They guy translating for Rickson is one of the best kept secrets in Japan. He’s one of the best Jiujitsu Sensei in Japan, a Rickson Gracie Blackbelt, his dojo is amazing, and he’s the President of the Japanese Jiujitsu Federation of Japan.
If the BJJ practitioner knows the core of jiujitsu he could be very successful in competition , MMA as well as street because techniques with some differences are the same and leverage also remain in place .
cherif legraf I think he realizes that in this era of crosstraining with x- guards, spider guards, rubber guard technique junkies he soon forget the basics. These are similar concepts to what Karl Gotch and Billy Robinson were teaching Inoki..and the lineage through Sakuraba.
@9h0stPhantom98 wrong there are coral belts Black mixed with Red and White mixed with Red. But he got awarded with Grandmaster Red Belt but he said he will put it in the safe :) He got Red Belt in 2017 while having Black Belt for 40+ years
I have watched many many videos, And by far, this is the most wonderful teaching of Jiu Jitsu I have ever seen. I am so grateful for this incredible video. ¡Gracias! Oosss!
Vale Tudo Japan In 1994, Rickson was contacted by Erik Paulson to compete in Satoru Sayama's event Vale Tudo Japan. Gracie traveled to Japan and participated in the tournament, firstly facing Daido-juku stylist Yoshinori Nishi. Gracie took him down and Nishi answered with a lockdown from half guard, but the Brazilian was able to pass his guard and catch him with a rear naked choke when Nishi turned his back. He later faced much larger wing chun practitioner Dave Levicki, but he was an even easier prey once taken down, and Rickson won by TKO after a flurry of punches. Gracie then fought American kickboxer Bud Smith at the finals, winning by the same method in even less time and getting the tournament's victory. The same year, pro wrestler Yoji Anjo came to Rickson's dojo to challenge him, after failed negotiations about Gracie wrestling for Union of Wrestling Force International. Gracie was the faster in the fight and performed abundant ground and pound on Anjo, who did not surrender, so Gracie choked him unconscious. A year later, Gracie was invited again to the next Vale Tudo Japan. In the first round he faced pro wrestler Yoshihisa Yamamoto from Fighting Network Rings, who unlike Rickson's previous opponents managed to keep him away from the mat by using the ropes and even tried a guillotine choke. However, Gracie eventually took him down and choked him. He squared against another pro wrestler in the form of Koichiro Kimura, swiftly defeating him, then met shoot wrestler Yuki Nakai at the finals. Nakai, who was almost blind from an earlier match against Gerard Gordeau, put up strong resistance to Rickson, but the Brazilian master managed to take his back and choke him for another tournament win. PRIDE In 1997, Gracie signed up to a fight against Yoji Anjo's superior Nobuhiko Takada in the Pride 1 event. Before the Tokyo Dome's 47,860 spectators, Rickson defeated the inexperienced Takada, mounting him and locking an armbar in 4:47. Immediately after the event, Fighting Network Rings's chairman Akira Maeda challenged Gracie, but got no answer.[9] Now enjoying a growing popularity in Japan, according to Gracie he was proposed to fight Mario Sperry at Pride 3, but the process was stopped due to Carlson Gracie's disavowal.[10] Pride management also offered him to take Royce Gracie's place in his cancelled match with Mark Kerr, but he refused, citing one month to be a too short time to prepare.[10] Finally, Rickson agreed to sign up to a rematch against Takada at Pride 4, stating: "I feel Takada is a warrior and deserves the chance to try and redeem himself."[10] In their rematch, Takada had improved and was able to wrestle Rickson to neutralize his groundwork advantage, but the Brazilian master used a failed leglock attempt from the Japanese to sweep him and mount him. Nonetheless, Takada kept fighting under the jiu-jitsu master, dismounting him and threatening with a heel hook attempt, but Gracie, who was waiting until the end of the round to prevent Takada from capitalizing should he miss his opportunity,[11] applied an armbar and submitted him again. Colosseum In May 2000, after Takada understudy Kazushi Sakuraba defeated Royler Gracie in the Pride 8 event, he took the mic and challenged Rickson, who was in the Gracie corner, but nothing came of it.[12] Gracie preferred to face Pancrase's retired ace Masakatsu Funaki at Colosseum event. The event almost got canceled, as Rickson demanded special rules which forbade elbows, headbutts, knee strikes and thrusts to the head or body (standing or on the ground), but the Pancrase management eventually conceded.[13] At the event, held at the Tokyo Dome and broadcast to 30 million TV Tokyo viewers, Gracie and Funaki started the fight clinching to the corner. Masakatsu appeared to have secured a guillotine choke, but the hold was loose and Rickson managed to go to the mat. They traded kicks to no effect, until some well timed upkicks from Gracie blew out Funaki's gravely injured knee. They clinched again, but the Japanese's injury rendered him unable to wrestle Rickson correctly, and he was taken down by the Brazilian grappler, who promptly mounted him. Masakatsu looked stunned while Rickson bloodied his face with ground and pound, and finally Gracie forced his way into a rear naked choke.[13] During the post-match interview, Gracie claimed that one of the hammerfist delivered by Funaki made him lose his eyesight for a few moments.[14] After the Colosseum event, Gracie expressed interest in fighting judo medalist Naoya Ogawa, who was signed up for the next Colosseum event. He was also proposed by Pride management to fight Kazushi Sakuraba, who had already defeated Royce Gracie as well, but Gracie refused saying that Sakuraba "didn't have the spirit of a warrior".[13] Rickson further said he didn't want to fight a wrestler who was so much smaller than him.[13] Thus, New Japan Pro Wrestling invited him to face Shinya Hashimoto, or especially Manabu Nakanishi or Kazuyuki Fujita, but they were refused. The fight against Ogawa was set to the next year, with Naoya vacating his NWA World Heavyweight Championship to focus on training for the bout; however, tragedy struck when Rickson's son Rockson was found dead in January 2001. Affected by the loss, Gracie contemplated retirement, and the event fell off after some negotiations,.[13] Other appearances In August 2002, Rickson had a special appearance in Japanese media helping out Ogawa before his bout against Matt Ghaffari at the UFO Legend event, in which he assisted.[15] After the event, Ogawa talked again about a fight against Rickson, which the Brazilian considered as possible return match. Rickson also mentioned Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira and Kazuyuki Fujita as candidates to fight him in said return.[15] However, nothing of it came to fruition, even after UFO president Tatsuo Kawamura proposed creating an event in order to hold the match.[16] In 2003, Antonio Inoki offered Rickson USD$5 million for a fight against Fujita,[17] but it had no answer. Gracie has confirmed that he is officially retired now and his major focus is to give seminars on Jiu-Jitsu and to try to develop BJJ as his father saw it: not a fighting tool but a social tool, to give confidence to women, children, and physically weak individuals by giving them the ability to defend themselves.[citation needed]
All I got out of this is that the closest thing to a fighter Rickson fought was Funaki and dodged real challenges. He dodged Sakuaraba, he dodged Bas Rutten and everyone else you mentioned.
He’s a very deep guy. I’m blessed to have gone from day one to blue belt directly under him. Life philosophy learned on the mat. He’s helped me tremendously.
Now you should level up and learn from John Danaher or Craig jones they are far better than Rickson ever was and I did idolise Rickson and trained a lot at Gracie Barra back in late nineties. You would get smashed around by Danaher purple belts sorry for the reality check I used to think Rickson was invisible but even the top Gracie barra students would let Rickson beat them. Ever wonder why he didn't roll with Sperry and Roger etc
@@glennmahoney3911 I’m not doubting you. My point isn’t about being on either end of a good “smesh”. My point is how Rickson is very philosophical and ties in Jiu Jitsu to real life. In one summer class he shut the doors, turned the heaters on, made us do crazy warm ups, the place was a sauna. He made us practice breathing for an hour in order to find our calm. He went on to say that there’s always a way out if you stay calm, not just on the mat but also in real life. That shit kinda helps when you’ve an unexpected pregnant wife, no income, and a brother that was just murdered…as was my case at the time.
Agreed. I'm in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and this is an epicenter of wrestling, so we do a LOT of stand up. It's confusing to me when people come in from other gyms and can't fight on the feet.
Ilyass Nejjar Exactly, from where else would you get a lesson from Rickson while you are in the other side (half part) of the world? Só ajudando vocês caso necessitam de melhorar no inglês. Todos estamos estamos aqui para aprender e melhorar.
Love this. He speaks much about the same principles shared with aikido. It was for these same reasons mentioned here by Rickson that Gozo Shioda moved away from Judo in his younger years into Aikido with OSensei. It’s lovely to see Rickson Gracie moving in this direction with his thinking. Jujitsu as a way of life snd not simply a sport. Love it!
Nine out of ten people who clicked on this video will be disappointed with what was presented by Rickson in this seminar. They will go on to another Jiu-Jitsu video on here not knowing what a gem and refreshing change this is compared to the direction most Jiu-Jitsu instructors and practitioners are headed today.
Truer words could never have been spoken - Too many young guys today just want to fight and have lost the respect learned in a true martial artist and the culture it came from - Rickson seems to now be trying to bring that back to the schools - He is a treasure - LEGEND - BUSHIDO 🙏😎💪
Rickson Gracie’s book Breath inspired me to try jujitsu after I hit a new low in life I became very aggressive and angry at the world feeling like I no longer new where my place was and feeling like I didn’t wanna be here anymore my mental health went really down hill. I started doing Gracie Barra Jiu jitsu I’m only a white belt I do feel like it has been a huge positive that has helped me stand on my feet again Thank You
MAESTRO Such a pleasure and Honor to watch and continue to learn your special talents and skills of “Invisible Jiu Jitsu”.... I have had Honor 2 times To Meet and train with you on mat in Ventura,Ca. And Prof.Fabio always reminds us of the “Invisible” subtleties Of this Great self defense....I really enjoyed seeing you here again.... RESPECT....Blessings....OSS !
@@yhungitachi2477 I'm brazilian, live in Rio and I am a jiu jitsu practitioner, and I can garantee you that Sakuraba is highly respected down here as a great fighter and an amazing catch wrestler. If he did seminars here in Rio, it surely would be sold out.
Incredible thank you Rickson for spreading your knowledge and caring about people learning more than one element of jiu jitsu. It goes much deeper than people may realise.
that is funny I have met Rickson Gracie twice and he is a very friendly person but intense when it comes to the mat so that comment hit the funny bone no pun intended..
Think most people expected some secret submission they could use in their next comp, yet Master Rickson showed them the basics and core of Gracie Jiu Jitsu - self defence.
Rickson emphasizing base, feeling would really be good in instructional too. Rickson talking about breathing, he's right. Where he probably could teach an hour just on breathing. I'd love to know "their Jiu Jitsu", no sport, no competition, just pure Gracie Jiu Jitsu. Which so much balance, connection, breathing, the invisible jiu jitsu, engaging assault, sizing up a situation and when things get serious, etc. How long did it take Maeda to teach his jiu jitsu to Carlos, Helio??? About a year, two years? Then just practice, correct, as playing, then the map to each technique. I wanted to learn their system years ago, but other distractions came. But knowing their jiu jitsu is the same as having a concealed weapon. But one can be more relaxed and comfortable when one has all the technique, nuances and details that makes their jiu jitsu work.
Rickson is the top of the pile in his art yet he treats everyone at every belt level the same. Not patronising or dismissive at all even though he has probably 40 years practice on some of these guys. Love when he says to a purple belt "You do what you want and I'll do what I want." Imagine having that opportunity 😂 I mean you know you're f*cked but what a badge of honour.
It'd be good if Rickson narrate and illustrate, "How To get there", using his jiu jitsu. Show method taught to them, then how they modified. Might be 3-5 volumes, about 5-600 pages each volume. Then a video series, a good hour to an hour and a half of Rickson Gracie Jiu Jitsu each video, where teach all fight/self defense, no sport. Even typical engagements. Which the Smithsonian surely would want record of their infamous jiu jitsu. But, for those of us so far away could learn by watching, listening, reading, etc. Where there's plenty not interested in sport, but protecting themselves, particularly in more dangerous positions. Like the invisible power, too. Where we're all getting old, which having Ricksons' instructions, it might help if he'd point the direction of energy, as what he's exerting then illustrating his ukes direction of energy. Literally point direction of energy. Theres only one Rickson. Rorion, Royce, Relson all would do good similarly. Where an official Gracie instruction course. As Helio learned by watching. If it were possible, it'd be interesting to download his mind into mine, which techsgetting here.
I've watched this video every several months since I began doing jiujitsu, and I'm a purple belt now. Every time I watch it, I get something new. Today I wrote down 9:59 "the idea of jiujitsu is to make him feel stronger with invisible power against a bigger opponent." He didn't say "one of the ideas." He said "THE." I love this as the bedrock of the entire philosophy.
Reality check go to B team or Danaher take your black belt instructor and you will walk out a white maybe blue belt at best and your instructor will realise he's a beginner purple belt
240/5000 Rickson is a genius, Master Hélio's disciples are geniuses. But seeing this workshop I see that my old judo master taught many aspects covered in this workshop. That made me very happy! Because it means that I learned something.
nothing, just pointing out the fact that people forget Rickson and Rolls Gracie have Judo Blackbelts and have competed in Judo tournaments in the 80s. They dont teach pure BJJ. Heres a video of Rickson and Judo legend practising for the Nationals. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9e9xFgfZx98.html
The irony is that everything that Professor Rickson Gracie is talking about -- invisible jiu-jitsu (or ki or chi if you want to call it that), having a strong base, controlling your breathing, being self-aware -- are old school traditional martial arts fundamentals; the very things that many people who study only the modern martial arts poke fun of if you go look at the comments of some martial arts posts. It's also ironic that Professor Rickson Gracie taking that important traditional concept back to Japan from which it originally was exported to Brazil.
assoverteakettle Antonio Inoki was alway well aware of these concepts. These concepts are staples in Catch as Catch can Wrestling as taught by Karl Gotch. And they were never lost to him.
The gracies improved and tested the art in battle, in real fights happening in a violent country. No shame at all. It is a return to the REAL meaning of martial arts: self defense that really works in battle, not just beautiful movements. A lot of things he is teaching do come from the original japanese arts. But some aspects of the old ways they don't teach at all in BJJ. They just teach what really WORKS after battle-testing it for decades against ANY challenger from any size or background.
We thank them for keeping safe these principles while much of the Martial Art schools degenerated through the Olympic sport path... Sincere Respect for Master Rickson, who proves to be currently one of the noblest representatives of martial arts.
Chi and Martial arts are superior to MMA check out this great Chi master who would own in UFC. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-c7RFhSKYsTc.html
Rickson is a legend in jujitsu and a grandmaster, unfortunately what he is trying to teach here is called “sensitivity” this concept can’t really be taught is has to be “felt.” You can watch the video but it will be better if you’re there.
Imagine stealing and renaming judo then coming to teach the homeland of jujustu brazillian jiu Jitsu and the Gracie’s were Scottish. Such a weird thing
any judo Master with a white and red belt would explain the same things...Don't get me wro,g is good stuff what Rickson is teaching, but nothing special..I think there's a lot of Marketing inside..It seems that only the Gracies know these things, actually is judo what he is talking about
And judo was developed from Japanese jiujitsu mainly, the point being that no martial art have patent on any exclusive techniques. Unfortunately judo already went down a bad road and Jigoro Kano recognized this but it was too late for him to do anything about it. It's not too late for BJJ though and what Rickson is doing is extremely important and wise, so that we don't lose the foundation of brazilian jiujitsu entirely. The linage was and still is: Jiujitsu -> judo -> BJJ. Dont forget that.
u r right, yet Judo got diluted, while Gracie JJ stayed True to the original Judo that was given to us, and they exposed themselves to valetudo, something that most Judoschools frown upon. there is more pride, trial and error, and respect for the fundamental in Rickson than in an olympic judoka. he is not teaching me anything, i learnt what he talks about just training with an open mind, yet i see what his whole family bring in terms of respect for.the original judo. he is talking about real judo, Judo masters are often sport Judo masterd who lack the experience of believing in Judo , protecting it, and exposing it to striking arts. Gracie jiujitsu is a very basic form o judo, but in spirit it is True judo
@mark daniels i was not very clear, neither are you. i trained Judo and bjj, not Gracie Jiu Jitsu, but i see that Gracie JJ is what jigoro kano early Judo was. today s Judo is nothing like Judo 40 years ago. Judo is now mainly standup with weakass ippon, no selfdefense, all sport and athletism. i still like it, but the olympics hurted judo, imo
It must piss risking right off that how much people’s really don’t know the basic foundations to build real jujitsu.he must really feel like giving up sometimes.but it’s really important wat he is doing I’m glad I get the chance to see these concepts
Faço uma colocação como tem gente durante de coisas ruim no meio do povo brasileiro.por que não tem o respeito pelo o próprio patriota.vamos jogar este Câncer de invejar no lixo mim gente.faleiiiii
