Name: Joe Rogan Experience #460 - Kron Gracie
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #460 - Kron Gracie' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2014-02-25. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #460 - Kron Gracie

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So a few years back, uh, my friend Gordon Hester, who's a guy that I met on the
internet, um, said, Hey,
do you want to have dinner with Hicks and Gracie? So I said, fuck yeah, man. If
you are a jujitsu
practitioner, um, there's, it's very rare in a sport, I guess there's a few
sports. Like if you think
bike racing, you think, you think Lance Armstrong, unfortunately now, but that's
the name, but the
universal name that gets thrown about in jujitsu, there's the last name, which
is Gracie. And then
once you get to know jujitsu and you understand jujitsu and you get, you start
training, everybody
always wants to know who's the best, who's the best, who's, who's the best
universally regarded
as the all time best is your father, your father, Hicks and Gracie. This is not
much debate amongst
jujitsu people. There's debate as to who's the best right now. But I talked to
Henzo about this one time
and, uh, Hen, Henzo just shook his head and he goes, he's a motherfucker. He
goes, he's a
motherfucker. He's just laughing. He's like, he's the best. He's the best. And
when a guy like
Henzo says something, I just listen, you know, so what is it? I, well, that's
when I met you. Um,
you're, you were with your dad and we, we went and had some dinner and then we
went back to your house
and we watched some fights, which was amazing to have your dad break down what,
what guys are doing
wrong and what's wrong with, uh, their positioning, what's wrong with, you know,
their approach and,
and what his approach is. And for me as a student of martial arts and as a fan
of martial arts, it was a huge
honor, you know, and you were, I think, were you like 16 or 17 back then? Yeah,
something like that. Yeah, you were
into rap music and all kinds of different shit. And so from that, um, you know,
I've run into a few times over the years
when, uh, when, uh, when hoist fought Matt Hughes and a couple other times, you've
become yourself
like one of the most prominent jujitsu fighters in the world today. Um, and
that's so cool to see.
It's so cool to see, uh, a young kid with aspirations and then put in the work.
And it's also cool to see
the son of a great man become a great man himself, which is very difficult and
it doesn't really happen
that often. You know, a lot of times the, the son of a great man lives in the
shadow of his father
and sort of falls short. But, uh, you in your young life, you're 25 now? 25. In
your young life,
you've already carved out a great name in jujitsu with your own accomplishments.
You're widely
considered to be amongst the very best in the world at jujitsu. And, uh, how
does that feel?
Well, it feels great. You know, now finally, uh, after so long of, you know,
cause I knew when I was
a little kid that I was going to have to be a fighter or be a martial artist
and have to. Yeah. I mean,
have to really be as much as you're, my dad, like wants to make it feel like he
didn't put pressure on me. And,
and, you know, he did, you know, people say he, he, he teaches invisible jujitsu.
Well,
I'll talk about invisible pressure, you know, like, yeah, like at an early age,
when first, when I'm a little kid, I can kind of always see, you know, how, how
much my dad trains and how much he,
how big he is a part of what he does in the world and how much people respect
him and
how much recognition he gets. So from a very early age, you know, you want to
replicate that and you
want to do, you know, what your father does, if it feels like cool to you. And
it's always been
really cool to me. Of course, when I was like younger, up until like 12 years
old, I used to
skate a lot and jujitsu was kind of whatever, but I knew that in the future
that that was what I was
going to have to do no matter what. So, you know, it came to a point where I
kind of put skateboarding
aside and, uh, I had gotten hurt skateboarding a bunch of times. And I was like,
you know what,
I don't, I don't care about skateboarding as much as I do jujitsu. I'm not
going to be as good as a
skateboarder as I can be with jujitsu, which, um, this kind of all clicked for
me. Uh, one day with
my brother, you know, we, we were talking and everything. And this was like one
of the last
conversations we had and, and he was always like, you know, Krohn, you, you
could, whatever you do
in life, you do it a hundred percent. You know, you, you, you do it the best
you can do it. You
know, if you're going to be a dentist, you'd be the best dentist. If you can be
a skateboarder,
you'd be the best skateboarder. But the only difference is right here, you have
an opportunity
to do jujitsu and you have the best road. You have the best dad as a coach. You
have the best,
all the tools you, you, you need to, to really be the best you can be. And it
would be stupid
for you not to really take advantage of this. And that kind of happened when I
was 12. And
um, after my brother passed, I kind of really, really put effort into that. And,
and I kind
of really made it my mission to, to make him proud and to make my dad proud.
And I kind
of knew what I had in my hands. And, but at that age, you never know how good
you're going
to get and you never know what's going to happen. So I just kind of dedicated
myself,
dedicated myself. And then, you know, when, when we met each other, I was still
fully dedicated,
but I, I still hadn't achieved, um, you know, anything really. And I think like
with the,
with, for me, like in life, when you, when you, when you, when you try, when
you try, when
you try, when you try is you only get like what you think you're going to get
way later.
You know, like I put so much dedication into it by 16 years old, but I hadn't
seen any of
the, of the fruits and I hadn't seen any, any necessarily like big reward from
it, you know?
So it was basically just the passion of, of being able to train jujitsu and
being able
to, to do what I knew was my mission. And, um, I kind of lost my track a little
bit of what I was
going to say, but, uh, so basically from, from that age, you know, it was, it
was, it was always
like, I knew that I had to do that, you know, as much as, as much as things
would always like,
there's always like little things that go in your head that you might want to
like change
or whatever. But in my mind, it was never an option not to, to, to do jujitsu
and never
an option not to be the best I could be and to be the best in the world. That
was always
like where I was going to be. I never had a plan B. I never had a, Oh, I was
just going
to try this. And then if this doesn't work out, I'll try. I'd never had that
for me.
It was always, this was where I put my energy in. And so I kind of just put my
energy into
it. And, um, you know, from a very early age, from 12, 13, 14, everybody knew
me as Krohn
Hickson's son. Oh, you're Hickson's son. Oh, you're Hickson. So I already kind
of hated
that. You know, I hated being called Hickson's son. I hated being called Hawkson's
little brother.
I hated being called somebody that I wasn't, you know, and like being
recognized for something
that I didn't do. Somebody other than who you are. Yeah. So I kind of always
knew that
if I wanted to, to climb out of this name and climb out of the shadow, I would
have to work
twice as hard. And it was, it was going to be, you know, a real obstacle for me
to get
past this. And that's what I, uh, in my mind, that was my ending goal, no
matter what I wanted
to be my own man. I wanted to be able to represent, you know, myself and my
family and everything.
And I wanted to be able to be, you know, remembered as, you know, somebody who
kept it going, you
know, kept the legacy going. For folks who don't have any experience in martial
arts, I'll try
to explain this to people. There's, when you really stop and think about the
history of martial arts,
there's the most important moment, in my opinion, of modern martial arts was Hoist
Gracie entering
into the UFC in 1993. When Hoist Gracie entered into the UFC, we saw for the
first time in a real
application, we saw what we had always wanted to see in the movies, a smaller
man with technique defeating
larger men, a smaller 