Daniel Gruchy

Daniel Charles "Dan" Gruchy (born on July 27th, 1988) also known and called as "Dan The Man", #DanTheMan, or just simply known and referred to as "Dan", is a British Internet and YouTube personality, British Army solider in the military and the second half part of The Slow Mo Guys team along with his good friend Gavin Free where he also posts videos of everything and anything that may look cool in slow motion for more than 7 million subscribers. The Slow Mo Guys was later adopted by Rooster Teeth.

Early life and education
Sharing the same surname as his mother, Daniel was born on July 27, 1988 in Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, England and raised in the town of Thame, Oxfordshire, England.

While growing up and raised in the town of Thame, Oxfordshire, England, he said his very first swear word in 1994 at the age of six. He had also attended Lord William's School in 1999 at age 11, the same secondary school together as Gavin Free did in Thame, Oxfordshire. However, despite sharing a soft spot for the slow-moving, the two classmates never met each other at that time and they didn't really become close friends back then. They never really spoke or hung out with each other at school at that time either. But this was only until they began working at the same branch of Thame Waitrose in(supermarket) in Thame, Oxfordshire after graduating out of secondary school where they both met and discovered each other. They befriended each other while they worked at Thame Waitrose in 2006 after graduating out of school at age 18. This was around April 30th to May 1st of 2006. He learnt what 'Pap Smear' was meant in 2008 at the age of 20.

While Gavin became a filmmaker at Rooster Teeth, Dan became a Lance Corporal in the British Army after leaving secondary school whilst helping Gavin film slow motion videos and content for their YouTube channel, releasing their first video on October 15, 2010. Both Dan and Gavin were 22 at the time their first video released.

Pre-Rooster Teeth
Daniel met Gavin and while working at the same branch of Waitrose (an English supermarket chain) while growing up in Thame, Oxfordshire, England after they both graduated out of secondary school sometime in around late April to early May of 2006. At that time, Daniel was working at the "Fresh Foods Section" while Gavin was working at the "Fruit and Vegetables Section". It used to be two aisles where they met but now, the supermarket is renovated and it is now one aisle. Daniel also claims that they sold "4 tonnes of bananas per week there". There also used to be "an olive bar over there" across the two banana aisle but it is not there anymore.

Daniel had also became a Lieutenant Lance Corporal in the British Army, serving in the Royal Logistic Corps after working at Waitrose and graduating out of Lord William's School. His weapons and explosives experience, especially with guns and grenades helped him use these in the slow motion videos very carefully, receiving only minor, non life threatening injuries. They posted their first video to YouTube on October 15, 2010. Following this, Dan is usually the 'lab rat' of the show (the person running the experiment and actually using the dangerous, messy objects) while Gavin films and records the event in slow motion.

At present, he resides in England (primarily Thame) and is finishing his last one year of military regiment service as a Lieutenant Lance Corporal in the British Army, serving in the Royal Logistic Corps. His plans for the future involve following his friend Gavin's footsteps by moving to Austin, Texas to work full time at Rooster Teeth and be more involved with other RT shows and content but only after his service in the British Army is complete.

While occasionally visiting Gavin in Austin to film more slow motion videos for The Slow Mo Guys, Dan also visits the Rooster Teeth office and staff to film videos with them. As a result, he has appeared in multiple videos on the Rooster Teeth channel, such as On The Spot and he has also made a cameo on the Rooster Teeth Podcast, has made an appearance in Rooster Teeth Animated Adventures, and he even has pixel art created of him in Achievement City. He also appeared in three Let's Play episodes of Achievement Hunter so far: "The Grand Heist" and "Let's Play/Fail - Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2". His popular smashing of a watermelon slow motion video was featured on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He has also recently appeared in an episode of "A Million Dollars, But" alongside Gavin, called "Slow Mo Millionaires".

In the Slow Mo Guys panel at RTX 2013 hosted by both Free and Gruchy, Dan talked about considering moving to America to work for Rooster Teeth full time settling in Austin as well as producing more content for his and Gavin's channel once his involvement with the army is through. He talked about his fondness for Austin, stating that while he missed England, he also liked visiting Austin since it was a "very awesome and cool city" and he even thought about moving and residing there. This article claims that he has only one more year of service as an explosives expert in the British Army before he plans to join and work full time at Rooster Teeth in the spring of 2017. Two months later, at the Slow Mo Guys panel at RTX 2016, once again hosted by Gavin and Dan, he officially announced and confirmed he was in the process of doing so, and if all goes well as planned, he should be joining to work full time at Rooster Teeth and reside in Austin by the spring of 2017.

Trivia

 * Gavin Free believes and appears to have concurrent proof that Dan has an odd penchant for cross-eyed women, which Dan himself does not believe. Dan is currently in a relationship with a woman who is not cross-eyed.
 * Dan apparently doesn't understand menus and has on several occasions confused staff at restaurants.
 * His Rooster Teeth profile is at DanCG.
 * He and Gavin were both born in England on the same year. Their birthdays are only 2 months and 4 days apart.
 * He became a Lance Corporal in the British Army.
 * He shares the same surname as his mother.