I rolled with Roger Gracie Yesterday!

I train at Gracie Barra Yorba Linda, but for the upcoming Worlds 2008 we have competition training everyday at 12 noon at the main office in Irvine. We started training guard passes and I was able to roll with him three times for about 3 min each time. He is in my humbled opinion is the strongest MAN I have ever encountered.

He was really cool with the white belts as well, there was about four of us and each time we came into the line, he could have skipped us like some of the other black belts were doing but chose to roll with us anyways.

At one point I thought he was going to rip my collar. I was posting up one leg trying to stand up to break his closed guard and he held on to my collar to the point that it was starting to tear! I was like damm I could not believe this guy can hold his weight with one hand. Needless to say, I like many other GB students NEVER pass anything yesterday.

Professor Feitosa had the students work on guard passes for two hours

 

yes definantely Roger has some weird strenght factor, there are several stories about him ripping gi's apart... his force applied to a grip is like Mike Tyson's applied to a punch.. ok I will stop ..

 

He is the strongest man you've ever encountered?

 

lol he robert drysdale you

 

I have meet former world champ strongman Magnus Samuelsson, I shock hands with him and I felt like a kitten in the hands of a bear

 

Magnus is the only known person alive to have closed the # 4 Captains of Crush gripper (365 lbs of resistance) for two reps. We're talking orangutan-like grip strength ...

 

He has nothing complicated in his game. If you watch him roll and you are familar with the basics of BJJ you will know everything that he does. It is just the fact he does everything 100% correct. I saw him fight at the world championships last year and he really inspired me to start attacking from the full mount position rather than the side or anything else. Great fighter.

 

he knows Royce Gracie aswell, but is a gentle giant so he didn't want to get into MMA I reckon,

that woul

 

wow he really must have put in some hard training with todd to get that kind of grip strength.

 

He doesn't look muscular at all. I wonder where he is getting this strength from.

 

is he stronger than that guy who is a solid purple and has great core strength?

 

i think it's safe to say by now that Roger is not human. just look at the way he is shaped. he is a shaved wookie.

 

haha good one.

 

Did you get a chance to roll with Braulio too? He's uber cool, cant wait for him to fight at the worlds.

 

you lucky son of a bitch.(no offense to either of your parents)

 

lol, nice :icon_lol:

 

very cool, and great of him to be good to the white belts.

 

Roger "the shaved Wookie" Gracie?

That nickname will get him loads of Star Wars first and second generation fans at least.

 

That's awesome man.

Roger's gonna be legendary.