The Innovations of Eddie Bravo & 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu w/Raghunath Cappo | Joe Rogan

It's been a while. It's been Ten years no more than that really 2007 I moved out of LA Wow Damn, that's weird. I talked about you in the podcast several times though. You know what? I never listened to the podcast until recently Someone told me the second time you said I think three times you've mentioned me probably yoga ray All these kids are contacting me they mentioned yoga ray on the show Yeah, it was cool. I appreciate it. I appreciate you. I appreciate you too. Yeah, I always thought truthfully I always thought Joe Rogan's gonna do something good. I honestly I can tell you that and it may be embarrassing to say but I'm proud of you Oh, thank you. I hope you don't mind me saying that I don't have all you've done. Thank you. That's very nice That's a funny thing to say though, and you've had great just Joe Rogan time. You've done some great stuff First of all stand-up comedian. That's that's a great gig. It's fun. It's a great gig And if I could pick a second thing besides stand-up comedian, it'd be the announcer. I wouldn't want to be in the UFC Even if I was good because you get pounded on it's a tough job Right. Yeah, that's why you know went to Thailand see those kids fight. They're retired at 21. Yeah, they get beat up they could beat up bad, but to be an announcer of the UFC and You're also skilled at the stuff. Most people think the announcers aren't so skilled sometimes you're very skilled I just remember rolling around with you. Yeah, those were some of the greatest Memories of my time in LA is when Eddie opened 10th planet. Yeah, we had a lot of fun then I mean it was such a special interesting time of jiu-jitsu I think That it was going to no-gi. There's this demographic of jiu-jitsu guys who didn't want to wear a gi anymore Yeah well was a lot of people wanted to learn things that would transition directly into MMA and to not have the clothes to grab onto It changed the grips and Eddie was one of the very first to really truly Concentrate on using wrestling grips cable grips over unders things along those lines And then the other people were still really clinging to the gi He was like a and I think the thing that I was attracted to about the ultimate fighting when I first saw I think the first one I saw was two You know UFC two and I was like, oh man, this is and you watch those Gracie in action videos It's like yeah, this is real stuff. Yeah, and so I started even noticing in my gi game I just played open guard and I was lack sadaisical and I'd always have to tell the guys hey do me a favor Just try to slap me because this is getting a little unreal. I don't want to I want a real-life situation And I'm figuring okay. I don't want to get by the way I don't want to get caught up in the gi no gi thing right now But I always felt like you know real practical fighting. I'm the guy may not be wearing a tuxedo I think both are good because like you live in New York New York gets cold if you get into a scuffle with someone I hope you never would do but if you did and he was wearing a jacket like yours You could manipulate him with that jacket and they really probably wouldn't know what to do Yeah, you know, this is a real benefit to like being a judo player if someone has a winter coat on Yeah, like if you had a fight with caro Parisian or Ronda Rousey or something like that and they they're wearing a winter coat They'll fuck you up You know, they just grab that thing Yeah, okay, yes Well, I'm glad I learned that way. Yeah, it's good way to learn It's good It's good for defense too because the gi keeps you from just yanking out of stuff and exploding out of things You have to be very patient if to be if to use correct technique Anyway, it was appreciation and it was one of my biggest Lamentations of moving away was not to be around that whole posse and then I never Expected it to get as big as it did. I know it's unbelievable because back then it was like the seed I used to bring my my big kids who are big now I used to bring them and they used to just box we used to do it at legends known before legend Oh bomb squad at the bomb squad. Wow, that's crazy. That's old school old school. Yeah, that's 2000 what to Somewhere on there. Yeah, it was cool. It was a great time I had just got my purple was super excited and then Eddie just got his black He got his brownness black super quick Yeah, well that got his brown and then he beat Huyler and then he got his black. Yeah, I was there that day Yeah, that was crazy When John Jock took it off his back unbelievable That was heavy, yeah, it was a good place to be at a good time it was it's like when you look back at those times It's an it was an interesting era. It was an interesting era for us as humans It was an interesting era for martial arts there's a lot going on and that 10th planet was really a hub of Exciting innovation and still is but I mean back then it was this really unique thing this this completely Nogi branch of jujitsu that's directly connected to John jock Machado, which is a totally very conservative legit John was is I mean, oh I was so always impressed with him. He's still rolls man He's my age and he doesn't get injured like he might have like a little tweak here and there but he's so intelligent And he's so technical and he's just so good. That was I'm saying was only because I'm not there anymore But when I was going there, I was like, this is such an amazing place John jock Academy The quality of fighters you would get there. Yeah I mean that was also at a time where there was no jiu-jitsu in America. I mean it was you have to travel Yeah, you get to a jiu-jitsu school. Yeah, you have to be into it and go somewhere and To have that many black belts at a school. Mm-hmm. That was like unheard of in His class one day and there was like 11 black belts I was like, this is crazy and it wasn't like that back now There's a random rogue black belt somewhere and say, you know somewhere in Portland or something like that Yeah to find them. It was a lot of purple belts teaching schools and blue belts teaching schools in some places even that was a great time to get into jiu-jitsu. Oh, yeah, like I went I Started with hens Oh in New York. Yeah, I went there the day that Matt Sarah got his purple belt Wow That's crazy. It's not crazy. It was it was it was it was such a cool interesting time and you did so That place is still the top place in the world. It's pretty impressive and hence was such a great guy, too He's the best he's so nice. Sweet. I gave him a CD of my band Just as a gift. I just met him and he gave me a krugen gee Wow Yeah, that's legit was super legit. That's was the the gee back. That was the gee. Yeah, if you had a krugen You know, it was a fair trade. I wasn't a trade I just wanted to give him a gift and he just like without thinking just threw the back at me He had a great attitude. Well, he still does he's so loved that guy's so I mean That's one of the really nice things about jujitsu is the camaraderie and the friendship. It's like it's very different than I was Compared to other martial arts and that the problem with striking martial arts is that you hurt each other all the time You never developed a sort of closeness that you do with jujitsu because you're always trying to kick each other's fucking heads off