Joe Rogan has long been one of the most influential people in the bjj community and out of it. The 51 year old stand-up comedian, mixed martial arts color commentator, podcast host, and businessman is notorious for his intense work outs – after all he is a black belt both under Rigan Machado and the 10th Planet system.

Recently he hosted Lex Fridman. Lex Fridman is a research scientist at MIT working on developing deep learning approaches to human sensing, scene understanding, and planning in human-AI interaction paradigms including robotics, crowdsourced human-in-the-loop supervision, and simulated environments.

There they talked a little about bjj:

“I am so delusional. I thought I had a chance. I thought based on taking a couple classes and learning what an armbar is and then being a strong person who has a background in martial arts I would be able to at least hold him off. ” – Joe said

adding:

“I think it’s a more humbling sport than wrestling. ” – Fridman added

Rogan concluded:

“It’s also what martial arts are supposed to be in that small person who knows technique can beat a big person. That’s what we always hope for… It’s one of the only martial arts that’s real.”

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