Name: Joe Calls Gordon Ryan "The Greatest Jiu-Jitsu Player"
Uploaded: 2021-05-01T20:05:11.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Calls Gordon Ryan "The Greatest Jiu-Jitsu Player"' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-05-01. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- Gordon is undeniably
the best pound for pound jiu-jitsu player on earth.
Not just the best, but pretty, pretty,
it's a pretty good statement to say
that you're the best ever.
And you're only 25.
- Yeah.
- That's crazy.
How the fuck does that happen?
- So I'm gonna go ahead and give credit to John.
I mean, I think that without him,
I maybe would have been successful.
I would have been maybe the best in the world
at some point in my career.
But I don't think that without John,
I would be where I am right now.
And I don't think that I would have gotten this good
in this amount of time.
I've been training 10 years.
I've been competing professionally for five years.
And I think that a big part of the reason why I am where I am
is 'cause of John's coaching.
- Yeah, and we're talking about John Donaher,
for people who don't know, who is a literal genius,
and a mastermind in Jiu-Jitsu and a true mad scientist.
And watching him coach you guys is very fascinating
because he's so serious and stoic.
And Gordon Ryan, pass over the left leg.
Gordon Ryan, post, like the way he talks.
Like, it's really interesting.
He says your full name too.
It's very interesting.
- Gordon Ryan, Gary Tonin, Craig Jones.
- Yeah. - It's always the full name.
- Yeah, why, what is, he's such an odd duck.
- He does it to address us because a lot of times, like,
you've got Nicky, for example.
Like, there's a lot of guys named Nicky, so he makes sure,
he makes sure that you know he's talking to you when he says,
Nicky Ryan, Nicky Rod, Craig Jones, Gordon Ryan.
So you know that, you know that when you hear your name being
called, your first and last name, you know that, okay, this person
is addressing you in a room of, you know, five, 10,000 people.
- He's such an unusual human being.
There is not a single person on the planet Earth like John Donaher.
One of the most brilliant guys I've ever met,
obsessed with Jiu Jitsu, mostly.
Like, that's, if you, you got a pie chart of his brain,
it would be like, he's like 20% room for other shit,
80% of his brain is Jiu Jitsu.
- Yeah, I mean, it's not even just Jiu Jitsu,
it's just martial arts in general.
Like, I mean, people who know John on a personal level,
and have trained with John know that John knows just as much,
just as much about MMA as he does, or even more about MMA
than he does about Jiu Jitsu.
He's been coaching MMA with George and with Chris Weidman
for longer than he's been coaching Jiu Jitsu.
I mean, he's only been coaching professional Jiu Jitsu
athletes for five years.
And I've watched him personally teach Judo privates
to Judo Olympians, I watched him teach wrestling privates
to wrestling world team members, wrestling Olympians.
You know, he knows just as much about the other martial arts
as he does about Jiu Jitsu, it's crazy.
- Yeah, and never walks around without a rash guard on.
- That's also correct.
- Which is the honest thing ever.
- I've seen him one time ever with a t-shirt on,
because we went to Long Island to train with Chris Weidman
one time, and he forgot his change of rash guards.
So he had a street rash guard on, and he didn't have a second rash
guard to change into, and Chris didn't have a rash guard for him.
So they gave him like this pink flamingo t-shirt that he ended up,
we did a whole session with Chris Weidman.
It was right before he was going to fight Luke Rockhold the second time,
which ended up never happening.
But we did this whole session with John with like this pink tropical t-shirt on,
and then he changed out of the t-shirt to get back into his street rash guard
and leave to go home.
Like it was just like, I'm just like, okay, this is happening.
I posted it, and everyone was freaking out about it.
- Look at how crazy is it that he has a street rash guard.
- Yeah, he's got street rash guards, he's got training rash guards,
and he's got like his nighttime dinner date rash guards.
Like he's got like a date rash guard, he's got a dinner rash guard.
Like he's got it all sorted out.
- So if he goes on a date with a woman, he wears a rash guard?
- Oh yeah, he's got like this really nice underarm,
like this gray underarm or sweatshirt that he, or rash guard that he puts on.
And like, you know, like when John comes out in one of his fancy rash guards,
you're like, okay, he's not fucking around now.
You're like, this guy is like, you got to do it.
You're like, all right, this guy means business tonight.
- Has anybody ever asked him what the fuck is going on?
- Yeah, I mean, so he just, he just likes to wear rash guards
because of the fact that they dry fast.
The fact that they're cool, they keep you cool, they keep you warm.
If they get wet, they dry fast.
And they're just tight fitting.
He likes tight fitting clothes.
So he just, he just prefers to wear them.
He thinks they're more efficient than t-shirts are.
- It's just so odd.
But that's part of John Donner, always has a fanny pack, respect.
I respect the fanny pack.
- Yeah.
I mean, one of the great mysteries of the world is what he has inside that fanny
pack.
- It's kind of thick.
- It is.
- It's a large fanny pack.
- He's got a lot of stuff inside there.
He's, it's just, it's so fascinating to watch what he's done in coaching this
Donner death
squad and create, like he's unquestionably the greatest Jiu Jitsu coach on
earth.
And this is also widely regarded.
Like the way you're widely regarded as the best pound for pound grappler, he's
widely regarded
as the best Jiu Jitsu coach.
And it's, it's, um, it's really interesting to see that you guys just have been
dominating
the grappling scene and to watch all this play out and to see people study you
guys, but still
not be able to catch up.
- Yeah.
I mean, what most people do is they just see like a general outline of what we
do, but no
one, no one looks at what the specifics of what we're doing.
They say, oh, you know, Gordon's a good lug locker.
Let me try to do lug locks or Gordon's trapping hands from the back.
Let me try to do that.
But they don't see the very specific details and the specific details are what's
going to
be the difference between finishing a high level guy and having a high level
guy escape.
So whatever it does is they just see the general idea and have the general
outline of what we're
doing and they try to just copy that.
But when you just try to copy the best guys, if you just try to copy everyone
else, you get
the same results as everybody else.
You have to go further than what the best guys are doing and you have to
innovate and you
know, I get, I look at the other best guys in the world and I say, what are
they doing?
You know, that works against the other high level guys.
And how can I make that better?
Not just let me try to arbitrarily copy what they're trying to do.
Now, what is missing in like, if you take the rest of the people that are in
the top 10, like
what are they doing differently?
What everyone does in jujitsu is they try to do the least amount of work
possible to win
a jujitsu match.
Right.
So they try to jump past your guard.
They score an advantage.
They score a couple of points.
And then for the next seven minutes, they do nothing.
Whereas what we try to do is we try to take the hardest route to a victory and
we try to
submit the guy.
So what you see is a complete, there's just a complete different mindset, a
complete different
mindset between what the rest of the guys are doing and what we're trying to do.
We're trying to go out and we're not, we're not satisfied unless we hit a
submission.
And in my case, sometimes I call the submission and I'm trying to, you know, go
out and hit
a specific submission.
But, you know, they're happy just going out and having a match where there's 10
minutes
in the feet.
They just hang on each other's collar ties and then they win a ref decision and
they run
around beating their chest like they just, they did something.
So just the mindset and the mindset for winning in competition is completely
different.
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