Andrew Huberman's first jiu jitsu class with Lex Fridman

00:00:00.000 | This video is of Andrew Huberman taking his first Jiu-Jitsu class with me at 10th Planet

00:00:05.720 | in Austin, Texas.

00:00:07.440 | Gabe Tuttle, who you see explaining the techniques, is a head instructor there.

00:00:12.560 | Jiu-Jitsu is a martial art and a fascinating game of human chess.

00:00:17.320 | Sometimes it is practiced with a gi, sometimes without the gi, like in this case.

00:00:21.560 | It involves using detailed techniques to attain dominant positions that allow you to control

00:00:27.360 | your opponent's body and then to apply submissions like breaking their arm or choking them unconscious,

00:00:34.000 | but stopping right before that as your opponent taps twice to designate that they give up.

00:00:40.440 | This double tap, performed thousands of times in a Jiu-Jitsu journey, is the dismantling

00:00:45.540 | of the ego that I think is a very powerful tool for the development of the human mind,

00:00:51.160 | scientific and otherwise.

00:00:53.700 | Here Andrew learns how to take his opponents back with an arm drag and submit them with

00:00:58.000 | a choke.

00:00:59.000 | I wanted to capture this moment because hopefully it's inspiring to see a world-class scientist

00:01:04.080 | like Andrew take on something new and difficult with a beginner's mind.

00:01:09.120 | Maybe this will inspire you to try Jiu-Jitsu as well.

00:01:13.160 | I honestly have no idea what I'm doing, Lex.

00:01:16.280 | Zero.

00:01:17.280 | Fortune favors the bold, so good luck.

00:01:18.280 | So we're going to start off in the butterfly position.

00:01:19.280 | First one we're going to be working is our dominant arm here.

00:01:20.280 | We're going to be working on the arm.

00:01:21.280 | We're going to hit our arm drag here.

00:01:22.280 | Try to get across, attach your chest to that shoulder.

00:01:23.280 | Now you can move.

00:01:24.280 | I can either come to him or pull him down into me.

00:01:25.280 | Watch this, he doesn't move real quick.

00:01:26.280 | I can hit my arm drag here.

00:01:27.280 | Look at his lap control.

00:01:28.280 | Here I want to actually mirror my hand.

00:01:29.280 | I just scoot out here and I'm keeping good tension with my elbow here as I pull Lex down.

00:01:30.280 | I'm not going to be able to do a lot of this.

00:01:31.280 | I'm going to be able to do a lot of this.

00:01:32.280 | I'm going to be able to do a lot of this.

00:01:33.280 | I'm going to be able to do a lot of this.

00:01:34.280 | I'm going to be able to do a lot of this.

00:01:35.280 | I'm going to be able to do a lot of this.

00:01:36.280 | I'm going to be able to do a lot of this.

00:01:37.280 | I'm going to be able to do a lot of this.

00:02:03.280 | I'm going to be able to do a lot of this.

00:02:25.280 | I'm going to be able to do a lot of this.

00:02:53.280 | I'm going to be able to do a lot of this.

00:03:22.280 | That's perfect right there.

00:03:24.740 | And swim that through.

00:03:29.020 | Squeeze and expand your chest.

00:03:30.440 | That was perfect.

00:03:31.440 | You're building this junk.

00:03:32.600 | So rather than try and flip him on his back.

00:03:41.240 | Yeah I'm going under the armpit now and reach for the far side of the neck.

00:03:44.580 | Now from here, once I control the neck I can let the arm drag out.

00:03:47.340 | That arm comes all the way around.

00:03:48.760 | I'm just pinching the back of his head with my elbows.

00:03:51.760 | Just go straight, turn your elbow up.

00:03:55.200 | Now you can kind of ratchet your grip in deeper.

00:03:57.360 | You feel that?

00:03:58.360 | So just turn that elbow back up.

00:04:00.900 | This guy comes up and around this way.

00:04:05.360 | So there's a logic there.

00:04:06.920 | Basically you're trying to get into a place where you can use your own musculature.

00:04:12.920 | Rather than just battle.

00:04:13.920 | This arm and choke, or that blood choke also.

00:04:14.920 | So my forearm is cropped on the far side and I'm pushing your shoulder into the neck joint.

00:04:23.920 | I like it.

00:04:24.920 | I can see how this would become addicting.

00:04:27.840 | Just because there's so many...

00:04:28.840 | Especially if you're a very cerebral guy like you are.

00:04:29.840 | This one's got a chute underneath it.

00:04:30.840 | You got it.

00:04:31.840 | There we go.

00:04:32.840 | And then curl your left arm.

00:04:33.840 | You just boa constrictor them.

00:04:49.600 | Yeah boa constrictor.

00:04:50.600 | I mean, when you get...

00:04:53.360 | Maybe you know about this.

00:04:54.360 | Actually I don't know what the visual...

00:04:56.120 | Why is there butterflies?

00:04:57.560 | When you start to choke out?

00:04:58.560 | Yeah.

00:04:59.560 | Because your eyes are part of your brain and they demand so much blood and glucose all

00:05:03.320 | the time you're cutting off blood supply to the eye.

00:05:06.120 | Why the visual artifacts?

00:05:07.120 | Oh, why do you get the little...

00:05:09.360 | Just spontaneous transmission of neurons in the eye.

00:05:13.080 | Just...

00:05:14.080 | It's cool.

00:05:15.080 | When you see stars, like if you get hit hard and you see stars, it's because of your spontaneous

00:05:17.920 | firing of cells.

00:05:18.920 | Yeah, I get that with the choke.

00:05:20.520 | I just got that now.

00:05:21.520 | Oh really?

00:05:22.520 | There's the stars.

00:05:23.520 | So it's this shoulder going in there.

00:05:28.280 | That's the one blood.

00:05:30.480 | My hand on the other side.

00:05:34.600 | Yeah you can feel the blood.

00:05:35.600 | You start to tunnel up.

00:05:36.600 | Is that too fast?

00:05:37.600 | Did I cinch you in two places?

00:05:38.600 | No, that was perfect.

00:05:39.600 | That was just really tight.

00:05:40.600 | Okay, sorry.

00:05:41.600 | Sorry.

00:05:42.600 | This is what I was saying, like, squaring with somebody who knows how to do it because

00:05:43.600 | they can do it right.

00:05:44.600 | The butterflies are back.

00:05:45.600 | Shit.

00:05:46.600 | Yeah.

00:05:47.600 | He's being kind.

00:05:48.600 | Lex Friedman is strong.

00:05:49.600 | I was worried I'd be going down the wrong road.

00:05:50.600 | I'm sorry.

00:05:51.600 | You're strong.

00:06:03.520 | That Russian grip is insane.

00:06:05.920 | So yeah, if you stand up, that's exactly the game, the other side of the game that we looked

00:06:12.080 | at today.

00:06:13.080 | So we looked at arm drags, but those only work when you're coming in.

00:06:18.280 | If you're going away, I'm going to threaten you by coming up and then you're going to

00:06:23.680 | want to push me down, back down, and you'll be a little bit more nervous about me coming

00:06:29.120 | up so you're going to pressure yourself into me.

00:06:31.800 | I see.

00:06:32.800 | And that leads to the arm drag.

00:06:33.800 | Got it.

00:06:34.800 | So like that's the yin and yang, the push and pull.

00:06:38.640 | This is where the choke position is?

00:06:40.960 | Here and we're pressuring this way, yep.

00:06:45.040 | That's called head and arm choke.

00:06:46.560 | That's Rogan's favorite choke.

00:06:48.600 | So it's this, this.

00:06:51.600 | Yeah, that feels very helpless.

00:06:55.160 | Yeah, and I could just like sit here, relax for a while and just make it very unpleasant

00:07:00.120 | for you.

00:07:01.120 | When you talk about relinquishing the ego, it's like yeah, you have to be willing to

00:07:04.720 | let somebody get real close to you, like mount you, flip you.

00:07:09.240 | It's not something I'm used to on any basis.

00:07:13.840 | It's really a beautiful sport.

00:07:14.840 | How do you feel?

00:07:15.840 | First class in jiu jitsu.

00:07:16.840 | Love it.

00:07:17.840 | It's amazing.

00:07:18.840 | I think I'm hooked.

00:07:19.360 | Yeah.

00:07:19.880 | I'm hooked.

00:07:20.880 | I'm hooked.

00:07:21.880 | I'm hooked.

00:07:22.880 | I'm hooked.

00:07:27.880 | I'm hooked.

00:07:32.880 | I'm hooked.

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Andrew Huberman's first jiu jitsu class with Lex Fridman

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