Chuck Norris Bought Jean Jaques Machado His Jiu-jitsu School | Joe Rogan

Back at that time, two of my brothers were teaching at the Gracie School in Carson with Higan and Carlos. And I think by that time, Chuck Norris was no longer training with Horion at the Gracie School there. Not sure what happened and he stopped training. One day, some of the Chuck Norris showed up at our house, at our garage. We used to teach in our garage in Redondo Beach and we opened the door suddenly and look, it's like, man, that guy looks like Chuck Norris. Then the student was with him, this is Chuck Norris, and we looked like, what? And he brought him to train. He did train a few years back at the Gracie School and blah, blah, blah. And it's a long store shot. Then he started training for us. And when he started training for us, we become very good friends. It was amazing. Like something right away, he invited us to his house. He's a great guy. Man, an amazing person started hanging out. And by that time, I remember he used to make a movie, one movie a year. He worked for six months to make a movie and he had six months off. When we met him, he was six months off. Literally, he trains every day. But when he trained, he doesn't go home. We have lunch. Then he hangs out, go to a movie, then suddenly become good friends. Then one day, he, after a few months after training for us, he invited us to the valley where he used to live in and see you and say, look, I have a surprise for you guys. Then he took us to a shopping center right off into the boulevard. And he shows, I have a gift for you guys. And he shows one of the unitists, Matt's, right, he's like a school. And he said, look, this is for you guys at your school. Wow. Then we look at him like, well, Ventura Boulevard, right on the street, they said, check. We don't think we can afford that. He said, no, don't worry. That's my building. You guys don't have to pay anything. I just want to make sure I don't have to drive there. One on one and four or five. You guys drive. That's a hell of a drive that Redondo drives. And he gave this school to us. Wow. Then he's like, what can I tell more about this guy? I don't know. And that's why we have this school in the valley because he used to live in Encino. The school was in Encino. Then we start coming here. Then here we are. Joe Hogan. Tarzana. Come back to our school. Yeah, that's amazing. Wow. What a great guy. But the point on that conversation was that our school, when we opened our school, used to call Carlos Gracie Giugitsu because of our uncle. Because when we came in, we have the Gracie school. And I remember the family's big. And everybody has your side of story. Everybody's saying something about your uncle, your cousin. And we want to make sure that this side of the family that we were representing away was Carlos' side. Then a lot of people when we did the grand opening, Chuck Norris were with us doing the self-defense and demonstration in the grand opening of the school. And that was on Sunday. On Monday, we're not even ready for the amount of people that show up at our school. And we have a small place with the amount of people. But a lot of people start calling the other school asking where our school were. Because we're not even on the book. Yellow base. Yeah, we are not even on that. And people calling the other schools, hey, do you know where the other school is? And they're creating a little situation back then. We got some calls from other cousins. And they say, hey, you guys cannot use the name. For the first time, using the name of our family, we realized, what? Why not? Because you don't have the last name. You can use it. Then for us, we grew up fighting for the family, doing everything for the family. We still do. Nothing changed. But then their suggestion was, yeah, you can call my child. Why call the Gracie name my family? Was this because of Horian? Yes. Horian was a lawyer. And so he was the one who kind of copyrighted it and wanted to make... He was trying to sue Carlson at one point, right? But you know the crazy thing with this? We have one of the students. And as we learned at UJU2, the most important thing for me as an instructor was everybody can learn how to fight. How can you translate what you learn on the mat to implement in your personal life? That's how we learned at UJ2. The impact that UJ2 has on you to succeed outside the academy. I know you can fight, but can you fight on your life outside? Then it's a different... It's a lot bigger and a lot harder. And we have a lot of students that came to us when we have our garage time that changed their life. And coincidentally, one of the students happens to be son of the biggest lawyer in California. And we have no idea. Because we end up getting sued by one side of the family. Then we have no money. We turn to the students and say, guys, I'm sorry. We're going to have to leave. So you thought you were going to close down the school? Oh, yeah. Then we have this guy, which his father was very grateful to us, show up, say, look, I'm this hotshot lawyer. I can represent you guys like what I'm going to pay. No, you guys already... I owe you because my son was saved by you guys. And who's your son? His son was training for us for quite some time, became very good in Jujitsu to change his life around. He was a drug addict. Now he's one of the best yoga instructors out there. A Jujitsu addict. There we go. And changed his life. And that lawyer protect us, made sure that we stay here fine, protect. And that was on the past today for all our families. We have our difference back there.