Hannibal Buress Lived in Thailand for 1 Month to Train Muay Thai | Joe Rogan

Hello Hannibal. What's happening man? Good to see you my friend. Good to see you too. Last time I saw you was in Thailand. It was in Thailand. Dude that was crazy. That was two years ago? Two years 2018. Yeah. Yeah that was random. That was very random. That's so crazy though. We had dinner hung out in Thailand. I was like this is wild. Yeah. Yeah at the uh it was in Chiang Mai. Yeah. Yeah I was doing Muay Thai. Yeah that's crazy. So you just decided just up and decided I'm going to go there by myself. Yeah. For several months. Just a month. Oh you went for a month. Yeah. And train Muay Thai. Yeah I needed to uh I needed a reset after doing tag. I wanted to kind of just reset my brain after doing so much press. Because it was a lot of press and a lot of just you know repetition. So I like I need to go do something extreme to get into a totally different zone. What was that had you ever trained Muay Thai before then? No I maybe took some classes. The first day so I went in in Bangkok first. I went to like a small class. I just went to one and my camp was in Phuket. And so the is all the all the gyms are outside. So to warm up I was drenched in sweat and like 10 minute warm up. Oh this is this is good. But it was it was dope man. It was just it was it was nice to I stayed on the camp for a little bit. So it was it was nice to just have that focus and live there and be there and just work out and lean into it. It was cool. How into it did you get? Did you ever were you ever like hitting the pads going I think I should take a fight. No I didn't take a fight. But it was it was sometimes where my my kicks I'm bow legged. So my kicks are weird. So like doing a roundhouse I wouldn't be able to. So my elbows were were decent in my knees. And so some of the trainers they called they started that was my nickname. It was elbow elbow. Come on elbow. But my kicks will be so weak. They will be so weak and just hit the pad and they'll just have a pitiful sound. It's not a thing that comes easily especially you know when you're in your 30s and you're just starting a train. Like Muay Thai is there's like the move your legs like that and that kind of dexterity takes a while. It's a slow gradual build up. Yes the hips have to be looser. It was just but I'm also a bow legged. So certain yoga things that I can't do or even sitting Indian style. But you seem normal when you're walking around. How are you both because I know some dudes that are really bow legged. My walk is a little bit it has a little bit to it. And when I run it gets really crazy. I don't look how I think I look in my head while I'm walking. I think the music in my head is doing to do but my walk is kind of broke the door. My walk is way weird. I look at on camera who is that guy. What causes bow leggedness. Is it an anatomy thing. Is it just an anatomy thing. Yeah. Stand up. So yeah. So that my knees don't touch. So it's a yes even normal. I'm not seeing anything weird. That crazy but it's just it it affects my roundhouse game. You know I could help you with that. I guarantee you. I bet some stretches and some learning how to do it slowly. The thing about roundhouse kicks and any kicks in general is people try to do them like fast. You really want to learn them slow. You want to learn like you got to resist the urge to try to hit things. What you really want to do is just go through the motion. Just go through the motion just slow and do that for a long period of time like many many many weeks. Okay. Before these guys try to like and then you wind up kicking up and you put all the strain on your ligaments and your supporting leg because you're not pivoting. They fuck themselves. And then it's hard to unlearn that. See when you learn something if you learn it wrong like when I used to teach the worst students were students that learned something wrong. You would think like oh I already have five years of karate and this and that and I'm like oh great this should be good. It was never good. It was the opposite. You're better off taking a young kid with no experience at all. They can get way better way faster because they don't have any bad habits because as soon as you get nervous or as soon as you get tired you go right back to your bad habits. You go back to your so you have to relearn everything. It was seeing the kids I went to some of the fights out there and it's wild seeing the kids in the undercard where you're seeing seven year olds fighting. This is wrong but I got to see the main event too so I can't leave. It's our culture. It feels wrong but it's their culture and it's also how a lot of the families make money. They literally send their kid off to the camp. I was trying to figure out and so it's part of the culture. It's national sport but it doesn't seem you have people it's some fighters that are legends there. It's the equivalent to Mike Tyson or something and you could probably get a private with them for 400 bucks. What's going on with the model over there where it's been a national sport for a while but it seems like the money isn't there. Is it corruption or what happened? Well first of all it's very inexpensive to go to the fights. Everything's inexpensive in Thailand. Everybody's wearing flip flops. It's an interesting place. My friend John Wayne Parr went there when he was a boy. He was a young teenager and lived there. Lived as a monk. He's an Australian multiple time world Muay Thai champion and he spent a good deal of his time growing up there and really embraced the culture. It's the land of smiles. Everyone's friendly. One of the things I noticed there, people are genuinely very friendly. There's very little materialism there. People are generally happy with wearing a pair of shorts. It's never cold out so you could wear shorts and flip flops and that's how everybody's walking around. I don't think there's a lot of money in the business. I think there's enough- The king takes it. The king takes it. Remember we took a picture in front of the king. We did. We had a picture in front of it. I was like I don't know if we should post this. You and me smiling in front of a picture of the king. You might get in trouble for that. There's weird rules over there for the king. The king, I actually had a bit about him. I cut it not because I was scared but just because it didn't fit but it's about how he, you have to stand up during the national anthem and they play it at certain times during the day and they play it before the movies. So I went to the movies out there to see Ant-Man 2 and after the previews, the King of Thailand's hype video comes on and everybody has to stand up in the movie theater but it was the worst produced. It was a terrible video. I seen Instagram fitness models with better videos than the King of St- It's like you the king, get some king-like production value. You ain't got no top-notch editors. I don't think Thailand's known for it. It's like films. He needs to get on Fiverr or something. I don't work for Fiverr by the way. Maybe what's that new one, Lost All the Money, Quibi? What is it called? Quibi. What is it called? Is that it, Quibi? Yeah. Maybe get on that. I don't know. He needs something because you're the king and you're putting your stuff in a Marvel movie in the theater? Did you see that shit with his mistress? He had an official mistress but she fucked up and she got demoted and so she had to bow down in front of him, in front of everybody. She was talking shit. The mistress probably wanted to be the queen. Look at her there. She's begging for forgiveness. The king makes mistress lie at his feet and make hers- what does it say? As he makes her his- What does it say there? From the song. His official- That was when she was the official concubine. Attended by his wife in all capitals but then he demoted her. This is when she became the official concubine. By the way, I think that was the first time anybody had an official concubine, like 100 years. That's the- This is the flashiest version of- I don't love that ho! I don't love that ho! I love you! Look! I'll shame that bitch in front of everybody! Look! She had to lie down at his feet. Look! Fuck you! It's weird, it's like the king's the only baller. Look! You see us? You see? That's bonkers. He's the only baller. The only baller, like everyone else, is just kind of normal there. It's- Yeah, I'm not getting his wife here. She's the same thing. Oh, the wife had to do the same shit? Wow. And she's pouring tea on her head? What is that? I don't know. And other people laying down are they cleaning? Mmm. Very odd. Good for him. They seem to love him a little bit. She used to be the- She was a former- She was a soldier? Bodyguard. Former bodyguard. Okay. You take that weird hat off and come live with me. That's a microphone cover. Take that. That's this. That's this thing. Take that hat off. Stop chatting that stuff. Let's go have some tea. I did enjoy Thailand though. I enjoyed it a lot. It was a good time. Yeah. I went back last year. Did you do the same thing? Who's that guy? Just for a little bit. Not the- What's going on there? The crop top. What is this? The monarch even threatened to sue Facebook over the startling shots taken in 2016 by a passerby who recognized the king. Oh, that's the king? Yoga class. Wait a minute. Soul cycle. Well, she has to wear the crazy hat and he's got to wear a sports bra. He's a mutate. Oh. He's kicking it. Okay. Yeah, the laws over there. So people, I saw something about someone got put in jail for liking a post, making fun of the king's dog. Yeah, I saw that too. Just his- The next picture I saw. So that's just how he likes to rock it. He likes tank tops that show his belly button. That's cool. It's cultural. The king. Yeah. He's the king. If I was the king of Thailand, I'd dress like that too. What the fuck are you going to do, bitch? Yeah, you can get in a lot of trouble for making fun of him over there. Yeah. Well, guess we're not going back. Well, we probably shouldn't for a couple of years. Cambodia it is. Me and Mar, I want to go see, have you ever seen Letway? Do you know what that is? No. That's like, if you think Thai boxing is extreme, they take it another level. Letway, they use head butts and they kick you when you're down. They do all kinds of crazy shit. Yeah, nah. I don't want to kick Wild Down. It looks, it's too intense. It's intense. We had David Ladook who's the king of Letway. He came on the podcast. He's a wild man. He's a wild man. Yeah, I think about- Oh, they're bare knuckle too. Yeah. There it is. No, I just want some cardio. This is Letway. Look at this. This is how they fight. Okay. Bare knuckles. They just, it's basically like Muay Thai but way more hardcore. See that? You can knee a dude when he's on his way down. It's way more hardcore. It's like one more level of hardcore and head butts, a lot of head butts. Yeah. But they basically use all the techniques of Muay Thai but they just take it to a totally different level. The second time I went, when I went to Cole Samoy last year, and this girl I was seeing, we go to a couple classes and I didn't know she had done Muay Thai before. So we had a private and she was lighting the bag up with the kicks. Oh no. Bow, bow, bow. And then I get up there and my bow legged kicks. Oh no. Then the trainer's like, come on, you do better. Look at her. Oh no. She's lighting. Bow, bow. I'm like, let's not do kicks. Knees. Elbow, elbow.