I love the grappling arts and love the Gracie Jujitsu and i think its very important to learn these because they are very effective and just like he said fights can lead to the ground but jujitsu is not just for the ground but its super effective on the ground. I think the standing arts like karate, kung fu, or things that Bruce Lee did are very important. Also what Bruce Lee did on camera was not what he did in actual practice n he got in lots of fights he knew what worked. But be well rounded.
Why do people like to cite that a martial art is "made for war"? WTF does that matter at all? Training methods aside no one, except soldiers, needs combatives designed for war, the average Joe just needs to be able to protect himself/herself
Man you guys love to argue about stuff you copy & paste from Wikipedia! Your thesis about the Gracies is silly, instead of trying to find reasons why their art isn't popular look at the reasons it is. You can do the "who invented this move" game forever, what matters more is the way people train
@TiconderogaX Do you know that Christianity is correct? The world around us reveals that G-d DOES exist, and the historical evidence reveals that Jesus Christ really did come to this earth and there is overwhelming evidence that Jesus Christ really did physically rise from the dead. Jesus is coming again and the signs of the end times that were foretold in the Bible are coming to pass.
Crowder is right that the media often doesn't cover these stories. One of the other few sources where I've seen stories like this was in the documentary film, Michael Moore hates America.
I'm very jealous of you Mr.Crowder :( I want the chance to go up against Gracie Jujitsu :( I personally studied Krav Maga and Greco-Roman Wrestling with a sprinkling of two different forms of Karate. It would be such an honor to go against them.
If Crowder was going to use ANYONE as an example of Capitalism success, the Gracies are the WORST example,
They are MONEY-GRUBBING CUT-THROAT PIMPS AND WHORES when it comes to business, bullying students into and unfairly bad-mouthing competitors.
As Dan Severn said, "Gracies don't want you training with ANYONE else but them." They lie, cheat, steal, and basically run the dirtiest game in town, doing anything for a buck or to steal it from someone else.
Translation: he CHEATED: i.e. spent years making up fancy CHOKE-HOLDS which are ILLEGAL in Judo and other sports, and he started his own sport where he could make his own rules.
And it worked until other competitors learned how to adapt to TO his rules.
UFC is just cockfighting, i.e. they lure in low-lifes with low prize-money, and act like that's the world's finest, when in reailty it's just not worth anything better.
@Quintapus Ya ever taken lessons? I did for only 3 years and leanred more than most women. and I became more confident and moer aware of my surroundings.
@redeemedwench No. I've only studied Filipino Martial Arts, but they have many of the same moves as BJJ as well as take down defense, weapons fighting, and striking. It's got it all. I have however seen Rickson Gracie fight and he's completely clueless about what to do until he tackles his opponent to the ground. SO I ask again. What happens when you are fighting 2 or more guys at once and ALL you know how to do is fight on the ground?
How do you know he's clueless if you've never seen him do it?
He's just a superior ground-fighter and so it makes sense for him to take it to that stage.
The thing about the Gracies is that they only won as long as they got to make the rules, while most others weren't used to choke-holds; when that "secret weapon" expired as others got used to it, the Gracies dropped from the scene faster than shit in an out-house. Look at Dan Severn, they only beat him ONCE, then HE won.
@postalmeter I HAVE seen Rickson fight, many times. He shows no skill when standing at all. He may throw a few sloppy low kicks now and then and a rare weak punch. His stand up game is practically non existent. BJJ is great. Don't get me wrong. I'm not putting it down at all. But as you pointed out, it only works if your opponent doesn't know how to grapple. It's an incomplete martial art. As self defense, it has many advantages, but many gaps as well. Real Jujitsu has striking, throws and more.
BJJ is NOT that great. They're not even THAT good at grappling; in a purely scientific match-up I doubt they doubt they could take a high-school champ. All they did was use some basic grappling-skills and threw in illegal moves, and then claimed "no rules-- " but they really mean GRACIE rules, since "no rules" would allow guns, and knives, and tanks, oh my!
Once the competitors got accustomed to these sneaky tricks, however, the Gracies lost BIG-time.
@postalmeter I totally agree with you, but I'm trying to be open minded here and let a BJJ practitioner answer my question. That's only fair. Realistically, BJJ has little you won't find in Dumog or Sambo. Many new grapplers, like Eddie Bravo, have added so many new moves to BJJ that it isn't truly BJJ any more. With BJJ you can dominate any opponent that doesn't know how to wrestle. That's great, but against 2 or more opponents, you lose, even if they can't fight at all. Continued.....
@postalmeter If Rickson is kicking my your ass on the ground, I'll just kick him in the face with my steel toes. Rule # 1 in a street fight is NEVER go to the ground. There may be some exceptions, but if you do go to the ground, your best bet is to get back up again. Sport BJJ teaches you to start and finish your fight on the ground. In real life that can be very dangerous. BJJ has some good stuff, but it's not the amazing art it's made out to be, especially with everyone practicing it nowadays.
It never was; again, they pwned a few strikers with grappling-- i.e. they learned to BLOCK and CLOSE--, and then they acted like they could beat the world; but he reality is that Romans QUIT using better stuff over 2000 years ago, which was designed for WAR.
Again, once the others got hip to the Gracies' tricks, their 15 minutes of fame were OVAH.
But you'll never convince a super-fan of reality; they still come in here and say that Seagal can beat anyone using aikido.
@postalmeter I don't think that roman soldiers needed to learn to fight without weapons or armor.They were soldiers. Armed combat and street survival skills aren't necessarily the same thing. Anyway, the Samurai would use Jujitsu's Grappling techniques to tackle and break their enemy's limbs when swords failed to do the job. You can break an opponent's arm even with armor on, whereas punching them would not be effective. Jujitsu's grappling which is very similar to BJJ, was used by Samurai. cont
Greek and Roman soldiers learned to fight with AND without weapons, which broke often; Pankration and wrestling were invented by the Greeks during the Hellenic period, when they also where the fathers of science and medicine; and these were adopted by the Romans into Greco-Roman fighting ; they were able to kill people dozens of ways without weapons. The Romans later banned these in the name of civility after their empire was established.
@postalmeter I know all about Pankration. It was very similar to Jujitsu, which was the fighting style of the Samurai. Karate was developed by the Okinawans, NOT the Japenese. They were banned from using weapons so they developed Karate, which means Tang Hand or Chinese Hand, but was changed to mean Empty Hand as a reflection of it being a WEAPONLESS art.
No, panktration is much more scientific, and preceded the Japanese style/Chinese meods by over 1500 years; in fact they were probably derived therefrom.
@postalmeter The Japanese developed Jujitsu long after the Greek developed panktration, but they are similar. Jujitsu is a more robust art. Does panktration have flips and throws like Jujitsu? No it doesn't. They both have similar moves because both were created by practical and scientific orientated peoples. In Chinese culture, for example, everything has to be artsy fartsy, no matter what it is. In Japan and ancient Greece, they didn't care about how a Martial Art looked so long as it worked.
I see you don't know much about Greco-Roman wrestling which was a part of Pankration.
As for Japan being "scientific," chalk up a big fat "HA!" What, they need more "yin in their yang?" No physics there.
Likewise chinese culture wasn't artsy fartsy, you're thinking of non-military practitioners who had to DISGUISE the fact that they were practicing combat; Chinese militarism, meanwhile, was wholly pragmatist.
@postalmeter No, Jujitsu is not artistic at all. It's UGLY as Hell. You obviously don't understand Chinese or Japanese culture. Jujitsu doesn't care about Yin and Yang. How ridiculous! That's a Taoist concept. The Japanese have historically been Shintos and Buddhists. Taoism is HUGE in China, but very rare in Japan. Greco-Roman wrestling is a SPORT, just like BJJ. The object is NOT to kill someone. Hell, even Judo and BJJ you can use all sorts of moves that are ILLEGAL in Greco-Roman wrestling!
No, Greco-Roman wrestling was originally developed for WAR. Later it BECAME a sport with the Olympic Games, just like jujitsu.
And yes of course BJJ has illegal moves, that's why the Gracies were ABLE to win since the other grapplers weren't used to them; it even has moves that are illegal in noral Judo.
Once the grapplers caught on, the jig was up.... even with the shit-money they paid contestants, even the winners, since the Gracies practice JEW-DOUGH..
@postalmeter Jujitsu was originally developed for war. Greco-Roman wrestling was NOT. Pankration was, but not Greco-Roman wrestling. It's a derivative SPORT, just like BJJ is a derivative sport of Real Jujitsu. And how will Greco-Roman wrestling help in a street fight? Will you tackle your opponent to the ground and hump them silly? My Brother did Greco-Roman in high school. If he shoots in and grabs me around the waist for a take down I simply pound on his kidneys and spine with my fist. I win!
@postalmeter Greco-Roman wrestling is of FRENCH origin, not Greek, like Pankration. Although it was named Greco-Roman Wrestling by Basilio Bartoletti as an allusion to the ancient arts of the Mediterranean, it was actually developed by Jean Exbrayat in the the early 1800s. He originally called it "Flat Hand Wrestling", and in the mid 1800s he incorporated a bunch of Sissy rules such as "No Holds Below the Waist" and "No Painful holds" and "No Torquing an Opponents Joint". It's NOT an Art of War!
@postalmeter Steven Seagull knows some badass stuff, but Akido is a Jujitsu derivative, like BJJ, and as such as many gaps. I saw a movie where he gets tackled and even though he had control over the choreography, his defense was to Slap the bad guy like a girl until he got to his feet. I definitely think Seagal could use some BJJ. Unless you are REALLY good at BJJ, it's NOT going to help you against a larger stronger opponent. It gives you an edge, but superior strength is not to be ignored.
You'd have to ask JUDO Gene about that; he choked Seagull out and made him piss and shit his pants.
As for strength, Seagull is a big fat pig packing 300 lbs on a skinny man's frame, he can't even deliver his LINES anymore he's so fat and NEVER works out OR competes.
.As for size, well duh, that's why they have weight-classes now; the bigger guys beat the Gracies so badly once they learned to beat their cheating chokes, that the "size doesn't matter" fallacy has been exposed AGAIN..
@postalmeter Nevertheless, in his prime, Seagal could still wipe the floor with 9 out of 10 street punks. That's all I meant. And BJJ has some great stuff in it. It's just that it is waaaaay over rated, just like a lot of martial arts are. And I am not talking about BJJ in MMA. I'm talking about Self Defense. MMA is a Sport and although it may be fun to watch, it hardly has the best street fighting techniques. There are No Gloves, No Ref, and No rules in a street fight. That's why BJJ fails.
Bull-fucking-shit, Seagull is and was always a joke. He never beat anyone in competition, EVER, he was a FAKE fropm day 1, and he looked like a girl, fought like a girl, & ran like a girl waving away a fart.
As for BJJ; like I said, it was a TRICK. Their real advantage was using chokes that are illegal in other grappling styles, so they started contests that paid shit-money and made their own rules.
But taking away rules, gloves and the ref won't give any style an advantage.
@postalmeter It may be true that Seagal is over rated, but you offer NO evidence that he's a fake. You did mention Gene Lebell, but you can't prove the story is real. Even if it is, that does't mean the Seagal couldn't have kicked your ass in his prime, or mine. I think it's pointless to speculate. I don't hold BJJ in any high regard so you don't have to keep saying it's crap. You're preaching to the Choir. I still want to hear from any BJJers who can answer my original question though.
It's all SPORT, don't let anyone tell you it's street-fighting... unless "street-fighters" are mostly alone and unarmed. Maybe in Brazil, but shit I never got mugged by Juan Valdez.
Good luck, it won't work without an umpa.... and it's not very smart to tie up both your hands on a mounted opponent's one arm, unless he's only GOT one arm.
Gracie TOTALLY jobbed to Crowder, who couldn't make ANY move work he's such a stick.
Better to just cross-grab BOTH wrists from underneath and go for the DKG... but of course such judo experts would KNOW that right.
Thanks for another great video! I recently saw To Save a Life and we mostly got it because you were on the cover. Anyway, just wanted to say that you did a really good job of being a total jerk. I mean, even agreeing with 99% of what you say here and knowing who you are, I still wanted to punch you in the face. =)
Haha this video was great. Funny and really showed what the Gracies are about. the argument is lacking though. kind of a hasty generalization fallacy.
*insert some incredibly presumptuous and ignorant comment about capitalism or the government here*
bleed2299 is a typical far left, lazy, perverted parasite. Someone who blames everything on "The White Person". Mexican government is full of corruption? It's the fault of White People! Illegals pour across our border, demand we adapt to their language and customs while putting down ours? It's the fault of those evil White People.
What a disgusting, perverted, lying hypocrite people like bleed2299 are!
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@shawno66 You can make it personal, but the fact is that too much wealth has shifted to the upper class, and that is bad from a humanitarian standpoint, that poverty is spreading, and from an economical standpoint, that there are fewer consumers
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@shawno66 So what kind of government meddling has shifted wealth from the poor to the rich? Government "meddling" typically goes the other way, you aren't making any sense.
I see what you're saying here Steven and I agree with you to a point but not every American can own a successful small business. I've seen several small business ventures flop in the past few years because no one can use/afford the product or service and I have friends with college degrees selling appliances and furniture right now because of the job market. The point being is this sort of thing can't and won't happen for everyone. Saying people are lazy or not trying hard enough is ignorant.
Well, I do think a lot of people have their own opinions and perhaps the reason for this video-if you are not making the money you want to make or doing the job you realy want to do-work ure ass off in this economy and stop belly aching about this, that, and the other thing and start working. Yes, work is hard. Those who work hard do and those that do not wor khard wish they did.
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@yejibbles Again, someone misses the point entirely. I expect that, however, from people who have so deeply internalized the hegemony. If all you have are anecdotes, I am unimpressed, for as I have already mentioned, I have plenty of them myself.
Once again I am called a socialist, which says a whole lot more about you than it does about me. You don't know any other way to react to someone who doesn't fall for the propaganda that you inhale each second and sprinkle on your breakfast cereal.
Crowder in the south bay! Lovin it, come to Lomita next time and due a story on that restaurant owner who allegedly killed his wife then jumped off a cliff and failed to kill himself
Crowder, stop thumbing people's comments down that don't agree with you. What is the point of letting people comment if you refuse to see different opinions?
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The American dream is still alive but its a heck of a lot harder to get than it used to be... you can't even get a decent education anymore without going tens of thousands of dollars into debt... and now republicans all across the country are cutting funding for education so they can lower taxes for billionaires
Steven, I like watching your channel even though I'm a liberal because I learn differnt sides of the spectrum. That allows an open and more rational mind. From what I see, I still haven't gotten a reason why I should vote for the conservative party. Make a video explaining every single differnce between both sides and why conservitives have more reason. If you make it with everything you beleive, then if your reasonable, I will be a conservitive.
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@fakewowguy I am wrong because... oh, anecdotes. I have a few that show your opinion to be wrong, so whose win? Enough with the sweeping generalization, for everyone who works hard and succeeds there are dozens of people who work just as hard and don't.
I don't know where you got the idea that I was a socialist, but I'm not surprised you think that I am. I have suggested no social policy, but your in-group bias is strong and black/white thinking causal to your bifurcation of the issue.
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@Vidwatcher321 I would love to have a system where everyone is free to succeed. It's too bad that neither Mr.Crowder nor any of the people who gave me thumbs down agree with us.
I learned some Gracie from a Marine in church, and It's come in HANDY. I'm glad these guys are modeling what real Americans are. Nothing says freedom than a spine relocation on the ground eh?
I disagree. The American dream is dying and our schools are facilitaing it. I'm a senior in high school right now. Rather then being taught that America is the land of opportunity and you can make whatever you want of yourself, we are being taught to slow down. My teachers talk about how either the economy will collapse into another depression, or my generation will spend our whole lives paying high taxes to fix the deficit, and we probably won't be posporous. It's sad, but that's the reality.
"For every Rener Gracie there's a million people who didn't have a grandpa to ride the coattails of."
Well if the American dream is like the lottery then we must be incredibly lucky - seeing as we are so prosperous that even our poor would be considered rich by most of the worlds standards. Riding our grandpas coattails? Typical lazy socialist logic. Get off your lazy ass and get a job. Every business in USA started off small. And at least attempt to learn basic economics retard.
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@Eterna1Soldier The mean income for the middle class has dropped over the last decade, and that underemployement hovers at ~%15. Since getting a job is harder than ever, and the wages are going down, the American dream is a lottery ticket, if you happen to break it rich as a movie star, rock star, or some random business idea, then sure, but "getting a job" which is the most most people can attain, will leave you too poor to afford healthcare and education for your kids. Something has to be done
@Shaitan051 There is NO such thing as the American Dream lottery. There are givers and takers. A giver is a Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Sam Walton. A taker is an Obama, Pelosi, Reid. It doesn't matter what conditions you were born in. You have as much chance as anyone else of living the American dream. Unless you are by nature a taker. A taker does not create or work. He takes from others. Obama has NEVER created anything. So by definition he is a taker. You more than likely are a taker too!
@Shaitan051 The American dream isn't about riding the "coattails" of your grandpa. Its not about opening you're own dojo. Its not about becoming a millionaire. Its about pulling yourself up and getting it done on your own two feet. Yes, one in every million make millions. But that's not what its about. Its about pride in making away for yourself. That's what this story is about.
If you want to sit back, complain and expect successful people to do everything for you, unfortunately you can.
"Its about pulling yourself up and getting it done on your own two feet."
Point missed. What exactly did RENER do? Is Paris Hilton living the American Dream? Conrad Hilton started off working in a general store. How many generations does it take before it officially becomes "riding the coattails" of your ancestors.
There's a 7-Eleven down the street (ty google maps) how about Crowder goes an interviews the cashier? I bet his/her view on the dream is a bit different.
I'm not a millionaire. Nor is the person down at the local 7-Eleven. You ask, "what did Rener do?" I ask what Did Helio Gracie do? What did Conrad hilton do? THEY worked hard and overcame challenges. The story isn't about Rener, its about the they're grandfather who came to America, "The land of Opportunity" ever heard of it? Not the land of hand outs. Moral of the story, work hard and pull yourself up and getting it done on your own two feet.
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"The land of Opportunity" ever heard of it?"
Hmm the name rings a bell. It's that place stolen by religious zealots kicked out of England who tried to kill the previous occupants, built by slaves, built up further by immigrants that would spend most of their lives being shit upon, and then later taken over by conglomerates who are destroying it while selling you a romanticized and idealized version of you own past all for the low price of your children's future. Right?
@Shaitan051 Your negative attitude and pessimism will follow you all of your life and I feel sorry for your future. You give no answer, you offer no hope. Yet you live in the country that has given you the same opportunity as everyone else but I'm sure you haven't done shit with it. Why else would you be so bitter toward your country. good riddance to ya
^----- necon-sheep who claims that corporate-welfare is a communist myth, and that all the big corporations made it on the sweat of their founder's brow.
@Shaitan051 Have you ever studied Brazilian Jujitsu??? RENER has worked his ASS OFF mastering a very challenging martial art and granting others an opportunity to learn through his expertise. You should be thanking him really. I am sure that your welfare check is paid by his tax dollars. See, you are ridding his coattails! Good for you! You are special kind of retard.
@Shaitan051 (Cont.) So whats your problem with someone working hard and handing it down to the next generation? Do you think you should get it instead? Or, are you like Obama and they should "Share the wealth?" Should Conrad Hilton turned his prosperity over to the government before he died? Cause
I'm Glad I live in a country that gives me the opportunity to succeed. So you don't think America gives you the opportunity to succeed?
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@thinkhard29 "So whats your problem ... next generation?" Nothing, but that generation doesn't get to take credit for said hard work. "Do you think you should get it instead?" Did I say I do? "Or, are you like Obama" Don't remember mentioning the Republican party's wet dream. "Should Conrad Hilton turned ... before he died?" Did I say that? "opportunity to succeed" Try hard and you succeed is a nice idea but very naive. The powerful love you suckers. It's all about who you know or pure luck.
Takes me back I watched Hoyce Gracie in those early UFCs. Shame though as an Englishman I cannot get a green card so the only way to go live in the land of opportunity is to become rich enough to buy my way in. Hmm If I could do that there probably wouldn't be any point in moving.
@leeSouthend That's surprising that you can't get one, I thought we allotted a certain number to each country and I wouldn't think that would be maxed out for the UK. There's always a work visa, supposing you can find an employer over here. :P
I think its due to the terror threat. The UK has some of the nastiest Muslims outside the middle east so brits don't get green cards. Its what Im told. Am looking into working for a US owned company at the mo :-)
@leeSouthend Just fly to Mexico, get a really good tan there, sneak across the border-if millions from south of our border can do it, why can't an Englishman?
America's immigration policies have been so backward for decades! Allowing millions of poor people who have no desire to adapt to our culture-but instead demand we adapt to their culture and language, yet not allowing productive immigrants who WANT to become Americans.
It's because those millions of invaders end up voting Democrat!
Not a bad idea but Id like to do it properly. Euros had the same problem for ages. Liberals just want to share everyone elses wealth and 3rd world people are really poor so they get a free ride and us "rich" folks get to pay for them. Thing is after all the taxes we dont feel paticually rich. Still got ma fingers crossed for a propper right wing Gov
@leeSouthend Yeah, there is something distasteful about the idea of following the cockroaches. That's what's so infuriating! Why are millions of law breakers allowed to stay here and eventually become citizens, while decent, productive citizens of our greatest allies have a very hard time coming here?
Of course, Obama has shown that he favors our enemies over our close allies, like the U.K. It's shameful!
Your right m8 just like our Labour party your Dems are inporting votes. And dont get me started on Obama the guys a Muslim hes there to bring down the US. With the UK armed forces being made redundent and the US bankrupt the west is going to be wide open for invasion in around 10 years
@leeSouthend I really think that's the aim of the liberals in power-bring down our nations. They can't fully impose their pure socialist order until they've demolished our countries. Then, in the ruins, with an even greater invasion of "immigrants" they'll impose "equality", i.e., the redistribution of wealth, to make sure everyone is as poor as anyone else and all dependent on the government-which will then have full control over every aspect of our lives.
So Im not the only one. Sometimes I wonder, At work Im the only one who votes and the only one who watches news flawed as it is. They think Im weird. One day Ill emagrate then I can vote republican or Tparty and take my shift patroling the south border (I hear you chaps can do that. Only outlaws have guns here)
@leeSouthend I live in a very liberal state, so I've had the same experience, in school, at work, even among family and friends. I can point out absolute, incontrovertible facts, but if they offend their liberal sensibilities, they figuratively stick their fingers in their ears and shout "la, la, la". I noticed this when I was 10 years old and that's when I decided to go my own way as a conservative and not follow the idiots in the pack.
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@TheLordObamessiah The immigration issue has 4 players1.The Corporation(White People) that promises jobs to anyone who can get here and then benifit$ from the cheap labor 2. The Government(White People) that allow themselves to be bought off by the corps. and not enforce existing laws. 3. Rich People(White People) that use immigrants as help at home..4. The immigrant who is stuck in country with no jobs next to a counrty that promises jobs.The problem is White People! Reagan gave amnesty!
@ImpactChocobo I have about had enough of those like you. Un American, Un freedom loving idiots. Those in the vain of other shit head morons that are on the tv spouting their vile uninformed, uneducated, mentally disturbed bullshit. I am talking about Maher, Olbermann, Behar, etc.... If you do not get it? If what I have posted you think you can give ANY rebuttal to? Then you are in that boat as well. We are about to lose this country. I have a degree in economics. I KNOW. We can no.. Part6
@ImpactChocobo our country that may own a modest car, and have a 1 maybe 2 bedroom apartment they live in. They do not have droid phones they have flip phones and they may own more than one tv. So, our so called poor? What is their definition of poverty? Not being able to afford the xbox or an I phone. So the standard of living bullshit you just posted? Give me a break. You don't have a clue do you? I have traveled the world. I have seen this first hand. So, DO NOT FEED ME THIS BULLSHIT. Part 6
@ImpactChocobo you are off base. Now, outperform??? Socialist countries? I BEG TO DIFFER. In European socialist countries ie.... Great Britain, Germany, France etc.... They have NO rich. The only people within that country that are quote unqoute rich are the ones laced within the government. Most live between middle class and what is deemed the American poor. Which in socialist countries is a very small margin. In other words, their middle class would be equivalent to those in our Part 5
@ImpactChocobo have been told to say. But, the truth is that everyone in this country has healthcare. NO doctor or hospital will refuse care. If you need a specialist for some health issue, because it is a free market many many doctors will treat, do surgery or will oversee any patient, work out payment plans after the fact so that care is provided. The asshole Obama has done a great job of making doctors into money grubbing enemies, but NOTHING could be further from the truth. So in that Part 4
@ImpactChocobo gladly have taken it. Would a teacher lose their job? Dunno, but that would be a GREAT thing. They would have to actually earn their money by getting out in the free market and proving they were worthy to teach our children. You mentioned healthcare? Well first off no country in the world reports actual numbers on their services. So, we have FAR superior healthcare to any nation. Now, your argument is that 50,000 people do not have heathcare correct? That is what you Part 3
@ImpactChocobo solve the problem? Competition. Case and point, I have a 16 year old daughter. She wasn't doing well in school. Out of my own earnings I paid a tutor to home school her. The tutor I hired was a former teacher who had had enough of the school bureaucracy and decided to teach freelance. She had 3 other students besides my daughter. My daughter is graduating in June. WITH a 3.8 grade average. So, take the 12k we give to my local school and GIVE IT TO ME!!! I would have Part 2
@ImpactChocobo Okay let's take a look here shall we? Education/ we pay 12k per student yet the average performance is ranked 27% in the world yet that number is 3rd highest in the world. Why? Well, government doesn't actually spend it on the student. We have to pay teachers pensions, medical, dental and on and on and on. We live in a capitalist country. Which means our children have money (even our so called poor children). They have x boxes, cell phones, facebook etc... So what would.. Part 1
@ImpactChocobo You really don't want me to jump in here in this debate you are having with WideWorldofWisdom do you??? You are an easy target. You are playing catcher without a mitt. You are a leftist. The biggest moron on the planet.
Aaaaand we've made it to epithets. Great job. And in only 7 responses too. You probably should have quit while you were ahead back when you said "there legitimately are people out there who abuse programs such as welfare".
Now you're stuck having to pretend you never said "without food stamps lower income families would have no food". Got any more wisdom you'd like to share?
@WideWorldOfWisdom longer coddle you. You have to go and so does democrats. Libertarians? Conservatives? Absolutely we need them. But you? And Obama and the regressive oligarchy that has been relabeled progressivism? Needs to go into the anal cavity of history. One last ponder for you. If you made it this far before learning anything and posting back. We are about to lose this country. We are seeing the dollar collapse. If it does. You will be on the wrong side of an American war!!!
@SuperGuitarman69 mr Superguitarman69,you got waaaay to much time on your hands....you're in desperate need of a worthwhile hobby,try Gracie JJ.........
So I guess that's what you're sticking with? "before 1939 'low income families' had no food"? You really think you can just imply something like that and then move right along and actually be taken seriously? You're more pitiful than I thought.
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if royce gracie wasnt born to helio gracie, that gave him free martial arts teaching he most likely would have never been a successful martial artist.
free education gave him the success he has today. This is a good video promoting free education and learning.
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I love the grappling arts and love the Gracie Jujitsu and i think its very important to learn these because they are very effective and just like he said fights can lead to the ground but jujitsu is not just for the ground but its super effective on the ground. I think the standing arts like karate, kung fu, or things that Bruce Lee did are very important. Also what Bruce Lee did on camera was not what he did in actual practice n he got in lots of fights he knew what worked. But be well rounded.
kooooolmatt 4 months ago
Why do people like to cite that a martial art is "made for war"? WTF does that matter at all? Training methods aside no one, except soldiers, needs combatives designed for war, the average Joe just needs to be able to protect himself/herself
lsloewen2 4 months ago
@postalmeter
Man you guys love to argue about stuff you copy & paste from Wikipedia! Your thesis about the Gracies is silly, instead of trying to find reasons why their art isn't popular look at the reasons it is. You can do the "who invented this move" game forever, what matters more is the way people train
lsloewen2 4 months ago
Listen at the very end you can hear Crowder getting choked
lsloewen2 4 months ago
I love seeing Crowder get his ass kicked! =)
Itrytotestify 4 months ago
@Itrytotestify Because you could never do it yourself...
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@TiconderogaX Do you know that Christianity is correct? The world around us reveals that G-d DOES exist, and the historical evidence reveals that Jesus Christ really did come to this earth and there is overwhelming evidence that Jesus Christ really did physically rise from the dead. Jesus is coming again and the signs of the end times that were foretold in the Bible are coming to pass.
marionetemanJ 1 week ago
Crowder is right that the media often doesn't cover these stories. One of the other few sources where I've seen stories like this was in the documentary film, Michael Moore hates America.
TheisticScuffles 5 months ago
I'm very jealous of you Mr.Crowder :( I want the chance to go up against Gracie Jujitsu :( I personally studied Krav Maga and Greco-Roman Wrestling with a sprinkling of two different forms of Karate. It would be such an honor to go against them.
hooplablahblahblah 6 months ago
If Crowder was going to use ANYONE as an example of Capitalism success, the Gracies are the WORST example,
They are MONEY-GRUBBING CUT-THROAT PIMPS AND WHORES when it comes to business, bullying students into and unfairly bad-mouthing competitors.
As Dan Severn said, "Gracies don't want you training with ANYONE else but them." They lie, cheat, steal, and basically run the dirtiest game in town, doing anything for a buck or to steal it from someone else.
Crowder is just a right-wing shill.
postalmeter 7 months ago
I like the term he uses: "No-rules fights."
So if I pull out a .45 and say "GIVE UP!" then that's ok? Don't think so; obviously they had rules.
He just found a loophole IN the rules, which doesn't last long.
postalmeter 7 months ago
"He spent several years modifying the techniques"
Translation: he CHEATED: i.e. spent years making up fancy CHOKE-HOLDS which are ILLEGAL in Judo and other sports, and he started his own sport where he could make his own rules.
And it worked until other competitors learned how to adapt to TO his rules.
UFC is just cockfighting, i.e. they lure in low-lifes with low prize-money, and act like that's the world's finest, when in reailty it's just not worth anything better.
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postalmeter 7 months ago
BJJ is great, but what happens when you are fighting 2 or more guys at once and all you know how to do is fight on the ground?
Quintapus 7 months ago
@Quintapus Ya ever taken lessons? I did for only 3 years and leanred more than most women. and I became more confident and moer aware of my surroundings.
redeemedwench 7 months ago
@redeemedwench No. I've only studied Filipino Martial Arts, but they have many of the same moves as BJJ as well as take down defense, weapons fighting, and striking. It's got it all. I have however seen Rickson Gracie fight and he's completely clueless about what to do until he tackles his opponent to the ground. SO I ask again. What happens when you are fighting 2 or more guys at once and ALL you know how to do is fight on the ground?
Quintapus 7 months ago
@Quintapus
How do you know he's clueless if you've never seen him do it?
He's just a superior ground-fighter and so it makes sense for him to take it to that stage.
The thing about the Gracies is that they only won as long as they got to make the rules, while most others weren't used to choke-holds; when that "secret weapon" expired as others got used to it, the Gracies dropped from the scene faster than shit in an out-house. Look at Dan Severn, they only beat him ONCE, then HE won.
postalmeter 7 months ago
@postalmeter I HAVE seen Rickson fight, many times. He shows no skill when standing at all. He may throw a few sloppy low kicks now and then and a rare weak punch. His stand up game is practically non existent. BJJ is great. Don't get me wrong. I'm not putting it down at all. But as you pointed out, it only works if your opponent doesn't know how to grapple. It's an incomplete martial art. As self defense, it has many advantages, but many gaps as well. Real Jujitsu has striking, throws and more.
Quintapus 7 months ago
@Quintapus
BJJ is NOT that great. They're not even THAT good at grappling; in a purely scientific match-up I doubt they doubt they could take a high-school champ. All they did was use some basic grappling-skills and threw in illegal moves, and then claimed "no rules-- " but they really mean GRACIE rules, since "no rules" would allow guns, and knives, and tanks, oh my!
Once the competitors got accustomed to these sneaky tricks, however, the Gracies lost BIG-time.
postalmeter 7 months ago
@postalmeter I totally agree with you, but I'm trying to be open minded here and let a BJJ practitioner answer my question. That's only fair. Realistically, BJJ has little you won't find in Dumog or Sambo. Many new grapplers, like Eddie Bravo, have added so many new moves to BJJ that it isn't truly BJJ any more. With BJJ you can dominate any opponent that doesn't know how to wrestle. That's great, but against 2 or more opponents, you lose, even if they can't fight at all. Continued.....
Quintapus 7 months ago
@postalmeter If Rickson is kicking my your ass on the ground, I'll just kick him in the face with my steel toes. Rule # 1 in a street fight is NEVER go to the ground. There may be some exceptions, but if you do go to the ground, your best bet is to get back up again. Sport BJJ teaches you to start and finish your fight on the ground. In real life that can be very dangerous. BJJ has some good stuff, but it's not the amazing art it's made out to be, especially with everyone practicing it nowadays.
Quintapus 7 months ago
@Quintapus
It never was; again, they pwned a few strikers with grappling-- i.e. they learned to BLOCK and CLOSE--, and then they acted like they could beat the world; but he reality is that Romans QUIT using better stuff over 2000 years ago, which was designed for WAR.
Again, once the others got hip to the Gracies' tricks, their 15 minutes of fame were OVAH.
But you'll never convince a super-fan of reality; they still come in here and say that Seagal can beat anyone using aikido.
postalmeter 7 months ago
@postalmeter I don't think that roman soldiers needed to learn to fight without weapons or armor.They were soldiers. Armed combat and street survival skills aren't necessarily the same thing. Anyway, the Samurai would use Jujitsu's Grappling techniques to tackle and break their enemy's limbs when swords failed to do the job. You can break an opponent's arm even with armor on, whereas punching them would not be effective. Jujitsu's grappling which is very similar to BJJ, was used by Samurai. cont
Quintapus 7 months ago
@Quintapus
Greek and Roman soldiers learned to fight with AND without weapons, which broke often; Pankration and wrestling were invented by the Greeks during the Hellenic period, when they also where the fathers of science and medicine; and these were adopted by the Romans into Greco-Roman fighting ; they were able to kill people dozens of ways without weapons. The Romans later banned these in the name of civility after their empire was established.
And ALL Japanese soldiers learned karate.
postalmeter 7 months ago
@postalmeter I know all about Pankration. It was very similar to Jujitsu, which was the fighting style of the Samurai. Karate was developed by the Okinawans, NOT the Japenese. They were banned from using weapons so they developed Karate, which means Tang Hand or Chinese Hand, but was changed to mean Empty Hand as a reflection of it being a WEAPONLESS art.
Quintapus 7 months ago
@Quintapus
No, panktration is much more scientific, and preceded the Japanese style/Chinese meods by over 1500 years; in fact they were probably derived therefrom.
postalmeter 7 months ago
@postalmeter The Japanese developed Jujitsu long after the Greek developed panktration, but they are similar. Jujitsu is a more robust art. Does panktration have flips and throws like Jujitsu? No it doesn't. They both have similar moves because both were created by practical and scientific orientated peoples. In Chinese culture, for example, everything has to be artsy fartsy, no matter what it is. In Japan and ancient Greece, they didn't care about how a Martial Art looked so long as it worked.
Quintapus 7 months ago
@Quintapus
I see you don't know much about Greco-Roman wrestling which was a part of Pankration.
As for Japan being "scientific," chalk up a big fat "HA!" What, they need more "yin in their yang?" No physics there.
Likewise chinese culture wasn't artsy fartsy, you're thinking of non-military practitioners who had to DISGUISE the fact that they were practicing combat; Chinese militarism, meanwhile, was wholly pragmatist.
Japanese styles were as artsy-fartsy as anything.
postalmeter 7 months ago
@postalmeter No, Jujitsu is not artistic at all. It's UGLY as Hell. You obviously don't understand Chinese or Japanese culture. Jujitsu doesn't care about Yin and Yang. How ridiculous! That's a Taoist concept. The Japanese have historically been Shintos and Buddhists. Taoism is HUGE in China, but very rare in Japan. Greco-Roman wrestling is a SPORT, just like BJJ. The object is NOT to kill someone. Hell, even Judo and BJJ you can use all sorts of moves that are ILLEGAL in Greco-Roman wrestling!
Quintapus 7 months ago
@Quintapus
No, Greco-Roman wrestling was originally developed for WAR. Later it BECAME a sport with the Olympic Games, just like jujitsu.
And yes of course BJJ has illegal moves, that's why the Gracies were ABLE to win since the other grapplers weren't used to them; it even has moves that are illegal in noral Judo.
Once the grapplers caught on, the jig was up.... even with the shit-money they paid contestants, even the winners, since the Gracies practice JEW-DOUGH..
postalmeter 7 months ago
@postalmeter Jujitsu was originally developed for war. Greco-Roman wrestling was NOT. Pankration was, but not Greco-Roman wrestling. It's a derivative SPORT, just like BJJ is a derivative sport of Real Jujitsu. And how will Greco-Roman wrestling help in a street fight? Will you tackle your opponent to the ground and hump them silly? My Brother did Greco-Roman in high school. If he shoots in and grabs me around the waist for a take down I simply pound on his kidneys and spine with my fist. I win!
Quintapus 7 months ago
@postalmeter Greco-Roman wrestling is of FRENCH origin, not Greek, like Pankration. Although it was named Greco-Roman Wrestling by Basilio Bartoletti as an allusion to the ancient arts of the Mediterranean, it was actually developed by Jean Exbrayat in the the early 1800s. He originally called it "Flat Hand Wrestling", and in the mid 1800s he incorporated a bunch of Sissy rules such as "No Holds Below the Waist" and "No Painful holds" and "No Torquing an Opponents Joint". It's NOT an Art of War!
Quintapus 7 months ago
@postalmeter Steven Seagull knows some badass stuff, but Akido is a Jujitsu derivative, like BJJ, and as such as many gaps. I saw a movie where he gets tackled and even though he had control over the choreography, his defense was to Slap the bad guy like a girl until he got to his feet. I definitely think Seagal could use some BJJ. Unless you are REALLY good at BJJ, it's NOT going to help you against a larger stronger opponent. It gives you an edge, but superior strength is not to be ignored.
Quintapus 7 months ago
@Quintapus
You'd have to ask JUDO Gene about that; he choked Seagull out and made him piss and shit his pants.
As for strength, Seagull is a big fat pig packing 300 lbs on a skinny man's frame, he can't even deliver his LINES anymore he's so fat and NEVER works out OR competes.
.As for size, well duh, that's why they have weight-classes now; the bigger guys beat the Gracies so badly once they learned to beat their cheating chokes, that the "size doesn't matter" fallacy has been exposed AGAIN..
postalmeter 7 months ago
@postalmeter Nevertheless, in his prime, Seagal could still wipe the floor with 9 out of 10 street punks. That's all I meant. And BJJ has some great stuff in it. It's just that it is waaaaay over rated, just like a lot of martial arts are. And I am not talking about BJJ in MMA. I'm talking about Self Defense. MMA is a Sport and although it may be fun to watch, it hardly has the best street fighting techniques. There are No Gloves, No Ref, and No rules in a street fight. That's why BJJ fails.
Quintapus 7 months ago
@Quintapus
Bull-fucking-shit, Seagull is and was always a joke. He never beat anyone in competition, EVER, he was a FAKE fropm day 1, and he looked like a girl, fought like a girl, & ran like a girl waving away a fart.
As for BJJ; like I said, it was a TRICK. Their real advantage was using chokes that are illegal in other grappling styles, so they started contests that paid shit-money and made their own rules.
But taking away rules, gloves and the ref won't give any style an advantage.
postalmeter 7 months ago
@postalmeter It may be true that Seagal is over rated, but you offer NO evidence that he's a fake. You did mention Gene Lebell, but you can't prove the story is real. Even if it is, that does't mean the Seagal couldn't have kicked your ass in his prime, or mine. I think it's pointless to speculate. I don't hold BJJ in any high regard so you don't have to keep saying it's crap. You're preaching to the Choir. I still want to hear from any BJJers who can answer my original question though.
Quintapus 7 months ago
@Quintapus
It's all SPORT, don't let anyone tell you it's street-fighting... unless "street-fighters" are mostly alone and unarmed. Maybe in Brazil, but shit I never got mugged by Juan Valdez.
postalmeter 7 months ago
I am SO using that technique!
Porty1119 7 months ago
@Porty1119
Good luck, it won't work without an umpa.... and it's not very smart to tie up both your hands on a mounted opponent's one arm, unless he's only GOT one arm.
Gracie TOTALLY jobbed to Crowder, who couldn't make ANY move work he's such a stick.
Better to just cross-grab BOTH wrists from underneath and go for the DKG... but of course such judo experts would KNOW that right.
postalmeter 7 months ago
@1:14 there is an old dude frozen in Carbonite.
theBobbisky 7 months ago
Haha i love gracie jiu jitsu. That stuff changed my life
Tripod160 8 months ago
that iS a Gracie being friendly... you dont want to come across one being unfriendly... no you dont!
raff1966 8 months ago
Hahaha hilarious
PeidoLord 8 months ago
is there such a thing as a friendly Gracie?
wohs145 9 months ago
@wohs145 rener is super chill, and real, they just look a little mean to the outside world
DJS12345678 8 months ago
Thanks for another great video! I recently saw To Save a Life and we mostly got it because you were on the cover. Anyway, just wanted to say that you did a really good job of being a total jerk. I mean, even agreeing with 99% of what you say here and knowing who you are, I still wanted to punch you in the face. =)
SuperTeals 9 months ago
great video! funny as it was inspiring! BOOM!
georgemfr 9 months ago
Haha this video was great. Funny and really showed what the Gracies are about. the argument is lacking though. kind of a hasty generalization fallacy.
*insert some incredibly presumptuous and ignorant comment about capitalism or the government here*
beargrylls3 9 months ago
Do you train Steven? Nice impression at the end.
sammcl16890 9 months ago
bleed2299 is a typical far left, lazy, perverted parasite. Someone who blames everything on "The White Person". Mexican government is full of corruption? It's the fault of White People! Illegals pour across our border, demand we adapt to their language and customs while putting down ours? It's the fault of those evil White People.
What a disgusting, perverted, lying hypocrite people like bleed2299 are!
Their hate for America is disgusting!
TheLordObamessiah 9 months ago 12
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@TheLordObamessiah just because you are on the left, it doesn't mean you hate America you crazy little man
bojanks15 9 months ago
He just needed Rorion to do a rear naked choke on him while two more Gracies do a leg lock on his legs. :-P
KerosAohco 9 months ago 3
@KerosAohco that sounds gay as hell.
pugggs 9 months ago 4
@pugggs lol you think so? My friends and I would joke about what it would be like if a group of cops put a submission on each of a perp's limbs.
KerosAohco 9 months ago
I like how Ryron wears his black belt even in his underwear.
gutshot26 9 months ago 6
R U Mocking RENER GRACIE. LOL:)
NMIBUBBLE11 9 months ago 4
You're supposed to be a friendly Gracie!
J90JAM 9 months ago 4
Double armbar!
J90JAM 9 months ago 4
That was great. Good content and great humour. Nice Rener impersonation at the end as well but not the best location
Nate
CdnLifeguard71 9 months ago 4
6:00 HAHAHHA
ErikDaViking89 9 months ago 3
Wow! I learned something new today!! Thanks Steven! Im gonna find the Gracies on line!
HvensFury 10 months ago 4
Awesome! You're Awesome Steven!
ruckelz74 10 months ago 5
Steven...I am incredibly jealous. I'd love to have the chance to hang out with Rener
spydrplus 10 months ago 4
Zoolander!!
BlondBlackGuy 10 months ago 3
rape!!!!
wobinga7 10 months ago 19
Clearly the greedy Gracie's aren't taxed enough. What can Obama do to fix this problem?
shawno66 10 months ago 4
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@shawno66 You can make it personal, but the fact is that too much wealth has shifted to the upper class, and that is bad from a humanitarian standpoint, that poverty is spreading, and from an economical standpoint, that there are fewer consumers
loveofphysics 10 months ago
@loveofphysics
.... largely due to government meddling
shawno66 10 months ago 6
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@shawno66 So what kind of government meddling has shifted wealth from the poor to the rich? Government "meddling" typically goes the other way, you aren't making any sense.
loveofphysics 10 months ago
Inappropriate shirt! Haha! Comes back with company shirt! LOL!
QuartuvLarry 10 months ago 4
Great vid! GOD BLESS!
TheDaytonDevil 10 months ago 3
I see what you're saying here Steven and I agree with you to a point but not every American can own a successful small business. I've seen several small business ventures flop in the past few years because no one can use/afford the product or service and I have friends with college degrees selling appliances and furniture right now because of the job market. The point being is this sort of thing can't and won't happen for everyone. Saying people are lazy or not trying hard enough is ignorant.
Keepseeker 10 months ago
Not fun being in a headlock, even if it is just a friend messing with you.
LeQuack147 10 months ago
Great video....
leeuniverse 10 months ago 4
Well, I do think a lot of people have their own opinions and perhaps the reason for this video-if you are not making the money you want to make or doing the job you realy want to do-work ure ass off in this economy and stop belly aching about this, that, and the other thing and start working. Yes, work is hard. Those who work hard do and those that do not wor khard wish they did.
daveme7 10 months ago 4
Very distorted view of the UFC. Yes however, Gracies are legends.
MrBluerizlas 10 months ago
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. . .Ugly arrogant narcissist.
Wonder where you'd be without your daddy's money
TikiKid 10 months ago
random girl in beginning. camera fail at 0:51. guy on guy action starting at 5:20.
irishfaithful1 10 months ago
Who's the hottie in the background?
insdel2004 10 months ago
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@yejibbles Again, someone misses the point entirely. I expect that, however, from people who have so deeply internalized the hegemony. If all you have are anecdotes, I am unimpressed, for as I have already mentioned, I have plenty of them myself.
Once again I am called a socialist, which says a whole lot more about you than it does about me. You don't know any other way to react to someone who doesn't fall for the propaganda that you inhale each second and sprinkle on your breakfast cereal.
Ant1Live 10 months ago
Crowder in the south bay! Lovin it, come to Lomita next time and due a story on that restaurant owner who allegedly killed his wife then jumped off a cliff and failed to kill himself
adventuretime77 10 months ago 3
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Crowder, stop thumbing people's comments down that don't agree with you. What is the point of letting people comment if you refuse to see different opinions?
just get rid of the comments all together.
xqeenx 10 months ago
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The American dream is still alive but its a heck of a lot harder to get than it used to be... you can't even get a decent education anymore without going tens of thousands of dollars into debt... and now republicans all across the country are cutting funding for education so they can lower taxes for billionaires
jakehubbb 10 months ago
Steven, I like watching your channel even though I'm a liberal because I learn differnt sides of the spectrum. That allows an open and more rational mind. From what I see, I still haven't gotten a reason why I should vote for the conservative party. Make a video explaining every single differnce between both sides and why conservitives have more reason. If you make it with everything you beleive, then if your reasonable, I will be a conservitive.
Eman6881 10 months ago 3
This was a really cool video, thanks Crowder
DavidsIllustrations 10 months ago 4
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@fakewowguy Ah, I see. You have won me over with your unbiased facts and reasoned arguments.
Ant1Live 10 months ago
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@fakewowguy I am wrong because... oh, anecdotes. I have a few that show your opinion to be wrong, so whose win? Enough with the sweeping generalization, for everyone who works hard and succeeds there are dozens of people who work just as hard and don't.
I don't know where you got the idea that I was a socialist, but I'm not surprised you think that I am. I have suggested no social policy, but your in-group bias is strong and black/white thinking causal to your bifurcation of the issue.
Ant1Live 10 months ago
That was great, more of that good sir!
koyettsu 10 months ago 4
lol @ second to last tapout
GibsonRock4All 10 months ago 3
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@Vidwatcher321 I would love to have a system where everyone is free to succeed. It's too bad that neither Mr.Crowder nor any of the people who gave me thumbs down agree with us.
Ant1Live 10 months ago
I learned some Gracie from a Marine in church, and It's come in HANDY. I'm glad these guys are modeling what real Americans are. Nothing says freedom than a spine relocation on the ground eh?
TheFoilGuy 10 months ago 2
what are the "lryics"? during the opening sequence? "Let's go, out"?
Chad9976 10 months ago
I disagree. The American dream is dying and our schools are facilitaing it. I'm a senior in high school right now. Rather then being taught that America is the land of opportunity and you can make whatever you want of yourself, we are being taught to slow down. My teachers talk about how either the economy will collapse into another depression, or my generation will spend our whole lives paying high taxes to fix the deficit, and we probably won't be posporous. It's sad, but that's the reality.
Colts38Pats34 10 months ago 4
Two of my favourite subjects: steven crowder and BJJ. Do you practice, Steven? I am not too far off going for my blue belt.
Loved this clip, keep up the good work.
dany1441 10 months ago 2
very cool, i never knew that about Gracie, fascinating story.
pinegrove33 10 months ago 5
grinding
Eyegateproduction 10 months ago
RAPE!!!! RAAAAPE!!! lol
Theeriuth 10 months ago 2
Funny, and illustrative of the power of capitalism in the hands of hard-working folks.
waelse1 10 months ago 4
Excellent video, keep it up.
oTANSTAAFLo 10 months ago 4
"Break the wrist.. walk away"
Reaps51 10 months ago
What's all this about working hard to achieve your dreams with superior products and services provided to consumers? You, sir, are a RACIST!!
ReachDeep1 10 months ago 6
1:09 ITS MIKE SHANAHAN
nickmax123 10 months ago 2
Beautiful job Steve...GB
noquie1 10 months ago 5
great imitation Crowder!
krisidious 10 months ago 3
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The "American Dream" is like a lottery.
For every Rener Gracie there's a million people who didn't have a grandpa to ride the coattails of.
Shaitan051 10 months ago
@Shaitan051
"For every Rener Gracie there's a million people who didn't have a grandpa to ride the coattails of."
Well if the American dream is like the lottery then we must be incredibly lucky - seeing as we are so prosperous that even our poor would be considered rich by most of the worlds standards. Riding our grandpas coattails? Typical lazy socialist logic. Get off your lazy ass and get a job. Every business in USA started off small. And at least attempt to learn basic economics retard.
Eterna1Soldier 10 months ago 37
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@Eterna1Soldier Typical lazy conservative logic: that which is not social darwinism is socialism.
Ant1Live 10 months ago
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@Eterna1Soldier The mean income for the middle class has dropped over the last decade, and that underemployement hovers at ~%15. Since getting a job is harder than ever, and the wages are going down, the American dream is a lottery ticket, if you happen to break it rich as a movie star, rock star, or some random business idea, then sure, but "getting a job" which is the most most people can attain, will leave you too poor to afford healthcare and education for your kids. Something has to be done
loveofphysics 10 months ago
@Shaitan051 There is NO such thing as the American Dream lottery. There are givers and takers. A giver is a Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Sam Walton. A taker is an Obama, Pelosi, Reid. It doesn't matter what conditions you were born in. You have as much chance as anyone else of living the American dream. Unless you are by nature a taker. A taker does not create or work. He takes from others. Obama has NEVER created anything. So by definition he is a taker. You more than likely are a taker too!
SuperGuitarman69 10 months ago 4
@Shaitan051 - you're a fucking loser who hates successful people and demands the government destroy them for you.
thomaserossi 10 months ago 4
@Shaitan051 The American dream isn't about riding the "coattails" of your grandpa. Its not about opening you're own dojo. Its not about becoming a millionaire. Its about pulling yourself up and getting it done on your own two feet. Yes, one in every million make millions. But that's not what its about. Its about pride in making away for yourself. That's what this story is about.
If you want to sit back, complain and expect successful people to do everything for you, unfortunately you can.
thinkhard29 10 months ago 6
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@thinkhard29
"Its about pulling yourself up and getting it done on your own two feet."
Point missed. What exactly did RENER do? Is Paris Hilton living the American Dream? Conrad Hilton started off working in a general store. How many generations does it take before it officially becomes "riding the coattails" of your ancestors.
There's a 7-Eleven down the street (ty google maps) how about Crowder goes an interviews the cashier? I bet his/her view on the dream is a bit different.
Shaitan051 10 months ago
@Shaitan051 Thus again, you miss the point.
I'm not a millionaire. Nor is the person down at the local 7-Eleven. You ask, "what did Rener do?" I ask what Did Helio Gracie do? What did Conrad hilton do? THEY worked hard and overcame challenges. The story isn't about Rener, its about the they're grandfather who came to America, "The land of Opportunity" ever heard of it? Not the land of hand outs. Moral of the story, work hard and pull yourself up and getting it done on your own two feet.
thinkhard29 10 months ago 21
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"The land of Opportunity" ever heard of it?"
Hmm the name rings a bell. It's that place stolen by religious zealots kicked out of England who tried to kill the previous occupants, built by slaves, built up further by immigrants that would spend most of their lives being shit upon, and then later taken over by conglomerates who are destroying it while selling you a romanticized and idealized version of you own past all for the low price of your children's future. Right?
Shaitan051 10 months ago
@Shaitan051 Your negative attitude and pessimism will follow you all of your life and I feel sorry for your future. You give no answer, you offer no hope. Yet you live in the country that has given you the same opportunity as everyone else but I'm sure you haven't done shit with it. Why else would you be so bitter toward your country. good riddance to ya
thinkhard29 10 months ago 4
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@thinkhard29
"Why else would you be so bitter toward your country."
I do love my country. I love JAPAN. There's no Osaka Illinois, Osaka Georgia, or Osaka anystate you imbecile.
Shaitan051 10 months ago
@thinkhard29 uuuummmmmmmmm. actually is was their father who came to america. not their grandfather.
gutrupture 8 months ago
@thinkhard29
^----- necon-sheep who claims that corporate-welfare is a communist myth, and that all the big corporations made it on the sweat of their founder's brow.
Sad and pathetic.
postalmeter 7 months ago
Gracie looks about as convincing in that as a stuntman in a Steven Seagal movie... or a cartoon.
NO move would work for a stick-figure like Crowder.
Uneducated people think that leverage and wrestling are some sort of miracle, because they only Ancient Greece they know is on their heads.
postalmeter 7 months ago
@Shaitan051 Have you ever studied Brazilian Jujitsu??? RENER has worked his ASS OFF mastering a very challenging martial art and granting others an opportunity to learn through his expertise. You should be thanking him really. I am sure that your welfare check is paid by his tax dollars. See, you are ridding his coattails! Good for you! You are special kind of retard.
From: Your local 7-11 cashier...
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@mysabre73
"ASS OFF mastering a very challenging martial art"
Many people have mastered martial arts. Commendable but hardly the "American Dream"
"Have you ever studied Brazilian Jujitsu?"
No, but I have studied kodokan judo which is what it's taken from.
"I am sure that your welfare check is paid by his tax dollars"
Not American stupid.
"From: Your local 7-11 cashier... "
You live in Osaka?
Shaitan051 10 months ago
@Shaitan051 (Cont.) So whats your problem with someone working hard and handing it down to the next generation? Do you think you should get it instead? Or, are you like Obama and they should "Share the wealth?" Should Conrad Hilton turned his prosperity over to the government before he died? Cause
I'm Glad I live in a country that gives me the opportunity to succeed. So you don't think America gives you the opportunity to succeed?
thinkhard29 10 months ago 4
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Shaitan051 10 months ago
@Shaitan051 ROFL! "grandpa to ride the coattails of"
THAT is a perfect example of Liberal logic.
You ignore the work their Grandfather did, and all that comes from it...
By claiming THEY just road along on his efforts.
Liberal view = "If I can't be the grandson, it isn't fair, because I'm not willing to Work for it like the Grandfather did"
eslake 10 months ago 5
Takes me back I watched Hoyce Gracie in those early UFCs. Shame though as an Englishman I cannot get a green card so the only way to go live in the land of opportunity is to become rich enough to buy my way in. Hmm If I could do that there probably wouldn't be any point in moving.
leeSouthend 10 months ago 2
@leeSouthend That's surprising that you can't get one, I thought we allotted a certain number to each country and I wouldn't think that would be maxed out for the UK. There's always a work visa, supposing you can find an employer over here. :P
anon2999 10 months ago
@anon2999
I think its due to the terror threat. The UK has some of the nastiest Muslims outside the middle east so brits don't get green cards. Its what Im told. Am looking into working for a US owned company at the mo :-)
leeSouthend 10 months ago 4
@leeSouthend Just fly to Mexico, get a really good tan there, sneak across the border-if millions from south of our border can do it, why can't an Englishman?
America's immigration policies have been so backward for decades! Allowing millions of poor people who have no desire to adapt to our culture-but instead demand we adapt to their culture and language, yet not allowing productive immigrants who WANT to become Americans.
It's because those millions of invaders end up voting Democrat!
TheLordObamessiah 10 months ago 20
@TheLordObamessiah
Not a bad idea but Id like to do it properly. Euros had the same problem for ages. Liberals just want to share everyone elses wealth and 3rd world people are really poor so they get a free ride and us "rich" folks get to pay for them. Thing is after all the taxes we dont feel paticually rich. Still got ma fingers crossed for a propper right wing Gov
leeSouthend 10 months ago 4
@leeSouthend Yeah, there is something distasteful about the idea of following the cockroaches. That's what's so infuriating! Why are millions of law breakers allowed to stay here and eventually become citizens, while decent, productive citizens of our greatest allies have a very hard time coming here?
Of course, Obama has shown that he favors our enemies over our close allies, like the U.K. It's shameful!
TheLordObamessiah 10 months ago 4
@TheLordObamessiah
Your right m8 just like our Labour party your Dems are inporting votes. And dont get me started on Obama the guys a Muslim hes there to bring down the US. With the UK armed forces being made redundent and the US bankrupt the west is going to be wide open for invasion in around 10 years
leeSouthend 10 months ago 4
@leeSouthend I really think that's the aim of the liberals in power-bring down our nations. They can't fully impose their pure socialist order until they've demolished our countries. Then, in the ruins, with an even greater invasion of "immigrants" they'll impose "equality", i.e., the redistribution of wealth, to make sure everyone is as poor as anyone else and all dependent on the government-which will then have full control over every aspect of our lives.
Not a world I'll want to live in!
TheLordObamessiah 10 months ago 2
@TheLordObamessiah
So Im not the only one. Sometimes I wonder, At work Im the only one who votes and the only one who watches news flawed as it is. They think Im weird. One day Ill emagrate then I can vote republican or Tparty and take my shift patroling the south border (I hear you chaps can do that. Only outlaws have guns here)
Good luck fella and watch those libs ;-)
leeSouthend 10 months ago 4
@leeSouthend I live in a very liberal state, so I've had the same experience, in school, at work, even among family and friends. I can point out absolute, incontrovertible facts, but if they offend their liberal sensibilities, they figuratively stick their fingers in their ears and shout "la, la, la". I noticed this when I was 10 years old and that's when I decided to go my own way as a conservative and not follow the idiots in the pack.
Hope you make it one day!
TheLordObamessiah 10 months ago 3
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@TheLordObamessiah Reality FAIL! :)
utubepunk 9 months ago
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@TheLordObamessiah The immigration issue has 4 players1.The Corporation(White People) that promises jobs to anyone who can get here and then benifit$ from the cheap labor 2. The Government(White People) that allow themselves to be bought off by the corps. and not enforce existing laws. 3. Rich People(White People) that use immigrants as help at home..4. The immigrant who is stuck in country with no jobs next to a counrty that promises jobs.The problem is White People! Reagan gave amnesty!
bleed2299 9 months ago
@ImpactChocobo I have about had enough of those like you. Un American, Un freedom loving idiots. Those in the vain of other shit head morons that are on the tv spouting their vile uninformed, uneducated, mentally disturbed bullshit. I am talking about Maher, Olbermann, Behar, etc.... If you do not get it? If what I have posted you think you can give ANY rebuttal to? Then you are in that boat as well. We are about to lose this country. I have a degree in economics. I KNOW. We can no.. Part6
SuperGuitarman69 10 months ago 3
@ImpactChocobo our country that may own a modest car, and have a 1 maybe 2 bedroom apartment they live in. They do not have droid phones they have flip phones and they may own more than one tv. So, our so called poor? What is their definition of poverty? Not being able to afford the xbox or an I phone. So the standard of living bullshit you just posted? Give me a break. You don't have a clue do you? I have traveled the world. I have seen this first hand. So, DO NOT FEED ME THIS BULLSHIT. Part 6
SuperGuitarman69 10 months ago 3
@ImpactChocobo you are off base. Now, outperform??? Socialist countries? I BEG TO DIFFER. In European socialist countries ie.... Great Britain, Germany, France etc.... They have NO rich. The only people within that country that are quote unqoute rich are the ones laced within the government. Most live between middle class and what is deemed the American poor. Which in socialist countries is a very small margin. In other words, their middle class would be equivalent to those in our Part 5
SuperGuitarman69 10 months ago 3
@ImpactChocobo have been told to say. But, the truth is that everyone in this country has healthcare. NO doctor or hospital will refuse care. If you need a specialist for some health issue, because it is a free market many many doctors will treat, do surgery or will oversee any patient, work out payment plans after the fact so that care is provided. The asshole Obama has done a great job of making doctors into money grubbing enemies, but NOTHING could be further from the truth. So in that Part 4
SuperGuitarman69 10 months ago 3
@ImpactChocobo gladly have taken it. Would a teacher lose their job? Dunno, but that would be a GREAT thing. They would have to actually earn their money by getting out in the free market and proving they were worthy to teach our children. You mentioned healthcare? Well first off no country in the world reports actual numbers on their services. So, we have FAR superior healthcare to any nation. Now, your argument is that 50,000 people do not have heathcare correct? That is what you Part 3
SuperGuitarman69 10 months ago 3
@ImpactChocobo solve the problem? Competition. Case and point, I have a 16 year old daughter. She wasn't doing well in school. Out of my own earnings I paid a tutor to home school her. The tutor I hired was a former teacher who had had enough of the school bureaucracy and decided to teach freelance. She had 3 other students besides my daughter. My daughter is graduating in June. WITH a 3.8 grade average. So, take the 12k we give to my local school and GIVE IT TO ME!!! I would have Part 2
SuperGuitarman69 10 months ago 3
@ImpactChocobo Okay let's take a look here shall we? Education/ we pay 12k per student yet the average performance is ranked 27% in the world yet that number is 3rd highest in the world. Why? Well, government doesn't actually spend it on the student. We have to pay teachers pensions, medical, dental and on and on and on. We live in a capitalist country. Which means our children have money (even our so called poor children). They have x boxes, cell phones, facebook etc... So what would.. Part 1
SuperGuitarman69 10 months ago 3
@ImpactChocobo You really don't want me to jump in here in this debate you are having with WideWorldofWisdom do you??? You are an easy target. You are playing catcher without a mitt. You are a leftist. The biggest moron on the planet.
SuperGuitarman69 10 months ago 3
@ImpactChocobo
Aaaaand we've made it to epithets. Great job. And in only 7 responses too. You probably should have quit while you were ahead back when you said "there legitimately are people out there who abuse programs such as welfare".
Now you're stuck having to pretend you never said "without food stamps lower income families would have no food". Got any more wisdom you'd like to share?
WideWorldOfWisdom 10 months ago 4
@WideWorldOfWisdom longer coddle you. You have to go and so does democrats. Libertarians? Conservatives? Absolutely we need them. But you? And Obama and the regressive oligarchy that has been relabeled progressivism? Needs to go into the anal cavity of history. One last ponder for you. If you made it this far before learning anything and posting back. We are about to lose this country. We are seeing the dollar collapse. If it does. You will be on the wrong side of an American war!!!
SuperGuitarman69 10 months ago 3
@SuperGuitarman69 mr Superguitarman69,you got waaaay to much time on your hands....you're in desperate need of a worthwhile hobby,try Gracie JJ.........
skyshiptrooper 10 months ago
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@skyshiptrooper Lol. You may be right. :)
SuperGuitarman69 10 months ago
I love how a blues version of mary had a little lamb starts playing at 6:45 lol
vts101 10 months ago 2
@ImpactChocobo
Nice deflection.
So I guess that's what you're sticking with? "before 1939 'low income families' had no food"? You really think you can just imply something like that and then move right along and actually be taken seriously? You're more pitiful than I thought.
WideWorldOfWisdom 10 months ago 4
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if royce gracie wasnt born to helio gracie, that gave him free martial arts teaching he most likely would have never been a successful martial artist.
free education gave him the success he has today. This is a good video promoting free education and learning.
mark1m 10 months ago
Great video!! Keep it up man. :)
wrt7 10 months ago 4
Love It!
MizzPM 10 months ago 4
@ImpactChocobo
So let me get this straight. No welfare programs = suffering. (And I assume Welfare programs = no suffering?) No food stamps = people have no food.
So basically what you're suggesting is that before 1939 "low income families" had no food. Got it. Yes you make a very strong case here.
WideWorldOfWisdom 10 months ago 4
Have you actually leaned to fight from them for real? Or did you just stop by the gym for this video?
turdferguson9725 10 months ago 2
@ImpactChocobo
And I suppose these people said they would have those currently on welfare "suffer"? Or is it just that you made up THAT part?
WideWorldOfWisdom 10 months ago 6