#926 - Joey Diaz & Alberto Gallazzi

Joe Rogan (0:09)

And we're live, yeah. What are you doing over there, Joey?

Joey Diaz (0:12)

Just looking at your book. I've been reading that book lately that's messing with my head.

Joe Rogan (0:16)

Which one?

Joey Diaz (0:17)

I even talked about on the podcast, The War of Art, about resistance. So now I catch myself. Every time I wanna do something, I catch myself. I've been practicing to look at the resistance levels that comes up, like different things I need to do. I wanna see what excuse I get myself.

Joe Rogan (0:33)

Yeah, yeah, it's a normal thing, right?

Joey Diaz (0:35)

Normal.

Joe Rogan (0:36)

Mr. Gallazzi. Yeah, how are you? How are you, brother? Very nice to meet you, man. Nice you're coming on here, man. I hear fantastic things about you from Joey, from other people.

So Joey insisted, he's like, you gotta get this guy in here, dog. He's a fucking wizard. What he did for my shoulders.

What did he do for your shoulders?

Joey Diaz (0:54)

You know, I've been going to Alberto, and Alberto is the man in Burbank for tactical fitness.

They do it in the mornings and the afternoon, but the one kid, Coach Robert, you know, he was just after class. He would say, Joey, what are you gonna do? You gonna go home or you wanna do this for a little while? And at first, the first two weeks, the movements were difficult, but then, you know, level one stuff, man. Any age could do it if I could do it. Just laying on the back, lifting your hips and spinning over on your toes and doing it back. And at first, I couldn't even, look Joe, I couldn't move my elbows like that. Nothing, my shoulders, my wrists, and I kept staying for the 30 minute thing. Five exercises, three minutes apiece. That's it.

No drama. You could be big, heavy. It's all stuff I could do. Picking up your leg, putting it under. All body weight stuff? All body weight stuff that I could handle. If I could handle it on my wrist being 300 pounds, anybody could handle it. Simple stuff.

And one day, I was getting caught, and the guy was pulling me into his guard, and magically, my hips flew up, and I just mysteriously got into side control. And something made me look up, and Alberto Crane's jaw dropped. And he goes, that's from doing that stuff.

You couldn't do that when you walked in here. But I kept going to these 30-minute things. 30 minutes, five exercises, three minutes. You're out of there at 1.45.

Joe Rogan (2:21)

So is this a, do you have a system that you bring to a bunch of different places, and you have affiliates? Is that how it works?

Pull this right up to you.

Alberto Gallazzi (2:32)

It's first time for me to be in person.

Joe Rogan (2:35)

You speak fantastic English for someone who's from Italy.

Alberto Gallazzi (2:38)

Right, thanks. I've been living, I lived there years ago. Years ago, yeah.

I got a call, I got married years ago.

Joe Rogan (2:45)

Oh.

Alberto Gallazzi (2:46)

And then I spent some time working for them.

Joe Rogan (2:47)

Be careful, Trump might kick you out now. You gotta be super careful.

Alberto Gallazzi (2:50)

No, I've already been out. Back in Europe, back in Europe.

Joe Rogan (2:53)

Oh, okay.

Alberto Gallazzi (2:54)

Yeah, so I'm representing this system, right? That has been developed by Scott Sonnen.

Joe Rogan (3:00)

Oh, Scott Sonnen. So it's like Club Bells, a lot of that stuff?

Alberto Gallazzi (3:03)

Yeah, I think Club Bell and CST.

We meet each other a long time ago in 94 And then I was doing security contractor work. That's what my line of business is. I've always been involved in training, martial arts and any kind of such training. And all the injury that I got from competing and normal weight lifting.

I've been lost contact with him for a few years. And then I saw him in 2000 coming out with the Club Bells. Club Bells really attract me. It was different tools. And I say, okay, I want to get back in contact with these guys. I want to understand how can the things can help me. So I went back to him and he blew my mind. Blew my mind, helped me to get back in the best shape of my life. I feel now I'm 47, I feel I can move better, that do things better than I used to do it when I was 20

So I promised him, I'm gonna make these things happen in Europe. You're my coach, you change my way to say fitness, and I'm gonna do that. So between my job and security, I was introducing this to my teams, and then I see changing on people, people being able even to just to go moving easier, and then transfer to whatever it was our training, handgun or whatever, skills and stuff, everything was easier.