That Yuki Nakai vs Gordeau fight happened during the event that the Rickson Gracie documentary "Choke" was filmed. Yuki had three fights that night. The eye gouge from Gordeau happened in the first fight. He went on to defeat his second opponent Pittman, again much, much larger via armbar. He lost to Rickson in his third fight of the night. Yoki Nakai is a legend!
Rickson knew what happened with his eye and felt bad for Yuki, so when they fought he he didn't punch him in the face, just using his grappling technique to win
@@lrodrigues7488 I know! Rickson's team was telling him not to take it easy and to press his advantage. Despite the encouragement he did not cause further injury to Yuki. It was this moment that the respect that I have for Rickson solidified.
As an older jujitsu player ,I grew up watching VHS tapes in the early 2000,s so I was lucky to see or at least hear/read about most of these things unfold .I have to say impressed with your knowledge on the history of the sport and your video is pretty much on point .Keep up the good work .
@@jedidoesjiujitsu3177 you know what was also funny the time caio terra one his match and said he wanted to prove that you can win without the steroids 🤣. Btw am from Trinidad and Tobago and I will be at your seminar next year in Tobago ..boom 🤯
Thank you so much for putting the work in for this project. This was classic Jedi content we love. Please never stop. The sport is growing and you will grow with it. You have a voice in the community and with stuff like this you’re making killer moves
Gordeau bit Royce in ‘93 and lost. Then blinds Yuki and loses in ‘95. As a result Jedi correctly wipes Gordeau’s Dutch heritage and makes him French. Bravo, sir 🫡
@@yn5568 thank you, Nakai was a Kosen guy. there's so much misinformation out there, especially revolving around Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (especially Gracies)
im a simple man, i see a jedi does jits video i immediately watch it. PS : After watching it - amazing video as always, successfully managed to outline pretty much all of the saucy stuff one needs to know
A good thing to add would be about the Japanese ju jutsu death matches from 1800. These matches would be so intense the competitors would write goodbye letters to their family incase they never came back. The more you read into it seems like that's where the early gracie challenge/bjj format comes from.
As I'm new in bbj I'm training alot each week focusing on closed guard as I'm forcing closed guard sparring to learn it deeper as jumping into sparring only knowing a few positions at the beginning was alot harder to find success. Learning everything I have inside the closed guard for me has been so fun and intresting. Its my style for now and it's 1 dimensional but it's getting better and it's helped tremendously at understanding the game itself as its so deeply rooted.
Really enjoyed this entire video! As someone who's been practicing a bit over a year now, this information just makes me want to train. Love the long form video and how you kept things fresh the entire way, always love to see you trying something new!
One day when you remake this video, you should add four fights to the bottom level: Helio soneca vs Megaton Diaz, both 1 and 2. Two high level world champions. Renzo Gracie vs Eugenio Tadeo. Major no-holds-barred showdown in Brazil between rival clans and styles, BJJ and Luta Livre. Fight resulted in actual violence and rioting. Rickson vs Hugo Duarte on the beach in Brazil. This fight and the fight between Renzo and Tadeo were the pinnacles of the BJJ vs Luta war.
Great video idea, haven’t watched whole thing yet so apologies if explained, but: In addition to details about Gordeau blinding Nakai in one eye, I’d also say that, although Nakai went on to become godfather of BJJ in Japan with Paraestra dojos, at the time of Choke Nakai had nothing to do with BJJ and was a pure shootwrestler with a Kosen judo background.. Losing to Rickson then inspired his BJJ journey.
Very cool. Loved this! I didn’t know all the cool deep dive stuff having only been around the jitsu game for a few years now. Grats on the NAGA belt, that’s impressive.
masahiko kimura fought helio gracie and submitted him with a move that would later be trade marked by helio as the "kimura lock" however this was to save face for the gracie clan, the kimura lock already had a name in catch wrestling.. the double wrist lock. this move from helio worked as he walked away with his reputation fully intact and then added the move to the gjj moveset.
Well said. Kimura also trained as a Pro Wrestler. Which in those days there were legit Catch Wrestlers like Billy Robinson and Karl Gotch. Gotch was Judo Gene Le Bell's Catch Wrestling Coach. My understanding, is that Judo, back in the days of Kimura, lacked proper ground work, as it was very limited. Both Kimura and Gene Le Bell had the trade mark of Catch Wrestling added to their style of Judo.
@@1_Bad_Z kimura was a wrestling by name, not a judoka primarily this was another way for helio to save face for gjj, not admitting catch wrestling was superior, only that he was a mult sport athlete better at a specific hold basically.
@@ophiuchus5613 i get what you're saying. Are you familiar with Catch Wrestler Ad Santel and his bouts with Judo stylist? Maybe we can see a future video.
@@1_Bad_Z one of the goats, and it would be really cool to see a video on catch, sadly its an art thats dying out quickly. and most practitioners gatekeep it from the public, unlike bjj for example. I do catch at a local gym with only like 10 people in it, i love the sport, and imo is superior to bjj but is falling out of style.
@@ophiuchus5613 yup exactly. I've also trained in Catch under Raul Ramirez from Catch Wrestling Alliance in Southern California. Prior to that back in 2008; I would watch Tony Chechin on TH-cam and would apply the holds @ a Judo Club during open sparring sessions.
Man you have to be a different kind of badass like Yuki Nakai get eyegouged and still continue to fight and win the match. you literally cant see out of 1 eye jesus
Jui Jitsu didn't start 60 years ago. It started over 500 years ago. Some smart Brazilians just started focusing on Judo ground work and doing great stuff with it 60 years ago.
Great video. Btw Sakuraba didn`t really break Renzos arm. He dislocated his elbow joint. Just saying as a nerd. Keep up the good work to spread the knowledge to the youngsters!
Actually at the first UFC event there were hand picked fighters and no one invited wrestlers(there was a sumo wrestler) or Judokas for some reason... I wonder why...
You missed the Capoeira influence on Gracie Jiu Jitsu and the Gracie challenges and rivalry with other grapplers and fighters in Brazil. I don't think many people outside Brazil know this.
The twister is not something that’s really 10th planets kind of idea it’s a wrestling guillotine they were doing it in the 60s I have pictures of me doing it in high school in the 80s in competition at matches the thing is I’m just sick of that kind of stuff, so I’ll 10th planet thing the way he locked it up he stepped in with the leg he figure for the leg. He reached around, grab the arm, put it over the head, lean back. I can give you a video if you want textbook the same thing.
Roger Gracie was 10 times (not 7) IBJJF world champion and also 2 times (not 1) ADCC champion. He also has been the only one who submitted all his matches (weight class and absolute) on both, IBJJF worlds and ADCC. He has never been submitted on competition since blue belt.
Am I tripping or wasn't Jiu Jitsu started in Japan around 1460 & the earliest recorded use of the word “Jiu-Jitsu” happened in 1532 & is coined by Hisamori Tenenuchi, when he officially established the first school of Jiu-Jitsu in Japan? Also, wasn't Brazilian jiu-jitsu initially developed in the 1920s by Brazilian brothers Carlos, Oswaldo, Gastão Jr., George, and Hélio Gracie, after Carlos was taught jiu-jitsu by a travelling Japanese judoka, Mitsuyo Maeda? So how can it be 69 years ago? What am I missing?
great vid, luv u man... ok i know you probably know everything i will say here but...on the time clock opening which is baller... bjj is street readied judo not the invention of jui jitsu come on get it together jedi, also the twister is and old wrestling move 99.9% sure gotta love that scissoring. all that said thank goodness for (gracie)bjj for bringing subs back to the lime light and a big thank you to eddie for 10thp and ebi. i went from liking bjj in an mma context to loving it as a stand alone sub format. for me thats thanks to no gi sub only crack head control goodness.
BJJ finally getting to where pro cycling was in the 90s. If everyone is on the sauce the playing field IS LEVEL. Just taking 'supplements' is not going to make you a great grappler, you gotta put in the work.
That Yuki Nakai vs Gordeau fight happened during the event that the Rickson Gracie documentary "Choke" was filmed. Yuki had three fights that night. The eye gouge from Gordeau happened in the first fight. He went on to defeat his second opponent Pittman, again much, much larger via armbar. He lost to Rickson in his third fight of the night. Yoki Nakai is a legend!
I watch that documentary way back in the day. One of the reasons I started training
@@jedidoesjiujitsu3177 Yeah I watched it shortly after I started training BJJ. It is for sure worth watching again. Fantastic film.
Rickson knew what happened with his eye and felt bad for Yuki, so when they fought he he didn't punch him in the face, just using his grappling technique to win
@@lrodrigues7488 I know! Rickson's team was telling him not to take it easy and to press his advantage. Despite the encouragement he did not cause further injury to Yuki. It was this moment that the respect that I have for Rickson solidified.
I found out about it in Rickson Gracie's Breathe: A Life in Flow book that came out recently. Respect.
As an older jujitsu player ,I grew up watching VHS tapes in the early 2000,s so I was lucky to see or at least hear/read about most of these things unfold .I have to say impressed with your knowledge on the history of the sport and your video is pretty much on point .Keep up the good work .
Appreciate that!
@@jedidoesjiujitsu3177 you know what was also funny the time caio terra one his match and said he wanted to prove that you can win without the steroids 🤣.
Btw am from Trinidad and Tobago and I will be at your seminar next year in Tobago ..boom 🤯
I love this type of content. Killer video as always!
Thank you so much for putting the work in for this project. This was classic Jedi content we love. Please never stop. The sport is growing and you will grow with it. You have a voice in the community and with stuff like this you’re making killer moves
Appreciate that!
Gordeau bit Royce in ‘93 and lost. Then blinds Yuki and loses in ‘95. As a result Jedi correctly wipes Gordeau’s Dutch heritage and makes him French. Bravo, sir 🫡
I also wouldn’t call Nakai JJ man back then. His background was in kosen judo at Hokkaido univ
And apparently 5’6” 😂 Amazing video Jedi, both entertaining and I even learned something new 👍🏻
probably confused it because of Gordeau's "savate" background and the Dutch were heavily influenced by French so the last name is probably french.
@@yn5568 thank you, Nakai was a Kosen guy. there's so much misinformation out there, especially revolving around Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (especially Gracies)
Gordeau is a horrible human being so of course he’s Fr*nch
im a simple man, i see a jedi does jits video i immediately watch it.
PS : After watching it - amazing video as always, successfully managed to outline pretty much all of the saucy stuff one needs to know
All the sauce you’ll ever need
A good thing to add would be about the Japanese ju jutsu death matches from 1800. These matches would be so intense the competitors would write goodbye letters to their family incase they never came back. The more you read into it seems like that's where the early gracie challenge/bjj format comes from.
where can a i read about this?
@@hoguerafilms1079 there's a TH-cam channel called chadi he has a video called 1800 Japanese ju jutsu death matches the source should be there
If it's in TH-cam must be true, as u know jiu jitsu used be another name to call judo, so probably u just looking judo...BJJ was made in Brazil
@@thallesferreira_ bjj IS JUDO!
@@thallesferreira_ yes.. and before it was BJJ, it was Judo (Ju-Do), and before that it was Jiujitsu (Ju-Jitsu).
As I'm new in bbj I'm training alot each week focusing on closed guard as I'm forcing closed guard sparring to learn it deeper as jumping into sparring only knowing a few positions at the beginning was alot harder to find success. Learning everything I have inside the closed guard for me has been so fun and intresting. Its my style for now and it's 1 dimensional but it's getting better and it's helped tremendously at understanding the game itself as its so deeply rooted.
Even though I’ve already seen pretty much all of this content, it was cool to see it all grouped together and presented well. Thank you
Commentating in front of a turntable in a suit jacket holding a wolfhead long-sword. This channel never disappoints. 10/10
It was the epitome of try hard cringe
Really enjoyed this entire video! As someone who's been practicing a bit over a year now, this information just makes me want to train. Love the long form video and how you kept things fresh the entire way, always love to see you trying something new!
One day when you remake this video, you should add four fights to the bottom level:
Helio soneca vs Megaton Diaz, both 1 and 2. Two high level world champions.
Renzo Gracie vs Eugenio Tadeo. Major no-holds-barred showdown in Brazil between rival clans and styles, BJJ and Luta Livre. Fight resulted in actual violence and rioting.
Rickson vs Hugo Duarte on the beach in Brazil. This fight and the fight between Renzo and Tadeo were the pinnacles of the BJJ vs Luta war.
Great video idea, haven’t watched whole thing yet so apologies if explained, but:
In addition to details about Gordeau blinding Nakai in one eye, I’d also say that, although Nakai went on to become godfather of BJJ in Japan with Paraestra dojos, at the time of Choke Nakai had nothing to do with BJJ and was a pure shootwrestler with a Kosen judo background.. Losing to Rickson then inspired his BJJ journey.
Yuki Nakai is my absolute favorite Jiu Jitsu story. Absolute legend, and perfect choice of layers IMO!
Huge inspiration for me. His performance from 95 has a ring to it that Rickson’s just doesn’t
Bro Keenan's infamous stomp guard pass versus the almost unpassable guard of Paulo Miyao was an unbelievable moment. Also, Lo's Copa Podio run!
Noted
Good to see you're still making videos Jedi Master. You're one of my favorite content creators bc you're hilarious and still get the point across.
What got me into BJJ was seeing a flying arm bar. Little did I know that I am about 10 years away from doing one but I an determined.
Wow, and this was such an amazing video! The deeper you go better it gets
Awesome video, enjoyed it a lot. Thanks for all the work making it.🤙
Ken Shamrock made leg locks an ankle locks, the most famous actually
Excellent!!! Definitely looking forward to even more vids
Been watching Jordan for a while, found his roll with you, and enjoyed your take very much. Humour keeps it fresh. Subbed, cheers
This was epic. And Jedi, you have real comedy potential. In which comedy clubs are you workshopping some five minute sets? Keep up the good work.
Awesome content. Loved the DS3 Nameless King boss music! Lol classy, subtle, perfect.
Very cool. Loved this! I didn’t know all the cool deep dive stuff having only been around the jitsu game for a few years now. Grats on the NAGA belt, that’s impressive.
Great video, coverage and fun style e.g. love the sword blooper hitting the ceiling. Thank you
You're a legend man, thanks so much putting this together.
nice video! another forgotten gem is Genki Sudo, competed in some local nogi tournaments that are on youtube aswell
Your energy is awesome! Always makes me smile as soon as I see a new upload 🙂🙌
Great job! I like the long format too. I still like the shorter ones so do both and see what works. OSS!
One of the best BJJ videos ever!
🙏
Kron vs Garry is a wicked sick match
No doubt
My favorite ADCC match of all time.
Great video, anyone would enjoy it, bjj or not. Your humour and editing skills are second to none!
Yuki Nakai actually started off with Kosen Judo and Shooto not Japanese Jiujitsu 😅
masahiko kimura fought helio gracie and submitted him with a move that would later be trade marked by helio as the "kimura lock" however this was to save face for the gracie clan, the kimura lock already had a name in catch wrestling.. the double wrist lock. this move from helio worked as he walked away with his reputation fully intact and then added the move to the gjj moveset.
Well said. Kimura also trained as a Pro Wrestler. Which in those days there were legit Catch Wrestlers like Billy Robinson and Karl Gotch. Gotch was Judo Gene Le Bell's Catch Wrestling Coach. My understanding, is that Judo, back in the days of Kimura, lacked proper ground work, as it was very limited. Both Kimura and Gene Le Bell had the trade mark of Catch Wrestling added to their style of Judo.
@@1_Bad_Z kimura was a wrestling by name, not a judoka primarily this was another way for helio to save face for gjj, not admitting catch wrestling was superior, only that he was a mult sport athlete better at a specific hold basically.
@@ophiuchus5613 i get what you're saying.
Are you familiar with Catch Wrestler Ad Santel and his bouts with Judo stylist?
Maybe we can see a future video.
@@1_Bad_Z one of the goats, and it would be really cool to see a video on catch, sadly its an art thats dying out quickly. and most practitioners gatekeep it from the public, unlike bjj for example. I do catch at a local gym with only like 10 people in it, i love the sport, and imo is superior to bjj but is falling out of style.
@@ophiuchus5613 yup exactly.
I've also trained in Catch under Raul Ramirez from Catch Wrestling Alliance in Southern California. Prior to that back in 2008; I would watch Tony Chechin on TH-cam and would apply the holds @ a Judo Club during open sparring sessions.
Man you have to be a different kind of badass like Yuki Nakai get eyegouged and still continue to fight and win the match. you literally cant see out of 1 eye jesus
You’re such a natural bro ! Love It.
That DS soundtrack... noice
nice touch amazing work
Jui Jitsu didn't start 60 years ago. It started over 500 years ago. Some smart Brazilians just started focusing on Judo ground work and doing great stuff with it 60 years ago.
“If my boy leans into this joke any harder.. he’s gonna fall” LMAO
I love the discrete tribute to Danaher in the shape of the Champion fanny pack. Very nice ;)
Lmao
Nice! love the Iceberg videos..I can see a part 2 int the future.....
Man, the 4th layer needed a "Jedi" starts his channel styling with that 🔥 bjj
Quality content Jedi!! Love your videos!
Love this video!! You just earned a subscriber.
6:00 bro your spats look stylish as hell
That was absolutely terrific! Thanks!
"The peak of my tryhard era" haha, we all had that moment in our jiujitsu journey 🥲
Truuuue
Well there you are!! I stopped looking for a minute! took you long enough to post another video lol! missed ya bud! ✌️🤙
loved the vid, missed you dog glad u back
If you ever make a part 2 I think you should include Roger Gracie cross-choking everyone from mount at IBJJF worlds
Everyone knew it was coming and no one could stop it. Legend!!!!
You are putting in a lot of work for your videos!🎉🎉
very informative video !! I love jiujitsu even more now
Even for the BJJ nerds, this was a fun watch. Great content, Jedi!
Good video, very creative. Feeling hungry though, off for a trenbologna sandwich and homemade pizza.✌🏽
Let’s make some
this video was awesome! good stuff!
Great video. Btw Sakuraba didn`t really break Renzos arm. He dislocated his elbow joint. Just saying as a nerd. Keep up the good work to spread the knowledge to the youngsters!
Thanks for sharing the knowledge
Freaking epic bro! Great video!
Actually at the first UFC event there were hand picked fighters and no one invited wrestlers(there was a sumo wrestler) or Judokas for some reason...
I wonder why...
Hmmmmm
I've always suspected Ken Shamrock threw his fight with Royce.
so true, though the most insane jiu jitsu practiconer is obviously the local gas station crackhead
Yo keep up the comedy Jedi im learning and laughing at the same time haha
You missed the Capoeira influence on Gracie Jiu Jitsu and the Gracie challenges and rivalry with other grapplers and fighters in Brazil. I don't think many people outside Brazil know this.
best video of my fucking life. cheers from a mountain in bogota colombia lighting a joint, training and repeat.
21:21 I was tryna figure out why that name sounded familiar; dude came to my jiu jitsu gym, super cool dude
Great vid, I just wish you mentioned Wallid Ismail.
Bro the notorious acl collector had me laughing 😂
10/10
The twister is not something that’s really 10th planets kind of idea it’s a wrestling guillotine they were doing it in the 60s I have pictures of me doing it in high school in the 80s in competition at matches the thing is I’m just sick of that kind of stuff, so I’ll 10th planet thing the way he locked it up he stepped in with the leg he figure for the leg. He reached around, grab the arm, put it over the head, lean back. I can give you a video if you want textbook the same thing.
Yoo we have the same curtains! Curtains of champions! 😤😅
Dang, I think the only one I didn't know was the GSP adcc one 😅
You are a true Jiu Jitsu bro
Excellent video brother 🤙
Roger Gracie was 10 times (not 7) IBJJF world champion and also 2 times (not 1) ADCC champion. He also has been the only one who submitted all his matches (weight class and absolute) on both, IBJJF worlds and ADCC. He has never been submitted on competition since blue belt.
Amazing info, you speak pretty well too.
I've neeever been this early before. Stoked it's my guy Jedi! 🤘🤘🤘
Let’s go
Great one senior Jedi
I'm BR, he calling Toquinho "Paul Harris", and I'm like "what?" hahahaha
Am I tripping or wasn't Jiu Jitsu started in Japan around 1460 & the earliest recorded use of the word “Jiu-Jitsu” happened in 1532 & is coined by Hisamori Tenenuchi, when he officially established the first school of Jiu-Jitsu in Japan?
Also, wasn't Brazilian jiu-jitsu initially developed in the 1920s by Brazilian brothers Carlos, Oswaldo, Gastão Jr., George, and Hélio Gracie, after Carlos was taught jiu-jitsu by a travelling Japanese judoka, Mitsuyo Maeda?
So how can it be 69 years ago?
What am I missing?
69 and 420 are funny numbers. 69 sex number 420 is a euphemism or slang for marijuana. Its just memes bro
Saw you had Vsauce goin in another video, and now Chubbyemu... hehe
Hey Jedi! Nice video(s) and cool samurai T-shirt, do you mind asking what is that? Thanks & greetings from Finland!
Bro that was so cool Thankyou man 👊
Awesome video, but you gave me PTSD with the souls elden ring ost.......
6:58 that More Plates More Dates reference
Yah my knowledge is deep :) Good video!
Great vid brotha
Quality content, thanks for the education sir!
BJJ iceberg, definitely clicking. Better still that it's Jedi.
7:31 "With the notourious acl collector" LMAO
great vid, luv u man... ok i know you probably know everything i will say here but...on the time clock opening which is baller... bjj is street readied judo not the invention of jui jitsu come on get it together jedi, also the twister is and old wrestling move 99.9% sure gotta love that scissoring. all that said thank goodness for (gracie)bjj for bringing subs back to the lime light and a big thank you to eddie for 10thp and ebi. i went from liking bjj in an mma context to loving it as a stand alone sub format. for me thats thanks to no gi sub only crack head control goodness.
finally a longer video!!!
BJJ finally getting to where pro cycling was in the 90s. If everyone is on the sauce the playing field IS LEVEL. Just taking 'supplements' is not going to make you a great grappler, you gotta put in the work.
I love this video! Some great memories. 🙂
this vid was so good i swear i didnt feel the time pass,
thanks!
One of the best creators in the sport@
Excellent vid!!!
Can you post a link to the underwater video clip footage, those look interesting to watch and awesome video very informative!
Bro I see you rocking that NAGA belt. I’m competing at NAGA Vegas in February. You going?
Amazing video bro OSs ✊
Great vid, onlybhalfway through but I noticed something... the whole iceburg isin't a pic of danaher?
ha ha - that was the best - "them Tren and bologni sandwiches"
7:32 *ACL collector!!! Notorious Rousimar Palhares*
the way you pronounced magid hage’s name is criminal
Just call him gorilla hands