JRE MMA Show #73 with Jean Jacques Machado

Joe Rogan (0:03)

Boom, and we're live, Jean Jacques.

Jean Jacques Machado (0:06)

Joe Rogan.

Joe Rogan (0:08)

Pull this up, pull this up.

Jean Jacques Machado (0:10)

It's been quite some time, but we made it.

Joe Rogan (0:13)

Yeah, we made it, we made it happen. People still to this day, all my friends call me Joe Rogan because of you.

Jean Jacques Machado (0:19)

I don't know, man.

Joe Rogan (0:20)

Joe Rogan. That's a funny Brazilian thing, you know, the Portuguese translation of Rs to Hs.

Jean Jacques Machado (0:26)

I think, I think when we speak English, you have to use your tongue in a way that in Portuguese, we are just flat out.

Joe Rogan (0:33)

But you use Rio, you don't say heal, right? Do you say heal? No, Rio.

Jean Jacques Machado (0:37)

Rio.

Joe Rogan (0:38)

How does that work?

Jean Jacques Machado (0:39)

Somehow, it's in Portuguese, the first two letters are the strongest one in the word.

Joe Rogan (0:45)

But but Hickson and Hoyce and say Hickson, right? But it's not Rickson, but it's Rio.

Jean Jacques Machado (0:51)

Yes.

Joe Rogan (0:52)

How does that work?

Jean Jacques Machado (0:53)

It's I don't know, when it becomes to a name is different than when you say a city name.

Joe Rogan (0:56)

Oh, really?

Jean Jacques Machado (0:57)

Yes.

Oh, it's funny. Rio, it's more something for and when you say personal, it becomes a little I don't know, Hickson.

Joe Rogan (1:07)

So, with people, it's an H, but it can be an R, like a R sound with objects and things.

Jean Jacques Machado (1:14)

Yes.

Joe Rogan (1:14)

Or just places.

Jean Jacques Machado (1:16)

I think more places and it's funny because in each region in Brazil is a different accent.

Joe Rogan (1:22)

Really? Oh, that makes sense. Kind of like America.

Jean Jacques Machado (1:24)

Yes. Each place, like what country is that? Because the sound is very different.

Joe Rogan (1:30)

It's a beautiful language. Portuguese has like, especially Brazilian Portuguese, has like a sing song, like a flow to it.

Jean Jacques Machado (1:37)

It's the bossa nova, carnival. Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:41)

But is that the way you guys talk? It's cool. It sounds good. You know?

Jean Jacques Machado (1:45)

It's more almost like singing.

Joe Rogan (1:48)

How many Americans have like put on a fake Brazilian accent once they started really getting into Jiu Jitsu? Must be.

Jean Jacques Machado (1:56)

Man, I think in a way when Jiu Jitsu established their flag outside Brazil, it makes fun. It's fun in a way that people, our goal is to make that area become more Brazilian than any other place.

It's not that we're trying to speak more in English, but we'll make the English become more Portuguese.

And almost every student that I have, maybe probably because of my accent, they start listening and speaking very similar to the way we do in every Jiu Jitsu school.

Joe Rogan (2:28)

Yeah, well, we used to see that in Taekwondo, too, guys would have fake Korean accents.

Jean Jacques Machado (2:34)

And in each school, the instructor has a different accent and different vocabulary, which even extended more. It becomes like another language in the Jiu Jitsu community.

Joe Rogan (2:45)

So, Jiu Jitsu is huge in Rio, but what other parts of Brazil that is... It's very strange if you stop and think about the history of martial arts, which is something that's always been very fascinating to me. Jiu Jitsu is the most fascinating because until 1993, very few people understood how potent Brazilian Jiu Jitsu was.

Jean Jacques Machado (3:06)

When I start understand Jiu Jitsu and became on the teenager time, Jiu Jitsu was basically in Brazil, has that amazing era of my uncle Hilo and Carson, the whole first generation of the family, which Brazil was all over, Jiu Jitsu was all over Brazil.

As a teenager, remember that Jiu Jitsu was basically established in a very wealth area in Rio de Janeiro only. That's basically have all the schools is to call Gracie schools by the neighborhood, you have a Gracie Umaita, you have a Gracie Copacabana, you have a then future Gracie Barra, but everything was almost Gracie school everywhere.

Joe Rogan (3:48)

And it was wealthy people?

Jean Jacques Machado (3:49)

Only in the welfare of Rio.

Then slowly because, keep in mind, we used to have one, maybe two tournaments, sport of Jiu Jitsu a year. That's it. We always practice Jiu Jitsu mainly at that time for self-defense. We want to get ready for protect ourselves. We never had much chances to try in a tournament because there's no tournament. Every train we do was based in defend yourself.