#1505 - Hannibal Buress

Joe Rogan (0:00)

Hello, Hannibal.

Hannibal Buress (0:01)

What's happening, man?

Joe Rogan (0:02)

Good to see you, my friend.

Hannibal Buress (0:03)

Good to see you, too.

Joe Rogan (0:04)

Last time I saw you, you was in Thailand.

Hannibal Buress (0:06)

It was in Thailand, yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:07)

Dude, that was crazy.

Hannibal Buress (0:08)

And that was...

Joe Rogan (0:09)

Two years ago?

Hannibal Buress (0:10)

Two years, 2018, yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:11)

Yeah, that was random.

Hannibal Buress (0:13)

That was very random.

Joe Rogan (0:15)

That's so crazy, though. We had dinner, hung out in Thailand. I was like, this is wild.

Hannibal Buress (0:19)

Yeah, yeah, at the, it was in Chiang Mai. Yeah, I was doing Muay Thai.

Joe Rogan (0:25)

Yeah, that's crazy. So you just decided, just up and decided, I'm gonna go there by myself for several months.

Hannibal Buress (0:32)

Just a month.

Joe Rogan (0:33)

Oh, you went for a month.

Hannibal Buress (0:34)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:34)

And train Muay Thai.

Hannibal Buress (0:36)

Yeah, I needed to, I needed to reset after doing tag. I wanted to kind of just reset my brain after doing so much press, because it was a lot of press and a lot of just, you know, repetition. And so I was like, I need to go do something extreme to get into a totally different zone.

Joe Rogan (0:59)

What was that? Had you ever trained Muay Thai before then?

Hannibal Buress (1:02)

No. What was the first day? I maybe took some classes.

The first day, so I went in Bangkok first. I went to like a small class. I just went to one, and my camp was in Phuket.

And so all the gyms are outside. So to warm up, I was drenched in sweat in a 10-minute warm-up. I went, oh, this is good. But it was dope, man. It was nice to, I stayed on the camp for a little bit, so it was nice to just have that focus and live there and be there and just work out and lean into it. It was cool.

Joe Rogan (1:44)

How into it did you get? Were you ever hitting the pads going, I think I should take a fight?

Hannibal Buress (1:50)

No, I didn't want to take a fight.

But it was sometimes where my kicks, I'm bow-legged, so my kicks are weird. So doing a roundhouse, I wouldn't be able to, so my elbows were decent in my knees. And so some of the trainers, they started, that was my nickname, it was Elbow. Elbow, come on, elbow! But my kicks would be so weak. They would be so weak. It just hit the pad and it would have a pitiful sound.

Joe Rogan (2:21)

It's not a thing that comes easily, especially when you're in your 30s and you're just starting to train.

Like Muay Thai is, to move your legs like that and that kind of dexterity, it takes a while. It's a slow, gradual buildup.

Hannibal Buress (2:36)

Yes, the hips have to be looser. And it was just, but I'm also a bow-legged, so certain yoga things that I can't do, or even sit in Indian style.

Joe Rogan (2:49)

But you seem normal when you're walking around. How are you bow-legged? Because I know some dudes that are really bow-legged.

Hannibal Buress (2:53)

My walk is a little bit, it has a little bit to it. And when I run, it gets really crazy. I don't look how I think I look in my head while I'm walking. I think the music in my head is, do, but my walk is kind of do. My walk is way weird. I look at on camera, who is that guy?

Joe Rogan (3:16)

And what causes bowleggedness? Is it an anatomy thing?

Hannibal Buress (3:20)

I think it's an anatomy thing. Yeah, it's just like.

Joe Rogan (3:22)

Like I'm saying, stand up.

Hannibal Buress (3:23)

So yeah, so that my knees don't touch. So it's a, yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:26)

But you seem normal. I'm not seeing anything weird.

Hannibal Buress (3:28)

It's not crazy, but it's just, it affects my roundhouse game, you know?

Joe Rogan (3:34)

Mm, I could help you with that, I guarantee you. I bet some stretches and some learning how to do it slowly.

The thing about roundhouse kicks and any kicks in general is people try to do them like fast.

You really wanna learn them slow. You wanna learn, like, you gotta resist the urge to try to hit things. What you really wanna do is just go through the motion, just go through the motion, just slow. And do that for a long period of time, like many, many, many weeks.