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Craig Jones

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“That you can still make fun of anything as long as it's funny. That's what I'm fighting for. People talk about cancel culture. I just think the joke wasn't funny enough. Pull of delivery.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I went to sleep one time, Loughlin Giles was demonstrating a technique on me, but I woke up straight away. But for 10 seconds, I didn't know who I was, where I was, what I was doing. But that's it. That's the only time I went out.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, he's probably the most just entertaining human being ever. He just says the crate, like off air, he's always on. It's like that's just, he's always ready to say some wild shit. It's crazy.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I thought he was dead for a second, but for some strange reason couldn't stop laughing. I don't know. I was like, please wake up.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's a self defense mechanism because you'd rather assume that that guy was on steroids than his genetics is so far superior to yours. Like, nah, it must be”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Anyone that's ever beat Tagging most there is the May. I don't know. I wanted to test them, but not to do anything bad, but just in the name of science to see. What people are running. You know, it's so hard to say because you train with people and they don't even tell you what they're on. I tell the world what I'm on and they go, look at you. You're not taking any stereotypes. It's like such a secret, secret thing. I personally think it's almost impossible to say. But occasionally you look at a guy and you're pretty certain, you know.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What the million should weigh? We should have a tournament or a round rubbing thing where it's like the million goes to the most exciting man. Took the most ris”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm a guy that totally agrees with you, but if I think the guy's a better wrestler, I will concede. You know, like it's like, that's the hard part.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Actually, we did the walk through yesterday and we were like one ambulance is not enough. Get a second one here. Because if they take one guy injured to hospital, we can't continue until an ambulance comes back. So these guys are going to go, everyone will be Dagestani for a day. That I think this tournament It'll just be the integration of wrestling into jiu-jitsu. You know, I think that would be the most exciting way the sport could progress is basically If you just follow the rules of you should always be fighting to get on top, whether that's a submission that leads to a sweep or a sweep, and you should be trying to avoid being pinned. As long as the game revolves around that and guys engage each other offensively on the feet, that would be the most exciting best way to watch the sport.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think actually CJ. Think there's going to be a lot of guys that don't tap that take into truths. Small concern is that a guy wins the match, but it's so injured. He can barely go on to the next match. Win the battle, lose the war.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The art of it, I mean, I think obviously people are going to keep innovating, perfecting certain things, throwing out bad sort of techniques, bad sort of, but I mean, it's so hard to predict. It's like that's the game of making money off the instructionals is predicting where we go next. It's so, so difficult.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, they do train hard. They do train hard. When I did the seminar in Odessa, it was at a school, but another school in the city brought like 10 Dagestani guys. All of them went insanely hard. I was like Small sample size, but they all wanted to be broken.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Kabiba would go to sleep There's no way he would tap to a buggy chuck. Who was it I faced? Recently I faced Russian guy from Tatar. I couldn't buggy him. I was trying to close Garb one though, sort of like it is harder to pull off. I had to put him to sleep twice at the end of the match with a triangle, but he was just willing. Like, I don't know, Eastern European guys, it's like, they're treating it like a real fight, you know?”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not when you can pull guard and submit from your back. I think that sort of negates some of that grinding pressure. I think that has to be met with more slow technical lateral movement. Think that's the way you like that's that would be the dream for me that God just comes straight forward into my God. That grinding approach works well if he's taken me down and got already close to me. But if I'm laying flat on my back and he's standing and he has to engage, he has all that danger at range. But if you can connect to my body before we go down, Now we're in his world again, I think.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Like they're just trying to break each other at all times, trying to have some dominance over their friends they train with.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Fantastic is technical. Jiu Jitsu's file more technical. There's way more things you can do in a grappling scenario from top and bottom than I think against the wall. So a grinding nature of how they train works really good to walk a guy down and take him down against the wall. And then obviously with ground and pound, very good to hold a guy down. So I think just never conceding an inch in training is just they've done that since they were born, basically.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, I think personally, those guys are just like, they just love it. It's just about like... It's how they train. Like, it's a fight to the death. You know what I mean? Like, it's just built in them. They don't want to concede an inch ever. I think for MMA and wrestling, that can be very, very good. I think sometimes when those guys come over to Jitsu-specific events, they get leglocked, they fall into traps, overly aggressive or overly evasive. But I think the way they train just is perfect for a fight. A fight that can just forward pressure, eat some shots, grind a guy against the wall.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Would be interesting Interesting. The problem is almost too, while you are a champion like Islam is, you could just never book them. You could never get it.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think the first fight showed he could beat him. For sure, showed it's possible. Even in the second fight, when he reversed the grappling exchange, I wish he'd tried to take Makachev down. I really think he has a huge strength advantage against Makachev. And I personally believe he has a fence wrestling advantage. You might not see it in a sense of the technical hip tosses and things like that, like really, but I do believe Volks one of the best, if not the best, cage dresser in the world.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I'd love to see. I mean, personally, I really want to see Volks and Ortega have an actual grappling match. We saw him get out of those deep submissions and apply a ton of ground and powder. I'd love to see him just have a grappling match. I'd love to see more of the UFC stars have grappling matches, especially if they've had any head trauma in a fight. It's like, Keep them busy because, as you see, some of those guys go crazy if they can't train.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Being the promoter tournament not as bad. The superfights really, really difficult. I don't think we could have set it up with more time that particular match, but that was the dream. That's what we were hoping to do.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know. Obviously, still hungry, still motivated. Obviously, I thrive in a losing environment, but him. Him on the other hand, I'm not sure We don't talk too much on that level. Obviously, we check in as friends, see what he's up to, see what he's planning. We were trying to get him a grappling match at CJ. I won't say the reasons it fell through, but we were setting one up with Makimusumichi, but we couldn't get it done.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Side of that is obviously watching the ups and downs. There's been so many ups, the last two have been downs, so you see in the full spectrum of the highest highs and the lowest lows.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Basically, I would help him in certain jujitsu aspects and then becomes a close friend of yours. But the whole process of the MMA fight is horrible, especially when you care about the person fighting, because some of those weight cuts you see are awful. Like you're basically seeing guys' eyes roll back in their head, like him just powering through a five kilo 10 pound cut and just constantly talking about how easy it is. But while clearly, I mean, these guys look like they're dying, you know, like to push through that and then to push through some of the moments in his fight, to watch him be completely relaxed until like five minutes before the fight. And then he starts talking about you're never going to take this belt away from my family. Like he's singing about his family before he fights his kids. You know, you see the character change. It's just absolutely insane to watch.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Opposite of me, probably publicly and privately. As an athlete, yeah. The amount of work he puts in and just his sheer sort of mental willpower. I remember there's been a couple of times where I've watched him do weight cuts where like, that's horrible. You're watching your friend, you know, obviously we started as.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You think UFC champion, you don't think Puzzle Matt Jim. You know what I mean? Like he's not training at American top team. He's not at one of these big gyms. So to me, it just shows what you're capable of through hard work and sort of self-educating in such an isolated place. It's insane to me that he's still considered probably the power for pound best feather wave ever, in my opinion. And he's basically come across and started late from a rugby background. Also, in terms of what I've learned on a technical level, I've picked up a lot of stuff from him in sort of grappling exchanges, how to get back up, obviously wall wrestling, in terms of how hard he trains the cardio aspect is insane, his cardio workouts are absolutely insane.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, for me personally, what's so interesting about Volkanovsky is his, I guess, where he came from, you know, like it's like you have pre-existing ideas of what a UFC champion is. Again, I would say it's similar to when I've started training Jiu Jitsu and I first traveled to America and got to train with some really famous people, you realize how relatable they are in some aspects. Volkanowski trains a freestyle and it is humble beginnings, humble origins. Like it's like it's a small gem and a small sort of beachside city. They run in puzzle mounts. You know what I mean?”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, we would love to have him. We'd love to have him. But he's coming off of ACL Surgery. I think he's returned to sport is August. So I think he'll be back training against then.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I haven't trained with him. I met him when Volkswagen. We've spoken briefly. Interesting guy for sure loves jujitsu. Loves MMA. He's really intending to compete in something, I think.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't think I've come up with anything, but I've popularized things. Certain styles of leg entry. I definitely didn't invent them, but I popularized them. Octopus guard, playing more from turtle, sort of the pinning style of game. Because of my jokes online, put me in a position of power in the sport so that when I post content it can popularize a move or release an instruction or popularize a game. But it's still, I'm not trying to sell inauthentic products. I'm still. I want the technique to work.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Mean just studying type. Just study tape and try to reverse engineer. Like if I see something or I train with someone and it feels You know, when you have those moments where you're like, oh, I don't even know what they're doing here. And if you can put someone in a position that I don't understand, that's also where they panic. So it's like creating different ways to make people panic. But also, I mean, just innovation, like having fun with it. I guess the artistic aspect of it is fun. You can be creative in how you can beat people.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, financial motivation, if you can hit moves and no one else knows how to do. Can sell those instructionals, but also keeps it interesting because it's like, I mean, it can get stagnant and boring, you know, like a lot of people get to Bluebelt. They're good at one thing. They only do that one thing. I think it's finding creative ways to beat people. And sometimes creativity is in how they respond to it. So if you can find a humiliating move to do to someone, well, not even necessarily humiliating, but a move that is unexpected. When you get hit with someone you don't expect, I think that is sort of really one of the most fun aspects of it. You know what I mean? You train to stay better than the people you're better than. That's what keeps you in the game and finding creative ways to beat those people is some of the most entertainment.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If you can make someone panic, you'll fatigue them. It's the same, it's like if you're, even if you're higher level and you're worried about getting your guard passed, it's the panic that leads to fatigue in your guard retention. But if you're so flexible, you remain calm. I think it's because you're not panicked.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Let him put me in bad position, but I try to stay relaxed at all times. That's the key here is like, uh... I mean, yeah, obviously you got the cheesy, keep it playful, but it's like, if you really, if you can remain calm in bad positions, that is a skill. That's your confidence, not in yourself, but that the other guy is incapable of submitting you. That's the ultimate confidence. You can give them whatever you want.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think I've managed to avoid a lot of injuries because I just never roll too athletically, explosively. I think I'm probably incapable of moving at that rate of speed.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, honestly, pick and safe training partners and trying to understand the positions and not just freaking out. You might escape if you freak out, but you also might be stuck in something and you injure yourself. So it's like, I think if you can, it's just about longevity. You know, like a pace to train at sort of intensity and the right people, you could potentially train five years without injury. It's really about how you move. If you are always moving in an explosive way, eventually you're going to do that from a position in which you can't move and then someone's going to tear. And you also want to be able to trust training partners to not go too crazy, inflict too much pain. You know what I mean?”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is humorous after the fact, though. I mean, it's just like, bro, I'm jet lagged. I'm tired. I'm here for you guys. Why are you trying to hurt me? You know, like if I get a submission. Don't hesitate at all. Don't hesitate, you know. Like, it's like, I mean, you just use dangerous. It's a dangerous thing. And when strangers going crazy, it's their, they think they're getting invite to CJI if they tap me. Just wild.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Are they from Eastern Europe? I tell you what, That's a good one. You know what? Anyone that wears a pit bull sports rash guard? Anyone from the country of Poland, be ready.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If you've reached any level of notoriety, whether it's in the sport or just as a celebrity, you're better off to just have three, four trusted training partners and train privately. That's the sad situation. People used to say, oh, you could be such and such a good anti-gym nut. Those days are over now. Now if you show up and you have any sort of name, they're coming to kill. Honestly, you better off. It's so much safer. Training is about trusting. Trust is built from safe routes. Strangest, scary.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Have to meet it with a threat. It's like I've spoken about this with Ryan Hall. Ryan Hall, give him a warning, and then gone. And I think it's perfectly acceptable. If I got one endanger them for no reason. But if you're coming hot, you better tap fast. If I feel a threat, you better tap. I'm not going to break it for the sake of breaking it. But if you do some crazy shit that might potentially hurt me and I get a submission. I'm tired. If you're fresh, you can catch a heel hook, hold it tight. The guy tries to wiggle out. You got it. If you're tired and you've been nice with a heel hook and then they slip out and club you on the head, then next time. Going to be the last”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Have a couple drinks and enjoy the place, but to them, it's time to go. You go to rope it open a bit, you know? Like, if I meet pressure with pressure, I get tired. If I don't provide resistance where they think there should be resistance now, it slows their pace down. They get shocked a bit. 100% if I'm at a seminar and someone's rolling too hard with me if I feel like I might get hurt. 100% rip his emission on them. You know what I mean? Like it's like you're confronted with a threat.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To them, they're like, I get to test myself against a world-class athlete today. And to you, you're like, oh. In Odessa, I'd like to get to know the people”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Snipers at these seminars, there's these sharks that are circling wanting to attack you. And you have to look at it. You look at it from both perspectives. I think you should provide excellent technique, excellent question and answer time. And I think you should roll a little bit. For the most part these days, I'll just roll 30 minutes straight. I'll just do 10 guys, 3 minutes, no break, 30 minutes straight. I might even get the guy to pick because again, if you some of these guys come in hot.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, they want to. I mean, I don't know what it is. Obviously. I guess you it's like people want to play basketball with like a basketball star or something you know what I mean but I guess if you played one-on-one with a basketball there's no great risk of injury you know That's the real problem. If you don't roll at your seminar, the seminar participants don't feel like they got the full experience.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's the strategy. And then, how would I beat him in that rule set? So there's so many strategic layers that go above and beyond just the training for me. But nowadays, I like to, if I train short duration, high intensity, that's the best of me. I don't like this six or like 10, six minute rounds, whatever. Like, I don't like this long training. I don't like, for me, it's too much toll on the body. I think... I go to the gym, we bang. Maybe the first round's slightly light and then just bang it out, two hard rounds tops. A little bit of problem solving, get out of there. Because you want to feel a little bit of the competition intensity. Feels the best of my body.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I think you have to put in the hard rounds. It depends at what point in your career you are. You know, like I think someone like Nicki Ryan might almost train too technically too often. And when he comes to competition, it's a confronting experience when someone hits him hard and he feels that pressure. So I think different people require different things. When Nicky Rodd is breaking the spine of a 37-year-old father, a three bus driver, it might be time for him to train in a more technical manner. So it's like you've got to cater it. What they need. And again, depending on the opponent, it's a game of strategy, you know, like for me, when I was more active. I look at an opponent that I want that I could steal some clout from, of which the clout you can make money. And I think to myself, what's the best rule set I can beat a man?”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We got out of control that night, and it wasn't until the next day I woke up. I was like, oh, I have lovato next weekend. But I'm also, people don't know whether I'm telling the truth or not, but it's also, I'm almost too honest because I'll be like doing interviews saying, yeah, I was out partying and I barely trained. The opponent looks into that and they question it. Is he telling the truth? Is he baiting me? Is he really that unconcerned? You know what I mean? It's almost a psychological battle in and of itself, but for the most part it's true.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But I hadn't really even trained. I couldn't train. Like I was traveling, just had no ability to train. I trained for a week. Had the Phil Row match. And I said to myself, I was down in Mexico City. And I said, you know what? If you win this match, you've got to face Lovato next week. Don't go out and party. Don't celebrate the victory. But as a 32-year-old man at the time hitting a flying triangle submission, I thought that deemed a worthy after party.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think so. I think that's the only logical explanation, you know. And I also use it as mind games too. Again, no one knows whether what I'm saying is true or not. And I'm not saying this story to say anything bad about my opponent at the time, but I booked two matches in two consecutive weekends. And I'd been traveling. I think I just got back from One of my trips. I've been O International, so I don't even know where the fuck I was”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And they called his name out for the absolute, and he went out there. And I believe he got bronze. I believe he beat Jeff Munson. So it's like, it's different for different people. Obviously, you don't want that to be the standard. You've got to be putting in the work at all times. But even now, in my crazy travel schedule where I don't train anywhere near like I used to. As long as your game is technical, and as long as your body's in good condition, I believe you can still train well against world-class guys. You might not be able to do an hour straight, but if your technique orientated You're just losing fitness.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source