There’s an old saying.
“In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.”
Well, Henry had no idea just how true that saying was.
Because when Henry started a massive seminar tour in 2014, there was no way he could have known that the last 19 years he’d spent training under Rickson Gracie would have led to something so incredible.
But before we get to that, it’s worth mentioning how this all began.
Remember when I said Henry’s story reads like a template for Joseph Campbell’s “hero’s journey”?
Well, what I meant was, 23 years ago, after spending a week training with Rickson, Henry was so profoundly impressed with the incredible knowledge he was learning, he decided to leave everything he knew back home in Oklahoma…
His home…
His family…
His friends…
He even broke up with his girlfriend, because he knew in his soulhe had to do this.
Mastering this beautiful martial art called “Jiu-Jitsu” was his calling.
And the rest of his story reads like a martial arts film.
There’s even a short documentary about it online.
But the highlights are: Henry is so dedicated, he becomes the school secretary for Rickson, and regularly spends 60-70 hours a week in the gym for almost two years straight.
During that time, Henry becomes Rickson’s fastest blue belt in history, earning his promotion in only six months.
Six months was incredible because it was absolutely unheard of for Rickson to give anyone a blue belt until they’d spend at least a solid 2 years with him.
To this day, nobody has ever even come close to achieving their blue belt with Rickson so quickly.
Why?
Because, besides being one of the most conservative belt promoters in Jiu-Jitsu history, Rickson was teaching at a time when it was believed a blue belt in Jiu-Jitsu should be able to defeat a black belt in ANY other martial art.
And Henry earned every bit of it, taking on challenge matches even at white belt.
What a challenge match meant was: when people walked in off the street, wanting to test their mettle against the Jiu-Jitsu fighters, an informal MMA fight broke out right then and there.
And it was up to the students to defend the honor of the gym.
And to defend the honor of the gym, Henry was happy to take on the challenge.
Because it was in those first challenge matches Henry truly discovered the “super powers” Jiu-Jitsu grants, those who have the discipline to train.
Then, at only two years of training time, Henry was promoted to purple belt.
And he still managed to be Rickson’s fastest ever black belt, even after blowing both of his knees out in competition at purple belt, and having to take time off.
As if all that weren’t enough, even after being promoted to black belt, Henry continued to train the same disciplined way.
And this went on for 19 years straight.
Actually, it was pretty funny because we ran the numbers last year and realized just how crazy Henry’s dedication was.
It breaks down like this: if you’ve ever heard of Maclom Gladwell’s “10,000 hour rule”… that it takes approximately 10,000 hours of deep practice to develop elite skill in a given discipline, where you’re competitive on the world stage…
Well, when Henry started his seminar tour in 2014, he had spent an average of 4 hours a day training or teaching Jiu-Jitsu for the last 19 years… which, given two months out of the year for holidays, sick days, and vacation… adds up to 22,800 hours of training and teaching the purest Jiu-Jitsu known to man!!!
More than double the 10,000 hours required for the best in the world to become competitive against all the other best in the world!!!
Which explains perfectly why, when Henry started his seminar tour in 2014, to begin teaching on a bigger scale… Henry was shocked.
Because what Henry discovered was:
The Jiu-Jitsu handed down to him by Rickson Gracie, the Jiu-Jitsu he had dedicated 19 years of his life to at that point, practicing and teaching for 60-70 hours a week at times because it was so life-changing…
Was nowhere to be found outside his home gym.
I mean, nobody knew this stuff, that was just basic to Henry.
It was like everywhere he went, everyone was completely blind to the hidden
details that made Jiu-Jitsu so dominant and so effective in the first place.
Henry said the whole thing reminded him of that game kids play called “telephone”, where one person whispers a message at the beginning of the line, and by the time the message reaches the end of the line, it’s changed completely.
Sometimes, by the time the game is over, you can’t even recognize the original message.
Well, it seemed the same thing had happened with Jiu-Jitsu, as it was passed down from teacher to teacher, and got further and further away from the source.
In many places, it had been watered down and changed so much, it was like the effectiveness had been completely lost.
And then something else happened.
The more people Henry taught, the more he noticed them reacting strangely to what he was teaching.
And it happened everywhere he went.
For example, when Henry taught what he considered the fundamentals every blue belt should know… things like the basics of breaking posture from closed guard, the basics of weight distribution, the basics of connection and grip fighting, the basics of escapes and defense…
All of the basics that were covered from white to blue belt at Henry’s home gym were treated like mind-blowing Jedi secrets nobody had ever seen!
It didn’t take too long before Henry made a decision… because something had to be done.
In Henry’s eyes, he had stumbled upon a true crisis.
There was a true danger, it seemed, that the knowledge that made Jiu-Jitsu effective, efficient, and the most dominant self-defense system ever developed for a smaller person to defeat a larger person in unarmed combat…
The hidden details, concepts and understanding that made Jiu-Jitsu feel like magic… might be lost forever.
So Henry started “Hidden Jiu-Jitsu”.
Hidden Jiu-Jitsu is an online library with the purpose of recording ALL the knowledge Henry has learned over his now 23 years of dedication to the art, so those who are blind to these hidden details and concepts, can finally see.
And the White to Blue Belt program is the foundation of it all.
To explain why the White to Blue program is so important as your foundation, there’s another old idea that has stood the test of time.
And that idea is this: a wise man builds his house on a good foundation.
Like a slab of rock.
And when the rain comes down, and the rivers flood, and the wind blows against that house… it will stand, because it’s built on a solid foundation.
But the foolish man builds his house on sand.
And when the rain comes down, and the rivers flood, and the wind beats against that house, it will fall.
And great is the fall of it.
And that’s just about the state of so much of modern Jiu-Jitsu.
For so many people, the foundation has been corrupted.
Or was never built right in the first place.
The basic concepts, the invisible details that make Jiu-Jitsu so devastatingly effective, and feel almost like magic…
Have been lost for 99.999999% of modern Jiu-Jitsu fighters.
And it shows when they fight.
But all these benefits of having a solid foundation you can count on, do NOT have to be lost for YOU.
Because you will find them ALL right here in Henry’s White to Blue Belt program.
Because Henry has spent the last two years dedicating enormous amounts of his time to filming, editing and refining the official White to Blue Belt program.
This is the same curriculum he taught as head instructor at the old gym on Pico Blvd in Los Angeles, including the official Rickson Gracie Blue Belt test.
It’s the same program that made people believe a blue belt in Jiu-Jitsu could defeat a black belt in any other martial art.
And if you have the guts and discipline to dedicate yourself to this program for the next 52 weeks, you will have a foundation set for the rest of your fighting career that is absolutely rock solid.
With this foundation in place, you will be well on your way to making black belts feel like white belts when they roll with you.
This is what so many of the 458 black belts from around the world who subscribe to Hidden Jiu-Jitsu (far more black belt subscribers than any other Jiu-Jitsu website we’re aware of, no matter how famous or accomplished the teacher is) have reported time and time again.
And so many Jiu-Jitsu fighters who are not black belts have reported equally amazing results.
But this program is NOT for everyone.
If you don’t have what it takes to get the hell after it, and actually practice what Henry teaches… please stop reading right now.
Get out of here, go on with your life, and stop kidding yourself.
Procrastinators, half-assers, window shoppers… the rewards of the most effective martial art mankind has ever known… are not waiting for you.
If you’re not willing to get off your ass, get into the gym, and practice these techniques, concepts and principles against live, resisting opponents, preferably who are bigger and stronger than you… go waste someone else’s time.
This stuff is just too good to waste on lazy “can’t hackers”
But… on the other hand…
If you are serious about your training, if you have the mojo to stay committed day in and day out, and if you realize the value of learning directly from the source, so that you can become a true master of the art…
Well, you could not possibly be in better hands.
Henry is the real deal.
Read on below for more details about exactly what you’ll learn inside the program, week by week.
And remember, as you read this list… you may see the titles of moves you think you already know.
But the details Henry teaches for these fundamentals are what make them magic.
I promise you, you have NEVER seen the basics taught like this.