Rickson Gracie
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Podcast Appearances
The guy said to him, hey, no, get out.
Let's clean his, so shows his face on there.
So, and then two days after, this guy coming to my place with a samurai helmet and offered to me as a gift, sharing, was a lack of respect for him.
And he's apologizing and he was, you know, feel like I was honorable and generous.
and gracious on defeating.
So he was giving me a gift and left.
Yes, yes.
There was no time for preparing.
I was just being in shape all the time, be ready to fight anytime because that's the only thing I could do.
My father was a very special guy because he was very weak when he born.
He learned Jiu-Jitsu long before his practicing Jiu-Jitsu because he was forbidden by doctors to practice the sport.
He could not run a bike or play soccer because he has verticals, he pass out.
He was very tense and very weak physically.
And he was learned from my uncle, his older brother,
But he could not practice.
So when my uncle opened his school in 1925 in Rio de Janeiro, my father was sitting on the corner for about three years just watching my uncle teach different moves.
So he memorized everything.
He knows everything just by photograph.
And he's not exactly fighting because he was forbidden.
So in one day, he's 16 years old.