Jiu Jitsu Meme Review with Ryan Hall

This is a review of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Memes with Ryan hall that we did after our podcast conversation. Memes at once the lowest and the highest form of achievement by the collective intelligence of human civilization. I enjoy forcing brilliant people to be silly, hence this meme review. It's brought to you by Babbel Betterhelp and Raycon. Please check out the sponsors in the description to get a discount and to support this channel. And now, here's Jiu Jitsu Meme review with Ryan Hall. Another ridiculous thing I have to ask. I printed out because I'm old school. Some memes for you from. From Reddit. It'd be nice if you. What, do I go through them and maybe what's your favorite number?

12.

Okay, so on a scale of 1 to 12, let's. Let's give a ranking to these. To these ridiculous memes.

I support. I support all of these guys. Any. Anyone like the. The. The mustachioed, you know, like, fisticuffs guy is always funny.

So any. Any meme that involves that guy's always.

Whatever's about to come next is usually pretty entertaining. Yeah, it's tough to give a rating without understanding the universe of other memes that exist here, but. All right, I'll try to do my best.

Yeah, yeah, you got to. You got to make decisions.

All right, you're right. You're right.

So this is sobbing after adult class.

Sobbing after adult class, I think is that man holding on to a piece, biting a piece of soap.

That's actually. I don't know if you've seen. It's. What's that show? It's Tobias from.

Oh, you talking about Arrested Development?

I think it's Arrested Development to bias. That's what that looks like. I don't know.

Maybe it's not. All right, I'll give it. I'll give it a four.

Wow, that's not good.

No, Maybe four is really high. Who knows?

It could be.

Yeah.

You're a tough grader.

You move so well. Practice. It must be an innate gift, a gift from God. It's practice. I'll never understand how some people are so talented. A mystery practice. That one hits relatively close to home.

That's one of those, like, deep, philosophical ones. As opposed to funny.

Yeah, it's not funny. It's just accurate.

Yeah, it's accurate.

Yeah, exactly.

Would you give good scores for accuracy?

I'm here for. I'm here for the jokes.

Okay.

All right, so I'll give it a four. Also.

Do you get this, by the way? The. This kind of experience. What's that of people like, well, Ryan hall is just talented?

Well, I think. I mean, like, I just don't think that I'm very talented, you know, So, I mean, I just do nothing but martial arts all day, every day and have done nothing but that at all.

I mean, do you believe anybody can get good?

No. Essentially, yeah. Oh, yeah. It depends. I. I think if. If there's. The only talent that I think I have is discipline and. And grit.

That's interesting. That could be genetic or whatever.

I think that's a real thing. Like. But like, you. You can't convince me to quit. But a friend of mine, someone said, like, if I can talk you out of your dream, you don't want your dream. And I think that's. That's true. Or people go, oh, my. So and so, discouraged me. And like, I hear what you're saying, but if you really, really want to do any X, Y or Z, you will decide to do it. And I firmly believe that. And again, whether that's true or not, it falls under the category of facilitative belief. And that will probably make you a little bit more, you know, more of a go getter in certain regards. So I guess, yeah. But I don't think. I don't think I'm particularly talented. I just care a lot. Okay. Yes. He's employing a sumo geisha landing into a kiss of salami hold. Anybody? Judo guy opening his book of terminology. I think they could actually expand that to modern jiu jitsu guy who now tries to use Japanese words for all sorts of stuff.

What's the arm lock in there? I don't even. I'm a judo person. Do you use, like, Japanese terms for techniques?

Not when I'm speaking to English speakers.

What do you think about, like, Eddie Bravo, just renaming every technique?

I mean, that's weird to me too.

Full range of.

Yeah, exactly. We're on. There's the two ends of the spectrum, and you got to find what's right for you. You know, you've got.

What do you call an arm lock?

Norm lock.

Okay.

Yeah. You know that. You know that. You know the one. Yeah, yeah. Come on, man. No, not that one. The other one.

Yeah, yeah.

All right. But yeah, it's. Again, I think that there's a lot of people got to do what's right for you. But there's also. I struggle with the branding going on that I see in jiu jitsu. That's not something I'm super stoked about. And not you know, but again, if. If it helps you remember, then. Right on 1 and 12.

What does this ridiculous meme get?

Oh, again, disturbingly accurate. I'll say six.

Well, you. So you're giving props to the accurate. All right, this. I mean, these memes are horrible. Like, a red needs to do better.

Yeah. This one needs to be better. The best defense against the body. Triangles to get really fat. That is a strong defense. Let's all agree with that. I'll give that one a two.

I think I only picked muse. They get like several hundred upvotes. So these. These. At least Redditors thought they're. They're of value.

Figured this would be the best way to get rid of coronavirus.

Put a blue belt on.

I like that one. Oh, okay. What do you say? That went over my head because everybody quits after they get a blue belt. Yeah. Yeah. I'm an idiot. I was like, why is. Why is teaching it martial arts?

So you get. You didn't. Because you don't get it. What? That's like an undefined score.

I'll give it a 12.

What do you give that one? Yeah, you got a 12.

I'll say a 10. I'll give it. I would give that one a 10, I think. Yeah, I like that one.

After two hours of hard sparring, you're looking good. 10 minutes of cardio. You look.

Yeah, you look like that. That's.

No, it's.

Yeah. Well, I would have to. I would have to. I would have to do cardio in order to. In order to understand that. Yeah.

So cardio.

My head. I ran once. You. I don't like running. Running breeds cowardice. I don't want to. Don't want to do it. But. Yeah. Don't want to get too involved. But. Yeah.

So. Yeah. So maybe. Maybe you can review this later once you actually try cardio.

Exactly.

Yeah.

All right. When you get submitted 46 times, but none of the submissions are IBJJF legal. I gotta say. I gotta say that. Gotta give that. Can they give that a two?

Okay.

All right.

I thought you'll go into the negatives, but that's good.

All right.

Yeah.

About. Say, is that. Was that appropriate negative too? I was trying to be. Trying to be charitable. All right. Me, who got promoted during COVID waiting to actually roll in my new belt. People thought these were funny. Yeah. I'll take.

I'll take that as a one.

Yeah. All right. How. 90 of BJ instructionals. This one also hits close to home. I got to give it a. Give It a six for the accuracy. Okay guys, that's. I can't. I do the same thing.

By the way, you're. I think you're the next. You're instructionals in the next meme. So just so you know.

Oh man. Okay, I don't want to look at it yet. I'm sure they're saying something funny about me. That's entirely accurate. So this one 90. Let's give that a six.

So this is like an old school meal where you insert anything overly expensive during.

Overly expensive during economic crisis. Food data, rent, half guard. TV utility 150. Someone who's good at the economy. Please help me budget this, my friend. All right, I'm gonna give that, I'm gonna give that an 11 out on a scale of 12.

The comment is like spend less on half guard DVDs.

No responses. No, no, I like it. That, that's solid. All right. What the guy who murders you on the mat looks like outside the. That's absolutely accurate. If you guys have ever met Paul Shriner, you know exactly what's going on. It's. Well, I. Dude, I still remember my first day. My first day there was at Jiu Jitsu. And this is where Jiu Jitsu became like the coolest thing in the universe to me was there was a guy named Eric Ryerson. Nice guy. He was at Ronan Athletics in New York. It's 2004 and he was a white belt. He's probably 130 pounds soaking wet and it was a white belt. And again, I don't, I don't, don't hold the. Didn't hold the banner for tough guy. Certainly not at that time. But you know, like I'll try to fight you. And just getting absolutely mollywopped by this guy and then going, holy crap. This is literally the coolest thing I've ever experienced in my life. This is like magic. And it's not even like, oh, this guy's a black belt something or other. And he's been at it for extra time. How long you been training for? I don't know, like eight months. I'm like, get have all my money. Like you're never going to get rid of me.

And moment when you realize that the technique is matters. It's fascinating.

Yeah, well, he bas. I'm sure he wrote if this, if the bird scooter had had existed at the time, Eric would have would have transported himself to the gym and to and from the gym on that. So I'm going to give that also an 11. The stash. Yeah, he didn't have the, he didn't have the, the stash. But I don't think that was in at the time.

Yeah, it wasn't essential.

Yeah, when your teammate is losing the match. But you promised you would record the whole thing.

I like the old school digital camera.

Yeah, that is, that is true. I remember that.

That actually that was a thing before smartphones.

Jiu jitsu. Ever kick your ass so bad you drive the speed limit home with no music playing? Yes, absolutely.

You know, I mean, how often have you, have you felt that recently? Like, I remember feeling that often, like just like taking. I usually would take a bus home and I was just like, sit there. Like no music, no podcast. It was just like this sad feeling overcoming your body. Like, what? Life is meaningless.

I remember when I first met Marillo Santana, like it was yesterday. It was, it was like the winner because he has family that lives in. Lives in the D.C. area and we had our school in Arlington. And Marillo had, has like a beard out to here and he's wearing like a Fidel Castro looking hat. And I'd never met him. He was in ADCC and this is right after ADCC 2009. So this is like December 2009 and it's like snowing and he's standing outside the gym. I'm like, how's that? And you know, I walk up, I'm like, hey, man, can I help you? Hey, got a trade with you. I'm like, are you Marilla Santana? Yeah. I'm like, all right. And he comes upstairs and, and super, super flight. Nice guy. And anyway, so I'd done the 66 kilos and he did 77. He says, hey, you want to roll? I'm like, yeah. And Marilla's had like the world's deepest voice since he was like a child. And I believe he had a beard when he came out of the, out of the womb. But anyway, we're training and I'm like, all right, not that good. But I, you know, like, I've done ADCC that year. I got third and beaten some good guys at a really close match with layover that I got screwed in. Thank you, referees. To adcc. That was decent at the time at least. And. But you're getting the feeling where I'm like, I can't fully understand what's going on here. But like, I feel like I'm being let off the hook. I'm like, I'm not, not escaping this. I'm like, hey man, you can beat me up. You know, it's like, oh, I'm trying. I'm like, come on. He's like, all right, maybe I'll try a little harder. And he's not being like, he's not. He's just being nice. I remember I had like a thousand yard stare, like, at the wall for went at home that night forever, because it wasn't like, oh, people can't beat me up. There are plenty of people that beat me up, particularly that time. But it's like, I think past my guard, like 35 times.

Yes.

And that was something that wasn't happening, like, for the most part. And I'm like, it's. You rest. Oh, he's a little bigger. Yeah, that wasn't the problem. It was. It was a skill thing. And just going like, what was that? And it wasn't like, oh, I get to play. We're going to. We're going to both train and he's going to win. I'm like, we're not training. I'm just getting like chucked around like a 4 year old. I don't know any Jiu jitsu. I need to. I need to reevaluate my entire life. Murillo is, is a fantastic instructor and trainer in addition to being a great competitor and runs unity Jiu Jitsu in New York City. I feel lucky to have trained with many of the very, very best guys in the world. But, man, Marilla's as good, you know, as good as anyone I've ever met. As good as anyone I've ever met. Absolutely fantastic. Just a fantastic knowledge of Jiu jitsu. And I watched it. I remember just training periodically. Over time, over time, over time, I would get better, the gap would stay the same, and it was. It was pretty cool, and it was inspiring. It really taught me a lot.

You get better, right?

So, yes, I know exactly about. So this. Other people do the same thing. We would train and like, I don't want to use them. People that everybody would know. Yeah. We would sit in the back of my, like, beater Honda Civic that I had at that time and watch them stare out the window like this.

Yeah.

And just like. Yep, been there, buddy.

And so, like a tear slowly.

Oh, yeah, exactly, exactly. Just the one and. Yeah.

Okay, so this is another one of those memes that's just entirely accurate.

Yeah. So I'll give that an 11.

All right.

All right. Guy watching UFC, I don't get all this ground stuff. I wish I knew an expert who could explain it to me. Two stripe white belt. Yeah, that's also accurate, a little less funny, but. But I don't know. I don't know enough about SpongeBob SquarePants to be able to, like, understand what that expression means.

Yeah, but.

Because usually it would involve, like, you know, like, Roger Gracie standing right there, and I'm like, easy, Roger. I got this. Yeah, true, true. Yeah, that. There's a. I'll give that. I'll give that a seven.

That's a seven. That's a strong. That's a strong place to end.

I feel that way.

Ryan, thanks for putting up with the ridiculous request.

No, thank you so much.

Let me review.