first thing get your hand from here what
yeah the originator of the
UFC but mamed did not have the $11,000
the man was demanding for repairs and he
said that I'm going to kill him now then
I said no you are not touching my son
and then immediately he hit me one right
hook so you don't drink alcohol pork I
don't eat pork you don't eat
pork
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asalam greetings of Peace welcome to the
dean show Media host how you doing how
you doing as always I have an exciting
program for you guys here on the dean
show we
have The Grandmaster H and Gracie this
is the originator the founder of the UFC
so those that have been watching khabib
and other greats Hoy Gracie of the
Gracie family he's a ninth degree black
belt he's the father of hon Henner uh
the brother of Hixon Hoy helson Hulker
uh we got him here how are you Horan
amazing how are you thank you for the
opportunity good good I want to Black
Bel black belt was a long time ago no no
no I mean red red belt 9th
degree I'm sorry that oh good I had a
lot a lot to get in there and I forgot
to mention probably over a span of over
10 years has probably had more challenge
matches than most people in the family
and so for those who are wondering what
are these challenge matches since most
martial arts Focus primarily in punching
and kicking flexibility power and speed
are absolute prerequisits for those
Arts so this is you now right observe
that as soon as I go into what's he
doing here he's got a nice warmup going
on huh deprived of his main
requirement the distance to strike again
that whole idea at the time was people
realize that in a real confrontation the
fights are going to end up on the ground
and if you don't know what you're doing
with the ground vulnerable he even tries
to reach from my Gro I had countless of
this kind of matches not only at a place
like this one you happun College in
California but also people come to the
garage bringing instructors
you and the results are pretty much the
same so this is you now this is a h this
is hito black belt yes hito black belt
so he goes through this not once
twice he he couldn't wrap his mind
around things
huh which is kind of understandable
position you know this actually happen
three times in a row uh a person who's
been training you know a striking yard
for a long time you know 10 15 20 years
in front of a mirror or in a school
within the frame of mind of staying at a
certain distance and trying to you know
hit your opponent with a specific Punch
or a kick it's hard for them to you know
to conceive that in a real fight it's
it's more than that now people are
realizing nowadays that a fight gets in
a clinch real quick and it goes to the
ground or you know the whole thing is
not exactly what they hope for within
the the limitation of rules so what
these people had him and many others
were just a wakeup call to say hey I
it's I can't expect my opponent to do
what I want him to do you know he's
going to do what he wants to do and my
goal and anybody else who does grappling
is to grab the opponent take him to the
ground where he's out of his Punchy and
kicking ability and then hopefully take
the guy to a submission that's the idea
this is a pretty big crowd
here uh yeah you know every time you
announce one of those matches the crowd
kept getting bigger and bigger and
bigger which eventually led to the to
the UFC you know the more times we did
this the more interesting people showed
up and then again the crowds will keep
getting bigger and I said we have to
show this to the world and that's what
led to the creation of the show yeah so
last time we had you on the program you
were giving us some good advice for some
proper uh nutrition eating uh with the
Gracie diet for Ramadan that's right you
remember that right yeah I remember that
of course this is the secret right here
guys yeah that's where it's at and
follow the comination of the grace diet
and just change our life for the better
how was the feedback did you get some
feedback from when we uh last got
together
there's always people that try for the
first time they don't want to you know
they think the word diet is very you
know has a restrictive connotation to it
but I remind them that there's not a
diet that you can't eat anything you
practically can eat anything you want as
long as you combine the foods properly
that's the idea and the whole idea
behind the concept of food combining is
to avoid blood acidity and keep your
your your body alkaline which is you
know avoiding degenerative and
contagious disease that's the idea if
you can stay your body Aline you're
protected especially nowadays now with
this whole thing going on everybody
concerned about keeping a strong immune
system and so forth uh the best thing
you can do is is let your health come
you know strong from within I I I want
to talk about some different things I
mean I'm just going to have a summary
because uh you um for people that don't
know you have a very unique history you
know you were in the grind you know
someone who came over here in the 70s if
that correct me if I remember wrong you
know multiple times and then teaching
and doing many of these um you you
attained your law degree back in um
Brazil came over here you were at a YMCA
one time and then you ended up uh you
know leaving your money and your
documents and then ended up getting
stolen right and then you prolonged your
trip for seven months for 6 months you
know and um ended up actually on the
street for some time P you know begging
for for money working as a dishwasher
clean I mean you just been through so
much you know it didn't you didn't get
to where you were easily you know you
were in The Grind give up though you
didn't give up well that's the whole
idea is that um everybody has problems
you know life is about problems the
question is how you deal with that
there's no such a thing that having in
life just a bed of roses and you have
nothing to worry about no concerns it's
not it and I learned very early on in my
life that all bad things happen for a
good
reason so I I welcome you know
uncertainty and not being quite sure
exactly what's going to happen that's
almost a you know I feel I'm not
comfortable in that kind of state of
mind you know not having guaranteed
everything and that had made made it
possible for me to try some things that
are you know potentially very wild and
crazy and oh my gosh it's not going to
work and I tried I tried before I know
it it's happening and uh it would be
life would have been very different if I
didn't feel confident that even under a
very stressful situation there's always
something that we can do that can turn
things around people that not willing to
take a chance they're not really going
to do much and you know like the saying
goes if you want to take over the island
you better sink the boat you came in so
that's what it takes you know I came
here determined to make it happen and
the result is that we ultimately change
the world uh tell me I want to do
something different here I want to do
some breakdowns with you uh watch some
uh some videos and get your perspective
but before that you also just going into
what you said there's a lot of wisdom in
some of the things that you talk about
and experiences and some stories one was
uh if you can share with us it stood out
with me when you were modeling the
academy down there and you needed this
uh Beam for the uh and then the the
people who are going to be doing the
stule or whatever they gave you a
timeline said it's tomorrow or the next
day and then you ended up in Home Depot
and you needed this one part but the
moral of the story you could take it
from here was that you had always this
Faith you know what I mean and you had
this belief that things happened for a
reason you know what I mean like there
was a higher power the crater you know
watching over and you're it's like you
were making I'm sure within yourself
these prayers and God like answer them
you know you had
Faith that's I me ultimately that's what
it comes down to you know is that uh you
have to believe I you know we're just
little grains of sand you know
throughout this the whole world that we
live in and I I have no doubt at least
I'm very convinced strong believer that
there is something up there people call
it God or you know whatever you want to
call him you know just whatever but the
bottom line is that there's something
over there that runs the universe and
that me the story that you mentioned
that I really I need a specific uh
support like a metal support to fix a
beam at the new Academy with you know
the guy was going to come in the next
day to put this stuck I had to have that
done so um I went to Home Depot and I
asked for the lady I need something like
this you know specific size she said we
don't carry that size we only have the
little small size which is you know for
home use and stuff like that that's an
industrial size what you're looking for
and I said where's the aisle that you
keep keep the little homeside stuff she
said well I 8 whatever so I went to I 8
and I looked around and as I'm looking
around I find one which is exactly what
I wanted you know the the industrial
size and I brought it to the front desk
she said Hey listen lady you said I
didn't have it but I found one she said
well we don't sell this I don't know
what it's doing back there in fact she
run the barcode scanner thing and she
scanned the little thing on the side of
it she said she it's not even from this
shop I can't sell it's not it doesn't
belong to Home Depot somebody must left
it over there I mean I can't even charge
for it take it home so I took it with me
for free something that if you go any
other Home Depot at the time they
wouldn't have it now they probably have
it in the stock but at the time they
didn't have it bottom line is she didn't
charge me for it I found exactly the one
piece I needed inside of a shop Like
Home Depot to finish the job that day so
the next morning the stule people could
come in and finish the front of the
whole building in other words if that
little some p wasn't there it would be
in a mess but like you said you know
every time I take a step in doing
something in my life I come in with a
lot of faith that something is going to
happen there's something watching over
me and that's you know it has happened
I've learned to count on that kind of
help how that and it's fascinating how
it works just amazing here's uh let's
get into some of these videos and your
reactions so we know how important the
headlock Escape is you have variations
from the top to the bottom and let's get
into uh comments and thoughts on this
this first thing you want to do your ti
P I keep pop on my neck hand in here p p
see difficult yeah first thing get your
hand around here yeah what yeah and
control your hand see your hand I
control this hand here because if I let
this hand go your might coming into
smack in the face see you see what I
mean so this hand I grab your thumb th
here yeah yeah and hand here M now it's
forc into the slide here okay so now uh
difficult for for you to move now
move
move you see the idea yeah what happened
there then tell them what happened there
you squeeze my Thum against the the
metal so when I told about F all the
time yeah Pi we outside you put me
headlock no no no no go slowly [\h__\h]
around man so I got to pull this hand
squee hard yeah and when I do this your
reaction see my hand now got your thumb
I will bring this Clos to here yeah so
when I been in here I want for that see
like here now so uh this is in case you
try fight me back if you fight me back I
see I forc it into here to make sure
you're in pain yeah I hold this hand
tight so difficult for you to hurt me
now if someone has seen them seen it all
you've seen it all you've youve youve
went you've you've went against all
different Grand Masters in Hiro akido
kungu and whatnot and you've battle
tested you know that was the whole thing
of the USC battle testing not just in
theory how many people have those
conversations well my style your style
his style but come on it's a science
behind the jiujitsu the gra Jujitsu
there's a science behind because it was
Battle tested what do you think of uh
when you see uh this kind of what do you
uh what are your thoughts your reactions
well you know it's he's presenting one
way in a circumstance that you made it
possible to work I mean he's going to do
what he thinks Works ultimately for me
is like you said is Battle tested you
know the Jujitsu Brazilian Jujitsu that
we practice have been done over and over
for generations and have the results
that we see today the whole world has
embraced that the question of the person
the demonstrate a technique like that so
see if it works for him great how would
that work in a real fight you know
against someone who's you know bigger
heavy and stronger swinging punch at him
is that we have to one way to find out
is go in there and do it have you seen
have you been in situations where you
have people who they're they're
mesmerizing you know people where
they'll throw some kind of you know um
Force energy the guy people people their
students will fall to the floor and
whatnot and then have you gone up
against people like this and just
dismantled and just put everybody's you
know people who maybe they're sincere
some people it's a gimmick you know and
a lot of people sadly they end up uh
developing this false sense of security
and that's what we want to try to avoid
you want to make sure if you're training
the martial art that it's going to
really be able to benefit you if you're
attacked if you're in a life-threatening
situation you don't want to train for 20
30 years and then everything goes to
waste you know sense of confidence of
the art well my idea was not to destroy
people's self-confidence or you know
that was never the intent yeah I've had
you know dozens hundreds of people come
to the garage back in the day because
they couldn't believe you know when
their students start telling hey I want
to train JJ instead of training this Mar
with you they guy say hey I want to I
want to fight this jyp guy so they would
bring the instructors to the AC I mean
to the garage and we had a chance to SP
with hundreds of people in a very humane
way you know like I said most of the
time the people that came to fight to
try to beat me up were so impressed with
the Simplicity and the effectiveness
that Jujitsu would allow me to have to
overcome and control the situation I gu
said I need to learn this and a lots and
lots and lots of them became students
and friends and supporters of the whole
thing nothing against all martial arts
if it works for you great the bottom
line is you have to think in terms of
how would that out thereare in an actual
street fight if you have a technique
that works great the reason I created
the UFC to make that very
clear it was so the people would compare
different styles of martial arts the
very first UFC's if you recall they were
specifically I would pick different
representatives of different styles put
him on on the Octagon close the gate and
say do whatever you want two guys walk
in one guy walks out that's the that's
how he makes it work so ultimately crazy
resilience jits will prevail in such a
way that nobody goes into the UFC today
at least having an idea of some basic of
grappling if you don't you don't have a
chance so my mission was accomplished
when I was able to convey the message
that you need to know how to fight on
the ground and that's what the whole
idea you know came about and I was
fortunately very successful at
demonstrating that made a point of it
and voice goes in there the smallest
lightest guy determin and shows
everybody else how it's done let's go
into uh this next video I need bread go
in your pocket Stop diing The Man in the
Yellow sweatshirt is living came for my
fidget bro's go after his car was
clipped Saturday night here in Jackson
Heights this is an accident accidents do
happen C down I'll give you whatever you
need to to get said okay pay me up now I
need money right there but M AED did not
have the $11,000 the man was demanding
for repairs and he said that I'm going
to kill him now then I said no you are
not touching my son and then immediately
he hit me one right hook M's son Adele
watched his father fall to the ground
here on 70th Street and and I've never
seen my dad knocked out in and put in
such a humiliating way like this never
you know and I just did the loudest yell
that I could possibly do I just like it
was so loud but I wanted to cry I
couldn't a woman was with the guy in the
sweatshirt she tried to stop him but
then watch as he goes after Adele ad
point you know I think you saw I was
kind of in a prone position so I just
kind of did this and you know I I was
just I could hear you know pound pound
Pound police say the attacker took their
phones and wallet but me I was just
shaking on controller I don't want
anybody else to go through it because
the guy he did it to me he will do it to
somebody else maybe next time it will be
worse and while the welts are starting
to heal the emotional wounds are raw I
was embarrassed that I couldn't do
anything to protect my father that this
man just trampled you know on our
dignity that was really sad to see what
what are your reactions now uh when you
see something could this if someone was
trained you know a level of blue belt if
he knew you know there's absolutely no
way that that would have happened you
definitely had the elements to control
his that's number one uh unfortunately
we live in a world that is you know
getting crazier and Crazier by the
minute and people like that are not
going to disappear aggressors and
attackers like that criminals should be
punished you know to the full extent of
the law but sometimes you just can't
expect somebody to be protecting all the
time that is the importance of knowing
how to defend yourself this man should
learn find a place where he can learn to
defend himself and practice that and
that would be good for him give himself
confidence and the ability to defend
himself but ultimately you just don't
count on people being around to protect
you you have to know how to do it
yourself and again
those hoodlums are going to be around
forever it's part of life so yeah just
it has me thinking just you know because
a lot of people train jiujitsu but uh
the butterfly guard and other things
that's I mean it's effective when you're
playing sports Jiu-Jitsu but just
knowing the core elements of Gracie
Brazen jiujitsu is what we we teach at
our Academy also and this is what the
Gracie uh system is about uh is teaching
you how to defend yourself in these
situations absolutely the idea of
jujitsu has all
prepare you to defend yourself it's
ultimately it's a self-defense system so
yes the best you know what I'm saying so
if you just want to see this sportive
aspect of jiujitsu which is really good
nothing wrong you know how to you know
Spa on the ground and roll around and
stuff like that is great but
sometimes what happens an individual
goes into a school where the focus for
example is sportive juj right so the
guy's training up goes up in the ranks
you know blue purple brown eventually
gets a black belt wins a tournament as a
black belt and because he was is able to
hold a a certain position he gets an
advantage and now he wins a t a
tournament and now he's got a black belt
and now he also up open up a school he
opens up a school and he's going to
teach what he knows which is the same
concept of
this depriving his students from
learning the ultimate program of
self-defense which is basically the idea
behind jiujitsu to begin with so because
the focus is going to be just on the
sparring aspect of it and the sportive
aspect of it the students will never
have the opportunity to learn something
that could protect them in a real life
situation that is the
problem and in fact this book here that
my father did called graci Jujitsu which
is now available it's now available this
the second the
revised Edition on it's uh you know we
doing a special sale on the book If you
go to Amazon you can find it over there
for a special price $25 off covers all
the standup techniques exactly the stuff
you're talking about which is a moves
like this that shows you what to do in
different
circumstances that if you get you know
find yourself in different positions no
matter what that
is it covers all the different
possibilities like different attacks and
stuff like that this is the original
self-defense program that my father
developed back in the 50s for the
original raci Academy in Brazil and so
forth so I highly recommend that you
practice not only this kind of
techniques but find a school where self
the fast as the focus you know that's
the idea I saw one time a video and and
this is how just stressing how important
it is like basic things like headlock
Escape because someone can go ahead and
hold your head and just by knowing the
proper technique of turning in towards
the person instead of away because I saw
a video where someone was was choking
someone and the person turns their head
opposite and what happens they end up in
a choke now and the the person ended up
going unconscious and now the person
who's holding it he doesn't know to let
go and he continu to hold so only God
knows if he ended up you know brain
damag kill the guy but if you know just
from a few CL one class that you end up
going to and you learn the techniques
you know from that class that can be
applied right away if something was to
go down absolutely they make all the
difference knowing what to do and not
knowing makes all the difference you
know down the street you don't know if
you turn left or right you know you go
left goes to one place you go right to
go in another Direction so having a
little bit of knowledge and this program
was devised to teach you the whole
General Concept in like 36 classes it's
basically it's all you need you know and
if you get the basics on that no matter
what situation you find yourself in
eventually at least you have an idea of
which way to go it makes a huge
difference now some might ask what do
you do in this situation Horan this is
now a woman and what what was your
reaction to something like this now a
violent car jacking at a gas station in
northwest Houston all of this caught on
camera yeah thieves attacked and they
robbed a woman there the good news is
police found her car and they have that
surveillance video right there that may
help track down these guys yeah Chris
Costa is live with more on how to stay
safe in these kind of situations and
avoid becoming a victim
Chris yeah Russ and raika Crim Stoppers
of Houston say these types of robberies
happen all the time almost every day the
good news for that woman those security
cameras got a clear look at the
suspect's
faces the moment a woman is attacked
gets caught on camera two men conf front
a woman at a gas station in the middle
of the night the cameras at the station
get a clear look at their faces one man
grabs the woman she immediately tries to
take a swipe to protect herself to keep
them off of her the other starts going
through her truck the woman fights back
kicking at her attacker until they both
take off stealing her truck sad to see
and it's interesting he said they happen
every day what someone says look how's
Gracie Jutsu going to benefit me there
well number one is her safety it's
important that you understand that two
males attacking one woman there's a very
good chance that she could get very
seriously injured you could be armed or
endless possibilities so by her getting
away from the guy which is a smart thing
to do is one thing she also you know as
you saw she was on the ground using the
feet to keep the guy away which is a you
know one way to keep the distance she
did what she could in there assuming
that she didn't know anything but you
can't expect a woman to learn
selfdefense and go out and hunt and beat
guys up that's not the idea the idea is
to defend your I think she was very
lucky that uh they you know just took
whatever she could took the truck and
got away lucky that she was in a
situation that was well lit and the
cameras C the bad guys again criminals
in hoodlums are going to be attacking
people all the time it's up to you to
have at least a little bit of a basic
knowledge of what to do so you can
increase your chance of success and
hopefully getting away safely and UNH
harm yeah that's what I often tell my
students is I mean now you're equipped
you know to have a little more
confidence you know to deal with some
situations so at least you can get
yourself out and you can and if not to
go and if you don't need to fight you
can flee at least you can get out you
know instead of being totally vulnerable
yeah and this is what we see like uh
your your father um Carlos Gracie Helio
Gracie you know the the system that was
developed it was about survival was
about you know a small person being able
to uh fight off and survive against
someone who is much larger stronger
dominant
and we see your father you know fighting
for like 3 hours and 40 minutes in some
yes is that yeah the the idea if you
don't if you know a woman like that for
example being able to go home she want
yeah you know what I'm saying if if you
see a cheetah chasing the little deer if
the deer escapes he won he doesn't have
to go out you know as long as he goes
home that night he did all right uhhuh I
remember you were talking about this
love and reverence that uh Helio had for
Carlos Carlos for Helio they were you
know uh they also between the two had 30
kids yes yeah and uh tell us any stories
that come to mind you know from I know
your father at one time he actually
saved someone from a ship right someone
was uh he jumped off the ship to bring
them in yeah the guy they were going
from northern Brazil on a ship nor
Brazil to Rio and halfway down the coast
a passenger you know goes into the water
nobody knew at the time but the guy was
trying to commit suicide that's how he
got in there yeah but then they see a
guy floating on the water and everybody
sees that eventually the captain sends a
boat with five Sailors to rescue the man
and the guyy is like you know a couple
hundred yards away from the ship by the
time they got to him and the man was so
weak that every time the little boat the
tides were going very you know up and
down and every time the little boat got
close to him it would get a grip on the
man the tide would lift up the boat and
they would lose grip on the guy and they
tried that over and over over several
times my father was on the deck of the
ship Thinking Out Loud said how come
somebody from the little boat does not
jump in the water so they can help the
guy up because the man is obviously too
weak he can barely keep himself AF flat
and uh a sailor behind him said this is
Abus thinking that my father knew what
abio meant and my dad had no idea abio
happens to be the one of the highest
concentration of sharks on the Atlantic
Ocean AB Reef on the coast of braer so
what the guy meant is they're not going
in because there because is sharkland
you know anyways my father not knowing
that uh just watching like everybody
else's situation until the captain
signals to the guys on the boat to
relieve I mean to to let the guy leave
The Man Behind and roll back to the ship
so now this Sailors are rowing back to
the ship after leaving the guy behind
the middle of the ocean so at that point
my father turned to his brother Carlos
said that man is going to be left to die
you know you you want to go save the guy
uncle car said I I can't make it and my
father said I think I can he said go for
it so my dad down stripped down his
clothes and you know to his jocks or
whatever and then jumps off the ship he
said when he was Airborne he thought hm
what if there are
sharks you can't rewind that button so
he went flat on his stomach swimming
towards the guy as as a little boat is
returning to the ship and say let's go
back and they turn around they all go
back to where the man is and ultimately
he is in the water with the guy helps
the guy out and put him on the on little
boat and they bring the guy back to the
ship and so
forth and uh when he returns to the ship
uh they you know Hoist the boat
up and then everything is resolved and
my father is ultimately called into the
Captain's Quarters the captain want to
talk to him and he said Captain I'm
sorry said Mr Grace don't say anything
said the captain to him let me tell you
something if my mother had come to visit
me here in this region in this area and
on getting out of the boat to step into
the ship she fell in the water and her
life would depend on me fishing her out
of the water with my foot I wouldn't do
it for my mother so what you did is
nothing to apologize for congratulations
thank you very much blah the whole thing
to a big party for anyone to ship and
stuff like that was good many years
later I asked my dad dad were you
afraid he said hold I was absolutely
petrified when he jumped he said I was
so scared that I was swiming as fast as
I could to get to the man so that if
shark showed a shark showed up he would
have a choice of biting him instead of
biting me that's how scared I
was so
ultimately feeling fear is only a
natural thing of course especially under
the circumstances but I want to I want
to bring the attention here to our
listeners that fear is part of life you
know to be afraid of a certain situation
here's a is a defense mechanism that
wants to protect you anybody who says
I'm not afraid of anything I'll do
anything that's an inconsequent person
it's not that he's not afraid he's just
not thinking straight he's not very
bright you have to measure your chance
of success to jump on the water that
potentially shark infested water is
something that you should be afraid of
you know what I'm saying however what my
father saw in that circumstance was that
he saw his
mission as something bigger than his
fear so for him the idea of seeing a man
drowned to death it was not he couldn't
accept that he said if I can I'm going
to try to help the guy so he jumped was
swimming like I said very very scared
got to the man and did put the guy
inside the help to put the guy on the
boat and save the guy's life again he
embraced his fear as something bigger
you know I mean his mission as something
bigger than his fear so this is what we
have to do sometimes they find ourselves
in a very difficult spot and you have to
kind of be able to to understand that
you know prioritize yourself and see if
it's something that you should be you
know pushing as hard as you can with
your life behind it and so forth but
fear is just part of the deal don't
expect to live without fear because
that's not going to happen once again
we're with uh the innovator the founder
the originator of the UFC the one who
started it all ninth degree red belt uh
Grandmaster H and Gracie uh this was
before Dana White where was Dana White
at that
time I don't
know few years before him he did a great
job promoting the thing though yeah I
must take my hat the guy did an amazing
job took it to make it yeah one of the
biggest you know if not the fastest
growing sport in the world very popular
all over the place I'm very happy that
it was a good transition one time I was
having dinner with him and I said hey I
feel like I fathered the baby you
adopted a child sent him to Harvard now
the kid is running Wall Street wow my
baby you know yeah but many people don't
know that this was before Dana before
the the two brothers this was way this
yeah this is the the original you know
when it all started yeah and you were
doing all these even before the UFC I
mean these challenge matches that that
were happening you know to prove without
a doubt that Gracie Jutsu is the most
effective martial art not just by Theory
but actually this was a science it was
Battle tested and then you went above
and beyond and you started also to um
bring back to light something that
Carlos Gracie was really adamant about
about nutrition and the last time I
remember I'll never forget I used I
still use this a lot when I'm talking
about one of my favorite subjects uh
nutrition is uh how people are managing
the symptoms and not going to the root
of the problem and strengthening the
immune system and you made an example
it's just like the check engine light
that comes on and you put a Band-Aid
over it that's right I got that from you
you remember that and then uh take off
with this take off with this you said
the world champion who cannot beat
his desire for ice
cream uh you know this is a big problem
what talk about this well ultimately you
know for you to be successful at
anything one of the strong
ingredients is discipline discipline
yeah you have to M self- Sy to have the
willower to do what it takes if you want
to be to succeed and Excel and you go
beyond everything it's going to require
that you have certain qualities you know
the willpower the self-control the
discipline to do that is really
important and uh if you want to be
healthy you have to study Health the
same way you learn you know you want to
be an engineer you have to study
engineering and if you're going to be a
doctor a teacher whatever pianist you
have to study that subject and most
people learn to eat great grandma that
teaches Gramma Grandma teaches mom mom
teaches us and we're going to teach our
kids what we like to eat for most people
the pleasure the flavor becomes the
determining Factor Why you eat some
things and you don't eat other things I
like it I eat it I don't like it I don't
need it but likeing just because you
like it doesn't mean it's good for you
the trick is to learn to like the things
that are good for you that's the secret
it's easier for you to develop the habit
for something that's not you know good
for your health so the secret for
failure is a few bad habits repeated
every day you keep doing the same thing
over and over you know eventually you
have to pay that bill you know it's
going to have to catch up with you you
can't assume that you keep doing
something wrong over and over and over
it's going to going to catch up with you
while the same way the secret for you
know the see the formula for failure is
to repeat the same bad habits every
single
day the formula for success is to
embrace new healthy habits little by
little it keep changing you have to
rearrange your lifestyle you have to
choose the right thing you know we're
here to grow and to spiritually mature
and evolved and so forth you can't
you're not here just to eat wake up in
the morning have breakfast you know what
I'm saying and then go to work and make
a paycheck go to the bathroom and go to
sleep at night and just that's not it we
have to grow more than anything there
spiritual aspect of our life and uh the
food the discipline of learning to eat
the right thing is very important when I
was 5 years old I would go to birthday
parties with my brothers and when we get
there the fathers of the kids would cut
a piece of you know chocolate cake or
whatever give it to everybody a piece of
cake would say no thank you very much
it's not my time to eat you know I have
a 5-year-old kid telling an adult it's
not my time to eat thank you very much
you call my dad say hey what's going on
the kids here in a birthday party not
eating the cakes it's not his time to
eat and my father have to explain that
we have a certain diet and we eat
certain things we just went there to
party and play with the kids but don't
worry about us as far as feeding us of
course my dad was wise enough to feed us
dinner before we went to the party so
they would not be hungry looking at a
piece of chocolate cake wanting to eat
that but where everybody's already you
know full and you know just went there
to play literally and uh for us the
concept of learning how to eat properly
was much more than just the food
combination was the fact that we
developed a level of discipline that
would serice in different aspects of our
life when you we talking about L time
right before Ramadan you know why don't
you know why do you why do you do that
why you obey that concept why can't you
just go home by yourself and just say
there's nobody home I'm going to stuff
myself at noon because you know this is
not a way it's at you have to respect
certain things you have to look at
yourself in the mirror and say I'm doing
the right thing so the same thing for us
was for me or for the family was the
concept of the diet we eat certain
things we don't mix certain things
there's a certain guideline and I'm 70
years old it be 70 in a couple of months
I feel great I never never had a cavity
in my life wow my body work I don't take
medicine for anything I'm 70 years old
the average guy after 50 is taking five
kills a day you know what I'm saying
everything works fine the way it should
my my clothes size that I wear today is
the same thing I was wearing 25 50 years
ago when I was 25 years old so bottom
line is that it pays off to be healthy
in the long run I think I mentioned to
you the last time I saw my
dad I went to visit the old man on his
Ranch in Brazil 6 months before he
passed away he was 94 and a half I went
to visit the old man and when I get
there he gives me a kiss and say hold on
let's go on the math I want to show you
a new choke I'm working on at 94 he
kicked my butt I mean that's the way
life should be you live them as long as
you're young and then you die you know
what I'm saying because because all of
us we know people that we love dearly
and as they get older they start
deteriorating and getting weaker and
sick and just kind of the whole thing
start falling out it's sad and
unfortunately for them going through
that kind of painful sometimes
experience and for us there's not much
we can do we watch a lot of person just
kind of you know deteriorate and just
kind of Define it's not good my dad was
different he lived like this for a long
time you know and then went away one day
he just gone that's the way it should be
you know that's the way it should be for
all of us but if you don't invest on
your health
now it's it's going to be one of those
that just goes like a little bit getting
worse by the and that's not good that's
not healthy that's you know my my theory
is that you have to seriously consider
how do you want to spend the last 10
years of your life do you want to spend
10 years you know joyfully enjoying
playing with your children grandchildren
and great grandchildren you know rolling
around visiting you know traveling and
having fun and then one way there you
wake up and say I'm out of here like my
father did or do you want just getting
sicker and sicker and getting worse and
all kinds of health problem that's not
it that's not what it's at I'm living
proof that thisg Grace and Di Stu work
the combination pays off spent 65 years
studying food combine W and he was not a
doctor he just did research on his own
came up with some amazing conclusions on
how you should combine your food and if
you mind I'm give you a quick breakdown
here of two minutes yes please number
one number one we do not mix starches
when I eat bread I don't eat potato if I
eat rice I don't eat beans everybody in
Brazil is riceing beans I don't so it's
the fact that everybody else is doing is
out of ignorance they're not sure
exactly why and why not they just
develop the habit of doing it so we
don't mix starches okay it's better for
you to have two hamburgers than have one
hamburger and one french fries because
the bread and the potato are different
starch they should not be mixed on the
same meal I can have the rice and I can
have the beans but not rice and beans
together that's the idea so that's rule
number one number two when we eat food
like cooked food that is prepared with
oil or butter or fat of any kind we do
not eat sugar in other words after you
have a meal that you have you know fish
or chicken and vegetables and pasta for
example you don't want to have fruits
you don't want to have a bowl of ice
cream or a piece of a cake for dessert
there's no dessert because they usually
have sugar and sugar with the fat that
the food was prepared with is not a good
healthy commodation for you so no
deserve two reasons number one you're
not hungry after you have a meal you
usually are not hungry you just like a
little sweet because it tastes good that
5 minute of pleasure there has long time
negative consequence on your health if
you do that for a long time not good for
you so take me you know trust me on that
and rule number
three is that you must wait for one meal
to digest completely before you eat a
second meal in other words if you have a
meal at 8:00 in the morning you have to
wait at least 4 and a half to 5 hours
until you eat the next meal there's no
such a thing as snacks in between me we
don't have a bre breakfast at 8:00 in
the morning and then at 10:30 11:00 you
have a fruit or you know a little cookie
a cup of coffee and then a couple hours
later you eat lunch no such a thing how
about liquids what about something like
liquids only water
only water fresh coconut water or
regular water how about water with lemon
with lemon and honey no no no no
absolutely not no in fact lemon is an
acidic fruit which is extremely
beneficial for your health but it has to
be taken almost as a medicine when I
consume lemon I make a half a glass of
lemon juice plle half I can NE put water
or sparkling water or fresh coconut
water and I drink that once a week some
a major boost for your immune system
very good drink that meal pure as a meal
8:00 in the morning then I wait until
1:00 2:00 in the afternoon and have
regular lunch and St like that yeah cuz
I know I mean we know water is so
important but getting the water the
enough enough water into the system by
itself sometimes it could be daunting So
I myself I I like to put um lemon a
whole lemon into the water and a and a
little bit of U just a little bit of
honey and I'll drink a lot of water this
way what do you think I don't I I highly
recommend you don't do that no no lemon
no honey no nothing just water just
water got to get used when you're drink
if anything drink coconut water fresh
coconut water don't get the one in the
box or a can or stuff like that they
usually are not that good but the B if
we can have access to fresh coconut
great if not just regular water okay you
know just healthy so that we can do
interviews like this every 10 years yeah
absolutely yes uh and next time we got
we got to make it you know I've been
down there if you're going to visit if
I'm we got to do one in person if you're
ever in Chicago I don't know if in the
future you plan on being in Chicago we
can bring you actually in the studio or
if uh I'm there in in California
hopefully we can meet in person do the
interview in person next time how's that
sound yeah how the plan good uh so just
a few more questions before we uh
conclude uh and just is just to comment
on you know it's it's really tragic it's
sad because you have 70% of uh us here
in
America that are obese or overweight you
have this is the first generation of
kids not expected to outlive their
parents you know you have um you know
people on multiple cocktail of
medications you know what I mean one one
in I believe it's one in two males
suppos suspected to have cancer one to
three females uh it's just chronic
diseases is just an epidemic explo we
prescribe more drugs but we have more
sick people it doesn't make sense and
nobody the majority of people the
healthcare system is not talking about
you know the food you know and most
people don't link the food that they put
put into their body to the disease and
everything that's happening because the
system is not set up like that correct
hypocrates the father of medicine said
that let thy food be thy medicine and
thy medicine be thy food but nobody does
that you know I do yeah it's it's crazy
yeah so this is so important we want to
stress this you know uh this fact about
food you know get your food right you
know this is going to be tremendous for
having an impact on your health once
again the book the book is available on
Amazon I highly recommend your your
listeners to check it out you know it's
the best thing you can do for your
health yeah so you don't drink Dr
alcohol no you don't e uh I believe I'm
if if I was I read the book um years ago
pork I don't eat pork you don't eat pork
okay uh one thing when they get that
they recommend people don't do is to eat
pork okay I personally don't eat red
meat you know maybe chicken once a month
once every a couple of months and I
would fish once in a while yeah so we we
we end up uh we shouldn't eat that much
meat I mean is over consumption of meat
but you're you're not you don't restrict
yourself once in a while while you
you'll also eat meat right chicken like
you just said I just kind of lost the
taste for it you I just the taste of it
doesn't mean but yes it's on the diet
okay if you want to eat it combines with
the gra what was he Carlos Gracie Jr was
talking about something about taking on
the attributes of when you eat red meat
you know this let's say you eat the the
meat of an animal that is aggressive
this will make you more aggressive this
was the philosophy something like that
is there something to
that um I'm not sure exactly what it
meant on that Uncle K was you know the
idea of eating red meat he himself did
not eat Uncle talk about Uncle K his son
I was talking about his son yeah yeah
yeah yeah you know the meat of a lion
you're going to be aggressive as a lion
I'm not sure exactly when he met but he
probably is the animal when he going to
be slaughtered there do a stress or very
you know tense and stress all that she
kind of stuff maybe that's what he meant
yeah something like that yeah by eating
that kind of meat I mean you just my who
knows what kind of you know residuals
are going to go in there and going to be
assimilating that kind of stuff so for
whatever reason you're better off not
eating red meat I agree with that so you
have um no pork no smoking no drinking
eating good food having a big family I
mean um you know uh in Islam we're
allowed to have up to four wives I don't
know if
you've so but you have to take care of
them all individually they have to have
their own own place you have to you know
monetarily take care of them it's not
like you know they're all in the same
you know but yeah so this is a respon a
huge responsibility but then I just see
the similarities you know I see much
there you know when you you know you're
yourself you have 10 kids also big
family is it 10 kids or 11 now yeah your
father had uh between him and them two
30 yeah my dad had nine had 21 yeah so
and I and I would see I would see like
you know quotations from your father he
was he would mention God are these were
these actual his words you know whenever
there would be something about the
Creator about God oh my father was a man
of Faith he believed there was a
definitely a Creator there that run the
universe for sure but uh yeah not a
churchgoing man but was a strong a firm
believer on the Creator yes yeah this
was something I mean my my family's from
the heart of Europe Bosnia you've been
you've been in different places in
Europe right have you ever been to like
croaa Serb Bosnia anywhere around there
no love to get to see and visit oh this
is a you know put it on your to-do list
but it's interesting this is where you
know the roots there there were also the
people my her tradition the the um
Bosnian people they were also ones who
believed in one God the cre they didn't
go to the churches or they believed in
Jesus but not as a literal God or Son of
God and when when Islam came it fit like
a glove the pure monotheism only
worshiping the Creator not the creation
then they accepted it so and then all
these other you know it was the belief
in just one and only one God and being
morally upright so you see this you know
this from yourself and your the the
family not I mean we all have people in
our family who do opposite to many of
the things but uh it seems like there's
this good Moral Moral code this compass
and also many of these things it's very
very uh very refreshing to see
especially in a day and age like this
where you know it's all sorts of Madness
and crazy and no discipline will powers
out the window and people are just
following their desires and passions and
sinking like a sinking ship right
immediate pleasure that kind of stuff
it's not good yeah take a long term on
everything for sure so let me uh let's
end with this you you talked about
spiritual U evolving spiritually and
again I just wanted to do something
different to show uh people can go back
and see many of your other interviews
for much more of the history and whatnot
but um I think a lot of the audience we
have a varay of different people from
all over the world I think they would
just really appreciate this next video
just to get your reaction just you know
for a minute to tell us uh what kind of
uh music do you think this is what does
it sound like you know just whatever you
think uh from listening to this for one
minute
yeah yeah it's it's nice saying and in
good guidelines I guess ultimately
that's what every religion I guess has
to as a goal is to inspire its followers
to do what's what's best and do the
right thing so I think somewhere in
there they all kind of connect going for
the same thing it's nice it's a
Grandmaster H and Gracie again really
nice to reunite with you and have you on
the program and again the book now very
important self-defense being able to
defend yourself you find yourself in
such a vulnerable situation like you saw
the Father and Son the guy knocks both
of them out you know and the antidote
for that is getting educated in Gracie
Brazilian Jitsu and then you put your as
we have a saying you tie your camel then
you put your trust in God right yeah
have faith in Allah up your camel yes
yes and two more things if you don't
mind number one is that people that want
to hear more stories about the graci
they should check out Gracie museum.com
graci museum.com that's one it's a
virtual Museum that you can do a 360 uh
tour in there really interesting and of
course the book until October 5th is on
sale on Amazon $25 off I highly
recommend that as well and if you want
to be healthy the Gracey diet check it
out thank you so much again it's honored
to be with you again and hopefully God
willing we can meet up against soon
thank you very much again God bless you
thank you very much you're welcome thank
you so much all right