The Church of What's Happening Now: The New Testament - #174 - Joey Diaz, Alder Hampel and Lee Syatt

Episode Date: May 5, 2014

Joey Diaz and Lee Syatt do the first remote Church podcast. They welcome guest Alder Hampel to the show for the first time. Alder is the owner and coach at 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu Van Nuys.  This podcast is brought to you by: Onnit.com. Use Promo code CHURCH for a discount at checkout. Hulu Plus. Visit Huluplus.com/joey for an extended free trial. Dollar Shave Club. Use promo code CHURCH and get high quality razors sent to your door. Escapepodtank.com Mention Joey or the Church and get $250 off. Recorded on 05/04/2014.

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We're ready to go. I got that. I got that. So. What's happening, beautiful people? It's May 5th. Are you kidding me or what? Monday, May 5th, the church, or what's happening now?

We're outside. We're doing a live podcast at a coffee shop in Studio City, California. Name of the journey is Marie E.T.C. This used to be head callers, but now we switch. We've got an office. We're big time for the summer. No more writing jokes. outside in the fucking 90 degree.

I'm saying. I used to have to come here. I got six and one to write and leave it eight. Those days are gone between the podcast and the baby. But the church is in full motherfucking effect, people. What's going on, Lisa? Yeah, tell me something good. Nothing.

I love this new setup we got going on. It's not a new setup. It's just for today until the office will be ready on Wednesday. We'll be back Wednesday morning at 6 a.m. We're dropping this one on you. No Ustream, no full effects, no music, no phone call. It's just me, Lee, and a live guest He should be here any minute, but until that time

What's happening, baby boy? Now that I just got back from Boston, it was a... You told me something last time I went home That every time I go home, it's going to be shorter and shorter And this time I was there for like 48 hours And it was perfect, I'm glad I did it It was just the right amount of time It was awesome

You happy to see your mind? Oh yeah, it was... I think everyone should do that I think it doesn't cost that much I know plane tickets can get expensive but I booked mine four or five months ago and I got round trip to Boston for $2.75. That's not bad.

On Virgin, that's not bad at all. That's not bad on virgin all. And they wanted a lot more for the fucking upgrade though later on. Yeah, but. Don't bang any. And you were fine. You were living like a doctor at the middle seat open. Both flights.

You paid for your food. What did you eat on the flight? On the way there, I got a snack, like snacks things, like chips. All right. And stuff. Cheese, a couple crackers, some raisins. They ran out of the cheese. You didn't get the fuck.

What type of fucking? an organization is that. But on the way back, because Virgin in Boston has, like, nothing at the gate. On the way back, I got one of the, I got, like, a protein box, whatever. I came with, like, salami, cheese and crackers. It was good.

It was good. There was a hummus one, but I was like, ugh, I can't do that with Joey. No, no, you can't eat it on the flight either. Okay, she listened to the live podcast. We went down to the foods. You can not allow to eat no more as part of the church. And there's a new one.

Which one? Soy. No more soy milk. No more blue cheese. You gotta give this up. No more ranch. No more ranch. No more nothing.

It's over. We ain't fucking around them. If you hear the broad's laughing in the background, there are two chicks. I just saw a dick on YouTube as I'm looking like giggling. Wait until I show my fucking Cuban rocket. You're wearing shorts. You could do it.

Just don't have a hangout. Oh, please. I'm thinking about it. I'm going fucking commando, too. That one with the blue jacket. She's like 18. I show him right. Look who she's sitting with.

Fucking, look. Nerd, the nerd deluxe. Unbelievable. This place is a beauty. coffee shop. This is the only place. You only get coffee that play French music, but the bathroom always tells my shit. I've been talking about this for years. It irritates

the shit on me because I come here, I drink the green tea, and I got to pee a fucking bunch. And next thing you know, I go in the bathroom. It smells like 10 dead fucking shitbirds. Well, you know what? Man, who takes this shit at the fucking coffee shop? Who the fuck comes here with French music playing and takes a tremendous dump in the coffee shop?

That's my point, Lee. That's basically... So you go take a shit outside of your house? No, I don't try to. Why would I do something that disgusting? Well, sometimes you have to. Listen, I schedule my asshole close to La Casa. But it's funny, even when I go out of town, I'll take little shit to the needed. But that one big one, I take as soon as I get off the plane, as soon as I get home, as I'm unpacking, I can feel it brewing.

And right before I take a shot, it all comes out, bab boom. It's like black tar. Oh, God, after the week of like... After the week of everything. I'm not relaxed until I get home. It's really weird. It's very weird. you know who I found

who you remind me of and I just figured it out Who? Do you watch the Big Bang Theory? I know you don't But Sheldon You're like You're like

A tough version of Sheldon The super nerdy guy Why is that? He don't like nothing No he doesn't like anything He has his meal schedule To the day He has his schedules

Like in the morning 815 is like his time And my time is like 10 to 9 By 10 to 9 I'm blowing a leg out You know what I'm saying 10 to 9 It's amazing

I have like two cups of coffee I'll have like oatmeal or something And it'll take me a while And then I love it A little music You see what I'm saying We're on the fucking street corner people We ain't fucking around there

I don't think they can hear it or not There's imagination We got a good equipment over today Lifted the rock Thank God It's amazing How we talk about it I think it's Seattle

Just raised its minimum wage to 15 an hour One of those places And I think it's great not because it's great because people are going to get paid more but I hope that places like stores start actually caring who they hire and they start training them because I went to a guitar center in Sherman Oaks

and I spent an hour there and the girl didn't know anything at the register and I know people are new but I don't think she was new and then I want people don't train people no more we've had this discussion people don't train people you know years ago when you got to hide somewhere whether it's a coffee shop whether it was a fucking hardware store. They took you aside for two weeks a training program or there was a fucking paint customer service. Whatever you want to do and they talk to you about, you know,

how to treat people. Today, man, I walked into a G&C a week ago and nobody came up to me for like eight minutes. And the guy didn't really spend no time with me. So my friend told me that they have a pill that's like Advil, only it's natural. Okay. And I went over to the GNC and it was amazing how I couldn't get help. And it doesn't surprise me no more. Nothing surprises me no more. Customers, we've had this discussion, customer service in this country as an all-time low, and it's because of the corporate structure, I think, in a lot of ways.

We talked about it. It removes it. And it kills me. It fucking kills me at every level, man. Something must have happened today. Oh, today. DiAgostino called me, and he said there's a church that's having a fair. They got rides for kids and animals. He goes on more park. Yeah, more park. I go, I go, DiGistina

what time? I say, it goes, that shit started like 10 o'clock. It started 10 o'clock today. I went down there, fucking 10-30. doing mass. It's 100 degrees outside. This fucking ballsy priest is doing mass. They got 50 people under a tent because they're VIPs. They got the other 50 people, a bunch of Mexicans and Filipinos out there burning to death. They ain't fucking brown enough. They're out there fucking burning to death, right? Yeah. I take a walk finally because I'm not going to sit there. They wanted money in a basket. They wouldn't give our cookie. I'm not in the mood. I got the baby.

I'm just not in the fucking move for that nonsense. So I took a walk with my wife. We got coffee. We came back. The fucking fair didn't start until 12 o'clock. So church ended at 11. So they had people walking around until 12. That's how stupid these fucking Catholics were. Mercy lost it after I left 45 minutes. She snapped like a fucking twig as usual because there's no food.

There's no action. So we had to leave. She went home. She slept three hours and I went to Jiu-Jitsu. That was my date today. I went to the open mat today and leave my knee. Didn't bother me at all. What's irritating my knee is the fucking kettlebells.

Oh, that makes sense. That's what's irritated. It's something, every time I do a kettlebell is doing something. So I think the next couple of weeks, I'm just going to try to mug it up at Jiu-Jitsu somewhere every day. I had a really good time today, Lee. You know, Lee, I'm scared of going. Every time I go, I'm fucking scared, man. I'm not good at it.

I can't breathe. I'm out of shape. But every time I go, I last one more minute than the week before. You know, I can feel that I stopped smoking Rifa. Mm-hmm. I could really feel it in my lungs. So it feels good. Talking about something interesting, how fucking good was that live podcast?

How high were you? Well, first of all, I had one in the morning, so I was like, I had just gotten over it by the time we got to the live podcast, and I know with you that you're always going to give it to me. Always, as soon as you get there. That's good. We're in the little green room, give me half.

I was like, okay, I'm feeling okay. I ate before. You're prepared. What did you eat before? You were prepared. Chicken. I had chicken farming. Chicken, nice.

Something heavy. So then we get on stage, and halfway through you, give me the other half, and I'm fucking high. She can hear me giggling on the podcast. I listen to it today. And then this fucking girl who was very, like her and her boyfriend and I had like this little jokes throughout the entire podcast because we kept looking at each other. She had another Green Hornet and you brought her on stage and I had another half.

So I had one and a half. So I had about 450. When you got home, what did you feel like when you got home? You know what? I think I, and it's interesting, I want to ask you, is there a certain point where you just can't get any higher? Yeah, absolutely. I was pretty damn high. But I didn't, it wasn't like, it wasn't like a lot more than after a full.

Like, I've had a full goomy and I've been fucked up. And I had a one and a half. And I was fucked up. And I didn't feel like I thought I was going to be seeing things. And I think I reached my plateau. I think, well, here's the real scoop that the more you do it, the more you, now the goomies aren't the strong for you. So if you butt between you and I, honest the gun, honest the fucking gone. The best trips I've had on these things is when I eat the least.

The least sometimes is more. I swear to God, this time I'll eat a half a cookie. And at lunchtime, I'm like, I'm fucking gone. Yeah. I'm fucking gone. How am I so gone? I'll eat that same whole cookie the next day and won't be even a third is fucking hot. Maybe your body fights against it or something?

Your body does something. So it's just amazing. I had a great weekend. Let me tell you some. I've been working with Joe Rogan, man. Seriously? Seriously, since 1999.

The first time I worked in was 98. I started going out with him full time, probably 2001 again. I've done a lot of shows with that man, but the last three shows I've done with him

have been the top of the food chain. So you were in Baltimore? Baltimore, Orlando, and Santa Barbara. The last three shows I did with Joe Rogan were the top of the food chain in my life, honest to God. What made them so great? the continuity, the fans, the people that came to the show, I shouldn't call them fans,

the part of the network, the people who paid for tickets that came to the show, the energy they had, they knew what they were going to get and they knew who they were going to see and how they're going to prepare for it. I went crazy up front. You know, I have a phobia against theaters. In the back of my mind, Lee, in this life, you'll decide on what you want to do and what you don't want to do and we all do this. We all decide on what we don't want to do and we don't want to do.

I do. And then after all the procrastinating and all the bullshit, one day we go, you know what, what the fuck is wrong with me? I'm going to try it. I still try out. I still don't like Brussels sprouts. I still don't like ranch dressing. I'll never fucking try it again. And I'll never try fucking hummus ever. Ever, ever, cocksuckers. I had it today for lunch. I know you did. No, I could just imagine what your ass smells like you're filthy fuck. If you were a nasty bastard, you could probably put your mouth in your ass and blow together like a, and blow a DUI of mess up here, muffler. So,

so, what was I talking about? I used to go to be. And I hate these fucking theaters, man. I would go into them and I would rant and I would purposely lose them and then I couldn't recover and then I'd lose my head.

And because I've been going out so much and I've been working on the material and I've been pounding it out at my confidence level. So going out there up front I've just been taking them for a ride. and then Rogan pulls him in the car and takes him to fucking Jupiter.

So when you're doing a 15, 20 minute set as opposed to an hour, do you do small bits or do you like one big bit? Like, what do you do? I do one big bit in the back and I go for local shit up front. Okay. But for some reason, I was going up front

thinking like, I've really matured a lot as a comic the last year and I have because I had to, because of the people that are coming to the show the listeners of the church and the Joe Rogan podcast, Dave may be better. I know they make an effort to come to the shows.

And if I show up to the shows, listen, man, up to about three years ago, four years ago, when I did the show, it was a 50-50 situation for me. Yeah. I'm not going to lie to you and tell you, because I never knew what I was going to do. But I got sick of that.

I got sick of fucking people paying to see me and me going up there going, let me flip a coin and see which Joey's going to show up tonight. There's always one Joey that has to show up. And this is the same way in life. You always got to show up every day with both fucking guns out. You don't ever want to make...

You know, if you're not going to do it, just calling sick. Just say, I don't feel like fucking doing it. I didn't know this, man. And for years, I wouldn't go to gigs, and it was the fear. The reason why I would cancel and not show up

was because I'd say, I got no material, I'm not going tonight. Well, those days are done. Now you have to prepare. And that's why the shows of the theaters are so good. And I know, I'm going to call Joan like three days and go,

I've been thinking about him. I looked at my notebook. And I've got to tell you something, man, those shows we did were off the fucking charts and I gotta thank you for give me the opportunity you know because I did 3 and oh I did really well so I grew as a comic

and sometimes you have to know this on your own thing you have to make your you have to assess your own progress you can't wait for lead to come say hey I watch your set you're doing a lot better no you have to say wow I grew in a way today I was I went to Jiu-Jitsu I ran out of gas at the end but I did four five I wrestle with four guys today I went out of sparred with four different guys one black belt for a long time because he was teaching

teaching me stuff. But one guy said to me, now what are you right when you go home today? And I don't write nothing. He goes, get a thing and write, today I kept the pearl per belt in your guard. You know, he couldn't go nowhere because your positioning was perfect. And he was also saying, you pass my guard, you know,

write those things down because those are little accomplishments. And these little things that you don't see in your life, and sometimes you don't tap your own self in the back. And I'm guilty of this, man. But I beat myself up so much physically that we never see daylight. And I know all of us. do that. We all fucking do that because

we're all trying to get better at what we do. So sometimes you have to tap yourself on the show and go, you know what, man? So what? I didn't do this, but this is what I did do. And it's a count because I put the fucking work in. And I put the time and I believe them myself. I'm going to go kill a hook of time. I'm going to go eat somebody's asshole.

You know what I'm saying? Look at you Lee. You didn't even need a I think you're tired for a goomy pair. Because you're all fucking confused to me tonight. I think we talked about it on the phone. or I forget where we do is a podcast I forget now But we talked about how In this country now

Like there's always the Everyone gets a trophy I forget when we were talking about it So People nowadays are doing it too much They're petting themselves on the back too much But it is amazing like We've been doing this podcast for almost two years

Somewhere around there We're 175 or something And it's amazing like It'd be like It feels the same as at the beginning But it's a lot different And we have more listeners now And we're doing live podcast

podcast. So it is good to do. Well, we've grown. We've grown. And, you know, listen, it's like, when we were moving offices, we had doubts. We were like, oh, we're not going to get time one. And I looked at you and said, perfect. Let's fucking experiment. Let's take a chance. And we've been talking about doing. And see, and see what we're doing. And we've been talking about this for a long time. Look, the opportunity presented itself. And we fucking jumped on it because that's what you need to do. To grow as a fucking human being or whatever the fuck you want. My man, thank you very much for coming. So to grow as a human being, to grow, it's not about sometimes as much as preparing, but sometimes when the opportunity presents itself, you've got to fucking jump on it. Absolutely. And that's it.

And that's why I wanted to take a chance and do this podcast outside. We have no quality today. We have dick today. We just have us, no music. And I was lucky enough, as you know, I'm a friend to Eddie Bribos and whatnot, and he has tent plans.

And I've been very lucky that I've become friends with a lot of the owners of the different tent planet and personal friends. But one place I've been going to his van eyes. You know, I was telling them today that I went to the open mat at my school. And I made little accomplishments today. I held somebody in my guard that's a purple belt for a long time, and the bell went off. You know, I mounted them. You know, I lost them out, but I wrote them until the bell came out. And in my world, those are little accomplishments.

And sometimes even he said to me He goes, did you learn something today? And I go, yeah, I learned that sweep. He goes, nah, when you go home and do a positive affirmation and say, hell, you worked on your guard, your side controls better. He goes, I used to, you have 100 pounds on me, and I used to fucking push you away. He goes, you're holding on to my pants,

you've got your fucking leg is blocking. So these are the little things where you do this. And one of the places I go, and I love your school, and that's old a handful. I call the old old, old handful today. I was looking for your name on my phone. all the handfuls here give him a round of applause Lee don't just fucking sit there you know what I'm saying

thank you guys thank you what's up where you're coming from I was just actually at the champion blueprint it was a two-day seminar put on by Jeff Spencer Dr. Jeff Spencer and it was a really interesting way it's like a formula success formula

so he's got these eight principles and it starts with your legacy and it goes all the way through to you know the top so reaching that pinnacle reaching that place where you have a true success. And you did this yesterday and today? Yesterday and today, yeah.

How many hours? Yesterday was from 8.30 until about 5.30, in the afternoon or evening. And then today was 9 o'clock until about 4.30. And this has to do with Jiu-Jitsu. That has to do with personal growth on your own level. Yeah, personal business growth type thing, yeah. This is really interesting.

You know, it's crazy. I go to different places with salami, and I go to different schools and I watch, you know, not the train, I watch, and I always feel real comfortable at your place. And it's, and sometimes I sit there and I watch what you're doing with your students. And I see how much you love your students. And, like, I don't know if you know this, I'm a fat fuck when I'm a whole school martial artist. Right. As a comedian, it's helped me.

As a comedian, it's really helped me because I've taken, where I learned the martial arts and flipped it around, you know. And when I go up to your school, I like what you do. I like how you treat your students. I like how you break everything. the commitment you have towards your students. Your fiancé is there. She's a way, you know, she's Filipino. They can start a fucking party by themselves.

You know, Filipinos are great with 12 or a crowd of 200, and they could be all their cousins. I mean, it's fucking amazing. My baby's godmother's Filipino, and I go to her house all the time for the parties. And it's family. They hang with their fucking family. And not just the three cousins,

but the distant cousins and they drive from Riverside. They come from all. points. They get bumped off with helicopters and the jungles of Tarzana. These Filipinos don't fuck around, Jack. But it's amazing how warm it is up there. And I go in the back and I have fun. And then when I walk

out, I watch what you guys are doing and I love it. I'm a big fan of what you do. And, you know, I wish I had the time to go up to every day and the energy. I'm 51, but to be a young guy, not to be going to your school if you live in the area is a real shame. I mean, you have

other 10 planet affiliates or whatever. But there's a lot of people up at the San Fernando Valley. And, you know, what is, I asked you today, you know, you asked me what you wanted to talk about. And I wanted to ask you, what was your mission with Ten Planet? What was your mission? You have kickboxing. You have a geek class. We have a conditioning class.

You have a Muay Thai class. This is Ten Planet Jiu, but you offer all these things. So obviously you have a mission. So my mission was basically to create an environment in which we could not just breathe success and champions and stuff like that, but I wanted to create a place that you wanted to go hang out at, a place that you could go have fun at. So I put a lot of time and effort into, you know, structuring the class. And also in that structure, I make sure everybody's having fun. I make sure that everybody's talking to each other, meeting each other. We have this little

rule. I don't enforce it too hard, but it's there where you walk onto the mat and you require to shake hands with every individual on the mat before you start the class. So I just try to put everybody together to put them on one same goal, which is to learn jujitsu, and then we kind of find that mission together as a team because I feel like we can do so much more as a team

than we ever could alone, and you need that support system, not just for jujitsu, but in your life. You need people to be there for you, and I feel like martial arts, especially jujitsu, brings people together like nothing else. There's nothing like rolling around with another sweaty dude to create bonds, you know?

It's embarrassing when you are sweating on another man. And today it happened, and I even said in the middle of everything, I go, John, I'm really fucking sorry, I'm sweating on you. And he goes, Joey, knock it off. Drop one in his mouth or something? Oh, it's horrible. And it was two, and it was one in the afternoon,

and it was hot in Burbank today, you know. But it's really weird how we have jihitsu schools. You have taekwondo schools, you have karate schools, but then you have martial arts schools. And that's a complete different genre. When I came from Cuba, I went to goju karate, Rashad's father, who was a black belt in New York City. A real tough knuckled guy would take you running in the park barefoot.

Your friends would be playing in the playground. You got to run past them with a karate gear on the next day. You had to answer questions. You know what I'm saying? We didn't know you went to karate tough guy. Let's see. Show us what you got. Oh, fuck.

That was a style. And then I went to Jersey. I learned Gushenruh karate. And that was a style. Ishunruh Karate. And then I went to Boulder, Colorado. And I hooked up with this guy that was a hippie. And his father invented the fucking doorknob and gave him a half million and told the kid,

what do you want to do? He goes, I want to open up a Taekwondo scrub and doing it for 30 years or 20 years. Why not do this? And he opened up a stay-of-the-yard place. And it was like family. When you went in there, it was like, and he would take it. He would teach a takedowns. But it was Tang Sudo,

the thing that Chuck Norris evaded. But I was starting comedy at the time. And it was weird because it was giving me the power and the push I needed. I was a pussy when I first started comedy. I was like anybody else. It's like my jiu-jitsu career. You know, I got up on stage nine times my first year in comedy. There's a lot of people don't know.

You know, because you're scared. You're undecided. You don't know. Sometimes a guy joins your school and he guys in good shape, whatever. It takes him a year to really get going. It takes that first try and the girlfriend to break up and all of a sudden you got yourself a beast. And when people say to you,

why is he only a bluebell? He's been here for three years. Some guys take longer to develop than others. But the martial arts aspect of this Tang Sudor pushed me. And it's amazing when I stopped doing Blow years ago, I knew the only way I would stop is if I got involved with martial arts because it was what I did before I got involved with Blow,

what I respected. The people that I went to martial arts with and the kids I did blow were not the same people. Right. So when I go to tournaments with them and they talk about how evil drugs were, I know. Meanwhile, you know, I couldn't wait to get out of that to smoke pot.

Listen to Lekyllis. And the day I quit martial arts. Nine months later, my mother was dead, and the fucking horror began. So when I got my bearings back, and it's weird when I went up to your school, you had the same, you have to bow, you have to wipe your feet,

you know, you have to shiards, shake everybody's hand. I saw like nobody was trying to hurt anybody. And that's something that you have, that you have a smile on your face, you know. It's with no lack of effort. You got to keep talking about it, and you got to keep telling guys to go 50%

and not try to kill each other, you know? I got a thing where, you know, before every role, we do a check, see who's injured, you know, see who we got to watch out for. And the thing that they do that for is just to keep but keep an eye for safety out there. So, you know, I'm mentioning, I'm keeping into the mix,

and then guys tell you their injuries and say, okay, watch out for his right shoulder. Okay, my left knee, all right, his left toe. And then once we get done with that, I'll go through my speech, which is basically like, if you're going 100%, you're fighting Cambodian terrorists, okay? And you're scratching and clawing for your life. That's 100%, right?

You're using anything you can to kill somebody, right? So I don't recommend anybody go 100% in my gym, ever. if you have, please sign the waiver. After that, I would say, like, 80% would be a sport martial arts fight, like a MMA fight, something like that, right? You're going 80%, but you're not trying to actually kill anybody. You're going pretty hard, but you're not going that hard. So I would say that's, I don't know, 80% or something.

I just made this up. And then 70%, maybe a jujitsu tournament. You took it down a notch, right? You're competing, you're going crazy, but you're still in control your body. You're not, you know, completely going nuts. And then there's training for a competition. That would be like 60%. And then training every day, like on a regular Tuesday night, that would be 50%.

So if we're training 50%, that's just your regular everyday thing. You know, you're in control of yourself. You're not flinging your body all over the mat. You're not getting in wild uncontrolled scrambles and trampling people and stepping on anybody's necks. And the number one rule before we start the role is, what's the number one rule guys? And they're all in unison. Take care of your training partner. So, you know, it's not.

for a lack of effort. We're definitely keeping that at the forefront of the mind. And not only is that healthy and you're not getting hurt, it's good for business. It keeps my people in there. It keeps them there every month or every week or whatever it is. And the more you're there, the better your team gets. If you're not there, you're injured, how can you be getting better, right? So I try to keep it.

It's still competitive. We're still trying to push each other, but in a smart way. and what's the word accountable. You have to answer to something. How did all this start for you? It was all a dream. I used to read Wordup magazine. Saw and pepper up on the limousine.

It started in Portland, Oregon. Is that where you're from originally? Yeah, I'm from Portland, Oregon. And I trained, man, what was the style now? It was a form of kung fu, and it was taught by all lesbians. And these were some tough girls, man. It was just a whole gang of them. And my parents signed me up there, and they had a great kids program.

And, you know, from then on, it was, you know, the Hoyt's Gracie story like everybody else and, you know, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. And took a lot of different martial arts because I couldn't afford BJJ. Because, you know, God knows how expensive that was when it first started. I was paying $100 a month in 1996 at Jean-Jocs for one day a week. So, you know, that was the climate back then. and it was either that or you went to, you know, torrents, which was just as expensive, or you found, you know, one of these crazy dudes who had a cage in their basement, and, you know, you paid them $25, and they would just kick your ass all over the place.

So, yeah, that was kind of where it was. But I actually have a traditional martial arts background, so I was a terrible student back then. I was just bounce around all over the place, but that's why you see the sort of homage to Kung Fu karate and all that at my gym. You would teach it? You would take something from karate now and slip into the technique or something, just something. You know, actually I taught a class in the morning

with all old karate techniques that I learned back when I was a kid. So, you know, wrist grabs and what's the two-handed choke thing? Bear hug from the back. So it was kind of fun. The guys were appreciative. You can't do it every day, but it was kind of funny. You know, the techniques aren't that ridiculous.

All right, but, you know, I wouldn't try them in the streets. So you get home, you go, you know, you're going to one of your uncles, get me in the head. Yeah, yeah, yeah, watch, watch this, watch this. You're the fucking death. Grab my wrist, no, the other wrist. You know the other wrist. Not like that, like under, under. It's so funny how, uh, it's great.

Even Lee has a Taekwendo background. I did Taekwendo for, like, I got up all the way up until Red Belt. I wish I went for Black Belt. And I remember, like it was yesterday, practicing the forms for the belt test. and my highlight of my sports career was in like first grade I got the first place trophy for it was either probably forms I've had to guess a big tournament like the trophy was as big as I was

and I kept it until I graduated high school it was awesome but it was kind of interesting and granted I know that NFL players are way different from people just going to jukeetsu on a daily basis but I think it was like last year I forget why they were bringing it up But they were saying that if you, in practice, if you don't practice hard, it leads to injuries during the game. If you don't practice hard?

Right. If you're going, like during the game, if you only play 80% or whatever, it's going to lead to injuries because you're being a sloppy. So not, let's say, for Joey, but let's say a UFC fighter. Are they not going 100% in the UFC? or like how to because obviously if you go 100% every day you're going to get an injury you would think but like what level are they going in? Like in a professional fight? Yeah.

I guess it just depends. I heard a quote the other day from the last Hendricks GSP fight that Hendricks was throwing his fist at about 70%. Now why wouldn't you in like a title fight? Why wouldn't you just be like I'm going 100%? I think he didn't want to commit to get taken down or to get countered or something like that. was kind of afraid that if he threw something a little bit too hard that he would be out of control. Oh, okay. And so, you know, it's not the way to go out and beat the champ, which he actually paid for it because he didn't win that fight. Right. So, you know, I mean, you got what, like the

Jeremy Stevens types who just throw caution to the wind and just start swinging. Yeah. And, you know, and then you got here like Dwayne Bang Ludwig's who were throwing hard, but with control and very precise, you know. Not to say Jeremy Stevens doesn't have good technique. He does. He just puts everything he's got into it. He's winding it up like a pitcher. Okay. That's interesting because, I mean, for someone who doesn't know anything about it, you always hear

like everything they said when I was playing sports was give it 100% and do your best. So it's kind of anti, like it's kind of backwards thinking, don't go 100% because you might hurt yourself. Right. You want to train smart. That's always what you want to do.

In effort, you know, you don't have to be giving 100% to be pushing yourself hard. You know. Okay. And you do want to push the envelope. That's right. But you don't want to get injured. I mean, that's always, you've got to carefully walk that tight road.

It's really funny. When I was studying Gush and Roo Karate, I was living in Northburg in New Jersey. And I was a young Cuban kid. You know, nobody messed with me. You know, I didn't bother nobody. I didn't talk too much. But I went to karate. You know, Bruce Lee at the time.

I mean, I'm that old that he really inspired me to go. And I had been in messes before Like in New York And I lived in New York But once I moved to Jersey I was scared of fighting for some reason And I joined this Gush and Roo school And on my block in those days

Was I was in the sixth grade older And on my block I had Mario D as a Chinese Cuban kid Who was a Wing Chung Kung Kung Kung kid And then up the corner from him We had a Cuban kid that was a judo kid And two blocks from him was this kid, Glenn Cologne, Puerto Rican kid,

that his house was covered with those three-foot trophies. We were 11, 10, 12, he was 14. He was a black belt at three different fucking schools. Every night he'd just drop into schools. Like, that's what Glenn Cologne did. Every teacher loved Glenn. He had a purple belt and karate, but he went to Kung Fu schools, judo schools.

But at the end of the night, Glenn would go to Mario Diaz's house. and we would meet there at 9 o'clock so you had to go home, do your homework, go up to your mother and go, ma, this is a once-in-lifetime opportunity. Can I go with America? Now, when you walked into America,

Diaz's basement, it was a basement with everything had been removed, and there was fucking holes every three inches from punches. The only thing that stood was a beam with a Machi Roa-Rohan. I mean, we would get that.

Is it the house by your old school? He showed me? No, no, no, no. It was on that hill. I don't think I showed it. He was on a hill. and it went this way. So when you fought, you fought on a slant,

okay, which even, you know what I'm saying? Because you fought in the basement. So you were fighting on a slant. We would beat each other out. Bloody noses. That's the first place I got my nose broke. I fainted. I got up there.

They had to give me ice cubes to walk home. I had a light of my mother. My lip got broken there, but those things toughen me up and got me ready for life. I always think of those nights in those fucking in the summer in Jersey. human

11.30 and then after it was all, we do the push-ups and the sit-ups and the, with the rope. We were fucking fanatics. The Iron Palm technique

with the bag with the fucking beans in it. Come on, guys. What do you think you're fucking with? Some novice here? I got the Iron Palm technique.

When did you hook up with Eddie Bradwell and his fucking and his, what is he calling him, the jet clouds? What is it? Oh, the,

uh, I know what you're talking with. The, Cam Chair. What did you hook up with my man? I actually started working in West Hollywood right across the street from Bomb Squad. And I knew who Eddie was from back at Jean-Jacques when I trained there for a short while.

And he had the long hair, and he would stuff it up into that, into his, what was it called? Like, we wear a shower cap or something like that. And then over the shower cap, I think he had, what is it, ear guards, right? So he wouldn't get the cauliflower. But yeah, he was rocking that long hair. And he'd come into like Whole Foods and I'd see him around and stuff like that. So I knew who he was. He didn't really know who I was at that point.

And so I just start working again. And I was a blue belt at this time. At John Johns. Actually, Hanato Magnos Street Sport. Where San Monica now, yeah. Actually, it's a funny story because John Jack and Hanato, they were together for a while. And then Hanato moved out and they opened up his own academy out in Santa Monica, where I moved to.

So he was the one who taught John Jacques's classes most of the time when I was there. So I liked him. So when he moved out to Santa Monica and I'm living out there, bam, that's where it was. So anyway, fast forward a few years, went back to school, didn't have a job,

got a job, working in West Hollywood, needed to find some BJJ now that I could afford it again, walked over to the bombs squad to see what was up, and lo and behold, there's Eddie Bravo. And I talked to Chuck. You remember Chuck?

I remember the name. What's his last name? Big Chuck. Big Chuck. still around. I see him at the university of MMA and stuff. But I talked to him and he had also been over at Hanato's, so we kind of bonded over that. And I watched the first class and I went up to Eddie and Eddie was like, yeah, you know, it's a really great way to stay in shape. And I was like, I don't need to hear about any of that. It's BJJ. How do I sign up? Let's go. Let's do it.

And he's like, oh, okay. And so, yeah, that was it ever since. It was 2005. So 2005. So that was nine years ago. So yeah, I've been training under ready for nine years. Wow. Yeah. And you're a certified brown belt. Certified bravo.

No games, rubber guard, lockdown, spider, junkie, zombo, fucking everything. So Joey talked about earlier how you have multiple martial arts. When you're like, if I was thinking about juditsu, how important is it

that you're an Eddie Bravo to have playing it, and then you've mentioned John Jock and all. Like, how much of a difference is there? Because when I was doing Taekwondo, there's just Taekwondo, and I'm sure there's different versions of it, but I don't think most people know about it. Well, Eddie has a very distinct style that's onto his own thing, that you aren't going to learn at many other schools

if they haven't trained either directly under him or have learned his styles and techniques from his books and DVDs. Hold on. We got 9 fucking 11 over here. There's the chem trails. Fucking plane right over is here. Welcome to Burbank, Colorado, whatever the fuck we're at. What the fuck? I thought the plane was going to hit the coffee shop.

Somebody stole the hummus and went nuts, and that's how we got. I'm sorry to interrupt you. I just didn't want you to something good. We were talking about the style. The difference is the styles. Yeah, everybody, every gym has its style, right? Eddie's is very distinct. It's, you know, no ghee, first of all, so he doesn't do any ghee classes, which most BJJ schools do mostly only ghee.

So some of them do a little bit of splits, but, you know, Eddie's straight no-gi, which you don't find too often. And, you know, he's got his style, which is, you know, rubber guard, lockdown, spiderweb, deep-hook transitions, and all the stuff that goes along with that. and then anything else that works for no-gi-jitsu. So he's been putting other stuff into the style. And as long as it works with our system, then boom, there it is. So is there a difference like, let's say they went to a school Eddie was teaching and they went to 10th Planet Van Nuys. Is it all the same or are you putting your own spin on it?

Well, you know, yeah, we all kind of have our own thing that we do. You know, I think that's what makes martial art so beautiful is everybody has their own interpretation of it. And, you know, he taught me his style, and I learned it, and I teach my students his style. And I also teach them stuff that I like. Okay. So, you know, I think every gym has its spin on it, you know, depending on their body type and their philosophy and stuff. Do you notice it, Joey, because you go to a different one.

I don't know the head got your place. Well, here's what I did. This is my path, and this is why I chose it. I was in Memphis and I didn't know who the fuck I was sitting next to I was sitting next to Marcella Garcia and then

the kid from Long Island was there the UFC fighter knocked out GSP. He was there and Eddie was there and they were having a conversation and I'm sitting there I'm 418 at the time I'm about 390 at the time

and they're talking about Jiu-Jit-Tung and I asked Sarah I go hey let me answer something if a guy came in and you know he's said to me that it was better for me if I learned the ghee for 90 to 180 days and then if you want to then go to no ghee but at least get some of the basics with the ghee down and then move on to the ghee so I thought about it and everybody and I asked around I went online and you know I procrastinated I spoke to you you said I got a big guy for you to come

up here with and I thought about it and the school opened up on my house and I would always drive by and I went in there one day and talked to the guy and he was very nice and he was very nice and I wanted to go. I knew how bad I was. I knew how bad I was because I was going to kickboxing and on Tuesdays they offer a kickboxing jiu-jitsu class and I said let me go just see what this jihitsu shit's about. I almost had a fucking heart attack. I was on testosterone at the time. I almost had a fucking heart attack. I had to run outside because I was hearing shit. Once you start hearing shit, you got to run outside and get out. I was like, I'm going home. I went home, popped an astronaut. I never told nobody. I go, but

me, I don't like that. I don't like that. It's like getting pushed around and thinking about it for three weeks. Now I've got to go back with a fucking gun. I didn't like that. So I saw it there, well, open one day, and I walked over there. And he was a John Jack Blackbell. So I said, so he's going to teach me the same shit, Eddie's going to teach me, and John John's going to teach me. And when I get in better shape, I can just go to Addie and learn that shit.

That was my plan in my heart. just want to learn the basics with the geek. I never fucking wrestle guys. Some people wrestled in high school. I knew nothing about that. I hit you with a head in a chair. Oh, I punched you and I ran. I wasn't, I didn't wrestle.

I didn't do none of that shit. Oh, yeah, no. But what I was thinking was you go there and then you also do privates with someone at a different school. With salami. Right. But do you notice, it's all due to it's different style? Absolutely.

Okay. Absolutely. And there's a kid that is a, Cobringa kid that drills Mike Evans on his North Hollywood parking by his house basically at his house on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11

and it's an hour, it's just drilling, but he gives you a past of drills. So you might do a hip escape to a one leg, a single, pop up, side control, and a fucking baseball choke. But you're breaking into steps for the beginner, something that you would do. You strongly believe that shit. And I started going there, that

me even better. They weren't doing that over there. When I go to Salami, I go to Salami because I know Salami will beat me up, and he'll watch me and watch my breathing. My breathing was that bad. I was scared. I had to fucking take two Aspins and hug the fucking cats before I went to fucking wrestle. That's how scared

I was. I was going to have a heart attack. Then they said I had too many red blood cells. That's why I got off the testosterone. I went to a kettlebell class. Now look at this shit. Check you out. So what do you think? What is that? What's going on here?

I don't know. But it ain't fucking good. Oh, I see. I don't know. Is it muscle? What is that? I don't know. And, you know, last week at the UFC, I felt it in my thigh.

So I'm getting an MRI Tuesday. Let's see. But today I went to the open mat. I was like a doctor. I got caught in one fucking lockdown. I don't even know how I wiggle myself out of it. I love it all. I'm 51 years old.

I wish I could go six times a week. But when you're 51, you're not doing 10. and show like that. It takes you three days to fucking recover. Something like that day I went to drill class and I did fucking whatever kettlebells. But that night I had to take out of them. My knee blew up like this.

But, you know, this generation, people in the gym at 70. I heard John Jackson, a 72-year-old black belt. Oh, yeah, I saw that. 72-year-old and a 62-year-old. And this is what keeps you alive, guys. This is what you have to do in today's society. The door's there for you.

You know, in Japan, They have a league of bodybuilders, 75 to 85. Wow. A bodybuilding league, 75 to 85. I ain't going to take it. They look like Arnold Schwarzenegger. They got little titties and shit. But just think about it.

They got lots here. They got that big barrel chest. Yeah, they got trapezoids. Now, how school is, how long has your school been open? We started August, the end of August in 2010, and then we opened our own school. We were over at Saxon's Muay Thai. Right. So we rented space out of there for a while.

And then, you know, I just felt like it was time to grow my own program and do my own thing. And I couldn't be happier. And there's nothing against them. They're good people. And they treated me real well over there. But it's just something about... You want to be free. That's what it was time.

They're at your parents' house with me 35. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like trying to sneak girls in. And it's just not, you know, it's not tight. So, yeah, we opened our own space with my fiancé, Jean, who we just announced our engagement. I saw that. Congratulations. So she and I opened this one together and I had

built some systems to try to kind of put the thing together and you know, yeah, been to open 14 months now or something. I talk to a lot of people and I drive a lot. And as Lee knows, I'm fucking a criminal and stuff,

but I'm an Econ major guys. So I've always been interested in business. And, you know, I drive to the kettlebell gym in 930 and I drive past a couple Jiu-jitsu schools. I drive past a couple martial arts schools and you know what? They're always fucking closed. And these are the same motherfuckers I see on Groupon pushing their system

giving their shit away because they're trying to get people in the door. But their school is closed at 11 o'clock and they're so fucking stupid that they're probably somewhere doing something else trying to make a living which if they focus on their martial arts, it's there. When I go to your school order

You're never crying and you're there and that's why I give you the respect and the love I give you. That's why you're sitting there. You've never cried and everybody's fighting for a dime in this fucking jiu jitsu game right now. And the best jiu jitsu game is the one you teach it. Some people want to pay $300. Some people can only pay $120, $140. It's what they could get and what they can learn. Every time I go to your fucking place, I look at that schedule, it grows.

You have a conditioning class. You have a fucking team class. You have a retire class. You have an advanced class. You have an open, a beginner class, which you alternate. So you can't make Tuesday at 7.30. How about Monday at 8.30? That's beautiful.

I went there Friday at 11 or Thursday. A guy stretching and doing fucking yoga. That's how you run a martial arts school. You have to be there. You have to have your ghee pants on. You have to answer the phone. A motherfucker comes in. You have to look at them and go, are you busy right now?

I wasn't going to do dick My life is the school Get on the floor right now I'll give you beginning of class right now People will fucking look at you Yeah People will look at you like this motherfucker I ain't fucking around

Because most places they're gonna go And they're gonna tell you to come back At 730 And then they're police The same people that complain Then they complain because You know Gracie Barra's getting 180 a guy

And 180 your fucking uniform Well they're doing something right Get to it bitch Don't tell me how he's got 300 students because he's charging one fucking 80. You have to be there, and that's all. I love you and respect you. That's why if I'm going to go anywhere,

I love going up there, I try to get up there, I get a coconut water, I get a water, I go in the back, I sweat, I see the young fucking kids, I see Hassan at my place, learning the ghee. That's why you're here, man, so you're a bad motherfucker.

Why do you have Muay there and all this shit? That's the question. I'm stone, I'm sorry. We don't have Moitai? No more Muay Thai? No more Muay Thai? No, I thought you had something there. We have a, we have a MMA, though.

Okay, I know you got something. We teach the system of MMA. So not just, we wanted to do something more than just teach BJJ wrestling and Muay Thai. And you have fucking wrestling on Sundays. Yeah, and we have wrestling too. Who's better than this fucking? We didn't want to do what everybody else was doing, and it kind of alienates the parts of MMA that have, the hybrids that have arisen since you put all those things together.

So ground and pound was never thought of. It's not in kickboxing. You don't do that. It's not in wrestling. You don't do that. So you've got to really focus on that in the MMA class. And the transitions between setting up your strikes with your takedowns, your takedowns, your punches into your kicks into your takedowns.

And that's new stuff that we have to acknowledge now because the best guys in the games are doing that. They're not just coming out with a style anymore. It's a hybrid style. And, you know, fighting off the cage, using the cage as a weapon, using it to cut off angles, you know, smashing people up against it so that they can't use their jiu-jitsu, you know, putting somebody in the center of the ring so you can fight freely and, you know, all these things that aren't being addressed, I think, at a lot of schools. Some of them are great, but, you know, the ones that are still doing it, the traditional style where you do BJJ in the morning and you do Muay Thai at night, you're just, you're missing out on all that other stuff.

And you can't fight a traditional BJJ style anymore. I mean, the Hoyst Gracie days. you know, love them to death are over, you know, and same thing with Muay Thai, if you're coming out there with that really tall, I mean, really tall technique, you know, you're on the tippy toes, you're getting taken down in two seconds, you know? It's not going to happen, so you really got to, you got to practice fighting, like, how you're going to do it in the cage,

more in the ring, whatever you're fighting. How much this is involved? It's crazy, right? You know, how much this has evolved from 15, I mean at the store, doing blow, and having Rogan telling me about some fucking savages that are going to beat each other. I would look at him like, are you fucking crazy? He was ruining my eye.

Why are you telling me about this shit and chokes? And he would wrestle with this Kennedy Bravo. What the fuck are you talking about? Wrestling with men? What are you fucking nuts? I didn't know what he was talking about. I knew when I was a kid there was Jiu-Jitsu, but like in Brooklyn. Brazilians were like fucking Martians to me in 1970.

I was worried about Chinese people and Russians. I didn't know what a Brazilian was. Who knew what a Brazilian was? So it's amazing where this game, it's amazing that there's leagues and bad eyes now I don't know what a fucking Brazilian was in the 19th everybody was focused on Bruce Lee we don't know what fucking Brazilian was

Brazilians were like fucking Martians bro like Mexicans in 73 do you think Mexicans been here the whole time they just popped up they just started popping up you couldn't get a burrito in Boston until you still can't 97 you couldn't get a burrito on Boston until 97

when I left New York City there was no Mexican fucking food we're talking about 10 plan Jiu Jitsu and all the handful How the fuck are we getting on a Mexican fool? You got it together, cocksucker. It was interesting. You had me over last week to watch the fights. And I, it always seems like, for most fights, not every fight,

there's always one guy walking forward and one guy walking back. And it seems it's always the same for the fights. Do some guys prefer when they're striking to, like, be the one going backward? Because it's not the guy who wins isn't the one who's always like being more aggressive. But it's crazy how that works. It never seems to be very readily as a two guys who are both going forward. Yeah, it's, you know, in the judge's eyes, the guy coming forward is usually the one who's winning, the fight if nothing else is happening.

So you want to, if you go out there, you take the center of the ring and you start pushing your opponent around, forcing him to move towards the cage or move backwards, then you're considered winning at that point. Because the reason, I'm not going to say I don't like him as a person, but a couple years ago was the Nick Diaz Carlos Condit fight. Mm-hmm. And Carlos Condit just kept running away. He just kept running away, but he won the fight.

Right. So it's just like, you, I don't know if people, he's like, okay, I'm not going to win in striking. I'm going to run away. Not run away, but it just. Think of it like cards, right? Like ring generalship, which is controlling the octagon. Okay. That's like a six, right?

And then you got strikes that are semi-effective like Carlos Conant was throwing that. That's a nine, right? So the nine trumps the six in that instance. Even though he's running away, he's still hitting him with the counter shots and then spinning out. And it was a, you know, it's a great technique, I guess, if that's what you want to, you know, the goal is to win. But the goal is also entertainment. Well, here's what happened, guys. And Alda agree with me because Alder knows what I'm talking about.

Traditional kickboxing, that Thai boxing is very interesting. All the put some of that in here before I fucking start seeing mirages. Do you want me to go get you know? No, bro, you're my brother. Not a, you know, I take, you know, traditional Muay Thai is straight up angle. It's not really even as money angles. It's straight up on your tippy toes.

Once Machita came in and added the Kung Fu points, the karate-type style, it's evolving. Now, for two years, when I started my weight loss, when I lived in Denver, I had about these two black guys. And then now in Vermont. and they own Ijo School of Martial Arts Big fucking deal

But if somebody came to me today And said I wanted to be a fighter I would send them there Because of his striking His striking style is Kajakembo But he's a kung fu guy So he flipped it It's all about being evasive in their style

Anderson Silver has a thing That he leaves He doesn't come home with marks on his face He works more on being evasive It's not, it's 2014. We're not cavemen. We're not going to both stand the ring, and that's not what taking punches is about.

And Carlos Condu was brilliant in that fight because he stuck to his plan. No matter what Diaz was doing, he frustrated him. He ran away from him. But when he did come in, you follow him, and here's Diaz going, what are you going to, bam, getting hit, and he runs away again.

He was frustrated. It's a very smart style, so that's the evolution of the martial arts in Muay Thai. in that's why I asked you and what you're teaching over there at times do you hey man karate

has a lot of fucked up things but karate has a lot of good things to it too karate has a lot of great things that you're not gonna you're not gonna whatever over but you can learn a few you know when I was a kid I used to go to those tournaments

when Machita came and everybody thought it was just amazing what Machita was doing Machita was doing point fighting he learned how to convert it This is something that they've been doing for 30 years In Aaron Banks every fucking Saturday in New York City You go in, you throw a punch If it just swung you, the guy raises his hand

It's a point, and all you got to do is pop out again That's a style. Okay That's a style, it's a very evasive type style So that's with a flavor of the marshal And it's going to keep evolving It's going to keep evolving Some Brazilian's going to really add caperea

He's going to do a somersault And fucking grab your leg and sweep you It's going to keep evolving That's the beauty of this You've seen the spinning kicks Not just the ones to the guts, but the ones that have been going to the head lately. I mean, the last, what, year? Those just popped out of nowhere.

Vitor Belford hit one, and then everybody hit one. Was it him a hit one? Luke Brockhold. Oh, wait, wait. Terry Edom. He got one, Terry Edom got one. But that kid who just lost this last week. Who's the German kid, the little guy that went from?

Yes, he's good with that. He's good with those too. But it's just amazing how even that kick. That kick is not a Mui Tai Kui Tai Kui. that's a taekwondo could be a crookishin, whatever that's karate is. They're using it now. Because everybody's doing more than time.

So they're not seeing it from a different angle. If I attack you this way and kick that lower leg three times, but on the fourth time, I step, you're going to wait for the leg kick. I'm going to kick that leg and hit you with a side kick to the fucking rib there. And that's the lights out for you if I get you with my heel. That's

what I Georgia teaches. And whenever I talk to me, goes if Anderson's Silver would stop over here for three days, he'd be a fucking killer because his brother does the SWAT stuff with the knives for right i mean his brother's the real deal with knives he does training with SWAT every sunday his brother the one that was teaching the kajekambo that guy was a plin fighting guy but you gotta see this guy at 56 he's a purple bun jujitsu somewhere you know because that's part of kajekambo once they take it down they finish you off it's that's the one

where they wear m m m ms and a ghee right that's that's it right yeah yeah yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's real brutal. They do like five-on-one and, you know. Yeah, it's Hawaiian. It's Hawaiian. And what happened was, the Hawaiians got sick and tired again, their ass kicked by the Navy guys. So the devise and art where the smaller guy could fucking prevail. They took judo, boxing, karate, and jujitzu, Kai Jekimbo. I don't fucking know the affiliations and shit. I'm just trying to help a motherfucker out. You know what I'm saying? but uh no older man what you're doing is great up there and then the school gets better and better it's fucking clean oh yeah it smells good you're just too school you smell ass and feet not at all does it smells like fucking uh what's that shit from dollar shave club oh one wipe charlie no the other one one wipe charlie you've been trying one wipe charlie i have not you wipe your asshole with that

it's peppermint tremendous a chick smells that she's like what the fuck dog all this showing some Shit, da, man. Keeping school clean is like, you know, that's preventing injury in its own right. We had, you know, we had some problems with staff and impotigo and stuff like that back in the day at other gyms. And it just ruins the whole vibe. It makes everybody hate the instructor or the owner. Takes you off the mats for possibly a couple months. And, you know, it's not that difficult.

You just got to keep a routine. and we make it so that the students make it a part of the culture to clean. So they're running over, grabbing the mop as soon as class is over, grabbing the vacuum, grabbing the sprayer, and making sure everything is all cleaned up

because they know if they put in their part that, you know, we all as a team can be successful and be on the mats and stay training. And, you know, it's got, it's not that kind of vibe like, you know, we pay you so you need to, you need to clean up after us. It's not like that.

It's like we're all a part of this. this big family and we we all contribute it's not a customer relationship it's a you know it's a community almost that's nice it's just bringing a different flavor into something that I remember when I went to Mr. Orange

you had to bring him your report card dog if you didn't pass you couldn't go to karate class I heard about that he would fuck you up I mean this is it's just to show you how much it's evolved and I think you have a kids program yeah we just started the kids program

We have as young as four and up to 10. I think the oldest one is 10. How many days a week? Two days a week. And how many students do you have so far? We got about 10. And what do you teach kids? What come young?

You just run them around. What do we do? Oh, man. Kids are kids, it's a, you got to keep them in order. That's the main thing you spend most of the time doing, making sure that they're listening, being respectful to each other, making them pay if they don't. So, you know, if you're talking, then your training partner has to do push-ups. And if that doesn't work, then the whole team has to do push-ups. And then if that didn't work, then everybody on the team except you have to do push-ups,

and they all pushing you around during the warm-ups and stuff. So it puts it so that everybody's responsible for everybody, and they start to want to help each other out. And that's what I'm trying to do here. I'm trying to, there's two philosophies in my gym. Have everybody come together to work on a single goal together as a team so that we can do bigger things. And damn, what was the other one?

Oh, and teach, and learn how to learn. So I'm not spoon-feeding you techniques. I'm teaching you how to learn. So how to break things down and how to come up with a style, how to game plan, and giving guys homework sometimes. And, you know, I want guys to think for themselves. And there are instructors out there that they want you to be under them.

Not so much in BJJ as other styles. but they would only teach you what you needed to know right then and there so that they could keep you coming back for more and they wouldn't teach you anything else and they wouldn't give you a big picture and I always felt like this weird control thing I mean you've been around martial arts you know the cultish thing was going on you know everybody wants to keep the oh these these instructors want to keep you under their thumb and it's just a weird bizarre thing but I want to do the opposite of that

I wanted to teach guys so that they could be creative and they could come up with combinations that you'd never seen before and, you know, put things together from different styles so that they would have their own artistic expression. It's funny, you said the cultish thing. When I went to that Gush and Roo guy from the ages of, like, 11 to 15, that guy was an ex-Vietnam vet. The real deal, you know, he told me he is at home.

You know, he was fucking nuts. But he had become, like, the guy and the karate kid. The bad guy? Yeah, he was like that guy. Towards the end, he would tell you, you know, fucking knock that guy's head off. So I thought he wanted the first guy to fucking knock the guy's head off to scare the rest of the team. Right. So he would get Lee and go Lee.

When you go out there, slip the first time. Who cares? Get this qualified. Suck it up. It's for the team. Go out there, kick him in the fucking mouth as hard as you can. Jesus. And knock him the fuck out.

At least school knows that what's coming after you is fucking pure heat. And you know what guys? It worked. It worked And then one time I got disqualified For hitting above the neck And I didn't like how he treated me after that And I gave myself a date

I was like I'm out of that I'm gonna go to a different school I was just I quit just to do drugs I didn't want to go to school But he had become You know they start believing their own shit man And It's sad

It happens to a lot of them You know what happened to Remember that school on sunset It's still there It's a Taekwondo school It's a tanker a dude by Los El Compadre.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. My buddy's a black building under that place. Right across the street from a guitar center. Okay. That's a, his name. Start the V or something?

The Italian dude, right? Really good guy. He owns the place now. Okay. He's the guy with the mustache. He's 53. Yeah. I mean, he's seen business

was dying for Tengsudo and he went down to the brothers and torrents. He took the jihitsu class and he started teaching him. I mean, he told the Federation to go fuck themselves. They won a $2,500 a month

up, up the top. And he's like, guys, you know, that shit's done. Taekwondo is done. I've done it for 20 years. I know what to teach. It's over. So, but I think his name is Najir. What is it?

His name is Najir, N-A-G-I-E-R. Okay. And there was a guy there before him. That's what I'm thinking of. That was there from, like, the 70s of a long half in Philadelphia. This motherfucker went nuts. He once gave me two CDs of his. He goes, shut them out.

like, you know, training tapes. And it was him on the Sunset Strip with a leather jacket walking down the street. And two guys were, hey, give me your money, he would beat him up. Two guys that look like Motley Crew and stuff. And this guy was, I went in there when they had a train, and he was yelling at the Blackbell, Nogia told him, you call these students ride fucking down. You get my fucking $85 a month.

I mean, it was embarrassing. Well, it's amazing. It doesn't happen more. I mean, it's kind of crazy, like, watching a UFC fight, and they hug you're very nice and polite. You'd think people who are doing this would be, like, monsters, and they wouldn't hug, be nice to anybody? No, but this guy became crazy. He was just a karate teacher. He was crazy.

This guy said, fuck it, I'm going to move to Philly and open up the biggest martial arts academy in the East Coast. Too bad he didn't have the jit to a Muay Thai there. He had everything else, Taekwondo World, and it went under. He lost his life. lost his wife, the fucking money, the bank that he was doing fantastic. Because he had a couple movie stars always. And they would come by the school and he would fucking photograph and everybody was happy. But all on all, man, there's a lot of fucking chams out there.

And again, the reason why I had Jan here tonight, I was thinking about you a while. You don't like getting up early. But tonight when we decided to do this, I said, let's fucking call Alder because I always like what you do. and I know that you love your students and that's a lot of people go to places and they're just cash registers

you know it's a shame what 24 hour fitness what does to people you're just a piece of meat they don't give a fuck you know I know if I signed up for all this

and I didn't go for two weeks I get a call hey man everything all right did I insult you did the place smell like ass and somebody butt rape you that somebody put their dick in your mouth

and arm bar in you you know you need to follow up up with people and it's just I know that you're that type you really care about you you know you have fighters also what's that every week you're always going to somebody to coach you have people competing yeah yeah we have fighters we have a few guys

right now uh we got georgie who just went pro georgie garcia he'll be fighting uh june um his second pro fight uh and then lobes mike frosto you've probably seen him around a few times in the morning he's uh this will be his sixth amateur fight coming up so he's gonna he's probably gonna go pro after that as well Then we just had two guys at the U of MMA fight, Milton, Arguello, and Sven Manseo. I always pronounce Manso. Sven Manso. That's what it is.

So, yeah, we got semi-decent group of guys. It's not huge, but we're building. And Gabe Calvento is my MMA coach. He's the guy putting it all together, making sure the fundamentals are tight. Man, you've got to have fundamentals, man. Let me tell you. That's so important. And not just like fundamental moves.

You've got to know how fundamental movement works. You got to break down a punch into what, you know, what is your body doing to get to generate that power, you know? Your footwork, setting it up, getting in the right stance, then, you know, putting that hip in it and twisting the torso and all that stuff. I'm not a striking guy myself, but, you know, when I'm doing jujitsu, that's like, that's how I break everything down. It's just by simple fundamental movement, you know.

Take it to the, break it down to the smallest point. and then you combine two movements together, three movements, and then you have a technique. Then you have like a bridge, right? A bridge is putting your feet into your butt so that your balls of your feet are on the mat so you can get maximum extension with your hips. So when those hips come popping up, you get a lot of energy on that, right?

And then when you get them up, you need to curve that energy into your opponent so that you get up on your side, right? So you've got to basically create a pathway on your body to allow you to generate that power and put it somewhere, right? So it's two movements, but they have to convert as one, right? So you get the most amount of power out of that thing. And it's like, all right, well, where's that pathway? How do you curve and turn your body to open that pathway up

so that you're not losing any energy and you can just come barreling into your opponent, but with control at the same time? So, yeah, it's something like, you know, Eddie, Eddie had a very complex system, and, you know, he mapped everything out beautifully. And from there, I was able to turn that around, invert it, and kind of look inward at the movements. So instead of, you know, instead of putting more movements on it and making more avenues, let me see how far I can perfect these moves. Like, at what point is it, you can't, you just can't get any deeper with these techniques, you know? You can't get any more extension.

You can't get any more tighter. You can't get any more squeeze. And it's not about strength or power. It's about efficiency. So that's the trip I've been on lately. Your beginner program is very detailed. You know, we've spoken about it a lot. I hear you sometimes in the classes.

Does that work for them later on? I believe it does. I believe the more time you spend with a guy up front, once you get them involved. Like, I didn't know what was going on. for six or seven months, not because they didn't teach it to me because I was just focused on fucking breathing. Right. I was just

trying to breathe, man. I don't give a fuck about my arm. All right, you want to take my arm, take it. You know, I've got a hard time fucking breathing, cock sucker. So, but now I'm starting to see different paths and stuff and I'm interested. You know, your body can just do so much. That's a good thing about Jitsu. It's all body types.

So you can pick up three moves and there you go two moves, and you can work them all the fucking time. He ran the Rowsies once. How many fights on an arm ball? You know the motherfucker. coming. So I don't care what all the things, but why do you spend so much time with the beginners? A lot of people don't. They throw them out for the fucking

lions. Yeah, that's the foundation right there. Those guys are the ones who are going to become your black belts in the future. And, you know, that's, you've got to have success at the early stages. Otherwise, you're just going to quit. You know, and it's tough when

you're the low man on the totem pole and you know, all you want to do is learn submissions and submissions won't work because who are going to submit you're the worst person in the class so you gotta have small victories and i i just took out straight rolling in my fundamentals class i think a lot of guys have started to do that but you know there's a thing like how are you going to do jiu jitzy when you don't even really know the rules or don't even understand it you know i would rather you kind of focus on showing me that you can learn some of the philosophy and show me that you understand the game and then we can talk about rolling you know and i believe in

controlled rolling like situationals like all right you're inside control and you're gonna try and mount the guy all right cool it's very small so there's not a lot of room for injuries to happen or for wild scrambles to happen because in boxing it's the punch you don't see coming right in jujitsu it's very similar it's a technique you didn't you didn't know was there and before you can tap you've just got you know your arm locked out or whatever it is and so you know i want my guys to have some awareness and so you know you want to build those guys up and And I want everybody to be able to do Jiu-Jitsu. So I feel like it's really important to put a lot of time into those beginner guys.

Aldo, I'm happy you came tonight, man. I always wanted to get you on the podcast. Just as a person, this isn't a comedy fucking podcast tonight. There's my main man, Alder dropping some knowledge on you. I love what you do. In another life, Alder, would you be a fighter with what you know now? You know what? I probably would have tried it.

You know, we never had a fight team, really. You know, we had some guys who fought, you know, Einstein and Kahn. and Jason Chambers and stuff, but, you know, it wasn't like a team. And if I was going to fight, I needed somebody, I needed a team to support me. You know, I needed some guys to help me out, pick me up, help me along, tell me what to do, you know. So I don't know, you know, I love fighting. I love MMA to death, and it's changed my life, and, I mean, it's consumed my life.

But I don't know how much passion I have for actually fighting myself, you know. And you get that, like, oh, you should do it because, you know, otherwise you're like a brain surgeon who's never who's never opened up a brain in your life and I disagree I feel like everybody has their part to play in this game and some guys are going to be the fighters and some guys are going to be the coaches and some guys are just going to be the support team and there can't be everybody everybody can't be a warrior who's going to pick the berries and you know sew the rugs and carpets or whatever you know somebody's got to take care of the domestic shit or somebody's got to take care of the team take care of the fighters right and if you spend your whole life fighting

then you weren't spending your whole life coaching. So that was my thing. And you just, you know, Eddie made incredible instructors. And that's, you know, that's where I saw my calling. You know, I wanted something, I wanted a goal that was outside of myself because, you know, I wasn't competing too much. And, you know, belts are cool, but like, you know, a few years in between belts sometimes.

So you can't make that a goal every time. and so I wanted to start instructing because then I could help my technique out at the same time be accountable to somebody else that's outside of myself. So, you know, I can't fuck up myself, but I have somebody that I got to meet there and then I won't flake on them, you know,

but I'll flake on myself sometimes. So, you know, and that just kept going and I felt like I got pretty good at it and people started following me around. So I was like, hmm, maybe I could do this for real. And, yeah, just kind of ever went, blew up after that. I'm happy you got to do the podcast. We're getting thrown out of here.

I'm getting thrown out. Yeah, we got 15 minutes. Tremendous, man. But this is great tonight. It was awesome. We were outside. We got some fucking latte. We drank some water like gentlemen.

Not to change the subject, but when I first started working with Joey, we did videos. I was working at a TV place. And one of my friends that are recognized you in the video. Are you also a DJ? Yeah. He's like a dubstep DJ.

Yeah, I DJed for about 10 years. I'm friends with Matt Di Chiara, a Knifee. I don't know. He, he, he wrote. recognized you in the video but I just thought it was cool that you do that and it's like two different worlds and sometimes you got to look at you you're a podcaster and a sexual pimp and a sexual divin from the you know from Israel direct you know I'm saying we'll be right out of

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