– Gracie jiu-jitsu, the Gracie Diet and today, it's amazing,
I have Rorion Gracie here, his father, who is actually right here is the man who created
Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and his son here, Rorion,
brought Brazilian jiu-jitsu to the United States, was
a cocreator of the UFC in 1993, which is now everywhere you go, you've got mixed martial
arts, and it really comes back to his family, so he was nice
enough to come by the house and I wanted to just share with you some very important things,
not just about diet, but about philosophy on life,
overcoming stress, worry, how to discipline yourself,
how to create a daily routine, you know, really how
to transform your life, so thank you for coming.
– My pleasure, thank you very much. – He's a ninth degree red
belt, this belt right here is the highest belt
you can get, his father is a tenth degree, only
the founders of jiu-jitsu, the brothers here, and so
there's only a few people that have the red belt ninth degree. – That's correct.
– Yeah. – A handful of people around the world. – And your sons, Rener, he's a black belt. – Yes, yes. – To become a red belt … – You have to be at least 50, so they have a ways to go. – Yeah, 'cause the coral
belt comes in between. – That is correct, yeah. The black belt goes up to six degrees, and then seventh and
eighth are coral belts, and then ninth is red.
– Is red. – Oh, okay, yeah, they've
been doing jiu-jitsu, there's a cool picture
here, he had his gi on before he was even old enough to remember, you probably don't remember that picture.
(men laugh) Awesome, I got the jiu-jitsu flag here, Brazilian flag, the US
one on the highest there, so this is where I do Brazilian jiu-jitsu, I am a blue belt, so I have
a long way to go, but … – But you're advancing, you got a red belt in other subjects, I figure. – No, not a red belt, not
a red belt, maybe a brown, in some other areas. The Gracie Diet, I'm here
with the founder of the UFC, mixed martial arts, Rorion Gracie, his father is also the founder
of Brazilian jiu-jitsu, a lot of you have seen on
my social media and Snapchat that I do Brazilian jiu-jitsu
and he was nice enough to come here and talk,
and we're gonna talk about all kinds of stuff that's important, you know, how to discipline the
mind, one of the most common questions I get is how to
overcome procrastination, discipline yourself, build a
daily routine that's productive and then we're gonna also
talk about the Gracie Diet, which is very, you know, the Gracie family is in the Guinness book of World Records for the most professional
athletes in one family.
There's I think something like 50 to 70 professional athletes and so this diet not only is, you know, for health but as part of a whole lifestyle and so thank you for coming. – My pleasure, thank you very
much for the opportunity. – Very honored that you're here. Maybe we could start,
for somebody watching, the story of how Brazilian
jiu-jitsu came about, how your father started it, how you, this is a picture, actually,
of you, right here, when he was very …
– A baby. – One years old or two
years old with a gi on, practicing jiu-jitsu, for those of you who don't know much about
Brazilian jiu-jitsu, if you watch any UFC fighting
now, any MMA fighting, they call it mixed martial
arts 'cause they do a combination of boxing and striking, but the foundation of mixed martial arts is really Brazilian jiu-jitsu, because your family came to America, when was it, 94, you started the UFC? – 93, actually. – 93, and nobody could
beat the Gracie family. Everybody was doing karate,
they were doing boxing, they were wrestling, I
remember watching the first UFC one, two, three, and you
know, one skinny Gracie family member came and just nobody could, how many did he win? – He won three UFCs.
– He won the first three against people, that was when there was no weight classes. – That's right, no weight
classes, no time limits. – No time limits, people were elbowing, it was vicious, and he was about, he's your, how's he related to you? – Royce is my little brother. – That's your brother. – Yes. – Okay, so Royce came in and
he's probably 170 pounds. – Something like that, yeah,
75 or something like that. – Yeah. – He was the lightest guy
in the event for sure.
– Yeah. – That was a very good example
of what proper technique can do, so he went in there
and put on a nice show and ultimately changed the world. – Yeah, it's changed the world. Now there's your family,
your sons have schools, I mean, there's schools around the world. I train, I was just down in San Diego. I just trained, I found a
Gracie jiu-jitsu academy, trained there, almost
every country in the world has something, I was in Norway, they're doing Gracie jiu-jitsu. – It's all over the place. – So what's the story for
someone who doesn't know? Take us back over 100 years ago. – (Laughs) Thank you
again for the opportunity. It's great to be here. – No, thank you. – A former jiu-jitsu
instructor came to Brazil about 100 years ago, early 1900s, as an aide to the Japanese
immigration colony. – Was he from Japan? – He was from Japan. – Okay, and my grandfather, Gastao, was a very influential
man in Brazil at the time, so he helped the Japanese
gentleman get settled in northern Brazil, and
to show his gratitude, the Japanese instructor
offered to teach jiu-jitsu to my then 13-year-old Uncle Carlos.
Who was the oldest of eight
kids, five of 'em were boys. Uncle Carlos was kind of a wild kid, but as soon as he started
learning jiu-jitsu, he found himself in that and
fell in love with the art, trained under the Japanese
instructors for a few years and when the family moved
from northern Brazil to Rio, he then started teaching
jiu-jitsu with his friend, and his brothers, my dad,
Helio, was physically a very frail child. – He was a small one in the family, right? – He was younger than the other ones, also he was 11 years younger
than my uncle Carlos, but still had a very frail health, he would run up a flight of
stairs and have fainting spells. – Wow. – Nobody knew exactly why,
so the doctors at the time recommended he be kept away from any kind of physical activity.
– Wow. – So my dad used to watch his
brothers practice jiu-jitsu. Nothing else to do, no
television, just kind of spend the day watching his
brothers, until one day when he was 16 years old,
a student came for a class and my uncles are not
around to teach the class, so my father offered to
teach the man a lesson, and the guy agreed, okay, kid, let's play, my father stepped on the mat
and taught the man a lesson.
– Huh. – When Uncle Carlos
showed up very apologetic, I'm sorry, I'm late to the class, the student said, listen,
I had a class with your little brother, Helio, and I liked it, in fact, I want to be
his student from now on. My dad was promoted to be
a teacher by his student. – Wow. – What the old man soon
realized is that the techniques he had memorized require certain amount of physical ability and strength and speed which he did not have.
– Okay. – So through trial and
error, he started modifying the traditional Japanese
techniques that the brothers were practicing and giving more emphasis to natural body movements,
simpler, shorter moves, better timing, better
leverage and so forth and that modifications is what gave birth to what's known today as Gracie jiu-jitsu or Brazilian jiu-jitsu,
so my dad did not invent jiu-jitsu, he just made it
easier for the little guy, like he liked to explain himself as. In order to test these
changes in a martial art, you can't just theorize about that, so he started issuing challenges
to everybody in Brazil and becoming very
successful in the matches against different styles of martial arts.
– So he would just
fight, he would put a … I heard he would put
something in the newspaper, anybody come fight me
or something like that. – Uncle Carlos started
with that, you know, if you're gonna have a
broken arm or a broken rib, call me, Carlos at such
and such an address. – You know that's gonna
get men, men are macho, they're gonna show up and
be, like, who is this guy? – But ultimately my dad
started challenging everybody and defeating everybody and
became the first sports icon in Brazil's history.
– Wow.
– Now back in the 30s,
Pele the soccer player wasn't even born, so there was nobody else in terms of sports that
the Brazilian youth had to root for, and like
I said, the old man became this iconic figure that's
beyond anything else. – And he's, for people
who know the belt system, you see him and his
brother and the brothers are the only red belt tenth degree.
– Yes, that's many years later. – That's the highest. – The highest. – And you're a ninth degree. – I'm a ninth degree, yes. – Red belt, which is the
highest you can get because … – Because I'm not the founder. – Okay. – Yes, anyway, so my dad
started challenging everybody, becoming this huge guy
in Brazil, very popular, the family became very, you
know, defeating everybody, stuff like that, very successful, and then fought the
longest fight in history, one round of three hours and 40 minutes. – Wow, who was that against? – Volda Massentena$, a
former student of his at the academy. – Was he Japanese … – No, not Japanese, a Brazilian guy, 25 years old, my dad was
43 years old at the time and the fight was just
crazy long, anyways, so … – Wait, who won? – Ultimately, the guy won the fight. – But it took three hours. – Three hours and 40 minutes,
and my father basically lost through exhaustion, eventually, he eventually was just so
tired he couldn't take it anymore, but anyways …
– Wow. – There was a very impressive
fight and both of them and stuff like that, so my
dad becoming this huge guy in Brazil, for me was
growing up as if I was living with Superman.
– Right.
– You know, everybody knew
the old man like a movie star, wherever he goes, he's very
popular, that kind of stuff, and it was great to be born
up in a family like this and just everybody knows,
it's a very convenient stuff. When I was 16 years old, I decided to come to the United States, so
I saved money for a year, teaching my private class,
which I started teaching very young and in the
Gracie family you don't have much of a choice of how early
you start doing jiu-jitsu, you're pretty conceived for this. (laughs) – You have a grandson that's how old? – I have 10 grandchildren. – 10 grandchildren, and
they start when they're … – He just started.
– One year, six months. – There's a diaper, and
then there's a kimono to hide the diaper, you know, anyways, so I start saving money by
teaching classes, stuff like that and then at 17 I came to the United States to spend a month's vacation,
I found that right before I came that if I was a member of the YMCA, I would have a one dollar discount, which for me at the
time was a lot of money, so I was saving my money
and stuff like that, I stayed at the YMCA in Hollywood.
– Oh really.
– Yes. – So you mean to sleep? – To sleep.
– Oh wow. – At the time …
– Not to go to the gym. – No, no, no, to sleep,
they were like a hostel at the time, people
would come in and sleep, so I joined the YMCA in
Brazil a month before I came so I could get the ID and become a member, so I came here and stayed at the YMCA and for security reasons,
I didn't wanna leave my cash and my return ticket in my room, so I gave to the receptionist
to put in the safe of the company, which she did. A week later, when I went
to get some more cash, I found out that the
receptionist had stolen my cash and my ticket, so I called
the manager and he said I'm very sorry, I'm gonna
give you a couple of bucks to buy a sandwich, but I'm
not buying you a new ticket, call the airline company, which I did. They told me that it's
gonna take 'em six months to make sure nobody used my
ticket so they could give me a new one.
– Wow.
– So I did not want to
leave my father, you know, worried about it, so I
called my dad in Brazil, say, Dad, guess what, I love
America, I'm gonna be here for at least another six months. (interviewer laughs) – So fate, fate. – I didn't tell the old
man that, fate indeed, yes, I didn't tell the old man that
I had no money, no ticket, didn't speak English, didn't know anybody, he would have a heart attack,
so I learned very early on in my life …
– How old were you? – 17.
– You weren't even 18, and
you were in a new country. – That's right. – No money. – No money, no nothing, yeah. I learned very early on in my life that all bad things
happen for a good reason. No matter what …
– Huh. – 100%, no doubt.
– You think all … – No doubt, I'm a living example of that. – But do you think you
have to recognize that and turn it into good,
because sometimes people, something bad happens
and they get so depressed they never learn from it. – That's right, that's the trick. If they can turn things around and say, wait, what's the good in it
for me, it changes immediately. Always, look at all
different, how do I say, crossroads in your life
where something very very bad happened, ultimately it's for the good, it will create some new opportunity, that's what I see has
happened to me many times.
– Yeah. – Anyways, but just the
question of looking at things, a person can see a glass
half-full, half-empty, depends on the way you see the things. For me, worked out well
to understand and accept that mindset, okay, so
I find myself eventually looking for work and find
myself flipping hamburgers at a place called White Castle. Doing the burgers.
– Yeah, yeah.
– And then my trip that was
gonna be a month-long trip stretched out to be a year
long trip, that's 1970. Find myself for a few
days really struggling, no money, panhandling on street corners, asking for spare change so I could eat, sleeping on newspaper on the sidewalk, all that is part of growing up. And ultimately after one
year, bought the ticket, went back to Brazil,
everything worked out fine, but all I could think about is America, I got hooked, I loved
the idea of, you know, land of opportunity, being
able to support myself at 17, 18 years old for a year, and it was fascinating, you know. Saw Jimi Hendrix in
concert a couple of times. – Wow.
– Yes. And so anyways, a great
experience, made some good friends, and then I spent two years
after returning to Brazil, I spent two years saving
money so I could come back to the states, which I did
in 72, visit some friends for a few months, and
then went back to Brazil, went to law school in
Brazil, graduated law school, I'm an attorney, I never practiced law, but I have a law degree, and
then after finishing law school in '78, I decided it was time
to come back to United States and share the jiu-jitsu
that my family had perfected with the rest of the
world, it was my dream.
So I came back, I first stayed
with this friend of mine whose mother was an actress,
so I would stay, you know, she would go to work in the studios and I would be home alone. – Okay. – But I can't be doing
nothing, I had to do something, so I'm washing the windows,
I'm cleaning the bathrooms, I'm cooking dinner, cutting the grass, anything to show appreciation
for her letting me stay at her place and before you know it, I start looking for work, and she said, what do you want to do, I said, anything, do you wanna clean other people's homes, I said, of course, so I
start calling her friends, she starts calling her
friends, saying hey, my friend Rorion is a great cleaner, send him over here, over
here, so I'm cleaning everybody's house, right,
a whole bunch of ladies, everybody in the business, and eventually I land on the house of
a woman whose husband was the assistant director of a TV show, Starsky and Hutch.
– Yeah, yeah.
– And 35 years ago, she says, hey, you're not a bad-looking guy, how come you're not in the movie business, I said, that's right, how come I'm not in the movie business, so
she said take some pictures and my husband will take
you to our casting office and you'll start doing extra work, and I said done.
– Oh wow. – So I got my broom and I
started doing extra work, Fantasy Island, Hill Street
Blues, Heart to Heart, Rockford Files, Quincy, you know, Love Boat.
– From Brazil to Hollywood. – Right to Hollywood, so
now I'm doing extra work in the movies, having fun with that, and at the same time I
left the lady's house, rented a house with some friends of mine, put some mats in my garage, and every person I met
invited for a free class.
– Huh. – So I'm working in movies
as an extra five days a week and teaching class Saturdays and Sundays. – Okay. – As my schedule got busy
and I started working more and more here, I started
cutting down the hours working in the movies and
teaching more classes. – Right. – So first class is on the house, I happen to be an amazing teacher, people are gonna fall in
love with the class for sure, and then if you like
it, you bring a friend, you get you another free class. If you bring 10 friends,
I get you 10 free classes, and that's how the word
was spreading around. It was not uncommon, I
started teaching class in my garage in 1979, early '80s, that somebody would say, hold on, my former kung-fu instructor
or karate, Tae Kwon Do or wrestling or boxing
or judo, does not believe in jiu-jitsu, he thinks
that I'm wasting my time training with you, he wants to challenge, he wants to challenge you to a fight, would you accept that, I
said, of course, bring him in, so the guy would bring their
martial arts instructor to challenge me to a no-holds
barred fight in my garage in Third Street, Hermosa Beach.
– Hmm. – And of course, I'll tell my students, on Tuesday night, at eight
o'clock, some kung-fu guy is showing up. – So you have everybody watch. – Everybody come in and watch. – Some of those are on Youtube,
maybe, is it your brother, Rickson, is Rickson your brother? – Yeah, Rickson's my brother, yes. – 'Cause I've seen some challenges. – There's some challenges
from the old days. – The kung-fu guy always loses. (laughs) – Kung-Fu is like other
martial arts, they're all good, they're just limited
on their possibilities. You know, it's not my fault.
– [Host] They're not
completely rounded out. – That's right, it's not my
fault, somebody had to be number one, I just happened to be it. (men laugh) So the bottom line is this, so these guys from different styles of martial arts kept coming to the
house and challenging me over and over and over, hundreds of times, in a 10-year span. – Wow, really, that many times? – Yes, hundreds of times,
I'm bringing someone tonight, great, bring him. – Did you win every time? – Yes. – Yeah. – It's not me, it's what I know. – The sport, not the sport, the skill. – As we say in Brazil,
in a blind man's land, he who has one eye is king. – [Host] Right. – You know what I mean? Because the striking martial
arts, karate, kung-fu, boxing, Tae Kwon Do, they
rely on punching, right, and it's okay that you can punch someone if the guy's bigger,
heavier, and stronger, you can knock him out, great,
but if you are fighting someone who's bigger heavier
and stronger than you and you rely on the punch,
even if you punch him in the face and break his nose, that doesn't mean he's gonna stop.
– Right. – He cannot get a hold of
you, throw you on the ground, then if you don't know how
to deal with the grappling aspect of it, you're very limited. – Yeah. – And the realism that
my father had adapted and implemented on the
jiu-jitsu techniques that we do is to deal with a person
who's bigger, heavier, and stronger and wants to
crush you on the ground also.
– [Host] 'Cause that's usually
the most dangerous situation. – Of course. – You get attacked by
somebody, for women, too. – Of course, that's the
realistic situation, you don't want to fight a
little five year old kid, it's the kid's father that
will have you worried about, you know, the guy is big strong
and wants to beat you up, so you have to know how to
defend yourself from that. It's not even a question
of beating them up but knowing enough that
you won't get hurt. – Yeah. – That's the science. – Yeah. – Of jiu-jitsu especially, anyways, so the guys would come and challenge me and we had a bunch of challenge
mats and stuff like that, and like I said, after
10 years it dawned on me that I could not be in a
garage challenging one person at a time to show the world about it, that's not the way to
go, you gotta, you know, and then we rented a little
school in Torrance, you know.
– [Host] The school that's still there? – No. – [Host] In Torrance. – It was in Torrance also, yes. And people say, gosh, how
come you stayed in Torrance, you know, and I said I
have so many cop friends that were coming to have
class with me on the garage, you know, and I said, you know,
these guys are my friends, sometimes my left foot I
go faster than I should at a stop sign, and they
say, hold on, go slow, see you in class tonight, and
I say, I'm not getting out of this town, so that's
why I kind of stay around the neighborhood, anyway, so
after hundreds of challenges and things like that, it
dawned on me that I could be doing this with one-on-one
in a garage or even a small school in
Torrance, that's the videos you were talking about, the ones we have of the academy in Torrance, the first one, some challenge matches, and
some of the Gracie in Action DVDs that we have, so
what happens after those, it dawned on me, I can't do this, so I came up with the
concept of creating the UFC, where you can showcase to the world different styles of martial
arts fighting against one another in a three-fight
elimination round, eight fighters, they fight each other, the losers get out, they
keep fighting each other until we have one guy
defeating everybody that night.
– And that was when there
was no weight classes. – No weight classes, no time limits. – How many years was that? – That was the first five UFCs. – First five UFCs. – Yes, that's when I was
involved in UFC, those days, and because for me it was
very important to allow different styles of
martial arts to do anything and everything they wanted,
you couldn't have rules, you know, the idea of
the octagon, for example, I've seen, I've been in enough
fights that you can't see if the guys are getting beat
up, he wants to run away between the ropes in a
boxing ring, but the idea of the cage is so the guy can't run away, in fact, movie director John Milius who was a student of mine at the time, invited me to be a creative director and John and I came up with
the concept for the octagon, you know, we thought of
a moat of alligators, shark tank around, so if
the guy want to run away, he would get chewed up
by sharks and stuff, but ultimately we settled for the octagon, it turned out to be a great
idea, still happening today.
– They still call it the octagon. – Yes, yes, so it worked out great. So with that said of course,
I think I mentioned to you I was … – How old were you, so this was in 1994 when you started UFC? – '93. – '93, sorry. – The first one, yeah, I was
47, 48, something like that. So eventually the thing
of course exploded, it caught on big time, it was
a very successful experience, you know, and it just turned
out to be a great showcase opportunity for jiu-jitsu, and the message and the dream I had of
making people realize the importance of knowing
jiu-jitsu was done, I mean, after the first event,
the US Army calls me up and said, Mr. Gracie,
we saw the little guy beat the big guy, we need to learn this, and asked me to create
the program for them, which I did, that for the last 25 years has been the official
hand-to-hand combat program for the US Army. – Really, that you created.
– Yes, the FBI, the
Secret Service, the DEA, Border Patrol, every major
federal law enforcement agency in the country and a
whole bunch of PDs … – [Host] Secret Service, I
mean, and Special Forces. – Everybody, yeah, all
of the trained jiu-jitsu, the whole thing's official,
it's all over the place, which is great. – Yeah. – Nice group of friends to
have, you know? (laughs) – Great group to have behind you. – That's right, so once
this stuff exploded and kind of the dream is
fulfilled, I'm like this, you know, now what, so a
few years ago, as you know, the boys came up, Ryron and Rener, came up with the idea of Gracie
University, which now has …
– [Host] It's an online school. – It's an online school that
you can learn jiu-jitsu online, it has reached, you know,
ridiculous amount of people, the United Nations has 193
nations affiliated to it, Gracie University has 196 countries. (men laugh) – More than the United Nations. – We're welcome in more
countries than the United Nations which is an amazing idea, brilliant idea, was a very dedicated pushing that button to make it happen and
so forth, but for me, it's, like, jiu-jitsu is on
the fast track, now what? – [Host] Yeah. – And one day, about five years ago, I had this epiphany, it's the health.
– [Host] The health part. – The health part. – Because one thing
people should understand is that is jiu-jitsu,
people who practice it, it's not just fighting,
it's a whole way of thinking about life, a discipline … – Yeah, jiu-jitsu does impact
your level of confidence, and when you're confident, it
changes a lot of the aspects, or the prospects that
you have in life, I mean, the whole thing changes,
one thing is you walk around insecure, the other one is a businessman, if you are confident
on your possibilities, you deal with that meeting in
a way that is very different. – Yeah. – So the confidence aspect
of jiu-jitsu is really impactful in one's life,
so there's that side to it, and of course the exercise and the fitness and all that good stuff,
but the diet is beyond that. – Yeah, and so you wrote this book, how long ago did you write this? – Four and a half, five years ago.
– Five years ago, the Gracie
Diet, and I've read this before and you brought me another copy. – Yes. – And the key thing, and one
of the things for people, there are so many diets out
there, the unique thing, one of the unique things about this diet is it's big on food combinations. – Yes. – Because a lot of diets say,
don't eat bread, you know, if you're ketogenic, don't
eat fruit or eat lots of fruit and yours is much more
about you can eat it but not together. – That's correct.
– Yeah. – The concept of the
idea of the Gracie Diet, developed by my uncle Carlos, by the way, as soon as my dad and his
brothers are getting involved in the early days in competing, fighting, pretty much running the academy, Uncle Carlos was the first
one to learn jiu-jitsu in the Gracie family, took a step back, became the manager for the brothers and started studying how
to keep everybody healthy.
They are not big strong
guys, they couldn't afford to have a headache before
a fight or a toothache or a stomachache, you
know what I'm saying, or heartburn, if you're gonna
fight, it's gonna impact your performance, he
realized very early on the close correlation between good health and good performance, if you
have to do a speech tomorrow and you have one grain
of rice on your shoe, it's gonna mess up your speech, because that little grain of
rice becomes a distraction. – Right. – Let alone an ulcer or a
heartburn or a headache, so you can't just wonder if
that's gonna happen or not. People are so accustomed
to feel good one day and bad on the other, good one day, they don't know the
ingredients of their food, therefore, if your body's alkaline, you feel great the whole time, there's no headaches,
there's no stomachaches, nothing, every works
perfect, by some drives, people are just guided by the pleasure of what they're eating,
and pleasure becomes the determining factor
why they eat this or that 'cause they like to eat, now remember, food is a very cultural thing.
Great Grandma taught
Grandma, Grandma taught Mom, Mom taught us, and we're
gonna teach our kids what we like to eat, bottom
line is not everything you like is good for you. – Yeah, especially with modern food, they put so many things
and trick your tastebuds. – Yes, 100%, absolutely right,
so people like to smoke, but doesn't mean it's good for them. The people who like to use
drugs, it's not good for them, so the fact that you like
it doesn't mean it's okay, so the concept of the Gracie
Diet is to learn to like what's good for you, fortunately,
I was born in a family where my Uncle Carlos,
who was not a doctor, spends 65 years studying food combining, he literally using the
family as guinea pigs, we had a very big house in
a place called Terrazop, which is an hour from downtown Rio, 21 bedroom and 18 bathrooms.
– Wow.
– We counted one time, 37 children, all relatives staying
there for summer vacation. – Huh. – It's crazy stuff,
but the bottom line … – That must have been fun, actually. – It was a lot of fun
indeed, crazy times, yes, wonderful times, so all
the meals are prepared according to the Gracie diet,
so the kids would just eat what we had, this is it,
this is lunch, right here, they have no choice, so there's
no, I don't want to eat this there's no such thing, that's
like a little army, you know, a very spartan lifestyle,
training jiu-jitsu, eating right, that was a
very unique environment.
– [Host] And you saw
people's health change as they started doing that, this diet. – We just grew up like this. – You grew up.
– There was no choice. This is it. – How about the other kids
that were just visiting for the summer for the first time, did they notice a difference? – Those 37 kids were all relatives, they're all family. – Okay, so they were all … – But if every time we had people out, they would just fall into the
groove and eat like we ate.
There was no choice of taking junk, no Coca-Cola in the fridge ever. You know, there's no
sodas and stuff like that, it didn't exist, and
everybody just ate right and learned to eat right,
and that was the bottom line, so when I wrote this book, my
idea was to share with people, because when I was teaching
class out of my garage, a lot of people came and
said, Rorion, tell me about what you're eating now,
what kind of meal is that, you're preparing this and
that, and I kept giving them some tips, but it was
never enough, so I decided to write the book, explain to
everybody how to fall into it and then literally impact
their lives in a positive way. – Let me read some of the,
there's a lot to this, go out and buy this book,
they can get it on Amazon? – Amazon, yes. – So the Gracie Diet in a nutshell here. For juicing apples, melons,
pineapples, carrots, use a juicer, oh, this is,
sorry, this is the juicing, it's big on juicing, fasting,
you fast once a month.
– Well, I fast once a month. – Food combinations is the main thing. Actually, here's my breakfast
that I was gonna eat and then I ate a little
bit, but I felt guilty, so we had bread was okay. – Bread and butter and the
kale, the eggs and the kale was great. – Kale was great, but
I had this and you said I shouldn't have this at the same time. – [Rorion] That is correct. – What's the reason? – The reason is this, because
these are the citrus fruits, you know, the strawberries
and the blueberries are acidic foods, acidic
foods should not be mixed with anything else. – So you eat that alone. – Strawberries, you have a
bucket of just strawberries, make a meal out of that, same thing with the blueberries and
blackberries, all acidic fruits … – Can you have blueberries
and strawberries together? – No, no, only one kind of
acidic fruit per meal, that's it. – Okay.
– Nothing else. – Because what happens then if you eat them at the same time? – It brings acidity to the system, yes, that's what you wanna avoid.
– But how come if you just have one it doesn't bring as much acidity? – Because it's not mixed
with anything else. – Oh, okay. – We all need gasoline. – Yes. – We all need fire. – Yes. – Don't put 'em together. – Yes. – You know what I mean?
– Yeah. – But it's important to have gasoline, it's important to have
fire, so divide 'em, so different fruits is
great, have a variety of fruits and vegetables
and stuff is great, the trick is how to combine them right.
This should not be called a diet. Should make a point of
saying that, clarifying this, because it's not limiting,
right, look at the list. – Yeah, you can eat almost anything. – Anything. – So no pork is one thing not to have. – The only thing we don't eat is pork. – Pork.
– Yes. – Some things you eat a little bit less, like you said, like,
dairy, have some cheese but not a lot of milk
and things like that. – That's right, you don't need milk, the less milk you drink the better, but if you like to drink milk, it's okay. – Yes. – You're not forbidden from eating it. – Right. – Drink your milk, it's
just, I don't drink milk, I don't need milk, you
know, the idea of, you know, a good-looking lady in a bathing suit or a strong-looking guy in a bathing suit, a little milk mustache,
they wanna sell milk. – That's a commercial, yeah. – Of course, it's not
something that you need. – And this is kind of a quick overview of the groups of food, right? – That's right.
– So you have, we'll take
some closeups of this, we have … – Vegetables, right here, vegetables – Group A, so Group A you can
combine all of these things with …
– One of Group B. – With one of Group B, which is here. – Or it can be grouped with itself. – Of course, all group
combines with each other. – So for example, in Group A you have … – Vegetables and greens. – Green beans, kale, mushrooms,
so you can have, like, a salad with one meat or
seafood, like chicken. – Two or three or four. – Two or three, or you can
also have fat and oily foods like avocado. – Almonds, avocado, cashews, all that. – Melted cheese, and you can
combine it with one starch. – With rice, not rice
and beans, or with pasta.
– So you could have rice, but
not, you wouldn't have this with bread and rice. – Correct, only one of each. – Now Group C. – Those are the sweet
fruits and cheeses, yes. – So these can combine with a starch. – [Rorion] As long as you
don't have fat or the starch. – Which one's fat, there? – [Rorion] Butter, yeah,
oil or butter, yeah. – So you could have,
just say, lentil soup? – If it's not with heavy fat.
– No fat. – No oil, no butter, no nothing. – Then you could have an apple. – Right, you can have watermelon juice, you can have dates, you can have papaya, and you can have some crackers. – D is also acidic fruits, right? – D are the acidic fruit group, right. – What was C? – C is the sweet fruits. – Oh, sweet fruits, so
you separate sweet … – From acidic. – What about this, green
tea, what do you think? – It's okay, tea is neutral. – Tea is neutral, goes with everything. – Everything you want, yes. – Just like water. – Just like water. – So you can have water
with A, B, C, there's E, there's A, B, C, D, E. – Yes. – So then D is your …
– F is right here, the milk. – So D things, acidic fruits
do not combine with each other, so this, like for example,
mango, you should just eat a mango.
– Only a mango.
Not a mango, a whole bunch of mangos. I ate 15 mangos in a meal. – Really. – Yes, but that's only mango. – Grapefruit, same thing. – Same thing. – Just have some grapefruits.
– That's correct. – Group E is interesting, is just bananas? – No, this is the raw bananas
combined with these foods, do not combine with these foods. – So you're big on bananas,
people should eat bananas.
– Yeah, is great food. – You know, it's interesting,
when I track my diet in my fitness pal, almost
all, and I eat pretty healthy, potassium, you don't get
enough, bananas give you that potassium, so does coconut water. – Yes. – Most people, if you track your diet, you don't get, potassium's one
of the major things you need, so you can have raw bananas
– With this group. – With cheese, apples, but not with honey. – Yes, or bread. – And you're not big on
sugar in general, like … – I eat so much sweet stuff
already from the fruits that you don't need to
put the sugar, you know? – So get the dessert from some fruits. – Not dessert, there's no dessert. – Okay, 'cause there's no dessert, 'cause you wouldn't eat a
meal and then have this.
Just have it as a meal. – That's right, have it as a meal. – Now the other thing that
you talk about in the book is that every, you should only eat, actually, let me do
this, so group F is milk, what you can have with milk. – Yes. – [Host] So don't have milk with fruit. – Avocado and fruits and stuff
like that, that is correct. – What about milk, so you
can have milk with … – You can have milk
and cereal if you want, though we know a lot of them are junk … – This is homemade granola,
bread should be made from whole flour, and
should not be consumed, oh, you should wait … – 24 hours before, usually
when you buy bread somewhere it has been there for 24 hours. – So that's good, avoid sweets,
canned food, pepper, clover, cinnamon, pickles, and don't eat pork. – Correct. – Now the other big
thing is you should eat every four and a half hours. – Well, you should space your meals at least four and a half hours.
Not that you have to eat
every four and a half hours. – Okay. – But you have to have
a space in between meals at least four and a half hours. – Without snacks in between. – No snacks, only water. – And then fasting, you
were telling me about Nobel prize winning … – This year, 2016. – 2016, won a Nobel prize along this, what your father knew and
uncle knew 100 years ago. – Well, we've been saying
that for a long time, the idea of autophagy,
so the Japanese scientist explained that when you fast,
you literally help your body by not consuming, to clean
house, it has to eat … – So it eats old cells
and things like that. – Yes, it's a great cleansing
process for you, it helps you. – [Host] So do you do that? – Yes, once a month, I do fast. – Just 24 hours.
– 24 hours.
Don't eat or drink anything. – [Host] But just water,
you're allowed … – I don't drink water. – Really. – Yeah, just take a day you're
gonna rest and just chill. – Huh, but for someone new
maybe they could just have … – Yeah, drink water in the beginning, but it's not that bad. – You can do without water,
that's pretty impressive. – Just rest on a day that
you don't have to go to work, anything like that, just
kind of chill a little bit, get a book and relax. – Huh.
– Yeah. – Now for somebody watching,
you were telling me how sometimes it's too overwhelming to go from the modern
diet to switch to this so you created a system with
the belt-ranking systems where you do it in levels
til you're a black belt.
– That is correct. – Each one about two weeks. – Yeah. – So you start out with white belt. – Yes. – Which is just drink
water first in the morning, it's also big on
sanitation, wash your hands before a meal.
– It's important. You have to wash your
hands before you eat, it doesn't hurt, the amount
of contamination and bacteria that you're gonna avoid by
just simply washing your hands is …
– Yeah. – It's staggering, so you should
do that, no reason why not. – I actually read, there's
an interesting book I read years ago on, they just did an experiment with the average person, and they said, not only when you wash
your hands but put soap under the nail 'cause
it's thes nail that carry most of the, so and then
okay, so then get in the habit of writing down what you eat.
– On the first week, only,
you don't have to do it every week, so wash your hands … – What's the idea, why do you think, what's the benefit,
just people start to see how much crazy things they eat? – That's right, if you
write everything down that you eat during the week, it helps you keep you accountable.
– Yes. – It's like the person who
has no idea how much money they're spending, if they write
down every penny they spend at the end of the month,
they're gonna see wow, I wasted so much money on
this and this and that. – Yeah.
– And the same thing with
food, if you start writing down what you eat, you're gonna
realize that I'm eating more than I need and whatever. – You can use, if you like to use apps, there's a great free app
called my fitness pal that you can enter your
food, that counts, too, right, just keeping track? – Of course, keeping track of it, 100%. – So then after a week or
two you go to blue belt, which you continue to
do everything you did in the white belt, washing
your hands, drink water, except you don't need to write down. – You don't have to write it down.
– Then you start eliminating desserts, sweet or fruits after a cooked meal. – Yeah, after cooked meal, not
that you shouldn't eat fruit. – So you can have fruits,
but just as dessert. – As dessert. – As their own four and
a half hour later meal. – Exactly. – And then you can drink
water, carbonated water, coconut water, veggie juice,
iced tea, but no lemon or sugar Then after that you do
that for a few weeks, then you go to purple belt,
which is the third belt, you do everything that
you were doing before and now you start to do the combinations. – You implement the combinations. – But now you've already been a month of changing your habits,
so it's not so hard. – Not so hard at all, that's the idea. – And you eliminate pork.
– And you eliminate pork, the
concept of combining foods is the most important,
though, because I know a lot of people say
only eat organic foods, eating organic is an important
step that you are becoming aware of what you're
eating, it's very smart, but if you don't combine
the foods properly. – Doesn't matter.
– Doesn't matter. – Yeah.
– The reaction is still gonna be acidic in your system, and that's gonna bring unwanted results. – Now the next, you go to brown belt, where you continue to do
everything you've been learning but now you start spacing the meal. – At least four and a half hours. – And you only do this six days a week and you get one day cheat day. – That's right, six days a week. – Yeah, so you can take Saturdays for, I always do Saturday for my cheat day.
– And the reason I recommend you do that is that if you spend six days
of the week eating right, spacing your meals, combining
your foods properly, and on the other day, the
seventh day, you mess up, you feel so sick that
you're gonna say wow, what the heck.
– You'll stop doing it. – You'll stop doing it, then automatically you evolve to the black
belt and you start eating every day correctly. – So then when you do a black belt, then you start doing
this seven days a week and teaching others. – Well, you'll feel so good you just … – So this is about two, it's interesting, it takes for those of you in my 67 steps, it takes about two and a half
months to change old habits, scientists have found.
– Is that right? – Yeah, university or
college, London, came up with a study, they used to say you
can change habits in 30 days, you know, quit smoking, change your diet, but they said, you need about 67 days, and this is interesting, this
black belt is right around 67 days.
– Interesting.
– So you kind of found out … – Yeah. – You were ahead of the scientists. Now question for you, what
are, let's say somebody watching this buys the book,
starts implementing the diet, what type of results have
you seen, weight loss, getting a six-pack, feeling
better, disease going, what have you seen … – All of the above. – Yeah. – Yeah. – Any stories you can think
of that are just stand out to you of people … – Yes, I have a student
who's a gastroenterologist at Torrance Memorial and had a patient who was morbidly obese, she was
doing an eight month program to have the stomach
reduction procedure done. She was diabetic, she
had high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
– Yeah.
– He gave her the Gracie Diet
book, six and a half months later, he was in his office
and the woman came to thank him and give him a hug, which he
did not know who the person was – Didn't recognize her. – Didn't recognize her,
she lost 52 kilograms, over 100 pounds, she
was no longer diabetic, no longer high blood pressure,
no longer high cholesterol, she canceled the
procedure, she didn't have the stomach reduction done.
– Wow. – Happy 53 year old woman, so
I was very happy to see that and for me it's no
surprise, if you eat right, you will be fine, you know
what people should not do is forget that eating
should not be something that you live for that,
eating is something to nourish your body to keep you going.
– Right.
– If you're driving a car on the freeway, and a little red light
starts blinking on the panel, do you put a bandaid and keep driving, or you pull over to a mechanic and say what the heck is that? – Right. – Of course, so if you have a heartburn and you take a medicine or
Zantac or whatever it is to stop the heartburn,
don't think life is good. – Right. – This is a bandaid. – You're just covering, you're
just putting a bandaid over. For somebody who's watching, you know, what about combining, let's say somebody wants to start doing jiu-jitsu, do even professional athletes
follow this type of diet? – They should.
– Yeah? – The ones that are not
should be doing this. – But I'm saying, in jiu-jitsu,
are there some people that practice this?
– Yes, yes, 100%, of course. – 'Cause of your brothers. – Yeah, all of them do that, you know, all of the whole Gracie
family's been doing this.
– And Rickson Gracie.
– Of course. – Rickson is one of the,
did he ever lose a fight? – No. – I think he's like … – Rickson's impossible to deal with, man, the guy is too much. – Did you spar with him at all? (Rorion laughs) Was he the hardest? – When he was young, you know,
of course, I'll play with him but as we get older, you
know, I'm the older brother, that kind of thing. – Who was the hardest person you ever … – It's always in the family. – Really? – Yeah, those guys are just, eventually, somebody's gonna catch
your foot, you know? – Yeah. – Yeah, part of the tradition
is there's always the change of the guard, as an old man, you see that, a little baby's born so be
nice to him, 'cause one day … – 'Cause one day he'll beat you. What about things like, I saw
a documentary on jiu-jitsu and it had Rickson Gracie
doing some yoga and breathing, do you think that type
of thing has worked? – That's wonderful, yeah. – Yeah.
– Very good stuff, Rickson's really good. – And stretching, all … – And stretching, Uncle Carlos used to say that as long as you're flexible,
you're young, you know, so make sure that you
stretch and keep, you know, exercising, like I
said, is very important. But more important than
all that is eating right. – Yeah. – 'Cause I don't care
how much you exercise … – 'Cause so many people go
to the gym all the time … – And eat junk. – But they never, so, I'm gonna tell you an interesting story,
I never told you this. My dad was one of the first
professional bodybuilders in the world, and so when he was born, he had I think it was rheumatic fever, something with his heart,
when he was one year old and so the doctors told my grandparents, this boy will probably
live to 12 years old, he's probably gonna die, this is in, my dad was born in Harlem in New York, and they were poor, and
they said, whatever you do, don't have him do hard
exercise, it'll hurt him.
Well, my dad just sat inside
'til he was about 12, 13, and then he found an
article on bodybuilding and he started to lift
weights and his diet, my dad always had a great diet, my dad didn't have a sweet tooth at all, never ate sugar, and he went from this kid who was supposed to be dead at 12 or 13 to by the time, he became
Mr. Canada, Mr. Puerto Rico, he had the world record bench press, so control, so many times in life we have things outside of our control. Who you're born to, where
you're born, poverty, you know, abusive parents
and things like that, and if you just focus
on what you can control, a big one's diet.
– Of course. – And I don't care if you're,
you can diet, lifting weights, you can do if you're in prison. When you control everything
within your control, I tell this for entrepreneurs in business, people say how can they make more money, I say, well, are you optimizing
what you actually can, because some people go, if
I could just get an investor to give me a million
dollars, I'd be able to grow my business, but I say, if I
came to your office right now, is it optimized with what's around you, and we all, humans, we,
I think, at least myself, there's a natural bad habit
to look outside for the answer when you realize, it's
simple stuff like diet.
– Of course. – Which everybody knows, but nobody does. – Exactly. – For somebody watching
this that's worried about willpower, what are some
things you've found, because we live in a world,
I go out, there's pizza, or you go to the movies,
there's no good food, even if you wanna eat healthy, how do you build the discipline? Is it by fasting once a
month, is it just long enough doing this, do you have
tricks, do you bring your own food with you? – A lot of the times,
my traveling a lot to do with what I'm going to
eat when I get there. – [Host] Okay. – So eating for me is a
major aspect of any project that I do, what am I gonna eat? Worse come to worse, I'll just fast, I won't eat anything.
– Oh really? – If it's bad stuff, I just don't eat.
I don't have to go to a movie and eat, I have dinner, and then I go to a movie. Don't have to have food
there, don't have to eat any popcorn and soda,
you know what I'm saying, I mean, why should I have to eat, people are just
acculturated, you get used to certain things and the trick
is to reeducate yourself and learn the good habits
because they are as difficult to break as the bad habits. – Right, so if you can
get in a good habit … – Get in the good habit,
you're in good shape, and that's the trick. – What about, one thing that I've found, who you're around matters too. – Of course. – So if you hang out with people that go to a Gracie jiu-jitsu school, it's gonna be easier because
they might be following the same diet, I've always found it hard to 100% rely on willpower if
my environment is messed up.
– Yeah, the environment
has a lot to do with that, but sometimes you're
the one that influences and change the environment as well. Depends on how convincing
and how much conviction you have in what you're doing,
there have been many times in environments that I say, you know what, this is the way it should be, and before you know it,
there's people following and learning and doing this.
– Yeah. – I came here, started in a
garage, nobody knew anything about jiu-jitsu, look at
everybody does jiu-jitsu now, so I just was able to, you
know, because of my convictions and my beliefs and the
way I handled the thing literally changed the world. – Was there even, back in that time, was there even any
jiu-jitsu people in America? – No, there was some
people doing jiu-jitsu, but the Japanese jiu-jitsu. – Not Brazilian jiu-jitsu. – Not Brazilian jiu-jitsu, yeah. In fact, that's why I started.
– When did your other family
start to come, other Gracies? – After the UFC, 20 years later. – Oh, so in the mid '90s. – Mid '90s, yeah. – So you had already been here 20 years. – Yes. – Huh, so you're a pioneer. – Kind of, yeah. – That's good, well this has been awesome, so I want to just kind of close by saying, one thing that I've found in life, whoever experiments the most wins. So this might be something
you haven't heard before, experiment with it, you can
follow this simple thing, it's two and a half months,
now if they buy the book, this has all these inside it.
– That's correct.
– All this information. – This information. – So if you buy this book,
it's not, how expensive is it? 20 dollars, and try it, just try it because so many people,
there's something called the hexical personality
score, you take a test, it tells you 25 things
about yourself, okay, this is the newest scientific
test, it came out in 2000, and one of the factors in your personality that predicts your success,
it's called openness to new experience, so many
people miss out on life 'cause anything like you
said that they haven't heard growing up, they'll be
like, I don't wanna try.
– Yes. – And one way you make a
heck of a lot more money, if you look at everybody who
made money, a lot of money, billionaires, they did
something, they experimented with something when other
people thought it was crazy, Bill Gates, you know,
people doing computers, Elon Musk starting the car company Tesla, even some, Charlie Munger
and Warren Buffet told him he shouldn't do it, but he saw something and was willing to experiment,
so try something new, I mean, diet is at the end of the day, if you don't have health,
I know a guy that's got a billion dollars, but he's
so overweight he can't even get out of bed, all
the money in the world, you wouldn't want that.
– You wouldn't want that.
– If you could have, if I could
wire you one billion dollars now, but one condition,
you'd be so fat and unhealthy that you couldn't get
out of bed and you'd have to lay in a hospital bed
the rest of your life, nobody would take that deal.
– Nobody would take that deal. – Even for a billion dollars,
'cause you can't use the money if you can't move. – I often tell my kids that
I'd rather be on a crossroads, on a dirt road in China
in the middle of nowhere, a pair of shorts, shirtless,
in the rain at night, completely lost, with good health than being in a castle with
all the money in the world at my disposal with bad health. With good health you
can take any situation, you can handle anything,
there's no stopping you. – Yeah. – That's what it is, that's the trick. – One last thing I was gonna ask you, you said earlier that stuff with me, if somebody watching, yesterday
I posted on my Snapchat, have you had something
happen to you in life, something bad recently, and
I do that about once a month, I post on my social media,
and every time I'm surprised by the literal, I would
say, it's hard to count, but 10 thousand or more
people write me in one day with sad stories, I mean, I
can't even look at 'em all, the last one I was looking
at, you know, it's Mom died, sister has cancer, son's
dying, all this things, and you were saying earlier
that in your experience with jiu-jitsu, diet, and just your life, there's always …
– All bad things happen for a good reason.
– Always something good.
– There's always something good. – Yes. – But how in the midst of
that, when it's so hard and so painful, how do you
have the faith to believe that? – I guess you said it all right there, having the faith to believe
that, that's what it is. I believe, it's comforting
to me to see it that way. – So you don't think it's
random and it's just … – No. Many years ago I took a
balloon trip, okay, you know. – [Host] You mean up? – Yeah, in a balloon, and
I drove two and half hours to get to, like, Lake Perry
or something like that, had to be there at six
o'clock so you could see the sun rise at 6:30 on the balloon, so I drive two and a half hours, and I get there, and the balloon
is filling up with helium and I hop in a little basket,
which is like pretty much very small thing, there's
a couple, me and a friend and the pilot, and they turn on the gas, and in three minutes you are at 3000 feet.
– Yeah. – Very quiet up there,
and as I'm looking at, I'm looking down from
the balloon, very silent except the wind and stuff like that, I see the freeway is like
a little line like this, with thousands of cars
going towards downtown, and I looked like a little ant, you know, and I'm looking, gosh,
little ants are the cars, I'm thinking wow, each
one of those little cars is like the size of an
ant, has a person in it which is smaller than that car. Each person has a head
that's smaller than them, you can barely see it now at that point, and each head has a brain in it, and each of those people in those cars, thousands of people, has the worst worry, the biggest, aah, more
stress than anybody else.
Each one of them thinks
they have the worst problems on their shoulders,
everybody thinks, oh my gosh, my life is this, every single one of them, and I'm looking over there, it
took me two and a half hours to drive to that location,
the lake that I drove around is nothing but a little puddle of water, the mountain I drove around
is just a little pile of dirt and looking from over there, I said gosh, each one of those, a little tiny thing, so worried about everything,
it made me realize that we don't have the right
to worry about anything. We're too insignificant on a big scale in the scheme of things that
we don't have to worry about, each person has oh, my gosh, I got a list, everybody has worries all the time, don't worry about a thing,
just relax, let it cruise by, wait, do the right
thing, try not to cheat, deceive people and whatever,
do what your heart tells you is the right thing to do and
things will just fall in place 100%, I came back from the
balloon trip a different person.
Realizing that I could not
worry about a thing in my life, never worry about a thing,
my son, my youngest son, told me one thing, very
interesting, a few months ago, that I kind of, he really
captured my way of looking at things, he said, when
God pushes you off a cliff, he's either gonna catch
you on the way down or give you wings and
teach you how to fly. – Yeah, well, what
happens if you feel like it's your fault, like
God didn't push you off, like you did something stupid? – Well, learn from that.
– Yeah.
– If you learn from every stupid thing, I try to learn from the stupid things so I don't do them again and again, but if you learn from every
stupid things you made, you did a mistake, you learned
the lesson and move on, that's what life is about,
it's not a question of falling, as we know, it's a question of getting up and moving on again,
that's what the whole thing is about, falling is
okay, are you gonna get up and keep going, or are you
gonna quit on that fall? Ultimately, that's what it is, I mean, it's been a very interesting
experience for me to believe that things
happen for a reason, that alone has opened so many
experiences, opportunities I've had to see that,
and when things all fail, everything is about to collapse, you just say hey, I did what
I could, did the best I could, is it gonna happen or not,
and if it's meant to be, it's gonna be, if not,
I'll try again next time.
When I was creating the
academy a few years ago, I brought a guy to do the
stucco outside the building, have you been to the academy in Torrance? – [Host] Yes, yeah, I've been, yeah. – So I had a big huge
open door 'cause it was, before it became the
academy, it was a car parts storage location.
– Okay. – So it had the big roll
up doors, the metal doors, and it was cinder block all around, so it was a big cement square like this, and the guy came in to do
this stucco on a Thursday, he said, I'll be here Saturday
to cover the whole place, what are you gonna do for a door, I said I'm gonna put a glass door, which is what we have now, he said, if you're gonna put a glass door, you have to put a beam, a wood beam so that you can then screw
the metal frame of the door and then put your glass in there.
I had no idea we needed that,
so I said I'm gonna find a beam, that's on a Thursday, on Friday, I call, call, call, nobody
had the beam available because it's a three-day
process, you have to order it, takes three days, the industrial size, it's 16 for four, not a
little two-by-four that you by at Home Depot, so I had
to call a lot of people, nobody had it, finally, someone
said, hey I have one here, somebody ordered a month and a half ago, they never picked it
up, I said, it's mine, I'm on my way up, so I went
there and picked up the beam. In order to secure the
beam, you need a shoe, a metal shoe like this
that you screw to the wall and then the beam sits
on top of this, you know what I mean, two, however,
if you put the cement frame, if you put the beam here,
the shoe, both of them, there's no way you can put, I mean, if you put the shoes against the wall, you can't fit the beam in
there, do you understand? – Yeah.
– You need one shoe that
you can screw this way, put the beam, and the
other shoe have to be able to screw from the outside
'cause it's gonna come to hold it, do you follow me? – Yep. – But this reverse one
didn't come with the beam, I had two that came with the
beams that are like this. – Okay, so you had two of the same. – Yeah, two of the same
that wouldn't work. – Yeah. – So my friend said, Rorion,
we need to get this reverse one so we ran to Home Depot, and we get there and I ask the lady, do you
have one this size, 16 by 4, she said no, we don't carry that, I said, where do you carry the beams, she said, we don't have this kind, go check out aisle eight, but
that's, we don't have that, so I go to aisle eight, I
start looking, and I find one beam like that.
– Huh.
– The big one.
– Yeah. – Only one, I brought to the front and she said, wow, you found one, I said yeah, found one,
and she runs the bar code, the reader.
– Bar code, scanner. – She said it's not from here. – Huh, somebody left it.
– Somebody left it. – Huh.
– Isn't that interesting? She said, I can't even charge
you, you can take it for free, so I took it home, put it
in there, the next morning, the guy was able to put
in the whole stucco. – Huh.
– The leftover one I had, I left it on the wall and I framed it and I said somebody must be
training jiu-jitsu in heaven. (host laughs) In other words, it was
the last thing for me, a week before the grand opening, everything was already happening, if I didn't find that shoe,
now go to any Home Depot in the country, you're not gonna find one.
Isn't that interesting,
that when everything for me was just like aah, the last thing I needed was a thing to support
that stuff a week before the grand opening, they don't carry it, but somebody left one in there for me, I mean, for me, it's like, hey,
keep doing the right thing. – [Host] Yeah. – All right, so me being here
is a special blessing as well. – For me and you watching
this video, you know, I say whenever you see something like this if you've watched this far, you know, things happen for a reason, so … – Check it out, it'll
change your life forever, there's nothing like this. – Leave a comment below if
you've done the Gracie diet or questions you have. – Let me tell you something else.
– Yeah? – I know it's a lot of
people that watch your stuff. – Yeah. – This is how confident I am on the book. Get the book, try it for two weeks, follow the guidelines of
the book for two weeks. If you don't feel better
– Yeah? – I'll buy the book back from you. – Yeah. – Home Depot wouldn't, nobody does, I'll give the money
back, send the receipt, the book in good condition,
I'll buy the book back. – Yeah. – Nobody gives you money
back and return your book, only I do that, do it for two weeks 100% and I'll let you know. – I like that you have here, by the way, "If you're at the Cheesecake Factory, "what you should order."
– Yeah. – So that's pretty practical,
Cheesecake Factory, some things you shouldn't, so
you think the orange chicken is okay, deep-fried
chicken breast in a sweet, so deep fry is tolerable,
here's the problem, sweet and spicy.
– I'm gonna give you the tips
on how to order the food. – Okay, what do you do on orange chicken? – Yeah. – It says, "Deep fried,
served over white rice "and garnished with vegetables." – What does it say? – So you should pass on the wheat bread. – Yeah. – Oh. – Since you ate rice, don't eat the bread. – That's good 'cause
I've always been skipping orange chicken, I love
orange chicken. (laughs) My weakness, that's awesome. Well, this is such a cool
book, tips for losing weight, which you have manage carbs. – If you eat right, losing weight is just a natural consequence of that, you know, that's a trick, like the
headache, why should people have headache, 'cause
you're thinking too much? Come on, your head was made to think. – Yeah.
– You know? – Take, this is interesting,
take a 15 to 30 minute nap every day.
– I try to do it every single day. – That's important,
man, when I take a nap, it changes your life. – I know. – That's something,
even a five-minute nap, if you can't, don't have the time. – That's right. – And here you have some
meal plans that can actually be followed, so, like,
breakfast you have oatmeal, raisins, apple juice, lunch,
you'll have looks like a salad here, olive oil … So this is just a vegetarian right here. – No, this is salad that
should precede your entree, so this is a meal, where
your lunch is this too.
– Okay, so you think three meals a day. – That's all you need. – Now what if somebody's watching
and they're a bodybuilder? So just eat more? – The question, you can
eat as much as you want within reason of course,
you don't wanna feel sick after you eat so much,
the question is this. Do you wanna get big or
do you wanna be healthy? – Right.
– That's the plan. – So some people you think are too big. – I don't think it, they have
to decide for themselves. – Right. – It's not me telling them how they feel. – Yeah. – Sometimes the guy is huge,
but he feels sick all the time. – Or they're not that athletic. – Whatever. – Dinner, I like this,
watermelon juice, cottage cheese, rye bread, raisins, dates. So is this …
– A meal. – Dinner.
– That's a meal. – That's all …
– That's a meal. Another meal, another
meal, each one of them, you can have as a meal. – So not necessarily, you
don't have meat, it looks like, at night. – At night, no, I usually
have fruits for breakfast. – Yep. – And I have a cooked meal during the day 'cause your metabolism is more active, it's easy to digest, and at night I usually have fruits
or some veggie juice … – Or some cottage cheese. – Something like that, yeah. – Avocado. – You sleep better if you
have a lighter meal at night instead of having cooked food. – Yeah, I love cottage cheese. – Yeah, just try this …
– Oh, this is week two. – Yeah. – Awesome. – Do that for two weeks and
there's no stopping you. – And sun, you're big on, get enough sun. – Come on, born in Brazil.
– Brazil. – Have to go to the beach if you're there. – Man, if you've never been to Brazil, has some of the prettiest
women in the world. Eggplant quiche, I'm getting
hungry actually watching this, has it been four and a half hours yet? (men laugh) Well thank you so much.
– Thank you very much. – This was awesome.
– I appreciate it.
– Thank you.
– All right..
