Joe Rogan Watches His Tae Kwon Do KO From 1987

Hello freak bitches. You know, I didn't know you used to fight until after the last time I did the podcast. I just thought you got it worked out a lot and just really liked mixed martial arts in combat. Well I never fought mixed martial arts because it wasn't around. But kickboxing. Yeah, I did that. Yeah. Because I remember just seeing somebody say, yo, you talking about Rogan like that? He'll kick you in your shit. And I was like, what? And then I looked up Rogan kickboxing. I'm like, what the fuck? This whole time. He was shooting, kicking the shit out of a bag. Yeah. Yeah. How'd that feel, man? To hit somebody? It feels weird. The bag. Oh, bag's easy. Yeah. Bags don't hit back. When was the last time you hit somebody? In anger? Or in competition? It's been a long fucking time. In anger? Neither one. Neither one? That's even longer. In anger, it's probably high school. But in competition, it's almost 22 or something like that. That was a Taekwondo tournament. That was 19 then. Oh. And that was you? Yeah, that was me. That was me with the walk off. If you kick somebody to the body like that, a spinning back kick to the body, so much force. He got all the bulletproof though. Doesn't matter. That thing, that's just moral protection. Oh, man. That's not helping you. So what was your, at that moment, when you saw him laying down? He's dead. I knew he was gone. I'm not dead. You know, what you thinking? Damn. He's not getting up. Was it one? Yeah. You have to walk away and like make it look like it's no big deal. That was how my thought process was. Don't get excited. Make it look like this is what I'm going to do to everybody. Just relax, just walk off and have everybody so nervous that you don't even care. Like this is just a normal thing for you. You kick people, they go unconscious. They fall down. They can't get up. That you got to have the people because you're in a tournament. So you're going to be fighting a bunch of people. And they're watching. Yeah, you might have to fight three or four times in a day. Who was there rooting for you? My teammates, guys that I train with. Yeah. It doesn't even seem like even when I watch that, it doesn't really feel like me. So long ago. Just the hair. Well, not only that, I mean, I also have a head protector on the back of my head. They would wear these head protectors. Either you can wear a full one that covers your whole head, like over your ears, or you wear one that's just the back of your head, which is really just there. So when you get knocked out, your head doesn't fucking bounce off the ground. Yeah. Because we were fighting on a basketball court. If you look at that, that's just the wood floor. Shit. Yeah. There's a lot of that. We fought on a hockey rink once where they put a plastic sheet down on a hockey rink. So it was not the ice, but the cement underneath the hockey rink. So we were basically fighting on cement. So the eighties were terrible as well. Fucking awful. Bad for brain damage. That's for sure. A lot of people got fucked up, knocked out and bounced their head off the ground. Jesus. I saw a lot of that. Yeah, not good. And for no money. That's the thing. There's no future, no future and no money. For the love of the game. Well, I guess it prepares you for life. And also you wanted to find out, I wanted to find out how I would do, you know, I wanted to find out what it would be like to compete under high stress situations, like worrying about someone kicking you in the face. Yeah. I'm, I'm glad that most people can't kick somebody in the face. So I'm glad that's whenever I go to UFC fight or MMA, I just, whenever somebody gets kicked in the face, man, if I got kicked in the face, I'd be so disappointed. It's not good. It's not, it looks, it looks crazy. Yeah. It's terrible for you. The thing is more people can kick people in the face now than I think at any other time in human history. I think there's a lot of fucking people that can kick people in the face now because of watching MMA and the internet and taking classes and training. I think more people are training now than, than ever before. For sure. There's way more people that can strangle people than ever. Oh yeah. A hundred percent. Because the choke is easier to learn. No, it's just more people are doing jujitsu than any other time in history. Like before, like in my early martial arts days, there was no one that was doing grappling really. Like I wrestled in high school and then there was no like jujitsu classes. There was like, you could take judo, like there was judo, but there was very few like actual like submission grappling schools or anything like that. Even nationwide, there was a small handful. Nobody knew what the fuck they were doing. Now everywhere you looked at a jujitsu school, like I was down in San Diego, just San Diego alone, which is not a big city. They must have a hundred jujitsu schools just in San Diego. It's crazy.