Joe Rogan Experience #1411 - Robert Downey Jr.

my Sifu mmm you know protect your core keep your eye on the main elbow reach for the blind side you know how often you do that that started I think I'm in year 15 or 16 Sifu finished the day before yesterday so you know, a bunch of times a week and if I'm working on something or if he can do it, the placement will have long periods where we do it every day and there will be grading, so you have a preparation for those you know mm- Hmm, so what are you doing? You're doing kung fu. Is it a very particular style, traditional Wing Chun, really?

Yes, it is a very underrated art form. Yes, there are so many trade secrets too and it's very different from how I see it when I look. in videos and that in the UFC everything is open and discussed and you see, and many severe things there were territorial wars and we are not really going to show them our footwork, we are not going to do this. So anyway, it's been a really deep dive with my seafood era quorum, whose seafood my seat weapon was grandmaster William Cheung, a renowned guy in Hong Kong rooftops, fights everything that.

An amazing story but very technical, difficult to build and easy to use, you know, it's you. It's very rare to see that in the UFC, but one of the best fighters in the UFC uses it regularly Tony 20 Ferguson 20 Ferguson uses catching hands, the MOOC Jung, yes, he grabs the wrists and goes over with his elbows, he does straight Wing Chun, does everything. time and even practiced with a wooden dummy, yeah, a wooden dummy kicked my butt for about three years and then I finally understood the principle of not fighting for some strength and, you know, it's crazy, so of course anyway half of the At some point, if I were in a critical artistic situation, I would simply say that because Wing Chun problems are life problems, life problems are Wing Chun problems and I would simply ask again how it relates This with the fact that I don't like being timed and having my teeth hit because we tend to sometimes wear gloves but we don't use mouthpieces, it's very good, it's certainly not because I'm very good at hitting and it's also even better to make sure so that you don't accidentally hit it. but we get as close as possible to what the real

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would be, but again it's like everything.

I'm sure you know that a few clicks later, there are things that the instructors were doing that would be considered illegal to do to a group. of students nowadays, yeah sure, so not just a few clicks on the way out, that's what I imagine, yeah, there are students who would take a normal beating. So did you start training for Sherlock Holmes or did you start training before I did? it coincided with my recovery and the two things somehow or another seem to block each other and talking to you off the record and then about everything to do with my recovery, to the extent that you locked it in with this, it was an apprentice and an apprenticeship. and it was a learning that depended on me being in a certain mental space mmm well, it's also a good thing because it's addictive, people become very addicted to martial arts and it's a good substitute for sometimes negative addictions, already you know Bourdain before him. died, he was obsessed with Brazilian jiu-jitsu, yes, he became very obsessed with it at 58 years old, when he became very good, he trained every day and he was trained twice a day, every day, so since he I knew he was chubby. he smoked cigarettes, he drank every night and he still drank every night, but you know, he did enough that enough healthy things kept his body together and then his ex-wife got really interested in jujitsu and then decided to follow her one day for classes and at first he was making fun of it and laughing about it and then he became obsessed and then he got really good, I mean he was and in the guy he wanted a tournament, I mean oh my gosh yeah he's 60 years old which is really crazy is a photo of him walking down the street and I think they were in Rome and he's shirtless and he's ripped off Anthony Bourdain's entire abs, yeah dude I was obsessed, I'd take a private look at him every day, look at that photo , that's crazy, hey. he's like 60 something there so he took a private lesson every day and then he took a class so we took a private lesson to improve the techniques and then roll yeah take group classes too which is very, very critical, we have a role with different people how they do the percentage and he was there and it became a good thing for him to get addicted to this positive thing, yeah, I mean, for me it wasn't going to be golf, it was going to be something passive like that, right? oh, I hear it's great, but it's been a great gift and it's also that thing where you know you're never done.

I am a black belt five years ago for another qualification and now we are doing a lot of weapons things and they are incredible resolutions, yes, my tiger window teacher told me something when I was very young, they said that it is a tool to develop your human potential , yeah, and I never forgot it because I thought, yeah, it's because it's really hard to do like all martial arts or it's really really hard to get your body to move that way and be able to be effective in a conflict situation. If you can do it, you can do it again and again and you can get through it. something difficult and you thought it was insurmountable and then you figured out how to do it eventually you get to this point you realized well everything in life is like that everything in life is like something it's a puzzle you have to figure out how I am to approach it wrong, what can I do to improve it?

How can I become more proficient in this particular skill or this particular discipline? Yeah, and just the humility, I mean, if I've noticed anything over the last few years in the UFC that the way I was doing a Robert Altman movie called The Gingerbread Man in the '90s and the UFC had just started and I was buying the VHS tapes, yeah, and watching them, and when they went back to 25 years ago, I thought: I've been I've been I've been there since the jump, that's incredible, but we see it, it's just that thing of it doesn't matter what you think, the Tides are changing rapidly and yeah, and you just have to keep working well, that was a real wake-up call for a lot of martial artists was the UFC.

A lot of the things they were doing really weren't effective. Yes, they thought it would be if everyone followed the rules in the dojo and followed them. but once you actually saw a real caged event where people were just going crazy you realize a lot of this stuff just doesn't work yeah well I would love how messy it was at the beginning because the style matchups were so, if it was almost crazy ridiculous until you saw the violence and there are no weight classes if you and I share another passion resto mods yes you got it, was it a 1970 Mustang?

Yes, I have that 302 80 speed core, a couple of others, food court does amazing things. They're cool yeah and when I saw they were doing your upload oh this is going to be good you picked a unique color too yeah I'm pretty sure it's the only holiday that thing yeah it's in the east right now, that's a nice car to Right away, that's a nice car from Long Island mmm, yes, it's beautiful, but the beautiful thing about something like speedcore is that they will take that car and make it so that it is drivable. In fact, you can drive it if you drove a real 1970 stock car, it would be horrible, yeah, and it's amazing how far we've come, yeah, those cars, it's like they cut you off, you're blindfolded while you're driving, you're aware of what the car is going to do if you turn the steering wheel, but no.

I really know, for me it's like I'm a wingless crop duster every time I start. I just need to go. Jesus Christ, I have kids and also since I threw my hat in the ring with these types of green technology initiatives. I'll probably end up auctioning them all off, yeah, be honest, you know? I drove a small BMW electric car here. I saw it and started laughing when I saw it. I'll hold on to Forks, yeah, you gotta hold on to that, what you got. What is this tarantula hawk that Tool's Maynard Keenan sent me from his farm in Arizona?

We were talking about it on a podcast and he said, “If you ever saw one, I say No and then a week later one came.” The email is waiting, let me see what it says. Yes, by the way, if I've been too far away from the microphone this whole time, you're fine now. It's okay, we're okay. Could you give me a sign. Jamie is a master and he knows how to do it. handle this I know you have a lot more to do so I'm going to let you out of here I just want to say it's an honor to meet you, you know, it's a pleasure to sit down and talk to you.

I appreciate you taking your time and good luck with everything buddy, yeah I'll be back trust me. Well, I hope you come back. Goodbye everyone, oh, you know what I was getting at. There's a guy called Father Brands. if you have heard of him