Demi Lovato on Doing Jiu-Jitsu

Yeah, you're in a jujitsu. I remember that. I remember I ran into you at the UFC. It was a couple of years ago and you were like really in a jujitsu. Like you train hard. I was super, super into it until COVID hit. And then when COVID hit, I just, I got really, really nervous because I have asthma and autoimmune and chills. So I just, I got really nervous about training so close with anybody that I took a break from it, but I'm anxious to get back. I can't wait to train. It's a good humbler. That's a good thing to keep you balanced. It's the best thing I found for, I mean, outside of meditation for me, it's two totally different things, but it's kind of different, but not. But yeah, you're right. Yeah. Jujitsu people are some of the calmest people I've ever met in my life. They're all chill. Totally. Yeah. Especially when they get into like flow rolling. Like that is meditative. That is meditation. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. I love it. I think even like hard sparring is meditative because you're forced to think only of that thing. And when you think about that thing only, it acts as like a cleansing. Yes. It blows all that. And also it's so hard to do that regular stuff seems easy. Yeah. Like regular life seems easy. Yeah. Like when you're talking to a guy, you're like, I'm going to stop you trying to call a choke. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But it's also like really empowering when you're a caller choking. Yeah. When you're mounting on someone. Yeah. When you're mounting on someone and you're just, yeah, it's, it's, it's empowering for sure. When you, do you remember the first time you tapped somebody out? Actually don't. That's good. That means you probably tapped a bunch of people out. I, I, I've tapped out a few people in my time. Isn't that wild though? Yeah. I mean, pretty wild is like when you surpass yourself, like you think, I don't know. I just, I never thought that I'd get a blue belt. Like I just never thought that I'd be a belt in anything. I'm a singer like, and then hard work pays off and it's just really cool when, when you get to prove yourself wrong. Well, if you get to a blue belt, you're at purple belt and if you get to purple belt, you can get the black belt. Totally. Totally. That's all it is. I mean, so I was training at an unbreakable and yeah, and West Hollywood. That's a great gym. I love that gym so much. Famous people can go there too. It's like, yes, for whatever reason, Snoop goes there, Wiz Khalifa goes there, Stallone goes there. Yeah. So, um, the reason why it's so chill is they have like a no like cameras policy. It's kind of like the Soho house of, yeah. And a lot of athletes go in and train there too. But it's private and it's super chill. I used to train there and then I, yeah. Um, then I started training at my apartment building that I was living in and I got a house so I just will train there. So do you, um, have you gone to like other jujitsu schools? Like if you're on the road, have you ever done that? I have. Yeah. I've gone to random places throughout the country. Um, but I couldn't tell you the name and there weren't also a lot of people in there. Right. Um, limited to the amount of people, just a small amount of people that you can train with. Yeah. Um, or, or just my trainer, you know, it's hard for me. I, not a lot of people wanted to let me train with other people in like a, in a, like a outside of a private lesson. Did they worry about like, people hurt? Yeah. They were worried about people being like, and then you see the shit out of them. Right. Or, or just not being able to walk on stage. Right. Oh my God. Right. You know, so many heel hooks here and then. Yeah. Oh, sorry everybody. I lost my ACL training. I have worn boots on stage too. So I'm, I'm a very clumsy person and they just don't. You've worn boots like broken foot boots. Is that what you mean? Broken foot boots. Really? What happened to your foot? In 2012, I think, or 2013. And then I broke my foot in 2018 and I still had to tour the broken foot. Yeah. I just bedazzled it. You'd be dazzled your boot. And I did it myself, like in the dressing in my hotel room in Ireland, like the cheapest like old jewels and hot glue. That's hilarious. Yeah. Catch new episodes of the Joe Rogan experience for free only on Spotify. Watch back catalog JRE videos on Spotify, including clips easily, seamlessly switch between video and audio experience on Spotify. You can listen to the JRE in the background while using other apps and can download episodes to save on data costs all for free. Spotify is absolutely free. You don't have to have a premium account to watch new JRE episodes. You just need to search for the JRE on your Spotify app. Go to Spotify now to get this full episode of the Joe Rogan experience.