’s crazy. Yeah, but they grew up with it, right? So yeah, they feel the whole thing in Torrance.
3:57 They are amazing, and their skill is wonderful. Yeah, the other guys that are really into this, Gracie just accept events of the Bunchy brothers in North Miami. Okay. well worth the trip to their school. They teach as well.
4:10 They were the last people to officially get the black belt directly from master La Razón. Okay, really? They were a three-generation family member. Okay, father was a red belt and their grandfather’s red belt. Okay, as interesting as the father was, like a world-class plastic surgeon.
4:25 All right, I think that’s the way. Okay, got ya. I know you’ll give his last black pellets here was Pedro. Okay, so then eighties, nineties, at least something like that. Uh-huh.
4:39 Pedro buys that. He’s gonna buy up a long time. Okay, that’s typical, but yeah, good man, so they’re like little islands where the old jiu-jitsu self-defense is still are. Okay, boys, of course. Yeah, she says it, boiler teaches it, tasting grace.
4:56 He actually has a t-shirt if you don’t know self-defense. I don’t know jiu-jitsu. Okay, and he comes over here to Scotland to the Global Jiu-Jitsu Federation tournament. Okay. Hicks is, yeah, yeah.
5:08 All right. There’s a guy, Scott McVeigh, in Scotland okay that hosts that, and he’s a Hickson Gracie affiliate. All right, so he knows the self-defensive. Oh, cool, so there’s pockets I love it, men. And I see Hickson’s like rolling again, and he’s already so over his injuries, and it’s funny.
5:24 I’ve been with holy Ottoman, really. You know, he’s, it like a year old, and the man, he’s like a young kid. That’s crazy. So it’s while rolling hoary and still well, and then he gave me a magnificent lesson. Wow.
5:34 And I was like, all the throws on him. He’s in torn my torrents. Okay, okay, and he was insisting I thrown. Yeah, and a couple of times I was trying to take it easy, sit, not run, run up if you do it that way, you’ll do it that way. And you know, for me, I throw me.
5:48 Okay. And of course he’s light as a feather. He’s taking the falls. I love it. Amazing.
5:52 So good, man, keeps you young, right? But Hannah and Iran, they have an amazing program. They’re awesome, man. I love watching the videos, and I’ve heard about the training system. I haven’t gone through it, but you know, it looks at me, it’s well worth checking out.
6:03 Okay, but you know, there’s different aspects of jiu-jitsu people can enjoy from different. You can use it as a player, like just rolling around yeah, having fun with the sport, of kind of sportive aspect. You can get really heavy into competition, where you know it’s like wrestling or judo. Yeah, you know, yeah, you can use it for all different purposes. yeah, a lot of guys just like to have fun.
6:27 Yeah, I see, you know, I’ve been trans, and so two minutes so no, it’s a while. Well, we brought Yugi. Yeah, no, I appreciate it. I brought my belt, so I had – right. I thought I had a game on my phone, so I appreciate that, ma’am.
6:39 I want my wife went to find Maggie last night that I bought in Rio de Janeiro in like 2006, but I couldn’t find it. So my best thing of all, man. I brought it, ouki. It’s a new key God that you demonstrate that, right. You know, Japanese word okay, it’s basic.
6:53 Guide that you trash, you can throw me, man. Sorry, but it’s better for you to say okay, alright, it’s actually easier. Yeah, there you ant to be able to watch. Yeah, mister, no, I know when I’m in jiu-jitsu class, the instructor, a lot of times I’ll grab someone to show me that, but they’re so. It makes total sense and I can break jiu-jitsu down to five, six basic different patterns, also for you, that you can kind of practice.
7:16 Let’s say you’re at the studio, and you don’t want to get into just your, like, work out. There’s movement patterns that you can do in the floor, sort of like, you know, karate has katas. Yeah, yeah, and kung-fu as form. Yeah, you can kind of shine a wrestler, shadow wrestle with yourself on the floor. Okay, just doing these baby basic movement patterns.
7:37 Great man let’s do it, and there’s a nice little action. Want to get changed? Yeah, we’ll get to that. I got, man, back in and out again, man. This feels good.
7:52 Thinking really sure – yeah, gonna have to get one this is crazy. I’m with you. I know figures this way. When I first introduce people to the Gracie self-defense system everyone in London wears clothes, right? Yeah, it’s sports jackets.
8:10 Think of the sports jacket or the over cover as the modern man’s geese. Okay, and you can use the cloth to the defender, so it’s like a real-life situation It’s like a little. Most likely have a jacket on, unless you’re living in Rio. yeah, I mean, it obviously, if you’re in a place like Maui or something, you might never wear a jacket or sweatshirt right? It’s handy and everything.
8:37 I’m showing you, you can do so before we start, I’d like to just do a really nice, brief little warm-up with you. Entailed in his warm-up or all the principles of jujitsu, all the basic movements, and you can use this warm-up as a standalone workout on days you can’t get to the mat, just to keep those movement patterns, and you’re nervous. Okay, one of the things that you want to do is very relaxed and loose. Okay tension is what causes injuries a lot of times.
9:10 So this, we’ve had these experience of having someone tape and shake out your arms. Yeah, right? You see wrestlers that do this before they go intense, and now your body, and it feels really good, right? Also, be intense kills your cardio, right? Healing, being chin, skills your cardio, but it is counter-intuitive, because in a fight you’re most people and novices.
9:33 When I first started learning, I was like, oh, I used to stress out like an hour before jiu-jitsu class. Is to stress out on the walk to jiu-jitsu class. You know, it was always ten. Yeah, very nervous, especially a new dojo. You know, when I went on to Rio the first time, go into a new dojo, I was always a part of that is the breathing.
9:51 Okay, so you want to learn to bring the breath down to your lower lobes thank you your upper chest as fight-or-flight panic receptor, right? short, short, shallow breaths. Okay, the more deeper breaths, right? Lower lobes, the long rest and digest, so for that reason, you want to try to breathe through your nose as much as possible into the lower tummy when things get strenuous. It’s okay to exit out through the mouth.
10:17 Okay, but you want to keep in my shot as much as possible, so you don’t hurt your team, even though we’re not using strikes. You can still get an elbow or a head by accidentally to the teeth, so you try to keep the mouth shut as much as possible, and in it always, in it through the nerves into the lower tummy. So let’s just take a minute just kind of, okay. And what you’re trying to do is get this feeling in your whole body as you’re loosening up any tension.
10:43 It’s okay to think ahead, Bob around a little bit, and as you’re doing this, you’re kind of scanning up and down your spine into your body tension. And I’ll usually do this anywhere between three to five minutes. Today we’re just doing shorty, and you’re getting that feeling of like this, and your arms go. That feels good, right? Yeah, and after about 60 seconds or so you can also bend over, and this kind of sees another thing.
11:17 Yeah, like a ragdoll. Yet the first thing we’re going to go over is how to stand up. and this has actual real-world self-defense application, but, and all the principles of jiu-jitsu are contained in this simple little dragon. It’s called standing up in base. Okay, okay, so first we’re going to reverse engineer standing up from base.
11:57 Okay, so bend over at the hip with a hip hinge like one two five color place your hand in the ground. Doesn’t matter which one. Put the weight in the hand, lift this leg, and sit down. That’s it. Now we’re going to reverse that, the old process.
12:17 Lift yourself up. This leg is gonna swing outside the elbow, so you’re finish slightly out in base, and you’re gonna stand up. Let’s call it standing up in base. Okay, alright, let’s go to the other side. raise your entire hip up.
12:38 And what’s the practical application? Wow. I’d like to introduce my student Michael from Gdynia, Poland. Oh, it’s a very nice salon there. What’s up?
12:51 Sit down please. Michael, check this out. If someone was trying to push you into the ground, let’s say you’re sitting in the park and London somewhere, you’re taking a sunbath. Some guy comes up and surprises you and tries to get you down the back even with my weight on, he can still stand up. and again, even if I have all my way, and that’s one of the first principles.
13:18 Use it. So don’t meet force with force. You move away from the force, and you’ll find that this, the simple little idea the simple principle is using every single move that we do. All right. Okay, so let’s sit down.
13:32 Yeah, it’s in left, its tan other side. Hand in the floor, and you can do it nice and slow. Better to practice the moves real slow even though it’s a little bit harder, it really gets into your nervous system. There’s a bug, okay? Two more side so there’s a twist there.
13:59 So if the attacker would be here. I always want to keep and down this leg facing you. Okay, so I can yeah, the next step is we’re gonna add a little kick, a little kick. All right, the way this would work in real life, if Michael would come at me, let’s say the guy starts to come in. I can give him a kick to the knee, and now I can stand up and get some distance.
14:31 Notice there was a little extra movement that time. There’s a little hop back I did. Yeah, some people call that a monkey crawl in 8 o’clock. Let’s practice that first. Okay.
14:42 It looks like this. We’re gonna squat, and you’re gonna place your knee between these two hands, and now we’re going to switch knees and this side and switch it, and you’ll see a lot of movement, people using this type of move in reality of the judicious health defense mode. So the way this might work would be if maybe I’m laying down, I see this guy coming, I sit up, he comes in, boom, I could kneecap him, but now I got to get some more distance from her, so I do my little, now I’m here.
15:29 Okay, I’m ok. First lift yourself up and just do the kick and sit back down. Okay, here, kick, pass to the left-handed. Yes, would be right? Yeah, exactly.
15:44 And sit back down. Okay, so left, you want to turn the leg sideways. Use the heel and sit back sideways, sagres. Okay, and go for the knee and go for the man. yep.
16:01 Yes, you can sit back down. I say you want to bring this leg here and come walking up on you. make sure the pure self up. Okay, and you kick from my hand, Rome, and sit back down. Okay, all right, now let’s put that little monkey hop into it, right?
16:19 Okay, alright. First we’re gonna lift, we’re gonna kick, we’re gonna monkey pop, and stand up. Okay, you notice that you’re getting your heart rate up. Hook up, and even though we’re going really slow, this is a great conditioning workout for when you can’t get on the mat. Tried you 150 of these, sometimes forget it.
16:39 It’s just kind of like, did you just, equivalent of burpees, right? Go with it, but it’s practical. Okay, other side. left kick, monkey hop, and I’m always facing my imaginary opponent. One more time, okay.
17:02 Kick, kick, monkey hop, and stand up. All right, let me see you doing it one more time. Okay, but this time yeah, pretend this is Annie, but not my knee, because I’m just a 67 year old 540. Imagine 66. Well, in a couple months ago.
17:31 Sorry. I’m already three months ahead. December 3rd, right? So rather than this knee, right here that’s a really tall guy. Okay, now shake.
17:45 So just touch it for now. Do I have to extend to get out there? Yeah, well, wait for me tonight. You wait, don’t go to the guy. Okay, they didn’t come to you.
17:53 It was one of the principles. I’m up. BAM. and yeah, beautiful, man. Okay, one more time.
18:00 Okay, and the other thing I like to say, just for safety, yeah, if the guy’s approaching, you can always use this hand as like a shield. Fingers and hands together, like hand open, so you don’t hurt your fingers. Keep that thumb back to protect your face. Okay, okay, yeah, you don’t want to foot close to face, because you can get your hair smashed guys coming in. Touch, ma’am.
18:28 Yes, pads. Okay, so that’s a very important concept. How to sit down, how do I get up, either with one hand or two. It is ironic, because that’s how children, when they first learn, go from crawling to standing right? They, you go see be that get in there ballot.
19:03 I remember, as its official, all three of my kids, right? That’s why they do it. Does it’s a natural human movement. Okay, I just kind of forgot how to do it. I mean, there’s plenty of human movements we don’t need to do a lot of animal move.
19:19 So how do you, really, don’t like that? I’m not. Oh my god, you know, I’ve done following you things like that. My and my point is that I’m a human, so I want to spend my time doing human rubens that pertain to my martial art. Okay, certainly nothing wrong with doing the other stuff.
19:34 Is fun if you’re having a good time, you’re not injure yourself, one, and you’re moving. Why? I have enough movements here to keep me busy for the rest of my life. My point is, you know, rather than doing movements with no rhyme or purpose or reason just for the movements. Why not specialize in movements that actually have a purpose?
19:54 Sure. Now, if you don’t practice martial arts, it isn’t, you know, it doesn’t matter. Just have some fun. Okay, okay, another important concept is what we call a bump and roll, when someone’s sitting on you and you must escape. Yeah, there’s a great warm-up episode and I’ll show it to you first.
20:15 I’m gonna lift my hip. I’ll just do a few of these using my butt, my heels, and I’m imagining I have a person sitting on me, and I’m making the person go this way. I’m gonna raise up, hold on to an imaginary arm, turn over the ear and the shoulder to my knee. You come here. Now I’m gonna reverse engineer.
20:41 I’m gonna put my shoulder, my neck, down, and come back. Left turn off the shoulder, come to my knee back down and turn, so you’re working a lot of rotation in your hips, and even if you’re not a jujitsu guy this is good stuff there, and you can use this as your regular mobility. So lay down your back, elbows in. Yeah, look, when you go to bed, even at night, I’ll always keep those elbows. Well, this is defense for any jujitsu.
21:15 I don’t get armbar. Yeah, yeah, you know, you don’t sleep like this. Always like this? Yeah, use me. Protect my neck is all.
21:21 Maybe depends if you’re, you’re sleeping with, all right. So raise your hips up, up, up, up. Right now, what side do you want to turn to go that way? So bring your head out of the way. Okay, right, turn over the shoulder, and throw, come to your knees.
21:36 Yes, alright, now reverse it. Put your shoulder down, you can use your hands and bring the leg over, but rather than just fall brown. Yeah, you could do it slow. It’s not necessary wrong, but in this particular drill, we’re making more of an exercise as I bring the arm. Whoo, I’m just keeping my hips up, just so I said more torso rotation, just for the warm-up.
21:59 Okay, it’s not wrong the way you did it. It’s just I’m showing something a little different. Want to try again? Same side, opposite side. I go same shot, one more time.
22:06 So here, turn the head okay, you’re keeping the hips right now. Yes, and now you can lower your head. Good. Now there’s one little movement that you missed. Yeah, okay, look good.
22:18 This way, hips up. Yeah, now move your head. Yes, get your head out of the way. Okay, and turn, gonna sit back down. Beautiful.
22:29 And one more, and back, other side. One last time, use my hands or not? Oh yes, sir, use your hands, use whatever you get. Good, okay, and that is a very important movement, and of course, you know, the combat applications of this right? Yeah, there’s no escape from the mat.
22:51 Yeah, so that if I was mounted by big strong guy here, and he, maybe he’s trying to, like, squeeze my neck or something like a straight. I can hold the wrist and I’m gonna grip his jacket and try to bring him off balance, so I grip and pull, trap the foot, this leg comes up and hits. I lift him up, up, up, up. Look, my necks in the way, so I move the head, and when I turn over, it’s very important that I control their arms. now, in the judicial matches and striking event, like in the real life, you have a chance here headbutt in case you should find yourself with someone sitting on your.
23:38 I never know when you need to headbutt your phone so this movement is important, and it does have combat applications, so that. So you do it one more time so your elbows in. So this is a way that you can practice shadow rest just like people spar, shadow spar. You can do the same thing with your. Oh yeah move the head out of the way, turn, and turn.
24:12 Move your head out of the way. Yes, so it makes sense to get these movement patterns into the body, right? And it makes a great warm-up, right? Now imagine if we did the stand-up and base and monkey hops, standing up and base with the kick, right? You know, 10-roll set aside, it’d be nice little working.
24:31 Yeah, it would be a very judicious, specific workout using the skills that we use in the mat, so you can keep yourself in shape pretty much anywhere, really. You just need like a mat, or not even a mat. You can do it on a thick carpet, right? And a hotel I mean, you can do it a hardwood floor, because I mean, realistically speaking, you get into some kind of scrap, you’re probably gonna be in concrete. Yeah, didn’t the Gracie’s used to hold competitions on like concrete.
24:57 Jennifer Lee won in hard for in Rio because they knew how to wall. There’s actually videos of them actually fighting guys in a karate school, and they purposely chose hard for because they were comforted, how she’s comfortable in their rap, and the other guys weathers concrete, tile, wood, the next one’s called a legged thread. Okay, I’ll make thread very similar to the roll, but maybe sometimes when I come up I can’t turn, because the guys holding the leg or whatever.
25:28 So from here, I can take this leg underneath you can also just go to a little circle, man. I’m doing, I’m just taking them. So what would be the combat application of this? Let’s say, for example, Michael holding me down from the cross side. Yeah, maybe he’s holding here like this, and I’m trying to, coming in, but maybe he’s holding his legs.
26:07 I can’t get the leg through, but I can take this one, big, big roll now I can come to him. So it gives me a chance to escape the guy that’s holding me and holding the leg. Okay, normally like this, and maybe normally he would want to do, and just bring me and put me in the guard, right? But what if he’s holding the leg here, so he bridges in the same. Yeah, but now he takes this leg underneath, and he goes real, a threatening how he comes.
26:54 So it’s just another escape, and we use that almost as much as we use the other leg there. Let me see you do that. Yeah, cool. Another great warm-up, right? So I’m here.
27:05 So bring one leg under the other, but like under. Yes, and keep going, keep going. Flatten out on your back. Yes, sir. And then if you want, you can come back to your knees, slide back.
27:18 Right now, this is a skill or two itself. When I’m here like that, you can just learn to sit back, sit back, just work, just right back to your, says one of those basic movement patterns. Yeah. and this is what I teach first. You know, it doesn’t make sense, these complex skills until you get the movement better.
27:43 Yeah, and I always use these as warm-ups. Okay, I don’t do them all once, obviously in every class, but I do a couple, and then we do the applicable combat-related movement with the movement. Okay, let me see you do it again, please. Cool. good.
28:02 So I’m here, and then what am I doing with my head before I thread the leg of my journey? Yeah like that. Yep, turn. You turned, they have here, and you can, and you can just turn. Okay, the exercise, you just turn, circle some people call this the star exercise, because you can also bring your arms through.
28:24 Okay. the star version of this would be like, as a coming through, up taking my arm like through. You see, I’d be holding your hips like a star, and then I hold you waste your knees so that you couldn’t, like, pile drive the need to my head. I still have nightmares of who was it? Marker?
28:52 Yeah, I took this punishing news to the head. Yeah, in the turtle up in there holding the old pride off, the guy was holding him. Yeah, I remember the old prides. A lot of the Gracie’s doing these kicks, you know, I remember her voice kicking Sakuraba. You know, a lot of that stuff, basics, getting up.
29:15 Yeah, they basically used, if you want to see a real good example of basic jiu-jitsu Gracie jiu-jitsu. Look at Kron, look at his fights in Rizin right? He fought that very famous Olympic wrestler, kid Yamamoto. Yeah, a very good wrestler, arrogant, and he beat him with basic Gracie to what we’re doing now. And then, you know, when he went into the UFC, his first debut, he used classic jujitsu.
29:42 That’s Hickson, son, Khurana, Texas. He watches jujitsu. It’s just technical, man. So just he’s just every little thing is perfect, and those guys don’t know what to do, and then 30 seconds later they’re submitted, and he learned it from arguably one of the greatest jujitsu practitioners that ever lived. Hexa, excellent, right up there with Kimura and you got to give my a to credit, the guy that taught the Gracie’s originally in South America, right?
30:05 Yes, and basically it was judo, old, you know, like the Olympics job, right? Amaya and judo unfortunately has lost a lot of his combative effectiveness. Just like modern BJJ has lost a lot of us combative effective because of the rules of judo. The ground fighting went out, and in jujitsu they just throw themselves on the ground and start plan, right? So both aren’t realistic from real problems.
30:29 Gracie jiu-jitsu is in between. Okay, we still do the stand-up we still do the ground, but we still practice against knife, gun, stick, and that was in the old, old judo. That’s my a talked the Gracie’s. They wouldn’t practice against knife attacks, and then they service really. Okay, even now a lot of the Gracie certified instructors, someone will have a night pitting on the gate, and you’d be rolling all the senators, a knife and I pull out the knife, and you guys have been really, oh, it’s like yeah even though, you know, it’s just a game.
30:58 Whoo, you get someone. Sorry, when I watch the stuff they’re putting out from torrents, that’s Henner, and he run, right? Yeah, they pull out the guns, and it’s like, if first, it makes me uncomfortable they’re very comfortable with God. Yeah, do it in America. oh my god, that’s really the UK.
31:14 It’s the knife, the knife usually, knee you got to be concerned about people with knives or sticks, right? Which are actually a dangerous, more danger, knife can be more dangerous. Yeah, I mean, even knife experts will tell you, even if a guy’s in the news, hundred years of knives, your dad, pretty much, pretty much dead. You’re dead. But a person that doesn’t know how to use a knife, you have a chance, right?
31:40 It’s just like in self-defense, right? If the guy really knows how to fight, if he’s like a professional, mega, are you gonna get your butt kicked? But who picks street fighters? Usually guys that aren’t like professional level. It uses laymen, and you just was created to defend businessmen, housewives, mothers, professional people, people that are non-athletes or non-competitors, how to defend themselves in realistic street confrontations against laymen, not like your typical hoodlum thug, mugger, and you can do that quite well with these technique, and favors the small guy, right?
32:17 Well Helio Gracie has a very sweet man, soaking wet. Yeah, people don’t realize he was a small, small guy, but he fought them, the big guys twice, and big guys, and he really proved the efficiency of this jujitsu. It’s kind of like judo developed into the Olympic sport it is today, and I’m not denigrating you. I’ve worked with many judo guys. Wow, you got to be a super athlete, definitely, but you gotta be pretty flat, so we’re gonna give you the higher levels, right?
32:47 A lot of power, one strength, to do those throws still using a lot of technique, but you know, I lost a lot of its street effective. Yours, we’re not saying that it can’t be effective. It just lost a lot of it, whereas in Brazil you just look like a time capsule, but what they commonly referred to judo and jiu-jitsu people are like almost, you know, the same thing, and it was like a little time capsule, and it met all of the original Japanese self-defense techniques are individual in judo, though Helio Gracie polished it up and created a teaching style.
33:28 Yeah, I got the GT, and my eight-year-old daughter started turning it with you, and this girl could, she could choke me unconscious, and sometimes she didn’t know any better, and she, like, choked her grandma out. Oh yeah, before they know it you got to be careful with the real kids. I know she’s 30, cuz a lot of these kids, they have, you know, the little hands and the little arms. It doesn’t take any strength to make a person pass out. Yeah, last move.
33:51 Okay, you ready? yeah, yeah, okay. This is a prelude to falling. Okay, okay, but in the beginning with the beginners, we usually do from the knees. All right, so there’s two ways to do slowly control to the left side.
34:15 Then I’m going to bring the leg over, and I’ll get a reverse, it, and come back. So I’ll do it on the left side. Yeah, so first, as they roll, the course of this, I’m going to end up on my right side. Notice I’m doing with a lot of control. All right, now I can go back and roll over that same time.
34:39 It’s just a really nice way to open up your net. Okay. I’m gonna try. Yeah, let’s do it. So here, yeah, over to the other side, and you’re gonna end up a good shot, shot right side.
34:51 Okay, St. You missed it. Yeah, too far as I go. Yeah, and I roll onto my left side. We call this the safe position or safety position. This would be the position that I try to land in if I got thrown to the ground.
35:07 My hand is kind of resting on my arm. This leg is here. I can defend me. I can defend my face. I can sit up, so I can sit up and base.
35:15 So it’s a very low ball position, and like I say it’s the prelude to learning the falls. Okay, okay, alright, try again. Yeah, so here to the side, yeah, and you’re gonna end up over this shoulder and land on your left side, like so. This hand is protected here. Yeah, this hand is like this.
35:33 Your head, you want on your arm. This leg, you want up to defend yourself, so you couldn’t be kicked in the groin. Your fate, your hand is here to defend your face. The reason I say you want your head resting, please, someone would be behind and like bringing you this. Okay, rather they hit the concrete, your arm would show okay, okay, let’s try again.
35:58 Yes, this is a scary thing for beginners. Don’t you know, rolling over their neck because it’s kind of vulnerable. It’s good for kind of loosening up the niccola. One more time. So here, as I’m going, yeah, and this protects you because this is safe position, the shielding your face.
36:24 It’d be hard for someone to strike you from here, right now. If you want, go back to the other way, the way you get there. yes, actually you can actually sleep like this at night, right? Okay, yeah. we caught sleeping position, position safe.
36:54 You can also sit up into this position. You see how you get string keys together? Yeah, and up close in a flock. So the five basic movement patterns I teach every student in the beginner, how to stand up, how to sit down, a couple little neck movements. When you connect one movement to another movement, is called, ahem, you know, like the hem of a garment.
37:18 Yeah, it’s like that little monkey thing that is a hem. Okay, it’s like real fun, and transitions are everything. Now transition zone, that’s what make sex. Right now we’re just doing the movements themself. You can take all these movements and just put it together, no flaw, and just kind of make it up as you go.
37:35 Right, very creative, right? And have a nice little, okay, good movements of Gracie jiu-jitsu. so one of the things that really differentiates the Gracie system of jiu-jitsu, it’s all Brazilian jiu-jitsu, is the way it’s taught the methodology, with a strong emphasis placed on the self-defense first, especially during your formative years, and basically what I was giving us, be the first class. Now those movement patterns are bit of a Steve Maxwell flow there’s a lot of instructors that are following suit, but I found that just getting those movements into the body through a warm-up.
38:23 It’s just a real good way to just add the new. Okay. but one of the first things that we work on is when someone grabs you by the front. Front, and then imagine not me. You’re just gonna swat me away.
38:37 Imagine somebody like The Mountain. Did you see that scene where The Mountain grabbed that guy and gouged his eyes, and Kamath, very horrible, as bad. I just saw him on the news. He picked up that one singer and crashed him over his head. It was just in my newsfeed, a guy like that.
38:54 All right, you know and you might not be able to even reach his face, you know. So the idea is to escape. Okay, there’s three principles of self-defense. The first one is awareness. You’re aware of your surroundings.
39:09 You’re not doing distracted text, you know, distracted walking to me, right? You don’t wear earphones on the tube. You’re always walking around. You know who’s all around you so awareness. The second is aboard, its.
39:23 I come walking down the street, and I see a motley crew like this. I’m thinking those guys will cut it up. I’m gonna move, walk to the other side, right? So I’ll avoid if I can. Only as a last resort will I go into any kind of action, and a lot of times it’s like what we call a stun and run.
39:42 A stun and rough, so if Mike will grab my throat, and imagine, you know, the Mountain. Okay, right? And he’s so tall, and if he turns the groin away, you know, I’d be smart, like I could kick his groin now, but a lot of guys, you know, they’ll stand silent. It’s gonna be hard to get the grunt in the meantime, his hands are passing me out. My only option is to escape.
40:11 Hold on tightly. So if he’s really a pony, he can’t keep me from escaping in jujitsu. we always try to escape. We don’t try to fight. We try to avoid, and then escape, and then run away.
40:23 All right. so grab Brian by his neck. So if the guy’s standing here, of course, you just give him a good old kick but if he’s guarding the groin and he’s squeezing your neck, okay, right? You want your hands up, bend at the waist and roll underneath, bring your chin, and out you go. Okay, because the way the thumb is, there’s no way exact.
40:47 No matter how strong you hold him here, you can’t keep me from doing that, because soon as that bag over. You’re not holding. Some people say, all been auctioned, e in the face. You don’t have time, so you, so mad the way jujitsu works is this. It’s a surprise.
41:06 You grabbed my neck. I didn’t know you’re gonna do it, but you don’t know I’m gonna do this. Hey no, I’m already distance. Okay, try that free top. This is great when we teach the kids and the women, but to children, because kids always grabbing each other, pension hair.
41:23 We teach this stuff on lots of the children, but it’s good for just to get the idea of what you just assaulted, avoid, innovate, pushing on that. How soon should I try to start teaching my son’s, just really, I got into, and year old and a three year old. I started teaching my son when he was a fetus. playing DVDs in the background, pushing on the womb, but he started when he was like around kindergarten age. I had this big old teddy bear, and with children, you disguise it as play, right?
41:56 No, you don’t do lessons for little kids, and not more than three to five minute attention span. So it has a big teddy bear. Come on, him, I would teach him like a hold or something, and then we kind of play around. And okay, I just made an old wrestling games. Okay and a lot of times that wrestle in the floor and put him on my back, and he had to stay on like bucking bronco, and I’d be rolling all over the floor, and he had it, hold on and not lose.
42:20 I put him on top of me and crawl, and he had the maintain his base in his balance. Okay, and rolling him, you do that with the kids to get it into their body. Yeah, make it fun. Okay, you know, we do things like balance. I would grab him, and he was trying to maintain his balance, the kids get really good really quick.
42:36 Yeah, cuz their body is just the nervous systems. You know, I tried to armbar my boy the other day, but they get theirs tangle. On this is hard to do the little arms are so tight, really, really tight. All right, chefs, are this one cool duck your chin, right? Over texture, never plug your shoulders like it.
42:54 Okay, imagine turtle and pulmonic. Oh yes, your honor. This right away, right away. Why am I doing that? Okay, so we can’t dig into my neck.
43:04 Okay, see if your other jobs gives me time. If you give me a chance to get your windpipe, imagine them out now, right? Right, this, squeeze it like a couple seconds. Yes, we’re on them, but as I’m going, try, yet, see not gives me a little more time, and it’s hard for me to get my fingers on there. Okay, so you’re just making my leverage a little bit worse.
43:22 Now, next step would be here as I come down here, try to turn back into me. See, it’s hard, I have now. I could run, I could hit the name, I could take the head, bring, I mean, I can do a lot of mean things. Yeah, in the beginning we don’t teach those mean things. We just teach the real basic basics, but the idea would be as I’m coming here, I’m already here maybe it’s my drunken brother-in-law, and I don’t want to hurt him too much.
43:56 You know, just kind of hold the guy yeah. All right, so try that. A movement is as I grab you, tuck your chin. Now duck underneath here. Okay, nice and slow.
44:05 Oh my god, now stop, this hand comes here and turn it. Take a hook. Okay, see, I can’t. Okay, you know, if I calm you, just spin. Yeah, wait, you just go, if I turn this way.
44:19 You see it? Yeah, yeah, and look at the angle. Yeah, angles right here, I’ve, and you can just make your escape, because a human is very good at fighting straightforward. but as soon as you put any angle, it’s a little harder. It’s harder.
44:31 See, once I’m here and they have those arm crossed. Yes, you can pull away and spin, but I can cuz I don’t want to fight anyway, right? Yeah, you want to get out of there. This is, this one example, it’s not uncommon for people to grab your nose. Another fairly common thing, to kind of a novice move, isn’t it?
44:49 Cuz the jiu-jitsu guy wouldn’t do this. Well, yeah, remember I was not picking a fight. Oh, juice is a guy’s first of all too smart. Just do that. Yeah, but a big thug, strong guy.
45:00 To touch, the God’s honest truth, I actually got in a scrap. I was a wrestler, and it was this really mouthy guy, and I just grabbed a bus neck and pin him against the warning pass. Really? Yeah, I just pinned him and squeezed his neck, and I was, oh my god. Was this like, I actually got in troubles in Philly?
45:18 Oh, last man is a years ago, before even New Jersey. Okay, I had college wrestling bit. You know, we just got in the scrap. It was just natural. Just Pete grab his neck and passed him out, and he pressed charges.
45:32 I, okay, I managed to get away with an apology. Okay, but I’m just telling you the technique of grabbing the neck. It’s not as uncommon as in my family. A big guy gets a small girl. He happen to be a little smaller than me.
45:46 Yeah, it’s a very human reaction to go for the neck. It’s like carnal. Yeah, just kind of a, you know, guys drunk, they know what they’re doing, you know. Okay, okay, next thing would be this, is not uncommon at all, but someone sneaks up behind you and grabs you by your neck. They grab me here, and if I don’t know what I’m doing, he could dispatch me pretty quick.
46:09 Sometimes they go pull you back, squeeze, you’re in a lot of trouble, maybe you’re engaging me in some kind of argument, and the guy’s friend comes up behind and grabs, so you need to have this reaction, soon as you feel, even as soon as Brees you drop in the base here. Okay, I’d like to see you do that. Imagine, enter the breeze, even if it’s your girlfriend or your wife, hopefully not both, your wife and girlfriend. You may really need this, up the vent.
46:40 You’re gonna drop here like this in base. Okay, all right, I’m there. Say you’re feeling gone. Yeah, I’m just dropping your way, so my next step would be this, if I’m able, I’ll judge the throw part. Okay, okay, so the guy comes out and gives me a good step, grab here.
46:59 I’ll go into this break break up. Now the average restaurant is, it’s about a boy back, but a lot of guys have no baser balance. What did I feel as it comes in? I’m holding here. My hips are shooting back, and he’s here.
47:22 Now the rest of it is a straight in the legs as I straighten over he goes, and notice you’ve ended on the side. So it’s a falling drill, right? Would you like to try that? Yes, with Mike. Yeah.
47:36 So I’m throwing Michael, cy cy, I brought him. Yeah, okay. well, it’s good for me to be able to see you. So what’s, alright, very first thing, as he grabs, he’s gonna grab me hard. Yeah, you grip a dropping base.
47:49 All right, now you’re looking down, not you. What? Okay, yes yeah, okay, now just practice swinging him up into the air. Okay, swim pool does one. Okay.
47:59 Sure, China, kind of three. Now, to make him fall, straighten your legs, and put your head between your legs, and what you don’t want to do, if you can help it, is like to the side. You want to bring him straight up. Okay, straight up, straight over, watching it, straight over, not flank. I grabs me boom.
48:24 It’s a little scary for him. Yeah, but he’s really good at four. Okay, he practices that. It’s expected, and so it won’t be long before he’ll be a black belt himself. Okay, again, please.
48:37 Okay. so as he grabs, grab tight. Yes, right here. Yeah, and I think my hips into him. Yes, okay, bring your head straight down between your legs and stand up.
48:47 Yes, notice he’s breaking his fall with his foot, and do I try to go over or to the side? Straight up, straight over. You want him to land in his head, or his head? Okay. okay, boom, base, straight up.
49:01 Yeah, okay, dance. That’s my black belt level looking stuff okay, jealous. Let’s go back, please. Sit down. Yeah, let me see you stand up and bake.
49:18 No, you were right the first. Thank you. Fold the leg. Okay, okay, one more time, please, because of that stand up in beige, right? now you don’t need the kick, cause of joy.
49:31 Yes exactly. You sense danger, you just stand up. Okay, now what’s the kick? Sits back down, place, right? So I am just reverse engineer.
49:42 Yeah, okay, so now just pretend is my name, ma’am and yes, sure. There’s like a little way of reviewing and getting into, you’re nervous at all right, now the guys here, the mat, right? Yes. you just want a scare. Exactly, do a little slower.
50:06 Okay, it’s actually better this one. Okay, here you go. Okay, you don’t even have to grab. You can just kind of hook like that, kind of like a, like a praying mantis. I got kind of like this.
50:22 Okay, here. Okay, yes. Okay, and at this point you could elbow shots my head, boom. Yeah. Oh, there, you know what, this satisfy.
50:31 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah the great thing, the Gracie self-defense doesn’t mind some cheap shots. No, it’s all about cheap shots, all of us trying not to use my hands, so I don’t hurt my hands, right? But you don’t wanna break your hands in the street. you want to use elbows and knees, and, but do you know what the biggest dictionary in the world is? the what-if dictionary of martial arts.
50:54 But what if, Steve? I can’t tell how many times I heard. But Steve, whatever what if the guy is really big, and he clothes me backwards with a choke, a month that could be lethal. Let’s say this time maybe I’m a little late with this, or he’s too big, and he grabs and pulls me back. Number one, I want to hang in his arm even if the guy would pick me up off the ground.
51:17 Here. I mean, real hits, your hit. Yeah, I’m just gonna back. I’m gonna hang on that one even if I was in the air. Now I got to get my base back, right?
51:27 Now, can you choke me, Michael? No, it’s really hard because you’re hanging all your weight, cuz I’m hanging like a chin-up right? I mean, even if he’s just sitting in my butt, at least I didn’t get choked. Number one, if you forget everything else, don’t get choked. But now this rear leg is gonna come around, a good hall and behind the guy.
51:44 Yeah, we got one, two, three. You used the knees, not a gentle knee in the belly like in class but you do some knee drops. It kind of Booker the guy, helpful of it. I’m up. I don’t want him chasing me behind.
51:59 The street, he was, the run to grab, so once again he grabs my neck. I hang all my weights here. This leg comes behind, and in the beginning, asbestos is do it slowly, one, two, three. Notice that, never lost any business. A lot of beginners will have over 52,000 step down, right?
52:21 You lose the whole position. That’s not to say you might not anyway, but you didn’t get choked. That’s the, that’s the goal. Don’t get choked. So, Meg, yeah from here, four, one, two, three.
52:37 I’m going to do a few knee drops. Okay, show you, try. Yeah, let’s do it. she’s gonna grab. Okay, so first hang off all your way.
52:48 Yeah, okay, okay. This leg goes back on your tongue. Go ahead, hop around, goes. So see, this one goes around. No, no, sorry, this one goes around.
52:57 No, hop around with this yeah, I’ll show you. Okay, so meet you. So just a leg action, see from here I’m hanging this leg, so it’s like, okay as I’m going this way around, this big. Okay, okay, okay, got it. so we go out there.
53:17 This goes around, and all this, no, stop. Okay, look at your foot and your knee. Yeah bring this foot in, closure there. No, no, like get it, waiting, your heel, and don’t turn it sideways. Get your foot yes, those are close.
53:31 Yes, you don’t, you want to just have your legs in a normal base. You don’t want to be like this. Okay, just a normal base. Now bring your head straight down. Okay, just like the first four don’t you fall?
53:46 Okay. Oh, stay up, right. I’ll hold the arm too. Yes, hold. Do you want to say, doesn’t roll away.
53:51 So watch when he grabs, and I had, and this leg shoots back, and I come around here. Notice on the base, I’m not doing this. Yeah, and what it’s, the same as I did the first time, I’m just putting my head right down between his head for the ground. Okay, okay, you’re doing great. This is a bit more complicated.
54:15 Yeah, for sure. Usually this would be like the third lesson, but we’re going to go out of order. Okay, so I’m here, hawk lat, I’m hopping around like, yes, don’t stay up. Okay, stay, tell you why you’re fall. Yeah, you’re on your toes.
54:29 Okay so keep my feet flat, like, like you were. Okay. if the hip is a hip hinge, it’s got hit me, it’s a hip hinge. Okay, okay, one more time back history, and I’m okay here. Now get your base right.
54:45 Got a little bit more, one more step with this point, for step with that, for you. No, this way. Okay, here. Yeah, so you’re almost behind. Okay.
54:53 Now when you bring your head down, you see how I’ll balance it. Bring your heads out there, boom. I slap. Okay. knee to the ribs, so it’s boom.
55:02 Yeah, drop it in. Okay, one last time. Okay. hanging around a little way around the base. Okay, nice job.
55:22 Sit down to the floor. Nice. Yeah, cuz they’re standing up in banks Wow. The Karate Kid, man. Wax on, wax off, right?
55:33 Back down on ya. Sit down, beige. Yeah with a kick and beautiful. All right, keep or elbow, and I can have my elbow. This, that would be good.
55:51 That’s a good one, depends. Yeah, my favorite, the jaw. You know, I just, all depends on who it is. All right, Michael grabbed from behind. Well, this is, uh, the first choke.
56:04 Okay. okay, so yeah. I wanted my things. You’re doing is I know you’re kind of bringing before that. Okay, and you’re turning sideways, you’re gonna hurt your knee. Okay, so look, when I drop in the beige, I’m gonna just straight down in the feet out slightly.
56:18 Yeah, and as I do it, my hips are shooting back in the ham, so he, he’s like down like that. So one of the principles is to continuously review them. Said that when you leave right now he’s gonna pull you back. Okay, and that’s this where the foot comes in. You keep my baby.
56:59 Yeah same exact position, and Brian, say move. It’s a move. Okay, all right. yes, nice. How we join in time, only a few minutes and watch it.
57:20 Okay, so this is a very common where someone comes walking up to you, and you don’t know what they want. Yeah, you know, it’s kind of like this passive-aggressive. Yeah, and you’re just not quite sure, so generally speaking, it’s really funny. My, the guy that I got my actual bike buffer, I trained with all the races master Gallia clone with my first teachers, boys, then later I went with Helsing, and Helsing used to ever say, I don’t let anyone I don’t know, and most people that I do know never get any closer than you know, he just makes everyone keep their distance.
58:02 Okay, just doesn’t know. However, if Michael comes walking up to me right now he could be a guy with poor social skills. Yeah a lot, he hasn’t anything to make me a tackle, right? And you know, of course, I would try to keep my distance, but you know, there’s a wall. Yeah, all right, so I can’t just keep backing up forever, like I said, it just may be one of those guys with poor social skills.
58:28 Do you ever watch the Jerry Seinfeld? Yeah one of my favorite episodes was the close talker, too close to Harry. How you doing, Brian? How’s the family? It has like, very creepy, but you get the close stalkers.
58:38 They just don’t have real social skills. It all right to be a hundred percent set. If I try to maintain, first my hands are here or here you know, and he comes and like, hey, I’ve already preemptively taking about any attack he can do. Hey, what’s going on, my friend? I want to be friendly.
58:56 I want to avoid you know, if I can, I say, you know, I will but this movement here, he can’t hit, punch my face. It’d be hard he could try an uppercut. Yeah, but I can turn. he can’t really mean me in the groin. As soon as he does, I, he’s off balance.
59:16 The interesting thing about this is called inside control. You can use this in competition, to wrestling submission wrestling, judo, Jiu Jitsu. Said that, okay. If you have inside control on me, hands like this, you’re not gripping, you’re just like a hook, right? I’m turned.
59:34 You’re growing a little bit. I said that, yeah, yeah. Say now, just relax at this point, if I’m relaxed, you relax. I started to use tension, you use tension. Okay, I busy, I can’t hit your head.
59:44 Okay, interesting. You just push my arm. Oh yes, okay, so I try to come on – yeah, I just, you just really negates you. Yeah, if I turn around like this, but what you have a palm here, you have the elbow. Yeah, you got the knee here, if I want, you got a nice little head pot here when we head, but we always use this part of the head like a soccer player.
1:00:10 You never want to add, but straight forward. You can hurt your own teeth if you miss. You always turn your head to the side, inside like that. Yeah, yeah, go for that nose, or the head bridge of the nose is good. Yeah, that hurt more cheek a few, but here, see, I can’t, and then you just learn to put, I’ve got actually, that I get tense.
1:00:30 You get 10. Okay, if I back up, you let me go. Okay, or you could follow me. Yeah, yeah yeah, but here’s the interesting thing, just to show you how much power you have in that position. All right, put your left foot for, get inside control.
1:00:47 All right, now I’m gonna push on your shoulders. Okay, let me get to your shoulder okay, and you know, thought we don’t wanna hurt this. Not all right. Now trying to push me across the mat, I’m gonna try to push you. Ready, go, go.
1:00:59 Okay, but let’s reverse. Okay, okay, right here. Okay, you see what I mean? Because I have control of central line mass, so anytime you can get this inside control, even in a competitive kind of thing, you know, even like judo or jiu-jitsu, right? You know, like my way, it might work here would be something like this.
1:01:24 See, I have inside control. All right, and I’m gonna want it, inside control inside control. You can, it is the same for sport, same for street fighting. Okay probably NFL as well. They trying to get inside.
1:01:39 Oh yeah, push me. I’m sure, absolutely. I don’t want to get that’s why they, they came up with that spin. You know, the guys can spin off to fill in the gap, and then FL. Okay, it’s like to break that, it’s like wrestling, it’s like wrestling, you know, in the trenches in the Honda offense defense.
1:01:55 We use that inside more walking. That’s all I’m trying to break, that or shell. Oh wow, God comes walking out. Hey, man, what’s going on? yo, easy, man.
1:02:05 It’s all good. So anytime, yeah, exactly but you don’t want to grab me. Tuck, right? A lot of times just be like, you want to see. Yeah see, look, you already, but you don’t want athletes, a man, or enough, right?
1:02:27 Okay, how do you know when’s you up the ante on the attack, when he fights back, he, when he starts getting on jumping okay, you know what, hey man, you know, trusters start struggling. So my next move would be there hey, hey, hey, what’s up? Now he starts getting a little choppy. I’m gonna come here to the south. See how I trap the arm, hold the elbow.
1:02:51 I have a knee hit, boom, here. Okay I have a mind control here. I’m still kind of like just figuring it out, because I still would like to avoid it if I can’t, right? A lot of times if the guy comes and I’m here and he says, you know, like he doesn’t do anything. He just stands there, you know.
1:03:10 Maybe I’ll get some distance to a boy, just all depends, right? But a lot of times if the guy starts getting all antsy, I’m going to just come worry about a strike, and you want to close the distance there. I you know, from here, like this, I prefer to fight a guy here as opposed to, and he’ll must gives me the opportunity to come here now. I mean, anything could happen. He could run his hips out.
1:03:37 We could end up in this position here, but I’m very familiar with this position. I feel very comfortable in this position. That’s a whole different lessons that are getting a little bit more advanced in the moral, the stand of the grappling and wrestling and judo kind of stuff. But let’s just take the typical thug that’s just like talking about nonsense and it’s very easy for me. That, hey, hey, hey, man what’s going on?
1:04:00 And you can even feel for a weapons, man, if the guy hasn’t boom, knee to the groin, one, two. That classy hip throw works very, very well. It’s one of the first throws that we teach in jiu-jitsu. Yeah, so now you know inside control. Yeah, let’s get you to the side.
1:04:24 Okay, okay, go ahead so first inside control. Okay, so now you’re gonna slide this arm underneath, right? And walk one step. Okay you want to put your groin at his thigh. If you can control this arm, I’m hold like this.
1:04:40 Okay, this hand holds the hip. Okay, okay, do that three times. I want just to get in position. Okay, cold so it’s here, and then I’m, yes, dear, it’s a very nice position. Yeah, now listen, you could potentially just try to get a hip throw, but that’s, he, someone else, let, if I’m asked, miss?
1:04:59 Yeah, you see where I’m at, but by taking the extra step here I can soften guy off. I can hit him. I can come inside one, two, three. All right, okay, shall we try? Nice.
1:05:15 Yeah, no headphones, just the first book so I’m here and I’m Angie here. Yes, okay, nice control, nice little control, right? There’s other takedowns. Yeah, but we like to teach that hip throw early. Yeah, yeah, I thought my son, there’s one, he was just in kindergarten and in Philly the kids scrap.
1:05:36 There’s some tough boys walking around. Yeah, yeah, he was like this little kid very small for size, and he was with some kids from the projects that were really tough guys, and his juju to save you. I can’t tell you how many times you used that hip throw. I mean, usually the fights are over, just glad someone, the sidewalk, they takes all the plane, right? They’re like, ah, they don’t want to fight.
1:05:57 It knocks at window. Yes, it does. So a good way to learn this hold is you hold the elbow. Yeah, walk to the side, lean him forward loosen the back on this foot, steps inside, this foot, and the other foot. Notice I’m still in that base position.
1:06:18 Now it’s very important to get my hip over far enough that I can kind of push the hip and lift him up. This is the hard part. The easy part is straighten their legs and throwing. I’d like to see you do that much. Okay, take the elbow, put the hand in the armpit, take one step to the side, be out of your head, and tight, lean ham.
1:06:44 For now I could make him leave with a knee kick, but for now, lean him forward. If I try to hold on too tight, I can’t get my legs. So I loosened this arm up. My feet should be inside history. Now I lift and scoop with it just start with this.
1:07:07 I’m coming in here, huh, and then I’m sliding into here, right? There’s a little wide. Okay, in that bathroom. Okay, I just see your feet inside here, yells, both of them. Yeah, let’s see how you’re kind of reared up.
1:07:19 Yeah, I’d like to see Ben for just a little bit, so bend him for ya then come on, and then there. Yes, listen, on this throw – yeah, cuz I leave him for when I step. We’re gonna readjust this book. Okay okay, and it’s the hip, like, oh right. Okay, this is the client bad version in Judo.
1:07:49 They teach it different because there’s a competitive front, right? And in judo this wouldn’t work so well against other judo player evens you, Justin, guys are too smart, but the average street guy has no balance. In the face, nothing it’s actually fairly easy to throw people when they’re not used to this type of graphic. Yeah, even strike, they fall pretty easier than you think. Yeah, okay, good, another one.
1:08:11 Yeah, so pulling here to here, and I’m gonna go in there and even adjust. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Nice okay, one more time. Nice. So here I’m holding this in here, and I’m going in there, adjust last one.
1:08:31 This time I want you to throw. Okay, you ready, Michael? Take a little ride, one-way ticket to the cement like this, you like the road, so you can tell I never get some, and they’re here, adjust. You have a lot of nice stretch. Yeah any questions?
1:08:59 No, man, that’s great stuff. I mean, we could go on all day, of course, but I’d like to know how we’re joined in our time? I’ve known my wife since bucks 3:23. Yeah, no, I think that’s good, man. I like the fact that it’s practical.
1:09:10 You know, it’s its streets, and that’s that’s what the Gracie’s do, and they’ve always done, kinda came from Rio, right? Escapes and fun. Yeah, I mean, this crapola spent down there. They’re pretty tough guys. Yeah, you know you have a lot of people in one location.
1:09:27 It’s very hot and humid. There’s a lot of poverty. People are gonna scrap, and you learn how to fight pretty early, or, you know, you either become a prey or predator. Yeah, and the Gracie’s decided they were gonna be prey, and you know, they’re jujitsu style prove itself. I mean, the Helio Gracie was really one of the more, most feared fighters in Brazil, even at 149, tiny little dot.
1:09:53 Yeah, cuz they weren’t afraid to scrap. Dad, go for it. You know, now that’s not to say that there wasn’t some other tough guys outside the Gracie family. There’s plenty of people, the new jiu-jitsu, and there was another form of grappling called boot, a favorite. It sound like it’s, it was like it was the Brazilian form of catch wrestling, right?
1:10:14 There’s a Brazilian guy. I forget those guy’s names, pretty well-known, but he created this submission wrestling form, and there was a lot of friction between the jujitsu guys and the catch wrestle. Yes, yeah, yes well, the Gracie’s changed the world with their martial art, and I mean, they proved it in the UFC, you know, or an, or you bang a bit of the UFC. Yeah, I was one of the original investors. That’s crazy to get my money in here.
1:10:40 You’re rich now. Now when he pulled out, I pulled out, that man. I wish I would have kept something in there, cos I would look like real unexpected. They proved it. I mean, they proved it, and Royce was everybody put everything on Royce.
1:10:58 He was a really nice person, young, wasn’t strong, didn’t have like a big gee-whiz physique. Guy had great endurance. I was actually his personal trainer okay, really. Yeah. Wow, back in the day, and he was really unbelievable in his calm, cool, collected.
1:11:17 I mean, he would get nervous, of course. Yeah, but man, the way he was able to fight this giant guys, and those days it wasn’t just one fight. I remember three times in one night. It was like three. The one tournament thing was four times there was one tournament, world.
1:11:33 I thought he fought four times. Did you know he was gonna win? No, I was scared out of my mom’s, are these big scary man? When I saw Ken Shamrock with the rule, you know, with his little speed ahead, and it looks like Superman. I’m thinking, oh my god, and I saw the way he’d beaten his first night I’m thinking, wow, voice really has his work cut out for.
1:11:55 I mean, I had a lot of faith. Been raised in jujitsu, that was really scared. Yeah, and you know there’s nothing to grab onto. Yeah, boys grow that big loosely bag Iggy. Yeah, it was pretty smart.
1:12:08 He used it too as a weapon, and his theory was if they’re grabbing the gi. I’m used to that. I’d rather have him grabbing me than trying to punish me, right? And it’s just natural when you have this big floppy key for people to grab onto. It, thanks, sounds, yeah there was this theory.
1:12:26 There’s that was smart. Figured if they’re grabbing, any puncher, yeah, and I’m used to people grabbing the everyday. So that’s just normal. Well, Gracie jiu-jitsu is legendary, so thank you, Steve. You’re legendary as well, man, so thank you this is great stuff.
1:12:41 Yeah, and thanks to Mike. Thank you, man. Thanks, Mike.
