Name: Gordon Ryan on John Danaher's Dedication to Jiu-Jitsu
Uploaded: 2022-09-08T20:14:46.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Gordon Ryan on John Danaher's Dedication to Jiu-Jitsu' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-09-08. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Gordon Ryan on John Danaher's Dedication to Jiu-Jitsu' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-09-08. Transcript available.

Last tape study, we actually watched Diego Sanchez fighting Nick Diaz in the
UFC because there was a lot of up and down scrimmaging where Diego would hit a
takedown, Nick would go for a submission, and then Diego would always end up on
top.
And John just builds this habit of, we call it hustle till you score, where you
just don't stop moving until you get to a score. And it just completely changed
the way that we all think about the ADCC scoring criteria and how to play the
game.
How does John maintain his motivation?
Dude, I wish I could tell you. He's just been doing the same thing for 30 years.
He just, he loves it. I mean, I wish I had like half the dedication and like
interest in Jiu-Jitsu that John has.
And I mean, I'm the most dedicated athlete, I would say, to Jiu-Jitsu, and it
still just pales in comparison. Like, we're at podcasting right now. John's
like watching like a 1957 boxing match or like the semifinals from like the
1960 Judo Olympics.
Like, it's insane.
It's just, most people, when they work really hard towards something, they get
a personal reward for it. Like, I mean, he's recognized widely as one of the
greatest Jiu-Jitsu trainers of all time.
No question.
But like, it's not like the guy gets a lot of like, personal satisfaction. I
mean, there's not like a lot of people like heaping praise on him. It's not,
that's not his motivation, which is so interesting to be that dedicated.
Like, you get a lot of praise. Like, you, you're the guy who you're, when
Felipe quit and then you fucking walk around with a big smile on your face, or
when you write down on a piece of paper, they're going to submit Wagner Rocha
with a triangle and then you go and do it.
Like, you're getting like, that feeling out of your own personal satisfaction,
your own personal accomplishment, achievement. He's not even getting that. He's
getting it from other people's achievements.
And yet, he's so dedicated.
He's, he's really selfless. I mean, he doesn't ask, I mean, he literally doesn't
ask us for anything. No money, no nothing. He just wants you to show up to
training.
And I think he gets a lot of satisfaction from building athletes and seeing
them succeed with the stuff that he teaches.
And I think that's, that's where his happiness comes from, is just seeing like,
when I like win ADCC or I do something big, like, you can tell he's like, very,
very happy.
That's like, one thing that genuinely makes him happy.
I remember with John, like, when we, I used to train with him for about a year
when they were in Puerto Rico.
And, you know, most instructors, they'll just come, like, the standard is 30
minute warmup, three techniques, and then you roll for 30 minutes.
So, me and John would actually hang out after class all the time.
He'd just come over, we'd get some food.
He'd always be watching tape, and then he'd always be making notes.
He'd make a program for a week.
He'd always have a goal, one week, one month, three months.
And he would just go and apply that every day in class.
So, you know, that's all he does is dedicate himself to his craft.
And you see the results.
There's no one like him.
No one else does that.
And he doesn't do anything else in life.
Like, he bought an, he has an apartment now.
And I'm like, hey, do you go, like, furniture shopping?
You, like, get, like, plates and dishes?
He's like, hmm, I have to do that.
I'm like, we've been living here for a year, dude.
I had to go to fucking Bed Bath & Beyond last week to pick him up plates, bowls,
dishes.
What does he eat?
Takeout?
So he fasts.
And he just goes to Whole Foods at the end of the day and picks up Whole Foods.
Hits on chicks.
But he, like, doesn't have, like, I helped him move into his apartment.
Like, no one's ever been in, like, any of John's apartments.
So I helped him move into the apartment.
So he's got, like, some furniture.
He's got, like, a bed and, like, a couch and stuff.
And he's like, I'm going to need to put some furniture in here.
I'm like, yeah, that's never going to happen.
But then I asked him, I'm like, do you have, like, cups and bowls and stuff?
He's like, no.
So I had to, like, go and buy them.
Like, all this shit.
He, like, moves in.
He's like, Gordon, what do you think about Wi-Fi?
I'm like, what do you mean what do I think about Wi-Fi?
He goes, is it worth getting?
I'm like, yeah.
I'm like, you want to, like, hook up your TV and watch, like, you know, Netflix
something?
He goes, I despise TV.
I'm not going to watch it.
I'm like, okay.
I'm like, well, like, what if you want to have, like, your phone connected to
the Wi-Fi so you can watch tape?
He goes, I can just watch it with the 5G.
It's free.
I'm like, okay.
And I'm like, well, what if you have a chick over on a date and she wants to
watch something on Netflix?
He goes, good point.
How much does it cost?
And I'm like, I don't know, like 80 bucks a month?
He's like, okay, I'll consider it.
I'm like, all right.
He's like a character in a movie.
Yeah.
It really is.
Like, I've never even heard of a person like him.
If a person was like that, they would be pretending.
Yes.
You know, they're pretending to be this stoic master who's just selfless and
dedicated to the advancement of their students.
But there's no real people like that.
No, that's him.
That's just like, that's, that's insane.