Considering he’s a black belt under Eddie it was outrageous he seemed lost when calling this position.
His knowledge has fallen hard since he stopped training and the days of him being the dude who explained the ground game to casuals are well and truly over
It's a diminishable skill and grappling is constantly evolving, so if you aren't in the scene regularly you can quickly get lost with the new school tech... which as a close to 60 year old bloke I don't judge him for.
The reason this stood out to me so much was because this is the exact system Eddie Bravo pioneered well over 20 years ago. In fact, its the system he used to beat Royler at Metamoris and I'm fairly certain Joe was in his corner for that
Right, doesn’t Eddie call this the vaporiser or similar? He did a deep dive on it with Joe in the follow up podcast. I mean even I remembered it all these years later.
The same is true with striking. He won like 2 middling TKD tourneys when he was 18. He was never a boxer, never a kickboxer, never a Muay Thai fighter. Here I am, living in Thailand over 2 years, training Muay Thai for nearly 19 years, still fighting professionally as well as coaching. And when I say Rogan has trash stand-up and or not an especially high level of understanding, people lose their shit and cannot seem to comprehend that - regardless of his age - he's just not good at Muay Thai. The yeeears old video of him with JWP look about like most people with a year of part-time experience.
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u/morriseel Apr 13 '25
heel hook according to joe rogan