Jiu-Jitsu is a martial arts technique that can be applied in a variety of situations. In this episode, we discuss a recent incident involving a jiu-jitsu student who was in a fight with a man with an AK-47 and a knife.
00:00:00.000You get to control the level of the situation as opposed to, you know, these guys, you see all of our conservative shows and radio, like, yeah, I go to the eyes, I go for the throat, because I'm not limited by sport.
00:00:10.000Well, actually, you're so limited because you can only make it work if you can get to the eyes and, like, end someone's life.
00:00:16.000Well, not to mention, I know, you know where my eyes are, and I know where your eyes are.
00:00:28.000So now that we've neutralized at that level, let's go to a level of, okay, what else can you offer to the situation?
00:00:34.000And positional dominance, controlling the distance, managing the dangerous strikes are skills that really Jiu-Jitsu provides in an amazing way.
00:00:40.000And people will say, oh, well, Jiu-Jitsu doesn't work against multiple attackers is the common rebuttal.
00:00:46.000I'm like, yeah, well, bring me the art that does.
00:01:26.000Actually, my neck's gotten a lot bigger with the back injury, so I fat shame myself on air, so that way I can go back and then feel good when I lose weight.
00:01:59.000And I'm sure the audience knows, you know, most of the general details regarding the incident.
00:02:04.000The train was riding from Amsterdam to Paris when a man comes out of the laboratory with an AK-47 pistol and a knife of some sort, like a box cutter of some sort.
00:02:16.000And it has an AK-47 with nine magazines of ammunition, basically 200-plus rounds, and is ready to wreak havoc and kill lots of people on this.
00:02:31.000And the train car that he came out with the weapon to, you know, kill the initial, I guess, subjects or targets of his attack.
00:02:37.000There were three American guys, and one of which was an off-duty U.S. Air Force member who trains jiu-jitsu at an affiliate of the Gracie family in Portugal, in Lisboa, Gracie, Lisboa.
00:02:53.000And this guy is sleeping, and he wakes up to a commotion and a few AK-47 rounds that went off near the lavatory in between the train cars.
00:03:03.000And he wakes up and his buddy who's sitting next to him, who I think his name is Alex, Spencer Stone is the name of the Jiu-Jitsu student and the man who initially charged at the AK-47.
00:03:13.000So he wakes up and Alex says, hey, let's go.
00:03:16.000But he doesn't even know what we're going for.
00:03:17.000He just knows that something's happening crazy.
00:03:20.000And Alex says, he looks up, sees an AK-47 down at the end of the hall or down at the end of the aisleway in the train and just starts running.
00:03:29.000And this is based on his kind of recollection of the event.
00:03:32.000He said at that moment the guy was either the gun had jammed or he was trying to cycle a new round or he wasn't very proficient in utilizing it.
00:03:38.000But he was messing with the gun and it wasn't shoot ready.
00:03:41.000So lucky for Spencer Stone, he kept charging, went straight through, get a hold of the guy, starts to try to tackle him.
00:03:47.000Alec and Anthony, the two other gentlemen who were with him, two other American friends and they were both on vacation in Europe, Charge in, start grabbing the AK, and they're tussling for another British man named Chris Norris, I think, or Chris Nolan.
00:04:01.000Chris something goes in there, and he basically is grabbing and striking, too.
00:04:05.000I think Chris Nolan is the director for Dark Knight.
00:04:09.000You might be mixing it up, but continue.
00:04:11.000So Chris something, the British dude, goes in there all scuffling for this guy's weapons, and then Spencer gets behind the guy, puts him in a chokehold, a jujitsu, rear naked choke, applies pressure, He's holding.
00:04:22.000The guys are able to take the AK. He pulls out a pistol.
00:05:05.000Three lessons that we took away from this.
00:05:07.000And, you know, it's just so cool to see that he was able to engage so quickly, so selflessly.
00:05:13.000And I know for sure, because it's where all of my conviction and confidence and my willingness to engage in anything, not just a physical altercation, but in any aspect of life or any challenge, as you know, comes from the confidence that jujitsu gives us.
00:05:26.000And to know that jiu-jitsu played a small part in helping render this guy, you know, unconscious and ultimately subduing this terrorist is nothing short of remarkable.
00:05:36.000And I said in the video that my brother and I made, like, it's times like this where I wish my grandfather was still alive so that we could say, grandfather, listen, and like speak in a very simple language like he liked and say a man in, you know, France was trying to kill people with an AK-47.
00:06:07.000Well, then also in his later age, they sort of that filter leaves and he probably would go on an anti-French tirade as to why the French needed Americans to save them.
00:07:03.000I think people now, you see with the UFC that you guys created, are results-oriented.
00:07:08.000In training for self-defense, I was talking about this, and for those listening terrestrially, we'll have a longer segment on LottoWithCroider.com because we know we don't want to bore you with all the ins and outs, technically, of jiu-jitsu.
00:07:18.000I was talking with my producer, Jer, here about this.
00:07:21.000You know, all these real combat, you know, Krav Maga, and this is reality-based, man.
00:07:26.000I'm sitting there going, ah, jiu-jitsu, all that stuff.
00:08:00.000And I think that, you know, you nailed it on the head.
00:08:02.000At the end of the day, you know, you can't argue with the results.
00:08:06.000And, you know, if you look historically through all the martial arts, there's never been a Single-handedly proven to be so effective for the average person.
00:08:17.000We're not talking about the ultra-athlete who's given some eye-gouging and growing striking skills.
00:08:22.000We're talking about average person, someone of average physical capability to overcome someone much heavier, much stronger, much more athletic.
00:08:30.000That simple engagement, which is probably the most likely street altercation engagement you can think of, right?
00:08:35.000Someone who's the bully or the aggressor or the bigger, stronger athletic threat person against an athlete.
00:08:41.000Average person who's not trying to pick a fight but is just out with his girlfriend and some guy walks by with an attitude and spits on him or has a look or an eye or a tone or bumps into him in a way.
00:08:50.000Or an AK. The point is, it's always going to be someone more powerful against someone weaker in these situations.
00:08:58.000And there's no martial art that has proven that ability to overcome that.
00:09:02.000That's not happening with eye gouges and growing strikes.
00:09:05.000That's happening with Being comfortable in worst case scenarios, right?
00:09:09.000And at the end of the day, if you're fighting someone who outweighs you by 50 or 100 pounds, and they decide that they want to tackle you, they're going to tackle you.
00:09:15.000And my grandfather's philosophy was, man, if you're going to tackle me, great, but the fight's not over until you make me say uncle.
00:09:22.000And if you can't do that, I'll take care of the situation, I'll submit you from underneath you, and I'll make it happen.
00:09:30.000No other martial art provides the same degree of readiness for the Right.
00:09:38.000And I would definitely say gracey jiu-jitsu for, like you said, the unathletic person.
00:09:41.000And if you have people who are in better shape, you can include similar combat sports where you're actually, you know, basically having full-on resistance on a daily basis.
00:09:50.000What I find so funny, I was telling my dad about this.
00:09:52.000You know, my dad's stud, purple belt, never lost a point in the match at 55 years old.
00:09:57.000We're talking about this, and, you know, the thing, the big thing, the reality, I'm using this term, you know, loosely, the reality of Self-defense arts teaches, well, it's too limiting, right?
00:10:09.000Here's the beauty of something like jiu-jitsu or grappling.
00:10:12.000You want to talk limiting, you could have used this same movement pattern technique in a tussle with your brother And just slapped your little brother and gotten him in line, or with a guy outside of a bar, like you said, who spit on you, or you can use more force and choke a terrorist unconscious and tie him up.
00:10:30.000He's like waking up like Boris and Natasha tied to the railroad tracks.
00:10:35.000You get to control the level of the situation as opposed to, you know, these guys, you see all of our conservative shows and radio, like, yeah, I go to the eyes, I go for the throat, because I'm not limited by sport.
00:10:45.000Well, actually, you're so limited because you can only make it work if you can get to the eyes and, like, end someone's life.
00:10:51.000Well, not to mention, I know, you know where my eyes are, and I know where your eyes are.
00:11:04.000So now that we've neutralized at that level, let's go to a level of, okay, what else can you offer to the situation?
00:11:09.000And positional dominance, controlling the distance, managing the dangerous strikes, Are skills that really Jiu Jitsu provides in an amazing way.
00:11:16.000And people will say, oh, well, Jiu Jitsu doesn't work against multiple attackers.
00:12:11.000because one guy's gonna grab you, okay?
00:12:14.000Unless it's a perfect knockout, which we've seen on some YouTube videos, by 10, 15 year veterans of the striking arts, which is amazing if they have the physical capabilities.
00:12:22.000But I'm talking about an art that is actually learnable by someone who's not a gifted freak of nature.
00:12:30.000Before we continue, for those listening who don't think this ties into culture or politics, it is important if you are a human being to be a truly sovereign human being to be able to protect your life and liberty.
00:12:50.000Sorry, Hannah, continue, but it's important to everybody.
00:12:53.000So you're unarmed and you're truly independently walking down the street and two crazy, unindependent individuals, actually interdependent individuals who rely on each other to victimize independent people like yourself, come up and they want to attack you and there they go.
00:13:25.000So a jujitsu, if for nothing else, is the skill to get out of a ground fight.
00:13:29.000And who better to teach someone to get out of a pool than a swimmer?
00:13:33.000Who better to teach someone to get out of a ground fight than a jujitsu master?
00:13:36.000So we're teaching people how to understand a ground fight.
00:13:38.000You can't get out of a pool if you don't know how to swim.
00:13:40.000So learn jujitsu so that you aren't victimized.
00:13:43.000what's crazy is that talk about police talk about police you know brutality talk about you know the whole recent hype on you know use of force in law enforcement sure when i go teach a law enforcement group i stand in front of 50 60 cops so i'm going to certify as instructors and gracie survival tactics for law enforcement i say guys rule number one the bad guy always has the ambush advantage you never know when they're going to attack ufc they know when the fight's going to start you guys don't have that privilege number two never grapple in a street fight by choice you
00:14:11.000You guys have tools and tasers and weapons and other tools, intermediate force options, that once you're in a ground grapple are available to you and the suspect.
00:14:19.000So do not allow yourself to be in a ground fight grappling with the person.
00:14:39.000So, rule number two, when training law enforcement, never grapple with the suspect or the enemy by choice.
00:14:45.000The idea that you have weapons, tools, tasers, batons, chemical sprays, you know, all of these are opportunities to basically use intermediate force if you can create distance.
00:14:55.000But if you're in a grappler, They're available to both parties.
00:14:58.000And a lot of law enforcement professionals will say, well, I don't want to learn jujitsu because I don't want to be grappling with the bad guy.
00:15:06.000We teach you jujitsu so that you understand the ground fight.
00:15:09.000So on a moment's notice, you can disengage whenever you want, access your other intermediate force options, and then, of course, neutralize the threat in the most appropriate way possible.
00:15:18.000And then rule number three, when it comes to a fight for your life, There is no tap out.
00:15:23.000The threat has to be neutralized and the suspect has to be in handcuffs or else we don't practice it.
00:15:28.000So these kind of founding pillars of our program, you know, are really important because a lot of cops say, oh, Jiu Jitsu is growing in MMA, but it's not for law enforcement because why would we want to be rolling around on the floor with a bad guy?
00:15:38.000Well, what about when you grab the bad guy, you arrest him and you're grappling by your choice.
00:15:44.000Turn south where you end up underneath him.
00:15:46.000How are you going to get back to your feet if you never learn how to swim?
00:15:48.000Well, not only that, but if you're talking about the Black Lives Matter movement or people who talk about police brutality, if I'm being arrested, I mean, these people should be lobbying for jiu-jitsu to be taught in the force.
00:15:57.000Because, again, I would much rather have a cop who is in control, who can lock me up, put the cuffs on, and not have to hit me, not have to whack me with a baton.
00:16:06.000That's the key, and that's what I want to talk about here for people listening, the terrorist issue.
00:16:11.000I mean, you guys deal, unlike a lot of sort of these, let's just call us BS martial arts that go out, we're reality, man, we're hardcore.
00:16:19.000You guys actually deal with the psychology of it, and that's why you see these results so often.
00:16:23.000Terrorists, public attacks, whether it's in a pizza parlor or in a public pool, it's about knowing how a situation arises, situational awareness, and controlling it.
00:16:33.000It comes down to controlling the situation.
00:16:36.000And if nothing else, if people who don't want to learn how to fight, you know, they'll hear this and go, I don't want to learn about how to fight.
00:16:41.000But they want to learn how to have situational awareness and control the situation.
00:16:46.000What do you teach those people when they come in?
00:16:49.000An absolute newbie who then goes from...
00:16:55.000So the first kind of principle of jujitsu is that you want to be comfortable with closeness.
00:17:02.000So when someone comes in, we know that as a culture, Americans especially, hi, nice to meet you.
00:17:08.000It's, you know, compared to even Brazilian or other cultures, which are much more intimate hugging and kissing in European cultures, it's still a very much of a...
00:17:15.000There's always a safe gap between you and the person you just met.
00:17:18.000And that's pretty interesting so that when we get them to the academy, our first thing is, man, get comfortable being closer as you train jiu-jitsu.
00:17:28.000We teach them how to be comfortable with that closeness.
00:17:30.000Once they're like not all tense when they're close to someone, then we start to layer in the actual kind of skill sets and techniques.
00:17:36.000The first most important of which is learn how to manage the distance and manage the damage.
00:17:40.000And this is true whether you're on a train with a man bearing an AK-47 or you're in a fight against someone who wants to rip your head off with violent punches.
00:17:48.000In both cases, you want to either be all the way out of the train or all the way up on the guy who has the AK.
00:17:55.000You don't want to be ducking down by your chair waiting for him to walk by and execute you point blank.
00:18:01.000So this natural tendency for people to just say, oh no, versus what Spencer Stone had, as we saw clearly in his...
00:18:08.000In his report of the incident, he just got up and charged in.
00:18:11.000That was a very jujitsu principle to say, I'm going to go, I'm going to engage, get as close as possible, as fast as possible.
00:18:18.000He knew that by being that close, the AK has very limited effectiveness.
00:18:22.000In fact, the only damage that was caused to Spencer wasn't even done by the AK or the pistol.
00:18:27.000So the point being, he knew that that weapon was not dangerous if he was so close to the person.
00:18:33.000This ability to be comfortable with closeness, manage distance, manage damage, it all boils down to teaching them the techniques.
00:18:39.000Once they build the confidence in the academy, then it goes back to the ability to avoid fights, be more aware of your surroundings, and ultimately prevent fights from happening because people who fight are people who have something to prove.
00:18:52.000But if you are able to prove your capabilities every day in the gym, You don't have to go out and puff up and feel the need to, you know, aggress people outside a bar or wherever.
00:20:13.000It's still a physical altercation, and someone's getting stabbed.
00:20:18.000So you see a lot of these, and we just had another stabbing out there in Detroit.
00:20:21.000Well, it's not really news because it's Detroit.
00:20:23.000Anyways, that was just for the listeners to hopefully educate some people out there walking around with pocket knives who, God forbid you have a Swiss Army knife, that'll just fold on your fingers like a paper cutter.
00:21:02.000Yeah, no, it's been spectacular to be part of it, and it just kind of comes full circle, right, to have been involved and to see the creation of the UFC over 20 years ago by my father and, you know, his partners way back when, and to kind of see how that was a shock to the culture then.
00:21:17.000It was like, you know, the AED, you know, to the heart of martial arts in America.
00:21:22.000Literally, it just, boom, it just jump-started something and started an entirely different movement.
00:21:27.000And it feels very similar to what Ronda is doing right now for women's athletics, more specifically women's MMA.
00:21:34.000She's giving it a jump-start that only a star like herself could do.
00:21:39.000And it really took Ronda to begin that movement.
00:21:41.000And she's not just another MMA fighter.
00:21:43.000She's truly an exceptional athlete and human being.
00:22:47.000It's in her DNA. This is just who she is.
00:22:49.000She didn't change anything about her to cause the movement that she's causing.
00:22:54.000She simply was brought up with incredible values and work ethic and capabilities, and she has the most incredible skill set and physical set of attributes that I've ever seen in an athlete.
00:23:05.000Basically, she was just put in the octagon to do, and of course, the The precursors to that was her other titles that she won in previous events and whatnot.
00:23:34.000No one will ever redo what Hoist did for men's MMA. Right.
00:23:38.000No one will ever redo what Ronda has done for one of his MMA, and it's cool to have been alive to witness both of these incredible movements.
00:23:45.000Well, a question, because I actually was thinking of that comparison.
00:23:47.000I mean, first of all, I don't think I'm offending Hoyce by saying, you know, Hoyce is nowhere near the elite level, like, athlete that Ronda is, because that was the whole point, right?
00:24:25.000It's very comparable in the sense that...
00:24:27.000What Hoist was to the athletic competitors or the other martial artists that he was up against, Ronda is to her competition.
00:24:35.000It feels like that big of a gap in the sense that these women can't even compare to her.
00:24:40.000And of course, that gap is created by several factors, the most significant of which is the fact that, you know, she's been, you know, 100 percent committed to martial arts, you know, via judo since as early as she can remember.
00:24:54.000While most of the women who are fighting MMA today began training MMA, you know, not too long ago, five, six years ago, even eight years ago, 10 years ago.
00:25:02.000You know, so Ronda is just it's just in her DNA.
00:25:05.000And, you know, her mom was a world champion.
00:25:09.000And she was kind of brought up around that.
00:25:11.000My coach actually used to host them when they were in Michigan, or maybe he lived in Minnesota back then, I don't know, but he actually used to, like, they used to sleep at his house, and he talked about how just, like, nutty her mom was as far as just being so, just always on her about training.
00:25:26.000Like, he said she was just like, she was really, you know, she made her train like no one else was making their kids train.
00:27:30.000So if not for the challenge of whether she's going to win or lose, people will buy, I think, and people are always going to be excited because...
00:28:14.000Is there any awkwardness for you guys?
00:28:16.000Like, do they come in at separate times?
00:28:17.000You have to keep them in different wings?
00:28:19.000No, there's no awkwardness, and they're both professionals, and they're both grown individuals, and they're both great friends of ours, and life goes on.
00:29:14.000If you watch her grappling tournaments, if you watch her, you know, she pulled Mount under Gina Carano twice, usually seems to really overpower opponents.
00:31:00.000Her nutritionist says that she's working in that direction and I think that it's never been so close.
00:31:04.000I think that it gets to a certain point where Cyborg realizes that all of the trash talking and all of the poking and prodding doesn't really do much.
00:31:12.000It's not going to get her anywhere and it's certainly not going to get her anywhere near...
00:31:17.000Where she would get if she committed to making the weight, lost the weight, and actually did the fight.
00:31:22.000That would be the biggest fight of her career.
00:31:24.000Probably the biggest fight of Rhonda's career up until this point, no doubt.
00:31:28.000My first advice as her nutritionist would be stop injecting the bull testosterone.
00:32:55.000I didn't mean to slight you by implying that you were a vegan.
00:32:58.000But as someone who's done a lot of strength training as well, I mean, you know, we've had Mark Ripto on here who's like you for strength training.
00:33:04.000And he'll be like, ah, jiu-jitsu, don't do that.
00:33:06.000And then you guys will be like, the other camp, like, don't do strength training.
00:33:15.000Sorry, once you do it, and it's the same reason the Fallon Fox thing, for example.
00:33:19.000A lot of people don't understand this.
00:33:21.000For those I'm sure you know, you've probably had Fallon Fox on your radar because there's a chance that if she gets into the UFC, you know, would fight Ronda Rousey.
00:33:27.000The hormonal advantage of a man over a woman is so monumental.
00:33:32.000And then when you alter that as a woman with steroids, I mean, you're talking at like 10 to 1 difference of testosterone.
00:33:37.000it's such a huge, it's a much bigger factor in women's MMA than men's MMA.
00:33:42.000It's also much more dangerous for women.
00:33:46.000So for Cyborg to do that, it's not even the same as, you know, like Anderson Silva getting popped, you know, fighting someone like Chael who also got popped.
00:33:53.000Don't worry, he's a friend, he's been on the show.
00:34:39.000And, yeah, I've been helping a lot of people raise their kids by teaching them jiu-jitsu and giving them confidence and bully-proofing other people's kids.
00:34:46.000And we'll see if all the training paid off and I can do it on my own and do a good job, you know?
00:34:53.000You know, my favorite part about it is I get to be a white belt again and start as something completely fresh that I have known nothing about.
00:34:59.000And be able to learn a new thing, right?
00:35:01.000You get good at what you're good at, right?
00:35:04.000And you kind of stick to the things that you're good at.
00:35:05.000And it's not often that we get to start something completely new.
00:35:08.000And I get to feel like one of my beginner jujitsu students who's completely upside down in techniques.
00:35:12.000For the first time, I'm going to come home with a baby and not know how to put the diaper on.
00:36:29.000Everything works for what it was designed for, right?
00:36:31.000One of my best buddies is, Lyoto Machida is one of my best friends.
00:36:34.000And when it comes to knocking someone out, there's one of the top guys in the whole world because of his whole life of karate.
00:36:40.000When I say Jiu Jitsu is the best martial art, or when I say it actually works, what I mean is that for a very specific circumstance, which is what?
00:36:47.000A smaller person against a larger opponent, And a larger opponent who basically is going to tackle you and punch your face into the pavement.
00:38:10.000You know, they're not going to know who's on the $20 bill unless I teach them.
00:38:14.000They're never going to know about America and their roots.
00:38:16.000And so he always taught us that, you know, national anthem.
00:38:19.000He wanted us to be proud to be American.
00:38:21.000Also because there's a rampant anti-American sentiment when you're in French Canada.
00:38:25.000And so I would go in and I would have teachers and kids tell me how America sucked and all Americans were stupid and fat and had too many guns, right?
00:39:24.000And I wish that I knew then what I learned later as an adult when I cut through the BS. And my first instructor was a guy named Fabricio Medici.
00:39:43.000It's not so much that I'm mad at other martial arts, but when they lie to kids and they equip them to go get their butts kicked, that's what happened to me, you know?
00:39:50.000They would tell me, like, you tell that bully that he's only...
00:40:17.000We just finished maybe three weeks ago.
00:40:19.000We had our summer annual bully-proof camp and 120 kids from all across the country, 80% were out of state.
00:40:24.000And they come in for one week and the parents are there and like, you know, whether they've seen a YouTube video that we've done some work or whatever, it's, you know, for us, man, jujitsu actually works.
00:40:54.000Number two is that if the bully attacks and the jiu-jitsu practitioner is able to overcome the bully with their techniques that we teach them, they're never going to hit the bully.
00:41:03.000They're going to control themselves, so it's restraint.
00:41:04.000And we teach the kids that you don't have to punch the bully in the face.
00:41:08.000You just immobilize them, neutralize them, and wait until help arrives.
00:41:36.000Asking a kid to assert themselves to a bully, physically or verbally, whatever the parent is inclined to recommend to their child, asking a kid to assert themselves to a bully without teaching them the physical techniques to back it up is like asking someone to go...
00:41:59.000You can't tell a kid to go punch a kid in the face and not expect him to know anything in response to what if the kid retaliates.
00:42:04.000So learning Jiu Jitsu is essentially the foundation that gives any child the ability to walk tall, have good eye contact, assert themselves, and ultimately prevent violence before it takes place because, you know, we would say learning how to fight so you never have to.
00:42:19.000It's the core of Jiu Jitsu even for adults.
00:42:21.000The more you learn how to fight, the more jujitsu you learn, the less likely you are to ever have to use it because you become so composed, so calm, and so assertive in how you deal with people that you're not very much on edge.
00:42:49.000It's funny that you say – and jujitsu created that awareness too when I was at that union incident in Michigan.
00:42:54.000The footage people didn't see was several guys following me to my car making threats.
00:42:59.000Now, I looked and this guy was – I mean you've met – I'm a pretty big guy.
00:43:03.000This guy is maybe about 5'6", maybe about 130 pounds.
00:43:07.000And he's following me and he's threatening me and saying he's going to kick my ass to my car.
00:43:10.000Now, if I hadn't done jujitsu, right, and my ego wasn't in check, I'd go, this little guy, I mean, listen, I could just throw him, choke him, easy.
00:43:17.000But I'm going, why is this guy, 130 pounds, stepping up to me, 225, threatening to kick my ass?
00:44:10.000When you get there, you can have the biggest ego in the world, but literally in one class, I'll have compressed it down to the size of like a walnut and we'll just put it in a corner because you're going to feel right away that all that ego means nothing if you don't know jujitsu.
00:44:25.000Like straight up, you're just completely helpless in a fight without these techniques.
00:44:29.000So you can come in as tough and aggressive as you want.
00:44:31.000We're able to compress that and just say, hey, calm down, bro.
00:44:34.000And then right away, one of two things happens.
00:44:35.000Either A, they flip out and they're upset that their ego and that their pride has been challenged and they can't accept that their perceived sense of themselves, the story that they've been telling themselves for the last 25 years of their lives, is completely falsified and untrue.
00:44:51.000So they kind of freak out and they never show up again.
00:44:53.000The other people, more commonly, 95%, even if they came in with an attitude, after one or two classes, suddenly they're the most humble, most respectful, most in love with jiu-jitsu, transformative, It's environment that we have going into the Gracie Academy and most jujitsu schools around the world.
00:45:10.000Bottom line is that ego cannot survive and cannot flourish in an environment where it's constantly being checked throughout those white and blue belt years where you basically don't know anything and you're basically being toyed with by more advanced students.
00:45:23.000There's no space for the unhealthy ego there.
00:45:26.000It just doesn't flourish, especially at the Gracie Academy where there's an It's an environment of servitude, respect, and discipline to really make sure that those unhealthy egos are not able, there's no foundation for them to even grow.
00:45:55.000Full disclosure, I had an instructor who was sandbagging a little bit, because he knew I could compete, and he never gave me my blue belt at this point.
00:46:02.000At this point, I'm a starched white belt, and I had to win a tournament to get a blue belt.
00:46:06.000So I'm a white belt, and this guy's a three-stripe purple, but I've been a white belt for several years, and I was doing it six times a week.
00:46:11.000And I tapped this purple belt guy, a guy named James Moore.
00:46:32.000And then afterward he called and said, listen, man, you know, the truth is I'm, you know, you're a white belt and I'm a several striped purple.
00:46:38.000And I honestly, like I was just, it was ego and I've been having a bad week.
00:46:42.000And I said, you know, also as a Christian, I said, you know, it's my job to humble myself and ask for forgiveness.
00:46:46.000And I said, my temper got the better of me.
00:47:38.000It's so strong that you start to see someone wearing a jiu-jitsu t-shirt and just by seeing someone wearing a t-shirt, you feel like you already know them.
00:47:46.000You're like, hey, what's up, my friend?
00:49:09.000Like, you can get away with that, like, in a small town in Texas, but not here in Torrance, like, where this thing is kind of the center of movement.
00:49:31.000Well, we're losing your connection there, and you want to go back because your missus is going to have a baby soon, and you have way more important things than this.