Name: JRE MMA Show #73 with Jean Jacques Machado
Uploaded: 2019-08-06T01:14:50.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #73 with Jean Jacques Machado' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-08-06. Transcript available. Joe is joined by Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu legend, Jean Jacques Machado.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #73 with Jean Jacques Machado' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-08-06. Transcript available. Joe is joined by Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu legend, Jean Jacques Machado.

JRE MMA Show #73 with Jean Jacques Machado

boom and we're live Jean-Jacques Joe Hogan pull this up pull this up like it's
a been in quite
some time but we made it yeah we've made it we made it happen people still to
this day all my
friends call me Joe Hogan because of you I don't know man Joe Hogan that's a
funny Brazilian thing
you know the Portuguese translation of R's to H's I think I think when we speak
English you have to
use your tongue in a way that in Portuguese we are just flat out but you use
Rio you don't say heel
right do you say heel no real real how does that work somehow that it's in
Portuguese the first two
letters are the strongest one in the world but but Hickson and hoist and say Hickson
right it's but
it's not Rickson but it's Rio yes how's that works I don't know when it becomes
to a name is different
when you say a city name oh really yes oh it's funny real it's more something
for them and when
you say personal it becomes a little I don't know Hickson so hoist people it's
an H but it can be an
R like a R sound with objects and things yes or just places I'm think more
places in and it's funny
because in each region in Brazil is a different accent really oh that makes
sense kind of like
America yes each place like what country is that because it the sounds very
different ah but it's a
beautiful language Portuguese has like especially Brazilian Portuguese I was
like a sing-songy like
a flow to it's the bossa nova carnaval them yeah but it's that the way you guys
talk it's cool it
sounds good you know it's more like almost like singing yeah how many Americans
have like put on a
fake Brazilian accent once they started really getting into Jiu Jitsu must be
man I think I think in a
way when Jiu Jitsu established their flag outside Brazil it make funny it's
funny in a way that people our goal is to
make that area become more Brazilian than any other place it's not that we're
trying to speak more English but we'll make the English become more Portuguese
mm-hmm and almost every student that I have maybe probably because my accent
they start
listening and speaking very similar the way we do yeah in every Jiu Jitsu
school yeah
well that's uh you used to see that in taekwondo too guys would have like fake
Korean accents and in each school the instructor has a different accent and
different vocabulary mmm which even extended more it becomes like another
language in
the Jiu Jitsu community so Jiu Jitsu is huge in Rio but what are the parts of
Brazil that it is it's a
very strange if you stop and think about the history of martial arts which is
something that's always been very
fascinating to me Jiu Jitsu is the most fascinating because until 1993 it very
few people understood how potent
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu was when when I start understand Jiu Jitsu and became on
the teenager time Jiu Jitsu is basically in Brazil has that amazing
era of my uncle Helio and Carson the whole first generation of the family which
Brazil was all over Jiu Jitsu is all over Brazil
as a teenager remember the Jiu Jitsu is basically established in a very
um wealth area in Rio de Janeiro only
that's basically you have all the schools used to call Gracie schools by the
neighborhood you have a Gracie
Umaita you have a Gracie Copacabana you have a then future Gracie Barra but
everything was almost Gracie school everywhere
and it was wealthy people only in the welfare of Rio Wow then slowly because
keep in mind we used to have
one maybe two tournaments sport of Jiu Jitsu a year that's it we always
practice Jiu Jitsu mainly at that
time for self-defense we want to get ready for protect ourself we never had
much chances to try in a
tournament because there's no tournament hmm every train we do was based in
defend yourself what year did
tournaments start coming about by then beginning of the 90s I think there's
usually two tournaments start
catching up more as a crazy video of your brother Hegan and Hickson competing
at a tournament once it was the
biggest tournament of the year three three hundred competitors oh that's crazy
that
was that was the biggest one that's the biggest one 300 wow now the thousands
and
thousands the big ones is like five thousand people yeah now when this happened
uh what year was this with
your brother I think was in the 80s not sure which year was something I don't
think today looking back
is something that um I didn't like personally because there was no need for
that we everybody's to train
together and later on I find out there was behind the scenes people involved
with the organization they
wanted something more of the tournament and they end up making something like
that happen oh so you mean
because Hegan and Hickson had trained together having them compete against each
other was not a good idea oh no
Hickson was teaching us right he's our instructor why do you think they wanted
to have him compete against
Hegan it wasn't even these happened on the day of the event it was no planning
of having that fight or
anything they just made that it happened there and today realized that the
promoter of the tournament
the sponsor uh was talking to someone involved the promotion hey man I'll give
you more money if you make something like that happen
in our time if my instructor tells me I wanted to go and do that I don't even
question I just go and do it
right that's the way we were in you know in the whole family and uh our
instructor said I gotta go and do this
even though I don't like it it's wrong I should not do it we'll do it so what
would be wrong about it
would be that you were all training partners and in fact Hickson was your
instructor so for one of you
to go up against Hickson it's just I will give you uh in the in the 90s early
90s we have a sample
wrestling tournament in uh San Diego and when we moved to America was no jujitsu
events at all
and we are in search of something similar that we can do to keep the edge and
we went to some judo
tournaments we went to wrestling tournaments not knowing the rules of anything
and we end up in a
sample wrestling tournament sambo for people who don't know is a russian
martial art they wear their
judo jacket but they wear wrestling shoes and shorts it's kind of a mix of both
uh different rules I
still don't know exactly the rules but here we are and myself and now we go
there and I saw Hickson in
that event and when comes towards the final match was me and him on the final
and back that time we're we
have some conflict inside the family things that uh I'll keep that in four four
walls yeah but uh we
were not the relationship wasn't as well as should be then when the referee
called me it's like I'm not
gonna fight my instructor my my coach my my hero my idol no I'm and I told the
ref no I'm not fighting
and even Hickson's like look at me and I I think in a good way he knew I would
not ever compete against
him but at the same time he he realized that um I would never turn myself
against him right I will
fight for him for the rest of my life and and period and I think was the point
that um I was able to
engage back our family things together after this date and showing him that it's
all my respect and
I will fight for him never against him well there was a time where people were
trying to use the
Gracie name and um many people were opening up schools that weren't necessarily
really that that
wasn't their birth name Gracie whereas you guys went in a different direction
and used the Machado name
and the Machado name became enormous too so there was like from what I remember
in the 90s when I
first started training with you there was I started out at Hickson's place and
I only uh trained there
one time and then I went from Hickson's place to Carlson's place just because
it was closer I didn't
know any better I thought Gracie is Gracie oh Carlson Gracie Hickson Gracie I
didn't know anything
and I was a white belt and I was like oh another Gracie oh this is like 10
minutes closer to my house
I'll just go that's how it used to be in Brazil in there in the 80s is all Gracie
schools but then
when that place went under Carlson lost that place it was on Hawthorne that was
when Vitor Belfort made
his UFC debut in 1997 and that place went under I started training with you and
when I started
training with you it was like 97-ish right somewhere around there 98 somewhere
around there what was I
think it was right before fear factor no that was a few years before yeah a few
years before because
fear factor was 2001 news radio's time yes I was still on news radio when I was
training with you
but I remember there was like a call oh you're Machado now I'm like what are
you talking about
I was like I didn't understand like oh there's like Machados and then there's
like two different like
factions the thing that happened at that time was this
my mother older sister she's married to Carlos Gracie senior that mean he had
seven wives holla
his last wife was my mom's sister and that's we grew up with the family we don't
have the same last name
but I feel like I am and all my brothers the same thing we represent the grace
family the best way we can
forever you know and every day they have a big family have cousins that you
relate better than others
but it's still a family you know and back at that time two of my brothers were
teaching at the
Gracie school in Carson with Hagan and Carlos and um I think by that time Chuck
Norris was no longer
training with Horian at the Gracie school there not sure what happened and he
stopped training
then one day um some of the some Chuck Norris show up at our house at our
garage we used to teach in
our garage in Redondo Beach and we opened the door suddenly look it's like man
that guy looks like
Chuck Norris then this channel was with him oh this is Chuck Norris and we look
like what and he
brought him to train he did training a few years back at the Gracie school and
blah blah blah and
it's a long story then he started training for us and when he started training
for us we become very
good friends it was amazing like something right away he invited us to his
house he's a great guy
man amazing person start hanging out and by that time I remember he used to
make a movie one move a
year he worked for six months make a movie and he has six months off when we
met him he was six months
off literally he trains every day but when he trained he doesn't go home we
have lunch he hangs out go to
a movie then suddenly become good friends then one day he after a few months
after training for us he
invited us to the valley where he used to live in ensino and said look I have
surprise for you guys
then he took us to a shopping center right on ventura boulevard and uh he shows
uh have a gift for you
guys and he shows uh one of the unities mats ready it's like a school then he
said look this is for
you guys that's your school wow then we look at him like well ventura boulevard
right on the street
he said chuck we don't think we can afford that he said no don't worry that's
my building you guys
don't have to pay anything i just want to make sure i don't have to drive the
one-on-one and four
or five you guys drive that's a hell of a drive that redondo drive and he gave
the school to us wow
then he's like what can i tell more about this guy that's amazing and that's
why we have this
school in the valley because he used to live in ensino the school was in ensino
then we start
coming here then here we are joe hogan tarzana can bite for school yeah that's
amazing wow what a
great guy but the point on that conversation was that um our school when we
open our school is to
call carlos gracie jiu-jitsu because of our uncle because when we came in we
have the grace school and
i remember uh the family's big and everybody has your side of story everybody's
saying something about
your uncle your cousin and we want to make sure that this side of him that we
were representing a
way with carlos side then um a lot of people when we did the grand opening
chuck norris were with us
doing the self-defe