John Danaher
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Nov 5, 2026
Craig JonesGUEST
Everyone used to do the gi, and the gi guys used to win most of the nogi tournaments.
Craig JonesGUEST
And then Danaher's crew came along as kind of nogi-only guys and started to win, and they started to use new techniques, so it created a really cool story.
Craig JonesGUEST
John... is like some serial killer that got away with it.
Craig JonesGUEST
He has an interesting...
Craig JonesGUEST
But the reality is, if you come from Brazil, you do have a disadvantage in the markets in which we make the most money because you have a language barrier.
Craig JonesGUEST
Sometimes these guys have visa barriers.
Craig JonesGUEST
Gordon grew up in New Jersey, close to John Danaher.
Craig JonesGUEST
I'm not denying that he put in the work to get where he is, but that's lucky.
Josh McKinneyHOST
One of the best ways to learn from somebody is, of course, to hear what they're saying, but also to feel what they're saying.
Josh McKinneyHOST
You don't have that option probably with Gordon Ryan and John Danaher, but you do have that option with the good guys at your gym.
Josh McKinneyHOST
And maybe, yeah, you do beat them in these certain positions, but when they put you in closed guard, they destroy you.
Josh McKinneyHOST
And a lot of times you'll go, okay, well, let's learn how to avoid closed guard.
Steve KwanHOST
So I think that sometimes being the one who stands out and is awkward and different can be more valuable than you think, because you're always underestimating how many of the other people out there are also weird and awkward and different.
Steve KwanHOST
And if you speak the same language as them and resonate on the same frequencies as them, they're going to want to work with you more than they would, you know, John Danaher or whoever, right? If they feel like they align with you better.
Steve KwanHOST
So being authentic is actually a huge marketing advantage, especially now when there's so much stuff out there.
Steve KwanHOST
There's so much great jujitsu.
MatthewHOST
like sophisticated technique.
MatthewHOST
I don't know if John Danaher invented this, but he has this entire back control system called the straight jacket where it's like a magician's straight jacket thing where you have your arms wrapped around your back like this.
MatthewHOST
Basically, the idea is that you're controlling the opposite wrist so from what you know if moicano has his back he's controlling um nolan's left arm with his right arm and nolan's right arm with his left arm so when you pull like when you control the opposite wrist and you pull nolan is forced into this like straight jacket like position and you can very very strongly control where nolan's like diagonal control with exactly arms right Yeah, you're controlling both arms and you can control where Nolan is turning.
MatthewHOST
But the most important thing is that when you have that straight jacket, you can punch one of Nolan's arms down and then you can unlock your body triangle temporarily and collect one of his arms in the body triangle.
Abraham La MontagneGUEST
said, you sound like a nerd ape.
Abraham La MontagneGUEST
You should learn from another nerd named John Danaher.
Abraham La MontagneGUEST
And then I bought an instructional the next week, and that was kind of what the rest was history.
Alysa CouceHOST
That is insane.
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Alysa CouceHOST
So you were training obsessively, you were getting really good, but still, when was the decision to move to Texas?
Abraham La MontagneGUEST
Uh, well, I was in Oklahoma and so it was just basically like, like, you know, a stone's throw away.
Abraham La MontagneGUEST
I think what kind of helped me was I watched the John Danaher videos almost immediately.
Abraham La MontagneGUEST
And I think that if I didn't have that sort of intro to John or that style of teaching early on, I would have probably not been so fascinated with jujitsu because.
Christian OzbekGUEST
like niche almost, but I think people are, I would say in the last five years, people have like caught onto it.
Christian OzbekGUEST
Like a lot of the, I think there's a lot of the guys in America, especially under like John Danaher, they started doing a lot more like judo stuff.
Christian OzbekGUEST
I think it's quite low risk in a way.
Christian OzbekGUEST
Like for example, you shoot a single leg, there's like a lot of scraps to happen.
Josh ThomsonHOST
GSP used to go train with Phil Nurse in New York.
Josh ThomsonHOST
He would go to train with John Danaher in New York City.
Josh ThomsonHOST
He would go to all these different locations, be at TriStar.
Josh ThomsonHOST
Then he'd go down to Great Jackson's.
Craig JonesGUEST
Sometimes these guys have visa barriers.
Craig JonesGUEST
Gordon grew up in New Jersey, close to John Danaher.
Craig JonesGUEST
I'm not denying that he put in the work to get where he is, but that's lucky.
Craig JonesGUEST
That's lucky.
Craig JonesGUEST
I didn't even train with a black belt until purple belt.
Craig JonesGUEST
I wasn't exposed.
Craig JonesGUEST
I just wasn't in the vicinity of a mind like John Danaher to shape me from a younger age.
Craig JonesGUEST
I had to work a lot of jobs, side hustles, so on the way to get to where I am today.
Joe RoganHOST
Well, Gordon's very s- systematic, you know? And it comes from his, uh, teaching under Danaher.
Joe RoganHOST
Like, Danaher, John Danaher, who's I think the great mastermind of jujitsu, he has a very specific systems, and he breaks things down.
Joe RoganHOST
Like, they're very technique oriented.
Joe RoganHOST
And then there's, there's things that you just learn from over the course of training.
Devon MartinezGUEST
It's in their genetics, in their DNA.
Devon MartinezGUEST
There'll be another John Danaher one day, but there'll be their own version of it.
Devon MartinezGUEST
But yeah, he's an outlier.
Devon MartinezGUEST
You can't do that sport specifically and not train it and compete at the highest level.
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