Typical of the Gracie's to double cross someone. They have a long history of thuggery and no moral compass. Royce and Renzo are cool, can't say the same for the rest!

He is at the level of Josh Barnett and Dean lister on the ground and add his stand up this is where he becomes one of the most dangerous men on the planet I wish I had a instructor in brockton mass like him in the late 80s early 90s

Gui mendes choke!

Catch wrestling is offensive and Bjj is defensive in nature.

He's missing some information. The reason Rickson kicked him out of the school was because his performance was unembarrassment. He fought that contest with long hair and was dragged around like a woman all around the ring. At that time the Gracies were undefeated and I guess they felt that it would be a bad reflection on them as him being one of there students. So he had to go they were trying to build a brand.

Wow, 4 years to get a blue belt. It should still be that difficult today to get promoted to blue belt.

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Good stuff! Real fights have no rules..

Learned this in class today with a variation where they pull their elbow out. Same exact thing though. Added to my favorites so I can drill. Thanks so much.

Erik Paulson great martial artist!! Guru Inosanto is a great man and teaches good human beings..

disappointing to hear that some of the Gracies treated him like this, but this does not surprise me after the stories I have heard in regards to Rufino Dos Santos

Eric is genius grappler i trained at csw for a bit hes style is elite

"Catch wrestling is jujitsu on steroids." From the man himself.

I think he got kicked out because he participated in the world combat championship as a striker he did no grappling, he got his ass kicked. He is one of the most gifted grapplers and goes in as a striker makes no sense.

Erik is a true warrior, the politics of southern California "MMA" (JKD/GJJ/Machado JJ) in those days was as ruthless as the training was. These men changed martial arts forever and forced it into modern relevancy and efficacy . Much respect to all and thank you for developing and passing on things that shaped my life and probably saved it more than once.

Excellent sequence

They made him wait 10 years for black belt when he was already belted. Very loyal but what he said about having good training partners was more important is great advice.

This sucks you can slide your elbow or hand out! Don't believe? me try for yourself

Musuca carajo

song name ?

The Gracies sound like Narcissists.

Fino, gostei!

Daghan Respeto!

why is the video so freaking bright wtf

I thoroughly enjoyed Paulson's honesty. Getting information out of the Brazilian Instructors in the early days was akin to pulling their teeth out of their mouth or robbing them of their money. They wanted everybody to play their loyalty game while everybody just wanted to learn the art from whoever would teach it. My experience with BJJ was not a good one. I unfortunately found an instructor who was only interested in making money and not developing his students. After several years, thousands of dollars , many worthless private classes I ended up learning more from a Renzo Gracie series of tapes than I ever did in class.Can you believe I became a brown belt and didn't know what a butterfly guard or half guard was? I learned about them in Eddie Bravo's book. But yet I went on to win gold medals at two Pan American games with the little knowledge I had. Goes to show you my opponents were probably learning less than me. Anybody know if Paulson's DVDs are any good?.

can barely hear him over the not needed background music

I always thought Eric was from a judo background. as I've always liked his teaching.

Excellent use of the lapel, great communication to using English as well I must say. there are plenty of guys that speak English as their first language that cannot identify specific techniques like thumb position, hand position, and an opponents potential defenses against a technique you are attempting to put into action. GOOD STUFF! I'm saving this to my 'Disciplines' youtube playlist. Thank you guys!

I have a sneaking suspicion that Royce Gracie deliberately didn't teach Erik any ground stuff, because the Gracies' at the time did not want anybody else to learn it. I am not surprised at the way Rickon treated Erik. Rickson is seen as the spiritual guru of BJJ, but if people listen carefully to what he says about other fighters, you'll pick-up on the tone bitterness he has for any non decent Gracie jiu jitsu grappler. Case in point: The complete denial that Kazushi Sakuraba was a decent submission fighter. In an interview Rickson completely denies Kazushi has any level of skill as a grappler, and just says he is "tricky". Well if submitting two Gracies who were born on the mat doesn't prove you are a decent grappler, then I don't know what does.

The mace choke? Cause its like a baseball bat choke, but a lot worse?! lol

anyone got a name for this?

Great Teacher.........

Beautiful!!!!!! OSSS

Interesting he never mentions his main teacher in Shoot, Yori Nakamura.

I also saw some BJJ schools belt inconsistently. I have trained in one school for two years, never got belted. But I was tapping out blue and some purple belts easily. At my age, sure getting a new belt or stripe feels good, but I have had black belts from other martial arts before, it doesn't mean much. I just want to learn and stay in shape.

When you fight without instructor's permission and represent school's name, you have to get instructor's permission. Why? Well, you represent the school's name and if you lose or act unprofessional, you embarrass the school. I suggest, join a good MMA gym and ask up front what their policy is on competing with school's name. I have been in tough gyms where the most of the people rushing to compete are people who are terrible.

Is he related to rob paulsen?

At 9:40 Advice from Eric Paulson to Wrestlers: 1. Train hard 2. Don´t flop on your back all time 3. Learn how to wreslte 4. Make someone put you into their guard 5. Don´t flop to the guard, unless you have a good one. 6. Learn how to transtion in a scramble. 7. More than anythin learn how to attack, attack, attack.

Erik Paulson deserves respect, him and people like Dan Inosanto, Paul Vunak, and all the JKD instructors, any instructors from any style for that matter bust there arse so others can learn, they are real masters.You cannot put a price on what they know and do.

I don't undertand why in the world these Mcdojos feel like none of their students should go off and compete in tournaments if the school doesn't ok it. Competition is not a real fight I understand that but it does help the art by working on reflexes and learning from different opponents. I myself have been kicked out of schools too for this very same reason. Its very contradicting when an instructor tells students that you have to venture off on your own to grow as a martial artist but when you compete without an instructor's consent they kick you out. NEVER GIVE UP people!

Estrangulamento massa legal ...

Renato Laranja!

Way more.

Cesar Gracie was a marine?

God damn I love Kurt. Very eye opening interview.

Thank you!

Rickson Gracie is the best Jiu-Jitsu teacher in the whole world !!!!

Erik Paolson couldn't have described catch wrestling better than he did "Jiu-Jitsu on steroids" fuck yeah

Yep. looks cool. Works well if you weight about 145. Doesn't work as well if you weigh 215. My ball popped in about 15 minutes doing the move seen at 1:20. The looks on my kids faces were priceless! So was the concussion blast that reverberated through my metal shop!

Song used: Ratatat - Loud Pipes