John Reeves
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1,814 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2023
last heard Feb 2025
John Reeves’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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run through every dude. Yeah. Every dude. And it was like, not like, not like it was a close match. It was like, whatever dude from the defo stepped in front of him was the 12 year old child against the fucking an adult. Yeah. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like he just fucking handled everybody.
And I remember one of those times he just fucking, I did something and he cinched down on me like a spider and I couldn't fucking move. And he goes, yes, I did not think of this. This is good move. And I was like, I don't even know what the fuck I'm doing. Like, you know what I mean? I wasn't even a white belt yet. It was just, he was just fucking me up, you know?
But I knew like right then and there I was fucking helpless.
And like, yo, unacceptable. You know what I mean? Unacceptable. Yeah, right? Unacceptable. That's the right word, yeah. Like, you got to learn this. You got to know some of it. You know what I mean? And even back then, like, we would all tell hoists, you know, because we were more Muay Thai. We would train a lot of Muay Thai, boxing, right? Wrestling, a lot of wrestling.
you know, before the Jets, and, like, we would tell Hoist back then, as soon as you learn to punch, you are super dangerous, which is, I think, where it is now.
Yes.
I used to wrestle, and it's like the cradle for the pin versus an armbar, right? Sure. In my opinion.
Yeah, I agree. I agree with that.
I completely agree with that. And I always feel like that it just fucks shit up. Yeah. You know what I mean? And then, you know, this doing jujitsu is like seconds matter. And this fight could turn around in seconds. But those seconds can't happen if we stop this early. A hundred percent. Yeah. I agree with that.
That's what I watched. The early days is my heyday. Like I could not get enough. I was, you know, a fight dummy for hoists. Sakuraba... Who else? Oh, Hoyce. Okay, I'll tell you a quick story about Hoyce. He comes out. We're doing Jits with him. And... I'm a new guy. So I'm like, hey, you could share my wall locker. Right.
And you got a wall locker and you got like your towel because the showers down the hallway. You know what I mean? Like I have my clothes. Right. And then so Hoist put his family pictures and I didn't notice this, but they slowly did this. Him and my team re-tagged everything with like my last name and team numbers with Hoist. Right. So they re-tagged all my gear as Hoist.
Hoist put his kids' pictures up over mine. One day I'm in my locker like, is this my locker? What the fuck is going on? And I'm like, whose kids are these? And then Hoist is like, yes, you like my kids? And I'm like, oh, those are your kids? No, that's cool, right? Years later I'm in Iraq and I'm like, I got to go for like one of these surges into Fallujah with another squadron.
And like their ops are major calling me by name. And it's like, I've been in Iraq like 30 seconds. These guys are calling me by name. Like what the fuck, you know? And then he was like, we're getting your stuff. It's on a, it's on a helicopter. You need to get on this little bird. We're leaving like 20 minutes. And literally I got on a little bird and, They bring my kid over.
I get my shit on, right? And they're like, yo, whose shit is it? Hey, Royce? Is there a Royce? Royce? You know what I mean? And then my bag is fucking still tagged with Royce's name. That's hilarious.
In the unit, yeah.
Yeah. So in training, when you kind of make it to the unit, there's a hand to hand program. A lot of the hand to hand program is like traditionally like you got to cuff people. You know what I mean? Like which is all Japanese wrist locks, which is a foundation for a lot of shit. Right.
But, you know, you learn that stuff, like how if you have a weapon, how to like approach somebody, if they grab your weapon, what to do. So it was all like a weapon focused, like more like self-defense. But I think back then in my day, right, in the 90s, it was still, bro, come at me like this. You know what I mean? And you're like, why the fuck would I stand like this ever?
Like, what the fuck was I doing that got me here? You know what I mean? Like, so it was always some back then there was a lot of hocus pocus. So we kind of had our own training program. And then as my years, the training program got better because we started getting hoist. We started ground fighting, you know, I think the premise for everything they taught in my day when I was a student was,
Was like, you know, weapons retention, Japanese wrist lock to get someone cuffed, you know, two man cuffing procedures, searching and then like how to defend yourself if someone grabbed your weapon or if you went to the ground. Right. Right.
Right.
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