a big part of the brazilian jiu-jitsu was created by my father exactly because my uncle carlos learned from maeda from from condi coma and maeda was a champion he’s been fighting for all over and and went to brazil to settle and he started teaching uncle carlos based on the friendship he has with my grandfather and in that process uncle chucalus learned a lot from from aydah but elio was 12 years younger than my my uncle and was very very young kid at this time and then they went to rio in 1925 cerro in rio and my uncle carlos opened his first school in 1925 at this point my father was could not do any sports he was doctor said for him to not do anything not playing soccer not ride a bike not skate nothing because he’s very skinny and he has vertical all the time so he’s pass out any any effort he’s passing out so he had to rest so my uncle opened this school my my father’s sitting on the corner all the time watching my uncle teach and for three years from 13 years old to 16 he was just watching amazed watching all the details all the says all the moves but he never practiced and one day a student arrived at the school and my uncle was not there yet so my father said mister if you wanna do let’s play a little b until my brother arrive so with that they start to practice half hour later my uncle arrived and the student said carlos if you don’t mind i like to keep training with the kid because he’s so good i love to practice with him so and that’s the way my father get into jiu-jitsu practice but different than a normal person my father could not do one pull-up one pull-up or one push-up he don’t have the strength in the muscles to do that so he basically a choke for example which is a he learned as an arm movement where to grab the collars and squeeze the guy to choke he could not even think about choke somebody with the strength on his arms so he has to bring together and use the chest which trans which transforms the whole pressure on the choke giving less effort muscularly and much more efficiency technically so that’s just a very simple example of how my dad in every movement he could do he adapt for him weak for his own weakness and he’s another very important element is he was so light and so small he could not ever fight on top mount positions passing guards and and and kick-ass kick-ass from the top so he was able to just stay on the bottom regardless and he was able to create from the guard position as such a new arsenal of tricks because he has nothing to do but guard so he developed a guard in a very elegant style in a brazilian style which doesn’t belong to japan at all all the ground techniques from the bottom are developed by by my father which is weak enough should not do other things so he’s improving we normally say in in the family elio gracias for jiu-jitsu as einstein is to physics he’s a creator he’s a genius is impossible to compare and follow this this idea of of of total connection with the techniques and the development the jiu-jitsu the brazilian jiu-jitsu becomes more like effective in the valley tudo and the no holds bar and effectiveness overall with ghee without ghee because gives to the weaker one elements to to submit the bigger one so i felt like jujitsu really becomes a a art for a weaker one after passed through through brazil before condi coma con de mayo de como was a very effective he has many many victories but he was a stock guy he was solid strong japanese not too tall but it was very solid maybe 80 kilos or 85 kilos or something so he was dealing jiu-jitsu in his own form of athleticism which is different than what my dad implies so we are very grateful to have eddie gracie and the family to to bring another possibilities for our style yeah that’s um it seems like in jiu jitsu when when you have jiu jitsu like that it’s the situation where like you said somebody that’s smaller and weaker can defeat someone that’s bigger and stronger and everybody that starts jiu-jitsu for the first time when i started jiu-jitsu for the first time you know i was like i said i was 220 pounds uh my first teacher was fabio santos i think he weighs i don’t know 150 160 pounds he would just do whatever he wanted to me and he was an old man at the time he was probably younger than i am right now but he seemed like he was an old man i said how’s this old man with gray hair going to do anything to me and jiu-jitsu allows you to do that jiu-jitsu is you know what what your dad because he had like you said because he was smaller because he was weaker he had to develop that style and it’s so effective yes leverage replaces strength you know techniques replace the speed so when you have the perfect combination you can anticipate the movement you can use timing at your favor and other deflections so it’s a very interesting concept of uh winning without really banging heads to head you have to make like set him up or or fake or set up in a way to to almost surprise the guy with in and defeat not exactly smash him you know it’s too brutal sometimes it’s too much to boost fighting you know i love to see the the articulation of a technician suppress the strength so for me i was amazed about the effects of and the possibilities of jiu-jitsu
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