Life vs Jiu Jitsu: JJ Machado

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Feb 20, 2013

Jean Jacques Machado vs Roy Harris Classic Match

Old....School....Cool

Jean Jacques Machado vs Roy Harris at Joe Moreira's Black Belt Challenge in 1998...

A BJJ legend vs a member of the BJJ Dirty Dozen

I think it is Rigan that is yelling instructions to his brother during this video... definitely a cool piece of history.

Jul 12, 2012

Jean Jacques Machado Competition Video's

There is a great story I read about Grandmaster Carlos Gracie and Jean Jacques Machado

Once was visiting a dear friend of the family, Luzita, who just had a handicapped baby. They were chatting and Luzita was holding her baby when she noticed that Carlos was carefully looking at the child. She asked what he was thinking about and the Master said: “You can be cool (calm) because your son is going to achieve everything he wants in life. This handicap is not going to get in his way at all, much to the contrary." That baby was Jean Jacques Machado, future Jiu-Jitsu phenomenon and ADCC world champion (source)

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Thanks Alan for finding this gem!!

The fact that Jean Jacques Machado was able to achieve the accomplishments you will see below is almost unbelievable. Professor Machado has a congenital disorder on his left hand known as Amniotic band syndrome This disorder severely limits the functionality of his hand. Rather than accept any sort of limitations, the Professor exploded into the Jiu Jitsu scene winning tournaments and "super matches" against the elite. His strong use of under-hooks helped to propel him to the top of the "No-Gi style" ADCC Tournaments.

I personally am fascinated by his "always attacking" style of fighting and his ability to push the pace of the match. Truly a champion.

IF I can ever find a copy, I would love to watch "Force Of The Spirit". Until then, I will continue to watch these videos of his competition footage,

I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

In BJJ/ Grappling Tournaments

Jean-Jacques Machado vs. Roy Harris

Jean-Jacques Machado vs. Rogerinho (?)

Jean-Jacques Machado vs.Wallid Ismail

Jean Jacques Machado vs. Yuki Nakai

Jean-Jacques Machado vs. Kuniyoshi Hironaka - L.A. Sub X

In the Abu Dhabi Combat Club (ADCC)

Jean-Jacques Machado vs. Caol Uno- ADCC 1999 66-76 kg Finals

Jean-Jacques Machado vs. Ricardo Arona- ADCC 2001 Absolute Finals

Jean-Jacques Machado vs. Leo Vierra- ADCC 2000 (?)

Jean Jacques Machado vs. Tsuyoshi Kohsaka ADCC 2001 Absolute

Jean-Jacques Machado vs. Matt Serra- ADCC 2001 66-76 kg Finals

In MMA

Jean Jacques Machado vs. Frank Trigg VTJ 1998 - Vale Tudo Japan 1998

If you know of any more on Youtube...let me know and I will embed them here.

Mike

Jun 28, 2012

Around The "Machado" World This Week...

I have been away to Ohio for a few days. While I was down there, I took the opportunity to train at Jorge Gurgel's MMA. While Professor Jorge is a accomplished MMA fighter and Jiu Jitsu wizard (see season 2 of The Ultimate Fighter), the gym is probably best know as where Rich Franklin trains. I had a blast and will elaborate on my experiences there in a separate blog post. When I came back, I was surprised to find several new videos and news from around the "Machado World"

First and foremost I heard about the news of Joe Rogan's Black belt promotion in 10th planet Jiu Jitsu.

"I just gave @joerogan his 10th Planet black belt... Here's the pic of @joerogan getting his black belt :)" -Eddie Bravo

Eddie Bravo presented Joe with his new belt on Tuesday night (June 26th). It was an emotional moment for Joe, and my respect goes out to him. Congratulations.

Joe and Jean Jacques Machado

While not technically a Machado black belt, I know Joe received his brown belt from Professor Jean Jacques, and Eddie Bravo is a two stripe Black bel under Professor Machado. I am a dedicated listener of The Joe Rogan Experience and have really come to enjoy Joe's insight and candor into the world of MMA and jiu Jitsu.
Joe has the ability to sum up the reasons why I do Jiu Jitsu nicely with rants such as this:

"[There’s] something that my Tae Kwon Do teacher told me when I was a little kid that I never forgot was that Martial Arts are a vehicle for developing your human potential, and nothing in my life has ever put me in face with reality better than Jiu-Jitsu, ‘cause I think in life we can all distort our perceptions of things in order to make ourselves more comfortable, in order to except where we are, and there are a lot of people out there running around life full of s—t. You can’t be full of s—t when you do Jiu-Jitsu,” he said. When you do Jiu-Jitsu, it’s impossible to be full of s—t, because reality comes at you in the purest form possible. A life or death struggle using your determination, your focus, your techniques, your mind, and your training over and over again. And its reality, and if you f—k up, and you get caught in a triangle, you gotta tap and that is the end of the story. It’s as real as it can get, and that has made me a better person. It’s made me a better man, it’s made me understand myself, my weaknesses, my strengths, the s—t I need to work on. Jiu-Jitsu has been one of the most valuable tools that I have ever had in my life.”

You can check the video of his promotion here...

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My fellow blogger "Jake" over at The Ground Never Misses published an excellent interview with John Will, one of BJJ's "Dirty Dozen". John is a Rigan Machado Black Belt and has some great stories about traveling to Brazil for the first time with Professor Rigan.

Click here to get to read Jake's excellent post and interview, as well as see some cool vintage footage of tournaments.

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It also seems that Jean Jacques Machado has been traveling and has done another couple of techniques and interview for Jiu Jitsu Mania (a-la-Jits Magazine when Professor Machado came to our school)

It is always interesting to hear what Professor Machado is doing and what his opinion is on different topics.

The first technique video goes over a killer "Loop Choke" from Halfguard. My half guard is rarely an offensive position for me, I generally focus all of my energy to passing. I really like this technique and can see some real possibilities, though I feel like surprise is a considerably advantage when trying it out in rolling.

The second technique is a "crucifix" set-up from the butterfly guard. When I watch these techniques, Professor Machado moves so fluid. When I try these techniques, I feel clunky and robotic...something to work on for sure.

Awesome stuff,

Hope you enjoyed it

Mike.

Jun 8, 2012

Jean Jacques Machado Interview and Technique

Professor Machado recently came by our school for a seminar (my 4th JJ Machado Seminar...where does the time go?) While he was there he spent some time with Matt and David from Jits magazine giving them an interview about his philosophy on Jiu Jitsu, progression of the students in Canada, and an interesting sweep-to-crucifix when someone is passing your guard...

But first... the seminar photos (faces blurred out of respect for peoples privacy)

The Seminar Begins

Congrats Shihan for a stripe on your Black Belt

I get to be the "Uke"

"The Three Musketeers"

King of the Mountain

Professor Machado goes over our technique questions one by one.

All-in-all a great seminar thanks to Shihan at ACMA for bringing him in, and thanks to Jesslyn for taking these awesome pics (check out her photo blog)

RCJ Machado Photo History

I hope you find these pics of the Machado brothers as interesting as I do... They are by no means an exhaustive record, but this humble blog post will hopefully document some of it.

The Machado Story