Joe Rogan | Why Rickson Gracie Was So Good w/Jean Jaques Machado

We have Daphne Huyler for his size, his weight Most accomplished Phenomenal All the graces and competition Phenomenal man Phenomenal What this guy did with his size against opponents if people look like that, no way And yes, it is a way Yeah And definitely as you go in half here, I have my brother Hiegan Which was an amazing fighter too And evidently for me my time Was Hixson It's like you have the era of Hixson Yeah A lot of unbelievable fighters But you're in the wrong decade Have Hixson there, you know Could be you but he was right there Right, you could have been number You were number two under Hixson You could have been number one under anybody else And the amazing thing you feel like a chameleon He can kind of make any game You train him, he can pretend to be you fighting me or anybody It's amazing that aspect Especially the teaching process What was so good about him? He used to go to our school, we have 30 of the best guys All higher belts And he tells you, okay, choose how you want to start And he choose, okay, he is not going to get out He gets out and he gets you in the position you ask him to start With everyone, I think the most The best thing that he has on his game that I'm on my view And should he understand that was his defense No way to get him He let your mom take his back, do whatever he wants You can't get him He used to start, like guys, take his back with a rear naked choke Fully locked in, black belts Go ahead, start from here And then he would defend, get out and get you there Yeah, crazy Then mess your mind up Like, hey, wait a minute How can he get out and he gets me here, can't get out, you know And I think the amazing thing was his confidence and belief on that It makes amazing Well, he was unusual in that he was really into physical fitness as well Like yoga, really into yoga, become incredibly flexible and strong And really into breathing He had an amazing control of his body As well as the knowledge of jiu-jitsu Man, he brought a lot of elements to jiu-jitsu That I don't think people realize how important it was I said, oh, I knew that No, you did not He brought it in the breathing aspect The gymnastica that makes you come closer to the nature, habitat Yeah, gymnastica natural is what we're talking about It's a style of Who invented that? What was the man who invented that? Orlando Coney And it was a Brazilian thing as well Brazilian guy, he's still alive in his 80s And you look at him like, how can he do or still do that? Really? And the whole idea is move your body Like the animals Right To bring back to us the animal instinct That we end up losing by the generations You see some of that now with Edo Portal And a lot of these guys are training martial artists in these movement Like movement classes and movement styles And a lot of that is very similar to gymnastica natural Amazing, but the biggest difference I think was the concept that he used Wasn't as just mechanical the way it is With something that sometimes on the exercise you change the direction of your movement It's not certain kata, you have to do 1, 2, 3, 4 Now he goes 1, 2, jump to the 14, go back to 6 You flow And Hixson brought that into jiu-jitsu And I remember training, he goes, hey, get there Keep moving, keep moving, don't stop moving Keep the flow of the technique, you're going to get it And he brought that movement into jiu-jitsu Which for me made a huge difference in the way I fight How did you fight before that? We learned the technique, we do the drills And it's more like you pause And wait for somebody to pause in this position When he came in I understand that he's You learn how to start guiding people to where you want them to go I'm training for you, I want you to go to my left There's no other way for you to go to my right I learned how to maul my body in a way The only direction you will have to go is on my left I know that, but you don't There you go, I want to step ahead Then when you go to my left, you're going to put your left hand on the ground instead of your right hand I know that too, then I'm two steps ahead of you When you're trying to defend something, you're ready two steps behind Because the defense is always shorter than the offense You stretch your arm, for me to get your arm I have to put my hands and swing my leg For you to just bring on back It's always short, it's quicker That's why when you have one or two steps ahead You don't have the time to defend You're blocking off the defense I'm already too far ahead for you to defend And that's what I learned with those movements That he brought into jiu-jitsu You start learning how to guide and maul yourself To make you go to that direction Who was a challenge to him in the early days? Because there was a lot of great guys, right? We have a lot of great guys And it's funny, sometimes I see them Go to the internet and see some of the fights And you notice that a lot of guys They can kind of hang out for until five minutes After five minutes, and great outlets, they're just done Because of that movement, he keeps going constantly Keep that rhythm People were not able to keep up with him And he's not lifting weights and a bodybuilder, no And we learned how important for humans To be in contact with nature Would you imagine yourself not going for hiking Some days in the morning? I mean, we need that We need that energy We need to walk without shoes We need to be near the mountains, the water That's something that makes us healthy and stronger And that's why you see, we used to go a lot up in the mountains And we were trying to get waterfalls and out of the city To try to get that, in a healthy animal, instinct that we had Yeah We're there, listen to the birds Listen to, in the middle, oh, maybe it's a coyote there People that are in the city, they go in the mountains They're going to get eaten by a mountain lion Not even hear the mountain lion But if you're walking there, quite often you understand that you'll develop And still have that, oh, I heard something there We're losing more of that As you jitsu, we're trying to bring people into that environment Which is something that makes you better off, regardless Be more aware of yourself Exactly