Lex Fridman Podcast

#343 – Roger Gracie: Greatest Jiu Jitsu Competitor of All Time

Dec 3, 2022

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Training to Improve vs Training to be Tough

01:58

Efficient Thinking and Strategic Moves in a Fight

01:35

Perseverance and Resilience in Training

01:39

Practice Defense: The Key to Progress

01:32

Introduction

2min

Bambi Podcast - The Best Tools for the Job

2min

Blinkist - The Greatest of All Time, Summaries and Nonfiction Books

3min

Getting Back Out There as a Black Belt

2min

Taking Those Nervous Feelings and Not Thinking About It

2min

How to Move Slowly in a Fighting Match?

2min

Judo

2min

Is There Any Such Thing as Confident?

2min

Is There a Difference Between the First and the Second?

2min

10.

You've Never Got to Sleep In, Right?

2min

11.

Jiu Jitsu - When You're Not in Trouble

2min

12.

I Regret It Most Because of the Fact That Nobody Submitted Me in Competition

3min

13.

Jiu Jitsu

2min

14.

Judo - How to Escape a Back Control

2min

15.

Jiu Jitsu - I'm Better Than Busheche

2min

16.

Gracie - I Don't Predict How the Fight Will Go

2min

17.

Is It a Good Fight? Is He on Top?

2min

18.

I'm Playing My Pose to My Left, Right?

2min

19.

Is He Okay With That?

2min

20.

The One Thing That He's Not Engaging Now. He Should Lean on Me

2min

21.

Was There a Chance He Sweeps You Here?

2min

22.

He's Not Taking Me Down. I Pull Guard Arm Swepped In

2min

23.

Do You Need a Light Grip on Your Lapel?

2min

24.

Judo Gear on the Face

2min

25.

Do You Need the Hand and the Second Lap Out?

2min

26.

Hands Up Crazy

2min

27.

I've Never Cracked, Never Give Up Ever Any Second

3min

28.

I Regret Not Allowing Myself to Ever, Ever Quit MMA

3min

29.

You Always Wanted to Win the World Title?

2min

30.

How Do You Develop a Game Around the Digits?

2min

31.

Are You Losing Control of Your Emotions?

2min

32.

Braveheart I Love Even More

2min

33.

Is There a Component to That Self-Belief?

2min

34.

I'm a Gracie, I've Loved Jujitsu

4min

35.

You Shouldn't Have Approval

2min

36.

I'm Not Strong, but I Don't Lift, I Lift Weight Like People Much Lighter Than Me

2min

37.

Is Roger Strong?

2min

38.

Jiu Jitsu - I'm Going to Try to Beat You

3min

39.

Cross-Color Choking From the Mount

2min

40.

The Difference Between Hydrograce and the White Belt

2min

41.

The Most Dominant Position That You Can Get Over Another Human Being?

2min

42.

Do You Feel Like a Dominant?

2min

43.

When I'm Falling?

2min

44.

Side Control Over Mouth

2min

45.

You Don't Have Supply Pressure and Weight From Mouth

2min

46.

The Biggest Challenge - The Second Hand

2min

47.

The Art of Getting the First Hand In?

2min

48.

The Secret to Getting the Second Hand In

2min

49.

Getting a Strong Grip on Your Collar

2min

50.

The Process to Mastery of Jiu Jitsu

2min

51.

Cross-Color Choke in Jiu Jitsu

2min

52.

Is There Any Space Between Us to Escape?

2min

53.

The Argument for Back Control Is...

2min

54.

The Greatest Jiu-Jitsu Competitors of All Time

2min

55.

What Makes Marcelo Guase Look Good?

2min

56.

Ezekiel - I Choked Them Out?

2min

57.

Sallow and Seanji, Haberro vs Sallow

1min

58.

The Longevity of MMA

3min

59.

The Biggest Difference Between Mixed Martial Arts and Jujitsu?

3min

60.

Is There Something Different About MMA?

2min

61.

Jujitsu - Is There a Middle?

2min

62.

What Do You Wish You Had Done About Jujitsu?

2min

63.

No-Gee - Who's the Best?

2min

64.

No-Gee - The Greatest Doggy of All Time

2min

65.

The Body Lock, the No-Gee?

3min

66.

Jiu Jitsu - Do You Attack the Leg of a Foot?

2min

67.

Dominant Controlling Positions in the Full Game

2min

68.

Do You Think Gordon Trains More Than Everyone?

3min

69.

Jiu Jitsu Coach Interview With John Donner

2min

70.

How Do Bears Fight?

2min

71.

Do You Know if You Can't Catch a Bear?

3min

72.

The Best Use of the Tie in Martial Arts

3min

73.

What Is the Difference Between Mount and Back Control?

3min

74.

Purple Belts Defense Are Better Than Black Belts

2min

75.

How Did You Train at the Budokwa in London?

2min

76.

What Advice Would You Give to a Complete Beginner?

2min

77.

How to Relax in the Way of Learning to Move Effortlessly

2min

78.

How Valuable Is It to Be Complete?

2min

79.

Close Guard in Jiu Jitsu

2min

80.

Do You Have a Good Close Guard?

5min

81.

The Benefit of Drilling

3min

82.

The Value of Drilling in Jiu Jitsu

3min

83.

The Real Naked Choke Is Kill the Lion

2min

84.

How Did You Deal With Losses in Jiu Jitsu?

2min

85.

Dominance Is the Only Way to Prove You Better

2min

86.

Is There Something You Can Do to Help You Get There?

2min

87.

The Aura of Greatness

2min

88.

Are You a Coward for Not Trying?

3min

89.

I Like to Get Taped

2min

90.

What's the Role of Love in the Human Condition?

2min

Roger Gracie is a legendary jiu jitsu competitor and MMA fighter. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Roger’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/rogergracie/
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Roger’s match against Marcus “Buchecha” Almeida: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L-Ni7bFAHg
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:26) – The moments before a match
(15:17) – Confidence
(29:43) – Greatest jiu jitsu match of all time
(51:04) – Renzo Gracie
(1:03:21) – Braveheart
(1:04:44) – Self-belief
(1:18:50) – Cross-collar choke
(1:22:53) – Mount position
(1:39:07) – How to progress in jiu jitsu
(1:41:22) – Best submission in jiu jitsu
(1:45:55) – The greatest competitor of all time
(1:48:01) – Roger’s statistics
(1:55:57) – MMA vs jiu jitsu
(2:04:25) – Gordon Ryan
(2:16:51) – John Danaher
(2:19:23) – Bear fight
(2:22:21) – Tie
(2:32:53) – Advice for beginners
(2:42:13) – Drilling
(2:50:09) – Roger vs Bear, Lion, Gorilla, and Anaconda
(2:55:14) – Advice for young people
(3:05:02) – Love

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Lex Fridman Podcast

#343 – Roger Gracie: Greatest Jiu Jitsu Competitor of All Time

Training to Improve vs Training to be Tough

Efficient Thinking and Strategic Moves in a Fight

Perseverance and Resilience in Training

Practice Defense: The Key to Progress

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