#935 - Robb Wolf

Joe Rogan (0:02)

Four, three, two, yes, Robb Wolf. What's up, buddy? You look great, man. You look super healthy.

Robb Wolf (0:09)

Oh, thanks.

Joe Rogan (0:10)

What are you doing? I know you're doing a lot of jiu-jitsu, but you look like leaner and taller.

Robb Wolf (0:14)

They took the pineal gland out of a small child and then implanted it in me.

Joe Rogan (0:19)

Is that all you need to do?

Robb Wolf (0:20)

Pretty much.

Joe Rogan (0:21)

Imagine if that was the case, you'd just, people would run around with like helmets on their kids, keeping people from stealing pineal glands from them.

Robb Wolf (0:26)

It's illegal here, yeah, so yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:28)

Where'd you go to get it done?

Robb Wolf (0:29)

I can't really divulge that, yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:31)

Oh, cool, cool, cool. Wherever it was, as long as it was in America.

Robb Wolf (0:34)

Right, right.

Joe Rogan (0:36)

So you're balls deep in jujitsu these days, man.

Robb Wolf (0:40)

Trying to, trying to, yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:42)

But you could see that in you, like you look different. You really do, you look like, I don't know.

Robb Wolf (0:46)

When I was on here last time, I was at the end of a pretty big travel cycle, like doing military gigs and stuff like that, and I was pretty beat down. And we've had two kids since I think I was on the podcast, and although that has beat me down, it's beat me down in a different way. So I've just been at home and I can train, don't travel as much. And so yeah, everything's been pretty good. I do this gymnastics bodies programming a couple of days a week, a little bit of squatting, a little bit of deadlifting, pretty on point with the food, and then just getting the dog piss beat out of me at Jits, like two to four days a week. So yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:16)

What got you into that?

Robb Wolf (1:19)

Oh man, I've always been interested in martial arts. Like as a kid, I had a brown belt and like the Ed Parker Kempo system. Yeah, old, old school.

Joe Rogan (1:28)

Elvis Presley style.

Robb Wolf (1:30)

Yes. And you know, like I knew that Parker had some connections with like Bruce Lee and JKD, and I was always really interested in that.

So I went down to Long Beach, California and ended up tracking down some folks at the Inosano Academy and went and sparred with a kid that had been doing Thai boxing for like six months. And he was 60 pounds lighter than I was, not particularly athletic, and he beat the crap out of me. I mean, it was just like a man fighting a boy, only I was bigger and stronger and faster and he just destroyed me.

So I went back home and I burned my brown belt and I started studying some Thai boxing. And it wasn't long after this that I encountered Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for the first time. And I had a little bit of a high school wrestling background and I was a California State Powerlifting Champion. So it's a strong athletic kid.

And again, this guy submitted me 50 times in two minutes and I was just kind of blown away.

But this was back in like 92 And unless you were in a major metropolitan area, you just couldn't find Jiu-Jitsu. So I did a couple of weeks of it then, around like 92, 93 And I didn't have a second Jiu-Jitsu session until 2003 And again, it was like a month or something because at that point, the folks that were usually running these schools, they could barely keep them open. They were at like nine o'clock in the back of a karate school or something. So it's only been the past couple of years that I've been able to be pretty consistent.

Joe Rogan (2:54)

So you just found a great gym out where you were at?

Robb Wolf (2:57)

Yeah, yeah. I've kind of bounced around a little bit. Kelly Farrell at Conviction Martial Arts, and then also the Guerrilla Jiu-Jitsu affiliate there in Reno. And then I get out to Elko to the guys that straight blast gym in Elko under Chris Meyer every once in a while.

Joe Rogan (3:12)

So are you out in the Reno area?

Robb Wolf (3:13)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:13)

Dude, I didn't know what Reno was like. I went to Reno this past August, and maybe I had passed through once when I was younger, but we went through Reno into the mountains in Nevada.

It's fucking beautiful.