The Joe Rogan ExperienceJoe Rogan Experience #2242 - Bert Sorin
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Sorinex “X-Factor” machine: rotational power training for fighters
- BSBert Sorin
(drum beat plays) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
- NANarrator
The Joe Rogan Experience. Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night. All day. (rock music plays) Hello, Joe.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs) Good to see you, Joe. What's up, brother? What's going on, man?
- BSBert Sorin
Good to see you, man.
- JRJoe Rogan
Thank you very much for that, uh, extraordinary piece of, uh-
- BSBert Sorin
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
... athletic equipment you brought to the gym.
- BSBert Sorin
Absolutely, right?
- JRJoe Rogan
Is there a photo of that so we can show people what it looks like?
- BSBert Sorin
Uh, yeah, it should be on the website, uh, X-Factor.
- JRJoe Rogan
And what is it called?
- BSBert Sorin
Uh, it's called the X-Factor.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, it's called the X-Factor.
- BSBert Sorin
Yeah, it's called the X-Factor.
- JRJoe Rogan
What is the website?
- BSBert Sorin
Sorenix.com.
- JRJoe Rogan
Go to Sorenix.com, check out the X-Factor.
- BSBert Sorin
It's all you, it's actually ... Pull it up, Jamie.
- JRJoe Rogan
Pull it up, Jamie. Isn't it nice to say that?
- BSBert Sorin
Gosh, man, I'm telling you-
- JRJoe Rogan
It's fun, right?
- BSBert Sorin
It's, uh, it's big.
- JRJoe Rogan
So this is the machine.
- BSBert Sorin
Yeah. It's actually Judd who was here a minute ago.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. It's a- a brilliant machine, man. The idea that you could push and pull rotationar- r- rotational power machine.
- BSBert Sorin
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
It really is a- a genius idea, man. And, uh-
- BSBert Sorin
Thanks, bro.
- JRJoe Rogan
... for things like striking sports, that's huge. Like, the ab- ability to push and pull at the same time while stabilizing your core. I mean, that is undoubtably gonna help w- people, like, i- i- it's ... You're definitely gonna be able to deliver more power and strikes.
- BSBert Sorin
Right. Because you- you take the ground force-
- 1:53 – 2:52
“Remastered” strength equipment: reviving old ideas with modern design
- JRJoe Rogan
It's pretty dope. And you were telling me that this was originally, uh, like you- you came up with this idea from an older machine that's not around no more?
- BSBert Sorin
Yeah. Yeah. So we've- we ... You know, I've been in this industry a long time and as well as you have, but it's kinda taken a remastered series where we're taking all, like, the cool stuff that was- could have been our designs, but could have been just old designs that are just, like, kinda lost to the ages.
- JRJoe Rogan
Uh-huh.
- BSBert Sorin
And we were like, "Hey, that was a cool piece, but it sucked because you had to load it weird or it was like ... Maybe it wasn't as safe as it could have been." And so it's like, let's- let's break the whole thing apart, figure out what was good about it, and then ... That was like the eighth iteration. We just kept playing with it, and then it was like, when you realize the double axis is what made the user experience cool-
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- BSBert Sorin
... then it was like, "Okay, this is badass," and you know. I sent that video to you, and- and then, uh, a couple colleges have already bought them, and then, uh, Ryan Crouser, the world champion w- uh, and record holder in the shot put was like, "Yeah, like, this is all rotational power."
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm.
- BSBert Sorin
"How do we turn that on?" So ...
- 2:52 – 4:37
Old-school training culture: bro science, martial arts myths, and learning from winners
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. It's- it's so cool today because there's so much social media and there's so much- so many videos and YouTube videos-
- BSBert Sorin
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
... of people using equipment. Like, 15, 20 years ago, you had to go to a gym-
- BSBert Sorin
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... and go, "Oh, what is that? Oh, that's cool."
- BSBert Sorin
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
"Where'd you get that? How's that work?"
- BSBert Sorin
The big guy in the gym-
- JRJoe Rogan
Where's the company?
- BSBert Sorin
You had to, like, go, "Hey."
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- BSBert Sorin
"What's the deal?" Yeah. I mean ...
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. Yeah.
- BSBert Sorin
You and I grew up in the same era where we're going to gyms all the time, and-
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- BSBert Sorin
... there's a bunch of quacks telling you to do stuff (laughs) and-
- JRJoe Rogan
Always. Yeah.
- BSBert Sorin
And then you-
- JRJoe Rogan
And then there's bro scientists.
- BSBert Sorin
Total bro scientists.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BSBert Sorin
Yeah. And then- and then you're just like, "Hey, if that guy's really good at something," you know?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- BSBert Sorin
Back in the day, I would ... After I'd compete, probably much like you, after I'd compete, I would get whoever was better than me, and I would offer to take him out to dinner. And I would just go, "Hey." Like, I'd feed him beers until they basically told me w- how they beat me. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BSBert Sorin
(laughs) Like, I'd just like, "Well, how much are you cleaning," or, "What are you doing?" Then I would pick up some little idiosyncrasy of training, and they're like-
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- BSBert Sorin
"Oh, we would do this contrast." And I'm like, "What's that?" And I would just keep digging and digging and digging. I'd go back and figure it out.
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, I remember when I was competing, they would tell you to not lift weights, which is so hilarious.
- BSBert Sorin
(laughs) Right. You don't get muscle bound, Joe.
- 4:37 – 11:43
Steroids, legality, and the “you can abuse anything” argument
- JRJoe Rogan
I think it was Evander Holyfield.
- BSBert Sorin
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
I think it was Macky Shillstone-
- BSBert Sorin
Hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
... trained Evander Holyfield when he went up to heavyweight.
- BSBert Sorin
Okay.
- JRJoe Rogan
And I- I remember myself at the time, so this was in the '90s, I remember thinking-
- BSBert Sorin
Sure.
- JRJoe Rogan
... "What is he doing? He's lifting weights. He's gonna fuck himself up."
- BSBert Sorin
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
"Don't- doesn't he know that all these coaches have already figured it out?"
- BSBert Sorin
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
And then all of a sudden, Evander got all these traps and shoulders-
- BSBert Sorin
Dude, he was trapped and deltaed out.
- JRJoe Rogan
He got jacked.
- BSBert Sorin
What?
- JRJoe Rogan
He got jacked.
- BSBert Sorin
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
And he became a legitimate heavyweight. Also, pretty sure there was some Mexican supplements involved.
- BSBert Sorin
Yeah, he might have gone across the border to-
- JRJoe Rogan
Ah.
- BSBert Sorin
I mean, I didn't ... I'm not ... (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
I think it's a strong possibility.
- BSBert Sorin
It was the '90s. The '90s were a good time. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
I think it's a strong possibility that there was some help because also, like, you never heard of anybody testing positive for steroids back then.
- BSBert Sorin
No.
- JRJoe Rogan
And I know for a fact that some of those guys were on steroids.
- BSBert Sorin
I would not-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- BSBert Sorin
... disagree.
- 11:43 – 15:20
’80s nostalgia to archery obsession: compound vs traditional bows
- BSBert Sorin
Where were the '80s not so awesome?
- JRJoe Rogan
The '80s were pretty cool.
- BSBert Sorin
The '80s were pretty cool.
- JRJoe Rogan
Except everybody's worried that Russia was gonna blow us up.
- BSBert Sorin
(laughs) That's true story.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- BSBert Sorin
True story. Yeah. I remember '85, I believe it was '85, going to, uh... I know obviously we're both into archery, so '85, Rambo First Blood Part Two came out.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BSBert Sorin
Pops took me to the movie theater. He and I saw it, and we went straight from there to the archery shop, and I got my first bow that day.
- JRJoe Rogan
Really?
- BSBert Sorin
Yeah, I still have it.
- JRJoe Rogan
Wow.
- BSBert Sorin
Yeah, it was awesome. I still have some of the same arrows.
- JRJoe Rogan
No shit?
- BSBert Sorin
Yeah, I g- I s- I d- I strangely don't lose things. But yeah, I remember in the backyard shooting 'cause, like, he kinda half taught me, and then I was in the backyard zinging arrows and thinking, like, "If I had explosive tips, like, how badass would this be?"
- JRJoe Rogan
I went to, uh, Lanai, and, uh, you know, they have, uh, the Pineapple Brothers has that archery-
- BSBert Sorin
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
And I brought my whole family. And then, um, they also have this area where you can go and you can, like, shoot skeet, and you drive, like, uh, four- four-wheelers up in the mountains.
- BSBert Sorin
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
And then they had, like, traditional archery, like bows and arrows. And I was like, "Oh, let me try this."I don't know how to fucking aim. I'm terrible at it. I was like-
- BSBert Sorin
Uh-huh.
- JRJoe Rogan
... "I'm a good archer. I should be good at this."
- BSBert Sorin
Or thought. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
I could barely hit the fucking target from 20 yards away, like, "Eh."
- BSBert Sorin
It's like the science and the art, two different things.
- JRJoe Rogan
They're totally, totally different.
- BSBert Sorin
Yeah. I've always said, like, the guys that are traditional hunters, you know, trad guys, they're either weirdos or they're absolute killers.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right. It's like Aaron Snyder-type dudes-
- BSBert Sorin
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... who are so good at compound archery they get-
- 15:20 – 22:06
Jiu-jitsu mastery: drilling, flow state, and why strength still matters
- BSBert Sorin
It is. It, does... Can you see the arrow... Does it slow down when you shoot at animals like it does for me? It looks like there's no way this arrow is ever gonna get to... It's like everything in my m- brain do- it's like, uh, that book, The Rise of Superman, when you go in a flow state. And like-
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm.
- BSBert Sorin
... everything speeds up in your brain, so actually the perce- uh, per- uh, well, it'd be the perception-
- JRJoe Rogan
Perception?
- BSBert Sorin
... all sh- all lengthens out. They say your brain actually starts firing three times faster, the little pictures.
- JRJoe Rogan
Ah.
- BSBert Sorin
So that's why the, it slows down. This morning, I watched that arrow just right-handed turn. I'm like, "That g- that deer's gonna move." And it was only 27 yards. But I'm watching it. T- t- t- t- t- t- t- t- t- t-
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, that's interesting.
- BSBert Sorin
But when I, but when I'm shooting targets, I'm just like, "Nah, whatever."
- JRJoe Rogan
I don't seem to think that. No.
- BSBert Sorin
Really?
- JRJoe Rogan
No.
- BSBert Sorin
I always think it takes forever to get to the ar- to animal.
- JRJoe Rogan
No. Um, I'm trying to think of when do things slow down for me? No.
- BSBert Sorin
Jujitsu?
- JRJoe Rogan
No. Jujitsu just, whe- when you're really in a, a good state, y- it's just almo- almost like you're not thinking.
- BSBert Sorin
Hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's like all of a sudden you have an arm bar. It's like...
- BSBert Sorin
So it is a flow state.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- BSBert Sorin
Just maybe if you're-
- JRJoe Rogan
It's a complete flow state. But it's a flow state that's established after, you know, thousands of hours-
- BSBert Sorin
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
... of drilling. And that's the most important thing in jujitsu, really, is drilling.
- BSBert Sorin
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
Everybody loves to roll 'cause it's so fun.
- BSBert Sorin
Sure.
- JRJoe Rogan
You know, 'cause it's like you're playing a video game, you're, like, trying to kill each other.
- BSBert Sorin
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
But the really important thing is drilling. And drilling with, like, a certain amount of rigor, like a certain-
- 22:06 – 28:57
Bert’s ‘throws world’ origin: hammer throw, Highland Games, and Scottish stone lore
- BSBert Sorin
Sure. Now is there... Like in the throws world, we always talk about like technique... Speed is everything.
- JRJoe Rogan
Explain to people what you're talking about when you say throws world.
- BSBert Sorin
Okay, so throws. Uh, I, like yes. So I'm, I'm one of those nerdy guys that pick the sport that's like the least paying sport of all time. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BSBert Sorin
So I was a hammer thrower. So it's like a shot put. Steel ball, 16-pound steel ball, on a one-meter, you know, three-foot-long wire. It's what you see on the Olympics. They spin around really, really fast-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- BSBert Sorin
... and yell and scream, and always make like the highlight reels of guys that scream.
- JRJoe Rogan
Where did that come from? Was that a weapon at one point in time?
- BSBert Sorin
Yeah, yeah. So they actually... In Scotland, they, they would use... It was a hammer they would literally have, like, for agrarian society, and they have a, a cylindrical head on it so they could use it every side. And so that w- that became a, a way to train for battle because they weren't allowed... The Scottish weren't allowed to have weapons.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh.
- BSBert Sorin
Yeah, so they would start throwing stones and-
- JRJoe Rogan
After the Braveheart days?
- BSBert Sorin
Yes. Or during those days.
- JRJoe Rogan
Damn.
- BSBert Sorin
So they weren't supposed to have weapons, so they're like, "F this. We're just gonna take all the stuff we, we have and stay strong, stay ready." Um, and then actually their, their stone was called the Clachnart, which meant, uh, stone of strength.
- JRJoe Rogan
That's a great name.
- BSBert Sorin
It's a wonderful name.
- JRJoe Rogan
That's a Viking name if I ever heard one.
- BSBert Sorin
Viking.
- JRJoe Rogan
Clachnart.
- BSBert Sorin
So tell me how badass this is. So like each family, like the Rogan family. Like you're the patriarch, right?
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay.
- BSBert Sorin
You'd have your Clachnart up on the-
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BSBert Sorin
... mantle (laughs) or whatever it is. So at your family outings, whatever outings those may be, all the men, very much like in Braveheart, they would go and throw it. The fur- the guy who throws the Clachnart, the family stone, the furthest is kind of like the dude. Like he's like-
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BSBert Sorin
... "All right, all right. You... Now my son has surpassed me. He's shown he's a man now."
- JRJoe Rogan
Right?
- BSBert Sorin
Here's the wildest part. This, this gives me chills. So they would... If they went off to battle, they would take their Clachnart, their stone, and on the way out of town, they would all put it in a pile and they'd call it a... I think it was called a cairn or a carn. So they would put it in a pile. So if they did not return to battle, they had placed their own monument to their town of their sacrifice.
- JRJoe Rogan
Whoa.
- 28:57 – 32:12
Cardio vs power: Cam Hanes, runner’s high, and training specificity
- JRJoe Rogan
Have you done, uh, Lift Run Shoot yet with Cam?
- BSBert Sorin
I haven't done it with Cam. Uh, no, I've... We played around and done some stuff like that at my farm, uh, you know, during different events.
- JRJoe Rogan
You should do his, his podcast, the Lift Run Shoot Show.
- BSBert Sorin
That'd be great. Heck yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Where he makes you carry a rock up the fucking mountain.
- BSBert Sorin
I went up Pisgah with him. I haven't carried the rock, and, uh, but I'm sure you've done Pisgah.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's like the Cam Rock.
- BSBert Sorin
That's insane.
- JRJoe Rogan
I haven't done Pisgah.
- BSBert Sorin
No?
- JRJoe Rogan
I'm not doing that. Fuck outta here.
- BSBert Sorin
That was rough.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- BSBert Sorin
That was rough. I started running, I'm not a big cardio guy.
- JRJoe Rogan
Not interested in going a- anywhere where that guy's running.
- BSBert Sorin
Dude, he is...
- NANarrator
(laughs)
- BSBert Sorin
He is as advertised as a badass. Like, he is-
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, he's a complete psychopath.
- BSBert Sorin
... legi- legit.
- JRJoe Rogan
He's one of my best friends. He's a complete psychopath.
- BSBert Sorin
Uh, we did, we were, I, we all got running, and then he kinda left me. And then, like, he got to the top and then did his dance, and then he came back down, and like, "Hey, man." And it was ka- it was very remarkable. Like, it, he goes, "All right, why do I do this all the time?" He goes, "If we crested this corner right now, and you saw the biggest bull of your life at 70 yards, could you make the shot?" And I'm like, "Bro, I'm looking out my ear hole right now. Like, I'm screwed."
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BSBert Sorin
He goes, "That's why I do this every day." I'm like-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- BSBert Sorin
... "I'm tra- I'm tracking."
- JRJoe Rogan
He's also addicted to exercise. He's addicted to cardio.
- BSBert Sorin
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
I think there's, uh-
- BSBert Sorin
Me, me not so much.
- 32:12 – 43:13
Injuries, rehab tech, and peptides: knees, backs, and healing debates
- JRJoe Rogan
I just can't run. My, I have a bad left knee that's been really bothering me the last few years.
- BSBert Sorin
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
And I just twisted it again this, uh, September while I went hunting.
- BSBert Sorin
Yeah, you were saying your sciatica was a little tweaked up.
- JRJoe Rogan
That was another problem. That was from-
- BSBert Sorin
Getting old, Joe.
- JRJoe Rogan
... overuse of ... No, it's just being stupid.
- BSBert Sorin
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
That's overuse of, uh, archery. So-
- BSBert Sorin
What?
- JRJoe Rogan
I was... Yeah. Because, you know, I have two bows. I have a bow that's 84 pounds and a bow that's 90 pounds. So, I'm pulling these 90-pound bows 100 times a day.
- BSBert Sorin
Are you shooting that many times a day?
- JRJoe Rogan
Every day. Oh, yeah.
- BSBert Sorin
Good for you.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, yeah. Oh, d- you have to.
- BSBert Sorin
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
It ... For that moment when-
- BSBert Sorin
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
... like, a fucking giant bull walks in between the trees-
- BSBert Sorin
It's tight, isn't it?
- JRJoe Rogan
... and you have a 70-yard shot, you have to-
- BSBert Sorin
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... 100% be confident-
- BSBert Sorin
Yep.
- JRJoe Rogan
... that you can make that shot. And so I'm shooting it 84 yards over, and over, and over, and over, and o- ... I'm obsessive, but the problem was, I'd developed, like, tendonitis in my lower back.
- BSBert Sorin
Mm.
- JRJoe Rogan
And so it's overuse from the stabilizing.
- BSBert Sorin
Mm.
- JRJoe Rogan
From, like, holding yourself.
- BSBert Sorin
Really?
- 43:13 – 1:08:19
Archery tech rabbit hole: rangefinders, apps, arrow ballistics, and bow draw weight
- JRJoe Rogan
Imagine those poor fools that had to hunt with traditional bows-
- BSBert Sorin
Dude.
- JRJoe Rogan
... no binos, no spotting scopes.
- BSBert Sorin
Dude. If anything got killed-
- JRJoe Rogan
No, no wind checker.
- BSBert Sorin
No app. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
No range finder-
- BSBert Sorin
They didn't have the app.
- JRJoe Rogan
... no apps. I have apps. I have everything.
- BSBert Sorin
Oh, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
I have a range finder that syncs up with my app.
- BSBert Sorin
Of course you do.
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, I don't even, I haven't even set it up yet, but it's, uh-
- BSBert Sorin
Do you nerd out on all that stuff like I do?
- JRJoe Rogan
I do. See, the, here's the problem. Uh. I have a Leupold rangefinder. I really like-
- BSBert Sorin
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
... Leupold's Full Draw.
- BSBert Sorin
Yep. Used it this morning.
- JRJoe Rogan
The reason why I like it is because it'll show you the arc of your arrow.
- BSBert Sorin
Yes. That little line?
- JRJoe Rogan
This is how nerdy it is, folks. So, my arrows go 294 feet per second.
- BSBert Sorin
Okay.
- JRJoe Rogan
And-
- BSBert Sorin
How heavy?
- JRJoe Rogan
They're, these are 475.
- BSBert Sorin
Okay.
- JRJoe Rogan
475 grains. And you calculate all this stuff. You put all this stuff into the rangefinder.
- BSBert Sorin
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
And the rangefinder knows exactly how heavy your arrow is, exactly what the peak of it's gonna be-
- BSBert Sorin
Yeah.
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